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It would be the Lunar eclipse, which would be the eclipse of the moon.
I'm hoping to catch that one, too.
Thanks, Daisy. :)
Well...I've seen West Side Story in the movies often enough so that I've lost count at this point, but I'm still not tired of it, and I'd go see it again, if it were in our area, or in a neighboring state.
The MGM quote: "Unlike other Classics, West Side Story grows younger." is so true.
That's absolutely correct, hodie. Homosexuality is not a choice..it's the way a person was born. An awful lot of people still don't get that.
You've made some good points, Kewl_Kat. I was under the impression that both Joe and "Ratso" were straight men, and two ordinary human beings who were making the best of the conditions they were living under. As you also pointed out, a very strange bond was formed between them, as well.
There always was homelessness here in the United States, but it took a steep increase, partly due to the tanking of the economy, and partly due to the de-institutionalization, which released thousands, if not millions of mentally ill people out onto the streets with no follow-up care. While sticking the mentally ill into the huge human warehouses isn't the answer (Many if not most of the state hospitals have closed, due to being really archaic and brutal.), just dumping them out into the streets to fend for themselves was a very poor way to handle this situation.
Nope. Tuberculosis.
A television musical, whether live or not, would not have been a good fit for something so beautiful, powerful and relevant as West Side Story. Such a thing would've cheapened it...big time.
That's also very true, Reaperscout. Moreover, "Dunkirk" is one of the few war movies that don't glorify war, as is "Saving Private Ryan."
Good point, Reaperscout! "Dunkirk" is a good movie, but I could not and would not bring myself to see it again, due to its extreme intensity.
I saw "Dunkirk", which was a very well-done movie, but it's certainly not for the faint of heart!
So far, it hasn't flopped. "Dunkirk" is playing at a bunch of movie theatres in my area, including the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, MA, where I've long held an annual membership, and it's doing quite well indeed.
I thought "Vertigo" was kind of overrated...and boring, but I did enjoy "The Birds", "North by Northwest", and "Psycho".
I saw "Psycho" for the first time on the TCM Channel for the first time last month and enjoyed it a great deal. I immediately recognized the late Simon Oakland, who also played Officer Krupke in the film version of "West Side Story", the latter of which is my all time favorite film.
I'd love to see "Psycho" on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, however.
Don't worry about that, Daisy. I wasn't able to limit my list of favorite classic films to five either...Notice?
I think that the baby was more than likely Colin's, not Billy's.
I thought that Madilyn slept with and had sex with Sgt. Sullivan, not Billy Costigan.
I agree that the first four gangster films on your list are the best gangster films, but since I've never seen "American Me", I'm unable to compare that particular film with any of the others.
The two leading actors, (the late) Peter O'Toole, (the late) Omar Sharif, and Alec Guinness, as well as Anthony Quinn, were fantastic in their parts the film Lawrence of Arabia.
Seeing any famous film on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, with the lights down low provides an already powerful and famous movie not only with more beauty and a grander experience, but even more power, as well.
This:
"it seems to borrow more from its predecessors than reinvent what's great about them. "
is one of the biggest problems with Ben Affleck's "The Town". I think it was quite disingenuous of Ben Affleck to borrow so much of "The Town" from other, better crime films. This is what helped cheapen "The Town" quite a bit, and it doesn't have enough of the really gritty believable scenes and characters that most other crime movies have.