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Film:Hardcore

Wed, 13 May 2009 02:58:25 GMT

Title: Hardcore
Year: 1979
Director: Paul Schrader
Plot: "Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in X-rated films. Desperately making his way through the sub-rosa world of pornography, Van Dorn talks to pimps, prostitutes, and other such sterling individuals in hopes of locating his daughter and dragging her home. At one point, he falsely advertises himself as a porn producer in hopes that his little girl will show up for an interview. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Spout Post: Re: Favorite Horror Movies...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:09:10 GMT

Post By: Dr_Gor
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/10/2009 5:09:10 PM
Body: [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"] I do love both of them as actors. Have you seen Hardcore? One of my favorite Scott films, although a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that his characters is from the same area that I grew up in. Of course I still think his best role was in Dr. Strangelove. [/quote] I HAVE seen Hardcore ! You know me... I like anything involving sex and violence and videotaping and "snuff" ... "8mm" was another one... "SNUFF" was another one of *special* note... (sorry for not linking these titles but I am having some problems between my computer and SPOUT ... It has happened before. I think it is a personal warning to me that I should try to behave myself...) AND, "Dr. Stangelove ..." Has ALWAYS been one of my favorites ever since the first time I saw it which was a very long time ago. Scott is fantastic (and rather "young") in that one. A virile young General ready to do his duty and "re-populate" the Postapocolyptic EARTH ... But even Mr. Scott can't hold a candle to his co-star in that one... The amazing Mr. Peter Sellers played 3 (!) STARRING roles in that one (!!!) ... A tough act to follow... < GOR > [/quote] Another movie where George C. Scott gives an excellent performance and is looking quite young is The Hustler. Although the movie itself does not compare to the brilliance of Dr. Strangelove. Have you seen that one? [/quote] I HAVE seen The Hustler a couple of times as well as the sequel The Color of Money . Scott gave an amazing performance in that one but, once again, he was overshadowed by his costars... The incomperable Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" and "The Great One" Jackie Gleason as "Minnesota Fats". But "Fast Eddie's" girlfriend, played by Piper Laurie, was a scene stealer in that one. She went on to star in a couple of Horror classics from the mid 70's... Carrie and Ruby . < GOR >

Spout Post: Re: Favorite Horror Movies...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:20:14 GMT

Post By: Risselada
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/10/2009 12:20:14 PM
Body: [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"] I do love both of them as actors. Have you seen Hardcore? One of my favorite Scott films, although a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that his characters is from the same area that I grew up in. Of course I still think his best role was in Dr. Strangelove. [/quote] I HAVE seen Hardcore ! You know me... I like anything involving sex and violence and videotaping and "snuff" ... "8mm" was another one... "SNUFF" was another one of *special* note... (sorry for not linking these titles but I am having some problems between my computer and SPOUT ... It has happened before. I think it is a personal warning to me that I should try to behave myself...) AND, "Dr. Stangelove ..." Has ALWAYS been one of my favorites ever since the first time I saw it which was a very long time ago. Scott is fantastic (and rather "young") in that one. A virile young General ready to do his duty and "re-populate" the Postapocolyptic EARTH ... But even Mr. Scott can't hold a candle to his co-star in that one... The amazing Mr. Peter Sellers played 3 (!) STARRING roles in that one (!!!) ... A tough act to follow... < GOR > [/quote] Another movie where George C. Scott gives an excellent performance and is looking quite young is The Hustler. Although the movie itself does not compare to the brilliance of Dr. Strangelove. Have you seen that one?

Spout Post: Re: Favorite Horror Movies...

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:41:29 GMT

Post By: Dr_Gor
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/1/2009 8:41:29 PM
Body: [quote user="Risselada"] I do love both of them as actors. Have you seen Hardcore? One of my favorite Scott films, although a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that his characters is from the same area that I grew up in. Of course I still think his best role was in Dr. Strangelove. [/quote] I HAVE seen Hardcore ! You know me... I like anything involving sex and violence and videotaping and "snuff" ... "8mm" was another one... "SNUFF" was another one of *special* note... (sorry for not linking these titles but I am having some problems between my computer and SPOUT ... It has happened before. I think it is a personal warning to me that I should try to behave myself...) AND, "Dr. Stangelove ..." Has ALWAYS been one of my favorites ever since the first time I saw it which was a very long time ago. Scott is fantastic (and rather "young") in that one. A virile young General ready to do his duty and "re-populate" the Postapocolyptic EARTH ... But even Mr. Scott can't hold a candle to his co-star in that one... The amazing Mr. Peter Sellers played 3 (!) STARRING roles in that one (!!!) ... A tough act to follow... < GOR >

Spout Post: Re: Favorite Horror Movies...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:12:44 GMT

Post By: Risselada
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/1/2009 5:12:44 PM
Body: [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"]Does anyone else here feel like there's a connection between George C. Scott and Lee J. Cobb? First of all on the most superficial level, both of their names have three sylables and their middle initial. But they have both played Juror #3 in versions of 12 Angry Men, and they have both played Lt. Kinderman, Cobb in the Exorcist and Scott in The Excorcist III. Mind you, I have not seen Scott in either of these roles, but something about him just looks like Cobb. And The Changeling has that creepy 70s demonic movie feeling that The Exorcist does. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but watching this just made me think of it again. [/quote] George C. Scott has long been one of my favorite actors throughout my life... I will leave his Oscar winning role in "PATTON" out of the equation... George C. Scott has had some of the most memorable roles in some of the BEST movies that I have ever seen... But I must admit that "The Exorcist III" was a huge dissapointment to me with George C. Scott filling in for Lee J. Cobb ... Some other movies of note ... "Rage" "They Might Be Giants" "Changeling" ... I just thought that Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Kinderman basically MADE that movie, "The Exorcist" ... [/quote] I do love both of them as actors. Have you seen Hardcore? One of my favorite Scott films, although a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that his characters is from the same area that I grew up in. Of course I still think his best role was in Dr. Strangelove.

Spout Post: FilmCouch #86: Happy-Go-Lucky and Adam Resurrected, Telluride 2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:00:59 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 9/5/2008 9:00:59 AM
Body: The Telluride Film Festival is what Sundance would be if it took place in heaven. Every year the tiny mountain hamlet hosts four days of hassle-free cinema paradise. There were grumblings about the lack of American films, but we still found plenty to love. Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake) came with his delightful new movie, Happy-Go-Lucky. He sat down for a disgruntled yet insightful interview. Paul Schrader (Affliction, Hardcore) seemed as blow away as we were by his latest film, Adam Resurrected, starring Jeff Goldblum. (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday) 0:00 - Intro, Telluride faves: Waltz with Bashir, Revanche, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Tulpan, The Rest is Silence. 7:04 - Happy-Go-Lucky, with Mike Leigh interview. 19:52 - Adam Resurrected, with Paul Schrader interview. filmcouch-86 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

Spout Post: movie year countdown #28 - 1979 - Hardcore

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:52:31 GMT

Post By: Risselada
Post To: Risselada Blog
Post Date: 10/24/2007 12:52:31 PM
Body: This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.HardcoreThis movie hits home. And I mean fairly literally.Since Spout is based in Grand Rapids and has many users from Calvin College or who grew up in families from the Dutch Christian Reformed tradition, there may be many people on this site who could feel the same.Although this movie was released a few years before I was born, to see so many opening shots of Grand Rapids, and see and hear places like Zeeland and Grand Valley State University named, and hearing a list of last names the jumps right from the De- to the Van-, and to see this big Dutch family getting together at Christmas time made me instantly feel like this movie was more real than any movie I had ever seen before. Almost dangerously real.I'm not sure where George C. Scott got it. Maybe Paul Schrader was somehow able to convey exactly what the character of Jake VanDorn was to Scott (although I heard rumors that Scott didn't get along at all with Schrader during the movie and thought he was a horrible director). But somehow Scott pulls off a Western Michigan Dutch patriarch that I have come to recognize almost perfectly. Maybe this was a part of Scott the whole time and it was just a matter of casting. But every movie I've seen him in that was filmed before Hardcore (although that isn't too many) he is a boisterous with little constraint. Here we get the proud and dutiful working man of God. Subdued emotions. Slow to react, but with strong resolve when he does. An honestly caring man who doesn't always know how to show it.I also three years ago moved from the Grand Rapids area to Chicago. I'm sure LA is quite different in many ways, but the contrast between these two environments in the movie is something I could connect with as well.What's different about Hardcore is that you rarely see a character like VanDorn as the protagonist or even the hero in movies, especially not Hollywood movies. Religious father figures like that are usually made to look like jerks or buffoons. Here we see a man of that description who has more compassion and awareness than is usually given credited for. He may not always be able to always understand or empathize with the characters he meets in LA but we can see that sometimes that not having that experience is a better life.What I see is a man who loves his daughter and always has. He has in his mind loved her the best way he can, and has never explicitly done anything to hurt or abuse her. But there can be something very slowly and subliminally damaging about families where emotions are repressed. And they may not even realized they are being repressed because it is just a part of their family history and culture. I know this can be prevalent in the Dutch Christian Reformed community I have seen in Western Michigan. And it is incredibly difficult to say that because you feel like you are saying that people don't love each other, but they do very much. They just don't realize that they aren't showing it. To show it in ways that are needed feels very weird. (This is not to say that these things only happen in religious communities. Certainly it often DOESN'T happen in religious communities, and it can often happen ANYWHERE). And although I have maybe not seen an example as extreme as an apparently happy looking young girl suddenly running off to join the pornography industry, I have seen many things in that vein. She was looking for for certain expressions of love and didn't find it at home. So she looked to the world of open sex for a physical sort of substitute for love. But of course that is even less fulfilling.I do find it also interesting that there is even an extended scene where VanDorn talks about some of the doctrine associated with his denomination. I can't think of many other movies that would just have a scene of someone discussing that at all, much less for a relatively obscure denomination like the Christian Reformed Church. I'm not sure exactly how a scene like that comes off to different viewers. It's obvious that Niki doesn't get what he's talking about, and honestly I don't know if I do either. But why or how could she? But he believes in something. What does she believe in?Peter Boyle is fantastic too.Rating: 10/10

Spout Post: HARDCORE: A good film elevated by great performances.

Mon, 21 May 2007 12:04:00 GMT

Post By: halo1205
Post To: halo1205 Blog
Post Date: 5/21/2007 8:04:00 AM
Body: I had always thought of George C. Scott a hacky actor. He was always so BIG in everything he was in, and you were always aware that he was ACTING. But in the early 80s he found himself a niche… tormented father, a part he played with so much sensitivity here as a man of God wondering through Godless territory in search of his daughter who never returned home with her church group when they made a trip to LA. The anguish he conveys when faced with the truth about his daughters fate is powerful and heartbreaking. (Scott played a Father with a missing child of a different sort in The Changeling very effectively as well). Season Hubley (Mrs. Kurt Russell at the time) is great as well as his tour guide through the seedy underworld of sin he had only heard of before. Schrader is always a capable director with a great sense of style (American Gigolo, Cat People, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers).

Spout Post: Movie year countdown viewing project

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:57:00 GMT

Post By: Risselada
Post To: Risselada Blog
Post Date: 2/17/2007 11:57:00 AM
Body: Here’s the dilemma. I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB. I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next. In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me. Here’s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006. Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005. Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc. The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting. (I'm going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films. I decided this might be a good time to start fooling around with this spoutblog I have until now left unutilized. So I’ll try to start writing a little blurb or so about each movie I watch in this process.My only limitation here is of course movies that are available on Netflix. Which sadly excludes several I know are available on DVD, and have been longing to see for a long time, but Netflix just doesn’t seem to have available. It’d sort of annoying how they do list quite a few movies that that you can put in your queue under “saved”, yet they obviously do not have available. I have countless movies in that unavailable but saved queue, and I’m not sure that a single one has ever become available. What’s the point I wonder.But if anyone has any recommendations, I'll take that into consideration. THANK YOU!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------New addition to this post:Today is Tuesday March 13, and I have completed a preliminary list of all of the movie I will be watching. Unfortunately many of them were not available on Netflix. I will hunt those down some day. I'm don't doubt that as I make my way through the list I will make a few more changes depending on my mood and other factors, but for now, here it is:1. Art School Confidential (2006)2. The Comedians of Comedy (2005)3. The Passion of the Christ (2004)4. Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) (2003)5. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary) (2002)6. El Espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) (2001)7. Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) (2000)8. The Virgin Suicides (1999)9. Buffalo '66 (1998)10. In the Company of Men (1997)11. Hard Core Logo (1996)12. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)13. Hoop Dreams (1994)14. Short Cuts (1993)15. In the Soup (1992)16. Surviving Desire (1991)17. Misery (1990)18. Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent) (1989)19. Topio stin omichli (Landscape in the Mist) (1988)20. Evil Dead II (1987)21. Ying hung boon sik (1986)22. Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) (1985)23. Sixteen Candles (1984)24. Videodrome (1983)25. Chan Is Missing (1982)26. Coup de torchon (1981)27. The Ninth Configuration (1980)28. Hardcore (1979)29. Halloween (1978)30. Pumping Iron (1977)31. Logan's Run (1976)32. Tommy (1975)33. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)34. The Exorcist (1973)35. Kozure Ôkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru (Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance) (1972)36. Get Carter (1971)37. Il Conformista (The Conformist) (1970)38. Hsia nu (A Touch of Zen) (1969)39. Fando y Lis (1968)40. Dutchman (1967)41. Kenka erejii (Fighting Elegy) (1966)42. Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) (1965)43. Sei donne per l'assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (1964)44. The Great Escape (1963)45. Cape Fear (1962)46. Yojimbo (1961)47. Plein soleil (Purple Noon) (1960)48. Some Like It Hot (1959)49. Mon oncle (1958)50. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)51. Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1956)52. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)53. Gojira (Godzilla) (1954)54. Ugetsu monogatari (1953)55. Ikiru (1952)56. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)57. D.O.A. (1950)58. White Heat (1949)59. Rope (1948)60. Born to Kill (1947)61. Black Narcissus (1946)62. And Then There Were None (1945)63. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)64. Le Corbeau (1943)65. Cat People (1942)66. The Wolf Man (1941)67. Road to Singapore (1940)68. Gone with the Wind (1939)69. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)70. Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux (1937)71. Flash Gordon (1936/I)72. Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) (1935)73. The Thin Man (1934)74. The Invisible Man (1933)75. Trouble in Paradise (1932)76. City Lights (1931)77. Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930)78. Chelovek s kino-apparatom (The Man with a Movie Camera) (1929)79. La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1928)80. The King of Kings (1927)81. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) (1926)82. Stachka (Strike) (1925)83. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)84. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)85. Häxan (1922)86. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)87. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)88. Blind Husbands (1919)

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