Posted on 08/23/2017 7:37:52 PM PDT by Strac6
Need A Little FReeper Movie Historian Help
With your help, I can dig deep into my past.... because I have come to learn, somewhere, some FReeper anything you want to know....
Rainy Saturday childhood afternoons at the Calderone Movie Theater on Long Island had a great effect on me. For example, I developed an early hate for Communists after they killed William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Earl Holliman in the Bridges of Toko Ri.
I had the opportunity to work with Rooney much later in both our lives, and he said it had the same effect on him. His words were “…. And I was only an actor in the movie! For many men, it was way too real.”
That hate kept me a little more wary in RVN, and you never know, might have saved my life.
But I digress. I also saw a short movie about that time, that, as a Christian, helped me develop a lifelong respect for Israel.
I saw Mike Todd’s “Around The World In 80 Days” in the late 1950s. I think the movie I am interested in, 60ish years later, was either part of the intro to ATWI80D (which I doubt) or a “short” that ran with it.
It was brief documentary about what the immigrated Jews had done in Israel. It was amazing, just 10 years after the declaration of the State of Israel, that they had created life in what had been dead lifeless desert. They had developed an army to defend themselves, and build shining cities where there was once only sand.
I’m not talking about Exodus, Cast a Giant Shadow or other feature length film. This was a color short. It might have been in Cinerama, as I think I saw it in the Theater that showed Around the World in 80 Days. I also have an unconfirmed slight thought that it might have been made by Mike Todd, as he was very pro-Israel.
My connecting it to ATWI80D may be incorrect, but it was certainly about that time/era?
I wish I remembered more, but does thing ring a bell with anyone? Anyone know the title or anything about it?
Bookmark for later.
No, not Flowers in the Attic. Thanks.
But then, most of today's movies aren't even "suitable" for adults to see; let alone allowing a kid to go to see alone/with a friend, as we were allowed to do.
“Rainy Saturday childhood afternoons at the Calderone Movie Theater on Long Island had a great effect on me.”
For me it was the Sunrise Drive in.
Totally agree. Nothing for kids now. Mrs. Strac and I haven’t seen a good movie since Usual Suspects.
Saw Dunkirk the other night. As a movie; 2 Stars.
Spitfire, out of gas, glides over beach for about 5 minutes, then shoots down an attacking ME 109 while out of gas, then glides around, straight gentle glide, no turns, for another 5 minutes, then wobble pumps the gear down in the nick of time, lands on deserted beach, then burns the plane...
Cold popcorn.
Now have reserve seat in advance on internet.
Nah.... I’ll pass
With Mom and Dad.... or Easy Shirley?
I haven't been to a movie theatre, to see a movie, since I saw "TOPSY TURVY", back in 1999, and shan't ever go back! Just not worth my while and any "new" movie, that I might decide to give a "try", is on one of the movie channels pretty soon after it has come out. Though these movies are far and VERY few between and often aren't worth seeing anyway.
And besides which, even as far back as 1999, people had less than NO idea HOW to behave in a movie theatre! Now, I've heard, it's even far worse.
How bad is it?
They have remade one of the great movies of all time, “Murder on the Orient Express!” and probably ruined it.
“No, Madame, I am not a nosy French snoop!
I am a nosy Belgian snoop!”
I love the "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" and not only have the original movie in my disc collection, but also the Brit T.V. version, starring David Sucet...the absolute BEST Poirot EVER!
As far as I'm concerned, there have only been TWO movie remakes that were better than the original: "THE MALTESE FALCON" ( with the second, of FOUR remake, with Bogart ) and "GASLIGHT".
LOL. Now, how about this:
Farm boy on a desert planet with two suns finds a message in a robot and heads into space after his aunt and uncle are murdered. There, he rescues a princess, blows up a planet-killing space station, and gets a medal.
Note: it IS Star Wars!
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I read the book in elementary school:
We just signed up with Filmstruck which is a cable channel with all of the Criterion films. That means classic American and foreign films only. I don’t go to the movies anymore - I’m not interested in Hollywood dreck and CGI. I’ll venture down to Film Forum on occasion as well.
I couldn't agree with you more, if I tried very, very, VERY hard to, re today's movies! And no matter what some may "think", CGI is NOT a great substitute for good scripts, good acting, and good directing !
It depends on how you feel about Criterion films which are excellent print versions of European and American movies - from the silent period to “today’s” classics. It’s excellent and we no longer need to go to B&N bi-yearly Criterion sales.
Not a huge fan of French movies ( though I do like quite a few old ones and have them already ), don't think that anything worth a damn has come out of Italy in a long, long time ( which stinks, since they used to make some really GREAT movies, many of which I already own ), and the Brits have taken to copying Hollywierd styles and the actors now ALL mumble. :-(
Talking about foreign films...have you ever seen TALE OF TALES? It's a movie based on a few Italian fairy tales, the cast is a mish-mash of Brit, American, Italian actors and actresses and some from who knows where. I enjoyed it. If my description tickles your fancy, check it out. :-)
No, I haven’t.
I don’t think you can see a lot of the Criterion collection anywhere else with the death of all the rep houses in NYC. Perhaps you can see a lot of these at MOMA but why bother when you can watch a pristine version at home thanks to Filmstruck? And they are not shown on Turner Classics for the most part (maybe the occasional overlap). I saw the original 1933 Les Miserables (French language) with Harry Baur the other night, which was a revelation.
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