https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyLocMuwCYw
― Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 December 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4OiBwD43I
― Anne Git Yorgun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 December 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Recently learned that George Romero’s favorite movie is The Tales of Hoffmann and Wayne Shorter’s is The Red Shoes.
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 December 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
4K premiere run of A Matter of Life and Death begins in NYC on Friday
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, saw that
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
Hadn't remembered that Kathleen Byron is in it.
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 December 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
James, you asked my opinion of TSBR in another thread, so --
I thought it was really good, though I'm partial to Powell/Pressburger and am pretty blind to any faults they may have. (Still couldn't finish Tales of Hoffman, though.) I really liked its relatively unmelodramatic take on alcoholism -- Sammy keeping the bottle front and center and not hiding (from) it. Great German-expressionism dream sequence. I thought David Farrar and Kathleen Byron were great in Black Narcissus and liked that Powell put them in the leads in very different roles. The thermos-bomb plot is a bit thin and nonsensical from most angles, but ultimately it does make sense that the Defense Ministry would want to know how they're built even if the advice to the public wouldn't change -- "hey, don't touch that, call the local Home Guard."
― WilliamC, Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
Filmstruck showing all the powburgers on streaming
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
Trying to remember if I’ve ever seen Farrar or Bryson in anything but those two films plus Bryson in AMOLAD.
― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
Okay, Farrar is in another Archers film, Gone To Earth that I’ve never seen. Forgot that Bryson was in Saving Private Ryan and never realized she was in The Elephant Man.
― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Wonder if I am the only one who clicks through credits on Mubi.
i always think this thread is about the soap opera thing
― akm, Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Ah, see that I already had this discussion about Farrar with Morbius three years ago
― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Still don’t really like the, um, somewhat heavy-handed nature of the trial scene, which I guess was the motivation for the production of the film, but everything else in AMOLAD is aces.
― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
saw COLONEL BLIMP for the first time and loved it. the methods deployed to show the passage of time in this film were marvelous and drolly comic, excepting the flipping of the memory book (where the last few pages are black.)
starting off with a valiant soldier type walking in on a seemingly pompous visual buffoon and then going back to deconstruct this buffoon and build him up again into an honorable if flawed figure is quite something. the casting of Deborah Kerr in the three roles could seem like a stunt elsewhere but it doesn't overplay its hand and her separate performances are subtly different enough that it doesn't come off like cheap magic realism. Livesey and Walbrook are both very funny and very touching together. The empathy for all the characters is itself quite moving, and the ending is perfect.
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
i saw the red shoes for the first time a few weeks ago (it's the first film i've seen from them, the directors poll made me antsy about the gaps in my knowledge). it's... completely magnificent
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
picking Gone to Earth next because that's my favorite David Sylvian album.
lol i almost did this for the exact same reason
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
naah pick off the klassiks
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
P&P and Fassbinder were two top 10'ers I was thrilled made it as high as they did.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going are two must views.
I'm probably going to buy all the P&Ps on Criterion.
Black Narcissus remains one of my top five favorite films of all time.
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
I'm hoping that A Matter of Life and Death with get a Criterion blu-ray release this summer... seems likely!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
for sure, they just ran a 4K at Film Forum in NY
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
Theo walking away from Clive in the POW camp, as Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture starts up, killed me on last rewatch.
― jmm, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
oh that is fantastic news! though I suppose I wouldn't otherwise have ever seen Age of Consent if it hadn't been paired with AMOLAD on the DVD
you can't go wrong with any of the classic Archers. I might recommend a b&w one if you've just seen Red Shoes or Blimp, so Eric otm
― rob, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Age of Consent!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Wild, huh? Here's Kehr on the set: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/movies/homevideo/06dvds.html
reading that made me want to rewatch the opening to AMOLAD immediately
― rob, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
I need to watch it again. Parts of it reminded me of the Lubitsch Heaven Can Wait, which was too aw-shucks for me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
if you mean AMOLAD, it does drag in the final act with the big trial (Heaven Can Wait is a bit slow too, especially for Lubitsch), but I love the set up and everything that happens on Earth. And Livesey's camera obscura is quintessential P&P visual bravura: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1075290/Matter-Of-Life-And-Death-A-Movie-Clip-Camera-Obscura.html. Also fun to see Marius Goring in such a different role from Red Shoes.
if you meant Age of Consent... I don't remember much of it
― rob, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
I watched Criterion's blu-ray of AMOLAD last night and it is absolutely stunning--the upgrade really brings home what a visual achievement it is. What I said in my previous post about the trial still stands, but the rest is pure joy.
I've only watched the first 20 minutes, but there's also an odd but compelling special feature, a 1986 episode of the South Bank Show, that functions as something of a miniature adaptation of A Life in Movies.
― rob, Sunday, 6 January 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
enjoyed Black Narcissus but didn't like The Red Shoes as much
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
The Small Back Room was on tv over the weekend. I've not watched it yet and can't remember if I've seen it before.
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
If you saw it I think you would have remembered it.
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
The Small Back Room is the next film of theirs I'm planning to watch
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
yes, then read my archived review.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
NYers: The Small Back Room is showing at the Film Forum on August 26, part of Marty Scorsese & Jay Cocks' double feature festival (paired w/ the '26 silent The Magician)
― Josefa, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
half an hour into SBR and it's still not ringing any bells.
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
saw The Red Shoes again. the hyper-stylization annoyed me at first, but I was more drawn in seeing it again. the climactic ballet sequence was beautiful
watched The Small Back Room today. I liked your review Morbs
― Dan S, Sunday, 25 August 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Thanks. As I still own the Bluray, I may not make the NYC screening (tho I need to see that silent), but we'll see.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 August 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
don't have anything to add to the discussion about A Canterbury Tale except to say that I just saw it now for the first time and enjoyed it
― Dan S, Sunday, 1 September 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
liked hearing the Toccata and Fugue in the cathedral near the end
― Dan S, Sunday, 1 September 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
I rewatched A Matter of Life and Death and had no memory that the first person Niven meets after his bailout is a nude shepherd boy (cut for US release btw).
My favorite detail of that great first Niven-Kim Hunter scene is that he's cracking bad jokes while he's using his last moments to quote every poet he can think of. "Andy Marvell, what a marvel!"
My only caveats are that all that US vs UK stuff in the celestial trial is just weird now (apparently the film office asked them to make a film about Yank-Brit unity), and
SPOILER
you can see Roger Livesey's death coming from his second scene.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Bbc2 have been showing a few of these as matinees (and a bunch of other decent b&w films as well *)
Life and death todayRiver plate on SaturdayBlimp on Monday
(* Wooden horse, 633 squadron, triple cross, Odette, man who never was)
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
nude shepherd boy, hmm
haven't seen it yet
― Dan S, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
The number of nude shepherd boys I was exposed to my fully clothed boy life astonishes me to this day.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
(apparently the film office asked them to make a film about Yank-Brit unity)
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
really liked Peeping Tom
― Dan S, Friday, 4 October 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
Talking Pictures TVThu 16 Apr 202002:20The Wild Heart 1952. Drama. Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Stars Jennifer Jones, David Farrar & Cyril Cusack. Hazel, a child of nature, turns to a book of spells and charms when she has problems.
(this, is turns out, is Gone To Earth, which is one i haven't seen)
― koogs, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
A different cut of Gone to Earth iirc. It's been on Talking Pictures before so there's a good chance it'll be on at a more reasonable time in the future. Haven't watched it right thru either.
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link