What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I watched 'Woman Walks Ahead' about the female artist whom painted 'Sitting Bull' after Custer's fiasco. Supposedly true. Sam Rockwell, & Jessica Chastain star.
 
Queer. On HBO MAX. I loved this unique movie starring Daniel Craig. Being a straight woman, the gay aspects were incidental to the psychedelics. At the ending credits I found out story from William S. Burroughs. Then it all made perfect sense. Set in post WWII Mexico and South America. Follows a queer guy and his quest to go inside the mirror. To find?
Read a lot of Burroughs in the sixties. Trippy. Sexual. Soul searching. Funny. Always interesting Movie great introduction to writer.
Recommended by me.
 
"Earthtastrophe" (2016)

Low-budget schlock disaster flick, but an interesting premise and I found it pretty watchable. Silly "science" and a few huge gaffes, but hey this is schlock.

I could see a mild rewrite and reshooting with a bigger budget making this competitive with a lot of other movies in the genre.


Some odd choices. For example to edit down some long sequences it goes into ludicrously fast-motion instead of cuts. But that wasn't really annoying.

In fact many of the story's problems may have come from editing a much longer story down for time with some large cuts.


The entire thing is on YouTube free with ads, but you could also catch it on Tubi and probably elsewhere.

Whole movie:

 
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Read a lot of Burroughs in the sixties. Trippy. Sexual. Soul searching. Funny. Always interesting Movie great introduction to writer.
Recommended by me.
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I was a big fan of Burroughs and most of the other Beats. Loved Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, and others. I thought I was a Beatnik then, which was before the Hippie movement. I finally met Ginsberg in 1968, and it was a drag (another story).

Burroughs was a surprisingly good actor in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy, with Mat Dillon, directed by Gus Van Sant.
 
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At @ChiroDoc i can do you one better. I slept with Allen Ginsberg. Emphasis on SLEPT. No sex. He was gay. As you say, that’s another story. I’d tell you now but I’m having a nervous breakdown
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Ha! That's a helluva story. You'll have to share the details.

I went with Zappa over to Ginsberg's apartment in San Francisco for lunch in 1968. It was very uncomfortable because he was surrounded by a gaggle of young gay guys who hung on his every word. It was very cult like, and we were happy when we left. I had earlier been a fan of some of his Beat poetry.
 
I just watched Young Man With A Horn. Maybe it's bc I'd just watched 2 hours of fast paced TV shows, but it seemed mostly very s--l-o-w moving to me. The gist of it was great anyway. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day as the lovely good girl (ie, his real love) and Lauren Bacall as the rich spoiled brat who almost ruins his life. Also very predictable.
 
Are we talkin about Daniel Craig the james bond spoof? - if so I first came across him years and years ago in his first attempts at british series acting in the series Heart Beat - lost soul in a plethora of hardened actors - never imagined his future but he had a goal for sure
 
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I was considering ordering the dvd of this miniseries. After watching this highlight reel, I may not. It already shows the conversations I would be most interested in seeing dramarized.

Pride and Prejudice 1995 Highlights | Mr Darcy's Best Lines & Lizzy’s Savage Comebacks | Playback

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I watched the movie version of P&P recently because of this thread and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
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I cannot ever I don't think not watch "The Heart of the Matter" with :

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despite having watched in half a dozen times so far - it comes around very infrequent so gives me a rest ' I am not catholic although it has a strong catholic theme - b/w and I find the acting superb and just cannot resist it - old world charm perhaps?
 
Operation Mincement - how Hitler was fooled in one invasion operation - great actors - realistic war time scenes and some romance thrown in too!! sad and joyous endings - wot more could you ask for! well yes you could ask for Colin Firth a mans man as well as a guy for some ladies ?? ps: our war historians may wish to add a few extra details??
 
The Big Clock 1947
Charles Laughton
Ray Milland

Summary:

"A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself."

Very good story and script. Can't believe I never heard of this film before.

IMDB Rating = 7.6/10

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The film also has Harry Morgan (MASH's Col Potter & Dragnet). Here is how he looks in The Big Clock

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Look for Noel Neill (TVs Lois Lane) as an elevator operator (far left in the photo).


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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

4th or 5th re-watch. I've always been a big fan of most of John Huston's work, from The Maltese Falcon (1941) through to Prizzi's Honor (1985). As far as noir films, the former may have been the first mainstream instance of the form in its classic presentation.

Huston's The Asphalt Jungle is one of his better films, especially so as a noir example. Cinematographer Harold Rosson was fresh from filming On The Town (NYC) and Key to the City (San Fran), so he had experience representing the feel and power of big cityscapes, which was on display right from the git-go in Jungle's opening scenes: the post war stylized fedora-wearing mug framed by the enormity of building arches; the shadowy doorways and litter shown in urban alleyways-- mostly filmed in Cincinnati.

As a heist film it was notable for showcasing early variations of the now familiar story mechanics: the gang is formed; the plan is made; the characters are developed; and the complicated burglary is pulled off-- although not without some bad luck. It's also the first time in memory that the thieves must slide on their backs underneath an electronic eye.

In my view the standout performance was by Marc Lawrence, playing the underworld bookie wannabe big shot gangster. His performance never varied or weakened, and was completely believable. Sam Jaffe also gets plaudits as the mastermind ex con, Doc Riedenschneider. And Jean Hagen had a tough part to play as the weak gal named Doll who was head over heels for ex con Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden), and she came through in spades. Hayden himself was convincing as the tough guy who was looking to make a big score so he could return home to buy his family's previous horse farm. Much of Hayden's performance, as well as most of the other cast's, was over-acted by today's standards; but yet they didn't want anyone missing the point in those days.
Louis Calhern did a journeyman's job as the regal but untrustworthy financier of the operation. Calhern's approach was pretty similar most in any role that he played. Anthony Caruso was starting to get notice here as Louis Ciavelli, the expert safe cracker. Much notice has been made of Marilyn Monroe as Calhern's mistress. She certainly exuded allure and raw sexiness as a dimwitted plaything, who eventually causes Calhern's end.

The picture was fairly long for its era, but filled all of its 1' 52" effortlessly. It was nominated for 4 Oscars that year, and remains today as one of our finer noirs.
Available here: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
 

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