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I have that movie on DVD. Just love it. Shared it around and some of my friends did not get that its supposed to be terrible. Lol just great.

A great drinkin' game for Lost Skeleton is... take a shot every time the boom mike comes into the picture.

Well, it's the weekend and Ya know what that means. Yup, I'm gonna toss a couple more movies at Ya. And this week, I've been inspired by Jeff and toebig to offer up a couple of real goodies. But there's gonna be a bit of readin' involved, because they're both silent films. Startin' with...


Metrópolis (1927)

I was lucky enough a couple of years ago, to have seen this version presented on the BIG SCREEN complete with a live orchestra. The experience was amazin'.

And as proof that silence is truly golden, I give you...

Nosferatu (1922)

I love the quirky soundtrack for this movie. And a note to Jeff: As soon as this is posted, I'll be watchin' The Last Starfighter.

I have the Last Starfighter on DVD and watch it annually. These are movies I call iconic to my summers of youth, and ones I like recently. All over the map here. I have them on DVD or Blueray so I can watch anytime I want. I know streaming but I built my collection before streaming took hold. Not exhaustive just my faves off the top of my head.

Goonies
Big Trouble in Little China
Enter the Dragon
The Last Starfighter
Tremors
This is Spinal Tap
Flight of the Navigator
ET
The Fog
Indiana Jones 1-3
Starwars 1-3
Jaws 1,2
Mummy 1-3 Brendan Fraser ones
Cast a Deadly Spell
Vertigo
Rear Window
Undercover Brother
Neverending Story 1st movie
Day the Earth Stood Still original
Blackhole
Abyss
American Grafitti
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Bladerunner
The Thing
Aliens
The Princess Bride
Poltergeist
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Buckaroo Banzai
The Lost Boys
First Blood
The Christmas Story
The Karate Kid 1,2
Fasttimes at Ridgemont High
Splash
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Time Machine have both versions
Stargate original movie
A.I.
Highlander
Tron
Beetlejuice
Labyrinth
Stripes
Time Bandits
Dragonslayer
Big
RAN
2001
Escape from New York and Escape from LA
Repo Man
Road Warrior
Mad Max movies
Batman
Gremlins
Stand by Me
Die Hard
The Blues Brothers
Robocop
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Terminator
Toy Story
Cars
Forbidden Planet
The House 1,2
Spirited Away
My Friend Tortoro
ALL Hayao Miyazaki movies
Jurassic Park
Black Rain
Blazing Saddles
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Clerks
The Sixth Sense
John Wick 1,2,3
Waynes World
The Big Lebowski
Contact
Starman
District 9
KungFu Hustle
Moon
Altered States
The Rock
The Rocketeer
Enemy Mine
2010
Outland
Explorers
Predator
Event Horizon
Men in Black
Dark City
Sphere
Donnie Darko

And many, many more I will remember later. Please add to the list

O Turban'd One, your taste in film matches my own. These are classics.  I'll add Sam Raimi films to your list (Darkman, The Gift, Drag Me To Hell, Army of Darkness, For Love Of The Game, The Quick and the Dead, Evil Dead 2) as well as the entire Coen Brothers catalog (Starting with Blood SImple and ending with The Ballad Of Buster Skruggs), not to mention The Canon of James Bond films.

If you like Undercover Brother, you HAVE to see Black Dynamite! Hilarious fun taking *Undercover Brother*'s self-consciousness to the Nth degree (sarcastically).(That last word is an allusion to one of the best puns in the movie). . . And I am so impressed someone besides me actually shares my mania for some of these films: Buckaroo Banzai, Donnie Darko, House 1 and 2 (with Normie and Cliff from *Cheers*), and *Dark City* (YES!).

Every good noir film made, especially with Gene Tierney, and all Hitchcock. . . .

Oh, it's a dizzying list!

And, Space, be sure to see *Tell No One*, today's Facebook post. And when you're watching *The Last Starfighter* crank up the stereo!
Jeff

Boss and Jeff, we must be a three headed film nerd. Just about everything you two listed, is on my "comfort" movie list. Along with a ton of others. I think I'll add:

Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Countless Spaghetti Westerns
The Quiet Man (and quite a few other John Wayne classics)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
The Court Jester
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (also Danny Kaye)
The Shop Around the Corner
Just about everything Mel Brooks
Arsenic and Old Lace
It Happened One Night
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
All the Andy Hardy movies
All the Thin Man Movies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Citizen Kane
War of the Worlds
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
No Time for Sergeants
Things To Come
Countless 50's Sci-Fi movies
The Universal Monster movies
The Weismuller Tarzan movies
I own about 50 complete serials
And on and on... but I've gotta stop some place.

Hey Jeff, I just remembered another 80's family sci-fi movie for that list:
Battle Beyond the Stars (aka... Johnboy In Space)

Tonight I'll be geekin' out to The Rocketeer...

Ghem,

I have Black Dynamite when he fights Nixon LOL brills to no end. And ALL the Jim Kelly and Pam Greer movies. Look when Jim Kelly is playing a secret agent who was trained by Karate master Scatman Crothers you know you hit gold. I have seen every Kung-Fu movie made.

Additions I forgot

ALL Bruce Campbell movies
especially chainsaw hand Ash (Loved the TV series also)
Bubba Ho-tep is brillls I loved it seemed no one else did
I forgot Barton Fink Anything with John Turturro(John Goodman was brills)
O'Brother
Millers Crossing
Quiz Show
And I don't care what anyone says I love Nick Cage
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck
Windtalkers
Ghostrider
Peggy Sue Got Married
Birdy
Honeymoon in Vegas
Con Air
Sorcerers Apprentice
Leaving Las Vegas
8mm
Gone in 60 Seconds
National Treasure 1,2
Kick Ass
Scorsese Movies
Gangs of New York
Taxi Driver
Shutter Island
Wolf of Wallstreet

And tons of obscures I will list tomorrow.

Space love your list have seen everyone of those.

Arsenic and Old Lace the cast in that one Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey. Sublime...

I forgot to mention that I'm also currently watchin' The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. I'd describe it as a twisted variation of Heroes. Broody semi-psychotic heroes, Time/Space continua rifts and temporal paradoxes. What more could a Space Cadet ask for?

I binged that the second it dropped can't help my binging addiction. I really enjoyed that. Number 5 what can I say... very good. Hard to believe Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance wrote that. Mary J. Blige as kick ass assassin doing her own stunts at 48. Crazy. Klaus is fave as he is Irish actor. I saw him in Dublin couple of months ago when he was home for something or other.

Get thee into Dark S1 and S2 for time travel with paradoxes you sit there going say what?????

Blackspot another what did I just watch....

Seamus wrote:I binged that the second it dropped can't help my binging addiction. I really enjoyed that. Number 5 what can I say... very good. Hard to believe Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance wrote that. Mary J. Blige as kick ass assassin doing her own stunts at 48. Crazy. Klaus is fave as he is Irish actor. I saw him in Dublin couple of months ago when he was home for something or other.

Get thee into Dark S1 and S2 for time travel with paradoxes you sit there going say what?????

Blackspot another what did I just watch....

A second season of The Umbrella Factory was just announced. I limit myself to one episode per day. I try to not get binge(y) on anything with fewer than 50 episodes available.

I am waiting for the Second season of Lost in Space, Season 3 of an Australian show Glitch. S1 of Boys to start. And Season 1 of Carnival Row. All look very good.

Was happy to see Umbrella Academy S2 announced. Also waiting for next season of Magicians.

Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you. . . *The Bedroom Window* (1987).

Now, I am averse to using exclamation points just on general principle, so you won't find many from me--even though I would put a string of them after this movie. So I apologize in advance for the effusion of enthusiasm I feel for this film. Ahem. The cast: Steve Guttenberg (a naive nice guy stand-in for Jimmy Stewart), Isabelle Huppert (filmed and framed in her every shot like Hitchcock's icy blonde with smoldering beauty beneath), Elizabeth McGovern (who I swear has the bluest eyes in Hollywood, or most recently *Downton Abbey*), enacting one of so many triangles of relationships I am struck dumb (easy since I'm halfway there anyway). The director and screenwriter: Curtis Hanson (who puts the thrill in thriller and oh so subtly nods to Hitchcock all the way--this is the Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made, but I doubt could improve upon; Hanson was also responsible for *LA Confidential*, a certified Oscar-winning classic). The cinemeatographer: Gilbert Taylor (the driving visual force behind *Dr. Strangelove*, *A Hard Day's Night*, Hitchcock's penultimate film *Frenzy*, Polanski's *Repulsion*, *Lucas's *Star Wars: A New Hope* and countless others).

*The Bedroom Window* is wholly its own, but coyly, quietly references *Psycho*, *Vertigo*, *Rear Window* in mounting tension. I had forgotten (how, I don't know) the masterful shifting allegiances this film engenders, but I am excited I re-discovered this measured mystery. I could go on and on about the triangle motif, introduced even in the furnishings of Terry's apartment (apt, since he's an architect), but I'm way over my tolerance level for most of you good folks, so I'll just say, put this at the top of your list if you like good old-fashioned suspense and a polished escape for nearly two hours.



This little beauty is for anyone who doesn't mind a little nude glimpse at three uncovered backsides and two breasts in tasteful shadows.  And if that does bother you, stay for the ethical dilemmas explored in silent desperation. (Yeah, I guess this one has leapt to my all-time favorite list of mysteries. . . sans exclamation points)
Jeff

Really enjoyed this review if you could move over EVERY single one you have posted or even thought of posting my end of day next Monday that would be just peachy. And please reviews of all our fave movies. Even the reviews bring back all the great memories.

Bravo boffo box office to Ghems reviews I was unimpressed by how quiet Siskel was, must Ghem do all the reviewing?

Jeff, these deserve a thread of their own. Just copy and paste from that other place as Ya see fit. And Boss, strap in and get ready for a great ride. But you're gonna find yourself travelin' the waste spaces lookin' for copies of some of these. But it's worth the trip.

And now, back to the program.

Paris Blues (1961)

During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.

Starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Sidney Poitier.

Seventh Heaven (1937)

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to ...

Starring: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt

If you kind folks are serious about my opening another thread here, I can do so, provided Cobaltans don't take my word for anything. I don't want to cause friction, but I could easily open The Balcony of the Cobalt Club Screening Room. . . and do my daily posting there. I can open it up tomorrow if you like.

The Balcony is located just above the Cobalt Concession Stand, so the scent of popcorn and Sno-Caps is pervasive.
Jeff

Ya already know my vote. And Ya should really consider doin' a blog some place. The posts would probably be too big for that bird call site, Tweety or whatever it's called. But some place should work. So, just think about it.

Hear Ye Hear Ye, the Cobalt Screening Room Balcony is now open with our first offering *Julie* (1956) with Doris Day and Louis Jourdan. Spread the news--I'll be posting every day there, as well as following through on Seamus's suggestion that I pull up the old FB posts to offer a compendium of dumb.

Hope ya'll enjoy.
Jeff

Wadda We NEED???

Noir... Noir... NOIR!!!

And here it is... and in a period piece, no less.

The Strange Woman (1946)

Starring Hedy Lamar, George Sandars and Louis Haward.
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.

Next we have,

Suddenly (1954)

Starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden.

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA

As I was gettin' todays selections ready for presentation, I had a little exercise in fantasy film goin' through my noggin.

Picture if you will......

JURASSIC PARK The sequel to Bringing Up Baby.

In glorious Black and White. Starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Co-starring a young Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney. With the Three Stooges as The Dinosaur Wranglers. Special Effects by Ray Harryhausen.

I liked Suddenly saw it years ago. An anxious film but rolled out nicely.

Oh man! Space, you have hit a noive, here, heh? Two Noirs I have never seen in one fell swoop. Hotcha. I have to step up my game.

My son and I, on leave from hospital visits, saw *Spider-Man Far From Home* yesterday, and if you're a Marvel fan, this is one to see, a wonderful complement to *Endgame* with Jake Gyllenhall as Mysterio. And stay for two after-credit sequences, one which is a game changer.

And, Space, I didn't see the sequel to *Bringing Up Baby*, but I did see the sequel to *The Untouchables* with Ronald Colman as a germophobic federal agent, Myrna Loy as his patient wife who secretly solves crimes and drops hints for him, and Oscar Holmolka as El Cajone, the mob boss trying to conceal a bad case of elephantiasis while ruling his criminal empire. Sadly, it's not as good as it sounds, but look for a cameo from Rita Hayworth as Gilda Radner.

Jeff