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On 07/02/2020 at 10:10 AM, 11Drogba said:

This is awesome. Don't avoid it because of Adam Sandler, he is great in this.

Oooooooh need to see. I liked him in Wedding Singer. When he has decent scripts it works!

[NikkiCFC 7,952]

11 hours ago, Johnnyeye said:

i really hope Phoenix gets it

Oh, he will definitely get it. 

BEST PICTURE - 1917

BEST DIRECTOR - SAM MENDES 

BEST ACTOR - JOAQUIN PHOENIX 

BEST ACTRESS - RENEE ZELLWEGER 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - BRAD PITT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - LAURA DERN

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4 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Oh, he will definitely get it. 

BEST PICTURE - 1917

BEST DIRECTOR - SAM MENDES 

BEST ACTOR - JOAQUIN PHOENIX 

BEST ACTRESS - RENEE ZELLWEGER 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - BRAD PITT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - LAURA DERN

you got all winning actors correct, but Parasite was the real winner tonight, unreal.

[NikkiCFC 7,952]

4 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Oh, he will definitely get it. 

BEST PICTURE - 1917

BEST DIRECTOR - SAM MENDES 

BEST ACTOR - JOAQUIN PHOENIX 

BEST ACTRESS - RENEE ZELLWEGER 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - BRAD PITT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - LAURA DERN

Wow, I'm so glad I was wrong for the best picture and the best director! Parasite won all! Like I said before best movie of the year but didn't expect this from Academy! Nice surprise 

[NikkiCFC 7,952]

Just watched this movie for obvious reasons. Didn't watch it before. Incredible how much resemblances it has with everything that is going on now with Coronavirus. 

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Dvd of The Postman Always Rings Twice. Classic film noir starring Lana Turner, who was sex on a stick at that time! 

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9 hours ago, chippy said:

Dvd of The Postman Always Rings Twice. Classic film noir starring Lana Turner, who was sex on a stick at that time! 

 

[chippy 342]

On 23/03/2020 at 9:06 AM, Vesper said:

 

You know she's trouble from the moment you set eyes on her.

But worth it tho😀

Great chemistry between Lana and John Garfield.

Lana had a very colourful, but quite tragic life. One of those where they say "they don't make em like that anymore."

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2 hours ago, chippy said:

You know she's trouble from the moment you set eyes on her.

But worth it tho😀

Great chemistry between Lana and John Garfield.

Lana had a very colourful, but quite tragic life. One of those where they say "they don't make em like that anymore."

Garfield was ruined via the red scares in the US as he was blacklisted, he died at only 39 years old.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield#The_Red_Scare.

Long involved in liberal politics, Garfield was caught up in the communist scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s. He supported the Committee for the First Amendment, which opposed governmental investigation of Communist activity in Hollywood. When called to testify, in 1951, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry. Garfield rejected communism, and just prior to his death in hopes of redeeming himself in the eyes of the blacklisters, wrote that he had been duped by communist ideology in an unpublished article called "I Was a Sucker for a Left Hook", a reference to Garfield's movies about boxing.^[10] However, his forced testimony before the committee had severely damaged his reputation. He was blacklisted in Red Channels, and barred from future employment as an actor by Hollywood movie studio bosses for the remainder of his career.^[2]

With film work scarce because of the blacklist, Garfield returned to Broadway and starred in a 1952 revival of Golden Boy, finally being cast in the lead role denied him years before.

On May 9, 1952, Garfield moved out of his New York apartment for the last time, indicating to friends that the separation from his wife Roberta was not temporary. He confided to columnist Earl Wilson that he would soon be divorced. Close friends speculated that it was his wife's opposition to his planned confession in Look magazine that triggered the separation. He heard that a HUAC investigator was reviewing his testimony for possible perjury charges. His agent reported that 20th Century-Fox wanted him for a film called Taxi, but would not even begin talks unless the investigation concluded in his favor. Three actor friends, Canada Lee, Mady Christians and J. Edward Bromberg, had all recently died after being listed by the committee.^[5]

In the morning of May 20, Garfield, against his doctor's strict orders, played several strenuous sets of tennis with a friend, mentioning the fact that he had not been to bed the night before. He met actress Iris Whitney for dinner, and afterward became suddenly ill complaining that he felt chilled. She took him to her apartment, where he refused to let her call a doctor and instead went to bed. The next morning, she found him dead. Long-term heart problems, allegedly aggravated by the stress of his blacklisting, had led to his death at the age of 39.^[11]

The funeral was the largest in New York since Rudolph Valentino's, with over ten thousand persons crowding the streets outside.^[12] The media circus surrounding Garfield's death led to a running joke, "John Garfield Still Dead Syndrome," that parodied the phenomenon; it would later be superseded by "Francisco Franco is still dead" in the 1970s after Franco's protracted terminal illness.^[13] Garfield's estate, valued at "more than $100,000," was left entirely to his wife. Shortly afterward, the HUAC closed its investigation of John Garfield, leaving him in the clear.^{[citation needed]} Garfield was interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

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45 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Garfield was ruined via the red scares in the US as he was blacklisted, he died at only 39 years old.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield#The_Red_Scare.

Long involved in liberal politics, Garfield was caught up in the communist scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s. He supported the Committee for the First Amendment, which opposed governmental investigation of Communist activity in Hollywood. When called to testify, in 1951, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry. Garfield rejected communism, and just prior to his death in hopes of redeeming himself in the eyes of the blacklisters, wrote that he had been duped by communist ideology in an unpublished article called "I Was a Sucker for a Left Hook", a reference to Garfield's movies about boxing.^[10] However, his forced testimony before the committee had severely damaged his reputation. He was blacklisted in Red Channels, and barred from future employment as an actor by Hollywood movie studio bosses for the remainder of his career.^[2]

With film work scarce because of the blacklist, Garfield returned to Broadway and starred in a 1952 revival of Golden Boy, finally being cast in the lead role denied him years before.

On May 9, 1952, Garfield moved out of his New York apartment for the last time, indicating to friends that the separation from his wife Roberta was not temporary. He confided to columnist Earl Wilson that he would soon be divorced. Close friends speculated that it was his wife's opposition to his planned confession in Look magazine that triggered the separation. He heard that a HUAC investigator was reviewing his testimony for possible perjury charges. His agent reported that 20th Century-Fox wanted him for a film called Taxi, but would not even begin talks unless the investigation concluded in his favor. Three actor friends, Canada Lee, Mady Christians and J. Edward Bromberg, had all recently died after being listed by the committee.^[5]

In the morning of May 20, Garfield, against his doctor's strict orders, played several strenuous sets of tennis with a friend, mentioning the fact that he had not been to bed the night before. He met actress Iris Whitney for dinner, and afterward became suddenly ill complaining that he felt chilled. She took him to her apartment, where he refused to let her call a doctor and instead went to bed. The next morning, she found him dead. Long-term heart problems, allegedly aggravated by the stress of his blacklisting, had led to his death at the age of 39.^[11]

The funeral was the largest in New York since Rudolph Valentino's, with over ten thousand persons crowding the streets outside.^[12] The media circus surrounding Garfield's death led to a running joke, "John Garfield Still Dead Syndrome," that parodied the phenomenon; it would later be superseded by "Francisco Franco is still dead" in the 1970s after Franco's protracted terminal illness.^[13] Garfield's estate, valued at "more than $100,000," was left entirely to his wife. Shortly afterward, the HUAC closed its investigation of John Garfield, leaving him in the clear.^{[citation needed]} Garfield was interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

Thanks for that.

Really sad what happened to him.

I know Lana was a lifelong Dem but never caught up in witchhunt.

 

 

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On 3/22/2020 at 2:32 AM, NikkiCFC said:

Just watched this movie for obvious reasons. Didn't watch it before. Incredible how much resemblances it has with everything that is going on now with Coronavirus. 

Yeah I saw that before and I re watch it recently when this virus hit. 

There's another movie about virus but it's from south Korea, worth a look:

 

 

I'm also gonna watch this new one that comes out tomorrow online, looks interesting:

 

 

[11Drogba 2,000]

-wrong thread-

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

New trailer for Matt Reeves Batman dropped at some DC fandome thing.

Looks very good and interesting, not necessarily an origin story by sounds of it but very much in the more realistic tone Nolan set with his trilogy as opposed to the train wreck of Batman vs Superman and Justice League.

Wee fight scene bit in the trailer is great, that sort of thing is the only thing I felt Nolan’s trilogy was really missing, really aggressive, where you feel every punch sort of fights. 

Wasnt sure of Robert Pattinson’s casting but Matt Reeves is an exceptional director and the trailer looks very good, althougut I do doubt it will top Nolans trilogy but Pattinson is an interesting actor (bar twilight those films are fucking horrendous) and Reeves a top director as mentions previously. Plus Nirvana on the trailer? Goes so well with it.

Also the Tenet trailer looks unbelievable. 
 

 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Anyone watching Ted Lasso show?

Any good?

[11Drogba 2,000]

One of the best prison movies.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

That Dansh actor did a fine job in that movie, quality acting.

[Unionjack 7,531]

Latest ones - would recommend them all.

 

Looper https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/ 

 

The Wave https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4354756/

 

Dragged Across Concrete  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6491178/

 

Where Buffalo Roam https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081748/

 

The Sunshine Makers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4456270/

 

Wild at Heart https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/

 

Running Scared https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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56 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Latest ones - would recommend them all.

 

Looper https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/ 

 

The Wave https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4354756/

 

Dragged Across Concrete  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6491178/

 

Where Buffalo Roam https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081748/

 

The Sunshine Makers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4456270/

 

Wild at Heart https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/

 

Running Scared https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/

 

 

 

 

 

 

you left out Black Poles in White Holes 74