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badmojo1006 said:
The Favourite Solid A. Great movie about palace intrigue, revenge, jealousy. Olivia Colman is amazing as frail Queen Anne and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are the two rivals for her affection.

But if you are a male not secure in your masculinity, don't go. The men are pawns or sex toys
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my favorite solid is amomphorphous... which starts with A.

 
Brando night on TCM.  “On the Waterfront” just finishing up (made it through despite my wife walking in asking what “dumb thing” I was watching instead of a show involving celebrities singing songs while dressed up in mascot costumes).

Next up is “A Streetcar Named Desire” and then “Viva Zapata!”  Going to have to DVR the latter.  Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast has me in the mood for Zapata.

 
Don Quixote said:
Brando night on TCM.  “On the Waterfront” just finishing up (made it through despite my wife walking in asking what “dumb thing” I was watching instead of a show involving celebrities singing songs while dressed up in mascot costumes).

Next up is “A Streetcar Named Desire” and then “Viva Zapata!”  Going to have to DVR the latter.  Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast has me in the mood for Zapata.
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Streetcar is so freaking good

 
I remember the first time I saw Streetcar. I had seen Brando in his more recent movies like Godfather and Apocalypse Now but none of his older ones. I had always heard about how big of an influence he was on acting but it wasn't until I saw Streetcar, and Waterfront, that it became so apparent. He was clearly on a different level from those around him that it was amazing to watch. So shockingly natural compared to the 50's style acting of the time. Although Karl Malden held his own in Streetcar.

 
jamny said:
I remember the first time I saw Streetcar. I had seen Brando in his more recent movies like Godfather and Apocalypse Now but none of his older ones. I had always heard about how big of an influence he was on acting but it wasn't until I saw Streetcar, and Waterfront, that it became so apparent. He was clearly on a different level from those around him that it was amazing to watch. So shockingly natural compared to the 50's style acting of the time. Although Karl Malden held his own in Streetcar.
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The contrast in his style and Vivian Leigh’s traditional style really made Streetcar. Each style was perfect for their character.

 
always think of method acting in relation to brando and the 50s... googling now, didn't realize it predated him and that decade quite a bit.

 
El Floppo said:
always think of method acting in relation to brando and the 50s... googling now, didn't realize it predated him and that decade quite a bit.
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I think it was bigger on stage before it made it to film. Montgomery Clift is the first actor I can think of to put it on the big screen. He’s an underappreciated actor imo. 

Also you have to watch this interview where Bob Harris talks about Brando.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLP6SOqxtM

 
Ilov80s said:
I think it was bigger on stage before it made it to film. Montgomery Clift is the first actor I can think of to put it on the big screen. He’s an underappreciated actor imo. 

Also you have to watch this interview where Bob Harris talks about Brando.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLP6SOqxtM
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when I googled, there were comments from Hitchcock about struggling to work with method actors... and of course the typical comments from non-method actors like "are you supposed to experience death before playing the role of a dying man?" 

in my mind, stanislavski was a dude from the 30s/40s who extrapolated recent psychology and psycho-therapy studies (freud, jung, etc) into acting, came to NYC and taught adler, strasberg and meisner, who then all did their things teaching people like Brando in the late 50s and on. I really had no idea of the timeline at all.

 
El Floppo said:
when I googled, there were comments from Hitchcock about struggling to work with method actors... and of course the typical comments from non-method actors like "are you supposed to experience death before playing the role of a dying man?" 

in my mind, stanislavski was a dude from the 30s/40s who extrapolated recent psychology and psycho-therapy studies (freud, jung, etc) into acting, came to NYC and taught adler, strasberg and meisner, who then all did their things teaching people like Brando in the late 50s and on. I really had no idea of the timeline at all.
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Yeah Hitch worked with Clift in I Confess. It’s a pretty bad movie. I can see how their styles just wouldn’t work. When Hitch was asked about why characters did x or y in a movie, his answer was basically- “who cares if it’s fun and makes the movie fun”. 

 
El Floppo said:
when I googled, there were comments from Hitchcock about struggling to work with method actors... and of course the typical comments from non-method actors like "are you supposed to experience death before playing the role of a dying man?" 

in my mind, stanislavski was a dude from the 30s/40s who extrapolated recent psychology and psycho-therapy studies (freud, jung, etc) into acting, came to NYC and taught adler, strasberg and meisner, who then all did their things teaching people like Brando in the late 50s and on. I really had no idea of the timeline at all.
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Clift actually played Freud in a flick directed by John Huston called The Secret Passion. Due to an ownership squabble, it was never released for home viewing in the US (tho you could possibly stream it w subtitles now), but i saw it in an arthouse a hundred years ago and remember it as a total disaster.

 
Speaking of Hitch, @Ilov80s - i think the Cine-files dudes hinted they were going to do a month of Hitchcock (maybe this month?), like they did a deep dive into Welles last year.  

 
Ilov80s said:
Yeah Hitch worked with Clift in I Confess. It’s a pretty bad movie. I can see how their styles just wouldn’t work. When Hitch was asked about why characters did x or y in a movie, his answer was basically- “who cares if it’s fun and makes the movie fun”. 
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when I was in gradschool (architecture), theory was all the rage... everything was born out of current philosophical thought- derrida, deleuze, string-theory, etc. we had lectures by famous architects of the day... who would mostly regurgitate these writings in the lectures as justification of their design processes (I remember one saying "deleuze spoke with god").

this one guy- jean nouvel (who had just done arab world institute in paris, which I loved) shows up for his lecture... mostly unbuilt competitions to show at that point. and I'll never forget him talking about the arab world institute and it's masharabie inspired photo-sensitive and reactive oculus sun screen, which absolutely made the project brilliant and was insanely expensive. he described the clients continuously begging him to remove it for value engineering... and he'd always say no. when finally asked for a justification, he said- (in thick french/english accent)... "eeeeehhhh, I tell zem ehhhhh, I dunno... I jus like eet."

their was an almost palpable popping of thought lightbulbs around the auditoreum of students realizing sometimes, jus liking eet is enough justification for anything.

 
So the 50 Shades movies were just soft core porn trying to disguise itself as a real movie, right?  Don't get me wrong, Dakota Johnson is worth some screen time, but take out the sex scenes and each movie is like 10 minutes worth of 12th grade fiction essay writing.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Speaking of Hitch, @Ilov80s - i think the Cine-files dudes hinted they were going to do a month of Hitchcock (maybe this month?), like they did a deep dive into Welles last year.  
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Yeah that was my idea. I never shared it with them but I knew they had never done a hitch film and thought a Hitch month would be a good idea. My nominations would be Rear Window, NxNW, Strangers on a Train and Notorious . You?

 
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Ilov80s said:
Yeah that was my idea. I never shared it with them but I knew they had never done a hitch film and thought a Hitch month would be a good idea. My nominations would be Rear Window, NxNW, Strangers on a Train and Notorious . You?
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I could be wrong, but I think a reason why they haven't done one is because one of the guys doesn't like Hitchcock's movies.    Not sure what I'd nominate - probably RW, Vertigo for sure.  Wouldn't mind one that I haven't seen before to give me an excuse to fire a new one up (some I believe I  haven't seen are Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, and 39 Steps.)

 
KarmaPolice said:
I could be wrong, but I think a reason why they haven't done one is because one of the guys doesn't like Hitchcock's movies.    Not sure what I'd nominate - probably RW, Vertigo for sure.  Wouldn't mind one that I haven't seen before to give me an excuse to fire a new one up (some I believe I  haven't seen are Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, and 39 Steps.)
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I’m pretty sure they both like Hitch. I swear they both have talked positivity about him a bunch. Also you got to see Notorious- Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains are the best.

 
Ilov80s said:
I’m pretty sure they both like Hitch. I swear they both have talked positivity about him a bunch. Also you got to see Notorious- Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains are the best.
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Hmm.  Must be thinking of a different director.  (or I am just getting old)  I thought there was a big one that they mentioned they haven't done, and one joked something on the lines of being because he doesn't like their movies.  Podcasts are starting to blur together.  

 
War for the Planet of the Apes was better than expected. I liked the first reboot, didn't care much for the sequel, but this one is pretty good. We are currently rewatching Cheers and it's funny to see Woody Harrelson then and now.

I like how it set up the next one too.

 
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badmojo1006 said:
The Favourite Solid A. Great movie about palace intrigue, revenge, jealousy. Olivia Colman is amazing as frail Queen Anne and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are the two rivals for her affection.

But if you are a male not secure in your masculinity, don't go. The men are pawns or sex toys
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While focusing in Stone and Weisz performances  you almost forget Colman is acting too and not a real person.  She was excellent.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Hmm.  Must be thinking of a different director.  (or I am just getting old)  I thought there was a big one that they mentioned they haven't done, and one joked something on the lines of being because he doesn't like their movies.  Podcasts are starting to blur together.  
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They announced yesterday the month of Hitch, starting with a podcast about the man himself this weekend.

 
Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse

I know some people liked Aquaman. But I dare them to watch this new Spider Man movie and tell me Aquaman is in the same league. A fantastic movie from start to finish. Wonderful characters, spectacular animation, and crisp writing. Loved it.

 
jamny said:
War for the Planet of the Apes was better than expected. I liked the first reboot, didn't care much for the sequel, but this one is pretty good. We are currently rewatching Cheers and it's funny to see Woody Harrelson then and now.

I like how it set up the next one too.
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Overall I think this reboot series is excellent.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Dang - i had high hopes, too. Thought Ferrell would find a Holmes with eye for detail and florid deductive skills that were completely assbackwards and that would be funny. Guess not. The commercials are very "if those are the highlights..." bad. Shame.
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:suds:

I know you and I were psyched to see this, but by all accounts it's an unmitigated disaster. Apparently Netflix even passed on it. One guy tweeted that it was so bad, he had to wake up the three people he was with just to walk out on it.

 
jdoggydogg said:
Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse

I know some people liked Aquaman. But I dare them to watch this new Spider Man movie and tell me Aquaman is in the same league. A fantastic movie from start to finish. Wonderful characters, spectacular animation, and crisp writing. Loved it.
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great to hear. I'm hoping I get to take my kids- this looked good to me.. especially the animation style. 

 
jdoggydogg said:
Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse

I know some people liked Aquaman. But I dare them to watch this new Spider Man movie and tell me Aquaman is in the same league. A fantastic movie from start to finish. Wonderful characters, spectacular animation, and crisp writing. Loved it.
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and John Mulaney as Peter Porker/Spider-Ham!

 
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Ilov80s said:
They announced yesterday the month of Hitch, starting with a podcast about the man himself this weekend.
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👍  I just saw that.  I am sure I will be listening to that that first thing on Friday morning.  

 
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