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Post by beverley61 on Jun 1, 2020 11:10:14 GMT
I just watched Le Mans 66 with Matt Damon about Ken Miles the ace British racing car driver. Yes, lots of driving but a very good film.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 1, 2020 12:09:05 GMT
They couldn't find a British actor?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 12:30:22 GMT
They couldn't find a British actor? Ken Miles was played by Christian Bale, Matt Damon played Carroll Shelby. |
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Post by Miranda on Jun 1, 2020 12:52:24 GMT
Ah, thank you! Now you've told me Christian Bale is in it, I definitely shan't watch. Can't stand the fella.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 1, 2020 15:47:15 GMT
Le Mans 66 (titled Ford Vs Ferrari in USA) was a good film. If you liked that, I recommend Rush about the life of James Hunt and his rivalry with Niki Lauda. I'm not a motor sports fan but enjoyed that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 15:56:55 GMT
I have always had a difficulty with this sort of film; the 1966 film Grand Prix really put me off them.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 1, 2020 17:26:44 GMT
I don't like motor racing in any of its forms, TBH. Going round and round and round and round............ My ex used to love F1 but I could never see the point. Doing it must be great fun but watching it?  |
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Post by linseed on Jun 2, 2020 17:21:21 GMT
I’m with you on that Miranda!
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 4, 2020 19:58:56 GMT
A bit late but Sapphire is on tonight at 9:25pm on Talking Pictures.
"A pregnant college student named Sapphire Robbins (Yvonne Buckingham) is murdered in London's Hampstead Heath. When police superintendent Robert Hazard (Nigel Patrick) discovers that the victim was a light-skinned black woman passing as white, it upends his initial assumptions. Hazard and his openly racist assistant (Michael Craig) explore the city's racially tense underground jazz scene as they interview suspects, including Sapphire's white fiancé (Paul Massie)"
It also stars Earl Cameron and Yvonne Mitchell.
Really good film by Basil Dearden from 1959, I think it won the BAFTA for best British film with the story by Janet Green. They both also worked together 2yrs later on Victim dealing with homosexuality laws and Dearden worked with Michael Craig on the film Life For Ruth dealing with religion and morality and ethics when Craigs character, as a Jehovahs Witness, won't allow his daughter a blood transfusion (I don't know if that was a Janet Green story?). He did a few issue based films which I've enjoyed.
Sapphire deals with race issues in the 50s so has language and outdated views from that times. Talking Pictures usually put a warning up.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 4, 2020 20:07:52 GMT
Yvonne Mitchell is also in Turn The Key Softly on Talking Pictures tomorrow (Fri 5th June) at 7:20pm and is repeated at 1:55am on Sun 7th June.
It follows 3 women's different paths when they're released from prison, with Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison playing the other two women.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 19, 2020 22:32:58 GMT
Some more oldies but goodies. 20th JuneKing Rat16:20 - Sony Movies Action A great war film. Not my favourite genre but this is very good with a brilliant cast, some in smaller roles. It follows prisoners in a war camp in the far East from Britain, America and Australia. It mainly focuses on King, played by George Segal, who using his cunning to live like a King. James Fox plays a young officer, Marlowe, who King befriends in order to use his language skills to help with his dodgy deals. Marlowe ends up with a badly infected arm and King using his influence obtains antibiotics to save Marlowes arm being amputated. But is he doing it out of a new found friendship, helping someone else rather than himself? Or does he need Marlowe to get better so he can retrieve the money from one of his deals that Marlowe is keeping safe? You decide. Directed by Bryan Forbes (one of The League Of Gentlemen from the 1960 movie), he also wrote it for the screen based on James Clavell's novel. Stars:James Fox, George Segal, Tom Courtenay (very good), John Mills, Denholm Elliott, Leonard Roaster, John Standing, Patrick O'Neal and Ishimoto. - - - - Jumpin' Jack Flash21:00 - Sony Movies I watched this so many times as a kid I wanted to be Whoopie Goldberg! She plays a computer programmer working in a bank and is chatting online, this the 80s so expect the obligatory black screen and green font, with someone aboard. She needs to help keep him safe by following instructions. Stars: Whoopie Goldberg and Jonathan Pryce - - - - The Upturned Glass21:45 - Talking Pictures A black and white movie with James Mason where he plays a lecturer at a university. - - - - The Boys23:30 - Talking Pictures It follows the trial of older youths for a murder. Stars Dudley Sutton and Jess Conrad as two of the youths and Robert Morley as a barrister. |
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 19, 2020 22:39:46 GMT
According to my EPG it says that the Vera Lynn film, We'll Meet Again is on Sony Movies on Sunday 21st June at 10:45. Available on freeview 32.
...but there website doesn't have it down, so maybe a last minute change, but don't know why they havent updated the website.
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Post by yankee on Jun 22, 2020 14:25:37 GMT
Jumpin Jack Flash is a very, very funny film. And Whoopie Goldberg is really great in anything. She seems to steal every scene no matter what film she is in.
I remember watching Jumpin Jack Flash when it first game out and it was time when very few amongst the general public had home computers, so the concept of her and this man on the other side of the country or other side of the world having a live chat on computer screens seemed so exciting to me.
But as is VERY typical of early films dealing with people chatting via computer, the Director saw fit to having the person typing - in this case Whoopie - also speaking out loud the things she is typing as well as the replies from the person she is messaging with. Did the Director think audiences would grow tired of reading the text on the screen? They took the time to point the camera at it.
Prior to having my own computer I used to wonder if a person was actually required to talk out loud the things they were typing to another person in an internet chat. LOL
The other scene that spoils Jumpin Jack Flash - an otherwise splendid comedy, with some real suspense as well - is a scene where Whoopie is in a phone booth (remember those) and phoning the police (no one had mobiles yet). The phone book gets strapped by the bad guys to a tow truck with her in it and gets yanked off the pavement and is being dragged down the street.
Meamwhile Whoopie is still talking on the telephone to the police saying calmly - I'm the black lady being dragged down the street in a phone booth.
So audiences were just supposed to believe the phone would still be working after the wires ripped out and Whoopie would be calm and collected whilst being dragged down the street by a tow truck driven by the bad guys.
Otherwise a nice film and Whoopie always a joy to watch.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 22, 2020 20:11:46 GMT
I love that scene. I think she says into the phone that she'd she's in the phone booth, but realises no one's there. She later shouts for help and to call the police. I think it's supposed to show how in NY anything can happen and no one bats an eyelid, hence the guy trying to squegee (sp?) the Windows of the phone booth.
I actually like the talking. I remember thinking at the time when the voice over is playing if she could hear him, but realised it was for the audience benefit. You get to hear his voice but don't see who it is until the end so you get to imagine what the face to this mysterious strangers voice will look like. I didn't know who Jonathan Pryce was at the time so didn't guess it was him.
It's quite sweary really. I've got the DVD and I'm sure it's 15 in the UK.
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Post by yankee on Jun 22, 2020 20:34:18 GMT
I think I've only seen it on repeat TV (probably at least 10 times because ill watch anything with Whoopie) and they would have edited out the swearing or voiced over the swear words to be slightly different. Yes I forgot about the squeegee guy! I cant recall did she tip him?  |
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