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What was the last film you watched?
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THE TWO MRS CARROLS (1947) with Bogart and Stanwyck. … and Lady Jessica.
I never saw it before.
I never saw it before.
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Josephine and Men (1955) starring Glynis Johns
I know Glynis Johns primarily as the mother in Mary Poppins so it's interesting to catch up with some of her younger roles.
Here, her ditzy persona is used to good effect as a girl who always falls for the neediest man around, although one suspects that that it does not reach the extremes that the same material might have reached in American hands, possibly starring Doris Day.
Also featured are Jack Buchanan (England's Fred Astaire?), a little past his prime, and Peter Finch, yet to reach his.
I know Glynis Johns primarily as the mother in Mary Poppins so it's interesting to catch up with some of her younger roles.
Here, her ditzy persona is used to good effect as a girl who always falls for the neediest man around, although one suspects that that it does not reach the extremes that the same material might have reached in American hands, possibly starring Doris Day.
Also featured are Jack Buchanan (England's Fred Astaire?), a little past his prime, and Peter Finch, yet to reach his.
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Two fun HBO productions — “Grey Gardens“ [2009] starring Jessica Lange & Drew Barrymore about a wicked mother & daughter duo aging in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion:
...and “My Dinner with Herve” [2018] about the final interview of “Fantasy Island” star Herve Villechaize prior to his suicide starring Peter Dinklage & Jamie Dornan and I thoroughly enjoyed both movies.
...and “My Dinner with Herve” [2018] about the final interview of “Fantasy Island” star Herve Villechaize prior to his suicide starring Peter Dinklage & Jamie Dornan and I thoroughly enjoyed both movies.
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The casting, score and some FX are great. But the rest is...so...DUMB.
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All The Way Up (1970)
From "Granada Films".
Very enjoyable. A great cast with many familiar faces of the time (Warren Mitchell at his smarmiest; Richard Briers giving great sexual frustration; Adrienne Posta; Frank Thornton; even Valerie Leon showed up), some nice lines and a decent plot.
A bit edgier than I was expecting. The strip joint got dangerously close to full frontal. And there's the whole "knocked up and trying to blackmail a man into marriage" angle.
The social climbing angle, with the aspiration to be "detached" was brilliant. All the outrageous lengths to hide the extreme family dysfunction from the neighbours, along with the one-upmanship. One of my favourite lines was when Mitchell's character was about to open champagne and asked his daughter to "open the French window so next door can hear the pop".
All this... and a theme song by The Scaffold. What more could you want?
From "Granada Films".
Very enjoyable. A great cast with many familiar faces of the time (Warren Mitchell at his smarmiest; Richard Briers giving great sexual frustration; Adrienne Posta; Frank Thornton; even Valerie Leon showed up), some nice lines and a decent plot.
A bit edgier than I was expecting. The strip joint got dangerously close to full frontal. And there's the whole "knocked up and trying to blackmail a man into marriage" angle.
The social climbing angle, with the aspiration to be "detached" was brilliant. All the outrageous lengths to hide the extreme family dysfunction from the neighbours, along with the one-upmanship. One of my favourite lines was when Mitchell's character was about to open champagne and asked his daughter to "open the French window so next door can hear the pop".
All this... and a theme song by The Scaffold. What more could you want?
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Cinderella (2015)
Another Disney live-action remake. I couldn't remember whether I'd seen this before. It wasn't until about three-quarters of the way in that I realised I had.
Another Disney live-action remake. I couldn't remember whether I'd seen this before. It wasn't until about three-quarters of the way in that I realised I had.
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This one (scare alert at the end!). Much better than I thought, though "The Invisible Man" is superior and more sophisticated. Here is Piper from "Orange..." going through a "Rosemary´s Baby"-style story (not really...). She carries all the movie very decently...
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Atomic Blonde (2017)
I tend to lose track of who's who with these spy epics but the atmosphere is appropriately edgy (I'm wondering if the makers of Killing Eve watched this before they started) and the fight scenes well choreographed.
It's also the answer to the idea of a sex change for James Bond. Why bother when you already have characters like Lorraine Broughton?
I tend to lose track of who's who with these spy epics but the atmosphere is appropriately edgy (I'm wondering if the makers of Killing Eve watched this before they started) and the fight scenes well choreographed.
It's also the answer to the idea of a sex change for James Bond. Why bother when you already have characters like Lorraine Broughton?
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Every Home Should Have One (1970)
I may be wrong, but I believe this is the first time I've watched anything with Marty Feldman in (I associate him mostly with Round The Horne on which he, along with Barry Took, wrote the scripts for the majority of episodes).
Another one that was saucier than expected (even though it's part of a "Saucy 70s" boxset). Some sustained shots of titties, a couple of full frontal pictures and even scenes of a naked Feldman and his equally naked au pair. Language, too, was fairly fruity at times.
Plenty of familiar faces: Father Dear Father's Patrick Cargill as a kinky MP whose quarters were rigged with two way mirrors, whips and chains; Penelope Keith as a strict, teutonic au pair (complete with Third Reich symbols) sent to replace her sexy predecessor who had slept with the married Feldman. There was Rising Damp's Miss Jones as the bespectacled secretary for the Mary Whitehouse type clean TV campaign, meekly keeping track of how many "bastards" had been used and how many groin shots had appeared in the films they reviewed. Perhaps most notably, Keeping Up Appearances' Daisy was Feldman's sexy wife, being whisked away for a dirty weekend by the hot Reverend.
It was a bit quirkier than I would like. Lots of surreal fantasy sequences, including some with terrible animation. But it had its moments.
The title sequence will probably give a flavour of what's in the film (I must confess that 1:05, naff as it is, made me laugh out loud):
I may be wrong, but I believe this is the first time I've watched anything with Marty Feldman in (I associate him mostly with Round The Horne on which he, along with Barry Took, wrote the scripts for the majority of episodes).
Another one that was saucier than expected (even though it's part of a "Saucy 70s" boxset). Some sustained shots of titties, a couple of full frontal pictures and even scenes of a naked Feldman and his equally naked au pair. Language, too, was fairly fruity at times.
Plenty of familiar faces: Father Dear Father's Patrick Cargill as a kinky MP whose quarters were rigged with two way mirrors, whips and chains; Penelope Keith as a strict, teutonic au pair (complete with Third Reich symbols) sent to replace her sexy predecessor who had slept with the married Feldman. There was Rising Damp's Miss Jones as the bespectacled secretary for the Mary Whitehouse type clean TV campaign, meekly keeping track of how many "bastards" had been used and how many groin shots had appeared in the films they reviewed. Perhaps most notably, Keeping Up Appearances' Daisy was Feldman's sexy wife, being whisked away for a dirty weekend by the hot Reverend.
It was a bit quirkier than I would like. Lots of surreal fantasy sequences, including some with terrible animation. But it had its moments.
The title sequence will probably give a flavour of what's in the film (I must confess that 1:05, naff as it is, made me laugh out loud):
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Another "scary" flick (very meh):
"Hello...I´m Katharine Ross..."
"Hello...I´m Katharine Ross..."
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Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
Pretty dire. It's basically Upstairs Downstairs meets soft core porn. The plot was dull. The sex scenes were naturally ugly men laying young tarts (there was a lesbian fantasy thrown in here and there. Not that this improved the situation). And - most importantly - it wasn't funny.
I plan to never see another female nipple as long as I live.
Pretty dire. It's basically Upstairs Downstairs meets soft core porn. The plot was dull. The sex scenes were naturally ugly men laying young tarts (there was a lesbian fantasy thrown in here and there. Not that this improved the situation). And - most importantly - it wasn't funny.
I plan to never see another female nipple as long as I live.
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Probably best to keep it that way, Alexis. I still feel tainted from Keep It Up Downstairs.
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I didn't even know that these kind of saucey seventies films existed. I think I'll stick with my Carry On box set.
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Yeah. Part of the reason the Carry Ons got more explicit with England and Emmanuelle was to keep up with the Joneses with this type of
I don't know if you've heard of the Confessions film series, but they're probably the most well-known of these sex comedy type films. But there are loads out there. It was the Seventies, after all:
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It's All Happening (1963)
British musical starring Tommy Steele set in a recording studio at the dawn of the swinging sixties
Well-intentioned story in part about helping an orphanage but the rampant sexism, no doubt seen at the time as harmless fun, is rather painful to the modern eye.
The film ends with a lengthy concert sequence featuring what I assume are some of the luminaries of the day but, aside from Steele himself and conductor Geoff Love, I've never heard of any of them.
British musical starring Tommy Steele set in a recording studio at the dawn of the swinging sixties
Well-intentioned story in part about helping an orphanage but the rampant sexism, no doubt seen at the time as harmless fun, is rather painful to the modern eye.
The film ends with a lengthy concert sequence featuring what I assume are some of the luminaries of the day but, aside from Steele himself and conductor Geoff Love, I've never heard of any of them.
