What was the last movie you saw?

[paranoid marvin]

Nightmare (1956) Police detective Rene Bressard (Edward G. Robinson) is confronted by his brother-in-law Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy), who is extremely upset about a nightmare of the previous night, in which he had killed a man, and, upon awakening, found several small items that he saw in the nightmare, and which he had seen nowhere before. Moreover, he had several bruises that he could not recall where or when they happened, other than during the nightmare. Despite Bressard's reasoning, and reassurances, Grayson is certain he had killed a man.

This was shown as part of TCM's dreams subject, several weeks ago.

What a mystery! Absolutely wonderful!

9/10

Hey this sounds great, thanks for mentioning it.

EGR is one of the most underrated actors of all time.

 

[hitmouse]

Ghostbusters Afterlife in which the single mother estranged daughter of Egon Spengler ( Harold Ramis in the original films) and her 2 teenage children are evicted from their city apartment and move to small town Oklahoma where the just-deceased Spengler lived a reclusive life since the 1980s. Ghosts, etc.
What a disappointment. I have no problem with distant sequels per se, but this one appears to have been written by focus group, full of millennial angst and heartwarming stuff, lazy character development, and unimaginative plotting. And not funny. Basically lacking the stuff which made the originals so good. Missed opportunity.

 

[Jeffbert]

8½ (1963) A film about a guy making a film. Weird; it melds dreams with reality; supposed to be a comedy; though I did not laugh much.
Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) Claudia (Claudia Cardinale) as his ideal woman.

Supporting cast/characters:
Luisa Anselm (Anouk Aimée), Guido's estranged wife; Carla (Sandra Milo) Guido's mistress; Gloria Morin (Barbara Steele).

I did not enjoy this as I expected; 6/10; my opinion only.

 

[Eyeball]

I watched my DVD of Brando's 'One Eyed Jacks' yet again, it surely ranks up there as one of the greatest westerns ever made..-

 

[KGeo777]

I am curious about Nightmare 1956 also.


M U T A N T -- 1984 - Heard of it but had not seen before. Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins vs burning hot zombies. Kind of goofy in parts but diverting enough for one of the earliest of the Romero-influenced zombie films.

 

[Vince W]

Nosferatu (1922). Dark and moody and certainly a classic but the most incredible aspect of the film is when Hutter dashes off a letter to his wife, Ellen, while at Orlock’s castle and flags down some random peasant giving him the letter and expecting it to be delivered. Which it then is. Remarkable. Clearly not part of the Royal Mail.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

The Electric State (2025) - This was entertaining, and heart wrenching as well. I liked the aesthetic of the robots too. The critics score on Rotten Tomatoes is bad (15%) but the audience score is better (71%). It didn't blow me away, but it was worth a watch and I enjoyed it.

 

[Eyeball]

Nosferatu (1922). Dark and moody and certainly a classic but the most incredible aspect of the film is when Hutter dashes off a letter to his wife, Ellen, while at Orlock’s castle and flags down some random peasant giving him the letter and expecting it to be delivered. Which it then is. Remarkable. Clearly not part of the Royal Mail.

My late mother told me that when she and her sister Ivy were teenagers they went to see Nosferatu at the local cinema in the 1930's, and it terrified poor Ivy so much that her mam had to sit dozing all night in a chair in Ivy's bedroom holding her hand.

 

[Eyeball]

Incidentally, when The Exorcist (1973) was first shown on TV some years ago I laughed all the way through because I regarded it as comic horror,
but later I asked my sister and her niece (ages about 50 and 30 respectively at the time) what they thought of it and they said "We didn't dare watch it".
At first I thought they were joking, but no, they really are still scared to watch it..
(PS- my sisters aunt was Ivy, so perhaps she's inherited her fear)

Below: anti-gravity in the Exorcist-

 

[Starbeast]

Incidentally, when The Exorcist (1973) was first shown on TV some years ago I laughed all the way through because I regarded it as comic horror,

You should see the uncut release. I saw it in the theater, and it was truly disturbing. My friend kept burying her face in my coat when a graphic horror scene popped up.

 

[paranoid marvin]

You should see the uncut release. I saw it in the theater, and it was truly disturbing. My friend kept burying her face in my coat when a graphic horror scene popped up.

I saw it when I was about 13 or 14. The music, the atmosphere... truly chilling.

 

[Eyeball]

'The Stone Tape' should carry a warning for nervous people because it's classic intelligent adult horror.
SPOILER ALERT-A small high-tech electronics team move into a big old country house to work on their projects but soon discover the place has a resident ghost in the form of a chambermaid who fell screaming to her death from the top of a flight of stone steps a hundred years or so ago.
Fascinated, they switch all their efforts into investigating and trying to trigger the phenomenon with their equipment.
However, they forget to wonder what made her fall in the first place...

SPOILER ALERT AGAIN-The ghost puts in its first appearance at 13:40
At 1:08:20 Their computer apparently prints out a warning not to dabble in the occult.

 

[KGeo777]

JOE KIDD - 1972 -- There's something generic about this one. I can't remember it well after viewing. Some movies are like that. It does have locations that reminds me the most of the spaghetti westerns that Eastwood had made.

 

[KGeo777]

THE TRAP SHUTS AT MIDNIGHT - 1966 - Thieves steal a nitro-truck and then a bigger thief steals the nitro from them so he can blackmail the city to give him a million. FBI man Jerry Cotton is on the case courtesy of extensive backdrop photography.

 

[paranoid marvin]

'The Stone Tape' should carry a warning for nervous people because it's classic intelligent adult horror.
SPOILER ALERT-A small high-tech electronics team move into a big old country house to work on their projects but soon discover the place has a resident ghost in the form of a chambermaid who fell screaming to her death from the top of a flight of stone steps a hundred years or so ago.
Fascinated, they switch all their efforts into investigating and trying to trigger the phenomenon with their equipment.
However, they forget to wonder what made her fall in the first place...

SPOILER ALERT AGAIN-The ghost puts in its first appearance at 13:40
At 1:08:20 Their computer apparently prints out a warning not to dabble in the occult.

Yes it's a very good programme, and well worth checking out. The 'theory' that previous events could be recorded onto stone and replayed was named after this programme.

 

[pogopossum]

Interstellar.
Due to it being the film's tenth anniversary it has been getting a lot of buzz. I heard two NPR treatments plus a written piece each of which extolled its creativity and science, I saw it soon after it came out and it was the consensus of the people I talked with at the SF Marathon (where I saw it) that the plot threads were tangled and difficult to follow and the science, presented as a major theme, was at best not believable even as extrapolation.
Due to the hype my spouse was intrigued so we watched it again. Great acting however the rest of my earlier opinion held. Spouse also had a negative reaction. I won't go on as I am sure that most people here have seen it and my opinions are not going to change yours.
Still, even after ten years, a disappointment.

 

[Jeffbert]

The Anderson Tapes (1971) A newly released ex-convict John Anderson (Sean Connery) immediately seeks to pull-off a massive robbery of a high-class & high security apartment building, targeting money, art work, etc. As soon as he leaves prison, scenes depicting audio recording are interspersed with scenes covering the plot. But, who is doing the recording?

supporting cast/characters:
Ingrid Everleigh (Dyan Cannon); Tommy Haskins (Martin Balsam); Edward X. Delaney (Ralph Meeker, who has the nickname of "Iron Balls"; Rocco Parelli (Val Avery), nicknamed 'Socks'; Sgt. Everson (Garrett Morris; 5 years before SNL!); Kurt Spencer (Christopher Walken) aka “The Kid”; Miss Kaler (Margaret Hamilton; the WW of the W).

 

[Eyeball]

Interstellar.
..Still, even after ten years, a disappointment..

I've got it on DVD and have to get it out for a "fix" every now and again..
It's one of the few sci-fi films that features the dramatic effects of time dilation; for example a few of the crew shuttle down to a planet which is in the immense gravitational pull of a nearby black hole.
When they shuttle back to the mothership they find that the crew member who stayed aboard has aged 23 years earth-time !

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

At home we watched a DVD collection of the films of French director Jean Vigo, who died of leukemia at a very young age.

À propos de Nice (1930) -- short silent film made up of random images of the resort named in the title, contrasting the pleasures of the rich with the working class.

La Natation par Jean Taris, champion de France (1931) -- short sound film in which the swimming champion named in the title demonstrates his techniques.

Zéro de conduite (1933) -- Rebellious schoolkids engage in anarchic pranks against the schoolmasters. Banned in France until 1945.

L'Atalante (1934) -- Woman marries a fellow who operates a barge, runs off from him, then comes back. Along for the ride are a cabin boy and an older, eccentric worker and his many cats.

All very nicely filmed.

 

[KGeo777]

BRANNIGAN - 1975 - John Wayne in his own version of Coogan's Bluff crossed with Dirty Harry, as a cop sent to England to fetch criminal John Vernon but he also has to elude an assassin.
Wayne is assisted by Judy Geeson and Richard Attenborough who despite his desire to keep to British legal procedure ends up involved in a bar fight.

Released 50 years ago today.