list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Ninotchka 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/Ninotchka/24823/default.aspx Title: Ninotchka
Year: 1939
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Plot: "Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a bigger draw in Europe than the US, in a box-office-savvy comedy, engaging the services of master farceur Ernst Lubitsch to direct. The film opens in Paris during the aftermath of the Russian revolution. A trio of Russian delegates (Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart, and Alexander Granach) are sent to Paris to sell the Imperial Jewels for ready cash. Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), who once owned the jewels, sends her boyfriend Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to retrieve the diamonds, and he turns the trio into full-fledged capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris. Moscow then dispatches the humorless, doggedly loyal Comrade Ninotchka (Garbo) to retrieve both the prodigal Soviets and the gems. When Leon turns his charm on Ninotchka, she regards him coldly, informing him that love is merely a "chemical reaction." Even his kisses fail to weaken her resolve. Leon finally wins her over by taking an accidental fall in a fancy restaurant, whereupon Ninotchka laughs for the first time in her life. She goes on a shopping spree and gets drunk, while Leon begins falling in love with her in earnest. As a bonus to the frothy script, by Billy Wilder and others, and its surefire star power, Ninotchka features what is perhaps Bela Lugosi's most likeable and relaxed performance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:40:04 GMTNinotchka1939Ernst Lubitsch"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put <a href="/players/P____25821/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Greta Garbo</a>, a bigger draw in Europe than the US, in a box-office-savvy comedy, engaging the services of master farceur <a href="/players/P___100296/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ernst Lubitsch</a> to direct. The film opens in Paris during the aftermath of the Russian revolution. A trio of Russian delegates (<a href="/players/P____62113/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sig Rumann</a>, <a href="/players/P_____8352/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Felix Bressart</a>, and <a href="/players/P____28142/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Alexander Granach</a>) are sent to Paris to sell the Imperial Jewels for ready cash. Grand Duchess Swana (<a href="/players/P____13279/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ina Claire</a>), who once owned the jewels, sends her boyfriend Count Leon (<a href="/players/P____19878/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Melvyn Douglas</a>) to retrieve the diamonds, and he turns the trio into full-fledged capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris. Moscow then dispatches the humorless, doggedly loyal Comrade Ninotchka (Garbo) to retrieve both the prodigal Soviets and the gems. When Leon turns his charm on Ninotchka, she regards him coldly, informing him that love is merely a "chemical reaction." Even his kisses fail to weaken her resolve. Leon finally wins her over by taking an accidental fall in a fancy restaurant, whereupon Ninotchka laughs for the first time in her life. She goes on a shopping spree and gets drunk, while Leon begins falling in love with her in earnest. As a bonus to the frothy script, by <a href="/players/P___116768/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Billy Wilder</a> and others, and its surefire star power, Ninotchka features what is perhaps <a href="/players/P____43690/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bela Lugosi</a>'s most likeable and relaxed performance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide13Tag Target (>10)8124http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t61249wkh5x.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Ninotchka/24823/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939/657/43894/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Dr_Gor
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Post Date: 9/13/2009 9:28:35 PM
Body: [quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights [/quote] I think I would have to vote for The Wizard of OZ in this one only because I thought Dorothy was pretty hot and Judy Garland gave me a "tingly* feeling at a very young age... The Hunchback would be second followed by Stagecoach ... (John Wayne RULES!) ... < GOR >
]]>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:28:35 GMTDr_GorMovie Polls9/13/2009 9:28:35 PM[quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights [/quote] I think I would have to vote for The Wizard of OZ in this one only because I thought Dorothy was pretty hot and Judy Garland gave me a "tingly* feeling at a very young age... The Hunchback would be second followed by Stagecoach ... (John Wayne RULES!) ... &lt; GOR &gt; http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939/657/43415/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 8/5/2009 11:40:04 AM
Body: I had to say Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I just love it. Can't help it. I saw Stagecoach so long ago, I can't remember many specifics, but I know it was amazing! Sounds like it's time for a revisit. Is there anyone here who actually found Gone with the Wind a bit long and grating? I find Vivien Leigh to be pretty annoying a lot of the time. But people say she was perfect for the part. I've never read the book though, so maybe Scarlett O'Hara the characters is just annoying to me.
]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:40:04 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls8/5/2009 11:40:04 AMI had to say Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I just love it. Can't help it. I saw Stagecoach so long ago, I can't remember many specifics, but I know it was amazing! Sounds like it's time for a revisit. Is there anyone here who actually found Gone with the Wind a bit long and grating? I find Vivien Leigh to be pretty annoying a lot of the time. But people say she was perfect for the part. I've never read the book though, so maybe Scarlett O'Hara the characters is just annoying to me. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939_is/657/43392/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 8/4/2009 6:09:36 PM
Body: Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights
]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:09:36 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls8/4/2009 6:09:36 PMPlease reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2009/7/6/42933.aspx Post By: dibot
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Post Date: 7/6/2009 8:54:34 PM
Body: I am so, so, so, so, so behind. Still. So, short and hopefully not sucky reviews.Timber Falls was more than likely playing on the Sci-Fi channel one night and I just couldn't look away. A couple hiking in an unfamiliar area decide to stray from the path and then get kidnapped by some religious fanatic locals. When will people learn? Stay on the path! It's not particularly good, but I've seen worse. And the things the kidnappers want from them are sort of unusual, and thus, entertaining.Ninotchka stars the lovely Greta Garbo ("Two-Faced Woman") and is supposed to be very funny. I thought it was kind of funny. But Garbo is brilliant as a stern Russian sent to Paris on business who finds herself falling for the man she should hate. Some bits were very good, but overall, I was underwhelmed.I thought Frost/Nixon was very, very good. One of Ron Howard ("Angels and Demons")'s better films. This is partly due to the excellent performances by both Frank Langella ("The Tale of Despereaux") and Michael Sheen ("Underworld: Rise of the Lycans"), but Howard doesn't try to force things and lets the thing develop on it's own. The last interview is, of course, the best, and it's worth sitting through the entire film for.The Return of the Living Dead is just a really entertaining zombie movie from 1985. I laughed quite a bit. Besides some zombie dance numbers, and some of the densest characters to grace a screen, we're also given gore, skimpy outfits and bad jokes. A lot of fun.And then there were Wraiths of Roanoke. I don't know why I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi originals. It's just something we all have to learn to live with. I'm also a sucker for Adrian Paul ("The Heavy"). This movie is really bad. It attempts to explain the lost colony of Roanoke were attacked by Norse spirits. The story is okay, but the effects and pretty much everything else are awful. Poor Adrian Paul.
]]>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:54:34 GMTdibotdibot Blog7/6/2009 8:54:34 PMI am so, so, so, so, so behind. Still. So, short and hopefully not sucky reviews.Timber Falls was more than likely playing on the Sci-Fi channel one night and I just couldn't look away. A couple hiking in an unfamiliar area decide to stray from the path and then get kidnapped by some religious fanatic locals. When will people learn? Stay on the path! It's not particularly good, but I've seen worse. And the things the kidnappers want from them are sort of unusual, and thus, entertaining.Ninotchka stars the lovely Greta Garbo ("Two-Faced Woman") and is supposed to be very funny. I thought it was kind of funny. But Garbo is brilliant as a stern Russian sent to Paris on business who finds herself falling for the man she should hate. Some bits were very good, but overall, I was underwhelmed.I thought Frost/Nixon was very, very good. One of Ron Howard ("Angels and Demons")'s better films. This is partly due to the excellent performances by both Frank Langella ("The Tale of Despereaux") and Michael Sheen ("Underworld: Rise of the Lycans"), but Howard doesn't try to force things and lets the thing develop on it's own. The last interview is, of course, the best, and it's worth sitting through the entire film for.The Return of the Living Dead is just a really entertaining zombie movie from 1985. I laughed quite a bit. Besides some zombie dance numbers, and some of the densest characters to grace a screen, we're also given gore, skimpy outfits and bad jokes. A lot of fun.And then there were Wraiths of Roanoke. I don't know why I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi originals. It's just something we all have to learn to live with. I'm also a sucker for Adrian Paul ("The Heavy"). This movie is really bad. It attempts to explain the lost colony of Roanoke were attacked by Norse spirits. The story is okay, but the effects and pretty much everything else are awful. Poor Adrian Paul. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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