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David wrote:For all you arthouse film nerds out there (oh wait, that's just me), I Am Love is very good.
Ahem, I don't think so!
Some of us were going to the Carlton Movie house before possibly before your parents were together (in the biblical sense)!
Not to mention Valhalla in Richmond & the Uni's in the 70's
But you were looking for a reaction!!!
My dad used to go to the Valhalla back in the '70s. Wish I could have seen a film there before it was abandoned.
It wasn't abandoned, it was sold and torn down. One of the great cinematic experiences of the early 80s was to see the midnight showing of the Blues Brothers complete with audience particpation.
The death of the Carlton Bughouse is even sadder. It was the first place to give student discount and for years the only place in Melbourne. By the time other theatres started letting students in at prices they could afford, I was no longer a student. I probably watch more movies at the Nova than any other theatre but I can't help remembering that the Nova pretty much put the Bughouse out of business.
Taped "Baran" an Iranian film from the early 2000's intersting film about Afgahni refugees in Iran working on a building site & their expereinces of racism on a building site etc but told in a non-dogmatic, non-didcatic manner. & with relevant themes about they're gunna take our jobs, exploitation. Poignant. Got to watch it recently.
Taped another late night film called 'Expresso Bongo' made in the laste 50's early 60's puts the B into B grade films for sure. Featuring a very young Cliff Richard". Liked it from a 'tacky' point of view!!
1. Fritz Laing's " The Woman in the Window" Film noir (my favourite genre) & a brilliant film: If you get a chance to see it do - its a great mystery / suspense fillum with Edward G Robinson & the beautiful Joan Bennett.
2. Howard Hawkes's "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell. Later remade with Jack Lemmon & Walter Mathau as "The Front Page". For budding journalists - a bit sentimental but the repartee between Grant & Russel in particular is simply wonderful.
3. (1930's) My Man Godfrey with William Powell & Carol Lombard - 'screwball comedy' but good fun which you don't want to 'deconstruct' too much.
Good watching & nice to see them again.
Two others I trying to catch up with & haven't seen for ages:
1. (1942) The Man who Came to Dinner - with Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante amongst others.
2. (1949) A Letter to Three Wives - 1949 Linda Darnell, Ann Southern, Kirk Douglas -
Plot: A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands--but she doesn't say which one! B+ grade but good fun.
Sexist you bet, a bit corny yes indeedy. But good fun & some ripper lines.
“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
A while ago bought some DVD's & today saw "Savages" the Laura Linney & Phillip Seymour Hoffman. David Stratton gave it 4.5 stars if that means anything.
Might not be everyones cup of tea but I thought it was brilliant. Tragi-comedy. Naturalistic in some respects. 109 minutes. Very powerful in a Eugene O'Neil kind of way. My wife whose ill with the cold/ flu at home & me with a day off saw it & we both loved it. Compelling, a tough emotionally powerful film I thought.
Highly recommended (I suppose like any form of film each to their own - it might not be for everybody)
The other tough film & naturalistic in a Eugene O'Neil kind of way that starred Phillip Seymour Hoffman which was also very good was "Before The Devil Knows your Dead"
“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
My neighbour invited me in to watch a box set series of 1 Adam 12 ... ick, I'd forgotten how awful that show was back then and how much awfuller it seems now! The only good bit is '1 Adam 12 1 Adam 12 do you read me 1 Adam 12 over'
