What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Doctor Strange]

Ooh, I'm gonna have to see that! Jack Cardiff was one of the all-time great cinematographers... and is a personal favorite!

http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/cardiff.htm

 

[Miss Golightly]

Ooh, I'm gonna have to see that! Jack Cardiff was one of the all-time great cinematographers... and is a personal favorite!

http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/cardiff.htm

If you haven't read his autobiography I would really recommend it - it was one of the few books that I was sorry to finish and genuinly felt sad that that was the end of it! He writes with such humour, warmth and insight - the book is set out in chapters dealing with each great actor/director he worked with - some great stories!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Thanks, I'll be on the lookout for it!

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Sea Hawk (1940) with Erroll Flynn, dir. Michael Curtiz. The middle portion, set in Panama in the 1580s, is in sepia; the rest is in black and white. A restoration necessity? Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth dominates everyone in the scene with her. Claude Raines, heavily made up, is still suavity epitomized.

 

[Snowdrop]

'Some Like It Hot' (1959) - Arguably one of the greatest movies ever made.

 

[Shangas]

Currently watching "North by Northwest" by Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant.

This is a really fantastic film. I remember now, why I love Hitchcock.

 

[Berlin]

 

[Shangas]

Now watching "Scarface" (1932).

Never seen it before, but everyone keeps talking about it. So far it looks pretty cool.

 

[Tomasso]

Now watching "Scarface" (1932).

I watched the 1983 version last night.

 

[Feraud]

Last night I watched Micmacs by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It was wonderful! Highly recommended.

 

[Widebrim]

The Sea Hawk (1940) with Erroll Flynn, dir. Michael Curtiz. The middle portion, set in Panama in the 1580s, is in sepia; the rest is in black and white. A restoration necessity? Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth dominates everyone in the scene with her. Claude Raines, heavily made up, is still suavity epitomized.

Really good film. I don't recall that section being shot in sepia; perhaps it was a restoration necessity of sorts (or just some tampering). Rafael Sabatini, who wrote the novel The Sea Hawk, also penned Captain Blood, Flynn's first movie.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Revisited "The Kid From Spain," starring Eddie Cantor as a cowardly matador, Lyda Roberti as a desperate "I *keeeeees* you!" vamp, and Robert Young as a suave Mexican college boy. And the Goldwyn Girls as half-dressed co-eds. One of the only successful musicals made in 1932, and a key early triumph for Busby Berkeley, who would go on to do much more of this sort of thing.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Robert Young as a suave, Mexican college boy...That I would like to see! (As well as the Goldwyn Girls...). Interesting that Roberti was actually Polish, and died at age 31 in my hometown of Glendale; supposedly she had a heart attack while bending down to tie her shoes.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I just rewatched a great movie from 1984--Alan Rudolph’s Choose Me is a wonderful, exceptionally original film. With a close-knit cast that is comprised of an ex-prostitute barkeep (Lesley Ann Warren), an escaped mental patient who is a pathological liar (Keith Carradine), and a radio talk show sex therapist (Genevieve Bujold), among others, the film bemusedly asks the old joke: what happens when a group like this enters a bar? The resulting film is constantly wavering between being a romantic comedy and a film noir drama. That uncertainty, combined with the film’s sets (which are obviously sets) and the definite rhythms (reinforced by the ever present Teddy Pendergrass soundtrack), makes the film feel like a mass delusion. This is appropriate, since the film’s message is that we shouldn’t look to others to find out how to live our love lives, and this is a thoroughly romantic movie. Appropriately, it closes with a perfect moment of apprehension that suggests the fragility of that message and questions the sureness of the film’s resolution. More on it here: http://www.moviemartyr.com/1984/chooseme.htm

 

[Widebrim]

^^I'm going to check that out.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Seconded.

Understand: I haven't seen Choose Me since the 80s, but I recall thinking it was a great film at the time.

Alan Rudolph's films are always interesting, but many of them don't quite work. As far as I remember, this one does.

 

[Black Dahlia]

Star Packer (1934) with John Wayne.
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BD

 

[Chas]

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"The Ninth Gate".

Bravo had a Johnny Depp thang goin' on.

 

[rue]

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Did you like it? For me it was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, but it was interesting.

 

[Shangas]

Never seen "N by NW" or "Scarface" before. Last night was my first time. Enjoyed both thoroughly. N by NW has reminded me of why I love Hitchcock films.