list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Grand Hotel on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Grand_Hotel/13925/default.aspx Title: Grand Hotel
Year: 1932
Director: Edmund Goulding
Plot: Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are coveted by Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore), a thief who fancies Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a stenographer and the mistress of Preysing (Wallace Beery), businessman boss of Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), a terminally ill bookkeeper who is under the care of alcoholic physician Dr. Otternschlag (Lewis Stone). Grand Hotel won Best Picture at the 1932 Academy Awards. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:11:47 GMTGrand Hotel1932Edmund GouldingBased on <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___216608/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Vicki Baum</a>'s novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P____25821/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Greta Garbo</a> is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are coveted by Baron von Geigern (<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P_____4291/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Barrymore</a>), a thief who fancies Flaemmchen (<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P____15681/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Joan Crawford</a>), a stenographer and the mistress of Preysing (<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P_____4986/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Wallace Beery</a>), businessman boss of Kringelein (<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P_____4295/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Lionel Barrymore</a>), a terminally ill bookkeeper who is under the care of alcoholic physician Dr. Otternschlag (<a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P____68484/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Lewis Stone</a>). Grand Hotel won Best Picture at the 1932 Academy Awards. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide27Tag Target (>10)9323http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t37870m095b.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Grand_Hotel/13925/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_March_23_Hotels_Motels_Inns/625/41237/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 3/25/2009 2:11:47 AM
Body: Undoubtedly my favorite film taking place in a hotel is The Shining. From beginning to end I love every frame of this flick. Another film based on a Stephen King story that also takes place in a hotel is 1408. The first time around the film kinda lost me during its uproarious second act, but after watching it again the other night, I was surprised at how amazingly chilling it actually was. A significant portion of Some Like It Hot takes place at a posh Florida resort. Lost in Translation was another film that mostly took place in a hotel. Actually most of the memorable scenes took place in the hotel: the fire alarm, the pool aerobics, the maniacal exercise equipment, the amazingly short shower spout, the karaoke bar, the flower arranging class, etc. As implied by its name, Grand Hotel is all about the misadventures of a group of guests at a swanky hotel. At the hotel to escape, we get that great line from Greta Garbo, "I want to be alone!" Last Holiday (I have only seen the remake with Queen Latifah) takes place in an insanely luxurious hotel in the Czech Republic. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a non-stop romp from hotel to hotel, trashing each room beyond all recognition. Forgetting Sarah Marshall featured yet another luxury resort, this time in Hawaii and occupied by the lovely Mila Kunis (Kristen Bell isn't that bad either). And of course Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Thirteen (I barely remember Twelve) showed us the in's and out's of pulling a fast one on a Vegas casino - and just how insane those penthouse rooms that most of us will never get a chance to stay in look like.
]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:11:47 GMTmercurialWeekly Theme3/25/2009 2:11:47 AMUndoubtedly my favorite film taking place in a hotel is The Shining. From beginning to end I love every frame of this flick. Another film based on a Stephen King story that also takes place in a hotel is 1408. The first time around the film kinda lost me during its uproarious second act, but after watching it again the other night, I was surprised at how amazingly chilling it actually was. A significant portion of Some Like It Hot takes place at a posh Florida resort. Lost in Translation was another film that mostly took place in a hotel. Actually most of the memorable scenes took place in the hotel: the fire alarm, the pool aerobics, the maniacal exercise equipment, the amazingly short shower spout, the karaoke bar, the flower arranging class, etc. As implied by its name, Grand Hotel is all about the misadventures of a group of guests at a swanky hotel. At the hotel to escape, we get that great line from Greta Garbo, "I want to be alone!" Last Holiday (I have only seen the remake with Queen Latifah) takes place in an insanely luxurious hotel in the Czech Republic. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a non-stop romp from hotel to hotel, trashing each room beyond all recognition. Forgetting Sarah Marshall featured yet another luxury resort, this time in Hawaii and occupied by the lovely Mila Kunis (Kristen Bell isn't that bad either). And of course Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Thirteen (I barely remember Twelve) showed us the in's and out's of pulling a fast one on a Vegas casino - and just how insane those penthouse rooms that most of us will never get a chance to stay in look like. http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2008/7/6/32174.aspx Post By: dibot
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Post Date: 7/6/2008 1:48:32 AM
Body: The China Syndrome focuses on two journalists, Jane Fonda ("Georgia Rule") and Michael Douglas ("King of California"), who try to expose the dangers of a nuclear power plant in California. Jack Lemmon ("The Odd Couple II") works in the plant and helps them when he becomes convinced that safety standards are not being met. The film is a bit slow starting off, but when it gets going, the paranoia and cover-ups are easy to buy into. The ending is also very good. Definitely worth checking out. I haven't seen a film as moving as Talk to Her in quite awhile. Written and directed by Pedro Almodovar ("Volver"), the story follows two men who become friends while caring for the women they love, both of whom happen to be in comas. But it's so much more than that. There's love, of all kinds, morally questionable actions, beautiful cinematography, haunting music, crying, laughing, general amazement on my part. This is what movies are all about. Grand Hotel was the Best Picture Oscar winner in 1932, and thought it took me a bit to get involved in the story, once I did, I was thoroughly hooked. The film shows the events in The Grand Hotel in Berlin over the course of 24 hours. The intrigues, friendships, love affairs and agonies of the people staying in the hotel, give us plenty of drama. Also, according to the TCM guy, this was the first film with an all-star ensemble cast, composed of brothers John ("Playmates") and Lionel ("Lone Star") Barrymore, Greta Garbo ("Two-Faced Woman") and Joan Crawford ("Journey to Murder"). Very entertaining. Roman Holiday stars Audrey Hepburn ("Always") as a princess who just wants to have some fun. So, she shirks her duties for a day, and ends up touring Rome with Gregory Peck ("Cape Fear"). Only she doesn't know that he's a journalist planning to write a story about their adventures. But then they start to have feelings for each other, and Peck faces a moral dilemma. Very funny and sometimes heart-wrenching. Peck and Hepburn have great chemistry. I really enjoyed this. The Red Shoes is a film by director Michael Powell and writer Emeric Pressburger ("Ill Met by Moonlight"), whose names I have always heard, but work I had not seen. The story has a fairytale quality. It's about a ballerina who wants to be a great dancer. A director takes her under his wing, promising to make her a star, but when she falls in love with a composer, the director tries to crush both their careers. The film starts slow (I seem to be saying this alot. Maybe I'm the slow one.). There's also quite a bit of ballet, so be aware of that going in. I really enjoyed the use of color and the examinations of career versus life, art verses love. I'm not sure I'm sold on this duo's genius, but am definitely interested in seeing more of their films.
]]>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:48:32 GMTdibotdibot Blog7/6/2008 1:48:32 AMThe China Syndrome focuses on two journalists, Jane Fonda ("Georgia Rule") and Michael Douglas ("King of California"), who try to expose the dangers of a nuclear power plant in California. Jack Lemmon ("The Odd Couple II") works in the plant and helps them when he becomes convinced that safety standards are not being met. The film is a bit slow starting off, but when it gets going, the paranoia and cover-ups are easy to buy into. The ending is also very good. Definitely worth checking out. I haven't seen a film as moving as Talk to Her in quite awhile. Written and directed by Pedro Almodovar ("Volver"), the story follows two men who become friends while caring for the women they love, both of whom happen to be in comas. But it's so much more than that. There's love, of all kinds, morally questionable actions, beautiful cinematography, haunting music, crying, laughing, general amazement on my part. This is what movies are all about. Grand Hotel was the Best Picture Oscar winner in 1932, and thought it took me a bit to get involved in the story, once I did, I was thoroughly hooked. The film shows the events in The Grand Hotel in Berlin over the course of 24 hours. The intrigues, friendships, love affairs and agonies of the people staying in the hotel, give us plenty of drama. Also, according to the TCM guy, this was the first film with an all-star ensemble cast, composed of brothers John ("Playmates") and Lionel ("Lone Star") Barrymore, Greta Garbo ("Two-Faced Woman") and Joan Crawford ("Journey to Murder"). Very entertaining. Roman Holiday stars Audrey Hepburn ("Always") as a princess who just wants to have some fun. So, she shirks her duties for a day, and ends up touring Rome with Gregory Peck ("Cape Fear"). Only she doesn't know that he's a journalist planning to write a story about their adventures. But then they start to have feelings for each other, and Peck faces a moral dilemma. Very funny and sometimes heart-wrenching. Peck and Hepburn have great chemistry. I really enjoyed this. The Red Shoes is a film by director Michael Powell and writer Emeric Pressburger ("Ill Met by Moonlight"), whose names I have always heard, but work I had not seen. The story has a fairytale quality. It's about a ballerina who wants to be a great dancer. A director takes her under his wing, promising to make her a star, but when she falls in love with a composer, the director tries to crush both their careers. The film starts slow (I seem to be saying this alot. Maybe I'm the slow one.). There's also quite a bit of ballet, so be aware of that going in. I really enjoyed the use of color and the examinations of career versus life, art verses love. I'm not sure I'm sold on this duo's genius, but am definitely interested in seeing more of their films. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_5_Pre_Hays_Code_Films/190/27169/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 4/10/2008 2:58:12 AM
Body: 1.) Baby Face - Wow, is she a slut! For its time it's incredible that she sleeps with practically every man in the building she works in (it's a skyscraper).2.) Freaks - The cool as shit "freaks" in the movie know how to get revenge.3.) Grand Hotel - Amazing cast, insanely quotable, intense subject matter for its time.4.) The Maltese Falcon - Homosexuality, fornication, murder and mayhem. And most of it is just alluded to.5.) Christopher Strong - Hepburn is hot in those manly pantsuits and insane (the happy kind of insane) with love that leads her to do something pretty insane (the scary kind of insane).
]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:58:12 GMTmercurialTop 54/10/2008 2:58:12 AM1.) Baby Face - Wow, is she a slut! For its time it&#39;s incredible that she sleeps with practically every man in the building she works in (it&#39;s a skyscraper).2.) Freaks - The cool as shit "freaks" in the movie know how to get revenge.3.) Grand Hotel - Amazing cast, insanely quotable, intense subject matter for its time.4.) The Maltese Falcon - Homosexuality, fornication, murder and mayhem. And most of it is just alluded to.5.) Christopher Strong - Hepburn is hot in those manly pantsuits and insane (the happy kind of insane) with love that leads her to do something pretty insane (the scary kind of insane). http://www.spout.com/blogs/bigjefflebowski/archive/2007/4/11/6928.aspx Post By: BigJeffLebowski
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Post Date: 4/11/2007 5:49:00 PM
Body: I admit a bias when it comes to the 1960s. It's a time I wish I had been able to experience. The music, the films, the literature, the art, and the very real belief that an individual could make a difference; I don't try to hide that I tend to get sweeped up and carried away by my romanticized notions of my father's era. Bobby plays to this nostalgic sensibility, though more in content than in form. Unlike Factory Girl, which was released the same year and concerns roughly the same time period, Estevez's film doesn't try to disguise itself as a product of the times it illustrates. Save for one scene which attempts to visualize an acid trip (which is, coincidentally, the film's worst segment, featuring Ashton Kutcher giving the film's worst performance) there are no true-to-the-period behind-the-camera histrionics. Instead, Estevez rips a few pages from the books of Robert Altman and Grand Hotel in an effort to define an era through a series of portraits all relating tangentially to Robert Kennedy's assassination. In fact, the film's closest relative is the unjustly overlooked and shortlived TV series "American Dreams," the first episode of which concluded poignantly with the other Kennedy assassination five years earlier. Like that show, Bobby presents us with an array of characters, each representing a different aspect of the 60s, ranging from the draft to the civil and women's rights movements. Unfortunately for Estevez, he doesn't have three seasons to develop these characters; instead, he has two hours, and as such, few of the characters become more than archetypes. What carries the film up to its powerful final third is the discord between the intangible sense of hope which lingers above all of the characters and the heartbreaking conclusion which the audience knows is inevitable. Bobby is clear in its intention to be about the murder of Kennedy rather than about Kennedy, but there are long stretches when the film seems to exist just outside of the events at its core, and it isn't until halfway through when the results of the primaries start coming in and Kennedy himself starts to become a more concrete element in the film that it really picks up steam and pulls you along with it. This isn't to say Bobby is a bad film. It's handsomely executed in nearly every way, and it's obvious that Estevez has a great fondness for his subject. But that fondness is one befitting someone who was only a child when Kennedy was assassinated, and consequently, the film is more about the ideas and the feelings than about the people and the events. In spite of that -- or maybe even because of it -- the film's last 15 minutes are a knockout. Depicting the murder itself, and set to Kennedy's own words, the film's conclusion is an emotionally resonant, affecting reminder of a time when the American people believed they had something worth fighting for, and that their efforts would not go unnoticed. The film is a loving memorial not only to one man, but the very idea of One Man, when a person's individuality and his solidarity could exist in harmony for the betterment of a nation. Politics may have always been dirty, but there's no harm in viewing the past with a little less cynicism than we view the present.
]]>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:49:00 GMTBigJeffLebowskiBigJeffLebowski Blog4/11/2007 5:49:00 PMI admit a bias when it comes to the 1960s. It's a time I wish I had been able to experience. The music, the films, the literature, the art, and the very real belief that an individual could make a difference; I don't try to hide that I tend to get sweeped up and carried away by my romanticized notions of my father's era. Bobby plays to this nostalgic sensibility, though more in content than in form. Unlike Factory Girl, which was released the same year and concerns roughly the same time period, Estevez's film doesn't try to disguise itself as a product of the times it illustrates. Save for one scene which attempts to visualize an acid trip (which is, coincidentally, the film's worst segment, featuring Ashton Kutcher giving the film's worst performance) there are no true-to-the-period behind-the-camera histrionics. Instead, Estevez rips a few pages from the books of Robert Altman and Grand Hotel in an effort to define an era through a series of portraits all relating tangentially to Robert Kennedy's assassination. In fact, the film's closest relative is the unjustly overlooked and shortlived TV series "American Dreams," the first episode of which concluded poignantly with the other Kennedy assassination five years earlier. Like that show, Bobby presents us with an array of characters, each representing a different aspect of the 60s, ranging from the draft to the civil and women's rights movements. Unfortunately for Estevez, he doesn't have three seasons to develop these characters; instead, he has two hours, and as such, few of the characters become more than archetypes. What carries the film up to its powerful final third is the discord between the intangible sense of hope which lingers above all of the characters and the heartbreaking conclusion which the audience knows is inevitable. Bobby is clear in its intention to be about the murder of Kennedy rather than about Kennedy, but there are long stretches when the film seems to exist just outside of the events at its core, and it isn't until halfway through when the results of the primaries start coming in and Kennedy himself starts to become a more concrete element in the film that it really picks up steam and pulls you along with it. This isn't to say Bobby is a bad film. It's handsomely executed in nearly every way, and it's obvious that Estevez has a great fondness for his subject. But that fondness is one befitting someone who was only a child when Kennedy was assassinated, and consequently, the film is more about the ideas and the feelings than about the people and the events. In spite of that -- or maybe even because of it -- the film's last 15 minutes are a knockout. Depicting the murder itself, and set to Kennedy's own words, the film's conclusion is an emotionally resonant, affecting reminder of a time when the American people believed they had something worth fighting for, and that their efforts would not go unnoticed. The film is a loving memorial not only to one man, but the very idea of One Man, when a person's individuality and his solidarity could exist in harmony for the betterment of a nation. Politics may have always been dirty, but there's no harm in viewing the past with a little less cynicism than we view the present. http://www.spout.com/blogs/bigal1955/archive/2007/4/8/6827.aspx Post By: bigal1955
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Body: the movie itself is a simple story of a week at berlins grand hotel in the but what makes it grand is it is a vehicle for the biggest box office idols of there day and they act perfectly together if the box office idols of today were given the same chance they would proberly step on each for the spotlight not in this film
]]>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:25:22 GMTbigal1955bigal1955 Blog4/8/2007 9:25:22 PMthe movie itself is a simple story of a week at berlins grand hotel in the but what makes it grand is it is a vehicle for the biggest box office idols of there day and they act perfectly together if the box office idols of today were given the same chance they would proberly step on each for the spotlight not in this film http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspxClassic
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