What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Mr Vim]

I just saw Prince of Persia today. Great flick, very old style cinematic quality and I loved every minute of it.

 

[Lady Day]

The '73 version is good fun. Then again with a cast like Edward Woodwood & Christopher Lee how could it not be.

Christopher Lee, to me will always be the voice of King Haggard in The Last Unicorn


LD

 

[Antje]

Evan almighty

 

[swinggal]

Robin Hood - VERY average

 

[KY Gentleman]

I watched "Gilda" starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford the other night. Put the Blame on Mame.....

 

[The Captain]

Leave Her to Heaven ~ 1945. Saw it on a PBS station.

 

[Sincerely-Dee]

I really like Leave Her To Heaven.
Interesting plot.

 

[Smithy]

"Fort Algiers" (1953). On late last night, not the greatest movie ever made but exciting in parts and by George that Yvonne De Carlo is easy on the eyes.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Pin Up Girl--1944 With Betty Grable and Martha Rae. Lots of WWII home action.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Pride of the Marines

Someone in a thread around here mentioned Pride of the Marines and that it would be shown on TCM. Well, thank you, whomever you were! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

I recorded it when it ran late Saturday night. My wife and I just finished watching it. We both were in serious need of tissues throughout the film.

Of course, for me a few side items also caught my attention: the hats, of course, and since I recently learned a bit about a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive referred to as the GG1 I was quite chuffed to see glimpses of it a few times. I've bought some PRR O-gauge passenger cars and am looking for a GG1 to go with them.

But back to the movies... I have a vague but strong memory of a movie I saw as a kid, about a blind Marine coming home at Christmas. I thought this would be it, but the scenes in my memory were nothing like the ones in this movie. I guess I need to keep looking.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Miss Golightly]

The Duchess

 

[Silver Dollar]

I recorded a movie that was on TCM Saturday but I just got finished watching it. The movie is The Nazty Nuisance from 1943 and it was a really funny swat at the Axis partners. The actor who played Adolph Germany's WWII-era leader looked so much like him that it could have been him.

 

[Jennifer Lynn]

Chicken Run by the same guys who make the Wallace and Gromit movies. I love the nod to The Great Escape.

Loved Chicken Run...I need to pull it out for another watch.

Caught Bottle Shock recently (Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman) - good story, though I was a little caught off guard by Chris Pine's hair in this one.

 

[bradford]

Currently watching another great hat movie, The Natural, on Turner Classic Movies.

I'm actually kind of surprised we don't have a thread on TCM. It's like the hat network!

 

[Miss Golightly]

Before Sunset

 

[Feraud]

Watched Manpower with Eddie Robinson and George Raft.
A man's man movie about fellas working in dangerous situations for an electrical power company. A dance hall dame (Marlene Dietrich) comes between the fellas.
Alan Hale Sr. and Frank McHugh provide typical excellent character performances. A couple of more favorites, Barton MacLane and Ward Bond round out the cast.

 

[swinggal]

The Notorious Betty Page - was on one of the free-to-air channels here.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Been watching a compilation DVD of Van Beuren cartoons from the late twenties/early thirties -- basically Terrytoons with less budget and better music. People often ask what the Fleischers were smoking when they made their cartoons -- well, the boys at Van Beuren were smoking the stuff the Fleischers threw away.

 

[Smithy]

"Schindler's List". Incredibly powerful and well made film. Brilliantly acted as well.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Been watching a compilation DVD of Van Beuren cartoons from the late twenties/early thirties -- basically Terrytoons with less budget and better music. People often ask what the Fleischers were smoking when they made their cartoons -- well, the boys at Van Beuren were smoking the stuff the Fleischers threw away.

When I took Leonard Maltin's course on cartoons at the New School back in the early 80s (the tenth and last time he did it, as he was about to move to L.A. for his then-new Entertainment Tonight gig), he referred to the Van Beuren cartoons as "the cartoons that time forgot". This description stuck, and was also used when Van Beurens were shown at revival houses during cartoon festivals. They were, and remain, relatively unknown, even to some serious cartoon buffs.

But Van Beuren had a unique style, and they made some gems - the incredibly bizarre Molly Moo-Cow series, the charmingly surreal Sunshine Makers (later to be shown at set breaks at Grateful Dead concerts!), and one of their Felix the Cat cartoons (Neptune Nonsense) which utterly traumatized me as a little kid... and is now one of the jewels of my 16mm collection.