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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 21, 2023 18:27:48 GMT -5
The original Wicker Man
and
Midsomer
Some people will do anything to assure a good crop
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 21, 2023 18:36:17 GMT -5
The remake of The Wicker Man
And
Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans
Double the Nicholas Cage maniac cop action.
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Post by nowimnothing on Jun 22, 2023 11:01:04 GMT -5
How about:
Color Out of Space Mandy Willy's Wonderland
As a story about Cage as a father going increasingly insane and bloodthirsty.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jun 26, 2023 13:27:48 GMT -5
Throne of Blood and Citizen Kane
Frustrated ambition in black-and-white
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jul 1, 2023 13:54:56 GMT -5
1. Goldfinger—real empty calories, ¾ lifestyle magazine (it doesn’t feel of its period because everything’s so tony), ¼ actual movie, but still well-liked in part because it’s part of a huge series of variable quality and this is a pretty enjoyable one.
2. Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny—Aside from Jones being Spielberg & Lucas’s James Bond equivalent, I really enjoyed it, and think that it would have been better received if there were a lot more Indiana Jones films—it might not provide whatever big catharsis people wanted from the end of the series, but it was pretty fun moment-to-moment. It’s pretty interesting as a period piece too, and highlights just how much change there was in the 20th century. Indy’s resistance to period lifestyle romanticism refreshing after Goldfinger revels in it.
3. For Your Eyes Only—Another enjoyable Bond, we pick up Dial’s Hellenistic setting and underwater adventures, a crossover with the Jones serie via Julian Glover, and just as Dial sets itself in the late 60s Eyes might be one of the most late 70s movies ever made (1981, but the late seventies Euro aesthetic was so strong it had obvious inertia) and a return to lifestyle mag porn with a vengeance.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 20, 2023 22:50:20 GMT -5
In school or at work, the answer is always the same: "Burn it down, burn that sucker down!"
Arson double feature "Rock and Roll High School" -and- "Office Space"
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 21, 2023 7:45:55 GMT -5
Barbie and Women Talking
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 27, 2023 14:55:49 GMT -5
Catch-22 (the movie, not the miniseries) And Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Both are Gonzo Journalism
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 23, 2023 7:05:07 GMT -5
Grizzly Man (2005) Karate Bear Fighter (1975) Forgive the somewhat off-topic post, but, Nudeviking , have you ever heard of or seen a 1990 killer bear movie called Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi a.k.a. Yellow Fangs? It's based on a real 1915 incident of Hokkaido residents being terrorized by a giant brown bear and it's one of only two films directed by Sonny Chiba of all people. Doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere currently but I know you're good at tracking down obscure things. EDIT: There's a subtitled rip on Youtube.
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 15, 2023 8:25:45 GMT -5
Clueless (1995) Legally Blonde (2001) Barbie (2023)
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Oct 26, 2023 23:47:09 GMT -5
The Banana Splits movie Willy's Wonderland and Five Nights at Freddie's* Should make a delicious, ridiculous, three-course animatronic nightmare feast, even if they are basically the same movie. I hope the next one will be "Bride of Chuck E Cheese"
*I'm assuming about this one, I'm not Leonard Pierce
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 1, 2023 10:05:58 GMT -5
Featuring selkies:
Local Hero (1983) The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) Ondine (2009)
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Post by moimoi on Nov 1, 2023 12:54:56 GMT -5
I've spoken elsewhere about how well Frances Ha and Inside Llewyn Davis compliment each other as character studies of young, single, and artistic screw-ups. The former's exploration of the female drive to connect and the latter's exploration of the male drive to isolate expose an important truth, imo.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Nov 1, 2023 13:18:57 GMT -5
Freeway and Wild If you are used to Reese Witherspoon in light comedies like Election and Legally Blonde, these will open up an entire new range of her performances. One is very introspective and raw, and the other is totally bugnuts crazy.
Also a late Halloween Nick Cage double feature: Vampire's Kiss and Renfield.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Nov 1, 2023 17:43:23 GMT -5
The Devil & Daniel Webster: defense of New England values
The VVitch: indictment of New England values
The Witches of Eastwick: abandonment of New England values
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Nov 12, 2023 16:57:54 GMT -5
Excalibur and Children of Men
Violent civilizational politics falling and rising on unusual births
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Dec 14, 2023 3:16:21 GMT -5
Tokyo Godfathers and My Dog Tulip—stories of adoption and loneliness but with lots of good humor
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 16, 2023 20:37:24 GMT -5
The House of Yes and Serial Mom
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Dec 29, 2023 20:49:02 GMT -5
200 Motels And Forbidden Zone
Musical weirdness, general incoherency, and gratuitous nudity over the decades
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 4, 2024 12:22:20 GMT -5
Payback (1999) Paycheck (2003) Pay It Forward (2000)
Do it. Enter the Payiverse.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jan 21, 2024 16:13:53 GMT -5
I've had a couple double features that accidentally served to convince me that I like one more than the other.
The "mean girls" double feature -
Mean Girls Clueless
(won by Clueless)
- and the "comedies about assassinating foreign leaders" double feature -
Zoolander The Interview
(won by...The Interview?!?!)
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jan 24, 2024 19:45:34 GMT -5
I've had a couple double features that accidentally served to convince me that I like one more than the other. The "mean girls" double feature - Mean Girls Clueless (won by Clueless) But what if you make it a triple feature and add "Heathers"?
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jan 24, 2024 21:47:23 GMT -5
I've had a couple double features that accidentally served to convince me that I like one more than the other. The "mean girls" double feature - Mean Girls Clueless (won by Clueless) But what if you make it a triple feature and add "Heathers"? It would be very.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 11, 2024 23:35:42 GMT -5
Pornographers for the First Amendment and Social Outcasts Against Discrimination Double Feature
The People Vs Larry Flint about the self-described "scumbag" publisher of Hustler magazine going to the Supreme Court
and
The United States of Insanity about Juggalos and the ACLU filing a lawsuit for being labeled and targeted as gang members by the FBI simply because they are fans of Insane Clown Possee
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 20, 2024 21:08:27 GMT -5
Harry Dean Stanton in the southwest double feature:
Repo Man and Paris, Texas
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Apr 22, 2024 17:31:43 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Apr 29, 2024 22:56:03 GMT -5
Criss Cross and The Crimson Kimono
Melodramatic noirs filmed on locating at opposite ends of postwar downtown Los Angeles
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 30, 2024 1:11:59 GMT -5
Criss Cross and The Crimson KimonoMelodramatic noirs filmed on locating at opposite ends of postwar downtown Los Angeles I haven't seen either of these, so I looked them both up. Ooh, Criss Cross! The description says it was filmed in the old Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. Filmed in 1949. Ooh, pre-1955 footage of Bunker Hill! I pulled the film up and started watching it. I wanted to see if it got any good shots of old Bunker Hill. There is an establishing shot at around 14 minutes that is definitely the good old Bunker Hill. Awww... a bit of lost Los Angeles history.
Perhaps I will actually make a double feature of these two. I love Los Angeles noir. I looked up The Crimson Kimono, and see that it has Anna Lee in a supporting role. Ah, I love her.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on May 1, 2024 22:20:44 GMT -5
TOC actually had an article that made me think, which hasn't happened in a while, the one about Tracy Flick in the movie "Election". It's worth a read. The gist was considering the public's view on whether Tracy Flick was or was not a villain, and it discussed the forces that formed her character and how her drive and determination made her annoy people. What it got me thinking about another Reese Witherspoon movie, the sadly underappreciated and extremely weird "Freeway". While the characters are the exact opposite in many ways, with Freeway's Vanessa Lutz character being the illiterate and abused daughter of a junkie hooker, when push comes to shove (or kidnapping and attempted murder) each character shows a grim determination not to be fucked with that is amusing and a little irritating in Election, and pretty shocking, even to the point of horrifying in Freeway. It struck me that Flick and Lutz could be the same person having grown up under vastly different circumstances. Election and Freeway would make an excellent double feature, and would deserve a panel discussion after.
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