Posted on 06/26/2011 2:32:31 PM PDT by Yorlik803
What movie do you love that most people never heard of or seen? Mine is a movie called "Evenhand". I first saw it on IFC, then ordered a copy from Amazon. It is about two policemen in a small Texas town. One is meek and kind while the other is hard. They form a unlikley friendship. It is more plot driven, with little violence. The writing is pretty good.
That photo may have been the inspiration for Frank Poncharello.
One of the funniest movies I ever saw was “Hollywood Knights”. The thing is, at the time they touted the big stars of the movie as Tony Danza and a young Michelle Pfeiffer, but they had only bit parts in the movie. Robert Wuhl as Newbomb Turk was one of the funniest characters ever in a movie, and his scene in the van with a young (and hot) Fran Drescher was a classic.
But did you ever guess we would be living that story 32 years later?
It’s on my list of ‘best movies ever’.
When we lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, I met a George Attla. He lived in North Pole just down the road from Eielson AFB where I was stationed. He is the most famous dog sledder in history.
While in Alaska, I watched “Spirit of The Wind,” a movie about George Attla. It had Slim Pickens in it and Chief George. Great movie. Joan Baez sang the theme song for it. I copied it onto a Beta cassette and now can’t find it. Last time I checked, it is not available in any format.
“Going South” - Jack Nicholson
My response is to various postings above mine.
I have seen a lot those and I liked them and have seen them repeatedly.
Here are a couple of quotes from a movie I like, yet panned by the critics. Believe me, it is nowhere on my top ten list of all time motion pictures. I don’t think too many people have seen this one.
The first quote could probably fit in on some other thread I commented on.
“Films”? “Films”? What the hell ever happened to movies? What do you think you’re in, the art business?
-Ernest Borgnine (Barney Sheean) in The Legend of Lylah Claire (1968)
You make a terrible mistake … and your consolation is that … is the thought you had at least learned something. And then, you gather up the courage to try again and then suddenly you realize that all you learned is how to make the same mistake again. Perhaps faster, perhaps differently.
-Peter Finch (Lewis Zarken) in The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
One motion picture that isn’t too bad and many people most likely have not seen is Alex in Wonderland. It is very dated. Most people would not like it.
“The Serial” was truly funny, hard to miss with Martin Mull. Tommy Smothers as the New Age wedding officiator and Christopher Lee as “Skull” the leader of the gay motorcycle pack, priceless. The one tragic role was Holroyd’s pal who commits suicide by jumping off the ferry.
Only thing that’s changed in Marin County since then is the technology, probably.
CHARLY with Cliff Robertson.
I enjoyed that one! Saw it on PBS a few times.
You can buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000777I88/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=13095248625&ref=pd_sl_3gtbpwgibj_b
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
“Duel”
Impromptu, Lumumba, Ridicule and Water.
The Red Baron
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/
This movie is beautifully done and will make Americans see Baron Manfred von Richthofen in a far more human light. The acting is superb and the dogfight scenes are well done.
And
IP Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220719/
The movie begins in the 1930’s and follows the lead character through the Japanese occupation of China. The film left me wanting to do more reading on pre-WW2 China.
ping to peruse later.
‘LITTLE CHENIE’ Great movie.
ME? I THEENK IT WAS TO ....GREAT SURPRISE ENDING...TO.
“Russian Ark” by Alexander Sokurov.
A dreamlike tale of a trip through St Petersburg’s Hermitage and Winter Palace, and also through three centuries or so of Russian history. The protagonist is the director who, from behind the camera, converses throughout with a 19th century French diplomat who has an acerbic view of the Russia of his day. But the real star is the Hermitage itself.
A part of my positive impression is my interest in movie technology. The movie makers committed to making a 94-minute movie in one take. Not ‘virtually’ one take, but literally one take. Made possible by shooting on HD video and recording to an array of hard disks on the back pack of an assistant cameraman. Another reason was that they had the Hermitage for only one day, so the sets and hundreds of actors in the various scenes had to be ready at essentially the same time, and act on queue as the camera entered each scene.
The cameraman was German and had to take instruction from the director through an interpreter. That meant four men clustered together, moving as one, as if choreographed, so nobody would stumble, for 94 minutes.
It strains belief that they pulled it off. For the technically minded, the ‘making of’ feature is almost worth the price of admission.
For the culturally minded, there is also a feature on the Hermitage itself.
The Russian ‘Ark’ of the title is Hermitage, a repository of that which was good about that nation’s culture, which survived the dark ages of Communist rule.
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I-ness.
Me-ness.
You-ness.
We-ness.
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Sounds kinda dirty when you say it out loud.
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