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Whee, the National Film Registry picks are out!
- Life of an American Fireman (1903)
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
- Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
- The Beau Brummels (1928)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- A Walk in the Sun (1945)
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- East of Eden (1955)
- The Birds (1963)
- Point Blank (1967)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- Putney Swope (1969)
- The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
- The Atomic Cafe (1982)
- Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- Paris Is Burning (1990)
- Thelma & Louise (1991)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Rushmore (1998)
Frumpy and grumpy
Whoa! Buster Keaton and Billy Wilder fare, and that movie Aldo talks about. There's some great post '67 stuff, too.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Which one? Ball Of Fire? I thought you were talking about The Oscar...
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
I am amazed Musketeers of Pig Alley just got here...as did East of Eden and Steamboat Bill, Jr.
I mean America America got there before East of Eden did, which I am sure would please Elia Kazan but interesting.
Frumpy and grumpy
The 20,000 leagues under the sea one.
edited 14th Dec '16 10:38:47 AM by LongTallShorty64
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
I think the one I was talking about there was the Disney version, with Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Yeah, the 1954 version by Richard Fleischer...very good movie, updating it to the Atomic Age.
The 1916 version is an old silent they rediscovered with a lot of early advances in special effects apparently.
Frumpy and grumpy
Oh, my bad.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
That is a very solid list, pre- and post-1967.
Agreed that The Musketeers of Pig Alley should have been on there before, especially since the Registry has Lady Helen's Escapade, a film that is much more obscure and remains unavailable anywhere.
Made a page for Ugetsu.
Machiko Kyo was just something else. So damn beautiful, and such range—the good-hearted geisha in The Teahouse of the August Moon, basically three roles in the same movie in Rashomon, a kinky housewife in The Face of Another, and goddamn spooky in Ugetsu. If I can find a couple more of her movies I'm gonna make a Creator page.
Nice to see that Ball of Fire was added! (Although I am a little surprised that Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Princess Bride weren't on there to begin with, but that's less in the realm of this thread, I suppose)
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller list
I just kind of assumed that 20000 Leagues Under the Sea was a short, but I looked it up and it's a feature, 90 minutes long.
Frumpy and grumpy
Ball of Fire is a fun comedy.
Just watched Kiss Me, Kate. The songs are fantastic which isn't surprising considering they're Cole Porter's. "Too Darn Hot" is probably my favourite. Ann Miller was a treasure.
edited 15th Dec '16 6:21:22 PM by LongTallShorty64
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Frumpy and grumpy
You guys know anything about Mae Clarke? Why she was in so many great features and was really a good actress but never went anywhere? I just watched Waterloo Bridge, and she was so good. She had immense talent. My shallow research hasn't given me much.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
I know nothing about Mae Clarke but honestly she's always struck me as a generic blonde. She never made the impression that other actresses of her day like Joan Blondell or Jean Harlow or Joan Crawford did.
Frumpy and grumpy
I just saw some real potential in her from that one film and am disappointed to find nothing else from her.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Nothing else? The Public Enemy, Frankenstein.
Frumpy and grumpy
Nothing else where she is the main protagonist and it's a story to show off her talents.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Attention! Attention! Myrna Loy marathon on TCM tomorrow that includes all six of The Thin Man films.
I believe the Thin Man movies are the most perfect, symmetrical example of Sequelitis ever. It's almost mathematical how each movie is progressively not as good as the one before—not quite perfect, I guess, because #2 is nearly as good as #1 and there is a really sharp drop off between #4 and #5. But it's nearly perfect. Watched Song of the Thin Man and it was so so bad.
In fact, now that I look it over, they're running most of the William Powell and Myrna Loy films, also including Libeled Lady, Manhattan Melodrama, and The Great Ziegfeld.
edited 22nd Dec '16 6:13:04 PM by jamespolk
Frumpy and grumpy
Aw, yeah. I now how I'm spending Friday evening.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Frumpy and grumpy
I like the first Thin Man, but I don't like how it takes forever to introduce Powell and Loy.
After the Thin Man I found sort of dull but worthwhile for evil Jimmy Stewart.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
I happen to think that Dashiell Hammett's novel is better than the film. That particular tone in the book...comic yet resigned, the story of a detective between retirement and nostalgia is so perfect and unique, sad and serene.
The last lines of that novel (which is also the last lines in Hammett since he never wrote another book) is among my favorites:
- Nora: What do you think will happen to Mimi and Dorothy and Gilbert now?
Nick: Nothing new. They'll go on being Mimi and Dorothy and Gilbert just as you and I will go on being us and the Quinns will go on being the Quinns. Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's.
Nora: That may be, but it's all pretty unsatisfactory.
Pity the movie didn't include that. But it's a good movie, it's that the book has a lot more going for it.
edited 23rd Dec '16 2:54:58 PM by JulianLapostat
Frumpy and grumpy
Isn't that the general sentiment for movie adaptations of books? Everything needs to be condensed and visualized for a film whereas you can cover more ground in a book.
"It's true that we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman."
Over the weekend, I've gotten the chance to watch Lawrence of Arabia I can say it's one of my favorite movies right now.
edited 14th Dec '16 7:08:24 AM by TheFarmboy
It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!