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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 12/4/06 1:10am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The LIfe and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
	On an unrelated note, but related to this thread, I finally managed to get a copy of The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood!
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/4/06 6:14am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The LIfe and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
	You should enjoy those ones.
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soitscometothis Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 12/4/06 11:42am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The LIfe and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: great movie. I don't watch it often, because it makes me feel sad by the end, but Zaz, you should get around to watching this film. Roger Livesey is an underrated actor, he's well supported by Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook (I think the book misses listing him because it takes a while for him to show up, but he is the third name in this movie), and the script is intelligent, and surprisingly cynical for the time. Powell and Pressburger were a very talented collaboration, producing some of the best British films ever made (not so much competition, I admit); Andrew Macdonald, producer of Trainspotting is Pressburger's grandson. -----signature----- I am not an eel popsicle. Art: http://boards.theforce.net/Fan_Art/b10020/17816752/?21 Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/4/06 1:32pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The LIfe and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
	I have seen "I Know Where I'm Going" which starred Livesey, and was directed by Powell and Pressburger. I really liked the film, and Livesey, a lot.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/4/06 8:03pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The LIfe and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) - Date Edited: 12/5/06 9:57pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "I Walked With A Zombie" (1943) USA: 69 min. BW Languages: English Director: Jacques Tourneur Producer: Val Lewton Screenplay: Inez Wallace, Curt Siodmak Photography: J. Roy Hunt Music: Roy Webb Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway The second Lewton-Tourneur horror film transposes "Jane Eyre" to the West Indies, with the first Mrs. Rochester as a zombie. Not seen this one.
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soitscometothis Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 12/5/06 6:40am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "I Walked With a Zombie" (1943)
	Zaz posted: The second Lewton-Tourneur horror film transposes "Jane Eyre" to the West Indies, with the first Mrs. Rochester as a zombie. Sounds fascinating. I'll look out for this on TV. -----signature----- I am not an eel popsicle. Art: http://boards.theforce.net/Fan_Art/b10020/17816752/?21 Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/5/06 10:02pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "I Walked With a Zombie" (1943)
	Next: "The Seventh Victim" (1943) UK: 71 min. BW Languages: English Director: Mark Robson Producer: Val Lewton Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen, Charles O'Neal Photography: Nicholas Musuraca Music: Roy Webb Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Kim Hunter The third, and according to the book, perhaps the best Lewton film; this one concerns a young woman (Hunter) who comes to New York in search of her older sister (Brooks) only to discover her involvement with a group of diabolists, who are trying to drive her to suicide for betraying their cult. Haven't seen this one, either.
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Zombi_2_1979 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 12/6/06 7:56am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The 7th Victim" (1943)
	I have this one on VHS, probably pop it on and post my thoughts afterwards.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/6/06 7:19pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The 7th Victim" (1943)
	Next: "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943) USA; 75 min. BW Languages: English Director: William Wellman Producer: Lamar Trotti Screenplay: Lamar Trotti, from the novel by Walter Van Tilberg Clark Photography: Arthur C. Miller Music: Cyril J. Mockridge Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Jane Darwell, Francis Ford In the absence of their sheriff, a town hears a rumour that a local rancher has been shot and killed by rustlers. They corral three passing drifters: Andrews, Quinn and Ford and lynch them. The ranchers turns out not to be dead, and the real rustlers already apprehended. The town has hung three innocent men. Daryl Zanuck insisted the film be shot cheaply on studio sets (he deemed it unlikely to make money), which apparently gives it an claustrophobic element. Haven't seen it; but I've heard good things about it.
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soitscometothis Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 12/7/06 11:29am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943)
	I saw it less than a year ago, but I remember very little about it. Rather depressing, though Fonda is good. -----signature----- I am not an eel popsicle. Art: http://boards.theforce.net/Fan_Art/b10020/17816752/?21 Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/7/06 9:41pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943)
	Next: "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) USA; 108 min. BW Languages: English Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Jack H. Skirball Screenplay: Thornton Wilder, Gordon McDonell Photography: Joseph A. Valentine Music: Dmitri Tiomkin Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, McDonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronym. Selznick had Hitchcock under contract at this time; and while under that contract, Selznick loaned him out. Hitchcock always did better away from Selznick, and this is one of his best films. Hitchcock also got Thornton Wilder as his script writer; the two men got on very well (unlike Raymond Chandler, whom Hitchcock loathed.) Great cast: Joseph Cotten is unlikely casting, but is fantastic anyway as the serial killer on the lam; Teresa Wright is very good as his innocent niece and namesake; his double and opposite. Many great scenes, but the one I remember is Wright coming down the staircase with the fatal ring on her finger.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/8/06 4:00pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)
	This one is generally not mentioned when people talk about the great Hitchcock's, which is total bunk. It's a brilliant film, right up there with Vertigo, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train . . . Joseph Cotten is outstanding; I keep flipping between this and The Third Man for his best performance. Everytime I see one of them, I think, "that's it, best performance ever." Then I see the other one. But I guess the great thing is that they're such radically different characters. And here Cotten is pure menace, under a razorthin facade of smarminess. Fantastic film. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/8/06 4:32pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)
	In the Hitchcock book by Truffaut, the two discussed the fact that Wright is in love with Cotten. Creepy thought.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/8/06 7:17pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc: "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)
	Next: "Ossessione" (1943) Italy; 142 min. BW Languages: Italian Director: Luchino Visconti Producer: Libero Solaroli Screenplay: Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicata Photography: Domenico Scala, Aldo Tonti Music: Giuseppe Rosati Cast: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa The book calls this the best adaptation of "The Postman Always Rings Twice", which Visconti lifted without permission; the reason it wasn't released in N. America until 1976, the year of James M. Cain's death.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/8/06 8:48pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Ossessione" (1943)
	This sounds great; I'm a fan of the novel and of the Garfield/Turner adaptation. I'd love to see this sometime. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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