Movies of the 30's and 40's

[Greg Anos]

And tonight's movie at Sir Edward's theatre is . . . the original The Italian Job, with Michael Caine. Showing starts in 30 minutes...

(On Days Like These....(Come sing with me, Zelda.))

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

And tonight's movie at Sir Edward's theatre is . . . the original The Italian Job, with Michael Caine. Showing starts in 30 minutes...

(On Days Like These....(Come sing with me, Zelda.))

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors orf!

Currently watching the amazing Hal Hartley movie - The Unbelievable Truth, starring the sadly departed (murdered) Adrienne Shelley.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Before DivX took down Stage6 you could watch all these films on there, including Arsenic and Old Lace. That film was made 65 years ago. It should not, by any reasonable person's standards, be still under Copyright. Oh well.

oh well indeed. i'm going to have to get those dvds back though because she also has my dvd of drôle de drame which is comedy genius (and if it's been translated we could add it to our list, it was made in 37) and i've been wanting to watch that one for months. grrr !!!!

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

And tonight's movie at Sir Edward's theatre is . . . the original The Italian Job, with Michael Caine. Showing starts in 30 minutes...

(On Days Like These....(Come sing with me, Zelda.))

oh, i won't sing with you (it rains too much here already) but i'll gladly share a bottle of wine / some popcorn (whichever)...

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh well indeed. i'm going to have to get those dvds back though because she also has my dvd of drôle de drame which is comedy genius (and if it's been translated we could add it to our list, it was made in 37) and i've been wanting to watch that one for months. grrr !!!!


oh, i won't sing with you (it rains too much here already) but i'll gladly share a bottle of wine / some popcorn (whichever)...

Please let me know drôle de drame has English subtitles. I would like to see it.

(I was raise in a Mexican barrios. I can barely speak Spanish. <except, of course, cursing>. I took two year of German in college. It's far worse. I just can't seem to be a polyglot. I want to be....)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Please let me know drôle de drame has English subtitles. I would like to see it.

(I was raise in a Mexican barrios. I can barely speak Spanish. <except, of course, cursing>. I took two year of German in college. It's far worse. I just can't seem to be a polyglot. I want to be....)

apparently amazon has it with english subtitles. it doesn't look like the same version i have (it's not the same cover i mean) but i can't remember whether mine had subtitles or not... and obviously i can't check right now.

and in case you're still wondering whether it's worth your time, here are the reviews :

Amazon.com
As its title suggests, Drôle de Drame is a very droll drama indeed. It's a farce, to be specific, deftly handled by director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, eight years before the release of their masterpiece, Children of Paradise. Surprisingly, this was the only box-office flop of Carné's early career, later recognized as a classic ahead of its time, comparable to American screwball comedy but subtler in wit and delivery. Set in Edwardian London and illustrating the absurd lengths that the social elite will go to preserve their privileged status, it follows the exploits of M. Molyneux (Michel Simon), who's accused of murdering his wife by his cousin (Louis Jouvet), a self-righteous bishop who denounces popular crime novels written by... well, it's best not to give too much away. Plot twists, romance, and an elegant parade of comedic circumstances make Drôle de Drame a real treat for Anglophiles, Francophiles, and cinephiles alike. No wonder critic Pauline Kael called it "Dadaist frivolity, with sequences one giggles over happily for years." --Jeff Shannon

Product Description
From the creators of Children of Paradise comes a screwball comedy about a vegetarian serial killer. When the Archbishop of Bedford suspects his eccentric cousin of poisoning his wife and disposing of the body, he sets off a wild and uproarious series of events spurred on by an upper-class disdain of scandal. A wonderful farce set in Edwardian London, this decidedly French comedy owes more to artifice and comic twists of plot reminiscent of René Clair and films like Le Million than the tragic pessimism found in the later work of Carné and Prévert such as Quai des Brumes or Children of Paradise.

and of course i recommend it enthusiastically. (she better give me my dvd back soon. )

[Moejoe]

Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux is also available...shall we say...elsewhere on the internets

[zelda_pinwheel]

oh ho ho !! i've just discovered that drôle de drame is actually based on a book (another one !) called The Lunatic At Large by Clouston, J. Storer, and it is available here !!!!

it has just shot to the top of my reading list.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh ho ho !! i've just discovered that drôle de drame is actually based on a book (another one !) called The Lunatic At Large by Clouston, J. Storer, and it is available here !!!!

it has just shot to the top of my reading list.

Something else to add to my list This time next year you'll be able to see that list, along with the Great Wall of China, from space

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Something else to add to my list This time next year you'll be able to see that list, along with the Great Wall of China, from space

i think mine is already visible.

[zelda_pinwheel]

guess what, it's also available on manybooks, and so is THE SEQUEL !!!! Count Bunker

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

guess what, it's also available on manybooks, and so is THE SEQUEL !!!! Count Bunker

Excellent! I'll have to read them before I watch the film

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

guess what, it's also available on manybooks, and so is THE SEQUEL !!!! Count Bunker

Books downloaded....

I'm loaning my list of things to be done as a thread for the Orbital Beanstalk.....

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

The action and dialogs in older movies always seemed to be timed so much tighter, in order to get the most into every second of filming. Sometimes you can accomplish in three quick cuts and five seconds what modern movies require a good half-minute to pull off. But if you do it right, it doesn't seem rushed or forced (though it did often seem a bit contrived).

[dreams]

Great Idea... Book and a Movie (kind of like our dinner and a movie channel here).

I downloaded Topper to read and thanks for the link to the movie, moejoe

I'd like to download the movie but can't figure out what file I need to download and / or if I need to burn it or can just play it with Windows Media Player or what

Are you going to sticky this for others to see?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by dreams

Great Idea... Book and a Movie (kind of like our dinner and a movie channel here).

I downloaded Topper to read and thanks for the link to the movie, moejoe

I'd like to download the movie but can't figure out what file I need to download and / or if I need to burn it or can just play it with Windows Media Player or what

Are you going to sticky this for others to see?

Download the open-source video player VLC (Videolan) and you can play any video file you want. Here's a linky - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

if you still want to use Windows Media Player, you'll need to install a Codec Pack to handle MPG4 video files. Here's one that's highly recommended - http://www.cccp-project.net/

If you have any problems, please let me know.