Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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Vincent Price had a great time with Roger Corman on the Edgar Allen Poe movies. His favorite two movies that he made were these two, which I have seen recently. If you check them out you won’t be disappointed.
The Baron of Arizona is a fact-based story of a master forger who falsified Spanish land grants in what had become the U.S. territory of Arizona. Spanish and Mexican land grants were honored. He made most of Arizona and some of New Mexico appear to have been inherited by his wife. He almost gets away with it. It’s available on TCM.COM until September 22. The entire film is also available on YouTube.
His Kind of Woman is a film noir with its tongue in its cheek. Here’s the storyline posted on IMDB:
Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman. But on arrival at posh Morros Lodge in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except, possibly, ham actor Mark Cardigan. What does Ferraro want with him? Can he trust anyone?
Dan and Lenore are played by Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, and are fun to watch. Raymond Burr plays the head gangster, one of his many pre-Godzilla, pre-Perry Mason roles. (He’s always despicable.) Vincent Price steals the movie as the ham actor who is also a big game hunter. It’s showing on the TCM cable channel on Saturday September 9th at 2 PM (Eastern) and 11 AM (Pacific).
Richard Willis > Richard WillisSeptember 8, 2023 at 2:33am
The first time I saw Raymond Burr play a bad guy was in Hitchcock's Rear Window. He played the guy Jimmy Stewart spys on with binoculars. He's suspected of murdering his wife (and did). Then he's contemplating murdering Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. I had only seen him play good guys, so it threw me. Bad guys were his specialty in the early part of his career.
Last Night I went to the theater and saw the the 35th annivesary showing of They Live. Never been a great movie, but I've always enjoyed it. Plus, it got me out of the apartment for a couple of hours.
The documentary, Little Richard: I am Everything is amazing, edited with an over-the-top style and colour that captures its subject, while still examining his complexity and contradictions.
ABSOLUTION (1978): "Father Goddard (Riachard Burton) is the headmaster of a Catholic boarding school and the taget of a prank that goes too far. A boy confesses to the murder of a fellow student and of disposing of the body in the nearby woods. When Father Goddard investigates the claim, he discovers the deception but is unable to say anything due to the secrecy of the confessional. When more confessions to similar crimes and the disappearance of students takes place, Father Goddard is torn by his sworn duty as a priest and his sense of morality and justice. A climatic finish reveals some surprises in this film, one of Richard Burton's last films."
This potboiler is slow to boil, but when it finally gets moving it's quite enthralling. I'm reluctant to say anything more lest I give something away. According to Wikipedia, Richard Burton turned down the opportunity to play King Lear in Canada to make this film.
At 11am today (Central Time for Dallas area) TCM is showing I Confess (1953). It's a Hitchcock movie about a priest who's accused of murder. He knows who the real killer is but learned it in confession. If you miss watching or recording it, hopefully it will be available on TCM.com for a while.
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Two Vincent Price movies:
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
and
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Vincent Price had a great time with Roger Corman on the Edgar Allen Poe movies. His favorite two movies that he made were these two, which I have seen recently. If you check them out you won’t be disappointed.
The Baron of Arizona is a fact-based story of a master forger who falsified Spanish land grants in what had become the U.S. territory of Arizona. Spanish and Mexican land grants were honored. He made most of Arizona and some of New Mexico appear to have been inherited by his wife. He almost gets away with it. It’s available on TCM.COM until September 22. The entire film is also available on YouTube.
IMDB Listing for The Baron of Arizona
His Kind of Woman is a film noir with its tongue in its cheek. Here’s the storyline posted on IMDB:
Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman. But on arrival at posh Morros Lodge in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except, possibly, ham actor Mark Cardigan. What does Ferraro want with him? Can he trust anyone?
Dan and Lenore are played by Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, and are fun to watch. Raymond Burr plays the head gangster, one of his many pre-Godzilla, pre-Perry Mason roles. (He’s always despicable.) Vincent Price steals the movie as the ham actor who is also a big game hunter. It’s showing on the TCM cable channel on Saturday September 9th at 2 PM (Eastern) and 11 AM (Pacific).
IMDB Listing for His Kind of Woman
The first time I saw Raymond Burr play a bad guy was in Hitchcock's Rear Window. He played the guy Jimmy Stewart spys on with binoculars. He's suspected of murdering his wife (and did). Then he's contemplating murdering Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. I had only seen him play good guys, so it threw me. Bad guys were his specialty in the early part of his career.
"He almost gets away with it..."
"...if it weren't for those pesky kids!"
Last Night I went to the theater and saw the the 35th annivesary showing of They Live. Never been a great movie, but I've always enjoyed it. Plus, it got me out of the apartment for a couple of hours.
The documentary, Little Richard: I am Everything is amazing, edited with an over-the-top style and colour that captures its subject, while still examining his complexity and contradictions.
Great!
ABSOLUTION (1978): "Father Goddard (Riachard Burton) is the headmaster of a Catholic boarding school and the taget of a prank that goes too far. A boy confesses to the murder of a fellow student and of disposing of the body in the nearby woods. When Father Goddard investigates the claim, he discovers the deception but is unable to say anything due to the secrecy of the confessional. When more confessions to similar crimes and the disappearance of students takes place, Father Goddard is torn by his sworn duty as a priest and his sense of morality and justice. A climatic finish reveals some surprises in this film, one of Richard Burton's last films."
This potboiler is slow to boil, but when it finally gets moving it's quite enthralling. I'm reluctant to say anything more lest I give something away. According to Wikipedia, Richard Burton turned down the opportunity to play King Lear in Canada to make this film.
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Looks interesting. I have added it to my Tubi list: thanks, Jeff!
At 11am today (Central Time for Dallas area) TCM is showing I Confess (1953). It's a Hitchcock movie about a priest who's accused of murder. He knows who the real killer is but learned it in confession. If you miss watching or recording it, hopefully it will be available on TCM.com for a while.
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