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martin88nyc

#2445
October 19, 2016, 12:01:50 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on October 16, 2016, 10:01:02 AM
My favorite comedian. He was one of a kind. French comedies are best, IMO. Perhaps I have some french blood in me. ;)
This is one of his best roles. Here he played an rabbi impersonator. Very funny.
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YeOldeFustilarians

#2446
October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

maryslittlegarden

#2447
October 19, 2016, 02:11:02 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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YeOldeFustilarians

#2448
October 19, 2016, 02:19:17 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 19, 2016, 02:11:02 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Shadow of a Doubt is my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I'll have to make a point to see it.  Rope is probably my favorite.  I'm a sucker for long takes, and Rope is all a single take; Hitchcock will occasionally zoom in on an actor's back-- that's him changing film reels.  The writing in Rope is among his best, and the tension he creates without any soundtrack is phenomenal.
Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

maryslittlegarden

#2449
October 19, 2016, 02:33:53 PM
I'll look for that one.
For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace

Carleendiane

#2450
October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.
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#2451
October 19, 2016, 04:25:17 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.

I know that he once said that one of his primary influences for his subject matter was the fact that the Jesuits scared the hell out of him during school, and now it was his turn to scare the hell out of people.

I'm not sure how good of a Catholic he was, though on the other hand, English Catholic artists in particular seem to have a reputation for and propensity toward sordid storytelling and uncouth characters.  Might be more of a reflection of being thoroughly English than being a bad Catholic.
Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

YeOldeFustilarians

#2452
October 20, 2016, 02:27:54 AM
More Hitchcock tonight; this time it was Sabotage.  More of his pre-American work.  Quite good, and emblematically dark.

Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

Ulrich Von Lichtenstein

#2453
October 20, 2016, 03:56:04 PM
Quote from: Carleendiane on October 19, 2016, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 01:15:20 PM
Watched Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent the other night.  Good, but I preferred his The 39 Steps as an espionage thriller.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock was"I Confess". About seal of the confessional.

Yes, this was a good film. I enjoyed it also.

red solo cup

#2454
October 21, 2016, 04:26:06 PM
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis. Interesting choice having Russell Means play Chingachgook.
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Jacob

#2455
October 21, 2016, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 21, 2016, 04:26:06 PM
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis. Interesting choice having Russell Means play Chingachgook.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out.  Excellent movie.  It is the movie that convinced me that DDL would have been perfect as Aragorn in LotR.
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martin88nyc

#2456
October 21, 2016, 08:24:05 PM
But no one beats Mortensen ;D
"These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world." John 16:33

YeOldeFustilarians

#2457
October 21, 2016, 08:41:04 PM Last Edit: October 21, 2016, 08:45:21 PM by YeOldeFustilarians
Mortensen was too pretty, IMO.  I know it catches a lot of flack, but I think that Bakshi's Lord of the Rings is superior to Jackson's inasmuch as character portrayals are concerned.  Aragorn was too pretty, Gandalf was too grandfatherly.   Being a combination of the first book and a half, Bakshi's vision is heavily abridged and incomplete, but the dialogue is more or less lifted right from the book, and it's free from Jackson's goofy deviations from the story, like Faramir being tempted by the ring or Samwise being sent away from Frodo (not to mention the imposition of Arwen who, though present in the histories, is not in the trilogy!).  Alas, neither versions include the too oft-neglected Glorfindel nor the enigmatic Tom Bombadil.

I think Jackson's vision was overall commendable, engaging, and the most complete rendition of LotR that we're to see short of an HBO series (overall it's better than Bakshi's)--  and I'm a proud owner of the extended version blu-ray box set, but it's far from perfect.



Here's a brief clip of Aragorn according to Bakshi's rendition:



ETA: Mods, the link would not post as https.  Is this WAD?
Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

YeOldeFustilarians

#2458
October 21, 2016, 08:47:30 PM
Anyways, the last movie I watched was Hitchock's Secret Agent.  Told you more was coming!  Excellent, as usual.  Probably better than Sabotage (barely) and better than Foreign Correspondent, still trailing behind The 39 Steps though, which is more or less my standard for Hitchock espionage thrillers now.
Go thy ways, old Jack;
die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
shotten herring. There live not three good men
unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and
grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.

Kaesekopf

#2459
October 21, 2016, 08:48:00 PM
Right, https doesn't work.  Gotta be http

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