MrTibbs
1682
I think we’re ready for the forty.
A New Leaf, Mr. Matthau (or Mr. Coco).
I was trying to remember that guy’s name: James Coco, duh.
He played the Inspector in Murder By Death.
MrTibbs
1686
Yep, Navaronegun has it. It’s Elaine May’s superb black comedy that was supposedly much darker before studio meddling. I think this one holds up nicely. Matthau’s perfect as a callous playboy who discovers he’s squandered his fortune on irresponsible spending sprees and decides to target a wealthy heiress, in the hopes he can inherent her fortune should something horrible happen to her. I don’t know the actor’s name off the top of my head, but his butler and seemingly Maathau’s sole confidant is the real stand out for me. When he gives his notice immediately after finding out about the former millionaire’s dwindling fortunes, I was howling with laughter!
Sixty
Eighty
One Hundred
As an aside, I’m not sure if this is the case or not, but I think James Coco might be the only actor to be nominated for both a Razzie and a Oscar for the same performance: his supporting turn in the Neil Simon adaptation Only When I Laugh (1981)
Djscman
1687
I thought that was Clemenza in the 20:20. Nope!
aeneas
1690
No idea what this is but if every frame has someone checking their head in someway i’m going with Head Lice the Movie
Been done. But one of my favorites.
Have we not done Kwai yet? That would be shocking.
It appears so, I spent the last five minutes searching the doc in disbelief.
Alas, poor 20:20 Frame game. So busy trying to get hipster-cute with BB4L, bad-is-good dreck about oversized snow spiders made for the sci-fi channel or obscure French New Wave titles that films like this get mentally filed away as “been done” and overlooked. Sad.
The film that that catapulted the great David Lean to international recognition (And Jack Hildyard the Cinematographer), as well as Alec Guinness (seen in the 40). A fine cast, with William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa and Jack Hawkins round off the timeless meditation on War, Cultures and Codes. Winner of Seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Guinness), Scoring (Matthew Arnold) and Editing, and a nomination for Hayakawa as well. This should be on your “Films I see before I die” list.
The Eighty:
The Hundred:
The One Twenty:
The One Forty:
“You are defeated but you have no shame! You are stubborn but you have no pride! You endure but you have no courage, @Woolen_Horde!”
Can’t let a mention of Bridge on the River Kwai go without linking this:
Matt_W
1698
I went there a couple of years ago
Beautiful Thai cultural museum on one side
Ornate (and utterly deserted) Chinese Buddhist temple on the other
A ways up in the jungle is the Hellfire Pass Death Railway Museum
Although about 12,000 allied POWs died building the railway, something like 150,000 Thai, Burmese, and Chinese workers–many or most of them forcibly drafted–also died.
