Frequent thoughts on movies I love... and movies that I think you'll love too.
I'm a huge fan of movies from all decades, but will be focusing on movies released prior to 2000. There are so many great movies out there that I want to introduce (or reintroduce) to movie watchers everywhere.
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The Milan Miracle Museum in Milan is a neat little stop that covers the real Milan championship. its a must stop whenever I go visit my daughter and granddaughter who live about 20 minutes away.
They mention that only 6% of the paratroopers landed in their intended areas. That turned out to be a fortunate mistake as there are dozens of accounts that state the Germans assumed they were facing a much larger force, coming down over a much larger area as a result of the missed drops.
Thanks for letting me know that I don't need to know this stuff, you saved me 23:59 that I can use for more productive activities. I look forward to the next video I can skip.
Seriously, horror comedy is pretty much as old as film itself, and yet nowadays people complain whenever they’re used together. Like bro, when were they apart?
I was living in London in, I think, 1974, the year, I think, that this film was released, and I went to see it five nights in a row. I now own the dvd, and i.never tire of it.
On the right sleeve of death it looks like he is carrying a sickle too... It is the sleeve tie but is curved like a sickle. Your explanation makes total sense.
It’s a wonderful life Without a doubt is my favorite movie of all time and now I know why I don’t get to see you in a half 1 million times at Christmas!
Three versions of "cute" girls were featured...Cindy Williams was the very essence of what cuteness was like...the cheerleader look!...Then there was Candy Clark, who exuded that type of cuteness, that also suggests a certain amount of ditzy availability--just the type of gal a guy would want to pick up in his car!...Finally, Suzanne Sommers was the extreme "Blonde Cuteness", that the media of those times were influencing the teen world with. How sad, really, that most all of us lose our cuteness, and pretty quickly, by the time we are in our thirties!
The sequence where Bruno murders Miriam at the funfair as seen through her dropped glasses on the grass was way ahead of its time. Hitchcock was always ahead of the game
okay at 3:45 into this video you see a German scanning the horizon with field glasses. Printed in WHITE are the words in English "Made in Germany", beyond that the movie was, is and always will be one of my favorites.
GREAT INSIGHTS INTO HOOSIERS. When I was in HS in Chicago, our UHF TV sets started pulling in Indiana HS basketball. And their State HS Championship. We got to watch Jimmy Rahl who was Mr. Basketball in Indiana, then went on to become an All-American at Indiana University. I heard his son had a bit part in Hoosiers on one of the opposing teams.
Fun fact: the 4 notes from Beethoven - ..._ - standing for V (Victory), was also in the jingle of the BBC foreign service for France. Which was basically the message board for the Frech resistance. As shown in the movie.
Sorry, but Minis - and ALL cars in fact - certainly does have a differential. This is the component that enables the drive wheels to turn at different speeds while cornering. In the Mini, the “diff” is housed inside the front-mounted transaxle and not, as you stated, in the middle of a rear axle.
Sadly, US forces were still segregated during WW II. On the US side, I don’t believe any African American troops were involved in the initial D-Day fighting. Hopefully, the filmmakers were not trying to be racist, but accurate.
I love "The Longest Day" and for the past 8-10 years I have watched it on June 6th to remember what all those brave and wonderful soldiers, sailors and airmen did for us. God bless them all. I look forward to the day that I get to see those beaches for myself.
There is actually a scene with a bird in the film, an imposing stone eagle on the foreground who watches over the tennis match near the film's climax. Amazing how Hitchcock repeats his motifs!
The steady cam camera ran out of film because they were moving so fast shooting they gambled on having enough stock for the take. It ran out, they knew it was the best take so the put a guy in a black coat and wanted him to cross and black out the frame so they could continue with an extension of the shot. This is what they did in Hitchcock’s Rope. The extra crossed early. There was no video feed and they didn’t realize the cross didn’t work. They stuck with the best steady cam take they had and said screw it and left the jump cut. Also, they came back to do this scene because the original ending with the van speeding off with Paul encased in the plaster tested terribly so they needed a “happy ending” or at least a “happier ending”. So, there is the truth. Also, we landed on the moon.
When I was a young man in the 1960s I worked on many jobs with men who had been on those beaches in 1944 and watched the film The longest Day a few times, once with two men who had been there. Saving Private Ryan, I know that those Guys would not of liked it. I know that they would of thought the graphic violence unnecessary and the lack of the human element, that dominate films made after the 60s. Folk were different back then, far more caring and dare I say it , interesting!
Obviously, like an idiot I wrote the previous before seeing the whole piece. Also, it's TOMMY Abbott, who for many years was Jerome Robbins' assistant; likewise Carol D'andrea.
The primary reason for switching "Cool" and "Krupke", was that the show had an intermission after the rumble whereas the film did not. The intermission broke. the tension. The switch kept it going.
Unfortunately, due to racism in the early 1960’s Hollywood, they missed the fact that most black men in Normandy were relegated to the offloading of ships on the beach,and the now famous ‘Red Bull Express’ logistics trucks taking supplies to the front.
That’s why Tora, Tora, Tora is great movie…the fact that the Japanese produced their side of the movie and the Americans their side and then meshed together.
