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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #1 on Jun 3, 2012, 2:32pm »
We watched the second half of Match Point last night, having only made it to the halfway mark a couple of years ago. Before, I didn't want to sit through the inevitable crime. Seeing the second half made me want to go back and watch it all. I love how Allen uses music in his movies -- opera in this case.
Recently we watched a Macedonian film from 1994, Before the Rain. The Netflix genie had predicted we'd like it, and we did. Another comment on the futility of war.
Also a couple of weeks ago we enjoyed Ecoute le Temps. Somewhat, but not too much, horror/mystery film.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #3 on Jul 12, 2012, 5:08pm »
A new copy of The Third Man was made a couple of years ago and we saw it at the movies -- it deserves more than a small screen.
And if I may hijack this thread -- there is a writer called Philip Kerr who writes detective stories set mainly in pre-war Berlin and Austria, Argentina etc just after the war. In one of his books set in immediate post-war Vienna, the hero sees a film being made in the city's ruins.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #4 on Jul 13, 2012, 1:14am »
Oh, please do hijack away. Sounds fun, bjd.
Every once in awhile I bring the old Welles Third Man home from the library, and it sits at the bottom of the stack until I return it. I'll make a point to watch the old and the new versions.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #5 on Jul 13, 2012, 6:32am »
Lola, it's not a new version -- I think they just cleaned up and digitized the old tapes so that it appears new. It would be heresy to change anything.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #6 on Nov 22, 2012, 6:51pm »
We watched Kontroll on DVD the other night. The opposite of a chick flick, hard to take all at once but sticks with you, and fascinating in a subterranean way. The protagonist and the bear girl have great faces.
After a few false starts on library DVDs my husband gave 15 min before rejecting, we settled on A Night at the Opera, which inspired a Marx Bros festival for his long holiday weekend.
Also the Sanity Clause and crowded cabin scenes.
Last night, sticking with MGM productions, it was A Day at the Races.
This one is full of excesses but has some great parts. Another good thing about the DVDs is the special features, with biographical bits and Kitty Carlisle and Maureen O'Sullivan, respectively, interviewed. I knew Chico was quite the ladies' man, but it was fun to hear that Groucho was envious of that. He seemed to have tried his luck with Maureen O'S, who says she finally told him she did not care for funny men and just wanted to be friends.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #8 on Dec 4, 2012, 9:06am »
When I was ill recently my sister lent me several DVDs to watch...including It's A Wonderful Life which I'd never seen all the way through before, and several that I have seen before but really enjoyed revisiting...including Harvey, The Titfield Thunderbolt, To Serve Them All My Days and The Importance of Being Ernest.
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Re: Notable Old Movies on DVD « Reply #9 on Dec 4, 2012, 6:58pm »
The Last Days of Disco was a great howler, the way it made the period look like the 1950's. While one might think that director Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress, Metropolitan) might be the kiss of death for actors seeking a mainstream career, the cast neverthless includes Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Beals.
Okay, Chloë Sevigny, after her famous scene in The Brown Bunny and most of her other work, she is definitely Whit Stillman alternate universe material.
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