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I have a pile of movies from the library and ..
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it was a wet/windy day, so ....decided to watch "Nixon" ... have a small interest in that tragedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113987/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It was typical Oliver Stone crap ...you know, beat you over the head repeatedly with his point until you submit. I could only handle 20 minutes of it
rating = D
but then I put in a disc that I knew nothing about ..The Conspirator
Director: Robert Redford
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0968264/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Storyline from IMDB
"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son."
WOW ..great flick. I would rate this = A-
a high quality cast and an interesting story well acted. I couldn't figure who was the fine actress who portrayed Mary Surratt ? Turns out it was Robin Wright , who I didn't care for in Forest Gump :o:
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Metropolis - 2010 KINO version
. I had seen one of the chopped up, short versions of Metropolis sometime in the past , it was murky and hard to follow, but this 2010 Kino restored version brought it up to within 8 minutes of it's original run time (153 min now) . Some of those edited copies are only 90+ minutes.
There is now a newly recorded score that is wonderful.
My reaction ? WOW , I was left almost speechless.
on a 1-10 scale ? about 14.
B&W silent , but with musical soundtrack ( the bonus disk had snippets of the 90's version with Pat Benetar and others ..hideous :eek:)
1926
Science fiction landmark German film
from IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator or the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause, Joh, with the assistance of an old colleague and now nemesis named Rotwang, an inventor, works toward quashing a supposed uprising, with Maria as the center of their plan. However, Joh is unaware that Rotwang has his own agenda. But if any of these plans includes the shut down of the machines, total anarchy could break loose both above ground and below. - Written by Huggo
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In scene after scene, you see devices that have been copied in later movies from Blade Runner to 1950's SciFi flicks. This is most likely better than anything made since 1978. The bonus disk traces the worldwide search for other copies that were patched together and then restored to make this current definitive copy. Fades, montages, stop action ... features of the future. Truly not to be missed by any serious film fan (2010 Kino only). Will need to view again before reluctantly returning it to the library.
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Don't know how I missed it for soo long ..
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot
American Film Institute lists
Was voted the 9th Greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly, and is ranked on this list high enough to be the greatest comedy of all time.
Upon its original release, Kansas banned the film
Storyline
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. Written by garykmcd
THIS FILM IS SERIOUSLY FUNNY ...:rotfl::rotfl:
9.7 OUT OF 10
Oh yeah, during the film I kept saying the story's hotel looked like the Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island. Checked the credits and it was .
I had remembered it from the days that I took C.I. training (1969) at the Naval Amphibious Base ... just 300 yards down the beach.
We used to go up to The Hotel Del and pretend NOT to be military and hang out at the beach bar. A single beer would eat up all my discretionary funds.
I don't "go out to the movies"
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but if I did , guess I'm in the right place to do so ...;)
Portland ranked No. 1 best city for movie lovers
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/ind...best_city.html
According to Movoto, the Rose City is the No. 1 city for movie lovers in the U.S., besting San Francisco, Seattle, New York and even Los Angeles, which somehow didn't crack the top 10 (and casting a suspicious light on the whole process).
Here's what Movoto had to say about PDX:
When it was all shot, edited, spliced up, and pieced back together, the clear winner for Best City for Movie Lovers was Portland, OR. It has five film fests per year, a film museum, multiple film societies, tons of movie theaters, indie theaters, a drive-in theater, and is even home to the unique Kennedy School movie theater.