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Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 01:53:11 PM81. GOLDEN NINJA WARRIOR (1986)
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Anthony Stewart Head
Last post by claws - Today at 01:16:58 PMNot familiar, even though I've seen three movies he was in. Never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer (it was broadcast on German TV).
Apparently he did a version of "Sweet Transvestite" from the "Rocky Horror (Picture) Show" released as a single. That's cool.
RIP
Apparently he did a version of "Sweet Transvestite" from the "Rocky Horror (Picture) Show" released as a single. That's cool.
RIP
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 01:16:09 PMTHE SPY IN BLACK (1939):
Another attempt at getting on the Powell/Pressburger train - another ho hum result. (PEEPING TOM remains the only Powell flick I can altogether endorse.) It does provide a rare opportunity to see Conrad Veidt in a top-billed lead role in a post-silent/talkie - and often in English, even. He still looks good and gives a reasonably nuanced performance (as the bad guy), though this isn't nearly on-par w/ his best silent work.
In a similar plot to EYE OF THE NEEDLE, Veidt is a German officer who infiltrates a foggy English port-town in order to sabotage the Royal Navy. I should mention that SPY IN BLACK is set during WWI, not WWII - but the Brits were in WWII sometime in '39, so SPY IN BLACK still seems tonally inappropriate to me, somehow. At first Veidt is aided by two other lead characters - who appear at first to be Germans or English traitors working for Germany. SPOILER: They aren't - the're just setting up a trap to catch Veidt. This doesn't really make much sense and still puts the Royal Navy (and English civvies) in danger. It also makes the co-leads pervasively unsympathetic. Veidt's character does get some sympathetic shading - but he's a terrorist Gerry!!!
3/5 for Veidt and professional filmmaking. Very confused film, though,
Another attempt at getting on the Powell/Pressburger train - another ho hum result. (PEEPING TOM remains the only Powell flick I can altogether endorse.) It does provide a rare opportunity to see Conrad Veidt in a top-billed lead role in a post-silent/talkie - and often in English, even. He still looks good and gives a reasonably nuanced performance (as the bad guy), though this isn't nearly on-par w/ his best silent work.
In a similar plot to EYE OF THE NEEDLE, Veidt is a German officer who infiltrates a foggy English port-town in order to sabotage the Royal Navy. I should mention that SPY IN BLACK is set during WWI, not WWII - but the Brits were in WWII sometime in '39, so SPY IN BLACK still seems tonally inappropriate to me, somehow. At first Veidt is aided by two other lead characters - who appear at first to be Germans or English traitors working for Germany. SPOILER: They aren't - the're just setting up a trap to catch Veidt. This doesn't really make much sense and still puts the Royal Navy (and English civvies) in danger. It also makes the co-leads pervasively unsympathetic. Veidt's character does get some sympathetic shading - but he's a terrorist Gerry!!!
3/5 for Veidt and professional filmmaking. Very confused film, though,
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Good Movies / Re: IS IT PORN? (reviews and d...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 01:00:20 PMFORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS (1927):
Now here's an old-timey movie title that sounds naughty and actually is naughty! Within moments I thought to myself, "Say, is this Porn?" and even though it ultimately isn't Porn (no actual sex, softcore or otherwise) it probably came close enough to fitting the bill in 1927!
Alva, the American wife of an anthropologist (?), somehow learns that he has become the sex slave of "Princess Lona", so she travels to Africa to rescue him. Her grasp on geography might be shaky though because she seems to end up in the Far or possibly Middle East, where she infiltrates the harem (of an unseen Sheik or something) which is populated mostly by black women but also a few extremely Anglo (even Celtic!) looking women. Eventually Alva walks in on Princess Lona (who doesn't look African) dancing for Mister Alva and the film feels like it should climax but really it just ends abruptly. It's only 13 minutes long and feels truncated/incomplete, but maybe it was never even finished by mysterious director "Albert Arthur Allen". Say, wasn't "Arthur Allen" the prime suspect in the Zodiac Murders?
I will say this for the plotless and nearly action-less FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS - the ladies are pretty (and all are topless)! I have no idea where (if anywhere) FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS screened in the 20s but I assume the target audience was gentlemen's clubs/bachelor parties/etc. On the down side, all of the black women look really depressed
which makes me think a little bit too much about the actual working conditions and material realities of these performers. However/on the upside again, the two pale-skinned curvaceous redheads in the harem look happy, healthy, extremely modern, and crazy smokin' hot. 
Well, this is quasi-pron, after all. 2/5
Now here's an old-timey movie title that sounds naughty and actually is naughty! Within moments I thought to myself, "Say, is this Porn?" and even though it ultimately isn't Porn (no actual sex, softcore or otherwise) it probably came close enough to fitting the bill in 1927!
Alva, the American wife of an anthropologist (?), somehow learns that he has become the sex slave of "Princess Lona", so she travels to Africa to rescue him. Her grasp on geography might be shaky though because she seems to end up in the Far or possibly Middle East, where she infiltrates the harem (of an unseen Sheik or something) which is populated mostly by black women but also a few extremely Anglo (even Celtic!) looking women. Eventually Alva walks in on Princess Lona (who doesn't look African) dancing for Mister Alva and the film feels like it should climax but really it just ends abruptly. It's only 13 minutes long and feels truncated/incomplete, but maybe it was never even finished by mysterious director "Albert Arthur Allen". Say, wasn't "Arthur Allen" the prime suspect in the Zodiac Murders?
I will say this for the plotless and nearly action-less FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS - the ladies are pretty (and all are topless)! I have no idea where (if anywhere) FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS screened in the 20s but I assume the target audience was gentlemen's clubs/bachelor parties/etc. On the down side, all of the black women look really depressed
which makes me think a little bit too much about the actual working conditions and material realities of these performers. However/on the upside again, the two pale-skinned curvaceous redheads in the harem look happy, healthy, extremely modern, and crazy smokin' hot. Well, this is quasi-pron, after all. 2/5 #5
Press Releases and Film News / RIP Anthony Stewart Head
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 12:51:16 PMProbably best known as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:32:59 AMEL CONFESOR (1920):
Okay, this is just porn... though it's among the earliest porns I've seen or heard of so I guess that's some sort of distinction. A Catholic priest welcomes/hears confessions from and/or generally converses (silently) w/ between one and three dark-haired women w/ badonkadonk booties. One of them is a cleaning lady, another is definitely a parishioner/society type, and there might be a third or else one of them shows up twice. (The ladies look similar enough I couldn't be sure.) Each of them disrobes to one extent or another and engages w/ the priest in activities that the diocese and Vatican don't publicly approve of yet have been known to overlook. Letterboxed says 35 minutes but I think the copy I watched was 20-something, yet I don't think I missed any errr plot? There's onscreen manipulation of the male member and plenty of frenzied thrusting, though no close-ups of penetration, so maybe those hit the cutting room floor of History...
There's nothing "Good" about EL CONFESOR but there are at least two things about it worth remarking on. One is that I've yet to see a "vanilla" porn from the silent era - the three I've seen are about a black mass, a sexual assault by a satyr, and now this priest-porn. I guess what we can take away from this is that If you were gonna' go to the trouble of making a sex film in the 00s or 10s or 20s, you were gonna' go all the way and make a wild/taboo one, not just a consenting orthodox couple enjoying themselves.
The other thing is that the ladies here, though neither young nor particularly pretty, definitely have the kinds of bodies we call "plus-sized" today, or in other words more or less average/non-athletic human bodies w/ some cushion and cellulite, which I for one am always in favor of vis-a-vis pron.
That kind of physique is a little more common in 21st century adult entertainment but was almost unheard of from the official dawn of the X-rated film in the late 60s through the 20th century. Then again there wasn't a lot of media that promoted what a "normal" or "desireable" or "sexy" human body looked like in the early 20th century, so in a sense, the naivete of EL CONFESOR is slightly charming. 1.5/5 Also the actor who plays the Priest may have been a real Priest, 'cause he looks like he has no experience having sex w/ ladies.
Okay, this is just porn... though it's among the earliest porns I've seen or heard of so I guess that's some sort of distinction. A Catholic priest welcomes/hears confessions from and/or generally converses (silently) w/ between one and three dark-haired women w/ badonkadonk booties. One of them is a cleaning lady, another is definitely a parishioner/society type, and there might be a third or else one of them shows up twice. (The ladies look similar enough I couldn't be sure.) Each of them disrobes to one extent or another and engages w/ the priest in activities that the diocese and Vatican don't publicly approve of yet have been known to overlook.
Letterboxed says 35 minutes but I think the copy I watched was 20-something, yet I don't think I missed any errr plot? There's onscreen manipulation of the male member and plenty of frenzied thrusting, though no close-ups of penetration, so maybe those hit the cutting room floor of History...There's nothing "Good" about EL CONFESOR but there are at least two things about it worth remarking on. One is that I've yet to see a "vanilla" porn from the silent era - the three I've seen are about a black mass, a sexual assault by a satyr, and now this priest-porn. I guess what we can take away from this is that If you were gonna' go to the trouble of making a sex film in the 00s or 10s or 20s, you were gonna' go all the way and make a wild/taboo one, not just a consenting orthodox couple enjoying themselves.
The other thing is that the ladies here, though neither young nor particularly pretty, definitely have the kinds of bodies we call "plus-sized" today, or in other words more or less average/non-athletic human bodies w/ some cushion and cellulite, which I for one am always in favor of vis-a-vis pron.
That kind of physique is a little more common in 21st century adult entertainment but was almost unheard of from the official dawn of the X-rated film in the late 60s through the 20th century. Then again there wasn't a lot of media that promoted what a "normal" or "desireable" or "sexy" human body looked like in the early 20th century, so in a sense, the naivete of EL CONFESOR is slightly charming. 1.5/5 Also the actor who plays the Priest may have been a real Priest, 'cause he looks like he has no experience having sex w/ ladies. #10
Good Movies / Re: 100 THREE-WORD movie title...
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