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March 9th, 2010 by molly7730375
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I may be biased about this DVD, having seen the generous PBS documentary “Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War”. This DVD, I notion, came up short in some ways, worthy of it having to do with the heavy spend of actors and reenactors, the distracting attempts to recreate the seek and feel of mature film stock and the near-jingoistic understanding of the fighting. The film allowed actors to pronounce the words of the principals — TR, William McKinley, Philino rebel Edwardo Aguyinaldo and others — and interact with one another in residence share fashion.

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First Intervention covers the origins and subtleties of the conflist rather lightly, and spends (I assume ) an inordinate amount of time on the Battle of San Juan Hill, which made an enduring name for Teddy Roosevelt. The battle — a one-day affair in a 3-1/2 month war — was a one-sided affair with 10,000 Americans battling 750 Spaniards. But the DVD spends quite a bit of time on it, making grand of the courage of the Americans. The apt news is that it seems to depict the battle accurately, with most of the Rough Riders advancing without their horses, in opposition to later illustrations. Another questinable aspect of the filk is its depictions of dark American soldiers. I have no exclaim with depicting the involvement of these “Buffalo Soldiers,” who were among the few battle-tested portions of the American invasion force. But the chuminess they have with whites seems problematic. I rather doubt that blacks and whites — given the racist overtones of the day — sang and drank and smoked around campfires as shown here. And some of the reenactors looked distinguished mature and heavy to be playing young recruits, as the occasionally snippets of loyal footage show.

After watching both films, I would recommend “Crucible of War” for a more legal and more fully rendered portrait of the war period. But “First intervention,” for all its restagings is necessary in depicting the contested ground on which the battles were fought. And its consume of early war recreations (by Thomas Edison’s company) was both instructive, laughable and an unintended ironic parallel to the newer film’s beget troubles with reenacting warfare for a hometown audience. Win “First Intervention” with a grain of salt, don’t absorb everything you peruse, and rep a window into an under-told and often mispresented period of US history.

Though this is very informative and titillating, it is too long to exhaust in a school setting. I liked it personally, but it was long at times.
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March 8th, 2010 by molly7730375
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Over the years, I had seen the striking, lurid poster for “Gun Crazy” in various film books ( nicely rendered on the DVD camouflage ), but I had never actually seen the movie. Well, the movie knocked me out! This has to be one of the greatest “B” movies of all time. It was also briefly titled “Deadly is the Female”, very “film noirish” and appropriate.

I will not advise too many details about the plot–other reviewers have covered it extensively ( perhaps in some cases too extensively ) . Bart Tare ( John Dall ) has had a passion for guns his whole life. At a carnival, he meets a sideshow sharpshooter from London, Annie Laurie Starr ( Peggy Cummins ) . They are soon sharing not only a passion for guns, but an intense passion for each other! Falling under the spell of this charismatic, young blonde–who craves excitement, action and the finer things in life–Bart is drawn into a cross-country crime spree that escalates from robbery to cancel.

As one of the best “femme fatale” types in film history, Peggy Cummins gives a rivetting performance. You can’t consume your eyes off her, as she fanatically plunges down a road from which there is no return, taking the man she loves with her. Her character steals money–Ms. Cummins steals the movie! As Bart, John Dall is rather stoic and one-dimensional until later in the film, when he realizes the damage he is causing others, including those who were discontinuance friends. His performance really picks up in the later scenes. Incidentally, Bart as a youth is played by Russ Tamblyn, later to spark a number of movies with his dancing and acrobatic skills.

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The other “star” here is the Director, Joseph H. Lewis. His arrive is refreshing and innovative. I particularly liked the scenes where you–the audience–are in the support seat of the getaway car during a heist. You cannot encourage but wonder how great later films like “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Badlands” and “Natural Born Killers” were influenced by this low-budget masterpiece?

I also liked the blueprint that Lewis depicts the sexual overtones of his characters and situations, remembering that this film was first released in 1949.

Concerning the report quality of the DVD, I peek that one reviewer had some problems with the image. Personally, I found the gloomy and white report to be crisp and definite, especially for a film now 55 years outmoded. The optional comments of author/film buff, Glenn Erickson, are a very nice bonus.

“Gun Crazy” provides further proof that, whether it’s the 1940s or 2004, you don’t need large budgets and “superstars” to perform a memorable film. If you have a taut script, a talented director and even one terrific performance, you can arrive up with a winner. Thank you, Warner Bros!

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Gun Crazy is a epic of the symbiotic relationship between two sharpshooters: he’s a gentle soul who likes guns and loves her; she’s a psychopath who winds him up like a cheap contemplate.

They buy their contrivance across mid-west, gain chased by the cops, destroy a few people on the map. But when push comes to shove, when the intelligent money says “split up”, they can’t believe to be apart.

It’s a Pre-”Bonnie and Clyde” “Bonnie And Clyde”; a perverse mixture of sadism and sympathy.

For Afficionadoes:

Joseph H Lewis was on of those B-Movie directors who knew how to accomplish his limitations into strengths. As a result there are some unbelievable camera moves, car-rigs, lighting set-ups, and all round astronomical cutting.

The set-piece is the one-take real-time bank robbery, shot in a town of people most of whome didn’t know anyone was making a film. It saved Lewis a day of shooting, and I haven’t seen it’s equal.

The Practicle Car-Rigs worn were new for their time (there’s very shrimp rear-projection.

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Non-Stop and Never A Tiring, Moment.
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Watch Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection Online

February 19th, 2010 by molly7730375
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It is a shame that it seems this holiday season so many studios are unprejudiced double-dipping previously released material. Abbott and Costello are probably worthwhile purchases because, as someone else has already pointed out, the previous collections were on double-sided discs. However, this does seem to wound the apt fan who bought those double-sided disc collections by making them lift the same films yet again in order to catch something that will last long term. The following is the press release for this situation, which indicates that 1943’s “It Ain’t Hay” will be the only film in this place that is a recent release.

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DISC 1:

One Night in the Tropics (1940) – Bud and Lou collect mixed up in a “Fancy Insurance” intention.

Buck Privates (1941) – The duo accidentally enlists in the U.S. Army to avoid getting arrested

BONUS FEATURES:

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Commentary with Film Historians Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo (Buck Privates)

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 2:

In the Navy (1941) – Bud and Lou are sailors wobble for duty on the high seas in this musical comedy.

Hold that Ghost (1941) – The boys inherit a jumpy house formerly owned by a mobster.

BONUS FEATURES:

Commentary with Film Historian Jeff Miller (Fill That Ghost)

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 3:

Keep `Em Flying (1941) – Bud and Lou enlist in the Army Air Corps and win caught up in a appreciate triangle.

Ride `Em Cowboy (1942) – The duo head to the Slothful S ranch to conceal after Lou accidentally proposes to an Indian girl.

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Production Notes

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DISC 4:

Pardon My Sarong (1942) – Bud and Lou move to the South Seas where Lou is inaccurate for a epic.

Who Done It? (1942) – The boys are suspected of destroy while being targeted by the exact killer.

BONUS FEATURES:

Commentary with Film Historian Frank Coniff (Who Done It? )

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 5:

It Ain’t Hay (1943) – Only film not previously on DVD

Hit the Ice (1943) – Bud and Lou hit the slopes at the Sun Valley Resort after getting mixed up with gangsters.

BONUS FEATURES:

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 6:

In Society (1944) – The boys win themselves in hot water after a plumbing job goes rotten at a high society bash.

Here Reach the Co-Eds (1945) – Bud and Lou head to campus and attempt to put Bixby College from closing down.

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Production Notes

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DISC 7:

The Sportive Nineties (1945) – Spot aboard the River Queen showboat, Bud and Lou gain their legendary “Who’s on First? ” routine.

Little Giant (1946) – Lou plays a shrimp man with stout dreams and ends up selling vacuum cleaners.

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Production Notes

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DISC 8:

The Time of Their Lives (1946) – Inaccurate as a traitor, Lou’s ghost is trapped in Danbury Mansion until his innocence is proven.

Buck Privates Advance Home (1947) – Bud and Lou return to civilian life and score eager in midget car racing in the sequel to Buck Privates!

BONUS FEATURES:

Commentary with Film Historian Frank Thompson (The Time of Their Lives)

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 9:

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) – Accused of cancel, Lou is forced to assume care of a widow and her children on a farm.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Bud and Lou encounter Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula and The Wolf Man.

BONUS FEATURES:

Commentary with Film Historian Gregory W. Mank (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 10:

Mexican Hayride (1948) – Bud and Lou head south of the border after getting mixed up in an oil stock intention.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) – The boys meet up with Boris Karloff after a guest is murdered at their hotel.

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DISC 11:

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) – Bud and Lou head to Algeria on business and are tricked into joining the Foreign Legion.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) – As novice private detectives, Bud and Lou advance face to face with The Invisible Man.

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Production Notes

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DISC 12:

Comin’ Round the Mountain (1951) – Lou discovers he is heir to a secret fortune, and the boys search for the hidden adore.

Lost in Alaska (1952) – Bud and Lou set an ex-sheriff, then survey he is the target of every hitman in the Yukon.

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Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 13:

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) – The boys accidentally catch off for Mars and destroy up in Original Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) – The duo are American cops in London to explore police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the doctor’s serum gets injected into the pair.

BONUS FEATURES:

Commentary with Film Historians Tom Weaver and Richard Scrivani (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

DISC 14:

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) – Harry and Willie prefer the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they rep him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) – In Egypt Peter and Freddie rep the archaeologist Dr. Zoomer murdered before they can return to America. A medallion leads them to a crypt where a revived mummy provides the anxiety.

BONUS FEATURES:

Production Notes

Theatrical Trailer

BONUS DISC (DISC 15) :

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Monsters

The World of Abbott and Costello – A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott and Costello features.

A lot of people who are trashing Universal about this profitable release simply don’t know what they’re talking about:

1.) For starters, you have to know that when Universal originally released their other 4 volumes of Abbott & Costello on DVD, the movie IT AIN’T HAY was unable to be included due to rights issues and so it was not able to be included. Now this predicament has been rectified.

2.) At the time of the other 4 Volumes of A&C, Universal was foolishly trying out a double-sided DVD technology called “DVD-18″. As a result, many people who bought the weak DVDs complained of all sorts of random issues like skipping and report freezing. So if there is ever a bone to steal with Universal, it was because they were experimenting with those earlier DVD-18s. This Current Plot is worthy more profitable and durable, since it’s going to be issued in tried-and-true “DVD-9″ single-sided format, which is grand better quality all around.

3.) Somebody complained that there were several movies missing from this collection. No, there are NOT any UNIVERSAL features missing here. The titles he’s thinking of are films that were RELEASD BY OTHER STUDIOS, (SUCH AS MGM) . This box location is purely all of Abbott and Costello’s UNIVERSAL films.

Well, that’s it for now. It may be a afflict in the neck for some to double-dip, but at least Universal has corrected the earlier double-sided disc catastrophe (they probably meant well with the feeble sets, but it turned out to be a corrupt technonogy) . And now they’ve cleared the rights to IT AIN’T HAY, where they couldn’t release it previously. And to their credit they’ve compensated fans by adding MORE Modern EXTRA FEATURES to this plot.

If there’s one thing Universal could do good by the fans who feel they’re being “gypped”, they might judge releasing IT AIN’T HAY separately at a later date, as a “stand-alone” hold for those buyers who settle to stubbornly hang onto their imperfect double-sided DVD-18 volumes.

This is a Amazing release and a enormous deal – thanks to Universal!

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February 18th, 2010 by molly7730375
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An unshaven and weather-beaten young man sits brooding over a cup of coffee in an anonymous roadside café. A man of means by no means, as Roger Miller would assign it. But Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is king of no road, and by the ruin of DETOUR we wonder whether he is even sovereign over his hold soul.

A potential trot in the beget of a beneficial trucker strikes up a conversation. Where you coming from? West. Where you going to? East.

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Roberts is rank, though. He’s coming from Hell and he’s going to Nowhere, and the last thing he needs is a chatty trucker along for company.

DETOUR is told in a flashback from that lonely stool. Roberts and his girlfriend work as pianist/singer in a fleabag club out east. Comes a foggy night and she splits up with him to pursue fame out west. Weeks later he calls and they agree to accept support together. He’ll advance out west and they can be married.

Being down at his heels Roberts is forced to hitchhike to California. All goes well until he reaches Arizona, where Fate deals Roberts one unfavorable hand after another. In short order the innocent Roberts finds and feels himself a hunted man.

DETOUR is a fantastic film. Neal is perfect as the short-tempered young musician who finds himself trapped first by and accident and later by femme fatale Ann Savage, who know his awful secret and has no scruples against using it against him for her fill obnoxious purposes. Old-fashioned B-movie director Edgar Ulmer has enough tricks up his sleeves to surmount the Poverty Row studio conditions he was working under. If you’re a fan of film noir, or indulge in hard-bitten stories, you’ll bask in DETOUR.

By the plan, my thirty year faded first edition copy of The Film Encyclopedia had an gripping entry on DETOUR’S star Tom Neal. He received a law degree from Harvard University in 1938. Throughout the forties he appeared in a number of B-movies, usually cast as a tough guy. In 1951 he found himself in the middle of a admire triangle captivating Franchot Tone and Barbara Payton. Neal “smashed” Tone’s nose and a scandal ensued. Neal became poison and no studio would spend him, so he became a gardener and later established a landscaping business. In 1965 he was accused of murdering his wife. Able to reveal that the gun went off accidentally, Neal had the charges reduced to manslaughter and served a six-year sentence. He died in 1971.

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‘Detour’ manages to do in 67 min. what most films dream about in two hours. Made for almost nothing in 5 days by a small-time studio, this goes to display that you don’t need money or tremendous studio help to earn an enduring movie. You can sense the tight budget all around. Prefer into consideration for example that Ulmer shot a tall part of the film inside cars (contemplate how the first few cars have the driver’s seat on the left side, like English automobiles), a cheap nightclub and a creaky apartment. Also in the flashback sequence when Tom Neal is sitting in the restaurant, Ulmer simply save out the lights, made a close-up on Neal’s face and shed a rectangular light onto his eyes to get the flashback attain. All this techniques, while not very innovative, add to the do of this bleak dinky gem. A dusky slight drama that is deserving of it’s cult following. Tom Neal is the ultimate shroud chump as an innocent man who happens to land on Ann Savage’s deadly lap. Ann Savage creates one of the most ruthless characters ever to grace the silver cover, her character doesn’t have a shred of human kindness or decency, she’s tough, greedy, ruthless and relentless. It has all the elements of substantial noir; a truly memorable femme fatale, dusky foggy streets, acid-stingy dialogue and a hero who gets his fair desserts. A sad puny gem that deserves to be discovered by noir fans. From a scale of 1-10 I give this film an 8!

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February 16th, 2010 by molly7730375
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My review for the unique version of “The Patriot” can be found under its respective title. This review is merely for those who may already gain the movie and are wondering if it’s worth buying a second time around for an additional 10 minutes of footage. For those who have never bought this title, then I can say emphatically to settle this version. For those who already gain it . . . well . . . I converse you’ll need to read on and choose.

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First of all (thank goodness), the extra 10 minutes of footage are not merely tacked on as “Deleted Scenes” at the destroy of the movie. In fact, it would be nearly impossible to do so since some of the extra footage is not found in separate scenes, but rather additional footage of already established scenes. In these situations, the extra footage may be as long as an additional dinky or as slight as a few seconds. How do I know? Well, for one, I’m a high school history teacher and exhibit it every year during our unit on the Revolutionary War. Given that I relate five classes a day of the same subject, I’d say I’ve gotten quite familiar with the movie.

Now, one particular extension of a scene is quite riveting in that Benjamin Martin’s youngest children regain their first taste of the horrors of war prior to the death of Thomas. This comes impartial before the evening when Gabriel stumbles home after being wounded in a nearby battle. Something (the viewer is unaware) catches the attention of the Martin children and they stagger over to a nearby creek/river to investigate. What they scrutinize are the bodies of several soldiers floating downstream. Martin then comes over and ushers the children help into the house.

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Another remarkable scene extension is found in the “ambush” scene following the death of Thomas–you know, the distinguished “aim shrimp, miss cramped” scene. Well, in the recent edited version of the film we soon inspect the unpleasant Tavington interviewing a dying peek of the event in a battlefield tent hospital. It is in this scene that the view compares who we know as Benjamin Martin to a ghost. The jam is, as far as we knew, there were no survivors. We had to earn at face value that perhaps one must have escaped. In this version of the film we now know the facts! You ogle, after Martin does his bloody hack job on a would-be escapee, the camera pans in on one particular Redcoat as he lays wounded in a nearby swamp. We then find a glance at what he sees through his one dying eye: an eerie peruse of Martin flitting through the dark light of the heavily-wooded forest. Then the camera focuses again on the bloodied face of this dying examine. It is not long thereafter that we recognize that this bad chap actually survives (he’s the one in the hospital tent) .

One particular scene left off the unusual is the burial of Thomas. Although the scene is short, it nevertheless reiterates that Benjamin Martin has a tender, loving side (remember, a few scenes before he was hacking and slashing away at every Redcoat in seek) .

Of particular designate are the additional scenes sharp Cornwallis and Tavington. Here, the viewer witnesses Cornwallis scolding Tavington in the presence of other officers — the viewer should be satisfied to seek the arrogant and villainous Tavington being humiliated in front of others. In the scene, Cornwallis sarcastically remarks that Tavington has earned himself the nickname “The Butcher.” This scene is well-known in that it helps place and underscore the motive Tavington has for eliminating “The Ghost,” Benjamin Martin. Further dialogue between the two is found later in the movie as well.

In short, the additional footage is not impartial added fluff. Indeed, the additional footage adds substance to every scene where it was originally found. Now, if the unusual version is a perennial well-liked of yours, then by all means go out and obtain it. If, on the other hand, you may only peer it once in a blue moon then you could probably live without it.

As the dreaded format war continues (Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD) I obtain myself on the Blu-Ray side of the fence because of my lift of the PS3. I’ll be unbiased, without having purchased the PS3 I would not have adopted either format and would have been narrate with standard DVD movies.

But now that I have a Blu-Ray player and a 1080p HDTV, I have been bent and want more. I have been careful in my selection of Blu-Ray Titles, picking up only movies I have yet to eye or expansive movies that I want to discover in HD.

The Patriot did not disappoint. The colors of the movie jump out of the cover and when you can recognize the fibers flying off of the British soldiers uniforms into the wind as they wait for battle, you know you are watching a titanic HiDef movie.

Most of the extended scenes do not add to the narrative and you will understand why they were chop out in the first status.

I’ve been disappointed in some of the Blu-ray discs I’ve purchased in the past month, especially when my purchases are the second or third time I will have bought that movie. (VHS, DVD, DVD SE/CE/DC)

But I must say that The Patriot is well worth seeing on Blu-Ray.

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February 15th, 2010 by molly7730375
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This appetizing comedy will reach as quite a surprise to fans of director William Castle, who is best known for his subsequent, very well-liked suspense films, including, “The Tingler” and “House on Fearful Hill.” The hero, Eddie Tayloe, is played by then-26-years-old Guy Madison, a Hollywood hunk of the era who is most notorious for playing Wild Bill Hickok on TV in the 1950’s. Eddie inherits $6000, equivalent to $84,000 in today’s dollars, from his grandfather. This legacy frees him to leave a humdrum job at a Texas newspaper to pursue his broad dream of becoming a successful playwright in Recent York. On his move to the tall city, he picks up a elegant, young hitchhiker named Perry Dunklin, played by Diana Lynn, here age 22. Perry is also running away from a dead-end job, hers at a gas residence. They portion ways once they reach in Novel York, and, separately, they have dinky luck achieving their goals. Eddie writes a play, but can’t sell it, and Perry struggles to accumulate a decent job, let alone an absorbing one. Then fortunate chance, spicy an incident with a little-old-lady pickpocket named Mandy (played by Florence Bates), brings them together again.

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While Guy Madison is graceful and Diana Lynn is very cute, like most fish-out-of-water, romantic comedies–of the past or the present–this is not meant to be a steamy romance. It is definitely G-rated, with the entertainment arising from the zany relationships the two leads have with each other and various kooky people the two accelerate into in Unusual York. These eccentrics are ably played by some of the best character actors of the era, including: Margaret Hamilton, who is eminent for her role as the Scandalous Witch in the Wizard of Oz of 1939; William Frawley, who is best known for his role as Fred in the I Fancy Lucy TV series of the 1950s; Jesse White, who is most remembered for his 21-year stint as the “Maytag Repair Man” in an ongoing series of TV commercials, and Lionel Stander, whose paunchy physique and signature gruff mutter led him to specialize over the course of his career in playing scary but lovable hoodlums.

I would highly recommend this film to fans of romantic comedy in general, and vintage screwball comedy in particular. If you haven’t tried that sort of comedy, what sets it off from original zany comedies is a first-rate lack of several things that occur all too commonly those films: there is no overblown, highly staged slapstick, no public urination by men, and no humiliation humor based on sex or semi-nudity.

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February 12th, 2010 by molly7730375
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I wasn’t expecting remarkable from this prove – caught it once waiting for another. It was hilarious. I actually laughed out loud – which I have never done with a T.V. demonstrate before. I got several other friends crooked. I can’t wait to collect the demonstrate on DVD so that I can sight it launch to effect, in order. Worthy, noteworthy better than expected.

No comedy has ever made me laugh so hard…type of humor that catches you off guard when trying to resolve what will happen next. Absolutely NUTS and is a must gape.

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February 6th, 2010 by molly7730375
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Good effort, I finally found a US edition of this film so I can steal it. Can’t the novel title be do in brackets or something beside the ‘nouveau’ so you at least secure it?! The philistine who came up with the modern title didn’t even bother to peruse at a Sassoon or Owens poem, obviously. My suggested title above (which admittedly may be no better as a film title) is from a Sassoon poem and I picked it more or less at random on the first page I opened in my anthology.

The film did manage to fetch across the abominable (British) Imperial jingoism without ramming it down our throats more or less exclusively. The experiences that caused such acute suffering as displayed by the inmates of Craiglockhard were presented well, as was the personal humiliation of succumbing to mental illness or “shell-shock”. Less successful however, was the treatment of the worst thing a soldier can do: failing to act with stoicism and diffidence. (Sassoon for example, developed an intense hatred for civilians as a result of this fairytale “let’s all pretend we’re having a radiant time in Flanders because that’s what they want to hear at home, and we can’t go upsetting the ladies, now can we, lads? “, that at least outlasted the war.)

This was a well-scripted, well-acted,thoughtful and thought-provoking film. This is not a standard “tear-jerker” but if it does not get you shed a waddle of sorrow and rage then you must have been multi-tasking.

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This film actually rekindled a schoolgirl interest in the history of the First World War and in the astounding change in and range of poetry resulting from the experience of those in the scandalous trenches of France and Flanders.

BEHIND THE LINES is a film adaptation of the first volume of Pat Barker’s obedient Regeneration trilogy. I was anxious to glimpse this DVD since I finished reading this book last week, but I had some reservations since film adaptations are often less than par. However, shortly after pressing the play button I was reassured that this DVD did the book a spacious justice. The directors did a phenomenal job in re-creating the atmosphere of the suffering of the soldiers and the horrific psychological consequences of trench fighting. Slow THE LINES follows a group of officers suffering from shell shock who are treated at Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh. There is no doubt that what these soldiers experience can disturb even the most strong-minded individual today. The principle psychiatrist is Dr. Rivers, who suffered from his fill personal demons and war symptoms. He created strong friendships with many of his patients and cared dearly for their well being. Rivers is a complex, nuanced character. While he portrays an exterior of believing in the War, he holds an internal debate of the War’s philosophical warrants.

As stated by a previous reviewer, the current title of this film is Regeneration *not* Gradual the Lines. I have no thought why the title was changed when it was released in the United States because the unique title doesn’t obtain any sense. Another complaint is that there is a lack of any special features on this DVD. It would have been suitable to peek a director commentary or slack the scenes footage. It’s wretched that this is a bare bones DVD. Regardless of these two negative aspects, Late THE LINES is a amazing and deeply engaging film of British soldiers suffering from shell shock during the Immense War.

Read Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy and search for this film. Both are highly recommended.

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I Stand Alone Streaming

February 3rd, 2010 by molly7730375
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When I recently viewed Gaspar Noe’s film “Irreversible,” I noticed with interest a scene at the beginning of the movie where an elderly man waxes philosophic about the various problems in his life to another poor soul while both men sit in a filthy, cramped room. I chuckled inwardly about Noe’s in joke since anyone who has seen “I Stand Alone” recognizes the elderly gent with a bad attitude as none other than the suicidal butcher, the main character in this gripping film about the psychological free fall of a man with nothing left to lose in life. If I had to compare “Irreversible” with “I Stand Alone,” I would definitely pick “Irreversible” as the better of the two in nearly every aspect of filmmaking, but “I Stand Alone” is a memorable experience nonetheless. If you thought watching Monica Bellucci suffer indignity after indignity was bad, you should watch the last twenty minutes of “I Stand Alone” for a whole knew outlook on what constitutes “disturbing.” Gaspar Noe is quickly turning into my favorite “foreign” film director. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.

The plot of “I Stand Alone” is frighteningly simple. The main character is an unemployed butcher, middle aged, whose life is one long series of disappointments. We learn he is the son of a French communist executed by the Nazis who eventually married, had a child, and lost his business after he killed a man he mistakenly assumed had brutalized his daughter. The incident sent his young child over the edge mentally, requiring her to check in for a lengthy stay at the local mental motel. The butcher, now on the ropes emotionally and recently released from prison, leaves his child behind to take up with an obnoxious woman and her overbearing mother because of a vague promise made by said woman to set our hero up in the meat business again. Sadly, this woman becomes pregnant and begins to berate the butcher about his taciturn nature, using the excuse of being with child to get what she wants from the relationship. The constant pressures of unemployment and the nagging from his woman causes the butcher to snap; he beats the pregnant woman viciously, and then flees when he worries that he has killed his unborn child and could again end up in prison for his actions.

Heading back to Paris and points north, the butcher wanders through the blasted landscapes of a France never seen in travel brochures. As he roams around with a diminishing supply of money and no job prospects, meeting old friends that refuse to help him and sleeping in pay by the day rat holes, the butcher engages the audience through a largely internal monologue that wallows in misogyny, racism, nihilism, and general misanthropy. This guy hates everyone and everything; he feels that the whole world is out to dump on him and seeks to pay back all of his enemies in the most vicious of ways. When he procures a gun with a few bullets in it, he begins formulating elaborate plans for bloody revenge. He’ll kill the smug jerk that refused to give him a job, the man at the bar who gave him some grief over the tab, and anyone else that gets in his way. The butcher finally decides to pay a visit to his daughter since he hasn’t seen her in ages, and it is during this visit that “I Stand Alone” enters its final, most horrific stage. Nothing will prepare you for the terrible final moments of Noe’s movie. It’s deeply disturbing, sick, morally reprehensible, and just plain nasty. Come to think of it, the whole movie is an exercise in depravity virtually certain to give most mainstream viewers conniption fits.

The best elements of “I Stand Alone” have little to do with the lengthy dialogue of the mad butcher or his rambling journeys through Paris. After awhile you get used to the run down buildings, the litter clogged streets, and the redundant blatherings of the butcher. You probably won’t feel too much pity for the guy after awhile anyway, seeing as how he’s such a sick, hateful soul full of loathing for his fellow man (and women, especially women). What does strike a chord is how Noe portrays this unpleasant chap. Noe rubs your nose in this guy’s misery to such an extent that you shudder to think there are people like the butcher around us every day, adrift in their frustrated lives and ready to explode at any minute. In an effort to bring home the gut wrenching stresses in the butcher’s existence, the director employs an unusual but very effective extreme focus camera technique–accompanied by a dramatic thudding sound–at certain important points throughout the film. There’s even a flashing sign towards the end warning the viewer the movie is about to take an extreme turn just in case you wish to switch the whole thing off. Brilliant!

A few caveats are necessary with “I Stand Alone.” The conclusion of the film, with its graphic violence and whirlwind dialogue, will upset viewers unaccustomed to such things. Moreover, at one point in the movie the butcher sits in an adult movie theater to be alone with his frustration. That’s not too bad in and of itself since we already know the thought processes of the butcher, but we get an eyeful of the definitely XXX rated movie playing on the screen. If pornography really bothers you, take a pass on “I Stand Alone.” I, however, thought Noe’s a film a brilliant piece of cinema exploring the dark recesses of a man on the verge of a suicidal breakdown. If that sounds appealing to you, certainly give this one a glance. Then watch “Irreversible.”

In a way, the fact that I was very offended by this film is a testament to its power. On the other, this is the first time I’ve found it hard to let the filmmaker off the hook on moral grounds.

The extreme, extreme violence of this film is truly nauseating. And I say this as one who’s studied cinematic violence of all sorts — from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer to The Re-Animator, from The Killer to Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom, from Robocop to Maniac. But I dare say none of them evoked the incredibly negative response that I Stand Alone did. The body count is low, but the acts of violence are so extended, and so repulsive in their immorality, that they hit you like sledgehammer blows. This is the kind of film that would immediately get banned as a video nasty in the UK, and possibly get its director mobbed.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is the closest comparison I can draw. Man Bites Dog isn’t nearly as bleak; Taxi Driver isn’t as brutal or cold-blooded; and Maniac doesn’t have one per cent of the brains. What I feel is a feature-length ode to hatred, to blind, inarticulate hatred for all things alive and dead, and ultimately to self. At the same time that I marvel at its ability to strike body blows and portray a reality (psychological and physical) this frightening, I can’t say I really like this film. At times, the film lingers so long on the suffering of its characters and assimilates the viewpoint of its reprehensible protagonist so thoroughly that it becomes hard whether it’s the character that’s violent and detestable, or the film that so closely resembles him.

If you like challenging cinema, it’s definitely worth a look. But if you’ve ever cried or become sick because of a movie, think twice before you delve into this one.
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February 3rd, 2010 by molly7730375
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Five MOMENTOUS Stars!! A Great Movie!! “Glory Road” tells the true story, with much dramatic license along the way, of one of sport’s greatest moments. A moment that changed the face and color of college basketball and rippled across all sports. It’s the story of a little known college basketball coach, Don Haskins, and how he came to be the coach of little known Texas Western College in El Paso, Texas. It’s also the story of the black players who would be recruited from all around the USA to eventually wind up playing in one of the greatest moments in college basketball: David “Daddy D” Lattin, Nevil Shed, Willie Cager, Orsten Artis, “Wee” Willie Worsley, Harry Flournoy, and of course the late floor general, Bobby Joe Hill. And the other team members played their vital roles also: Jerry Armstrong, Louis Baudoin, Dick Meyers, Togo Railey and David Palacio. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer does a wonderful job of bringing back the singular moment of the all-white Kentucky team under Adolph Rupp (Jon Voigt is a hoot in this role) and Haskin’s all-black starting five meeting in the NCAA basketball national championship final game spotlight during some tough racial times for the USA. In fact, Haskins had played this combination of players many times before during the season to little local fanfare, so it was no big deal to him. He just wanted to win. Josh Lucas is great as Don “The Bear” Haskins in this excellent James Gartner-directed movie. It’s said that Lucas, in preparing for this role, was driven out into the desert by Haskins in his truck and they just sat and talked (and drank) for many hours discussing how Haskins did it and the way he did it. (This has turned into quite a good friendship since then.) The movie pre-screenings, with all of the living original players on hand, in El Paso are greatly appreciated by all of us who lived through those incredible times and are still here.

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In light of today’s social freedoms, the movie does a great job of depicting the tough racial times of the 1960’s and the events that put Haskins, the team, and TWC on the athletic map forever. Not to mention the huge pot of money that TWC got from participating in the tournament. Shortly after these events, the University of Texas education system made TWC a full partner by the redesignation of the “University of Texas-El Paso” and a boatload of construction/faculty money flowed from Austin to El Paso. I was there and it was a grand moment to be remembered. A great must-see movie not just for the sports but also for the social impact of those times. Hats off again to Jerry Bruckheimer for personally carrying the banner on the national-level TV and radio shows promoting this movie. Five “Slam-Dunking” Stars.

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*”Glory Road” won the “ESPY” Award as the Best Sports Movie of 2006.

*The Texas Western College NCAA Championship team was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.)

“Glory Road” tells the story of the Texas Western Miners, a college basketball team who won the NCAA Championship in 1966. But this wasn’t just an ordinary championship, no, for the starting line-up in the championship game was all Black players, a thing that was unheard of in ‘66. Or better yet, even a black player being recruited by a college team was out of the ordinary. However, the 36 year old coach Don Haskins recruited seven Black players for his Texas Western team (when the season begins, he starts three of those players). The team was barely even thought of in the college world before then, then with the help of the seven black players, they went on to win the championship.

The movie opens with a girls basketball game, and you see that Don Haskins coaches girl’s basketball. Later on, he is asked to coach Division 1 basketball, for the Texas Western team (with one drawback; he would have to live in the dorm room with his wife and kids). Then, he sets out to recruit players that would help the team win. When he recruits all Black players, it’s obvious that most people (even the Black players themselves) thought Haskins was crazy. Among the players he recruited were Bobby Jo Hill (played exceptionally by Derek Luke), Willie Cager, David Lattin, and Harry Flournoy. His practices for the team were intense and his rules were strict. This would all pay off in the end though, with the Miners winning the championship over Adolf Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats (with Pat Riley, who is a character in the movie, it’s weird to hear his name called while he’s playing, knowing he’s a game-winning coach with plenty of rings).

The movie does depict the racism at the time as well. It wasn’t an easy ride for the coach or the Black players on the team. In the first game, the fans clapped for the two starting white players, but the whole arena was quiet when the Black players were announced. The team had racial slurs written in their hotel room during their game. One player was even beat up in a bathroom. Haskins was harassed as well. The racism almost tore the team apart, but with the coach’s help they stayed together and changed the course of basketball.

All around, the acting was great. Josh Lucas did a great job as Coach Haskins, completely becoming his character. Derek Luke did great as Bobby Jo Hill. Jon Voight played Kentucky coach Adolf Rupp, but you wouldn’t really know unless you read the credits. Nonetheless he did a great job. Mehcad Brooks, Sam Jones III, Schin A.S. Kerr and Damaine Radcliff (who played Flournoy, Worsley, Lattin, and Cager, respectively) all did excellent in their roles. The actors practically become the players. The cast couldn’t have been better.

Overall, Disney has released another superb movie about sports underdogs winning it all (I enjoyed Remember The Titans as well). If you like that movie, there’s no way you’ll dislike this. It is a well-cast, well-directed movie that will satisfy any basketball fan, and will keep everyone watching. It’s been said that it follows the cliches of all other similar movies, but don’t we always watch them anyway?

The film triumphantly shows how one coach changed the game (and face) of basketball completely. One quote from the film is “You’re acting like negroes are gonna be the future of basketball!” and I couldn’t help but laugh when that line was said. The importance and significance of that season and the tribulations of the team is wonderfully shown. Don’t pass this up.
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