We saw The Best Years of Our Lives in my film class. It was all about deep focus and using a non-actor (with a hook for a hand!).
A hook for a hand! That's moving up in my Netflix queue right now.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
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Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 8:03:38 am PDT #9388 of 10001
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P.M. Marc - Jun 21, 2007 8:04:18 am PDT #9389 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Cabaret is awesome, but the last time I tried to watch it (2002? 2003?), the situation was hitting a little too close to home and I had to turn it off midway through.
Swing Time is fun, if you like Astaire and Rogers. Which I do.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 8:05:26 am PDT #9390 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that Harold Russell (the non-actor disabled veteran) was the only person to win two Oscars for the same role--he had been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and it was generally assumed that he was going to lose, so the Academy decided to give him a Special Oscar, and then he went on to win the BSA award as well!
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 8:07:28 am PDT #9391 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm also a big Astaire/Rogers fan (their films were always being shown on the local ABC affiliate in the early morning hours of New Years Eve/Day for me to watch while babysitting in the pre-VCR-and-cable days).
Actually, I think I've seen just about every musical on that list, except for Nashville.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 8:07:42 am PDT #9392 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Cor, you should see Cabaret. It's fun and decadent.
Also, even though The Best Years of Our Lives is a bet of a message movie it's still a good watch with some excellent performances.
But I'm a huge Frederic March fan. I think he's one of the most underrated actors from the Hollywood studio era.
flea - Jun 21, 2007 8:08:34 am PDT #9393 of 10001
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I have seen 31 of the current list, which is a lot more than I expected, as I am not really a movie person. (Looks around thread. Why am I here again?)
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 8:08:40 am PDT #9394 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Fredric March is great in Inherit the Wind, especially in his scenes with Spencer Tracy.
Tom Scola - Jun 21, 2007 8:12:24 am PDT #9395 of 10001
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I haven't seen about a third of the movies in the list.
But that doesn't mean that I don't have opinions about them anyway, dammit.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 8:13:08 am PDT #9396 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fredric March is great in Inherit the Wind, especially in his scenes with Spencer Tracy.
I love him in Jekyl and Hyde - he's the best in that role ever. Absolutely punk rock.
He's a great comic actor too. Check out Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard.
He's also fun in I Married A Witch.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 8:13:44 am PDT #9397 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But that doesn't mean that I don't have opinions about them anyway, dammit.
Right on! Let's have a blowhard smackdown.
Everybody express an opinion on a movie you haven't seen.