oh don't go through THAT again! i can promise you'll be fine if you pick up when she goes to italy!

ok I will take your advice...LOL

i'm trying to get to "inside job"...i'll keep you posted! what are you guys watching?

i'm thinking alot of you would enjoy this documentary about one of the best collections of art int he world, certainly in the united states. it's' about the Barnes Foundation...this film is one-sided but very very interesting! "the art of the steal"...has anyone already seen it?

 

I was stuck on old movies this weekend.  (Kind of laid up with a bad back.)  Watched Wings of Morning with Henry Fonda and a delightful French actress named Annabella, who I'd never heard of before.   Next was Sea of Grass with Kate and Spence (typing one handed - excuse the abbreviations).  Finished up with Raintree County with Liz Taylor.  They just don't make 'em like that any more!

thanks, elle...i LOVE the old stuff best. and i've never seen these that you have mentioned. i saw a little of cat on a hot tin roof yesterday. and i saw spencer  with elizabeth taylor in "father's little dividend"...very cute. the movies were SO MUCH BETTER back then!!! i want to see these you mentioned here....thanks!

Oh, I caught part of the baby one.  Remember Joan Bennett (Liz's mom) from Dark Shadows??

oh i do!!!!!!

you guys, we have to see "The  Conspirator" directed by Robert Redford...it's about a conspiracy to kill Lincoln. ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBjqJPztuw&feature=related

 

For Lisa (and you other "old movie buffs") - have you ever seen this one???  One of my favorites with Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton.

 

I'm trying to figure out why "embed" doesn't work for me anymore.  : (

 

i never saw this, elle! great idea! the embed doesn't work on this particular movie, because there is no embedment code on it. that's REALLY odd...but in general grab the embed code. put it in the box. like before. but now yo uhave to hit the button on here that looks like a filmstrip. right third one in from "link"..see?

Does the icon say "media"?  Thanks for the update! 

 

Another really good one with the two actors I mentioned is Since You Went Away, also starring a teen-aged Shirley Temple, Claudette Colbert, Hattie McDaniel and one of my all-time favorites, Robert Walker.  It's a long one (3 hours) about the struggles of those left behind during WWII and had me crying 5 minutes into it the other day (even though I've seen it several times before) when a few minutes before that I was unmoved by the end of Beaches.  (Just so you know I wasn't in a weepy mood to begin with.  <laughing>)

 

Love Letters is so good because besides being a sweet love story there's a mystery in there, too.  Such a good movie!!!

i just saw a movie i've never seen before...an oldie. i love oldies. this was "sunday in new york" with jane fonda. the jokes are soooo blue, which was fun. but it said alot about social mores between men and women in the middle of the century...and now. AND it was a cute love story. but i highly recommend it to see how far and how not so far we've come! ....thanks for those recommendations, elle! i haven't seen either one. will do!!!

i finally got to see "Inside Job"....i think it should be required watching for every single american adult. it's an unbelievable walk through the fraud that caused the economic crash in 2008...documentary style. i think artistically, it could have been more enjoyable. but info-wise it was super. everyone needs to take a minute and digest what is in this movie!

I get super excited this time of year, because my city shows free classic movies outdoors every Sunday for about 9 weeks. The first one was Lover Come Back with Rock Hudson and Doris Day. I found it really quite funny!

Last week was The Trouble With Harry, which is a Hitchcock film, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Of course, that may have had something to do with me accidentally falling asleep in my chair. Ahem. (I was really tired).

The next one up will be The Shop Around The Corner with James Stewart. I can't wait for that one!

oh this is such a great thing you have, helen! i wish more towns would have something like this. now, remind me. which one is "lover come back"? i love doris day with rock hudson...but i think my fave of those is pillow talk. i can't remember lover come back! what's the plot? i don't think i missed seeing any. ha! the trouble with harry is really good! shirley maclaine, right? she's so wonderful. the shop around the corner, i haven't seen, and now i want to. i'm a big jimmy stewart fan. so glad you like the old movies!

Lisa, it's probably best to read this summary of Lover Come Back than me try to explain the plot and get it all mixed up! Lover Come Back at IMDb.

 

Shop Around The Corner I'm looking forward to. It was remade into You've Got Mail, but obviously each version will have its own unique charm.

The Shop Around The Corner was delightful. Jimmy Stewart was a real sweetheart in the end.

 

Next up in the movies under the stars series: Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder. 

Just saw 'Source Code' on Saturday night, and it was excellent! Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farmiga. It's an action, adventure, drama, romance, and science fiction all rolled into a very cool premise. Would certainly recommend this one!! It's an ingenious thriller!!

thanks for that, maryrose! that's alot from a movie...action, adventure, drama, romance, AND science fiction! LOL! i have been so out of it where movies are concerned. i'm grateful to hear what people suggest on here. i have a few rented that i can't seem to find time to see. i'm still the only person who hasn't seen the social network. on my list for soon..

oh, helen, young frankenstein is just so so funny! you'll love it!

thanks to lisa i now know about all this stuff you guys are up to in here. young frankenstein, nothin' like it. very wonderful motion picture.

peter sellers movie: 'being there'

you know, matthew, i think i have never seen "being there". how is that possible? what's it about?

it's entirely possible that you have not seen it, or even heard of it. made in the seventies, which i will pen right now as "the great impression" , being there was sellers last film. his character's name is chance. he is thrust into the world, and the world stsarts to look a bit different.

now, i will tell you that some find the film slow moving, and in a planned way, it is, especially when set next to movies now. i did not think that. check it out, if you can find it.

i will do that, thanks....something tells me shirley maclaine might be in it. i heard her talking recently and think she mentioned it. i love her...i think she is one of the best actresses. speaking of, if i ever get some other work done around here, i'm ready to see "the apartment" .  i want to sit and see it all the way through. it's one of those i have seen bits and pieces of...

yes, shirley maclaine is a cast member. her freestyle of performing works well in the film.

'the apartment'. jack lemmon?

yes! jack lemmon. directed by billy wilder and nominated for a gazillion academy awards. i think it's the kind of thing that i would really like...great actors, great director. great writing. alot of older films were written like plays, and they work so much better watching them all in one sitting than current films that depend on visuals where you can watch "parts" of the titanic and enjoy the parts. i like the dialogue in stuff like "the apartment"...have you seen it? i have a feeling you'd like it too.

i never saw "an education"....i'm going to make it a point if you liked it that much, mariah. who is in it?

thanks, mariah! i'll do that. i like emma thompson alot. alfred molina too. ...as for movies i would recommend, oh i love so many. you're younger than i am, so i'm not sure what you've seen. here are some faves of mine, but i have way more fave than just these...

"to kill a mockingbird" with gregory peck. all time super movie.

"dead poet's society" with robin williams

"the philadelphia story" with katharine hepburn, jimmy stewart, and cary grant"

"moonstruck" with cher, nicholas cage

"the seven year itch" with marilyn monroe

"nell" with liam neeson, jodie foster...

"places in the heart" with sally field

soooo many, mariah. give me an idea what you like, and i can narrow it down! ;-)

A relatively new one last night.  Leo DiCaprio in Inception.  In a word...huh????  Jack said - in the very beginning, in response to my "This is going to be one of THOSE movies, isn't it?" - "One we're too stupid to watch??"

Last night we watched the Ridley Scott, "Robin Hood", with Russel Crowe.  I was pleasantly surprised!!  It was like the pre-story to the story we all know.  Very action-packed, some really good characters, very good story!  I think, worth renting :-)

sitting here working with matthew and he says to tell everybody to check out "the next three days" with russell crowe...good!

@ Mary Rose - I loved that in Scott's version, one of the members of Robin's "merry men"  is the member of one of our favorite bands!  (Another being played by one of my favorite ER actors, Scott Grimes).  Alan Doyle, of the band Great Big Sea, played Allan A'Dayle! 

 

@ Elle--thanks for the info!  I loved his 'band' of merry men!!  Really enjoyed the film :-)

it is amazing how many things a person can do, or at least attempt to do without having any real qualification. some examples: a writer of songs(actually, any kinda writer), and...,well..., hell, just take my word for it. I am giving up so fast because I am lazy and I don't wanna think anymore, and cause it's writing about something that is the reason I brought it up in the first place.

OK, so I am going to share a thought or two about the.. 'movie', 'the help'. I liked it. more than I thought I would. I was skeptical because you don't know going into a movie that addresses race, whether or not them that wrote/made it, are going to know what they are doing. this is not to suggest that i would know how, just to suggest that there are things to know. so, going in, I was wondering. turns out, I didn't need to wonder. the thoughtful people responsible for the film already know how to share an incredible story. was it perfect? what is? exactly! but did they get it right? in my unqualified opinion, they did. am I purposely not really saying anything here? in a way, yes. partly cause I don't want to give away a single thing, and partly cause I can't. I can't know what you are bringing to it. can't know your experience, your expectation. all I really care to say is I liked it. I liked that characters developed before my eyes. I enjoyed being nervous, embarrassed, tearful, hopeful, broken hearted, outraged, enraged, soothed, and forgiven. I liked being in the theatre with my mother and sisters. I liked being there with everybody. I liked going to a good movie. a movie where something wrong meets head on with something strong. and the strong absorbs the pain and fear and disinformation and rumor and misunderstanding and impatience and ignorance, of the wrong. sucks it all right in. no problem making room for all that. strong says: gimme all you got! cause strong wants to taste it, cause strong can take it. strong coined the phrase: 'strong stomach'. strong is: 'strong constitution, 'strong will', "STRONG OF FAITH".
no thing can end Love. Love does not come undone. you cannot unexsist something that even the most denied of us still have access to.

mk

what a wonderful review, matthew! the people who made the movie should see what you said, because although i haven't seen it at all, i think your comments are the highest things anyone can say about ANY story! now i have to go see it....thanks so much for this!

the trailer for "The Help"

Wow, Matthew. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love that your 'review' really resounds with the human experience of movies and art in general. It touches on one my favourite topics, that things and people only take on the meaning that we bring to it. And, the viewer is just as important as the art work itself in the experience, and in creating the meaning that is produced from their meeting.

Also, now I really want to go see that movie! :)

I made a comment here. can't see it. I'll be back when i find it

your review of "the help" is here, matthew. and then the comment saying you'll be back is here. but there isn't another one .....

I know. I responded to Helen. I will rewrite when i have found the water key and have doused the flower boxes adorning the window, or would that be other way round?

ha!

thanks Helen. I was tired when i put that together, but in the end, I more or less said what I intended. when it comes to so many things, safety pinning words to an idea/emotion/conception, can be like bowling. you wait for the feeling to come over you that says: 'move toward the lane, go now, your chakras are at their best levels at this instant. it's not gonna get any better in the next few seconds, besides, people are waiting, if you linger/hover any longer, you will just be a fool holding a bowling ball' mk

my new motto: carpe diem or you'll be a fool holding a bowling ball..:-))

Ha! Love it Matthew + Lisa. Matthew, I love the way you put things. Poetic and playful but also very relevant and insightful.

a couple of things. one, the movie "the debt" is at the theaters now. I hope to see it soon cause I like the idea of it and the thought of watching helen mirran and others in the film. take note that a 1998 version of this film is being shown "on demand", Comcast/xfinity. also, another film "win win", Paul giamati, et al, also "on demand". liked them both.

helen mirren is so good in everything, isn't she? i really liked her in "the queen". i think screen actors are particularly good when you can see them thinking. and she's so good at that.

Just watched No Way Out with Sidney Poitier. I realised that it's the first Poitier movie I've ever seen. I thought it was quite incredible and stands up even to this day.