Favorite Films

Bakers Dozen

feeds@yuku.com (Erik the Mirakle Ape) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:10:09 GMT

I saw this game on another message board and thought it looked like fun. You just pick a subject and take turns naming movies that fit the category, and the person who lists the thirteenth movie picks a new subject. Hopefully there will be a bit of interest ,but if not, then the thread will just die an ignonimous death. We'll start it of with something fun and easy, movies with winged creatures.

1 - Q : THE WINGED SERPENT (1982)

Have at it.

MUDHONEY (1965)

feeds@yuku.com (Prince Saliano) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:31:59 GMT

Anybody catch this outrageous drive-in flick on TCM? Princess Livingston as Maggie Marie? Love, love, LOVE her! And Hal Hopper was one of the vilest leading actors I've ever seen...a lecherous, wife-beating rapist (he could be a Congressman!). Why isn't this trash flick better known?

Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films

feeds@yuku.com (HarryLong) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:50:23 GMT

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/100essentialfilms.asp

An idiosyncratic list, to be sure.

Kind Hearts And Coronets

feeds@yuku.com (Ayjaye) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:56:11 GMT

One of my favourite films of all time, especially the performance given by Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini, the charming cad who murders his entire family in order to succeed to the title of Duke of Chalfont. Much as I admire Sir Alec Guinness for his multiple roles (and for his legacy of other superb performances), the film really belongs to the brilliant Dennis Price - a matchless speaking voice, and wonderful screen presence:

Kind Hearts and...

NAME THAT MOVIE

feeds@yuku.com (amanaplan1) — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:38:09 GMT

Do we have a screenshot quiz on this site? If not, would anybody be interested in participating? Just post a pic unique to a certain film without any other info and have others try to identify it. The winner gets to post the next screenshot, and so on.

Anybody game?

FAMOUS WORDS OR PHRASES

feeds@yuku.com (rayban) — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:26:24 GMT

So many films have become well-known for a word or a phrase or even a line of dialogue.

I'd like to start with -

"Assa Nissi Massa . . . Assa Nissi Massa".

Can anybody guess the film?

I have a feeling that many people can.

Ebb Tide Cinema

feeds@yuku.com (King Of Jazz) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:55:15 GMT

A topic on another forum got me thinking about the nature of what time--or tide--leaves behind for future generations. Did audiences in the '30s think that such unpretentious stuff like The Three Stooges would be big DVD sellers in 2009 compared to whatever the more distinguished Ruth Chatterton was doing that year? For a lot of people of course this wouldn't matter since they have no movie memory before 1990. But for those who look at the larger picture, I'm fascinated with what...

TEEN COMEDIES

feeds@yuku.com (rayban) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:15:36 GMT

In 2000, we got a film "Whatever It Takes" that was a very ambitious attempt to translate Edmond Rostand's classic play, "Cyrano de Bergerac", into a teenage context. The play is written in a classic serio-comic vein and Mark Schwann's screenplay attempts that tone, too. The problem is that we get a double-dose of the play' s comic conceit - one teen-ager, Ryan (Shane West) will help another, Chris (James Franco) get to romance his friend, Maggie (Marla...

Distributor of Avant-Garde Films Threatened With Eviction

feeds@yuku.com (kevin g shinnick) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:09:32 GMT

Distributor of Avant-Garde Films Threatened With Eviction

HOLD YOUR MAN (1933)

feeds@yuku.com (Prince Saliano) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:16:14 GMT

MGM eschewed it's glamour image and "went Warner Bros." with this wisecrack-laden pre-Code. Jean Harlow is the dame who falls for handsome con-man Clark Gable, gets knocked up, and winds up in a reformatory when a scam goes bad. It's a fun film and well-paced at 86 minutes. Unfortunately, it gets sappy in the final reel. But prior to that it's a hoot.

Jean Harlow to Dorothy Burgess: "You know, you wouldn't be a bad lookin' dame...if it wasn't...

WHITE ZOMBIE

feeds@yuku.com (Prince Saliano) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:38:12 GMT

If you haven't seen the Roan Group Restoration version of this title, do so. I appreciate this film so much more now. The good things about it now seem great, and the not-so-good (e.g., Madge Bellamy and John Harron) seem a whole lot better. It is a classic.

REASSESSMENTS

feeds@yuku.com (freddybastion) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:27:58 GMT

I can never be sure whether fluctuations in my opinions of certain films are due to my changing level of maturity (which is rising, thank you), changes in societal attitudes, or what... I just know that occasionally I find myself surprised at liking (or disliking) a film more or less than I used to. A few recent changes of opinion:

MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE - I'm pretty sure I'll never like it as much as I do THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBYSOXER, but I find that I...

KELLY THE SECOND (1936)

feeds@yuku.com (Prince Saliano) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:57:24 GMT

I got such a kick out of this forgotten little Hal Roach comedy feature. It stars Patsy Kelly, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Charley Chase. The tough guys are Edward Brophy, Harold Huber and a blonde Pert Kelton. Williams is a fighter and Patsy Kelly (I love her) is his trainer. Seems he can only win a match when he hears "The Irish Washerwoman". A fun little 70-minute comedy.

THUNDER ROCK (1942)

feeds@yuku.com (Prince Saliano) — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:28 GMT

Anyone catch this fantasy/anti-war film when it aired on TCM? Quite interesting and unique (if a bit slow). I really enjoyed Michael Redgrave. I've only ever seen him in DEAD OF NIGHT and that was years ago.

WHOPPERS

feeds@yuku.com (rayban) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:25:59 GMT

Films that are so bad, you almost can't believe them.

KINGS OF THE SUN - 1963 - J. Lee Thompson

This is one of those stately historical dramas (with a little action thrown it, at the beginning and the end) that are so artifical in their presentation that they seem totally, completely dead.

This one is about a Mayan tribe with George Chakiris as their chieftain, who are forced from their Mayan homeland and escape across the Gulf of Mexico to Mexico, where...

WAR MOVIES

feeds@yuku.com (rayban) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:50:00 GMT

It's hard to believe that Millard Kaufman, who wrote the screenplay for "Take The High Ground" (1953) actually got an Oscar nomination for the film. Today, it seems to be a great deal of trite material although it's written with a certain amount of affection. But perhaps in 1953 it just seemed to be much fresher. It's basically the story of a soured Korean War veteran (Richard Widmark) who is now training raw recruits for warfare and seems terribly unhappy about it....

UNTRADITIONAL XMAS MOVIES

feeds@yuku.com (Ken Hanke) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:07:59 GMT

Some years back I did a column on untraditional -- i.e., not played to death -- Xmas cinema fare. I find myself in a not dissimilar position this year. But I don't want to just suggest the same movies again -- THE LEMON DROP KID, THE REF, FEMALE TROUBLE, REMEMBER THE NIGHT, THE THIN MAN -- so I'm in the market for suggestions. One thing that occurred to me is the possibility of movies that have become traditionally associated with the holiday that are in no way Xmas movies. In other words,...

TCM Guest Programmers

feeds@yuku.com (Mort Bakaprevski) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:27:22 GMT

TCM has been running a Guest Programmer month where famous pipple select four of their favorite movies to be shown that evening. Hokay, lets imagine were rich & famous & have been selected to guest program one night. What would you pick?? Ive tried to select four films that arent seen that often (or maybe not at all). And you???

1) MOVIE CRAZY (1932) Harold Lloyds best talkie... containing a lot of the great sight gags Lloyd was famous for in his...

WHAT FILM DESERVES BEING REMADE

feeds@yuku.com (kevin g shinnick) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:15:43 GMT

People always attack movies that are remakes.

But I wonder what movies you feel should be remade ?

Some remakes have been different from the original, but successful in their own rights,such as the THING .

Movie Genres You Can't Stand!

feeds@yuku.com (The Queen of the Geeks) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:55:42 GMT

For me, there are three genres of movies that automatically turn me off.

1.) Prison flicks.
2.) Mafia flicks.
3.) Disease tearjerkers.

Of course, there are exceptions to the rule.

I rather like some campy "women in prison" flicks, but those might be considered a genre unto themselves. I watched Caged! earlier today, and was mightily amused...but movies like