Come on, Smokey!  You telling me you haven't done the same with Lawrence on repeated viewings!  If it were the first time, I wouldn't cheat.  For me the first time was on the big screen so I had no choice.  I think the point of sooooo much sand and camel-time was to impart the message that the desert is a biiiiiiiiiig place and it takes a loooooooong time to cross it.  Once I processed that information, I just couldn't go through it again.  Besides, I'm a sucker for the Robert Bolt dialogue and there's none of it in those camel scenes. 

I think it would be pretty difficult to watch Lawrence of Arabia without a li'l background prior.  Try it again later, LWPM.  And use your FF finger if you have to! 

Yes, eventually I did see the entire All About My Mother after cleaning the DVD and LOVED it!  Almodovar is wonderful as are many of the Spanish directors.  But he particularly is such a refreshing original and someone who gives me faith in the future of film.  I am looking forward to Volver. 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

No one can accuse me of being a slow learner!

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

What a riot, Booth!  I actually think I know what you're talking about.  Guess you're a big fan of the 1959 Ben Hur.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

I Tivo'd The Masque of the Red Death back on Halloween and just got around to watching it. I haven't read the source Poe since High School, but I don't think it was as explicit about the character played by Vincent Price being a Satanist. Kind of a freaky movie in a 60's red-gel-light sort of way. I don't understand why Corman tried to shoe-horn in the Hopfrog story, but I guess either tale by itself is too short to carry a feature-length adaptation.

Anybody seen the adaptation of Hopfrog featuring Michael Anderson and some creepy puppets, produced for PBS around the time TP was on the air? I used to have a VHS of it, I took it to show in my high school english class and blew their minds.

Oh, deja-vu-argh, Smokey!  The Closer again!!!  I'm nauseous remembering that naked body of Bill Macy, an actor I really enjoy, but whom I'll never be able to think of again without that nagging image of a should-NOT-be-nude-on-the-big-screen body. 

Watched it in Vegas on a small screen and even that has permanently damaged the core of my aesthetic perception lobe.

If I am forced to think about this film too much, I may have to add it to the list of worst films of the 21st century along with Crash.  It's best we just forget it ever happened, don't you think???

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Damn! You're right, Booth!  See how upsetting William Macy's nudity was to me?  I immediately went off on a poor unrelated film just because it started with a "C" and ended with an "er."  Phew!

Closer/Cooler/Closer/Cooler -- it's confusing.

Should I edit my earlier post?  Nah.  Gotta maintain the fluidity.  

I never saw The Closer. 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

...I liked Vampires....in a cheesy way. But I thought it was great. But everything else from 1990 on is pretty bad alright. He has a new movie in the pipes called Psychopath that Im eagerly anticipating though.

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Hey, i like that idea for a thread -- what kind of films appealed to the 13-year-old you?

Anyway, last night we watched Witness for the Prosecution with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Tyrone Power.  

Yep.  Sure did.

Uh, and...

It was made in 1957. 

Billy Wilder directed it!

I rushed out and put it in the mailbox this morning to send back to Netflix.  

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

fair enough, somehow I wasnt left hanging or needing more resolution. It wasnt a perfect movie but a definite step up from most.

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.