Looking for #recommendations for a #movie to watch this evening. I'm currently very into slow-moving spy thrillers of the post-war, cold war period, and the more paranoid, the better.
Anything in the vein of The Third Man or The Spy Who Came In From the Cold would be awesome.
@archesofscratch73 The Ipcress File starring young Michael Caine would fit in with the other two. If you've never seen the original Get Carter, that's a good follow-up.
I've seen a lot of those already, part of the problem :)
Days of the Condor and All the President's men were what got me onto it. And yes, they're both spectacular. I really enjoyed The Parallax View, but it's definitely too paranoid for some people, I think...
I'm going to go with either Klute or Funeral in Berlin. Can't decide if I'm in a Donald Sutherland or Michael Cane kind of mood, though.
What always blows my mind is that twelve days after The China Syndrome was released in theaters, the Three Mile Island melt down took place. Granted it was nothing like Chernobyl, but it freaked everyone out, derailed nuclear power in the US, and secured four Oscar nominations for The China Syndrome. ☢️
I'm about 45 mins in, pretty good so far. This one has a lot more of a "comedy" feeling than I rememebr Ipress having... But I adore 1960's British cinematography, and this is a wonderful example.
I remember not continuing the series last year because all of the production stills from BDB had Caine in a Russian fur hat that was obviously supposed to be goofy.
Funeral In Berlin held it together though, just. They pulled way back from the creepiness of Ipcress and kept it tame. Also, the bombshell secret-spy love-interest-with-grand-canyon-cleavage twist was an obvious bid for the Bond audience. Which was kind of disappointing.
@flockofnazguls@archesofscratch73@radiophobicsherkpop@N0ZB Never found the 60s Casino Royale watchable. I've tried several times but always turned it off as the cringe became unbearable. By the time Roger Moore signs onto the EON franchise, the Bond films become their own parodies anyway.
@flockofnazguls@archesofscratch73@N0ZB@Great_Albums I rewatched CR a bit back, yes, it is pretty appalling. They changed directors halfway through and we got a cut based on two mismatching halves but I don't think it was ever going to work.
I don't think I watched the whole thing this time even.
@radiophobicsherkpop@flockofnazguls@archesofscratch73@N0ZB BTW: Not quite a spy thriller but has much the same mood as other films mentioned... Antonioni's The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson, from 1975. It's faster paced than Blow-Up but has that same brand of mystery and surrealism Antonioni brought to his better-known films.
I'm assuming, based on the titles being tossed around, that you've all seen Coppola's The Conversation. EDIT. I see Nazguls already mentioned it. Good choice.
@EvangelosSciFi@flockofnazguls@archesofscratch73@radiophobicsherkpop@N0ZB I don't think Manchuian Candidate was mentioned yet. Another one along those lines, though a little more B-movie/ grindcore, is Telefon starring Charles Bronson. Worth seeing, though not a masterpiece on the level of other films mentioned.
Cold War space race. Lots of conspiracy and paranoia here. Plus a solid cast: Sam Waterson, Hal Holbrook, Elliot Gould and... both Telly Savalas and O.J. Simpson. 🙂
I always enjoyed this when it came on as the ABC Sunday Night Movie.
Whenever we played Six Million Dollar Man in the schoolyard, my friends always argued over who was going to be Steve Austin. I would just smile and say "I'll be Oscar Goldman".
I was pretty lucky. I had the Steve Austin action figure, the space capsule, and I remember some other action figure that was not Oscar Goldman (or Bigfoot). Always wanted that cool lifting body space craft.
The picture of this space plane reminds me of a line from I have no idea what movie, in reference to a hypersonic passenger jet that had run into some sort of malfunction:
"That thing has the glide slope of a grand piano. They're toast."
Exactly! My friends were out there fighting robosquatch, meanwhile I'm in my helicopter with my radio headset and my briefcase full of cash. Never understood them. Still don't.
The other way in which Six Million Dollar Man was important to our generation is that it kept us physically safe. All our playfighting was done in slow motion.
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