Still need to finish Nina Allan’s The Rift as well, which starts out grebt.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:46 (two months ago) link
ImmaculateThe First Omen
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:57 (three weeks ago) link
Haha I just said the same thing to my friend.
Bizarre how similar they are
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:17 (three weeks ago) link
Not just in "nun" premise but the first half hour of movie too
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:18 (three weeks ago) link
Two films based on the story of Bernard Jordan, escaping from his care home to attend D-Day anniversary.
The Great Escaper with Michael Caine, 6th October 2023.The Last Rifleman with Piers Brosnan, 5th November 2023.
I’d seen the cover for The Last Rifleman and with Brosnan in it assumed it was a thriller of some sort.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:42 (one week ago) link
"Roller Boogie" and "Skatetown U.S.A.", both 1979
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:22 (one week ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:
WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:12 (five days ago) link
in that vein, i did see Vanishing Point and The Warriors closely together recent and thought the dj aspect was similar (Warriors was a bit later - '79)
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:32 (five days ago) link
I worked for the person who came up with the slogan "soup is good food." Research indicated that mothers had underlying anxiety about feeding children meals that had not been prepared from scratch; Campbell's play was to alleviate this using the simplest, most direct possible language. The underlying lesson, I think, was that sometimes a lack of cleverness is a type of cleverness.
whoa i remember being told that i went to college with the offspring of the person who invented this slogan but i have no recollection who that person was. what a strange intersection!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:56 (five days ago) link
I think that a lot of that work was done by Molly M. at Porter Novelli.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:53 (five days ago) link
The Warriors maybe pairs up better with The Fog (1980).
Might be stating the obvious, but I think radio DJs were just a bigger part of life back then, with a stronger presence as individuals, and (correct me if I'm wrong) more actual time of their voice on the air saying stuff. They were surely more prominent as local figures, and the intimacy of them being in everybody's cars and ears can't be discounted. So it makes sense that there'd be a lot of them in movies, just like having a lot of newspaper reporters, or politicians, or local business owners.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:54 (five days ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
There's also a low-budget Canadian entry in that same vein and timeframe: "Slipstream", starring Luke Askew as the DJ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(1973_film)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:50 (five days ago) link
And the movie FM, now only remembered because Steely Dan wrote the theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316mipUnA-M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM:_The_Original_Movie_Soundtrack
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:37 (five days ago) link
The Warriors and The Wanderers work together too.
― omar little, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:45 (five days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrRbcQuNl8
Dana Gould on "Soup is good food"
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:27 (five days ago) link
FM lines up a little with WKRP on TV (both 1978).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:29 (five days ago) link
There's certainly an analog in the characters:
Micheal Brandon/Gary SandyMartin Mull/Howard HessemanCleavon Little/Tim Reid
― henry s, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:47 (five days ago) link
I remember seeing some comments about how that was merely coincidental, that radio stations of the era were all like that, with a burnout DJ, a hip Black guy, the frustrated program director etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:51 (five days ago) link
Another one that lines up with FM is American Hot Wax, Floyd Mutrux's 1978 biopic of Alan Freed.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:15 (five days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAx5lIqfsg
Not commercially available.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:16 (five days ago) link
Two junkie movies in 1971: Panic in Needle Park and Born to Win.― clemenza, Saturday, March 26, 2016 5:07 PM (eight years ago)
― clemenza, Saturday, March 26, 2016 5:07 PM (eight years ago)
Dusty and Sweets McGee as well.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:21 (five days ago) link
American Hot Wax probably could lineup with The Buddy Holly Story (also 1978).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:25 (five days ago) link
...and also Dead Man's Curve, a 1978 TV biopic with Richard Hatch & Bruce Davison as Jan & Dean.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:31 (five days ago) link
Old army buddies plan & execute a major heist in 1960:
Ocean's 11The League of Gentlemen
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:42 (four days ago) link
Europa Europa (1990, Agnieszka Holland)Europa (1991, Lars von Trier)
This confused the hell out of me at the time
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Friday, 26 April 2024 02:21 (four days ago) link