The painter and theThift(2020)
Villian.
@luck posted:The painter and theThift(2020)
Thief.
@The Old Man posted:For those of a certain age she will always be remembered for the nude shower in the PBS TV movie of the existential play Steambath. Written by Bruce Jay Friedman (who died this year at 90) it's noted as the first American TV production to have nudity and a female's nipples. I kid you not. With Bill Bixby and Kenneth Mars.
Good lord, I'm old enough to remember seeing that as a 12 year old. I think it jump-started my puberty.
@mneeley490 posted:Good lord, I'm old enough to remember seeing that as a 12 year old. I think it jump-started my puberty.
Excellent
Here's a tingle from Playboy August 1981.
Attachments
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Princess Bride - Table Read with the original cast with some substitutions. Live stream last night fundraiser for Wisconsin Dems. Fantastics
@jcocktosten posted:The Princess Bride - Table Read with the original cast with some substitutions. Live stream last night fundraiser for Wisconsin Dems. Fantastics
Do you think Ted Cruz was watching?
Nope - someone in the cast made a Ted Cruz joke.
@jcocktosten posted:The Princess Bride - Table Read with the original cast with some substitutions. Live stream last night fundraiser for Wisconsin Dems. Fantastics
Fred Savage wasn’t there. People were asking if he had died or is a Trumpkin. He was celebrating his brother’s 40th birthday.
Excalibur - Had to watch it again after writing about it here. Still good.
I Think I Love My Wife - Dull and rather unrealistic.
The Social Dilemma. Sure does give you the urge to delete every social media account you have on your smartphone.
@wineismylife posted:The Social Dilemma. Sure does give you the urge to delete every social media account you have on your smartphone.
Jexi will do that, too.
"20 Feet From Stardom."
Nice 90 minute documentary about the lives of backup singers. Featuring Darlene Love and the phenomenal Merry Clayton. On Netflix, unfortunately only through tomorrow, Wednesday.
(I hope this wasn't a crap post in the eyes of AZ.)
Le Samourai
The King
A Cry in the Dark
All three were OK.
The Postcard Killings
"You expect me to talk?"
"No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"
"Who are you"
"My name is Pussy Galore"
"I must be dreaming"
@bman posted:"You expect me to talk?"
"No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"
"Who are you"
"My name is Pussy Galore"
"I must be dreaming"
Trivia time: Instead of a laser what device did Goldfinger use in the book? How did Bond survive?
How the heck did they get away with the name Pussy Galore back at that time???
The first Austin Powers movie did have some fun with synonym - Allota Fagina
@The Old Man posted:Trivia time: Instead of a laser what device did Goldfinger use in the book? How did Bond survive?
The book??!! I don't read no stinkin' books when I can watch a movie instead!
@Rothko posted:How the heck did they get away with the name Pussy Galore back at that time???
The first Austin Powers movie did have some fun with synonym - Allota Fagina
And the name is repeated on the hangar and the planes as well.
For that matter, how did they get away with Dr. Holly Goodhead?
As for Austin Powers, I enjoy those films as much as the Bond films, though of course for very different reasons!
@Rothko posted:How the heck did they get away with the name Pussy Galore back at that time???
You have to remember the name comes from the book and the book is from 1959. You could do a lot more in books than in movies in those days. By the time of the movie, 1965, the Hollywood Hays' office and the Movie Picture Production Code was at its near end.
Trivia answers: James Bond is strapped down on a table with a circular saw coming up the middle. His solution is to hold his breath until he passes out. Something he himself says is not possible.
@bman posted:And the name is repeated on the hangar and the planes as well.
For that matter, how did they get away with Dr. Holly Goodhead?
As for Austin Powers, I enjoy those films as much as the Bond films, though of course for very different reasons!
Someone who I went to high school with wrote them (2 and 3 anyway) not the first and best one.
@jcocktosten posted:Someone who I went to high school with wrote them (2 and 3 anyway) not the first and best one.
Austin Powers movies? I thought Mike Myers wrote them all.
@jcocktosten posted:Someone who I went to high school with wrote them (2 and 3 anyway) not the first and best one.
Indian Springs, la-de-da.
@bman posted:Austin Powers movies? I thought Mike Myers wrote them all.
Wrote and co-wrote.
@The Old Man posted:Wrote and co-wrote.
Got it
Guardians of the Galaxy.
So much fun. Cinematic comfort food in these troubled times, like James and Austin.
Do you love Chinatown? I believe it's the greatest film made during "Hollywood's" greatest decade, the 70s. I consider myself extremely knowledgeable about its history. One thing that's usually agreed on is that Robert Towne's script is the model of great scriptwriting; and it is. Do you know who Edward Taylor is? I didn't. 
Which means I knew nothing about the history of Chinatown. Google his name, this is what comes up: Edward Taylor -- American poet. But Taylor wasn't an 18th century poet. But without him there simply is no Chinatown.
The book that woke me up to this fact is Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye--Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood. This book is the best research we probably ever have about this film. Unfortunately it's written with a lot of purple prose--the author thinks, as you can tell by the title, that writing like Raymond Chandler is a good idea for a non-fiction book--it not. But there are so many interesting tidbits that it's worth the slog to get through it. Another thing I didn't know is that Polanski essentially turned into an amateur detective trying to solve Sharon Tate's murder.
So who was Edward Taylor? There is no script by Robert Towne, including Roger Corman's early Poe film The Tomb of Ligeia, Personal Best, The Last Detail, Shampoo and even the crummy The Firm, Days of Thunder and Mission Impossible, without Taylor. He was essentially Towne's co-writer. He wrote hundreds of pages for Chinatown and spent weeks of 14+ hour days helping Towne with it. He never wanted credit and if you look him up on IMDB all you'll find is two Miscellaneous Crew credits: "Tequila Sunrise (assistant: Mr. Towne - as Edward Taylor) and Personal Best (executive associate)."
Needless to say, if you can get past some of the look-at-me writing, this is an indispensible book for those interested in the pre-production film process and in Chinatown itself.
Buffaloed
Haywire
Yearly viewing of Keeping the Faith
A Hidden Life
Latest film from Terence Malick. I liked it much more than his last few.
@steve8 posted:A Hidden Life
Latest film from Terence Malick. I liked it much more than his last few.
I admit it, even as one who supposedly likes only "art films", I just can't make it through his movies. I give you credit that you're able to watch them.
Tallula
@Rothko posted:Excalibur - Had to watch it again after writing about it here. Still good.
I Think I Love My Wife - Dull and rather unrealistic.
I"ll go all TOM on you, the director of Excalibur, John Boorman, also has one of his sons in the movie (Charlie Boorman, plays the young Mordred, he's also in Deliverance). Charlie Boorman's best friend is Ewan McGregor (obviously an exceptionally accomplished actor). Charlie and Ewan in 2004 drove all the way around the world on BMW enduro bikes (Long Way Round), then in 2007 they drove from Scotland to Cape Town (Long Way Down) and now just coming out they drive electric Harley Davidson's from Patagonia to Panama (Long Way Up).
Anyone who loves true adventure should watch the series. Long Way Round was an epic look at the world and brilliantly done.
@The Old Man posted:I admit it, even as one who supposedly likes only "art films", I just can't make it through his movies. I give you credit that you're able to watch them.
How can someone so obsessed with aspect ratio not appreciate the cinematography of Malick's films? I would agree the storylines do plod on in some cases but they are always visually stunning.
@steve8 posted:How can someone so obsessed with aspect ratio not appreciate the cinematography of Malick's films? I would agree the storylines do plod on in some cases but they are always visually stunning.
To be clear my concern is when movies are not shown in the correct aspect ratio. And pretty pictures do not make a great film.
Big Time
Very good Tom Waits concert film from when he was at his creative peak.
The Hospital
Not so great satire about modern health care. A lot of cringe-worthy dialogue which couldn't even be saved by Diana Rigg.
@The Old Man posted:To be clear my concern is when movies are not shown in the correct aspect ratio. And pretty pictures do not make a great film.
Since films are visual experiences I'd say the cinematography is an important part. I didn't say Hidden Life was a great film anyway.