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I saw the film "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" on TV a number of years ago, and enjoyed it, but I thought that the book on which this movie was based was much better.
Here's another thing too, bge95: Doug and his accomplices in crime/buddies weren't the only ones who were working for Fergie. The two Dominican guys that Doug and Jem beat up on, and seriously injured were also working for Fergie. The Town's Alternate Ending also makes that clear.
Rear Window was a bit overrated for me, but I liked The Defiant Ones very much.
I enjoyed The Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest, and Sunset Blvd. a great deal, as well.
Thanks again, Daisy. The film West Side Story always brings back good memories, plus it always feels fresh and new to me, like I'm watching it for the very first time. I never fail to notice things about this particular movie that I didn't notice in previous viewings of this film, as well.
If your sister studied West Side Story in English during high school and had a book version of it, that's cool, too. One woman I knew who was a seventh-grade teacher taught a whole course on the film West Side Story, in which she showed the film, and she got a real kick out of it.
Well...one never knows. West Side Story does come back to the cinemas and what few non-profit, independent repertory art-house movies that there are left here in the United States. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for WSS...you might get lucky some day. If you know of a movie theatre that has a website, buy a ticket online beforehand to make sure that you get one, and start early to make sure you get good seats and all. Hope I've been of some help here.
Thanks, Daisy.
West Side Story actually did win all those Academy Awards, and they were well-earned, too. When the film West Side Story isn't playing at a movie theatre in my general area, I have driven not only to the opposite end of the state in which I reside specially to see a screening of this film, but I've made special road trips to neighboring states to see a screening of the film West Side Story, also.
I've gone to NYC twice to see it, plus I've been to Providence, RI, and, this past April, I made a special road trip up to Portsmouth, NH, to see a screening of West Side Story, as well. I stayed overnight in a Quality Inn just a little ways down the road from the movie theatre, and then drove back to Boston the next morning. It was fun, overall, and it only took me an hour and a half to get there.
Really? Sorry, I didn't know that. Thanks.
I liked both In the Heat of the Night and To Sir With Love, as well The Defiant Ones (which I saw on TV recently) a great deal. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner....mmmmm, not so much.
My five choices, if absolutely forced would be:
A) West Side Story
B) Lawrence of Arabia
C) Sound of Music
D) Easy Rider
E) Dirty Harry (i. e. the first one)
F) The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
West Side Story is a movie/musical that's loosely based on Shakespeare's renowned play, Romeo & Juliet. It's about a love and romance that takes root and develops among conflict among two warring street gangs on the West Side of 1960's-1960's New York City (i. e. Manhattan)(i. e. the White European American Ethnic Jets and the newly-arrived Puerto Rican Sharks), only to go up in smoke as a consequence of the hatred and conflict between the Jets and Sharks. Yet, it carries a ray of hope as well; the hint of possible intergroup reconciliation. This is a film that's best viewed on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, with the lights down low, and with a whole bunch of other people, whether one knows them or not. It came out in late October of 1961, and was the winner of 10 well-earned Academy Awards, including Best Picture of that year.
Renting it on DVD or Blu-Ray is one option, and, if it ever comes to an independent movie theatre in your area, that's an even better treat. Hope I've been of some help here. Also, the Turner Classics Movie Channel also airs West Side Story from time to time.
Although I've seen many older and newer movies that I've liked a great deal, none of them hold the same special place in my heart regarding movies as West Side Story. I always keep my eyes and ears peeled for another screening in my area. It's too bad that there's now such a dearth of repertory movie houses here in the United States. Anyway, Daisy...good luck, and all the best.
You better be careful and get some special protection. Regular sunglasses won't be sufficient enough for protection while viewing the solar eclipse.
Good point, talikennj. Thanks.
I thought Harland County USA was an excellent, very well-done documentary film. The conditions were unsafe back then, which is what the workers were striking and protesting about, not just the wages. The conditions were horrific and dangerous back then. Moreover, if the coal mine fire down in West Virginia that killed a bunch of miners and seriously injured others occurred just afew years ago is any indication, the conditions that coal miners have to work under nowadays aren't any safer than they were back then, or during the Springhill Mining disaster that happened up in Nova Scotia, Canada, that occurred back in 1958.
No matter what anybody says or thinks, a movie like "Jaws" is still better when it's viewed on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, with the lights down low.
North by Northwest is good. I enjoyed it a great deal. Vertigo, on the other hand, is quite overrated, and not that good. I found Vertigo kind of boring, in fact.
Found it...and I'm here!
Most of the classic films are older films, from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
People of all ages enjoy the Wizard of Oz, Daisy. I, too enjoy it, and I graduated from high school back in 1969.
I first saw the film version of West Side Story at around Christmastime of 1968, as a high school Senior, during a big national re-release of it, in a now-defunct cinema north of the town that my siblings and I grew up in. I identified with the Jets, the Sharks and their girls regarding kids being kids and so on, but when I got a little older, and began seeing West Side Story (the film version) in a number of (mostly now defunct) independent repertory art cinemas in and around Boston, Ma, I still loved (and still do, to this day) West Side Story for the work of art that it really and truly is, the story behind it, the musical score, the cinematography, and the cast, overall. I never get tired of seeing the film West Side Story over and over again, and, despite seeing other films that I like a great deal (both older and newer), I always keep my eyes and ears peeled for another screening of the film West Side Story.
Oh, I also forgot to add that West Side Story is on my mind, as it is always.
I've seen Wizard of Oz, Some Like It Hot, not to mention a whole host of other classics. Wizard of Oz was lots of fun, as were many other classic films for me, but I have to admit that I found the ending of Some Like It Hot rather sadistic, if one gets the drift.