Shallow DVD movie review-the JBL-a/d/s sound

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112744/

I had NO expectations for this one. Good story/great acting (esp. Morse) .. a real sleeper
seems a strong 8/10

After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiralling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At the end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other. Written by Anthony

Jack Nicholson		Freddy Gale
	David Morse	...	John Booth
	Anjelica Huston	...	Mary
	Robin Wright	...	Jojo

I noticed Priscilla Barnes on the credits , but couldn't place her in the flick. The brunette
wig threw me.

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If you prefer to read ...free ...it all went public domain a while back

http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/download-the-complete-sherlock-holmes-arthur-conan-doyles-masterpiece.html

Download the Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Masterpiece

as for the big deal of SH using cocaine , it was legal in that time period and even
Queen VR used it.

In my surfing , I found ...

700 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.


http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

SOME of the interesting highlights ..

Wattstax Documents the “Black Woodstock” Concert Held 7 Years After the Watts Riots (1973)


Watch Documentaries on the Making of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here


Watch The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain on the 20th Anniversary of the Musician’s Suicide

"The Battle of Midway," directed by John Ford, provides a relatively
brief account of the Japanese attack of American ships at Midway atoll.
The film is comprised mostly of authentic footage from the battle, with
dramatic narration by Henry Fonda. "Behind every cloud, there may be an
enemy," he intones as American fighter pilots search the sky. The rest
of the film mocks Emporer Tojo of Japan and portrays him as ruthless,
bombing hospitals and churches as he tries to conquer the Pacific.

Chaos & Creation at Abbey Road: Paul McCartney Revisits The Beatles’ Fabled Recording Studio


Inside Dr. Strangelove: Documentary Reveals How a Cold War Story Became a Kubrick Classic


American Masters : Les PAUL Chasing Sound


A To Zeppelin: The Story Of Led Zeppelin

the whole BMW "Hire" series

Watch The Hire: 8 Short Films Shot for BMW by John Woo, Ang Lee & Other Popular Filmmakers (2002)

and I fond the CR info interesting on this:
Free Online: Charade, the Best Hitchcock Film Hitchcock Never Made. Stars Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn





The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made. That’s how certain enthusiasts of American film think of Charade, Stanley Donen’s 1963 lightly comedic mystery thriller filled with international intrigue. Its cast list draws deeply from the era’s formidable well of cinematic icons: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy. Its action takes place in no less a screen-illuminating world city than Paris. The Criterion Collection has seen fit to give it a scholarly, respectable DVD and Blu-Ray release. It comes scored by Henry Mancini. It has inspired four remakes, including one in Bengali and one in Hindi. It director also made On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, Funny Face, and Bedazzled. “A terrifically entertaining comedy-thriller,” critic Dave Kehr calls it, “perfectly crafted” and “a marvelous use of Paris.” All these qualities and more strongly recommend the picture, at least to my mind, and if you’d like to see it for yourself, you have only to pull it up on Hulu.
Wait — really? A film of such seemingly high profile, made only 49 years ago? You don’t exactly come across the likes of Charade in the public domain every day. But I have an explanation, and it will surely delight those film fans who make sport of pointing out the incompetence of major studios. It seems that pre-1978 United States copyright law absolutely required you to include some sort of mark on your work indicating your intent to claim copyright at all — ©, for instance — and in Charade‘s case, Universal Pictures seemed to have just sort of forgotten about it. The film thus went public domain as soon as it came out. Criterion’s provides a superior transfer and a wealth of cinephilic accoutrements besides, but if you want to dip into the picture right now, simply click play. An unknowable but capable Cary Grant and a Givenchy-clad Audrey Hepburn pursued through the early sixties’ City of Light for gold stolen in wartime — who, especially those on an office lunch break, could resist?

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HARDWARE WARs

Back in 1977, San Francisco filmmaker Ernie Fosselius had the brainwave to make a spoof of a movie that had just come out. It was a risky move. Nobody had any sense that Star Wars would become the worldwide cultural phenomenon that it did. And just as George Lucas’s space opera earned staggering amounts of money, so did Fosselius’s parody, Hardware Wars. You can watch it above. Made for a mere eight grand, the 13-minute movie became a pre-internet viral hit and a staple on the festival circuit, ultimately earning over $1,000,000 – an unheard of haul for a short film. In fact, in terms of money spent versus money earned, Hardware Wars ended up being far more profitable than Star Wars. And it’s considered the most profitable short film ever made.
“I think a lot of the charm of that movie is the fact that we didn’t really know what we were doing,” said Scott Mathews, who donned a blonde wig to play the movie’s lead, Fluke Starbucker. The movie’s production is so gleefully cheap and half-assed that you can’t help but be charmed by it. Irons, toasters, and tape players are used in place of spaceships. A canister vacuum cleaner stands in for R2D2, and Chewbacca appears to be a Cookie Monster puppet dyed brown. At one point, while on a desert planet of Tatooine, you see a beach-goer sauntering in the background. And Star Wars’s famous cantina scene is in this movie simply a stroll through a crowded tavern. If you know anything about the bar scene in 1970s San Francisco, you know that it was at least as weird as anything George Lucas managed to put up on the screen.
The often litigious Lucas reportedly really liked the movie, called it “cute.” He even invited Fosselius to voice the inconsolable sobs of Jabba the Hutt’s animal trainer after his beloved Rancor gets killed by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi.
Hardware Wars ended up launching an entire subgenre of movie – the Star Wars fan film. And with the advent of Youtube and digital filmmaking technology, the ability of nerds and mavens to make increasingly sophisticated takes on Lucas’s universe became easier and easier. One of the better, and older, ones is Troops. A mash up of Star Wars and the reality TV series Cops, the short shows the challenges and the struggles of being an Imperial Stormtrooper.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=0ymFxkFfIhU

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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055871/...nm_flmg_act_24

An American oil company executive of Swedish descent, now living in Sweden, is blackmailed into spying for the Allies during World War II. At first resentful, his relationship with a beautiful German Allied agent causes him to realize how vital his work is. When he learns that his anti-Nazi German associates are under suspicion from the Gestapo, he risks his own life to go back inside Nazi Germany to finish his work and try to save his friends. It's an exciting story with great characters, filmed partly in the locations where the story took place. Written by Carol

	William Holden	...
	Lilli Palmer

OK. I like WH, and Lilli was easy on the eyes. Fine history based story. Euro locations were nice, but
Holden was too passive at times and the telling was somewhat uneven. 6.75 of 10

Red Rock West (1993)

kinda of Western noir. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105226/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I THINK it's the best thing Nick Cage has ever done. An easy 9.9 of 10. Great cast/story/direction/music/location.

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle. Written by Rob Hartill

This could have easily been a Coen Bros. production , it's so good. Somewhat reminiscent of Double Indemnity. Hoppers performance was worth the price of admission all by it's self.

	Nicolas Cage	...	Michael Williams
	Dennis Hopper	...	Lyle
	Lara Flynn Boyle	...	Suzanne Brown
	J.T. Walsh

highly,highly recommended if you like noir, coens,

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for an 1887 London leather/gilt bible that I'm selling. She's about 45 or so. We'd been emailing about the details.

HER: I remember it's pretty old.
ME: 1887 .. over 125 years ...from the time of Queen Victoria & Sherlock Holmes
HER: Were they real people ?
ME:: (kinda stunned/shuddering) Well, one was ...
HER:
ME: (breaking the pregnant pause) ..The Queen actually existed.
HER: Oh yeah ....

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082934/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14

Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange

• This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside café owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder.
  - Written by Craig Clarke <[email protected]>
• The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
  - Written by Gabe Taverney ([email protected])

An acting "tour de force" until the last scene which whimpers out. I have a much better ending, but was NOT consulted during the production,

Jessica was a babe in 1981 (still is) , Jack was balding..even back then , but despite the ending, I would rate it 8 of 10

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

we've got great weather and I'd rather be riding than movie watching , but the Little Boss had a bad night and it was better that I attend to her than enjoy the weather.

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

A film crew is in Southeast Asia filming a Vietnam-war memoir. It's early in the shooting, but they're already behind schedule and over budget. On the day an accident befalls the novice director, the cast and crew are attacked by a gang of poppy-growing local drug dealers, except the cast and crew don't realize these aren't actors who are stalking them. The thugs kidnap Tugg Speedman, an actor whose star seems on the decline, and it's up to the rest of the ragtag team to band together long enough to attempt his rescue. But will Tugg want to leave? Written by <[email protected]>

Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Nick Nolte,Tom Cruise,Robert Downey Jr.

Cruise and Downey rather stole the show. TC as the greedy, profane, dancing (?) producer was "over the top" ...Downey as the angry Black , Aussie vet was "spot on". He takes a drug to make himself Black for the film within a film.

very funny..in places, juvenile in others..... 6 of 10

trailer ...

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2677539609/

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by old General Sternwood to stop a blackmail attempt concerning his youngest daughter Carmen. Marlowe tails the blackmailer Geiger to his house at Laverne Terrace. Suddenly he hears a shot and sees some men rushing out to their cars. He breaks into the house, and finds Carmel drugged in a chair, with Geiger's dead body at her feet. An empty camera proves that a photo has been taken of her and the corpse, probably intended for further blackmailing. A series of clues lead Marlowe to various persons involved in gambling. Wherever he finds them, he also finds Sternwood's oldest daughter, Vivian Rutledge, a divorced beauty. She and Marlowe fall in love with each other, although she continues double-crossing him. When Marlowe's investigations lead him to the casino owner Eddie Mars, the situation starts becoming very dangerous. Everyone, including the district attorney, advises Marlowe to stop the investigation, but he is stubborn. Eddie Mars has a ... Written by Maths Jesperson {[email protected]}


As famous as this movie is ... I expected more. Bacall can't act her way out of a paper bag. Bogart was playing his standard character. Story was an incomprehensible mess. Snappy dialog was hard to follow.
It made 1946 seem like 3 century's ago. Only a 5 of 10.

Absence of Malice (1981)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081974/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. The FBI organized crime task force has no evidence that he's involved with the mob but decide to pressure him perhaps revealing something - anything - about a murder they're sure was a mob hit. The let Megan Carter, a naive but well-meaning journalist, know he is being investigated and Gallagher's name is soon all over the newspaper. Gallagher has an iron-clad alibi for when the murder occurred but won't reveal it to protect his fragile friend Teresa. When Carter publishes her story, tragedy ensues. Needing to make amends, Carter tells Gallagher the source of the first story about him and he sets out to teach the FBI and the Federal Attorney a lesson.

I guess that Sidney Pollack movies seem right to me (I'm a big fan of "3 days of the Condor) . Doesn't hurt that he has Newman and Field playing the leads. Well done all around. 8.5 of 10

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I've slacked off a bit on the reviews (things going on in my life,,more important) and some DVD's
recently watched escaped this thread, so ...

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

modern remake of the classic "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) film. Why ?
the original was great , memorable,well cast ..etc.
The remake ? none of those qualities. Highly excrete-able. 1.5 of 10. a new low rating for this thread.

2004
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377062/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
1965
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

but then, an old favorite.

Repo Man (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk. Written by Baroque <[email protected]>

Ranked #7 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time"

Produced by a former MONKEY ..Michael Nesmith

funny, memorable, great soundtrack , appropriate acting 9.5 of 10

the trivia for this film is interesting too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/...ef_=tt_trv_trv

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Blood Simple. (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/

A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan and Joel Cohen's first feature film. - Written by Mark Logan

Abby is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them. But Visser has other, more lucrative plans of his own. So begins a calculating round of double and triple crosses that build to a bloodcurdling, surprise-filled climax. - Written by Fiona Kelleghan

A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. After that, this cold-hearted thriller really heats up. - Written by Tim Kretschmann

The Coen's early and one of their best. If this said "Alfred Hitchcock" on it instead, no one would question it.

Considered one of the best "modern noir" available. Brilliant story , casting, dialogue, theme , cinematography .. etc.

This film has it all for the "noir fan" This is on my "desert island DVD's" 9.99 of 10

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/

I'd better not put down too much negative (there isn't much) on this beloved classic.

Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate. Written by Col Needham <[email protected]>

2007: The American Film Institute ranked this as the #48 Greatest Movie of All Time.

very enjoyable, if you've never seen it, at least put it on the "view someday" list ...... 8 of 10 stars

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. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

In the near future, Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen its lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life. The crew of the Endurance are required to think bigger and go further than any human in history as they embark on an interstellar voyage into the unknown. Coop, the pilot of the Endurance, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race. Written by Warren D'Souza

Matthew McConaughey as an engineer/ace pilot ? tech errs ? huge plot holes ? themes ripped from "2001" ?

A general BIG mess, up 'till the maudlin ending (which was the best thing in this long flick) 6 of 10

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for those that enjoy Sherlock Holmes as much as some here do ... this may
be an interesting article on the phenomena.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/30/the_..._actor_insane/

The televisual Sherlock: The role that made Benedict Cumberbatch a star drove another actor insane
Before Benedict Cumberbatch there was Jeremy Brett, defined by Holmes, and maybe, in part, killed by Holmes

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Storyline

A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying. Written by Ed Sutton <[email protected]>

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/

Joe Strummer , Screaming' Jay, a hilarious Japanese couple, great music and 3 stories that connect at the end ... what more can you want ? 8.5/10

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/

B&W mono

The remake of this with Denzel is good , but I enjoyed the original with Sinatra much more . Superb acting, casting, story, photography.

Storyline

Major Ben Marco is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw, even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin. She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin, who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point. Written by garykmcd

my only quibble was that tho Janet Leigh was great eye candy , her character was superfluous. Lawrence Harvey as the lead was great.

as a side note, I met Khigh Dhiegh (Hawaii 5-O's Wo-Fat and a baddie from this film) at a lecture on Asian philosophy in the 70's and talked with him a bit. Surprised that he could not read Ch1nese.

from wiki and the DVD extras .."According to rumor, Sinatra removed the film from distribution after the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963." , as the film too eerily foreshadowed the JFK murder.

SW gives it a 9.9 of 10 rating ..highly recommended.