Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[ghost of miles]

On 8/2/2019 at 11:37 AM, gmonahan said:

Looks like if you want the "ultimate" it's this one.

Yep, just pre-ordered, especially because it includes the documentary.

[JSngry]

On 8/2/2019 at 5:12 PM, kinuta said:

The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers - Lewis Milestone (1946)

I like that one.

[Dave James]

IMO, best film ever, highlighted by Jerry Goldsmith's haunting score and the trumpet of Uan Rasey.

 

 

[jlhoots]

Farewell

[kinuta]

The Big Combo - Joseph H Lewis (1955)

Some absolutely iconic b&w noir photography makes up for the impenetrable storyline 

Someone called it ' a symphony in light & shadow '

Carrying on my season of noir.

T-Men - Anthony Mann (1947)

4 hours ago, Dave James said:

IMO, best film ever, highlighted by Jerry Goldsmith's haunting score and the trumpet of Uan Rasey.

 

 

 A masterpiece for sure. Lost track of the number of times I've watched it.

Edited August 4, 2019 by kinuta

[kinuta]

Raw Deal - Anthony Mann (1948)

[T.D.]

[duaneiac]

Rather short on both comedy and terror. 

[T.D.]

Took a flyer on this, didn't like it.

[duaneiac]

I avoided this movie for years because it looked like a really lame, Hollywood all-star parody.  Surprise, surprise -- it's actually quite good and pretty funny.  Granted, it's Neil Simon so it is comedy with the seatbelts on, but still I laughed at several points in the film and appreciated the attention to detail and clever nods to the original movies this one honors.  It's a loving tribute/parody/mashup of Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep.  The cast is quite good.  It's a role custom made for Peter Falk and he made the most of it.  Louis Fletcher gives a captivating Ingrid Bergman performance and I love the prominent beauty spot light they frequently have highlighting her eyes.  The only jarring note is John Houseman in a ridiculous fat suit trying to be Sidney Greenstreet.  It just doesn't work.  I wonder if they even tried to get Orson Welles or Marlon Brando or even Robert Morley for the role.  It would only have been a couple of days work, and any of them could have been better in the role.  I'm not a big fan of post-YSOS Sid Caesar, but he's actually funny here.  If you're a fan of any of the Bogart films mentioned above, I think you will enjoy this film.

[kinuta]

Parasite - Bong Joon-ho (2019)

 

Outstanding.

The best film I've seen this year.

Edited August 12, 2019 by kinuta

[duaneiac]

One of the most amazing discoveries for me as a child was learning that Kitty Carlisle, the perennial dim bulb matron on To Tell The Truth, was once in a Marx Bros. movie.  It staggered my little mind.  And then she would go on to also appear in a Woody Allen movie -- has any one else accomplished that feat?  Allan Jones is by far the best Zeppo Marx stand in the boys ever had.  The Stateroom Scene still stands up after all these years.  Still, this has got to be my favorite moment of the film

Sure the kids are actors, but that laughter sounds largely genuine.

[kinuta]

Mother - Bong Joon-ho (2009)

[Matthew]

Anyone seen this yet? I like Malick, but it starting to seem it's all one movie with him, and each film is a redoing on that one film.

 

[jlhoots]

Blinded By The Light

[kinuta]

Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (2018)

Aquarius - Kleber Mendonca Filho (2016)

[jlhoots]

Brittany Runs A Marathon

[Brad]

[kinuta]

Ida - Paweł Pawlikowski (2013)

[kinuta]

Cold War - Paweł Pawlikowski (2018)

[jlhoots]

The Peanut Butter Falcon - unbelievably it was pretty good.

[jlhoots]

After The Wedding - Michelle Williams was very good in this.

[kinuta]

On 01/09/2019 at 3:38 AM, jlhoots said:

After The Wedding - Michelle Williams was very good in this.

Liked the original.

Devi - Satyajit Ray  (1960)

Haywire - Steven Soderbergh  (2011)

Frequency - Gregory Hoblit (2000)

[kinuta]

LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson  (1998)

Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino (1997)

[duaneiac]

Back in the late 1980's early 1990's I went through a big Cornell Woolrich phase.  I read a bunch of his books with such alluring titles as Night Has A Thousand Eyes, The Bride Wore Black, Waltz Into Darkness, The Black Curtain, and The Black Path of Fear.  This film was loosely based on that last novel.  It begins, as these things will, with a down on his luck war veteran stumbling into a job as chauffeur for a mobster type with a beautiful, oppressed wife.  Vet/chauf naturally falls in love with the dame and hatches a plan that will whisk them both off to carefree Cuba.  "What could go wrong?", you may ask.  "MURDER", the movie answers.  The first two-thirds of the film are pretty good, but the final third takes a pretty radical departure from the book and was very much WTF? viewing for me.  Still, there are some interesting and, at times, compelling touches throughout.  Robert Cummings is, as usual, a bland tower of oatmeal.  Peter Lorre is very good, not overdoing it but always providing a sense of impending violence.  I've never heard of Steve Cochran, but he was very good as the bad guy.

Edited September 7, 2019 by duaneiac