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I love the original Prom Night. To All a Goodnight is directed by David Hess, a.k.a. the disgusting pig Krug Stillo in I Spit On Your Grave, which is interesting I guess.
Hopefully you’ll like it, I thought it was a blast.
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A Walk in the Sun. On TCM.
With Sterling Holloway and Lloyd Bridges it has to be worth a look.
Mixed reviews but mostly ok.
With all this Asian film talk in the local trade news hope a Ducky Louie feature series of work appears on TCM.
Today TCM is featuring a string of Liz Taylor flix.
With Sterling Holloway and Lloyd Bridges it has to be worth a look.
Mixed reviews but mostly ok.
With all this Asian film talk in the local trade news hope a Ducky Louie feature series of work appears on TCM.
Today TCM is featuring a string of Liz Taylor flix.
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Enjoyed this immensely.
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Yeah, it’s terrific. The two Brit’s, right? Unbelievable survival.
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Yeah, it's not actually a movie, but it's more cinematic than most movies, an episode from that great, great TV anthology, the old 1960's Outer Limits. It's one of their best episodes, written by sci-fi author Harlan Ellison - The Demon With the Glass Hand. A man awakes in an empty world, only populated by dark-eyed goons who are out to get him. They wear medallions that, when removed, disintegrate them. He has a glass hand with no fingers. He finds a strange, disoriented woman who helps him and realizes that the hand contains the key to the entire population of the earth, which has been digitally stored on a piece of wire as a way to escape a plague, if only they can find the fingers. The hand is a communication device and a computer. This guy is the guardian of the human race. He's also an android, the eternal man, waiting a thousand years to restore humanity.
It's shot in the style of German Expressionism, a sort of Cabinet of Dr Caligari, film noir, with dark black and white weirdness and it just might be the strangest episode in the famous/infamous second season.
It won a couple of sci-fi awards for the Ellison script, which is genuinely haunting.
It's shot in the style of German Expressionism, a sort of Cabinet of Dr Caligari, film noir, with dark black and white weirdness and it just might be the strangest episode in the famous/infamous second season.
It won a couple of sci-fi awards for the Ellison script, which is genuinely haunting.
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I just learned that there were plans to make a 3rd in the sequence, with Chinatown and The Two Jakes being #1 and #2.
In the first, the issue was water supply; the second was real estate; and the third would have been oil.
The idea was pretty much scrapped when Nicholson became too old, and then retired from acting. But I think a suitable protagonist could be found, and written in such a way that the character would be Jake Gittes' son, nephew, or some such. Perhaps they could even entice Nicholson to direct it, as he did in "Jakes".
Robert Towne is most likely too old to write the screenplay, as he did for the first two, but I'm sure there are a bunch of writers who could write a great one.
Incidentally I loved The Two Jakes, although I had to watch it 3 times to thoroughly understand it. IMO it would have been incomprehensible without the voice-over narration.
In the first, the issue was water supply; the second was real estate; and the third would have been oil.
The idea was pretty much scrapped when Nicholson became too old, and then retired from acting. But I think a suitable protagonist could be found, and written in such a way that the character would be Jake Gittes' son, nephew, or some such. Perhaps they could even entice Nicholson to direct it, as he did in "Jakes".
Robert Towne is most likely too old to write the screenplay, as he did for the first two, but I'm sure there are a bunch of writers who could write a great one.
Incidentally I loved The Two Jakes, although I had to watch it 3 times to thoroughly understand it. IMO it would have been incomprehensible without the voice-over narration.
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I just learned that there were plans to make a 3rd in the sequence, with Chinatown and The Two Jakes being #1 and #2.
In the first, the issue was water supply; the second was real estate; and the third would have been oil.
The idea was pretty much scrapped when Nicholson became too old, and then retired from acting. But I think a suitable protagonist could be found, and written in such a way that the character would be Jake Gittes' son, nephew, or some such. Perhaps they could even entice Nicholson to direct it, as he did in "Jakes".
Robert Towne is most likely too old to write the screenplay, as he did for the first two, but I'm sure there are a bunch of writers who could write a great one.
Incidentally I loved The Two Jakes, although I had to watch it 3 times to thoroughly understand it. IMO it would have been incomprehensible without the voice-over narration.
In the first, the issue was water supply; the second was real estate; and the third would have been oil.
The idea was pretty much scrapped when Nicholson became too old, and then retired from acting. But I think a suitable protagonist could be found, and written in such a way that the character would be Jake Gittes' son, nephew, or some such. Perhaps they could even entice Nicholson to direct it, as he did in "Jakes".
Robert Towne is most likely too old to write the screenplay, as he did for the first two, but I'm sure there are a bunch of writers who could write a great one.
Incidentally I loved The Two Jakes, although I had to watch it 3 times to thoroughly understand it. IMO it would have been incomprehensible without the voice-over narration.
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