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Just why the
fifties
are a vast movie wasteland is an interesting subject.
I grew up in the fifties, and you could be marked as a non-conformist by not wearing a tie.
Look at the Oscar winners from the
fifties
to get an idea of just how bad things were.
When you watch Li'l Abner, just remember, in the
fifties
this passed for pungent political satire and risqué humor.
If you love the artificial look of Hollywood musicals of the fifties, you'll love the never-to-be-seen-again soundstage creations of the then newly formed Zoetrope Studios.
Herbert Lom was a busy actor who appeared in numerous film and theatre productions during the
fifties
and sixties.
In the
fifties
horror movies always contained giant insects, probably because the creators thought this was the best way to scare the audience.
Louis Jouvet is the class act, not unusually but the plot is a little creaky - it failed as a Musical on Broadway in the early
fifties
where it played under the title Carnival In Flanders and left in its wake an enduring standard 'Here's That Rainy Day'.
This is a film that fits in with the other small masterpieces made by Ealing Studios in the
fifties
and I can really recommend it..
If it had been made in the
fifties
we would be calling it a classic.
Not only does it rate with Douglas Sirk's better known films ("Magnificent Obsession," "All that Heaven Allows," and "Imitation of Life), but is as much a devastating a critique of the American Dream as other
fifties
movies like "Bigger Than Life."
He was at least 20 in the fifties, wasn't he?
The kind of movie that might have been made in the fifties, when Hollywood was beginning to discover police stories and the gritty cities, with a B cast.
Even though I am only in my early
fifties
this film reminds me of that simpler time that perhaps never was.
The biggest problem is that it is, after all, a
fifties
film, with all the good and bad points of the
fifties.
I am a big fan of the fifties, because it is the decade in which I started watching movies, but I am also aware that relatively low budgets and heavy handed censorship made even the best
fifties
films somewhat dubious -- e.g.
Douglas Sirk is renowned for injecting his subversive criticism of American society of the
fifties
in his glossy and glamorous melodramas.
Made in 1935, and hailed by all critics as one of the greatest movies ever made, a position it would hold through the fifties, it is a deceptive little tale about the cowardice of men and the bravery of women.
Dustin Hoffman plays Lenny Bruce, the controversial stand-up comic who views comedy as a form of debate...I am going to take a stab at why this film is in black & white...The vast majority of this film takes place in the late
fifties
and early sixties..The black and white presentation exudes the era in which Lenny Bruce's popularity prevailed!! Black and White captures the three packs of cigarettes an evening per deviate nightclub era of the Lenny Bruce days so so so cogently!!... Interesting concept.. How many men get their blank blanked.. How many men have blanked a blank.. None?..They aren't telling the truth...especially those in lower middle management!! How about the fact that your wife is not a lesbian, but for purposes of a voyeuristic thrill...Why not?..Kind of degrading!! but for Lenny Bruce, that's the best part... SORT OF!!!...KIND OF!!... How can you curb obscenity when obscenity is the truth?...How does an overzealous, intellectual, New York Jewish comic ignore his upbringing?
It is not a laugh a minute comedy there are some funny moments but the film really is about ordinary women in their
fifties
trying to do some charity work by doing the extraordinary i.e. posing nude to sell calendars.
If Todd Haynes intention was to lull us to sleep with the shallowness, closemindeness and already well documented mores of the
fifties
he succeeded.
Nolie from South Africa said it much better in His/Her review a few days back "exquisite to look at but more than a little flat" and "stolid affected version of Pleasantville for the faux Hollywood cineast crowd, people in love with themselves as much as the film makers are in love with their product" I grew up in the
fifties
and their was more REAL drama going on in my neighborhood and in the lives of my family and my neighbors in a single afternoon than in the entirety of this "FILM".
There's also some kind of lovestory too and our butt chinned hero takes his plaid clashing girlfriend to shopping malls of the future and to the
fifties!
I have not known anything about Pawlik but my grand-parents told me about her extraordinarily marvellous appearances in the programmes of the Vienna Ice Revue that played for Berlin six weeks a year in the
fifties
and that was well-known all over the world at that time.
It has a great
fifties
soundtrack and music numbers that are choreographed with exciting imagination!
In the
Fifties
to the Seventies this sort of entertainment designed for the small screen went over reasonably well, but now I suspect that there are more humorless TV viewers than ever who possess little patience and even less appreciation of anything with a sense of old school style and flair that BURKE'S LAW had in abundance.
Alfred Hitchcock made this highly enjoyable and under-rated divertissment in 1950 after a run of glum movies in the second half of the forties but before embarking on his richest period in the
fifties.
In short, like Quiz Show, one of the best movies about the fifties, and one of the best movies about the early days of television.
See the movie if only to explain why our parents revolted so strongly in the sixties from the morals taught them in the
fifties.
Made in 1939, it had a lot of "staying power" I remember it being re-released in the middle fifties, with many people thinking they were seeing a new western.
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