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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 13/1/2013 11:56:48 PM

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I was given a boxed set called The Genius Of Buster Keaton for Christmas. There are four discs, containing 33 of Buster's short films from his early days with Fatty Arbuckle in 1917, through to 1923 by which time he was writing and directing his own films.
So far I've watched the first three discs, and they just confirm what I've always thought - that Buster was far and away the greatest of the silent comedians.

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 18/1/2013 11:53:38 AM

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Carry On Up The Jungle (1970) 6/10

Some Like It Hot (1959) 8/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 28/1/2013 10:48:54 PM

siegfried

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Some Like It Hot (1959) 8/10

I'd rate it higher. It remains one of the greatest comedies of all time. One I never tire of watching.

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 28/1/2013 10:53:51 PM

Whistler

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quote:

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Some Like It Hot (1959) 8/10

I'd rate it higher. It remains one of the greatest comedies of all time. One I never tire of watching.

You're not wrong.

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 29/1/2013 4:21:26 PM

Nicola1001

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Carry On Loving (1970) 7/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 30/1/2013 2:47:05 PM

Nicola1001

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Carry On Henry (1971) 5/10
Nicholas And Alexandra (1971) 7/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 4/2/2013 5:06:53 PM

Nicola1001

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Grand Hotel (1932) 5/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 4/2/2013 10:09:29 PM

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There`s Always Tomorrow
Beautiful little drama by Douglas Sirk wich twelve years after Double Indemnity sees Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck reunited. He plays a toy bigshot stuck in everyday life and is considered to be selfevident by his family. Out of the blue, an old friend and co-worker is at his doorstep. He feels reborn, without any further meanings to it. Although his kids feel different about that.
Stanwyck and MacMurray are brilliant and once again make a great on-screen couple.
Beautiful, strong film.

7,8/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 6/2/2013 3:34:08 PM

Nicola1001

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Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) 7/10

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 7/2/2013 6:09:35 PM

sanchia

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Svengali (1931)

Not John Barrymore's finest hour.

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RE: Noirs in houses, with Heat and Desire. - 24/2/2013 5:40:42 PM

Nicola1001

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Carry On Matron (1972) 7/10
Carry On Abroad (1972) 5/10

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RE: The Last Classic I Watched... - 26/2/2013 1:02:53 PM

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On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan`s most raw and realistisc film, about corruption in the harbour unions in New York and New Jersey.
As Martin Scorsese correctly says in one of the extra`s on the blu-ray: Kazan really takes you into the sad worker`s milieu, for almost two hours you really become a part of it.
Marlon Brando is brilliant as the young man who against his will becomes a part of the corrupt system and falls in love with the sister of the man he helped to get killed.
A fantastic, raw film that in Hollywood started a new era: the making of a new sort of film that was different from anything else we`ve seen before.

9,0/10

A Streetcar Named Desire
One of the many Tennessee Williams plays that Elia Kazan turned into a movie meant the breakthrough of Marlon Brando on the big screen.
It`s pretty clear that this first was a stage play (that Kazan made as well), it shows in the way the film is shot and staged. It looks like Kazan doesn`t wanna get rid of his stage setting. And let`s face it: he doesn`t really need to.

The film is almost entirely set in the small appartment of Stanley (Marlon Brando) and Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter). Therefor he doesn`t have a lot of space but he really doesn`t need it to tell this story, either.
It creates a clautrophobic atmosphere, you feel a bit locked up inside the appartment.

Brando and Vivien Leigh (who plays Blanche DuBois, the mentally unstable sister of Stella) give amazing performances. The bring out the fireworks in this gripping drama, that luckily now (as opposed to when it was playing in cinema`s back in 1951) can be watched in the full uncensored version.
This way we can fully enjoy one of Brando`s very best roles.

8,8/10

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RE: The Last Classic I Watched... - 13/4/2013 8:05:47 PM

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Love Nest (1951) 5/10

Don't Bother To Knock (1952) 5/10

We're Not Married (1952) 6/10

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RE: The Last Classic I Watched... - 27/4/2013 2:57:04 PM

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Niagara (1953) 6/10

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 7/10

River Of No Return (1954) 6/10

Bus Stop (1956) 7/10

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RE: The Last Classic I Watched... - 13/6/2013 9:02:56 PM

sanchia

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I think Dick Powell may be my favourite Marlowe.

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RE: The Last Classic I Watched... - 17/6/2013 1:12:55 PM

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I think Dick Powell may be my favourite Marlowe.

Good shout, he's certainly mine.

His other noirs are worth watching too, especially Cry Danger and Pitfall.

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