Ovation

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
By Ovation in Top 5
"Who ever said a foreign dub can't help a film? " [More]

Ernest Saves Christmas

Re: 5 Pre-Hays Code Films
By Ovation in Top 5
"I don't know the effect that certain films have on society, but my primitive brain tells me most of the "thinking" on the subject is BS. I don't believe there is such a thing as the "good old days," but much of the "liberal ideas" of recent times are nothing new. You may need to go back 2000 years to be truly progressive, but 90 years ago much of the (liberal) thinking on sex, drugs, and other fun things where much more progressive than today. " [More]

King Kong

5 Pre-Hays Code Films
By Ovation in Top 5
"I found this on Student Life's website and thought it was an interesting list.========================= ============================== == Indecent and deviant: Pre-Hays Code films you should see Daniel P. Hauesser At the dawn of motion pictures, directors had few restrictions on the subjects they were allowed to film. Raciness in the silent era extends from tranquil bathing scenes featuring naked leading ladies to the intense violence of early Cecil B. DeMille epics, or the exotic, erotic indigene dances found within some remote jungle. The advent of 'talkies,' coupled with a string of sex-and-drug-laden celebrity scandals, made such overt portrayals of indecency appear dangerous to society. Public outcries to ban 'immoral' films and preliminary motions by the government to censure motion pictures led studios to voluntarily implement a series of production guidelines outlining what was acceptable to include in a film for the public. These guidelines, known as ... " [More]

The Simpsons Movie

Re: Determining Favorite Movies ...
By Ovation in Philosophy of Film
"I'm not going to say that's a bad place to start your movie "too do list," but here is an interesting aside from Roger Ebert's review of The Simpsons Movie. "If "The Simpsons" is indeed the best television series of 100 years (almost half of them, to be sure, without television), I guess I shouldn't be surprised to visit the Internet Movie Database and discover that the movie has been voted the 166th best film of all time, seven places above "The Grapes of Wrath" and 10 ahead of "Gone With the Wind." That's all the more remarkable because it was first screened for critics on Tuesday, has had no sneak previews I've heard about, and already has 81.4 percent perfect "10" votes. Only 4.5 percent voted "9." That's funny, since you'd think more people would consider it really good but not great. Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by "Simpsons" fans who didn't even need to see the movie to know it was a masterpiece? D'oh!" " [More]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Re: Top 5 Bands That Get Their ...
By Ovation in Top 5
"Alright :-) Although I can think of many that are not on it, here is a small cheat-sheet. Can anyone tell me a band that is named after a character from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? " [More]

Re: Top 5 Comebacks
By Ovation in Top 5
"5. Burt Reynolds4. Richard Gere 3. Drew Barrymore2. Alec Baldwin 1. John Travolta " [More]

Barbarella

Top 5 Bands That Get Their Name ...
By Ovation in Top 5
"Top 5 Bands That Get Their Names From Movies.5. Duran Duran: A villain in Barbarella. 4. 10,000 Maniacs: B horror movie called 2000 maniacs! 3. Misfits: 1961 movie starring Clarke Gable and Marilyn Monroe.2. White Zombie: 1932 Victor Halperin classic.1. Black Sabbath: 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. (edit)Although I can think of many that are not on it, here is a small cheat-sheet. " [More]

Cemetery Man

Re: Latest unknown fave
By Ovation in Viewing with a purpose
"Although I'm sure it's known to most here, Dellamorte Dellamore ( aka "Cemetery Man") is one of my all time favorites, along with another classic, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. " [More]

Re: Top 5 Movies About Making M ...
By Ovation in Top 5
"I saw 8 1/2 the second time through. I was going to edit it, but I thought I would leave the link. Spinal Tap is a streach I admit, but what the hell, I turned it up to 11:-) " [More]

Sight and Sound (1937) - My Own ...
By Ovation in Alfred Hitchcock
"My Own Methods, by Alfred Hitchcock Many people think a film director does all his work in the studio, drilling the actors, making them do what he wants. That is not at all true of my own methods, and I can write only of my own methods. I like to have a film complete in my mind before I go on the floor. Sometimes the first idea one has of a film is of a vague pattern, a sort of haze with a certain shape. There is possibly a colourful opening developing into something more intimate; then, perhaps in the middle, a progression to a chase or some other adventure; and sometimes at the end the big shape of a climax, or maybe some twist or surprise. You see this hazy pattern, and then you have to find a narrative idea to suit it. Or a story may give you an idea first and you have to develop it into a pattern. Imagine an example of a standard plot -- let us say a conflict between love and duty. This idea was the origin of my first talkie, "Blackmail". The hazy pattern one saw beforehand wa ... " [More]

Interview: Alfred Hitchcock and ...
By Ovation in Alfred Hitchcock
"Interview with Alfred Hitchcock Roger Ebert, December 14, 1969 Alfred Hitchcock waited in a deep chair by the window, like a judge in chambers preparing for a last word with a strangler. The pale morning sunlight struggled into the room and collapsed at his feet. It was a grey morning, a foggy Chicago morning. On such mornings, he said, he is reminded sometimes of the Acid Bath Murders... "Committed by a man named Haig, I believe his name was. Did his jobs in a little garage halfway between London and the coast. He was tripped up when the under-manageress of the Hounslow Court Hotel, Kensington, noticed him going out with women and not coming back in with them, or something of the sort. "Of course once the police had a look into that garage, they'd solved their case. They found everything: the bills for the acid, the tub where he did his work, and even some plastic dentures that hadn't been eaten up by the acid... "In court, Haig claimed he drank his victim's blood. Of ... " [More]

Psycho

Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Al ...
By Ovation in Alfred Hitchcock
"Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Alfred Hitchcock The legendary interview from 1963 PB: You never watch your films with an audience. Don't you miss hearing them scream? AH: No. I can hear them when I'm making the picture. Do you feel that the American film remains the most vital cinema? Worldwide, yes. Because when we make films for the United States, we are automatically making them for all the world--because America is full of foreigners. It's a melting pot. Which brings us to another point. I don't know what they mean when they talk about "Hollywood" pictures. I say, "Where are they conceived?" Look at this room--you can't see out the windows. We might just as well be in a hotel room in London, or anywhere you like. So here is where we get it down on paper. Now where do we go? We go on location, perhaps; and then where do we work? We're ... " [More]

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