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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

Babydoll

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Took Lily to a kid's summer viewing of Paddington. She liked it, except for the whole "I want to stuff that bear" part. Had to hold her hand during that.
 

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And an insanely powerful entry by Welles - one of the best entry in a movie by a male character ever.
Yes, as in Citizin and Third man. He knew how to make an entrance!!

Did you notice Robinsons hat? Very odd crease. Sort of a long very small center dent with long, almost rectangular side dents.
 
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Yes, as in Citizin and Third man. He knew how to make an entrance!!

Did you notice Robinsons hat? Very odd crease. Sort of a long very small center dent with long, almost rectangular side dents.

It's been awhile since I've seen it, so unfortunately, I don't have a memory of the hat, but broadly speaking, it is a gorgeously moody film from the wet streets, halo lighting, intentionally awkward camera angles to - as you noted - the style of the clothes.
 

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Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (1982), The Wild Bunch (1969) and the Naked Spur (1953) watched all three last night. I love cowboy flicks
 

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North By Northwest on TCM for the bazillionth time. I have it on dvd, but cannot help myself and stop to watch when I pass it by.
:D

I am the SAME way! I have it on DVD, too, but I must watch it on TV when it's on. Maybe it's the community feel, knowing that lots of people are watching it along with me.
 
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I am the SAME way! I have it on DVD, too, but I must watch it on TV when it's on. Maybe it's the community feel, knowing that lots of people are watching it along with me.

I am not exactly sure what it is, but I do it quite a bit. Maybe it seems like it is more of an official or special viewing; like going to the movies was when I was a kid. It becomes an event; especially when TCM is concerned.
:D
 

AmateisGal

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I am not exactly sure what it is, but I do it quite a bit. Maybe it seems like it is more of an official or special viewing; like going to the movies was when I was a kid. It becomes an event; especially when TCM is concerned.
:D

I think you're right. :) And oh, where would we be without TCM?
 

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I think you're right. :) And oh, where would we be without TCM?


​I remember TCM in the mornings when I didn’t go to work because of a bad cold.
After calling in with my best “I’m dying voice” excuse of why I couldn’t come in to work.
My boss always made me feel good because she never gave me a hard time about it.

Next I would heat up some chicken soup & crawl back in bed to watch my favorite b&w movies.

This was the TCM intro that made me feel a little better before the flick started !

[video=youtube;_df2eXP2_FA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_df2eXP2_FA[/video]

(the audio also had a bad cold...at least in the beginning !
:D

 
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She-Wolf of London (1946). When the police start finding mauled victims in a London park and rumors begin to circulate that the perpetrator is either a "mad woman" or a "vicious dog or wolf", Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart) believes she is responsible because of a family curse--the belief that members of the Allenby family are/were werewolves. More mystery than horror, and not particularly interesting, but it's only 61 minutes long.
 

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Nanking! Nanking!/City of life and death (2008).

You know it's pretty bad when even the Nazis are revolted (and I really hate nazis).
 

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Nanking! Nanking!/City of life and death (2008).

You know it's pretty bad when even the Nazis are revolted (and I really hate nazis).

Even some Nazi's were revolted with what they were doing but they still kept doing it. Read THE GOOD OLD DAYS by Ernst Klee.
 
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AmateisGal

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​I remember TCM in the mornings when I didn’t go to work because of a bad cold.
After calling in with my best “I’m dying voice” excuse of why I couldn’t come in to work.
My boss always made me feel good because she never gave me a hard time about it.

Next I would heat up some chicken soup & crawl back in bed to watch my favorite b&w movies.

This was the TCM intro that made me feel a little better before the flick started !

[video=youtube;_df2eXP2_FA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_df2eXP2_FA[/video]

(the audio also had a bad cold...at least in the beginning !
:D


I hadn't seen this before! Love it!
 

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Nanking! Nanking!/City of life and death (2008).

You know it's pretty bad when even the Nazis are revolted (and I really hate nazis).

Yeah I watched this about a year ago.... I found it absolutely amazing the twists and turns. Nazi saves Chinese from Japanese brutality. Nazi goes home survives the war.... starves and almost dies under communist rule. Nazi's last years made comfortable by the offspring of the people he saved.... Who knew?

Worf
 

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"Conan the Barbarian" - I can watch this anytime... anywhere. Director John Milius might have been a complete lunatic and Arnold about as subtle as a shotgun to the butt, however this film is epic!

"The Den" - Creepy effective flick about a woman who wants to do research into the "unrestricted" internet. So she joins a website called "The Den" and takes off ALL the filters. She winds up getting way more than she expected. If you're susceptible you may just throw your laptop into the river afterwards.

Worf
 

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Agreed: I loved Conan the Barbarian from first viewing, but unlike a lot of those eighties fantasy flicks, time actually seems to have improved it. NOW FOR THE DAYS OF HIGH ADVENTURE!

A couple of TCM-DVR'd oldies:

The Adventures of Prince Achmed - the first animated feature, a 65-minute silent film from 1926 that predates Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by over a decade. Made in Germany by a woman director entirely using silhouette animation a la Indonesian shadow puppets, I found it utterly charming and beautifully designed.

Young Bess - I thought I'd already seen every major Henry VIII/Elizabeth I drama, but I hadn't seen this one. An M-G-M film from 1953 starring Jean Simmons as the teenage title character, Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr, Stewart Granger as Admiral Tom Seymour (brother of beheaded Jane), and - most interestingly - Charles Laughton as King Henry, 20 years after he got the Oscar for The Private Life of Henry VIII. Apparently vaguely historically accurate, it's a mixed bag that has its moments. Oddly, the usually excellent Simmons' performance is the weak link here: she's atypically strident, shouting and overplaying to come across as a mixed-up teen who's very clearly egomaniac Henry's daughter.
 
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