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Post by topbilled on Apr 4, 2024 2:28:03 GMT
I will name a few...
THE TALL MEN (1955)...I just love this Fox western. It's currently on the Criterion Channel. I think I've watched it five times in the past few weeks. Jane Russell has excellent chemistry with Clark Gable. The outdoor location filming is a treat, especially the winter scenes (I'm a fan of snow westerns). And Raoul Walsh's direction is impeccable. It's satisfying on so many levels.
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)...it's also on the Criterion Channel...and on YouTube I think. This is my favorite B film of all time. I watch Julia Ross and her troubles about fifteen times a year, so at least on a monthly basis...sometimes twice a month.
CASABLANCA (1942). I have this one on disc. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night and have insomnia, I pop this one into the DVD player. It's such a comforting, soothing film that within 15 minutes I have fallen back asleep. Sometimes after a long day of work, I will put it on but mute the sound, while I am making dinner, checking messages or doing other things. It's nice to have it on in the background. The actors and the characters they play are like old friends at this point!
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Apr 4, 2024 19:02:54 GMT
I don't know if I have any films I would watch, fully, more than once in a month since I have seen such films many times.
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But related to the topic there are certain scenes that I can watch multiple times in a month, if the film just happens to be shown. And my wife will say 'what,,, again' and I have to tell her I'll change to something else once this scene is over.
Just this week Bad Day at Black Rock was on (Grit TV so that station must consider the film a western). Anytime I know that film is being shown I have to watch the scene in the cafe where one-armed Tracy beats the crap out of the bully Borgnine.
Another scene would be from The Petrified Forest when Leslie Howard first meets Bette Davis. I just love to listen to these two actors exchange dialog.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 4, 2024 19:06:45 GMT
I don't know if I have any films I would watch, fully, more than once in a month since I have seen such films many times. . But related to the topic there are certain scenes that I can watch multiple times in a month, if the film just happens to be shown. And my wife will say 'what,,, again' and I have to tell her I'll change to something else once this scene is over. This just week Bad Day at Black Rock was on (Grit TV so that station must consider the film a western). Anytime I know that film is being shown I have to watch the scene in the cafe where one-armed Tracy beats the crap out of the bully Borgnine. Another scene would be from The Petrified Forest when Leslie Howard first meets Bette Davis. I just love to listen to these two actors exchange dialog. |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Apr 5, 2024 0:16:09 GMT
I don't know if I have any films I would watch, fully, more than once in a month since I have seen such films many times. . But related to the topic there are certain scenes that I can watch multiple times in a month, if the film just happens to be shown. And my wife will say 'what,,, again' and I have to tell her I'll change to something else once this scene is over. This just week Bad Day at Black Rock was on (Grit TV so that station must consider the film a western). Anytime I know that film is being shown I have to watch the scene in the cafe where one-armed Tracy beats the crap out of the bully Borgnine. Another scene would be from The Petrified Forest when Leslie Howard first meets Bette Davis. I just love to listen to these two actors exchange dialog. The Petrified Forest is my favorite film. Yea, I know people feel it is too stage-bound but my reasons are the dialog, my two favorite actors in Howard and Davis and fond memories of being in the play while I was in theater class in jr-high-school. |
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Post by kims on Apr 5, 2024 18:20:43 GMT
THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. I probably know most of it by heart-love Cagney's laugh, love when he head butts Davis and calls her Bella and other names. Davis is still a powerful presence, but she pulls off more frustrated than dominate outbursts. I have favorite scenes, the car running away on aviation fuel, when Davis realizes there is a way out of the mine she thinks they are trapped in because she tastes mustard on Cagney, all scenes with the great Harry Davenport.
It's fun, entertaining. Eugene Pallette, George Tobias, Jack Carson, and William Fraley give their usual dependable, believable performances.
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Post by nickandnora34 on Apr 6, 2024 23:45:09 GMT
One that I rewatched about 6 times in a month last year was the Little Miss Marker remake with Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews. I found it to be a cute little comfort movie; I love Walter Matthau to pieces.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 11, 2024 6:33:00 GMT
Another 'comfort film' for me is THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952). This is the British Technicolor version with Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans and Margaret Rutherford. It's on the Criterion Channel, and I think I've watched it almost ten times in the past month!
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