To answer these trivia questions, please email me at scinema@earthlink.net.
Brain Teasers:
In which Italian Western does our hero pour nitroglycirine into whiskey bottles to use like hand grenades?
It is IL SUO NOME GRIDAVA VENDETTA, aka THE MAN WHO CRIED FOR REVENGE.
In which Italian Western does our hero throw double sixes before killing four gunmen?
No one has answered this question yet.
In which American Western does Sidney Poitier shoot an actor who appeared in Italian Westerns?
Bertrand van Wonterghem, Angel Rivera and George Grimes knew that it was BUCK AND THE PREACHER in which he shoots Cameron Mitchell.
In which Italian Western does our hero shoot the crutches our from under an old man who is accusing him of being a criminal?
No one has answered this question yet.
In which movie does a wooden wall from THE MONGOLS fall down on Mark Forest?
Charles Gilbert knew that it was MACISTE NELL'INFERNO DI GENGIS KHAN, aka HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS.
And now for some new brain teasers:
Which executive at MGM was responsible for distributing UN DOLLARO TRA I DENTI in the U.S.?
What reason did Frank Wolff give for accepting the role in UN DOLLARO TRA I DENTI?
What reason did Reg Lewis give for only doing one movie in Italy?
Name the movies from which these images came.
Bertrand van Wonterghem, Charles Gilbert and George Grimes identified last week's photo of Gisela Hahn, Elena Pedemonte and Terence Hill at the Monte Gelato falls in LO CHIAMAVANO TRINITA, aka THEY CALL ME TRINTY.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
George Grimes and Charles Gilbert identified last week's frame grab from MACISTE, GLADIATORE DI SPARTA, aka TERROR OF ROME AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES with Mark Forest, Elisabetta Fanti and Loris Loddi.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
George Grimes and Bertrand van Wonterghem identified last week's photo of Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato and Maurice Garrel in NADA, aka THE NADA GANG.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
George Grimes and Angel Rivera identified last week's photo of Tatsuya Nakadai and Tetsuro Tamba in GOYOKIN.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
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I am interested in knowing what movies you have watched and what you enjoyed or not. So please send me an email at scinema@earthlink.net if you'd like to share. Here's what I watched last week:
Enjoyed:
Swimming in Aushchwitz & After Aushchwitz (2017) - Director Jon Kean gets six female survivors of the Nazi concentration camps to recount their stories of life before, during and after World War 2. The women include Renee Firestone, Erika Jacoby, Lili Majzner, Eva Beckmann, Rena Drexler and Linda Sherman. Among the horrific stories are reports of Russian soldiers raping women after "liberating" Aushchwitz and of Polish citizens murdering returning Jews after the war. These six women would end up overcoming the challenges of coming to the United States.
TREBLINKA'S LAST WITNESS, aka DEATH CAMP TREBLINKA: SURVIVOR STORIES (2012) - Directors Dollan Cannell and Spike Geilinger fashion a thrilling document of Samuel Willenberg's survival during World War 2. It is augmented by the story of Kalman Taigman and her story of survival and how they found each other after the war. Their daughter, Orit Willenberg-Giladi, would go on to be the architect who designed the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.
Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted (2015) - Tig Notaro became famous when she addressed the diagnosis of cancer in both breasts during her show on August 3, 2012. Comedian Louis C.K. convinced her to make the show available on iTunes where it became a hit. Subsequently, Notaro had a double mastectomy and decided to have no reconstructive surgery. In this hour-long HBO special, Notaro takes off her shirt about halfway through the show and talks about how a female TSA woman was confused during a pat-down as to whether she was a woman or not.
Wishful Drinking (2010) - Carrie Fisher and Joshua Ravetch began working on Fisher's autobiographical one-woman show in 2007. After live performances around the United States and a run on Broadway, HBO made a film version in 2010.
Did not enjoy:
ELOISE (2016) - When this monotious and confusing Horror flick ends, one immediately thinks "They couldn't have intended to make this mess. Surely writer Christopher Borrelli had something else in mind." With partial financing from the Michigan film incentive subsidy, thus "filmed in Pure Michigan", this movie uses an actual famous hospital as the location for the standard "haunted asylum" shenanigans, but then ends the film with a disclaimer: "During the operation of the Eloise Hospital Complex as a sanatorium and hospital it was considered one of the foremost treatment centers in the world. It was well known and respected for its ethical and charitable treatment of its residents. While Eloise is an actual place, the events and characters that were portrayed in the picture are fictional. The Producers acknowledge that this fictional story line does not reflect any method of treatment or care that was provided by the faculty during the time that it was open as a functioning sanatorium or hospital." There have been plenty of movies about asylums run by sadistic doctors that torture patients for research, so why did the filmmakers think that besmirching the reputation of a real place was a good idea? It is not like Eloise has the notability of Bellevue, so why use its name? Award-winning visual effects supervisor Robert Legato is given the chance to direct this film and he fills it with many lighting tricks but has no sense of how to tell a story. After setting up that Chance Crawford has a reason to break into the hospital's archives to try and find his aunt's death certificate so that he can more easily collect on his dead father's inheritance, and that he's got to drag Brandon T. Jackson, P.J. Byrne and Eliza Dushku along with him, the film suddenly sends everyone on a time travel adventure in which evil doctor Robert Patrick has them in his clutches. Crawford ends up seeing his own birth from the woman, Nicole Forester, he thought was his aunt, finds out that Patrick is his father, and that Dushku, as a child, helped to smuggle him out of the hospital into the waiting arms of the man he thought was his father, but was actually his uncle. Dushku escapes back to the present where she becomes a mental patient. Crawford got dragged back into the past where Patrick declares him dead and seals him up in the morgue as a cure for his claustrophobia. Huh? Did the filmmakers think that shooting everything almost entirely in the dark with a whole lot of lightning effects would create suspense? If you, like me, wanted to see this in order to look at Eliza Dushku, then pass this by for she is hardly visible for most of the film.
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David Deal Enjoyed:
SMUGGLERS OF DEATH (59) - Cold War Czech film about border guards trying to keep smuggling under control. Surprisingly effective with good visuals and compelling characters.
I WANT HIM DEAD (68)
THE PHANTOM OF HOLLYWOOD (74)
UNEARTHLY STRANGER (63)
HAND OF POWER (68)
Mildly enjoyed:
THE THIRD VISITOR (51)
BEYOND THE CURTAIN (60)
NO TIME TO DIE (21)
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Angel Rivera Watched:
I went to my collection and pulled out my favorite "Zatoichi" film and one I think is his best or one that should be considered his best, "Zatoichi Challenged"(1967).
The story has Zatoichi make a promise to a dying mother; to take her son to meet his father. Zatoichi then travels with this about six year old boy to meet a father he has never met and a father who did not know he had a son from his one night affair. The father turns out to be an artist being forced to paint what are considered to be artwork on decorative plates that are considered by the emperor as obscene and therefore illegal. Enter Akazuka, who at first appears to be a ronin samurai, but who in reality (spoiler alert) is an agent of the emperor traveling undercover and is assigned to stamp out the illegal artwork and every one involved in their manufacture. Zatoichi is put in the position of having to defend the father of the son he has just reunited as Akazuka is hell bent on killing everyone involved with the illegal artwork and that includes the artist. Zatoichi goes to all lengths to protect the artist who along with a woman who was helping him, are seen by Zatoichi as the chance for his young charge to have a family. This is one of the few times in the series where Zatoichi meets a formidable foe and one who is not totally evil as Akazuka sees it as his duty to execute the artist at all costs. (Spoiler alert) So he does not meet the usual end of those who go up against Zatoichi; although the film does play fast and loose with the outcome of their battle. The End of the film has a bit of a ripoff element from "Shane"(1953) as the little boy chases after Zatoichi who must return to his wanderings for another adventure and therefore must hide from the boy in order exit the story.
The other film is one of my favorite Universal Horrors: namely "The Invisible Man" (1933) Claude Rains shines in his screen debut. and his voice dominates the film. One of the best.
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Bertrand van Wonterghem Highly enjoyed:
Gukyeongi / Inspector Koo – season 1 – episodes 9 to 12
La belle américaine (1961, Robert Dhéry et Pierre Tchernia)
RocknRolla (2008, Guy Ritchie)
Enjoyed:
Agent 505 Todesfalle Beirut (1966, Manfred R. Köhler)
Gangcheolbi / Steel rain (2017, Tang Woo-seok)
Damen i svart (1958, Arne Mattsson)
Inside job (anime) – season 1 – episodes 3 & 4
Mildly enjoyed:
Korea, the never-ending war (doc) (2019, John Maggio)
Did not enjoy:
Vendo cara la pelle (1968, Ettore M. Fizzarotti)
Education sentimentale (1962, Alexandre Astruc)
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Charles Gilbert watched:
THE DEADLY DUO (1962) B&W. Down-on-his-luck lawyer Preston Morgan (Craig Hill) is enticed by wealthy heitess to get custody of her only grandson from her widowed daughter-in-law (Marcia Henderdon). The boy's mother has a conniving twin sister who schemes to get the half million from the deal. Robert Lowery works again with director Reginald Le Borg.
THE SCARLETT WEB (1954) B&W. British crime film with Hazel Court who plays an insurance agent who helps an ex con.
THE HILLS RUN RED (1966) After serving time cowboy Thomas Hunter, with a little help from Dan Dureya, goes after a former partner and gang that caused the death of his wife and orphaned his son, Loris Loddi. Henry Silva in his most riotous form.
CHICAGO SYNDICATE (1955) B&W. Fred F. Sears and Clover Productions normally making sci fi turn to noir with Dennis O'Keefe as an accountant going undercover to break the syndicate during the 50's. Interesting that they incorporate the husband and wife team Xavier Cougat and Abbe Lane as main characters. She is upstaged by Allison Hayes playing the good girl.
Interview with Dawn Moore whose father was Clayton (Thw Lone Ranger) Moore.
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