Post-work movie outting with some chums from the bookshop to see the 25th anniversary screening of the achingly beautiful Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon

Hi there! Finally made the leap to Mastodon! I'm a cruise line concierge who spends my days plotting amazing port adventures for guests (dream job, right?) and my evenings either tangled up in knitting projects or curled up with my pups watching old Bette Davis films.

*waves in nervous newcomer*

"A superb piece": the BFI (British Film Institute) has a restored 4k version of 1949's Stray Dog by the iconic Akira Kurosawa, and starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune, coming out on January 27th. My review is up now on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films now - https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/01/22/blu-ray-review-akira-kurosawas-stray-dog-a-superb-piece-by-a-cast-and-crew-at-the-top-of-their-game/

This evening's viewing distraction: new 4k restored version of 1949's Stray Dog by the masterful Akira Kurosawa, which will be getting the Blu-Ray 4k release from the BFI at the end of January https://shop.bfi.org.uk/stray-dog-blu-ray.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqdYc1IK3H7qU94DGeUT_IchsMvVpc1aOvrb_FPxBn4Y8_L1tFd

As ever my review will follow later on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films

#film #films #JapaneseFilm #ClassicFilm #AkiraKurosawa #Stray Dog #1940sFilm #BFI #BluRay

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"

This evening's viewing distraction: going old school with Where Eagles Dare. Haven't watched this in years, but cropped up on BBC iPlayer, so an evening with Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and not forgetting an appearance by Hammer Queen, Ingrid Pitt (who I once had the pleasure of hosting for a book launch) too.

This evening's viewing distraction, a #Christmas classic, the original Die Hard.

Opening is so peculiar to modern eyes; he carries a gun on the plane, lights up a ciggie inside the airport. The past is a different country...

This evening's viewing distraction: just spotted this on the BBC iPlayer, so a revisit to a 1950s classic SF/Horror (which decades later would inspire one of the best horrors of all time), with The Thing From Another World.

"There's no place like home..."

Judy Garland's ruby red slippers sell for £22 million https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk008xemvno

Someone reminded me that Duck Soup was released on this very day, November 17, back in 1933. The amazing mirror scene still reduces me to gales of laughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg&ab_channel=Movieclips

#film #films #movie #movies #ClassicFilm #1930sFilm #Comedy #MarxBrothers #DuckSoup #Mirror #1933

I started enjoying Film Noir movies, here is a collection of over 300 of them;

https://archive.org/details/01-film-noir

This evening's viewing distraction: classic 1960s #horror with The Devil Rides Out. Christopher Lee in a Dennis Wheatley based yarn, adapted by the great Richard Matheson for Hammer.

This evening's viewing: a revisit to an 80s #horror classic - the (sadly now late) Julian Sands and a young Richard E Grant in Warlock

This evening's viewing distraction: some classic 1940s Noir with The Lady From Shanghai. Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth (then married to Welles), and that hall of mirrors scene.

Like many of us I am in much need of distraction this evening, et voila, the perfect thing: a revisit to 1980 classic The Blues Brothers.

Ackroyd, Belushi, Carrie Fisher, great cameos, brilliant comedy, amazing action, fabulous music, plus a bunch of Nazis being trounced.

Over at my Instagram, http://www.instagram.com/cinematicenthus, I just posted tons of #mystery #comedy films I’m watching from both 1930-1970 AND 1970- present.

You can find the movie links at this doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-RqV8Tcgj_nHbLLuE4C978WNEtlFUTfu3d3_p4aiBx4/edit

If you’d like to check out my thoughts about these films, you can check out my YouTube at
https://youtube.com/@cinematicenthus?si=5rofT4NgnS2gT_7N

Or Letterboxd account at
https://boxd.it/5bSOn

Enjoy!
@Cinematicenthus
#classicfilm #cinemastodon #mystery #comedy #screwballcomedy #movies #amwatching