Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2533673 times)

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« Reply #1200 on: November 06, 2007, 01:52:27 pm »
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« Reply #1201 on: November 06, 2007, 01:52:59 pm »
==comment==

This is the first movie I ever remember having a crush on a character: the blond Russian sailor. Heck, I think I had a little bit of a crush on Alan Arkin, too. And the classic line, "E-mer-gency, e-mer-gency, everybody to get from street." I loved this movie and laughed and laughed. I wonder if it would seem as funny today?



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« Reply #1202 on: November 06, 2007, 01:57:00 pm »
Trivia from IMDb: 

The film was Francis Ford Coppola's $800,000 master's thesis at U.C.L.A film school in 1966.


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Re: "U" is Un homme et une femme
« Reply #1203 on: November 06, 2007, 02:39:55 pm »
AKA "A Man and a Woman" won the Oscar for best foreign language film, also best original screenplay.  Also won the palme d'or at Cannes (actually tied with "Signore e signori".)

I've never seen this film, yet I can remember hearing the indelibly Sixties theme music from quite a while back. That tune's been in my head a lot lately, for some reason.

I came across a color still of this film just yesterday, in a general history of world cinema, that showed Aimée at perhaps her loveliest in a composition of great elegance and sensuality. I've also never seen Jacques Demy's 1961 debut feature Lola, also starring Aimée, which is considered one of the breakthroughs of the French New Wave.
 

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« Reply #1204 on: November 06, 2007, 04:01:16 pm »
Sorry but Z is a toughie  :-\  ;)





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Re: ABCs at the Movies: Round 1965
« Reply #1205 on: November 06, 2007, 04:11:10 pm »
Let's drive into Round 1965!



Vintage 1965 Plymouth C Body Cars...anyone here (besides me) remember drive-ins?
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Re: ABCs at the Movies: Round 1966: DRIVE-INS
« Reply #1206 on: November 06, 2007, 04:17:12 pm »
==aside==

Yes, I remember drive-ins; they were in their last dying gasps when I was a child here in Texas. The last time I remember being at one was circa 1979, with my older cousins, at a drive-in in the Austin area, seeing some cheap exploitation movie (a la The Kentucky Fried Movie)--sometime thereafter, I believe that same drive-in went over to showing strictly porn, and I don't even think it physically exists anymore.

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Re: ABCs at the Movies: Round 1965
« Reply #1207 on: November 06, 2007, 04:22:44 pm »
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I do!  The one in my home town operated up until 1982! I saw Star Wars there the first time.   One of the few left operating, with three screens  :D and a playground  :o , is about a 45 minute drive from us now.  Bob and I will go one or twice in the summertime because we can take the dogs AND kiss and cuddle in the front seat.  ;) It's always very busy no matter what the feature(s).

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Drive ins
« Reply #1208 on: November 06, 2007, 04:26:47 pm »
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We have two drive ins here in Maine that are still operational on a seasonal basis. I haven't been in awhile. Growing up in NY, there was a very fancy one that was open year round; it had heaters you could hang on the car window along with the speakers.
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Re: ABCs at the Movies: Round 1965
« Reply #1209 on: November 06, 2007, 04:29:54 pm »
There's still a drive-in on Cape Cod, in Wellfleet.