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Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The 1970s, a Shabby Golden Age by bruce

bruce — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:39:16 +0000

The Boyfriend (roadshow version) is only available in the USA on Warner Archive. You can buy from http://WWW.OLDIES.COM

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The 1970s, a Shabby Golden Age by Amanda Kinsman

Amanda Kinsman — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:27:52 +0000

I am a fan of Ken Russell and I think Women in Love and The Music Lovers, and Mahler, stand up pretty well. Some of the old BBC programmes, Monitor and Omnibus, can be found on You Tube but the quality is very poor. I would love a DVD of the Boyfriend. Any chance Moviemail?

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The 1970s, a Shabby Golden Age by Ron Kerr

Ron Kerr — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:48:15 +0000

Didn’t KR make a brilliant film, or maybe nowadays it would be called a documentary but it was more than that, of Elgar? Also, I think, one of Delius. Are these available anywhere?

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The Forgotten Part 2: DVD’s hidden depths by Bunta Sugawara

Bunta Sugawara — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:41:14 +0000

Francesco Rose’s “The Mattei Affair” and “Illustrious Corpses” are 2 of the best films of the 1970s, desperately in need of a Criterion or MoC release (the current DVD of “Lucky Luciano” is also appallingly bad quality)

Akio Jissoji’s “The Watcher in the Attic” (1993)
Elio Petri’s “Todo Modo”
Johnnie To’s “The Mission” could use a decent English-subtitled DVD
Alain Corneau’s “Serie Noire”

Comment on Films in Iraq / Movies about Mesopotamia by anleitung selbsthypnose

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Comment on From the Cheap Seats – Film Franchises, then and now by Robert Maguire

Robert Maguire — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:02:40 +0000

I must say I have become somewhat disgusted with the modern day output of film studios, watching, or should I say trying to watch, such films as Pirates of the Caribbean, has completely put me off modern day cinema, and I only nowadays watch old black & white films like the Charlie Chan series. Hollywood seems to have lost its understanding as far as a good story is concerned. It turns out biography after biography, but those who should actually have films made about their lives are completely and utterly ignored. The heart and soul seems to have been ripped out of Hollywood and they seems to be more concerned about making a sequel, even before the main feature is made. There was a time when Hollywood was an art form in its own right, but now it is just run of the mill filler material, which is just about making money rather than increasing the potential of an art form.

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The News Fit to Print by John Westbrooke

John Westbrooke — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:58:30 +0000

British films hardly deal with journalists any more; they’ve probably all had their mobiles hacked once too often. But in their day reporters seemed to fulfil a useful investigatory function that could keep a narrative going. Jack Watling probably got too close to the action in “A Time to Kill”. But “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” was partly set in a plausible newsroom – the Express’s, with the real editor playing himself. And the quirky “Q Planes” had an excitable John Laurie: “Scoop? It’s a steam shovel!”

Plus you had James Bond – Moore vintage – pretending to be a Financial Times reporter, and, least plausible of all, Laurence Harvey making the same claim in “Expresso Bongo”.

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The News Fit to Print by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:49:25 +0000

For an extremely funny look at newspapers, libel, and the attempted manipulation of reality to fit published stories, what about the often overlooked “Libelled Lady” (starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy)? Sadly not available on R2 DVD in this country, although it is in other European countries.

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The Forgotten Part 2: DVD’s hidden depths by richard meredith

richard meredith — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:14:15 +0000

First time of writing.

I’m looking for ‘Ring of Spies’ and ‘Danger Within’ both good solid britflicks. Both starred Bernard Lee ( superb actor) and the latter is one of the few films with an entirely male cast. As its set in a POW camp I suppose that’s not surprising. It also had a very young Michael Caine speaking his first on-screen line i think. The team, and many of the cast later made ‘Laegue of Gentlemen’.

I think seventies films are rarer than stuff from the sixties. e.g.’Powerplay’ (David Hemmings and Peter O’Toole) is somewhere else, as is ‘Night Hare Child’ with Mark Lester. But I don’t think it would get past the censors today.

Comment on From the Cheap Seats – The Forgotten Part 2: DVD’s hidden depths by john knight

john knight — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:01:27 +0000

Three great missing Fifties Britflicks that apart from being good films
have stacks of stunning (often groundbreaking) London location work.

STREET CORNER (Muriel Box 1953)
KNAVE OF HEARTS (Rene Clement 1954)
THE WEAPOHN (Val Guest 1957)

By the way James, BLACK MOON mentioned a couple of blogs back is being
released on Columbias DVD/R series in the US next week.
Love that poster artwork on the DVD insert!