you are the second person that recommended Stone to me Man hunt is one of my favorite thrillers ever made The Randoph Scott films are some of my favorites westerns
Excellent stuff as always Terry. I absolutely love The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Having been a lover of Elizabethan and Jacobean era drama for many years, I saw T.C.T.T.H.W.A.H.L way back in 1989 and thought, "Goodness, it's a 17th-century style revenge tragedy!" Anyone familiar with the works of Webster, Marlowe and the tragedies of Shakespeare will love this film....well most of them will. It's great that you included Oliver Stone's The Doors, although it's really 'The Rise and Fall of Jim Morrison.' Black Orpheus is amazing. Cheers Terry.
You nailed it again Terry. Rewatch is a major factor in my Movie collection. Stone is an excellent choice. I remember watching it at a Drive-in with a large group of local Bikers in attendance. Slither is also great as you say with Gunn very much on form. I had no idea about the Walter Pigeon Manhunt, I do remember seeing the Peter O'Toole version. Nice selection as usual
Black Orpheus is a masterpiece! I am intrigued by Top End Wedding, will look for it. Thanks Terry. We do like the Stuntman as well. Have to see Stone again.
Hello Terry, have you ever considered making a video discussing Bill Nighy and Elizabeth Debicki? I think they are the most down to earth people with zero bad stories and no scandals. They treat the fans with love and respect, and I'm proud to call them my favourite actors.
@terrytalksmovies Oh, it's just that no other RUclips channel has talked about Bill and Elizabeth. All I see is them criticising Hollywood a place that Bill and Elizabeth became famous for.
Great video/reviews Terry. This past weekend on Grit, a western only (over the air) tv channel, had a Randolph Scott marathon and showed most of those films in your collection. i really enjoy rewatching Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station. While I do have some westerns in my collection (the "Dollars Trilogy," Hannie Caulder, Dances With Wolves), I made a point of collecting all (8) of the Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday OK Corral films. I think I'm missing one from the silent era. Randolph Scott was the first to play Earp in "Frontier Marshal." It's interesting to see how "Hollywood" handled this true story of the American West becoming more factual in each subsequent version. Another way of assessing re-watchability is even though I own a film, I still stop and rewatch it when it's on tv. 😊 Thanks Terry!
@@terrytalksmovies No, Goldfinger is peak Bond. Best opening sequence, song, Gadgets, villain, one liners. I could go on. OHMSS is probably my 2nd fave. The Aussie Bond!
“The Stunt Man” (1980) is a fabulously insane movie while shooting a movie. I watched it in the movie theater while in college and even purchased the LP of the soundtrack. It’s definitely a multi-genre movie with great acting and stunts. Peter O’Toole plays is great as the dictatorial director. It never got much attention back then but I had the movie on VHS before donating it. Subsequently, got the DVD and also digital purchase. It’s currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi.
@@terrytalksmovies With it you can see a lot of the gritty moral ambiguity and not-so-squeaky-clean-ness that became standard for Peckinpah and Eastwood, some of which probably even inspired the tone of spaghetti westerns.
I enjoyed Top End Wedding when I saw it. I think I remember The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover having the architecture as a character, like Mon Oncle.
Hi Terry, a few in here I haven’t actually heard of before, maybe they didn’t get UK releases 🧐 I totally agree with you on the Budd Boetticher And Randolph Scott westerns, I have five of the six you mentioned, thankfully they have been put out on the Indicator label (I have reviewed them all in past videos) I enjoyed each and every one 👌nice one mate, take care👍😃👍
Thanks, Alan. Yeah, the Ranown westerns are first rate. I have two of the Indicator BRs which are great releases. The Criterion releases have the five without 7 Men From Now but I like having all six. I usually rewatch them chronologically.
Kilmer was born to play Jim Morrison. I recall it being a big deal at the time but maybe faded for cultural reasons. I always try to key people into his first role in Top Secret! which I also don't think gets enough credit as both trippy and really admiring of film as a medium. The final act of the Zucker/Abrahms Naked Gun showed those guys were capable of something rare: using satire to provide a loving tribute. Here it was of the game of baseball. I think Top Secret does it for film as such by playing with perspective and expectation and re-contextualizing conventions - like the famous underwater saloon fight. Maybe a weird take but I'll die on that hill. Cheers. Happy Chinese New Year.
Hey Terry. The Doors is on my vast rewatch list too. From memory it’s good but perhaps a little too myth of Jim Morrison but it’s well done. Val Kilmer excellent at playing complex and troubled assholes as I really like him in Wonderland as John Holmes and the tale of the Wonderland murders. That’s the real Boogie Nights baby!!
the stunt man had me paralyzed when I first saw one of the movies made me question reality classic Terry ps I actually scared to rewatch it completely held my attention before great review grant from canada
Black Orpheus is a very beautiful movie. Definitely worth watching every few years. Randolph Scott made some great westerns but I think he is overlooked by people of my age. When I was a kid in the late 1950's/early 1960's, his movies did not get rerun on TV plus TV was full of western TV shows. For me, appreciating Scott movies didn't really happen until the last few years when western streaming channels started popping up here. As for Superman, I have never been happy with any Superman film. When I want to watch Superman, I watch the 1941 animated series.
I have the Ranown westerns on Criterion...during their last sale I picked them up and have heard only good things about them. Looking forward to seeing therm.
I remember in the late 80s there was a bit of Greenaway-mania. I really liked TCTTHWAHL and also Drowning by Numbers, A Zed and 2 Noughts, The Belly of An Architect, The Draughtsman's Contract but then Prospero's Books was seen as a let down and can't say I've heard much about him since. Super is a great super hero in real life or parody, kind of both. Also seen The Stunt Man, terrific in that 70s mode (even if it came out in 1980). Seen Man Hunt, The Doors (love the band too), Black Orpheus. Great choices all.
My father was a career US Merchant Marine Warrant Officer who spent a lot of WWII passing through Australia on route to other places in the Pacific and Asia. He liked it because he could reference members of the extended family who had started new branches of the extended family in Australia when they got shipped out of Scotland for penal servitude in Australia during the 19th Century in letters to my Grandma and beat the wartime security censorship . . . .
The Cook Etc is one I picked up recently too. Friend at university put me onto Greenaway back in the 90s but I haven't watched him since then. Stunt Man is definitely one I need to rewatch too. Would like to get a blu upgrade first (I have the old Anchor Bay DVD), but there doesn't seem to be one available anywhere let alone here. And the Criterion edition of the Ranown films actually only has five of them, so, even though the Umbrella editions are DVD only, you're still actually better off cos you also have 7 Men From Now even though it's technically not part of the Ranown films. (The seventh film Boetticher and Scott made, Westbound, wasn't part of the Ranown series either.)
Bad News about Trancers. Terry. There is a Trancers 6 now.... I have seen 5 of the Ranown Westerns and I think the Best of them is "7 Men From Now", then "Ride Lonesome." Although made by a different team (Sam Peckinpah!) I think that "Ride the High Country" with Randolph Scott & Joel McCrea, is very nearly as pure a western as the Ranown set, and somewhat similar in theme, with the addition of a nostalgic mood as two aging cowboys take one last lask with the world changing beyond recognition around them.
Black Opheus is based on a play, Orfeu da Conceição, written by Vinicius de Moraes who outside of Brazil is probably most famous for the lyrics od Girl from Ipanema. He was a diplomat, poet and playboy. Rio de Janeiro is very different today from that time. The male lead, Breno Mello, had begun as a professional football player (soccer for Americans. The music is great. Cheers
“Black Orpheus” (1959) is a great dreamy and ultimately sad Brazilian movie. Personally, “City of God” (2002) is the best Brazilian movie about the youth drug gangs in the favelas of Rio. Second best is the recent “I'm Still Here” (2024) about the disappearance of a father by the military dictatorship in 1971.
some great movie recommendations (some already in my favourite list of movies) - Man Hunt directed by Fritz Lang count me in.. though my interpretation of ''I'm not for political assassination, but..'' gave me a chuckle. Currently I'm working my way through the Zatoichi series, which is a bit of a slog but has it's magic moments.
Saw the Stunt man on cable years ago, it's pretty good. I have The Cook The Thief on VHS. Everyone in it is good. What do you think he is trying to say when they go from room to room and the color of everything changes
The Australian movies look interesting. Slither is awesome. Super is less so - and is rather cringey in a lot of spots. I vaguely remember Trancers, no clue on the rest.
Have a love - hate thing about The Doors. The script is fantasy land but Val Kilmer's performance saves it. The biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, gives a somewhat better glimpse of what Jim Morrison was like. Worked in SF, and any Jim story was one of a friendly, articulate person, of course, that doesn't make a movie interesting enough for some.
I've been watching the 1956 version of 1984 starring Edmond O'Brien, although it is bit creeky in places and the room 101 scenes could have been a bit more graphic, (or is that just me ??). I think it still wholes up and still has something to say about the way the world is going. It might be worth a second look if you can fit it in. Michael Redgrave I think gave better rendition than Richard Burton in the later version and O'Brien is on the large size to play character of Winston Smith, (but that might be down to the budget). Anyway that's my rant ! Take care and stay safe. Richie
Peter Greenaway seemed such an extraordinary voice back in the 1980s and early 1990s. Every new film was an event. I have to say, though, that in my experience his films, while extraordinary, don't rate very highly on my rewatchability scale. The mannerisms and pretension seem to loom larger on each rewatch. But every one of his films needs to be watched at least once. I remember going to see The Cook, The Thief... when it came out. It certainly caused a stir, at the time, which seems a bit odd now. Remember Richard Neville's outraged response? - please don't become a prude in your old age...
@@terrytalksmovies There was an almost 'video nasties' reaction to it at the time - I suspect it was because Greenaway's intellectual pretentions made it even more shocking to some. But it's pure old-school Titus Andronicus grand-guignol...
I've seen The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Trancers, The Stunt Man, Man Hunt, Ride Lonesome, Seven Men from Now and The Tall Man. I even went to see Color of Night on the strength of The Stunt Man and was disappointed. The Ranown westerns that I've seen so far have been great, although I liked The Tall T the least since Scott spends the bulk of the movie as a hostage, and there's also the scene where he seems to force himself on Maureen O'Sullivan.
Star of The Stunt Man must include the, Hotel Coronado in San Diego where it was filmed. Black Orpheus is simply beautiful, Slither is not, It is a funny gross out Sci Fi monstrosity, I have seen Trancers it blends with the other time travel movies of the decade. Let's just say that Oliver Stone took liberties with Jim Morrisons rise.
not a huge fan of rom-coms...maybe cos there's an increasing glut of them, especially now thru streaming services, that are just shlaggy drivel with the bar set very low...but here's a few (of the more modern variety) that did it for me. "Palm Springs" with Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti (and a bit of a time travel angle), "What if" (Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan), " Long Shot '(Charlise Theron and Seth Rogan), "Playing it Cool"(Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan) and "Destination Wedding " (Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves).
Rom coms are difficult to do well. The Killer's Game on Amazon is a current one that nails it. Dave Bautista stars in it. It works as an action movie and also quite a sweet rom-com.
watching "the cook and the thief .." i found myself getting so angry with the director cos i was made to feel such hatred towards Michael Gambon's (The Thief) character i wanted to see him get his just desserts (pun intended) and was almost upset it wasn't more prolonged...a testament to Gambons performance that he was just so bloody awful you wanted him to get a big dose of karma. but that aside...the WORST date movie ever!! lol!
You found Peter Greenaway pretentious, well that kind of what he is. “The Cook The Thief…”, along with “The Draughtsman's Contract” are probably his most accessible and I do have a soft spot for “The Belly of an Architect” mainly for Brian Dennehy. He lost me at “The Baby of Mâcon” which was terrible.
you are the second person that recommended Stone to me
Man hunt is one of my favorite thrillers ever made
The Randoph Scott films are some of my favorites westerns
In that case, you should watch Stone. 😉😀
Excellent stuff as always Terry. I absolutely love The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Having been a lover of Elizabethan and Jacobean era drama for many years, I saw T.C.T.T.H.W.A.H.L way back in 1989 and thought, "Goodness, it's a 17th-century style revenge tragedy!" Anyone familiar with the works of Webster, Marlowe and the tragedies of Shakespeare will love this film....well most of them will. It's great that you included Oliver Stone's The Doors, although it's really 'The Rise and Fall of Jim Morrison.' Black Orpheus is amazing. Cheers Terry.
I'd watch The Cook tonight but I just got the Blue Velvet 4K in the mail, so...
Keep up all that you do so uniquely and well. Thanks!
Wow. Thanks @RamZar50. Do you want to be in the selection for the box set?
@@terrytalksmovies No but thanks.
You nailed it again Terry. Rewatch is a major factor in my Movie collection. Stone is an excellent choice. I remember watching it at a Drive-in with a large group of local Bikers in attendance. Slither is also great as you say with Gunn very much on form. I had no idea about the Walter Pigeon Manhunt, I do remember seeing the Peter O'Toole version. Nice selection as usual
Thanks, Doug. Stone is so visceral and tough. I used to hang around Middle Head in Sydney where the bikies had their base.
as an Aussie you may recall that SBS used to play Black Orpheus every New Years Eve
Not a bad choice there. I always watch Dinner for One on SBS on NYE.
Black Orpheus is a masterpiece! I am intrigued by Top End Wedding, will look for it. Thanks Terry. We do like the Stuntman as well. Have to see Stone again.
See what I mean? Lots of rewatchable movies.
Thanks!
Wow. Thanks to you. Do you want to be in the draw for Eyes Without A Face?
Hello Terry, have you ever considered making a video discussing Bill Nighy and Elizabeth Debicki? I think they are the most down to earth people with zero bad stories and no scandals. They treat the fans with love and respect, and I'm proud to call them my favourite actors.
Not really. It isn't the sort of thing the channel does. I like the work of both of the actors.
@terrytalksmovies Oh, it's just that no other RUclips channel has talked about Bill and Elizabeth. All I see is them criticising Hollywood a place that Bill and Elizabeth became famous for.
Great video/reviews Terry.
This past weekend on Grit, a western only (over the air) tv channel, had a Randolph Scott marathon and showed most of those films in your collection. i really enjoy rewatching Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station.
While I do have some westerns in my collection (the "Dollars Trilogy," Hannie Caulder, Dances With Wolves), I made a point of collecting all (8) of the Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday OK Corral films. I think I'm missing one from the silent era. Randolph Scott was the first to play Earp in "Frontier Marshal." It's interesting to see how "Hollywood" handled this true story of the American West becoming more factual in each subsequent version.
Another way of assessing re-watchability is even though I own a film, I still stop and rewatch it when it's on tv. 😊
Thanks Terry!
7 Men from Now, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station are my three favourites of the Ranowns.
I've re-watched all the Ranown westerns. My comfort rewatch: Goldfinger, Lady Snowblood, any universal horror
Good choices, though I think From Russia With Love is a better Fleming adaptation.
@@terrytalksmovies No, Goldfinger is peak Bond. Best opening sequence, song, Gadgets, villain, one liners. I could go on. OHMSS is probably my 2nd fave. The Aussie Bond!
“The Stunt Man” (1980) is a fabulously insane movie while shooting a movie. I watched it in the movie theater while in college and even purchased the LP of the soundtrack. It’s definitely a multi-genre movie with great acting and stunts. Peter O’Toole plays is great as the dictatorial director. It never got much attention back then but I had the movie on VHS before donating it. Subsequently, got the DVD and also digital purchase. It’s currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi.
Cool. I'm glad I have it on disk, however.
Ride Lonesome is probably my favorite western no one ever seems to have heard of.
It's so underrated.
@@terrytalksmovies With it you can see a lot of the gritty moral ambiguity and not-so-squeaky-clean-ness that became standard for Peckinpah and Eastwood, some of which probably even inspired the tone of spaghetti westerns.
I enjoyed Top End Wedding when I saw it. I think I remember The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover having the architecture as a character, like Mon Oncle.
Shit. I should've added some Tati to the list.
@@terrytalksmovies Tati is always worth a re-watch imo.
Hi Terry, a few in here I haven’t actually heard of before, maybe they didn’t get UK releases 🧐 I totally agree with you on the Budd Boetticher And Randolph Scott westerns, I have five of the six you mentioned, thankfully they have been put out on the Indicator label (I have reviewed them all in past videos) I enjoyed each and every one 👌nice one mate, take care👍😃👍
Thanks, Alan. Yeah, the Ranown westerns are first rate. I have two of the Indicator BRs which are great releases. The Criterion releases have the five without 7 Men From Now but I like having all six. I usually rewatch them chronologically.
Kilmer was born to play Jim Morrison. I recall it being a big deal at the time but maybe faded for cultural reasons. I always try to key people into his first role in Top Secret! which I also don't think gets enough credit as both trippy and really admiring of film as a medium. The final act of the Zucker/Abrahms Naked Gun showed those guys were capable of something rare: using satire to provide a loving tribute. Here it was of the game of baseball. I think Top Secret does it for film as such by playing with perspective and expectation and re-contextualizing conventions - like the famous underwater saloon fight. Maybe a weird take but I'll die on that hill. Cheers. Happy Chinese New Year.
ZAZ did so much cool stuff.
Hey Terry. The Doors is on my vast rewatch list too. From memory it’s good but perhaps a little too myth of Jim Morrison but it’s well done. Val Kilmer excellent at playing complex and troubled assholes as I really like him in Wonderland as John Holmes and the tale of the Wonderland murders. That’s the real Boogie Nights baby!!
I prefer The Doors to Boogie Nights, even if the latter has Nina Hartley in it.
the stunt man had me paralyzed when I first saw one of the movies made me question reality classic Terry ps I actually scared to rewatch it completely held my attention before great review grant from canada
I like The Stunt Man a lot for exactly that quality.
Black Orpheus is a very beautiful movie. Definitely worth watching every few years. Randolph Scott made some great westerns but I think he is overlooked by people of my age. When I was a kid in the late 1950's/early 1960's, his movies did not get rerun on TV plus TV was full of western TV shows. For me, appreciating Scott movies didn't really happen until the last few years when western streaming channels started popping up here.
As for Superman, I have never been happy with any Superman film. When I want to watch Superman, I watch the 1941 animated series.
I have high hopes for the new Superman flick. James Gunn knows his stuff.
I'm definitely down for Black Orpheus (moral: don't name your kids after tragic figures) and The Stunt Man. Thanks, Ter.
Thanks, William. Black Orpheus is magic.
The Stunt Man!! I never knew it had an Australian release. I knew there was a region 1. I'm bummed I missed it
It did come out here. It also showed in cinemas back in the day. 😀
I have the Ranown westerns on Criterion...during their last sale I picked them up and have heard only good things about them. Looking forward to seeing therm.
Definitely watch them chronologically. They're fantastic and compact.
Great choices!
Thanks!
I remember in the late 80s there was a bit of Greenaway-mania. I really liked TCTTHWAHL and also Drowning by Numbers, A Zed and 2 Noughts, The Belly of An Architect, The Draughtsman's Contract but then Prospero's Books was seen as a let down and can't say I've heard much about him since. Super is a great super hero in real life or parody, kind of both. Also seen The Stunt Man, terrific in that 70s mode (even if it came out in 1980). Seen Man Hunt, The Doors (love the band too), Black Orpheus. Great choices all.
Thanks @taker68
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott...."
"Randolph Scott!"
"RAN-DOLPH SCOTT!"
Yeah, some of these are just for me....
Randolph Scott is totally underrated as a western star.
My father was a career US Merchant Marine Warrant Officer who spent a lot of WWII passing through Australia on route to other places in the Pacific and Asia. He liked it because he could reference members of the extended family who had started new branches of the extended family in Australia when they got shipped out of Scotland for penal servitude in Australia during the 19th Century in letters to my Grandma and beat the wartime security censorship . . . .
Cool.
James Gunn wrote "Tromeo and Juliet?!! damn! will have to check that out again.
Lemmy from Motorhead doing iambic pentameter is a gem.
The Cook Etc is one I picked up recently too. Friend at university put me onto Greenaway back in the 90s but I haven't watched him since then.
Stunt Man is definitely one I need to rewatch too. Would like to get a blu upgrade first (I have the old Anchor Bay DVD), but there doesn't seem to be one available anywhere let alone here.
And the Criterion edition of the Ranown films actually only has five of them, so, even though the Umbrella editions are DVD only, you're still actually better off cos you also have 7 Men From Now even though it's technically not part of the Ranown films. (The seventh film Boetticher and Scott made, Westbound, wasn't part of the Ranown series either.)
Westbound is really ordinary, so no loss there.
Bad News about Trancers. Terry. There is a Trancers 6 now.... I have seen 5 of the Ranown Westerns and I think the Best of them is "7 Men From Now", then "Ride Lonesome." Although made by a different team (Sam Peckinpah!) I think that "Ride the High Country" with Randolph Scott & Joel McCrea, is very nearly as pure a western as the Ranown set, and somewhat similar in theme, with the addition of a nostalgic mood as two aging cowboys take one last lask with the world changing beyond recognition around them.
I'm going to have to check it out anyway. 😀
Black Opheus is based on a play, Orfeu da Conceição, written by Vinicius de Moraes who outside of Brazil is probably most famous for the lyrics od Girl from Ipanema. He was a diplomat, poet and playboy. Rio de Janeiro is very different today from that time. The male lead, Breno Mello, had begun as a professional football player (soccer for Americans. The music is great. Cheers
I love the film. It's magical and tragic and beautiful.
Need to get a copy of THE STUNT MAN and rewatch it, along with STONE which I've never seen.
Both 100% worth tracking down.
“Black Orpheus” (1959) is a great dreamy and ultimately sad Brazilian movie. Personally, “City of God” (2002) is the best Brazilian movie about the youth drug gangs in the favelas of Rio. Second best is the recent “I'm Still Here” (2024) about the disappearance of a father by the military dictatorship in 1971.
City of God is extraordinary.
some great movie recommendations (some already in my favourite list of movies) - Man Hunt directed by Fritz Lang count me in.. though my interpretation of ''I'm not for political assassination, but..'' gave me a chuckle. Currently I'm working my way through the Zatoichi series, which is a bit of a slog but has it's magic moments.
Zatoichi movies are real bangers. Have fun.
Saw the Stunt man on cable years ago, it's pretty good. I have The Cook The Thief on VHS. Everyone in it is good. What do you think he is trying to say when they go from room to room and the color of everything changes
Hard to tell. Probably that it looks groovy on screen?
The Australian movies look interesting. Slither is awesome. Super is less so - and is rather cringey in a lot of spots. I vaguely remember Trancers, no clue on the rest.
The cringe in Super is deliberate. The protagonist is cringey and awful.
Have a love - hate thing about The Doors. The script is fantasy land but Val Kilmer's performance saves it. The biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, gives a somewhat better glimpse of what Jim Morrison was like. Worked in SF, and any Jim story was one of a friendly, articulate person, of course, that doesn't make a movie interesting enough for some.
I like The Doors. I don't have any grievance with it. Biopics are often inaccurate in some ways. Unvarnished truth isn't often entertaining.
I know I watched the stunt man but it was back when it hit the video rental store so I just don’t remember it.
Time for a rewatch then.
@ heck ya!
Hi Terry another great Australian movie that i can watch alot is called The Big Steal. Have you seen this?
Yep. A fun little flick which I think is streaming on Brollie at the moment.
I've been watching the 1956 version of 1984 starring Edmond O'Brien, although it is bit creeky in places and the room 101 scenes could have been a bit more graphic, (or is that just me ??). I think it still wholes up and still has something to say about the way the world is going. It might be worth a second look if you can fit it in. Michael Redgrave I think gave better rendition than Richard Burton in the later version and O'Brien is on the large size to play character of Winston Smith, (but that might be down to the budget). Anyway that's my rant !
Take care and stay safe. Richie
You're right about O'Brien. Wrong actor for the role. Thanks for the comments, Richie. 😀
Peter Greenaway seemed such an extraordinary voice back in the 1980s and early 1990s. Every new film was an event.
I have to say, though, that in my experience his films, while extraordinary, don't rate very highly on my rewatchability scale. The mannerisms and pretension seem to loom larger on each rewatch. But every one of his films needs to be watched at least once.
I remember going to see The Cook, The Thief... when it came out. It certainly caused a stir, at the time, which seems a bit odd now. Remember Richard Neville's outraged response? - please don't become a prude in your old age...
There's no way I'm becoming a prude. I'll rewatch it and probably like it more than I did.
@@terrytalksmovies There was an almost 'video nasties' reaction to it at the time - I suspect it was because Greenaway's intellectual pretentions made it even more shocking to some. But it's pure old-school Titus Andronicus grand-guignol...
In TCTTHWAHL, the rotten meat wagon was real. I was never a big Peter Greenaway fan. Michael Nyman's score was awesome.
I'll be intrigued to rewatch it.
@@terrytalksmovies Keep your ear out for the score, too.
I've seen The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Trancers, The Stunt Man, Man Hunt, Ride Lonesome, Seven Men from Now and The Tall Man. I even went to see Color of Night on the strength of The Stunt Man and was disappointed. The Ranown westerns that I've seen so far have been great, although I liked The Tall T the least since Scott spends the bulk of the movie as a hostage, and there's also the scene where he seems to force himself on Maureen O'Sullivan.
Comanche Station is the hidden gem in the Ranown westerns, for me.
Star of The Stunt Man must include the, Hotel Coronado in San Diego where it was filmed. Black Orpheus is simply beautiful, Slither is not, It is a funny gross out Sci Fi monstrosity, I have seen Trancers it blends with the other time travel movies of the decade. Let's just say that Oliver Stone took liberties with Jim Morrisons rise.
The Coronado is also in Some Like It Hot.
@@IvorPresents The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, is where "Somewhere in Time" was filmed.
@ Opps my bad, thank you.
@@IvorPresents I've been there. Beautiful place! No motor vehicles allowed on the island.
If you want a real challenge watch the Keith Lemon movie for the fourth time
Nope. Jamais plus. Never again.
not a huge fan of rom-coms...maybe cos there's an increasing glut of them, especially now thru streaming services, that are just shlaggy drivel with the bar set very low...but here's a few (of the more modern variety) that did it for me. "Palm Springs" with Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti (and a bit of a time travel angle), "What if" (Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan), " Long Shot '(Charlise Theron and Seth Rogan), "Playing it Cool"(Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan) and "Destination Wedding " (Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves).
Rom coms are difficult to do well. The Killer's Game on Amazon is a current one that nails it. Dave Bautista stars in it. It works as an action movie and also quite a sweet rom-com.
watching "the cook and the thief .." i found myself getting so angry with the director cos i was made to feel such hatred towards Michael Gambon's (The Thief) character i wanted to see him get his just desserts (pun intended) and was almost upset it wasn't more prolonged...a testament to Gambons performance that he was just so bloody awful you wanted him to get a big dose of karma. but that aside...the WORST date movie ever!! lol!
I once saw Silence of the Lambs on a date.
You found Peter Greenaway pretentious, well that kind of what he is. “The Cook The Thief…”, along with “The Draughtsman's Contract” are probably his most accessible and I do have a soft spot for “The Belly of an Architect” mainly for Brian Dennehy. He lost me at “The Baby of Mâcon” which was terrible.
I can handle some pretention when I've been watching trashy movies for a while. It's all about balance. 😉😀
Yeah, hated his Tempest movie also
@@DavidRayner-qd3dk Oh god yes, that was bad. I thought I had erased that from memory.
Thanks!
You're welcome.