One Week Left to Watch ___________
Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 4:00PM It's a massacre of available older streaming titles this month although there aren't very many major titles among them. [Disclaimer: Netflix hasn't announced yet so all of these titles are Amazon Prime but bear in mind that the Amazon Prime titles are not "official". They don't ever publish that list much to the frustration of their customers! So this info gathered from users about expiration notices they've seen on their personal watch lists. Sometimes it changes abruptly.
Let's play our game where we freeze frame them at very random places and see what pops up. Okay? Okay.
Mrs Doyle: I'd like to see that file.
Police Inspector: I'd be very happy to show it to you.
Crime of Passion (1957)
My god Barbara Stanwyck's voice. It gets me every time. Everything sounds so subliminally erotic. In this one she's married to a detective but bored into ambitious dangerous action.
Five more after the jump...
-Is it hot out?
-Boiling.
La Piscine (1969)
You've just seen it's remake A Bigger Splash so why not see the French original with smoking hot Romy Scheider & Alain Deloin?
Everyone loves you because you make it look effortless. And we both know how hard it is.
The Ides of March (2011)
Hmmm. That line of dialogue describes Ryan Gosling's big screen allure quite well even out of context. (This movie vanished from memory quickly, huh??)
Dad: I never expected anything like this.
Son: Two women lived here before we did and... uh... we haven't had a chance to change it yet.
Mom: But where does Elliott sleep?
The Gay Deceivers (1969)
Good lord. I've never heard of this movie but in this scene a young man is showing his apartment to his parents, he tries to avoid the bedroom but they push their way in. They're very confused by the art (naked men) and the color (pink). There is so much ridiculous stereotyping (I must watch). Enter a boyfriend so flaming he makes Paul Lynde's act on Hollywood Squares at the time seem butch.
So tell me - where are the gods now? Where are they?
Agora (2009)
Oscar Isaac with long curls. Rachel Weisz is just out of frame here as a famed philosopher. Have any of you seen this? It barely registered at all in the US in its time (2010).
Alma: God will punish you!!! And I will punish you, too. I'll take your cigarettes away. And I will give you no more ice cream!
Summer & Smoke (1961)
LOL. I love Una Merkel's expression when she loses ice cream privileges. Both actresses were Oscar nominated for this movie. True confession: Though I am a Tennessee Williams super fan I really don't like Summer & Smoke and I think Geraldine Page is actually terrible in it. Strangely, she was also nominated for another Tennessee Williams movie the following year Sweet Bird of Youth in which she gives arguably her all time best performance, sooooo.... you lose some / you win some when you take on those giant female leads in Tennessee's pantheon.
Also Leaving Amazon Prime on August 30 or 31st
1918 (1985)
99 River Street (1953)
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
Adam and Evalyn (1949)
All Night Long (1962)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Anastasia (1997)
And God Spoke (1993)
And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Angelique Marquise Des Anges (1964)
The Angry Silence (1960)
Anna Lucasta (1958)
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Another Man's Poison (1951)
Aprile (1998)
April Morning (1988)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
The Assassin (1952)
The Astonished Heart (1950)
The Atomic City (1952)
Bad Day to Go Fishing (2009)
Bandits In Milan (1968)
(The) Bargee (1964)
Beautiful People (1999)
Beware of Pity (1946)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Blanche Fury (1948)
The Blazing Forest (1952)
(The) Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Breaking Glass (1980)
(The) Bridal Path (1959)
The Brothers Bloom
Bulldog Jack (1935)
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
Burning Secret (1988)
The Captive Heart (1946)
The Card (1952)
Carrie (1976)
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
(The) Champion (1949)
(The) Clairvoyant (1935)
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
Copacabana ()
A Cottage To Let (1941)
Cry Danger (1951)
David and Lisa (1962)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Dracula 3000 (2004)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
Dummy (2008)
Electra (1962)
Encore (1951)
L'Equipier (2004)
Fear in the Night (1972)
First a Girl (1935)
The Foot Fist Way
(The) Girl Hunters (1963)
The Golden Child (1986)
Gregory's Girl (1981)
Grumpier Old Men (1995)
The Guv'nor (1935)
Gypsy Girl (1965)
The Heart of the Matter (1953)
Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
The Ides of March (2011)
In & Out (1997)
In Secret (2013)
Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
It's in the Bag (1945)
I Walk Alone (1948)
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
Jungle Fighters (1961)
Ju-on (2002)
Kinky Boots (2005)
Knock on Wood (1954)
The Last Command (1955)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Little Boy Lost (1953)
(The) Long Day's Dying (1968)
The Lost Moment (1947)
Magic Town (1947)
Make Mine Mink (1960)
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Miranda (1948)
Mystic River (2003)
Molly (1951)
The Neon Bible (1995)
Nowhere to Hide
The October Man (1947)
The Onion Field (1979)
Personal Affair (1953)
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
The Presidio (1988)
Private Hell 36 (1954)
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Quartet (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
The Revolutionary (1970)
Rope of Sand (1949)
Rosebud (1975)
Rules of Attraction (2002)
Rumplestiltskin (1995)
Ruthless (1948)
Sailing Along (1938)
Salome's Last Dance (1988)
(The) Savage Innocents (1960)
Le Sauvage (1975)
The Seventh Veil (1945)
The Shining (1980)
The Shout (1978)
Silver City (1951)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Soldier Blue (1970)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
Something Wild (1961)
Space Jam (1996)
Species (1995)
Species II (1998)
Species III (2004)
(The) Specter of the Rose (1946)
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids 2 (2002)
Spy Kids 3 (2003)
The Story Of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
The Switch
Summer and Smoke (1961)
Sylvia (1965)
Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
Trade Winds (1938)
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
Try and Get Me (1950)
The Turning Point (1952)
Turn of the Tide (1935)
Union Station (1950)
Up Tight (1968)
Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
The Wicked Lady (1945)
White Dog (1982)
Wild is the Wind
The Young in Heart (1938)
Reader Comments (15)
I saw Crime of Passion as a kid, and don't remember the details, but Stanwyck definitely left her mark. LOL
Watch Freddy's Revenge (1985). Curious your response to it.
Please rank Oscar nominated performances of 2000's!
I saw Raw Deal in this list. Oh my God love this movie and specially Claire Trevor in it.
I watched Agora for Oscar Isaac. It's boring.
I've been meaning to see La Piscine before it expires, simply because it's a remake of A Bigger Splash - although Luca Guadagnino doesn't seem to care for it much.
While Crime of Passion is a lower end entry in her filmography Stanwyck still gives it her all and energizes it will her intensity.
Ides of March was okay but missing a certain spark that would have made it memorable.
Agora despite the cast was super dull.
Gay Deceivers is ultra dated and almost unwatchable.
I thought Geraldine Page had her moments in Summer and Smoke but the film and her performance aren't the best.
Two of the ones on the list that I would recommend are About Mrs. Leslie with beautiful performances by Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan and Carve Her Name with Pride.
"Agora" looks impressive but it is kind of boring- Amenabar is better at directing thrillers
Agora was bad. It was just boring but it wasn't as bad as Regression which I think is Amenabar's worst film.
Rosebud???! Oh dear, how dreadful.
Stanwyck may be in a bad pic now & then, but she never gives a bad performance....She alws elevate the pic she is in....What a Lady!!!
I agreed Page was much better in Sweet Bird o Youth & it wasn't Bancroft, I wld luv to see her win! She lost the Tony to Bancroft for the same roles too!!!
I loved James Mason in A Touch of Larceny. So satisfying to have a clever script and watch James Mason be equally twisty and clever and silver-tongued.
@Carlos - he did, earlier this week or maybe last week.
I did see Agora in the cinema. It's not quite what one would expect (made like an epic but without much of the action). But it's very well made and I thought Weisz was superb.
I love Geraldine Page and Una Merkel in "Summer and Smoke."
What I don't love about the '61 version is the stodgy, stagy production and Laurence Harvey, who is his usual stick-up-his ass self ; )
Update: La Piscine is not good at all. The cast has no chemistry compared to the 2016 cast (yeah, I know Romy Schneider and Alain Delon dated once, but they still had a surprising lack of chemistry), it's directed with very little artistry, and wow, is it s-l-o-w.