The Italian Job
Typical madcap 60's comedy starring Michael Caine. Not great cinema, but thoroughly enjoyable.
Typical madcap 60's comedy starring Michael Caine. Not great cinema, but thoroughly enjoyable.
The Sheepman, 1958 oater
Just watched this one the other day. Glenn Ford and a very young Shirley Maclaine. Great fun.
I like that one too, but for Miss MacLaine, my favorite is The Apartment.My favorite Shirley MacLaine movie is still her first film, Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry.
I like that one too, but for Miss MacLaine, my favorite is The Apartment.
A classic. One of the most quotable movies of all time IMO. Right up there with Caddyshack and Slapshot. Billy Crystal and Paul Shaffer are both excellent in their small roles.Check out This is Spinal Tap from 1984, many of the same folks and it is a mockumentary of a rock band. One of my favorites and it has Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer as the band.
Billy Wilder, the director, was brilliant. His films, at least the ones from about 1944 through to 1966 or so, leave you with a specific flavor, an after-impression in your mind, as it were. Sunset Boulevard is another great one, darker still; Spirit of St. Louis w/ Jimmy Stewart playing Lindbergh; Witness for the Prosecution with Charles Laughton . . . dynamite films. And I have yet to see Stalag 17 and others that he directed, wrote, or both.Coincidentally we just saw The Apartment last night. I can see why it won so many Academy Awards. Great on many levels. In a general sense it starts light hearted and slowly gets darker and more serious. Shirley MacLaine - I don't believe I have ever seen her in a movie. This one, she was outstanding. Filmed in 1960 one scene had Jack Lemmon refer to, "Computer Machines." They were not yet called, "Computers" in 1960. Great casting throughout, Fred McMurray and more.
I don't think I went to see that one. The second film, the unoriginal "remake" of Wrath of Khan, annoyed me. The casting in Abrams' Treks, I'll admit, has been great; Pine, Quinto, and Urban capture the look of the original Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. But there seems to be no imagination powering these films. Beautiful effects, lens flares on the bridge, but there is nothing like the original's excitement, no "Let's see what's out there!""Star Trek Beyond." Incomprehensible, as well as a criminal waste of Idris Elba's talent. I felt like I was trapped inside a bad video game with no way out. Visually abusive, and aurally unintelligible, how "Beyond" got released is beyond me.