“The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”......you WILL tell your friends about it!
Just two off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll think of more.
Hammerschmit is coming, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.
The Fall: The setting is old-time Hollywood; a stuntman has an accident which leaves him paralized. He wants to end his life. He makes a friend of a little Mexican girl who is in the same hospital. An interesting movie. I found myself thinking a lot about it after seeing it in a little independent theatre & finally went & bought the dvd.
Harvey Keitel as the obsessed French Hussar is pretty good, although Mrs. Slim hates it when I call it “Reservoir Frogs”.
I also like "Blow Up" by Antonioni. It's pretty well known, but it was made 45 years ago and I suspect many have not seen it. Interesting look at London in the 1960s before the real drug and hippy aspects kicked in. It looks at art and our awareness of what is around us, and our tendency to be bored no matter what is going on. An amusing scene has The Yardbirds playing in a nightclub, both Jimmie Page and Jeff Beck playing guitar, and Beck smashing his guitar This, in 1966, was not common behavior. But everyone in the audience is bored to death. Just a statement on how humans tend to want whatever they don't have, and to be bored by what they do have.
A comedy remake of the classic set in modern times. It is hilarious.
Lawn Dogs
Fail-Safe
“Four Friends” ~ 1981, Directed by Arthur Penn, starring Craig Wasson
The Southerner, Jean Renoir, 1945 much better than Grapes of Wrath and it captures a long forgotten part of American culture in the 1930s.
Here it is free at youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEpfj2d-zg
Wins:
National Board of Review: NBR Award, Best Director, Jean Renoir; 1945.
Nominations:
Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Director, Jean Renoir; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Werner Janssen; Best Sound, Recording Jack Whitney (Sound Services Inc); 1946.
The Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Turk 182
Great movie from the ‘80’s.
One Man's Hero: Deals with historical events-the refusal of some Irish immigrants, fighting with the US Army against Mexico in the 1840s, to continue to wage war on fellow Catholics.
The Attic: Weird early 1970s film. It's about an aging, neurotic spinster, dominated by her overbearing father, who finds happiness-for awhile-when she loses her job, gains a friend, and buys a pet monkey (!)...Until the day she discovers exactly what had happened to her fiancee, who left her at the altar. The lead role is played by the always wonderful Carrie Snodgress.
The Innocents.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055018/
The Innocents is a 1961 British horror film based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The title of the film was taken from William Archibald’s stage adaptation of James’ novella. Directed and produced by Jack Clayton, it stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Megs Jenkins. Falling within the subgenre of psychological horror, the film achieves its effects through lighting, music, and direction rather than gore and conventional shocks. Its distinctive atmosphere owes much to cinematographer Freddie Francis, who employed deep focus in many scenes, as well as bold, minimal lighting. It was filmed on location at the gothic mansion of Sheffield Park in East Sussex. The film includes the first role in cinema for child actor Pamela Franklin.
"A Family Upside Down" which stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Astaire is a very independent man who suffers a sudden heart attack. After he recovers, Hayes is unable to care for Astaire herself, so she and her husband move in with son Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and daughter-in-law Pat Crowley and their children. Astaire's heart problems persist, and the family must face the unpleasant alternative of placing him in a nursing home. It co-stars Patty Duke Astin as Astaire and Hayes' emotionally overwrought daughter. There is humor, sadness, and a look at a truth which with we can all identify. Fred Astaire won the last of his many Emmy awards for his performance. It originally aired April 9, 1978.(my goodness, so long ago!) I would love to see it again.
Big Wednesday
“The Ref” with Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. I find it hilarious, though if cussing gets under your collar, you wouldn’t like it.