What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Miss Golightly]

The Big Knife feels like a filmed play, with heavy-duty acting all around. Steiger has great moment when he says something like, "Excuse if I close my eyes, it helps me to see better."

I agree with you that it does seem like a filmed play (it was written by Clifford Odets so may well have been on the stage previously - I think it's hard to make a movie out of what was originally a play) .

LD & Lolly - I don't think Black Swan has anything to do with Suspiria - I have seen the latter and it was quite good and a lot scarier than Black Swan. BS is about a ballerina striving for perfection and the lead role in Swan Lake who starts to lose her grip oln reality.

 

[Kirk H.]

"The Doorway To Hell." Made in 1930 staring James Cagney and Lew Ayres. Cagney's first Gangster picture. a lot of great hats. It appeares to me that hats from the 1920s and 1930's had tall crowns with a wide ribbon and short brims.

Regards

Kirk H.

 

[ronymark]

Last Movie I watched was Red. I watched RED. Red is based on a graphic novel by the great comic book author Warren Ellis. Red is mind blowing action film. Comedy is refreshing and action and stunts are impressive. Actors that makes this film worth seeing.

 

[palma]

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"A Midnight Clear",.excellent world war 2 movie that I missed first time around. Also, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" Also quite good.

 

[Fletch]

Buck Privates (1941)

I'd forgotten how much fun Abbott & Costello's first movie was. TCM got hold of an unusually good print. The peacetime draftee atmosphere of "sham battles," flimsy-looking light tanks, and everybody but the Andrews Sisters in a smokey hat is quaint now - but livened up by some real vaudevillian, 20-gag-a-minute energy.

 

[Formeruser012523]

On Sunday evening I took a friend to see the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film. Tremendous fun. Comparing it to the previous three, it is closest in spirit to the first (Curse of the Black Pearl), with the added bonus of losing the weaker characters, especially Kiera Knightley. Highly recommended - I just wish dear Keith Richards had a longer cameo.

Just got home from seeing this one.

Enjoyed it MUCH more than the previous two. Johnny Depp is just a joy to watch for me & it was refreshing to not have Orlando or Kiera in the mix to be annoying. Always love seeing Keith Richards & also wish Dame Judy Dench could've had a longer cameo. Too bad this wasn't the follow up to the first film.

 

[Tomasso]

My Man Godfrey

 

[The Good]

Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967). Possibly one of my top five favorite films of all time, and maybe even features my favorite movie hat as well.

 

[Lady Day]

Quills
I really like that film.

LD

 

[TCMfan25]

Last night I foolishly started watching "Apocalypse Now Redux" (the extended version mind you!) 203 minutes of a great sheen/brando movie but I pay for it today with frequent yawns and dark bags!

At 5 the same morning I tried to get through "High Sierra" < one of my favourites! But unfortunately didn't make it, I woke up at 7 with a puddle of pomade and drool under my face apparently watching Bosley infomercials.

 

[Edward]

Just got home from seeing this one.

Enjoyed it MUCH more than the previous two. Johnny Depp is just a joy to watch for me & it was refreshing to not have Orlando or Kiera in the mix to be annoying. Always love seeing Keith Richards & also wish Dame Judy Dench could've had a longer cameo. Too bad this wasn't the follow up to the first film.

Yes. I liked the second two well enough, and while I suspect the original trilogy was planned as such and the actors were under contract, they would indeed have been better served to write out Orlando and Knightley after the first one.

 

[djd]

Watching Bogarts The Big Sleep. My second favourite Bogart film. Wonderful dialogue and some seriously sexy performances

 

[John in Covina]

Watching Bogarts The Big Sleep. My second favourite Bogart film. Wonderful dialogue and some seriously sexy performances

The Special Edition DVD has some interesting info on how the script was written to follow the book very closely. Also there were changes that were made after the film was in the can.

 

[djd]

Do recall something about them doing more scenes with Bogart and Becall after the success of To Have and Have Not? I think The Big Sleep was filmed first but released after? I could have just dreamt the whole thing....

 

[John in Covina]

Do recall something about them doing more scenes with Bogart and Becall after the success of To Have and Have Not? I think The Big Sleep was filmed first but released after? I could have just dreamt the whole thing....

To Have and Have Not was released first and established the interplay that the audience loved. I am not sure as to the exact filming dates but I recall that the Big Sleep was held for a while in the can. Several people including Becalls manager wanted some scenes between her and Bogey at his office changed to resonate more of the interplay like the other film. A hat with a veil was changed and dialogue was changed. Also there are some scenes that were removed or changed that included the Captain and I think the DA. The woman that played Eddie Mars wife was changed at some point too.

 

[John in Covina]

Also scenes about the drugged Carmen being brought back to the house after the murder were changed.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Yes. I liked the second two well enough, and while I suspect the original trilogy was planned as such and the actors were under contract, they would indeed have been better served to write out Orlando and Knightley after the first one.

I agree, but I guess I can't dislike the whole series, since I own the "trilogy". Felt the writing was rushed & resulted in an incomplete story, really. I know "Stranger Tides" had a new director. Makes me wonder if this latest one had different writers, too.

 

[Miss Golightly]

The Trouble with Harry

Sleuth (1972)

 

[Tomasso]

I've always wondered why John Forsythe wasn't a bigger star.