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That and a couple of Aerosmith videos was Alicia Silverstone's 15 minutes of outsized fame.
Yep. I remember watching her videos on MTV in college.
That and a couple of Aerosmith videos was Alicia Silverstone's 15 minutes of outsized fame.
' John Wick' (2014) - above average action flick & although it pains me to say , Keanu Reeves was pretty good.......or prehaps I should say, Keanu's limited acting skills suited the character he was playing.
Pretty simple plot which moves along at a good pace, well filmed, the action scenes are very well done & it has an unexpected ending....and the icing on the gateau were cameo roles for Ian Mcshane & Willem Dafoe, who,admittedly, didn't have much to do but it was nice to see them.
All About Eve. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to watch this. What a wonderful film. Everything was perfection: the actors' performances, the script, the story itself.
I'm watching 36 Hours on TCM. Never seen it before, so I'm looking forward to it.
Agreed, it's an outstanding film, from script to performances. It' right up there with Casablanca or His Girl Friday for snappy dialogue and memorable quotes. "Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be a bumpy night-"All About Eve. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to watch this. What a wonderful film. Everything was perfection: the actors' performances, the script, the story itself.
I watched this many years ago and realized that a lot of the plot showed up in IAWL. A particular Capra touch was choreographing crowd scenes, such as people rushing from one side to another in the bank in American Madness.An early Frank Capra film via TCM, American Madness from 1932 - no masterpiece, but a fascinating depths-of-the-Depression artifact.
Walter Huston plays a bank president who - anticipating George Bailey's Bedford Falls Building & Loan - gives out "questionable" loans to people he trusts vs. just looking at their financials. After the bank is robbed, fast-flying rumors lead to a bank run with hundreds of panicked customers trying to close their accounts, and the fat-cat board of directors refuse to loan their own fortunes to prevent running out of cash from shutting down the bank. The ultimate resolution is exactly the same as in It's A Wonderful Life 15 years later: when they hear of Huston's troubles, all those little people he trusted come running to make deposits into their accounts, providing the cash to satisfy the withdrawals.
Director Capra (and screenwriter Robert Riskin) hadn't quite reached maturity, and some aspects of the film, notably a romantic problem that complicates the main plot, are awkward. But Huston is great as always, the bank set is outstanding... and oh, those hats on the hundreds of extras in the bank run scenes!
Really, really enjoyed 36 Hours. Solid plot and great characters. I loved how a small paper cut was the undoing of the entire Nazi subterfuge.
"A Raisin in the Sun" with Sidney Poitier. I've been feeling a Poitier kick lately, having just watched "The Defiant Ones" last week, and "In the Heat of the Night" the week prior to that. This one surprised me in that I'd been used to Poitier playing the film's hero. Here, though I found a selfish, short sighted man who nearly brings his family to ruin through his own recklessness with money. The ending was truly beautiful though, as Walter rejects his own self interests in money for doing right by his family.