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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project *DELETED* [Re: Kilgore Trout]
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: Gilgamesh18]
#18734857 - 08/20/13 10:45 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks a lot man!
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#366
Shaolin Master Killer (Hong Kong, 1978)
In my opinion, this is the Shaw Brothers at their finest. A movie with 3 very discernible acts, it tells the story of a young scholar whose town is under the oppressive thumb of a tyrant and his minions. He sneaks into the Monastery and convinces the monks to teach him kung fu. After a few years, they do, and he eventually eceeds all other Shaolin Masters in the temple, and so sets out on taking down the warlord and teaching his people in the town kung fu so they can protect themselves. This movie has everything: laughs, philosophy, AMAZING training and fight sequences, and a high production value. One of the best kung fu movies I've ever seen.
A.K.A.: Depending on what country you live in (U.S.A., for example), this film might be called 'The 36th Chamber of the Shaolin'. A rose is a rose by any name.
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I'll have to check that out. I'm curious to see what a good fight scene is from a movie of that era. The only fighting movies I've seen have been from the mid 90's & upward.
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: smack]
#18749396 - 08/23/13 10:34 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Definitely check it out. Also, while it's not on my "list", some of my favorite fighting scenes from a 70s kung fu film are in 'Jackie and the 36 Crazy Fists'. I don't know why the number 36 appears so much in these films.
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Burke Dennings said: Okay, this project is officially on hold for the next month or so. I'm gonna do the write-ups I have to do before I forget, but I'm a little bit burned out on movies in general and I'm moving halfway across the country in a few weeks. For now, thanks to everyone who's been reading and contributing to this thread; the project is far from finished, but I'm going on hiatus. 
Aside from our continuing negotiations regarding Sun Spots this is far and away your best project. Awesome job. Are you taking the redhead with you and will it mean higher shipping fees to NY?
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: zappaisgod]
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Burke Dennings said: Okay, this project is officially on hold for the next month or so. I'm gonna do the write-ups I have to do before I forget, but I'm a little bit burned out on movies in general and I'm moving halfway across the country in a few weeks. For now, thanks to everyone who's been reading and contributing to this thread; the project is far from finished, but I'm going on hiatus. 
Aside from our continuing negotiations regarding Sun Spots this is far and away your best project. Awesome job. Are you taking the redhead with you and will it mean higher shipping fees to NY?
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: Gilgamesh18]
#18751317 - 08/24/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: zappaisgod]
#18752391 - 08/24/13 05:13 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Haha, thanks a lot man.
And since I'm moving to PA, the shipping will be much less.
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EXCELLENT! Whereabouts? PM if you prefer.
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: zappaisgod]
#18769881 - 08/28/13 06:51 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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SHOUTS OUT TO MY BWOY KEVIN MUUSIVAKX ON THIS ENTRY. This thread is lacking in sexy, so I'll even put up some gingery latina goodness. (it's good ginger)

#367
Gimme Shelter (1970, U.S.)
This "documentary" follows the rock band The Rolling Stones on their 1969 American tour. The film obviously concludes with the infamous free concert the Stones played at Altamount Speedway in San Francisco. Nicely filmed scenes of the band on (and off-stage) give insight to the tour and band's performances. In the climax, we see footage of the security team (Hell's Angels, LOL) basically attacking the audience and killing a girl. Many were injured in the melee. Fundamentally, this documentary is about the "anti-Woodstock". Pretty cool overall, more so if you're a Stones fan. (I'm lookin' at you, B.J.)
TRICKY EDITING: The filmmakers wanted to shoot footage of the band listening to what happened at the Altamount concert on the radio. What they were really listening to was edited news reportage that made it seem way worse than it was (which isn't to say that the incident wasn't very unfortunate- it was), eliciting bigger, more emotive responses from the Stones. A little cheap, but we watch movies to be entertained.
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Woodstock (U.S., 1970)
Obviously this documentary is about the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that took place in Bethel, NY in August, 1969. This film uses literally all kinds of documentary styles: reportage, interviews (my favorites were the ones with the besieged townsfolk), split screens of different footage, multiple-angle shots of single events and everything else that can cover the vast scope of this event. Interspersed throughout the nearly 4 hour long film are rock-doc shots of various famous artists performing, including: Joe Cocker (best performance there, imo), Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, and many more. Due to how much of this documentary has been recycled and re-hashed and is part of our American pop-culture lore, there wasn't much new (to me) info, but if you didn't know a damn thing about the cultrual icon that is Woodstock, this is a great place to start. Even if you're not a fan of music of the era, this is still a good one. Personally, I don't much care for hippie shit, but I do like good documentaries, so I enjoyed the film.
SHOUTS OUT TO THE DOCUMENTARY CREW: The festival's creators hired an amazing crew to document the event that included Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Terry Schoonmacher. No wonder the production values are so high on what could've been a slip-shod mish-mash of acid induced retardation.
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#367
Gimme Shelter (1970, U.S.)
This "documentary" follows the rock band The Rolling Stones on their 1969 American tour. The film obviously concludes with the infamous free concert the Stones played at Altamount Speedway in San Francisco. Nicely filmed scenes of the band on (and off-stage) give insight to the tour and band's performances. In the climax, we see footage of the security team (Hell's Angels, LOL) basically attacking the audience and killing a girl. Many were injured in the melee. Fundamentally, this documentary is about the "anti-Woodstock". Pretty cool overall, more so if you're a Stones fan. (I'm lookin' at you, B.J.)
TRICKY EDITING: The filmmakers wanted to shoot footage of the band listening to what happened at the Altamount concert on the radio. What they were really listening to was edited news reportage that made it seem way worse than it was (which isn't to say that the incident wasn't very unfortunate- it was), eliciting bigger, more emotive responses from the Stones. A little cheap, but we watch movies to be entertained.

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I don't believe they killed a girl in the audience. Meredeth Hunter, a black man was killed by the Hells Angels after pulling out a gun. They may have incited him by harassment as he was attending with a white woman.
Earlier a man drowned in a drainage ditch. And after the concert two sleeping concertgoers were run over and killed by a car.
I haven't seen Gimme Shelter for a while but their is a briefer treatment of the subject in the recent documentary (highly recommended) "Crossfire Hurricane" The band was very concerned about the condition of the crowd and the Angels. The band felt they had no control over either, and wished to walk away, but it was impossible because they were in the middle of nowhere. Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, at least expressed concern for the audience (close to a half million) but thought if they cancelled the show, a riot would take place, and the casualties would have been a lot worse.
When the band finished the show and ran off to their extremally overcrowded helicopter, the scene recalled the fall of Saigon, with people sitting on each other's laps and the copter barely having the power to take off.
In his autobiography, Hells Angels leader Sonny Barger, blamed Mick Jagger for the crowd problems, saying that he refused to take the stage until 90 minutes after the previous band finished and well after darkness. This is a common tactic of hard rock bands, who wish to see the crowd whipped into an anticipatory frenzy before the band walks out. The Grateful Dead were scheduled to appear after dark, but Jerry Garcia cancelled their show after learning that the Angels had beaten and knocked unconscious Jefferson Airplane Singer-guitarist Marty Balin. It was Garcia who talked the Stones into using the Hells Angels for security because this had worked out at several Dead shows.
In the recent documentary Jagger talking about an era a few years earlier said something like It's not the only reason why they come here. They obviously like the band. But part of it is an opportunity for them to participate in a riot.
In the aftermath of Altamonte, the band members wrestled with the notion of how to deal with the havoc, that they at least in part, had caused. Richards says his way of dealing with it was taking to the "stuff" (heroin)
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Burke Dennings said: SHOUTS OUT TO MY BWOY KEVIN MUUSIVAKX ON THIS ENTRY. This thread is lacking in sexy, so I'll even put up some gingery latina goodness. (it's good ginger)

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#367
Gimme Shelter (1970, U.S.)
This "documentary" follows the rock band The Rolling Stones on their 1969 American tour. The film obviously concludes with the infamous free concert the Stones played at Altamount Speedway in San Francisco. Nicely filmed scenes of the band on (and off-stage) give insight to the tour and band's performances. In the climax, we see footage of the security team (Hell's Angels, LOL) basically attacking the audience and killing a girl. Many were injured in the melee. Fundamentally, this documentary is about the "anti-Woodstock". Pretty cool overall, more so if you're a Stones fan. (I'm lookin' at you, B.J.)
TRICKY EDITING: The filmmakers wanted to shoot footage of the band listening to what happened at the Altamount concert on the radio. What they were really listening to was edited news reportage that made it seem way worse than it was (which isn't to say that the incident wasn't very unfortunate- it was), eliciting bigger, more emotive responses from the Stones. A little cheap, but we watch movies to be entertained.

I saw this in the theaters when it first came out. The biggest take away for a young teenage lad such as myself was.........................Tina fucking Turner. Holy fucking shit was she hot in this.
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: zappaisgod] 1
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Man, a part of me wishes it was the way it was in 1970. While VHS/DvD/Blu-Ray are invaluable for home viewing, I grew up (within memory) inside that era. I sometimes wish that it was the old days, when if you wanted to see a movie, you went to the theatre and it was a whole experience. There's this really nice theatre in town here that sometimes plays movies; it's all done up in art-deco and themed in Egyptian. But say in the 1970s or 60s, there was no other choice but go out and see it on the Big Screen. And movies that sunk played for a week and were pulled while movies that were huge (like 'Jaws' and the original 'Star Wars' movies) literally invented the term "blockbuster" and ran in the theater for months (years in some cases) and if you loved the film, you wouldn't know when you'd see it next so you'd take it in all wide-eyed and REALLY remember it. You'd have to go to the theater daily and it'd be like a home away from home. Soda jerks maybe would work there back in the real old days. It'd be a huge deal! Not like the miserable theatre-going experience that we put up with these days. Especially because the movie's usually available on the fuckin' internet a week before it gets released. Definitely the day of release, and even if you don't go that route, movies are dumped to their home viewing formats like 6 weeks after leaving theaters. I appreciate being able to own a movie and watch it whenever (with director commentary!), but sometimes I think the world would've been cooler back in the day when you'd be looked at as insane for wearing anything but a button down shirt with a neck tie and maybe a bowler cap. And you'd sit down all fancy and watch your fuckin' movie.
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Re: Burke's 1001 Movie Project [Re: Brian Jones]
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Brian Jones, my main man. Thank you so much for the insight on the Gimme Shelter entry. I'm not gonna lie; a lot of these movies I watch at least partially intoxicated, and when I hear that someone named Meredith got killed, I hope you can see where I got genders confused. But if your can exrtapoleate on it any more, I'd really appreciate it.
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Burke Dennings said: Man, a part of me wishes it was the way it was in 1970. While VHS/DvD/Blu-Ray are invaluable for home viewing, I grew up (within memory) inside that era. I sometimes wish that it was the old days, when if you wanted to see a movie, you went to the theatre and it was a whole experience. There's this really nice theatre in town here that sometimes plays movies; it's all done up in art-deco and themed in Egyptian. But say in the 1970s or 60s, there was no other choice but go out and see it on the Big Screen. And movies that sunk played for a week and were pulled while movies that were huge (like 'Jaws' and the original 'Star Wars' movies) literally invented the term "blockbuster" and ran in the theater for months (years in some cases) and if you loved the film, you wouldn't know when you'd see it next so you'd take it in all wide-eyed and REALLY remember it. You'd have to go to the theater daily and it'd be like a home away from home. Soda jerks maybe would work there back in the real old days. It'd be a huge deal! Not like the miserable theatre-going experience that we put up with these days. Especially because the movie's usually available on the fuckin' internet a week before it gets released. Definitely the day of release, and even if you don't go that route, movies are dumped to their home viewing formats like 6 weeks after leaving theaters. I appreciate being able to own a movie and watch it whenever (with director commentary!), but sometimes I think the world would've been cooler back in the day when you'd be looked at as insane for wearing anything but a button down shirt with a neck tie and maybe a bowler cap. And you'd sit down all fancy and watch your fuckin' movie. 
Yeah yeah, old timer. Don't you have a park bench to sit at and tell this stuff to whoever passes by?
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Burke Dennings
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I'm not THAT old!
But I do feel a certain sense of nostalgia for a time in which I never lived. /sigh
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I know what you mean. There was a time when seeing a movie was an experience that people cherished and it stuck with them for a while. Now with the advent of Netflix and the Internet, movies have just become ordinary parts of our daily routine. It's kind of bittersweet.
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The convenience is so nice and we can hook up our home "theater" (so to speak) as much as we can afford to, which is great, but part of me wishes there were no internet spoilers and everything was fresh and golden and movies were treated like the magic and art that they truly are. It's a real conflict of desire. It's cool that you see it that way too.
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