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Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-24-07
Replies: 27
Scary vs. gory
Posted By keechelus
Re: Scary vs. gory

How to frighten --

In 1951's "The Bad And The Beautiful" a poverty-row producer and his director are forced to make Attack Of The Cat Men on a tiny budget .. reviewing a miserable test shot of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-24-07
Replies: 29
What're some good Nazi movies?
Posted By keechelus
Re: What're some good Nazi movies?

PS to my comments about "Conspiracy" -

In Fritz Lang's "Hangmen Also Die" we are treated to a wild, shrieking impersonation of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Good propaganda, I guess; but as played...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-24-07
Replies: 29
What're some good Nazi movies?
Posted By keechelus
Re: What're some good Nazi movies?

1) In the "neo" category, Errol Morris did a chiller documentary "Mr. Death" (1999) about a nerdish American electrician turned Holocaust-denier: Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Leuchter's great triumph...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-08-07
Replies: 42
Your favorite book into movie
Posted By keechelus
Re: Your favorite book into movie

What about a book that is almost unreadable? - though full of drama.

Two faves: Michael Ondaatje's THE ENGLISH PATIENT, beautifully re-sorted and filmed by Minghella with the help of the author....
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-26-07
Replies: 21
Top Films of the Decades
Posted By keechelus
Re: Top Films of the Decades

Yike!

You have set a high bar - except for a very few I haven't seen, I agree with almost all your choices.

Hmm, I must prepare some alternatives with arguments to support 'em. Watch this...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-05-07
Replies: 0
High Concept: Apollo 13 meets Ace In The Hole
Posted By keechelus
High Concept: Apollo 13 meets Ace In The Hole

A true story that begs to be told:

In 1958, 174 miners were caught in a disastrous quake in North America's deepest coal mine. Springhill Nova Scotia's #2 mine was 14,000 feet deep. 99 men...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-05-07
Replies: 47
8 Cameos/Minor Roles that Stole the Movie
Posted By keechelus
Re: 8 Cameos/Minor Roles that Stole the Movie

Long ago, in The Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell (Preminger 1955), the stilted movie was saved by the appearance of young Rod Steiger as a prosecutor.

Dead on the screen for an hour, the film...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 07-05-07
Replies: 22
The New AFI Top 100
Posted By keechelus
Re: The New AFI Top 100

BFI's 100 (ranked in 1999) is an interesting companion to the AFI list. A summary at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_Top_100_British_films

The BFI site lists 'em in greater detail,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-05-07
Replies: 42
The Best Ensemble Casts of All Time?
Posted By keechelus
Re: The Best Ensemble Casts of All Time?

Previous posts covered most of my favourites - hurray! - but there are still some of the excellent John Sayles movies left (Eight Men Out; Men With Guns; Casa De Los Babys) none of them with a...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 06-26-07
Replies: 22
The New AFI Top 100
Posted By keechelus
Re: The New AFI Top 100

Two thoughts:

Hurray! "In The Heat Of The Night" has made the list. This movie may have been brave in 1967 for racial justice, but it is really a story of courage and merit.

Rod Steiger...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-26-07
Replies: 4
The Life of David Gale
Posted By keechelus
Re: The Life of David Gale

Alan Parker, Kevin Spacey and Laura Linney are in my pantheon of folks who can do no wrong.

Oops, this time they missed. The Life Of David Gale is superbly presented: characters, production...
Replies: 19
The best way to fix a scratched DVD.
Posted By keechelus
Re: The best way to fix a scratched DVD.

Yep, I bought the Danish Jamo as a leap in the dark -- a clearance unit on sale locally at 1/3 the sticker price. Before I bought, a fast search on the net revealed a bunch of European reviews highly...
Replies: 19
The best way to fix a scratched DVD.
Posted By keechelus
Re: The best way to fix a scratched DVD.

Tacitus said: "...buy a new DVD player."

Or not. Our new costly Jamo freaks out on fingerprints or a dandruff flake.

Our older cheapos (Panasonic and JVC) soldier on, playing beater DVDs, but...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-19-07
Replies: 202
Best 'True Story' film?
Posted By keechelus
Re: Best 'True Story' film?

" The thing that always bothered me about Truman Capote and his best-selling book is that whenever he would talk about it on TV, he was always smiling and made it all sound like a big adventure--or...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-16-07
Replies: 202
Best 'True Story' film?
Posted By keechelus
Re: Best 'True Story' film?

Deliver Us From Evil prompts me to mention two more excellent films of that type:

The Boys Of St. Vincent (John N. Smith 1991) is a 3-hour Canadian TV drama with feature film values. It tells the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-16-07
Replies: 202
Best 'True Story' film?
Posted By keechelus
Re: Best 'True Story' film?

Yes! In Cold Blood (Brooks 1967) rates very high with me.

In fact, I may be a little obsessed with the story. I have the original film on DVD, plus the TV remake (Kaplan 1996); and Capote's book,...
Replies: 19
The best way to fix a scratched DVD.
Posted By keechelus
Re: The best way to fix a scratched DVD.

For dirty, finger-printed DVDs: dishwashing liquid (mild, for hand washing) seems to work fine with warm water.

Big scratches, I dunno. I talked with our Public Library a few months ago. Their...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-01-07
Replies: 742
Saddest movie you have seen
Posted By keechelus
Re: Saddest movie you have seen

Sorry, I haven't read every post in this thread, so maybe missed a mention of LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (Miller 1962).

Nice work by Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau in a...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-01-07
Replies: 9
Evita
Posted By keechelus
Re: Evita

Sorry for the late reply -- and thanks for the full description of the stage versions of Evita.

Darn, I missed a revival here in Vancouver last year. I will certainly look for another opportunity...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-18-07
Replies: 9
Evita
Posted By keechelus
Re: Evita

Ernesto Guevara, the real person, was barely 16 when Juan Peron was on the road to power in Argentina. Peron became President in 1946, and Guevara was 18 yrs old.

A more true account of young...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-16-07
Replies: 9
Evita
Posted By keechelus
Re: Evita

Che is very present in the Alan Parker film. Yep, as mentioned above, Antonio Banderas played the part with energy.

A quirk of the Webber-Rice story: Che is not a single person. He's the...