Classic cinema - thoughts and questions

Unfortunately not, though I expect they will someday.

Still, according to http://www.hitchcockwiki.com (excellent informative site; check it out if you haven't!):
Elstree Calling is currently only available on bootleg DVDs (recorded from a UK Channel 4 TV broadcast).
 
Forostar said:
Nush came close and the 4 remaining ones he hadn't seen are (in blue):
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Seeing those now, I should really have got more:
1) I haven't actually even heard of this one
2) Taped recently and ready to watch
3) I had it on my list and couldn't remember if it was colour or black and white, eventually decided incorrectly
4) I had a picture of Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in my head while thinking and then had a mental blip and forgot about it.

That book sounds interesting, I may read it once I've seen all of the films.
 
national acrobat said:
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I am curious how you'll like this one. The lightest film (comedy at times) he made with Cary Grant.

Under Capricorn is one of the longest Hitchcock films (if not the longest?).
It is the third and last collaboration with Ingrid Bergman. A quite a lengthy sit watching it, but I remember distinctly that the end was suspenseful. But patience is needed. ;-)

That book is really recommended. Very informative and entertaining.
 
Under Capricorn is probably my least favorite of his movies. It really did not work, that method of filming worked well in Rope, but not here. It also hurt that the movie had a pretty poor premise (especially compared to Rope) to start with.

I treat that book like a Bible, like you I read the parts for the movies I had seen, then read more and more as I watched more of his movies, but I still reference it at least a few times a year.
 
My wife has collected around twenty books on Hitchcock (some of them very interesting as well, in their own way) but if we'd only have one it'd certainly be the Hitchcock/Truffault book, because the info in it came directly from himself and it's a good and rather complete overview.
 
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Four legends of Horror. Lee, Price, Carradine, Cushing.
 
Perun said:
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions

No, it's no coincidence. ;) Actually, in the closing credits, it says "filmed in and around London, in March and April 1984, the exact time Orwell imagined" or something like that. It's a good film, but perhaps not easy to understand if you're not familiar with the book. And Burton easily steals the show.
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I am going to see it right now!
 
Yesterday I finished watching El Cid. I was especially impressed by how it all looked like. Great scenery. The art and camera departments did a tremendous job. The film was mostly shot on location.

This portrays well what I feel about it:

wiki:
Upon the film's release, Bosley Crowther wrote "it is hard to remember a picture—not excluding Henry V, Ivanhoe, Helen of Troy and, naturally, Ben-Hur—in which scenery and regal rites and warfare have been so magnificently assembled and photographed as they are in this dazzler...The pure graphic structure of the pictures, the imposing arrangement of the scenes, the dynamic flow of the action against strong backgrounds, all photographed with the 70-mm. color camera and projected on the Super-Technirama screen, give a grandeur and eloquence to this production that are worth seeing for themselves." Crowther also pointed out that while "the spectacle is terrific[,] the human drama is stiff and dull." Time magazine provided some details to help illustrate just how much of a spectacle it was: "Inevitably, the picture is colossal—it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines of medieval war, and four of the noblest old castles in Spain: Ampudia, Belmonte, Peñíscola and Torrelobaton."
 
I was thinking of Urga just now by Nikita Mikhalkov. I'd like to see it again. Have you seen it Forostar??
 
I'm quite sure that I've seen that film sometime before 1990. This scene is so familiar. Great scene by the way.
Well, they are different but similar too. Russian school I guess??
There are some incredible steppe scenes, most remarkable when
the protagonist meets the vision of Genghis Khan, because he was feeling guilty to wear condom :)
 
Watched Escape From Alcatraz from the first time in a long time, the movie holds up quite well. I have been to Alcatraz (as a tourist :) ) ... they filmed the movie mostly in the prison itself ... certainly worth checking out if you have not watched it.
 
I know that film. Seen it twice I think. Certainly strong stuff! Worthy for the last Siegel-Eastwood collaboration.
Now I still need to got there as a tourist. ;-)
 
Sadly, the tourist part is nowhere near as good as it used to be. Guided tours replaced by headsets and over time the place is really rotting, there are far fewer places you can go on it -- they used to have former guards and/or prisoners there to answer questions, obviously fewer of them around as well.
 
Still worth going if you are in San Fran ... but they really do not maintain it as well as they should.
 
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