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Post by moonglum on Sept 30, 2012 2:42:19 GMT -6
The Last of the Mohicans
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Post by Phalon on Sept 30, 2012 6:43:02 GMT -6
That certainly seems to be the case.
Norma Rae
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Post by stepper on Sept 30, 2012 8:23:04 GMT -6
The Wizard of Oz
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Post by Siren on Sept 30, 2012 23:24:57 GMT -6
Ah, MG, great choice! One of my (and Kat's) very favorites. Gams, I remember seeing "Norma Rae" with my mom, who, right there in the theater, applauded when Norma's co-workers began shutting off their machines to support the union. I looked over, and tears were running down Mama's face. She had recently gone to great lengths to help bring a union to the factory she worked in. She had lived that movie. ~~~~~~~~~~ The Purple Rose Of Cairo - Woody Allen's 1985 film, in which "In 1930s New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world." www.imdb.com/title/tt0089853/
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Post by stepper on Oct 1, 2012 17:48:05 GMT -6
Quiz Show
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Post by moonglum on Oct 3, 2012 12:40:51 GMT -6
Ronin
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Post by stepper on Oct 3, 2012 16:55:13 GMT -6
The Sandpiper - with that dynamic duo Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Post by Siren on Oct 3, 2012 22:41:20 GMT -6
To me, Taylor and Burton had a surprising lack of on-screen chemistry. I did like that movie, though.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
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Post by scamp on Oct 4, 2012 14:26:55 GMT -6
Until September
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Post by Siren on Oct 5, 2012 6:58:20 GMT -6
Hi Scamp! Nice seeing you. "The Virgin Suicides" (1999) - A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents. www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/
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Post by stepper on Oct 6, 2012 18:27:50 GMT -6
Waiting to Exhale
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Post by Siren on Oct 6, 2012 23:32:42 GMT -6
Foxes (1980) - Four high school girls (led by a young-but-already-charismatic Jodie Foster) grow up too fast in late '70s L.A.
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Post by stepper on Oct 7, 2012 21:35:10 GMT -6
You Don't Mess with the Zohan - stupid movie but it works here
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Post by Siren on Oct 8, 2012 11:48:13 GMT -6
Very good, Step! All My Sons - The story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. He framed his business partner for a crime and engineered his own exoneration. Now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. www.imdb.com/title/tt0040087/plotsummary
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Post by stepper on Oct 8, 2012 13:27:21 GMT -6
Basket Case - Siamese twin brothers gone bad.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 10, 2012 4:43:49 GMT -6
Disturbia (2007) - a modern sort of version of "Rear Window"
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Post by scamp on Oct 10, 2012 17:52:35 GMT -6
East of Elephant Rock, a strange British indie film
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Post by stepper on Oct 11, 2012 16:08:03 GMT -6
For a Few Dollars More - if you like Clint Eastwood, you know this one.
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Post by Siren on Oct 11, 2012 21:44:32 GMT -6
Game of Death (1978) - Bruce Lee (had his poster on my wall) stars as a martial arts movie star who must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him. www.imdb.com/title/tt0077594/
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Post by Phalon on Oct 11, 2012 23:31:21 GMT -6
The Legend of Hell House (1973) - Tagline: For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn't true!
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Post by stepper on Oct 12, 2012 16:29:38 GMT -6
The Incubus
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Post by Phalon on Oct 17, 2012 4:57:05 GMT -6
Full Metal Jacket
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Post by stepper on Oct 17, 2012 16:31:59 GMT -6
Kill Bill
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Post by Phalon on Oct 19, 2012 4:01:58 GMT -6
Little Man Tate - starring Jodie Foster
Parts of the movie were filmed in Cincinnati, where we were working at the time. There's a scene in which Jodie and the boy actor walked down the steps of a school. The "school" was actually a bank across the square from the building where I worked, and we all watched them film from our office windows. Hubs was soooo jealous; I got to see Jody Foster! Jody is to him as Johnny is to me.
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Post by stepper on Oct 19, 2012 21:13:42 GMT -6
I agree with Hubs!
Night of the Living Dead
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Post by Siren on Oct 20, 2012 8:09:26 GMT -6
When I was going to the movies regularly, Jodie was like the "Good Housekeeping Seal Of Approval" to me. I figured if she was in it, it would be worth the money. Gams, I hear that people are surprised at how small a person she is. Were you?
"A Place In The Sun" (1951) - Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor (breathtakingly beautiful) play lovers separated by class and a fateful decision.
This is one of the films I've been lucky enough to see at my hometown theater. And it's another testament to the power of seeing a film in a theater. Though I had seen this one several times, seeing it in that environment made it brand new. I cried while watching it - more than once.
After 60 years, this scene is still so powerful. You see two people who became very close friends while making the film. And you see a great Method actor (Monty) feeling the role, and a teenage girl whose very real emotion is written all over her face. When she turns and looks into the camera, saying, "Are they watching us?", I feel like a voyeur!
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Post by stepper on Oct 20, 2012 17:05:01 GMT -6
The Queen
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Post by Siren on Oct 21, 2012 21:23:08 GMT -6
"The Rat Race" (1960) - A musician (Tony Curtis), new to New York and naive, shares a room with a taxi dancer (Debbie Reynolds), who is all too wise to the ways of the world.
I love that movie. Amazes me that hardly anyone has seen it.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 22, 2012 6:29:26 GMT -6
She was very small, Siren. Teeny-tiny, actually. HA! I worked in the second tallest building in Cincinnati - it has close to 50 floors if I remember correctly; and I'm sure I don't remember this correctly at all, but I think our office was on the 22nd floor. Regardless, it was high enough that Jodie appeared small, not a speck, but not big enough to be surprised that she was small.
This is why I'd love to watch some old movies with you - you know all the good ones.
Salt (2010) - another of Angelina Jolie's kick-butt characters; this time she's a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy.
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Post by Siren on Oct 24, 2012 7:11:47 GMT -6
Wow - you worked on the 22nd floor? That must have been something. I used to work on the 11th floor of a building, and that was awfully high. Can you imagine working in what used to be the Sears Tower - 108 stories??
Speaking of....
"The Towering Inferno"
At Steve McQueen's insistence, he and co-star Paul Newman had precisely the same number of lines, were paid the same, and got equal billing. They even staggered the billing so in the opening and end credits and posters so that, depending on which way you read it (top to bottom or left to right), both appear to get top billing.
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