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has one of my favorite Rogers and Hammerstein scores! I have some quibbles with the direction – a little too proscenium-like for me, as films in the early days of Cinemascope too often were, but it's quite enjoyable otherwise. One of these days I'd like to see a non-musical remake of the film's source, the play "Lilliom" by Ferenc Molnar, which has a much darker story. But in the meantime, give me songs like "You'll Never Walk Alone," and I'm just fine.

I love these old musicals!
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Nightfall (1956) - Nightfall (1956) - Not a bad movie just not the most compelling noir I've seen. The leading man doesn't look or sound like a leading man which is a nice change of pace.
Black Magic (1949) - Supposedly a lesser Welles movie but I must have been in the right mood for it. Some of it is silly, the hypnotism in particular, but you can't really film hypnotism without it looking silly. Nice sets, rococo or something.

Why do you wish that and who would you have preferred?

I wish the director's son hadn't been cast though.
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The Emerald Forest is a John Boorman film and it stars his teenage son Charley as a white boy kidnapped by a gentle Amazonian tribe and brought up as one of them. His birth father searches for him for years and eventually finds him, and that's when things get really interesting. It's a brilliant film.

El Cid
Aria
Gainsbourg A Heroic Life
Dancing Pirate
Mystery Train
Blank City
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I loved
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
and
A Special Madness
, Rufus. Both remarkable in their ways. Hope to see
Ossessione
and
Native Son
one of these days. Still waiting for someone to make a film of Wright's masterpiece,
Black Boy
.

Taxi Driver (1976)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
Practically perfect in everyway following the mental breakdown of a man revolting the degradation of society. The jazzy score was outstanding.
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017350/
Actually quite good with Lillian Gish playing the lead role taking the blame and being crucified.
Native Son (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042781/
Adaptation of Richard Wright's powerful novel. A bit unfortunate that he played the lead role. A good reason he never got another acting role. Though the movie retained the essense of the story, it played like a b-movie. Good, but could have been better.
Blue Velvet (1986)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/
Possibly my favorite of the Lynch's weird movies. Dennis Hopper's character was wonderfully crazy.
Strange Days (1995)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
Former cop sell underground recording of the new technology that record like Go-Pro, but played like virtual reality by wrapping a piece on the head. Turned out this technology exposed a crime right before the turn of the millenium. Fascinating concept. A bit long and could have use some editing, especially the beginning part. Entertaining movie overall.
Incident in an Alley (1962)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056098/
A cop charged with murder in the line of duty. Seem low budget, but effective. Still relevant, but more of pro-cop in this movie.
Ossessione (1943)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035160/
An earlier version of The Postman Always Rings Twice from Luchino Visconti's directorial debut. Much better executed than the 1946 Hollywood version.
A Page of Madness (1926)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/
Saw it without intertitle, so hard to figure out the narrative. Seemingly a janitor of an insane asylum trying to free a woman. However, the visual was haunting.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
Animation using paper casting shadows of an Arabian-esq adventure fantasy. Impressive. Lotte Reiniger did many of this type of animation, mostly short. This is one of the few feature length ones.
Don Juan (1926)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016804/
The first movie with music and sound effect synchronized on type with the visual. Starring John Barrymore as the lead role, a womanizer who knows how to fence and get out of trouble. Mostly entertaining. You also get to see the very young Mynor Loy, and Mary Astor who played the love interest.
La Bohème (1926)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016669/
Focus on a poor neighborhood, a starving artist fell in love with a next door woman, played very well by Lillian Gish. The movie got a bit too melodramatic. Frustrating at times.
Mahabharat (1965)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242636/
Bollywood production with music, fighting, magic, and fantasy. Very colorful. This was based on an epic India mythology that I have been curious. Ran almost 3 hours, but still feel choppy and part I found hard to follow. Maybe I don't know the culture well enough while reading the subtitles. I may look for the 90s internationally made TV version which I believe in English.

Bringing Up Baby
(1938) - Catherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson - Comedy with a leopard named Baby - 8
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944) - Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, John Alexander - Comedy. After wedding, Grant finds that his family are all crazy, many in a homocidal way - 8
Pride and Prejudice
(1940) - Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edna May Oliver. Garson seems a bit to old to play Elizabeth. Of course, Tarzan's Jane comes back from Africa to play Austen's Jane. The writers condense and hack the story. From IMDB:
Laurence Olivier was less than thrilled with the movie after production began, certain it would be a flop, complaining both that key scenes were missing and that more attention was lavished on the costumes than the actors.

• amen Laurence. A really good cast, but production choices and writing leads to a poor rendition of the Austen novel. Garson is pretty and entertaining in the movie - 6
  On Borrowed Time
  (1939) - Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel - fantasy drama with Barrymore's character fighting it out with Mr. Brink (aka death, Cedric Hardwicke). I enjoyed wheelchair bound Barrymore and Una Merkel's character was nice, but not really my cup of tea and the ending seemed unacceptible to me - 6
  So Well Remembered
  (1947) - John Mills, Martha Scott, Trevor Howard. Drama - 7
  The Housekeepers Daughter
  (1939) - Joan Bennett, Adolph Menjou, John Hubbard, Donald Meek - 6

Cisco Pike is a real nice time capsule of early 1970's Los Angeles.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

I saw
Cisco Pike
for the first time not too many years ago… I really enjoyed it. It's a time-capsule sort of film, to be sure.

Cisco Pike (1972) - Excellent early 1970's drug deal crime drama with Kris Kristofferson displaying plenty of charisma and relaxed easygoing screen presence in his first lead role as a washed-up singer and pot dealer who wants to go straight, but gets forced to get back in the game and sell 100 kilos of high-grade marijuana over the course of a few frantic days by a crooked narcotics cop. Gene Hackman is typically fine as the dirty narc in question while Karen Black lends sturdy support as Kristofferson's fed-up live-in girlfriend, plus Harry Dean Stanton lands himself a sad part as a burnt-out heroin addict. Director/writer Bill L. Norton astutely captures the bummed-out malaise of the early 1970's as well as offers a vivid evocation of the early 70's drug and music scene and makes nice use of various alternately seedy or sunny L.A. locations. On top of this, we also get several terrific Kristofferson songs on the soundtrack, with the marvelous "The Pilgrim: Chapter 33" put to strikingly effective use for a simply stupendous dope deal montage sequence.
Johns (1996) - One of my favorite unsung indie drama gems from the 1990's. David Arquette and Lukas Haas are both terrific and touching as a couple of radically contrasting male prostitutes who eke out a meager existence hustling on Santa Monica Boulevard. Writer/director Scott Silver shows a lovely sense of warmth and compassion for these down-trodden characters. The dingy location shooting in the seedier areas of Loas Angeles adds a strong sense of gritty realism. Besides the top work from the leads, there are also sound supporting contributions from Elliott Gould as a married in the closet gay man, Keith David as a gentle homeless guy, and Richard Kind as a goodhearted hotel clerk. First-rate moody and melancholic score from veteran bluesman Charles Brown, too.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

THE CLOCK (1945)
Robert Walker plays a small-town boy who has 48 hours to kill in New York before his war service starts. He's convinced it's fate when Judy Garland collides with him at a railway station. The movie follows their comical adventures in one crazy 48 hour rush. There's some wistful moments too.
BILL AND COO (1948)
This has mostly all birds doing amazing things in a quirky tale about a community called Chirpendale. Considering the amount of time it must have taken to train the birds and to get the right shots, I reckon it deserves the special award it received. Bill and Coo are cute but Jimmy the Crow takes some beating as the villain.
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1986)
This is an animated tale of an elderly couple facing a nuclear attack. They are confused by the mollifying government messages about the seriousness of their situation. They try to continue their comfortable existence in rural England with a stiff upper lip attitude from WW2. But chilling reality sets in.

You're welcome, Zolo. And, boy do I get not having time to post! Once again, I don't have the time to respond to everyone. I'm actually surprised that I was able to see what few films I did see.

I have not seen any of those, Spiderwort, but thanks for posting them - they look intriguing. Noted - and, I hope to get to them one of these days. *I was too busy to watch anything all week, so unfortunately I have nothing to contribute, lol.

First viewing:
Nyad (2023)
— “The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.” Not a great film, but an absolutely great performance Annette Bening, destined for an Oscar nomination (and maybe one for Jodie Foster, too). A must-see for the performances alone. On Netflix.
Miracle in Milan (1951)
Another Vittorio De Sica joy in which an openhearted, energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan. Highly recommended.
Re-watches:
Going My Way (1944)
— a wonderful Leo McCarey film, winner of 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor (Bing Crosby), Supporting Actor (Barry Fitzgerald), Director & Screenplay (McCarey), and Best Song (“Swinging on a Star”). Always a joy to watch. A film that celebrates the good, something I appreciate and miss more and more these days. Highly recommended.
Agatha (1979)
— Liked it the first time, and enjoyed it even more this time.
A Star in the Night (1945)
— a beautiful twenty minute film I’ve seen many times over the years, but it always touches me. Directed by Don Siegel (later prominent director of many features, including Clint Eastwood films), it won the Oscar in the short subject category. Highly recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0JGszZ7AakE