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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted September 14, 2015 05:55 PM
Saturday night : Every Sunday ( a musical short with Judy Garland), Tree In A Test Tube (a promotional film for wood in colours with Laurel and Hardy), Hitler's Children ( a fiction), La chasse au rhinocéros ( a documentary from the hunting documentaries serie), Help Trailer (no need to say what it is), Jardin de la mer (a documentary about Under the sea) and two cinemascope shorts : Volcanic Violence and Movietone Scope Reel 1. Tonight : Adolph Hitler (a documentary ; I'm not a fan of Hitler, it just happened that the films related with him were in the same box), Un bienfait n'est jamais perdu (Tom and Jerry, a Film Office release with still good colours), Laurel and Hardy News Reels (in their case, I'm a fan, Cine Ads N°9, La tour (from René Clair, there is a surprising soundtrack with music of French songs ; the result is not bad), Barocco (a 120 mt/400ft digest of a French film with Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, the colours are still there) and finally the famous Cinema In Miniature.
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Steve Carter
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From: Bristol, UK
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted September 19, 2015 02:16 PM
Redneck (1973) Starring Telly Savalas, Franco Nero, Mark Lester.
Iver Films 2 x 400ft, some fade but still has blues and greens.
This is a very strange film, having only ever seen my 2 x 400 Iver cut down, which is violent Savalas plays Memphis who is quite unbalanced and violent his partner in crime is Franco Nero who plays Mosquito, after a violent jewel robbery they steal a car with a child still on board Lennox Duncan played by Mark Lester. Later we find the robbery was in vain as there are no jewels in the cases. One of the most disturbing scenes is when Lester and Nero come across a family on a caravan holiday who are sat around having a meal, mother, father, young children and a baby they ask them for food which they give to them, all is well then Savalas turns up, he is cocky and mouthy, and taunts the family, finally he makes the whole family go inside the caravan, he then locks them in, takes the brake off the caravan it runs down into a lake and sinks with the family locked inside, you see the caravan slowly sinking, they watch on. The two jewel thieves are being tracked down through-out, Lesters character forms a close bound with Nero's character, Nero tries to protect him from Savalas, who is violent towards Lester and even pulls the trigger at his head, the bullet just grazing him, this to force Nero to do what he tells him. At the end of the 'manhunt' they both get it, the Lester character tries to protect Nero but too late.It's not too bad and takes a couple of viewings, the Savalas character mumbles a lot and talks gibberish, just like in movies of today, which I refer to as the school of mumbling, it's hard to get what is being said at times. Redneck is an Italian made film originally called 'Senza ragione' (Without Reason) and was directed by Silvio Narizzano.
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted September 19, 2015 06:29 PM
Monday night: FERDINAND THE BULL,trailers for THE THREE MUSKETEERS,IVANHOE,A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and THE 39 STEPS (1959),Charley Chase in ALL WET and the main feature THE LADYKILLERS the classic Ealing comedy in a superb Derann print.
Tuesday:UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE,Stan and Ollie's first talkie,with scratchy sound and Tom Mix in IN THE DAYS OF THE THUNDERING HERD, a 1915 actionful three reeler,(in 18 fps).All in super 8.
Saturday at a friend's open air cinema,MISSISSIPI BURNING and SHOWBIZ BUGS,both in glorious 35 mm.
[ September 20, 2015, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: Panayotis A. Carayannis ]
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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 21, 2015 08:48 AM
Last night: All three reels of "Yellow Rose of Texas"
There's just something wonderful about watching a real stinker! The plot is paper thin, Roy Rogers and Trigger were about equal as actors, and the whole thing is really just an excuse to sing hokey cowboy songs with big smiles and Howdy-Doody costumes!
The plot resolution was Roy finding the missing payroll, explaining how he figured it all out and a big music and dance number with all the good guys there, so I guess it turned out OK!
(I can't be too hard on it: it has a certain innocent charm...kind of like an elementary school play!)
The print is another matter. The negative was obviously on the experienced side: white lines, sometimes playfully mobile on screen, pretty rainy at times. The sound was generally steady but became muddy and dropped out here and there too. The third reel is so dupey it felt like I was watching the negative here and there.
Last year I kiddingly suggested this be the Friday Feature at CineSea and lived in terror of it being actually being voted in! (I actually campaigned against my own film!)
It is OK for what it is: something to watch once in a while, appreciate for its silliness and then put away for months, maybe even years.
-just nothing for an audience!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Gary Crawford
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From: Manassas, VA. USA
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posted September 22, 2015 06:47 AM
Actually, I thought Yellow Rose was a really good musical, with some outstanding performances. Not a great Western, but as a musical entertainment, excellent. Last Labor day I watched a print of it that I had bought from Gary Sloan the year before. I had never seen the film before. Our film friends, Larry and Gwynne, from Columbus, Ohio were staying with us that weekend. Larry loves Westerns, Gwynne hates them. So Larry and I stayed up late to watch Yellow Rose. We were floored by how good it was, how enjoyable. The finale reprise performance on the showboat was a lot of fun, with some excellent ballet dancing and, of course, the dancing horse. Next day, we told Gwynne about it and she agreed to watch the finale with us and, being a former ballet dancer, she not only tolerated it, but loved it, as did my wife. The plot and such does suffer because my print and Steve's is the 54 minute version Republic edited for TV showings. There are some holes and odd cuts, including the first number done by the guys in the horse suit....so that when the horse shows up in the finale, it's just strange.
Great singing...a well mounted production...not if you like true Westerns, but yes, if you like nice songs, done well....and dancing.
So...it goes to prove that one person's garbage is another's treasure...and goes to prove why it's so hard to pick a Friday night feature for Cinesea.
Also, my print was a nice original..although a bit warped...and viewing an original 16mm print does improve the viewing experience, especially with a musical film.
Now, I'm on the lookout for a rare uncut print of Yellow Rose. It was odd, too, that the year before on Labor Day weekend, I had screened for Larry a print of Hearts of the Golden West...which ALSO was about a showboat. Plot was sillier than Rose...but it had good songs, including some Southern traditional Negro songs, AND both Smiley Burnett and Gabby Hayes...so a bit too much silly. Still, we enjoyed it.
I was thinking of bringing the finale/reprise scene of Rose to run as my contribution to the Saturday night showing of shorts and such at Cinesea. I may have to rethink that idea.
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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted September 22, 2015 08:02 AM
'Morning Gary!,
I think you hit the nail on the head why this one isn't exactly my thing:
I wanted a real Western. I wanted saddle hardened guys with shootin' 'arns ridin' hosses. After grub I wanted 'em playin' harmonica 'round the farr and coyotes a-callin' out in the hills.
-Whiskey, Leather and Cow Farts!
If they sang at all, I wanted 'em singin' like Jack Palance in City Slickers.
(I wuz hopin' fer John Wayne but found Sherriff Woody from Toy Story!)
Granted, I really haven't seen the whole thing, but I doubt even given the extra footage Roy Rogers was gonna spit tobaccy wearin' that fancy shirt!
BTW: Bring your film if you like it, don't let some wiseguy from New York make you feel differently about it! (I may enjoy skewering the movie a little, but I never said I wasn't keeping it, did I?)
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