Altered States (1980). Apparently, somebody gave Paddy Chayefsky an odd idea: write a darkly comic version of the third act of 2001: A Space Odyssey . William Hurt plays a college professor who as a student was interested in sensory deprivation tanks and what the experience is like. Years later as ...

Not all prints of Spellbound have the red tinting in that scene.

kingrat wrote: ↑May 10th, 2024, 10:30 am If you are a Thelma Ritter fan, The Model and the Marriage Broker is a must. I think it was shown on TCM once before. Thelma has the leading role, although Jeanne Crain has top billing.

Don't forget sex symbol Nancy Kulp!

UEFA Champions League Semifinal Second Leg: Real Madrid v. Bayern München (2024)

Sport often offers more real drama than anything a Hollywood movie can make. 8/10 if you're a neutral; 0/10 if you're a fan of the team I am.

As for suicide on film, I don't know that the scene itself is visually great or well-acted, but there's a suicide in The Big Heat that really drives the plot.

Budd Dwyer is the greatest suicide on videotape.

The least Palance could've done was off himself properly like a shot in the head. Instead he goes up to the bathroom and stabs himself leaving a bloody mess all over the bathroom with the water overflowing for others to clean up! NO CONSIDERATION! https://youtu.be/vbF_MEsULCY?si=mQ0fYmepVFLgKU2b&am...

I hadn't seen Rebecca in a long time until it was on TCM a while back. It's a rather silly though fairly enjoyable as entertaining fluff. And suave George Sanders chowing down on a chicken leg. Both the leading men of Rebecca and Marnie are kind of jackasses. Larry goes to pieces at the least littl...

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 8:06 pm I am still recovering from PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.

Oy vey.

Not the best choice.....

Thus endeth BRONXGIRL'S COMPLAINT.

Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Parallel stories of donkey and French village girl each suffering unrelenting cases of "sh!t happens". This is one of those movies where I wonder what the critics who select the films for lists like the Sight and Sound all-time lists are smoking. It's not a bad...

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 3:42 pm Trying again:

JAWS (1975) Are there different cuts of this film? Does Mrs Kintner slap or spit?

Or swallow?

Your 1999 selections aren't pretentious arthouse films.

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑April 29th, 2024, 4:12 pm

Truthfully, Shearer and Howard both give marvelous performances in the 1936 version.

What about Andy Devine and Edna May Oliver?

You can't fool me; that's where you have the dead bodies buried. :-p

Andree wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2024, 8:18 pm

Fedya wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2024, 6:08 pm
Did they stuff twenties down the car's waistband too?

Same word, somewhat different definition.