Old movies you've only seen recently...
HarveyCanal
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I only have a vcr at my place, no cable, no dvd...so I'm always picking up vhs tapes and like it most when I find old stuff I probably shoulda seen already, like these the past week or so...
Oh yeah...
Haven't watched this one yet, but I've got it lined up as next in the player...
Oh yeah...
Haven't watched this one yet, but I've got it lined up as next in the player...
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it was a quality film to boot
Id watch that just because Eugene from Grease is in it.
i just picked up a copy of TORSO but haven't watched it yet, did you like? i think Martino is pretty underatted in his "giallo" output.....
I loved the last sequence when the woman wakes up in the house and realizes the killer is on the loose,but he's not aware of her presence and she has to elude him.You will like it if you are into Giallo films.
I felt let down by "Bird with the crystal plumage"
i was expecting more from it considering it's the great Dario.
well "Bird" is his first film and it's quite well crafted when you consider he was still a rookie director.
i think most people work backwards when discovering Argento's stuff starting with "Suspiria" which is so amazing then when you get to "Bird" you might be expecting something a bit differant.
seriously one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
:hated_it:
Was originally developed to be directed by Robert Altman, BTW.
Speaking of Altman, I just watched California Split, which was pretty great.
Was great.
This was good too but hard to find scine it was a "made for TV " film
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It's a good movie, made before Britain went from 100% white to 99.9% though.
There are only white people in the movie...doing white people things.
Britain...smh.
Suspiria is cool but the supernatural aspect (anything can happen) kind of kills the storytelling for me. The reveal at the beginning of Profondo Rosso is truly genius (GOAT?), but the film itself looks very cheap -- no depth of field, etc. Tenebre is pretty good but not quite amazing.
Anyway, here are a two nice noirs I've seen recently
I would have a hard time choosing one over the other to be honest. Just the art direction is enough for me. If I really reallyhad to pick though, it would be between Opera and Inferno. Ask me later and I may say something different.
The underwater scene in Inferno never fails to wow.
On the old board, I'd be nominating this for your loc. Harv.
Absolutely. I'd rank that among my favorites of his, and in a recent Bmore "Altman in the 70s" retrospective, California Split was the single screening experience that stood out.
I'll add Mario Bava's Kidnapped/Rabid Dogs instead, the twist at the end was masterful to me,i didn't see that coming.
Argento's murder set pieces as well as the cinematography is the real draw for me.
The first film i had seen from him was Phenomena and i have been a fan ever since.
Yes!! I know he has a lot to work with given the cities he shoots in, but who was/is this man's location scout!!???
Errr....so what?!! It takes place in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall in the south western tip of England in 1971. So they, like, go hunting for deer and rabbits. What do you expect?! It's a richly textured film that covers a huge range of issues, but it doesn't try to pander any that don't reflect this context. Like it or loathe it, it should be judged that way. That fact that the cast is all white is like so nothing to do with what the film is all about. (*overcoming cowardice, standing up for the weak in society, individuality versus the herd, masculinity versus femininity, consent versus rape, country versus city, American values versus European...)
And what the film is about is like so nothing to do with an inside joke about England being 99.9% white.
But about the film...so dude can stand up for a murderous pedophile but not his albeit disloyal wife? On that note, the movie did well not allowing conclusions to be so neatly clear cut. But it was cool that ultimately the sheisty wife got left behind.
Pedophile didn't deserve a fair hearing though. Angry mob obviously needed to be dealth with i.e. rape related. But in that particular case, they were right to want to beat that dummy's head in.