Last Movie Watched - Tinto Brass
Marv Soloff
Netflix just delivered three Tinto Brass films:
"Miranda" (Italy - 1985)
"Cheeky" (aka "Trasgredire") (Italy - 2000)
"Cosi fan Tutti" (aka "All the Ladies Do It") (Italy - 1992)
I am escaping from this wretched summer into a world of flesh for the
next couple of days.
Tinto, I could really learn to love your films.
Marv
David Oberman
>"Miranda" (Italy - 1985)
>"Cheeky" (aka "Trasgredire") (Italy - 2000)
>"Cosi fan Tutti" (aka "All the Ladies Do It") (Italy - 1992)
>
>I am escaping from this wretched summer into a world of flesh for the
>next couple of days.
>Tinto, I could really learn to love your films.
I'm watching ELENA ET LES HOMMES, over & over & over, until I throw
up. I really like this movie!
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He always liked to read French novels, & in Paris he met
a young comrade who even induced him to visit the Louvre.
-- Edmund Wilson on Trotsky
Marv Soloff
I have it and it really is great. Bergman heads a very nice (and
capable) cast.
Try a little Tinto Brass for really good looking bodies. Tailor made for
15 years olds.
Marv
Richard Schultz
: I'm watching ELENA ET LES HOMMES, over & over & over, until I throw
: up. I really like this movie!
In the last few days, I've watched three very different films.
(1) _Dr. Terror's House of Horrors_: a horror anthology film starring
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (stolen by Amicus studios from Hammer).
The premise, for those unfortunate enough never to have seen it, is that
five men on a train have their fortunes told by a mysterious Dr. Schreck
(Cushing). The first segment, in which an architect is hired to redo the
family mansion that he's been forced to sell, only to come up against the
Family Curse, is probably the creepiest; the second (killer intelligent
plant) is probably the weakest, although the scene in which the plant does
in the scientist hot on its trail is fairly well done. The most famous
part is probably the one in which Christopher Lee plays an uppity art critic
who runs over an artist who humiliated him, only to find out that artist's
hands do more than paint, but my favorite is the last one (starring a young
Donald Sutherland), in which a doctor brings his new wife home, only to
find out that she's a vampire. If the last line of the segment isn't in
the AFI's list of the 100 Greatest Movie Quotes, then that just proves
what a bunch of doofuses the AFI is. Calvin will no doubt be dreadfully
disappointed to find out that I'm not nearly as snooty as he thinks I am.
(2) _Public Enemy_: I hope I don't have to say too much about this classic
gangster film in which James Cagney plays a small-time hood during the
early days of Prohibition. It's certainly got one of cinema's greatest
shock endings. Not even the generally dated acting style (of everyone
except for Cagney) or Jean Harlow's hokey performance can eliminate the
impact of the film.
(3) _Amelie_: An agreeable and enjoyable film, if you like that sort of
thing (and I generally do). That it is #40 on the IMDb list, while
_Persona_ and _Orphee_ don't even appear on the list, shows what a bunch
of doofuses the IMDb voters are.
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Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"To be, or not to be, I there's the point,
To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all;
No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes. . ."
Marv Soloff
I just needed a break from reality - hence the Tinto Brass stuff. Acres
of warm, pulsating, sweetly
scented flesh. What could be bad. The AFI? Who are they?
Marv
Richard Schultz
: The AFI? Who are they?
To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. "AFI" stands for the "American Film
Institute," which seems to be an organization devoted to making lists of
the 100 greatest X, where X is something relating to film.
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Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"French bread makes very good skis"
Frank R.A.J. Maloney
> In article <aTd_j.10694$2C.8052@trndny08>, Marv Soloff <mso...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> : The AFI? Who are they?
>
> To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. "AFI" stands for the "American Film
> Institute," which seems to be an organization devoted to making lists of
> the 100 greatest X, where X is something relating to film.
I've been under the impression for quite some time the AFI is really the
marketing arm of the DVD industry. Does it ever promote a film not in
print?
I don't think so.
However, Wiki says: "The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent
non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts,
which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed
the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute)
I did not know that.
--
Frank in Seattle
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Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."