yeah, that was a good one too. From the 40's too, so earlier than the movies I listed there were a couple of excellent modern westerns too: Hud Last Picture Show and of course the TV series Lonesome Dove
K, Monday night we watched Capricorn One (oddly, Hal Holbrook died yesterday), last night we watched Duel. Tonight it's gonna be 12 Angry Men.
Researched 2001 A Space Odyssey this morning. I saw it in theater when it was new but could only remember bits.
The Big Country; Real Men, John Wick; The Equalizer. Anything with William Defoe, Carry Grant, Kirk Douglas, Viggo Mortensen, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Kathryin Hepburn, Peter Sellers, Harold Lloyd in it.
The Little Girl who Lived Down the Lane. Stellar performance by young Jodie Foster. I found myself cheering on her character and had to remind myself she was a pretty 13 year old serial killer.
Ah yes, that very old film from the classic era of gangster movies. After movies had turned into talkies.
12 Angry Men was excellent. Kinda funny seeing all those big-time actors (at the time) all in a room together. I enjoyed watching Henry Fonda stand firm in his convictions.
I once dated a movie buff so saw a lot of flicks. One was Bad News Bears, a lot of which was inside baseball jokes. My friend, not a baseball fan, was going "huh?" while I was all but rolling in the aisles. We decided to pass on Rocky Horror Picture Show because it sounded too weird. Oops! For pure silliness, hard to beat Silent Movie. Burt Reynolds crooning to himself in the shower was priceless.
Crowd participation is a hoot! Check this out. They ain't afraid of no COVID!! https://www.wweek.com/arts/2020/09/...ring-the-pandemic-in-an-almost-empty-theater/
Rocky Horror has been shown at this little theater in Portland every Saturday night at midnight since 1978. And when I had just turned 16 and got my drivers license going to see it was the first time my parents allowed me to have the car out past midnight.
My personal favorite old movies are John Ford's The Long Gray Line and Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. John Ford is a classic old-movie director (Grapes of Wrath, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Searchers), but The Long Gray Line is a seriously underrated one from him!
