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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/10/06 6:54pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Ossessione" (1943)
	Next: "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1943) USA; 113 min. Technicolour Languages: English Director: Vincente Minnelli Producer: Roger Edens, Arthur Freed Screenplay: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finkelhoffe Photography: George J. Folsey Music: Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin, Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, George F. Stoll, Leon Ames Cast: Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake Iconic musical. At this stage in her career, Garland has not yet become intolerable, and her singing is not yet self-dramatizing. So this is an enjoyable film.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/11/06 6:21pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1943)
	I don't remember much about it, but you're right about Garland. Her singing is still credible here. The Trolley Song is fun and her version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is still the definitive, I feel. -----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: 12/11/06 7:35pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1943) - Date Edited: 12/11/06 7:37pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "To Have and Have Not" (1944) USA; 100 min. B & W Languages: English Director: Howard Hawks Producer: Howard Hawks, Jack L. Warner Screenplay: Jules Furthman, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway Photography: Sidney Hickox Music: Hoagy Carmichael, William Lava, Franz Waxman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael Another take on "Casablanca"; Bogart is the cynical expat American in Martinique; Bacall is the girl that drifts into town. The book says the script was just used as a starting point to the cast's improvisations. (A likely story). A movie of tremedous entertaining style, and yes, this is the one where Bacall says: "You do know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together...and blow."
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/13/06 8:34pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "To Have and To Have Not" (1944)
	Next: "Laura" (1944) USA; 88 min. B & W Languages: English Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian Producer: Otto Preminger Screenplay: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhrdt, from the novel by Vera Caspary Photography: Joseph LaShelle, Lucien Ballard Music: David Raksin Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Prince, Judith Anderson This movie is a lot more interesting with Laura dead. Just sayin'. Great cast, though.
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soitscometothis Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 12/14/06 11:36am Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Laura" (1944)
	To Have and Have Not is good, but I don't enjoy it as much as Casablanca, which it resembles to an extent. Laura: watched it again recently. The hero is less charasmatic and interesting than some of the supporting cast, and Laura herself is shown to be beautiful, but rather shallow. Despite this, it is a good movie and I do enjoy it. -----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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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/14/06 1:47pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Laura" (1944)
	Gene Tierney fails to live up to expectations; she's supposed to be the great enchanter. When she appears, she's actually quite bland. What can you do? Dana Andrews is very good though; his infatuation with a dead woman is quite well done and the scene where she returns to find him asleep in her apartment is brilliant, one of the most disorienting moments of cinema. Vincent Price deserves mention for his absolutely sickening turn as a southern gigolo; it's a truly great performance, an absolutely pathetic individual, utter smarm. One of his best performances, I think. It's a very good movie, yes. -----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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soitscometothis Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 12/14/06 3:35pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Laura" (1944)
	Rogue1-and-a-half posted: Vincent Price deserves mention for his absolutely sickening turn as a southern gigolo; it's a truly great performance, an absolutely pathetic individual, utter smarm. One of his best performances, I think. Price has a fantastic turn in His Kind of Woman, though the movie isn't so well known. -----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: 12/14/06 3:59pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Laura" (1944)
	I read a bio of Mitchum, called "Baby, I Don't Care" which discusses that movie. Says it took years to make because Hughes was such an obsessive flaming nutbar. The Gene Tierney movie I want to see, but haven't, is "Leave Her To Heaven". I hear it outSirks Sirk.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/14/06 9:10pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Laura" (1944)
	Next: "Gaslight" (1944) USA; 114 min. B & W Languages: English Director: George Cukor Producer: Arthur Hornblow, jr. Screenplay: John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston, from the play by Patrick Hamilton Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg Music: Bronislau Kaper Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury The book rightly calls the plot thin, but Cukor gets a lot out of it. The basic situation happened a lot in the days when divorce was difficult; an inconvenient wife was institutionalized at the whim of her husband. Bergman gives a powerhouse performance, and Boyer's nearly as good.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/15/06 4:59pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gaslight" (1944)
	Great cast all around; Boyer takes his striking good looks and matinee idol image and turns them on their head to make quite a menacing villain. Bergman is breathtakingly gorgeous and quite brilliant. Joseph Cotton is good, per usual. And Angela Lansbury is a hoot as the definitive 'saucy downstairs maid.' It's a very good movie. -----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: 12/15/06 5:02pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gaslight" (1944)
	I still haven't been able to see "Angel Street", the Brit original, with Anton Wahlbrook in the Boyer role and Diana Wynward in the Bergman. I hear MGM suppressed it.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/15/06 5:05pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gaslight" (1944)
	Yes, from all accounts they had some copies destroyed. It's worth watching; I actually found it under the title Gaslight, rather than under Angel Street. I'd recommend trying Interlibrary Loan if you have the option; maybe get an old VHS copy. Otherwise, write TCM; I'm not sure if it's in their library, but I wouldn't be surprised. -----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: 12/15/06 5:06pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gaslight" (1944)
	Okay, I'll try that, thanks...
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/15/06 8:14pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Gaslight" (1944)
	Next: "Henry V" (1944) UK; 135 min. Technicolour Languages: English Director: Laurance Olivier Producer: Laurance Olivier, Filippo Del Giudice, Dallas Brower Screenplay: Dallas Brower, Allan Dent Photography: Jack Hildyard, Rober Krasker Music: William Walton Cast: Laurance Olivier, Felix Aylmer First (and best) film directed by Laurance Olivier. Some of the best filmed Shakespeare. Filmed in the Irish Free State as wartime propaganda.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/16/06 9:48pm Subject: RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Henry V" (1944) - Date Edited: 12/17/06 10:25am (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II" (1944) USSR; 100 min. B & W (a section of Part 2 is in Technicolour process) Languages: Russian Director: Sergei Eisenstein Producer: Sergei Eisenstein Screenplay: Sergei Eisenstein Photography: Andrei Moskvin, Eduard Tisse Music: Sergei Prokofiev Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov and a cast of thousands. This is a film about Ivan the Terrible (the real translation is 'Ivan Grozny' or 'Ivan the Dread'.) Conceived as a trilogy, the first film concerns Ivan's childhood, and his determination to exterminate the boyars (the Russian nobles) who made his early life a nightmare. The second film shows how the boyars plot against Ivan, and how he plots against them, causing him to create a secret police force. These two films and "Aleksandr Nevsky" are Eisenstein's only sound films. Their style is directly opposed to his brilliant silent films, which were without heroes, and celebrated the prolitariat. Eisenstein did his best work while Lenin was in power; when Stalin succeeded him and began suppressing the arts, Eisenstein's work was criticized, and often suppressed. In the early 30's, his film about collectivization--"Bezhim Meadow"--was never released. Stalin's bureaucrats told Eisenstein he must change his style. The result was "Nevsky" and "Ivan, Part I", both supposedly metaphors for Stalin. Both were very slow, very stylized, and 'heroic' in nature. But Part II is an entirely different kettle of fish. Stalin took one look and ordered Eisenstein to change it; Eisenstein had a severe heart attack, and refused, saying his health was not up to it. It was suppressed. Part III exists only in small fragments. Eisenstein died without changing Part II. After Stalin's death, it was released by Krushchev's regime, and it's pretty obvious what bothered Stalin about it. The best take I've ever read on this very, very odd film comes from Dwight MacDonald's book "On Movies": "...Taken on the surface, Ivan II is a parable justifying Stalin's policies. Ivan is the determined leader of the Russian people against their foreign and domestic enemies, his Oprichina [the secret police] is the GPU, the boyars are the kulaks and other bourgeois elements, and they join with the church in working against Ivan-Stalin....but this surface reading is--superficial. Ivan is shown becoming a bloodthirsty beast, of course from the highest motives....the late James Agee used to insist to me that in Nevsky and Ivan I, Eisenstein was satirizing Stalinism, on the principle of Swift's "Modest Proposal" exaggeration that covertly suggests the opposite conclusion to the one overtly put forward. Vladimir [Ivan's cousin, whom the boyars plot to put on the throne], for example, keeps falling asleep at crucial moments. This shows his frivolous nature, of course, But considered a little more deeply--or obliquely--may it not be intended to present him as the only sensible, decent person in that nightmare amieance where the fight for power--or mere survival--makes men snarl and bite like animals? In Ivan's court, as in Stalin's, only the sleeping can be wise--or human."
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