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classicfilmIt's always fun to hear what people have watched and what they thought about it! Maybe we can get some ideas from each other. Tell us about a couple of movies you've been thinking about lately--either because you just watched them or because you've been meaning to.
This morning, I finally got around to watching the 1966 A Man for All Seasons, which I taped off TCM back in February. And I loved it to pieces. The performances were great--Orson Welles was so good as Cardinal Wolsey, and Paul Scofield just owned St. Thomas More--and I really enjoyed the writing a lot. It was funnier than I was expecting it to be, and even though I knew what was going to happen, I was still really engrossed in seeing it all unfold. (And, speaking as a Catholic, it was nice to see the story of someone so principled and stalwart when facing the dangers he did.)
Meanwhile, I've been meaning to watch more of the films from a collection of 50 musicals on DVD that I bought a while back. It's all B-musicals, which are basically my favourite, and while the stories are incredibly slight, they feature performances of some incredibly talented musicians. I found the collection for $10, which works out to something like twenty cents a movie--and at a price like that, I can highly recommend the collection to anyone interested in the more disposable pictures Hollywood put out in the 40s and 50s. (I'm getting to be a big fan of boxfuls of movies like this one--I've also got one of horror and monster movies from the first half of the 20th century. They're bare-bones collections, but you're getting one heck of a bang for your buck! And sometimes the films can be near-impossible to find outside them.)
This morning, I finally got around to watching the 1966 A Man for All Seasons, which I taped off TCM back in February. And I loved it to pieces. The performances were great--Orson Welles was so good as Cardinal Wolsey, and Paul Scofield just owned St. Thomas More--and I really enjoyed the writing a lot. It was funnier than I was expecting it to be, and even though I knew what was going to happen, I was still really engrossed in seeing it all unfold. (And, speaking as a Catholic, it was nice to see the story of someone so principled and stalwart when facing the dangers he did.)
Meanwhile, I've been meaning to watch more of the films from a collection of 50 musicals on DVD that I bought a while back. It's all B-musicals, which are basically my favourite, and while the stories are incredibly slight, they feature performances of some incredibly talented musicians. I found the collection for $10, which works out to something like twenty cents a movie--and at a price like that, I can highly recommend the collection to anyone interested in the more disposable pictures Hollywood put out in the 40s and 50s. (I'm getting to be a big fan of boxfuls of movies like this one--I've also got one of horror and monster movies from the first half of the 20th century. They're bare-bones collections, but you're getting one heck of a bang for your buck! And sometimes the films can be near-impossible to find outside them.)
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Date: 2011-10-01 08:03 pm (UTC)I did re-watch Sunset Boulevard last night/this morning, and although I'd always liked it, it's been a few years since I last saw it and it had a lot more impact now. Maybe I learned more about the silent era in the meanwhile, or maybe I'm just getting older and can sympathize more with Norma Desmond. ;) Anyway, it was definitely worth the time to watch.
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Date: 2011-10-02 11:56 pm (UTC)And I'm trying to get around to The Passionate Friends with Claude Rains and Trevor Howard.