My Darling Clementine

[karma]

Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin; any fans here? Charlie did few Westerns I believe.
And Marilyn was starring in a couple of westerns as well.

Woody Allen's films; any fans?

'Blazing Saddles' directed by Mel Brooks; that's another great Western. Lol :b

HI North,
Woody drives me nuts with his rapid fire humor. But, he does manage to get me to laugh. He has, IMO, a unique mind. Not a big fan but I watch him when I get the chance. And I like some of his early low budget stuff. I own only Annie Hall.

Marilyn, to me, is just a centerfold. The only thing close to being enjoyable for me was Some Like It Hot. Otherwise she is just another time waster.

I do like Blazing Saddles but it's a type of humor that I have a hard time with. I don't consider it a western. It's a comedy that ran out of costume funds and used what it could find. And what it found was a bunch of cowboy hats. This is part of its charm.

Sparky

 

[NorthStar]

Funny though; we talk 'bout Hollywood's history with their stars and all that Jazz...
But we forget to talk 'bout Japanese cinema (grandiose spectacles with high values), French cinema (true cinephiles, artists of their arts), Italian cinema (Fellini, Bertolucci, Leone...), German
cinema, and all the International community of Cinema evolution and revolution in the world....

American cinema is one (Hollywood & $$$), Canadian cinema is different, etc.

Cheers,
Bob

 

[karma]

Funny though; we talk 'bout Hollywood's history with their stars and all that Jazz...
But we forget 'bout the Japanese cinema, the French cinema, the German cinema,
and all the International community of Cinema evolution and revolution in the world....

American cinema is one, Canadian cinema is different, etc.

Cheers,
Bob

HI North,
I can't speak with any authority about most foreign films but I do think you are right. I have 5 or 6 Japanese films and I plan to acquire more. British films offer some terrific stuff, "The Red Shoes" being my current favorite. French at the moment is beyond my experience but I do plan to explore them. Canadian.....well??? Australian films also offers some great stuff.

I'm convinced that the scope of film collecting is infinite. One has to make choices if only because I only have so much storage space.

Sparky

Sparky

 

[Mike]

I realy like Rio Bravo, which has John Wayne and Dean Martin. Another great is The Maginificent Seven, though Northstar will be able tell us more about the movie from Japan that it was derived.

 

[NorthStar]

Well, you guys certainly know a thing or two regarding the Seven Samurai,
directed by the famous Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa...

I still love to stay on-topic though with that great thread's title; My Darling Clementine. :b
Did you guys know that John Ford was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin?

 

[Mike]

Well, you guys certainly know a thing or two regarding the Seven Samurai,
directed by the famous Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa...

I still love to stay on-topic though with that great thread's title; My Darling Clementine. :b
Did you guys know that John Ford was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin?

It would be difficult to believe that any director from that time would not be a fan of Chaplin. Did you know that Chaplin came in second (or third) in a Charlie Chaplin contest in San Francisco?

 

[NorthStar]

It would be difficult to believe that any director from that time would not be a fan of Chaplin. Did you know that Chaplin came in second (or third) in a Charlie Chaplin contest in San Francisco?

Lol touche!

 

[karma]

HI All,
Kurosawa's Rashomon is a very interesting and great picture. It's a story within a story within an enigma. Toshiro Mifune was excellent as he always is. I'm coming to think he was one of the worlds great actors. What I like most about these early Japanese pictures is their subtle play on human nature. I think they were far ahead of the pictures produced at the same time by American film makers. I wonder why this is. Maybe it is just Kurosawa's genius.

The same is true with Seven Samurai which, of course, is the mother of the Magnificent Seven but better, more real, more palpable.

Another thing I really like about Kurosawa is his eye for photography and visual delight. He is expert at letting the photography support the theme and feel of the action. But sometimes his images become the story itself. Another film that does a great job of this is The House of Flying Daggers. Great stuff. Interesting that both of these examples are from oriental film makers.

I'm much less impressed with John Ford's photography in general but I'll admit that he has his great moments. However, his images of Monument Valley are consistently terrific. It's like a symphony of magnificent images not ever better done by nature photographers who are specialists in the field.

Sparky

 

[NorthStar]

Japanese Cinema and its great directors like Kurosawa, have a much higher emphasis on spectacles of grandiose human values and colors. Valors are in the foreground...

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French people are true cinema lovers in its full artistic presentation, unlike American people who value money more, in general.

Take for example 'Once Upon a Time in the West'; it had a running time of 48 months in one of the main French Theaters in Paris, when it was released! And it was the full version too, unedited!

In America, it was badly edited (didn't make any sense except for the dollar sign), and it was very short live at the theaters. It just wasn't a popular movie; even if it was a Masterpiece!

Bertolucci, Fellini, Leone, Tornatore, ... we don't have Cinema Artist Masters like them here in America.
And the French (France) cinema, just wow! True art form.
...And the Japanese cinema as well with human values...

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* Just look at Italian cars, and loudspeakers! ...Paintings and Sculptures.... Clothing & shoes...