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Post by Railroad17 on Jan 22, 2016 17:46:56 GMT
I watched this...again.
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Post by Railroad17 on Jan 22, 2016 17:49:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 16:50:58 GMT
Hi All, Watched Martin Scorsese's first ever film from 1967 B&W 'Who's That Knocking At My Door' Starring a young Harvy Kietel and Zina Bethune. as lead roles. Watched more out of curiosity than anything else I thought not a bad effort for the time I suppose but generally regarded as a rehearsal for his 1973 classic Mean Streets film.
Shot over a period of several years and shown under the alternate titles I Call First and J.R., Martin Scorsese's debut feature is an autobiographical look at the conflicted life of a young, Italian-American, Catholic man in early 1960s New York. J.R. (then-unknown Harvey Keitel) spends his days and nights hanging out with his buddies in Little Italy, going to the movies, goofing around, and looking to score with "broads." When he meets The Girl (Zina Bethune) on the Staten Island ferry, she rocks his world with a shared admiration for John Ford's The Searchers (1956). A blond WASP beauty, the girl is more sophisticated than J.R.'s parochial friends and shows him that there's more to life than the neighborhood. J.R. falls in love, yet he refuses to soil her by sleeping with her. The girl, however, reveals that she is not a virgin because of a date rape. Locked in his Catholic virgin-whore complex, J.R. is disgusted by the revelation, but, after a squalid evening with his friends, J.R. decides to do the righteous thing by forgiving and marrying her. The girl will have none of it, leaving J.R. to sort out his prejudices on his own. Originally conceived as part of a trilogy with what would become Mean Streets (1973), the black-and-white Who's That Knocking already has the acute grasp of daily life, fluid camera movements, and vivid editing of images to music (such as the slo-mo scuffle to the lilting "El Watusi") that would define Scorsese's later work. Despite a successful debut at the 1967 Chicago Film Festival, no distributor picked up the film until a soft porn distributor agreed to release it if Scorsese added a nude scene. By the time, Who's That Knocking was finally released in 1969, with J.R.'s sexy fantasy accompanied by The Doors's "The End," the loose counterculture mood had made the focus on sexual repression seem out-of-date. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi Geoff.
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Post by 4th Chord on Jan 25, 2016 20:03:39 GMT
Watching The Krays again. Tom Hardy is fantastic in it.
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Jan 25, 2016 20:04:59 GMT
Watching The Krays again. Tom Hardy is fantastic in it. Which part does he play best?
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Post by 4th Chord on Jan 25, 2016 20:12:18 GMT
Watching The Krays again. Tom Hardy is fantastic in it. Which part does he play best? The way he can make them both seem like genuinely different people is very impressive.
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Post by 4th Chord on Jan 26, 2016 10:51:57 GMT
Straight Outta Compton.
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Post by Detroit on Jan 26, 2016 22:51:46 GMT
was it Oscar worthy?
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Post by rockonquo on Jan 28, 2016 8:57:40 GMT
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Post by Railroad17 on Jan 29, 2016 16:52:52 GMT
Are the cricket scenes realistic?
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Post by EaP on Jan 29, 2016 19:24:57 GMT
Dead Man's Shoes
Bleak and not at all uplifting, but well worth a watch imo
ps. full film in window, so you can just watch it here
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Post by curiousgirl on Jan 29, 2016 22:39:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 18:58:08 GMT
Watching The Krays again. Tom Hardy is fantastic in it. Hi All, Funny I thought he wasn't in The Krays starring the Camp Brothers and Tom Hardy was in Legend.......
Geoff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 19:08:56 GMT
Hi All, Watched the Dark Night finally excellent film and cast especially 'Heath Ledger' as a most memorable 'Joker'. Despite being two and 1/2hr's long the film passes quite quickly................ Geoff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 14:50:40 GMT
Hi All, Watched 'Extraterrestrial' last night if your into 'Sci-Fi/Horror' you'll like this film as I did, surprising as I assume it was a low budget film compared to some of todays blockbusters. Only criticism is the soundtrack when it plays blasts out at a level I had to turn the sound down then turn it back up again for the dialog and a silly ending but a good nod to the X-Files but as I said I enjoyed the film......... Geoff.
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