What are some of your favorite movie partnerships, be it actor and director, producer and director, or on screen pairings that just work that lose their magic when apart?
@filmfileuk Also, the collaborations between Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten make for a pretty remarkable list: Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man, Touch of Evil.
But they did both do good work separate from one another, of course.
Idle Thought: Now that shows (movies) consisting of 8-10 eps are common on streaming services, I think it's time they took up the challenge of such long, complex books such as "Rendezvous With Rama" and Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon."
Rama is timeless, and the 1990s tech-based Cryptonomicon holds up nicely.
If they can do a needless remake of Shogun, surely these two and others can be made.
I'd like a series based Arthur C. Clarke stories. And you could start with the one about the bus on the moon that falls into a dust hole and has to be rescued
#introduction hi, not used to write things on the net in general. usually don't see the point in participating, when everything is commercialized. maybe this will be different. anyways, I like #gardening with a scythe #nativeplants | some very casual #birdwatching | taking care of my #cats | using #foss and #linux | watching #movies | hope to talk to some of you, let's see where this will lead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(1945_film)
poster language: German
I have never heard of this one. Wikipedia tells me that it's the only Bogart/Greenstreet where Bogart is the bad guy? Sorry for the spoiler. Also there's a cameo by the Falcon?
@FilmNoirPosters Maybe the only Bogart/Greenstreet film with Bogart as the villain, but not his only villain role I'm sure. I remember seeing The Desperate Hours on TV where he plays a crook who holds a family captive.
There are many alternate castings or directors that were attached to projects but left before filming began, and there are flops that should have been hits, or vice versa.
But what alternate possibilities are ones you'd have loved to see play out and why?
in an age where dumping $2k on a new machine means going from one i7 revision to another for a 9% improvement in speed, upgrading my 1980s JVC vhs player to a late 90s Sony SLV-778HF is like being catapulted to the moon
@thoughtpunks There's this soft-spoken indie folksy band called Hem. I've no idea how popular they are. I came across them on Pandora, and they haven't left my head since. Just such beauty and mournfulness and emotional power. Sometimes, when I'm in just the right mood, they can move me to tears.
This contrasts with my usual taste, which is rock and metal.
Streaming services are becoming less attractive because of rising prices and companies removing content, which is sending people back to piracy. So now the industry is trying to pass laws to penalize digital piracy again.
The African movie, "Heart of the Hunter", based on a #DeonMeyer novel, just made history by being the first African Film to debut in the top spot in English-language films on the #Netflix Top 10 weekly rankings.
Oh hey, the original Alien is coming back to Theaters for a run. Never seen it (I'll fix that this time around) but good gaming material to watch here.