What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[rue]

Not a movie per se but eminently watchable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0nrC-vfaY

Just finished it myself. Such a sad story.....

 

[Miss Golightly]

Born to be Bad (1950)

 

[Marcus]

1,2,3...1961 with James Cagney. WOW...that movie has the most rapid fire script I've ever seen. It has some really great comedy in it. It helps if you know some WW2 and Cold War history. Not sure if I heard this right, but Robert Osbourne on TCM said that this movie was so taxing on Cagney that he didn't do another movie for 20 years. Great movie...highly suggest it! SITZEN MACHEN!!!!!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Just finished it myself. Such a sad story.....

That series, along with the movie "Chariots of Fire", sparked a strong vintage/repro clothing revival. In fact, in the early '80s, some clothing catalogs sold outfits that were repros of "Brideshead" costumes. You could even buy repro Aloysius teddy bears.



Thanks to "Brideshead Revisited", I tried, at the age of 15, to dress (but not speak!) like these chaps:



[video=youtube_share;8P6W7txlEtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P6W7txlEtA&feature=related[/video]

 

[rue]

Were the repros actually any good? Actually when I was watching it I wondered what you would think about the accuracy of the costuming.

I wouldn't mind having my own Aloysius

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Were the repros actually any good?

They were good ... and they were very expensive. There was an excellent repro of Sebastian's ludicrously luxurious silk dressing gown. As I recall, the repro cost about $1,000 -- in 1982!

 

[m0nk]

The Thin Man. I don't get tired of that flick....

 

[rue]

I guess the fact that you were trying to dress like them answers my other question

They were good ... and they were very expensive. There was an excellent repro of Sebastian's ludicrously luxurious silk dressing gown. As I recall, the repro cost about $1,000 -- in 1982!

It would be neat to find them on ebay now, but I'd be willing to bet that they would still be pretty pricey. That robe was gorgeous.

 

[rue]

The Thin Man. I don't get tired of that flick....

Neither do I

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I guess the fact that you were trying to dress like them answers my other question

The costuming was pretty damn accurate. Then again, it was a British production. The Brits almost always get costuming right.

It would be neat to find them on ebay now, but I'd be willing to bet that they would still be pretty pricey. That robe was gorgeous.

I've not run into any.

 

[Tomasso]

I wouldn't mind having my own Aloysius

I read somewhere that Aloysius rekindled the popularity of teddy bears.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I read somewhere that Aloysius rekindled the popularity of teddy bears.

Of Steiff bears, I think.

 

[rue]

I read somewhere that Aloysius rekindled the popularity of teddy bears.

I can't imagine them ever not being popular.... how strange.

Of Steiff bears, I think.

Those are the best

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I can't imagine them ever not being popular....

Popular for adults.

Thanks to "Brideshead", there were actually cases of male 'preppy' students walking around U.S. college campuses with teddy bears in hand. Hard to believe today...

 

[rue]

Popular for adults.

Thanks to "Brideshead", there were actually cases of male 'preppy' students walking around U.S. college campuses with teddy bears in hand. Hard to believe today...

Just a tad

 

[Tomasso]

Then again, it was a British production.

It was but did you know that the original director was an American, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the ba***rd son of Orson Welles.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[DNO]

I just watched The Public Enemy...again. Just can't get enough of bad-boy Cagney.

 

[Wally_Hood]

1,2,3...1961 with James Cagney. WOW...that movie has the most rapid fire script I've ever seen. It has some really great comedy in it. It helps if you know some WW2 and Cold War history. Not sure if I heard this right, but Robert Osbourne on TCM said that this movie was so taxing on Cagney that he didn't do another movie for 20 years. Great movie...highly suggest it! SITZEN MACHEN!!!!!

It's a screwball comedy with the dark heart of the Cold War as its frame. Instead of 30s rich folks acting wacky, or Depression Era poor folks showing up the wealthy, its rampant capitalism vs. heel-clicking nazis blended with goofy commies. All at the speed of light~

 

[ButteMT61]

Hugo. Fantastic.