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Forum: General Movie Discussion 7 hours ago
Replies: 24
Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin...
Posted By Captain Quint
102248 Watched this tonight, and wow, very...

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Watched this tonight, and wow, very intense, lots of heightened emotion, great cast, which includes a small role for Lois Maxwell, better known as Miss Moneypenny - Redgrave was a fantastic...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 13 hours ago
Replies: 36,264
Movie You're Watching Tonight
Posted By Captain Quint
Hoping to catch this one before the day is done,...

Hoping to catch this one before the day is done, for Noirvember

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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 14 hours ago
Replies: 17
Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979

I remember admiring his last 3, Volcano, Prizzi's and The Dead, but it's been a long while since I saw them, not sure how they'd hold up for me.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 14 hours ago
Replies: 17
Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979

I'm new here, so I wasn't sure what was expected, but yeah, I chose what was meaningful to me, rather than what the critical or popular consensus was.

With Leone for example, I'd have gone with...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 17 hours ago
Replies: 17
Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979

With ranking on my personal lists for each in ()

Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour (#1) - Mon oncle d'Amérique (#5)

Youssef Chahine - Cairo Station (#1) - An Egyptian Story (#2)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 84,540
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Oh Susanna (1936) - I like westerns, and this was on a BFI list, but yeesh, this might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. A criminal steals Gene Autry's identify, and, I know they didn't have the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 84,540
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By Captain Quint
102226 Happy Godzilla Day everyone! ...

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Happy Godzilla Day everyone!

While I'm waiting for the new short to show up online, I watched one of the old ones I've not seen yet. Godzilla Fest 3: Gigan Attacks (2022) - Just a good...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 day ago
Replies: 200
Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Clint Eastwood the director, appreciation thread

I'm so upset that Juror #2 is only being shown in 50 theaters, Zaslav you jerk! I've been watching Clint on TV and film since the 60s, and if this is indeed his final film, I really wanted to see it...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 24
Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin...
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin..

Yeah, it was in the series "Climax", 1954, broadcast live. Unless they invent the time machine in my lifetime, looks like one I can only dream of.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 24
Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin...
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin..

Thanks.

Yeah, Murder My Sweet is amazing, I wish they could find the TV episode he did where he played Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, but it's probably gone forever.

One I liked a lot, that gets...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 24
Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin...
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin..

I've seen all of the essentials and then some, so it's getting tough to find a new, "good", classic noir to watch - the only one I've not seen from Criterion's Noirvember Essentials 30-film list this...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 84,540
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By Captain Quint
Finished up with Maxxine and it's about the same...

Finished up with Maxxine and it's about the same as the other two in the series. I'm not really into 'stabby stabby' stuff, but I do enjoy crime stories, so that quality was a draw. Good work from...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 36,264
Movie You're Watching Tonight
Posted By Captain Quint
Cool, I think the Criterion sale is going on at...

Cool, I think the Criterion sale is going on at B&N, I have a hankering to pick it up now.

And yeah, I'm not a big horror person (I like the old style eerie, ghostly stuff, not big on the slasher,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 36,264
Movie You're Watching Tonight
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Movie You're Watching Tonight

Oh, good movie, I'm a big Christian Petzold fan overall.

Planning to see this one, finish up with the trilogy

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Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 33
30 years after...where does 1994 rank in cinema history?
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: 30 years after...where does 1994 rank in cinema history?

My favorite on the year was Three Colors: Red - after that (in no particular order)

Exotica
The Shawshank Redemption
Leon: The Professional
Quiz Show
Three Colors: White
Chungking Express...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 77
Actors/actresses who should have had a bigger career?
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Actors/actresses who should have had a bigger career?

going back to the early 70s, I remember seeing Diary of a Mad Housewife and thinking Carrie Snodgress was going to be something special in film for years to come, more great roles, more awards, but...
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 3 days ago
Replies: 16
The Night Stalker
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: The Night Stalker

Loved the movies and the series when I was a kid, mom was into scary movies and such, so yeah, we'd all watch it with her. I bought the Kino BD not long ago, and still loved it. The casting was...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 31
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Weir's masterpiece, and one of my favorites overall. I saw this again in the theater a few months back, and it's still as haunting and atmospheric as ever.

At the end, the gentleman who hosted...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 10
Cinematic Masterpieces
Posted By Captain Quint
Just about everything in the Andrew Wyeth and...

Just about everything in the Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper inspired Days of Heaven

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Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 312
Favorite Viewing of The Month?
Posted By Captain Quint
Re: Favorite Viewing of The Month?

For October -
#1) Exhuma (2024) - spooky supernatural folk tale rooted in Korean culture and history - I was really into this from start to finish

Other Halloween fare that I enjoyed - Oddity,...