tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post8418285720871821791..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: The Lady VanishesStuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-705093897927854662010-01-21T10:45:47.568+00:002010-01-21T10:45:47.568+00:00I'm really glad to see somebody else giving so...I'm really glad to see somebody else giving some much-needed praise to the magical Ultimate Picture Palace! I loved it so much I've named my film blog after it: (ultimatepicturepalace.blogspot.com)<br /><br />Good work!<br /><br />MaryMaryhttp://ultimatepicturepalace.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-65861301470100063042009-09-21T18:51:17.917+01:002009-09-21T18:51:17.917+01:00I'm so glad you got I Know Where I'm Going...I'm so glad you got <b>I Know Where I'm Going!</b> Loved that film! Have you seen <b>This Happy Breed</b>? I keep thinking of ordering it on Amazon but it is only available (in the U.S.) as a Korean import. Makes me hesitate...Heather Bondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441892975188480682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-70106169988732569172009-09-19T05:41:00.260+01:002009-09-19T05:41:00.260+01:00I loved The Lady Vanishes too and that set me to t...I loved The Lady Vanishes too and that set me to thinking and my mind is still at it! Have you seen "Trio" it's one of I think three? films that are based on selections of short stories by Somerset Maugham ..I've looked it up it was three see amazon<br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Films-Somerset-Maugham-Quartet/dp/B000V4IOB2<br />My favourite is "the Verger" in trio but the others are good tooValhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003915263556622215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-80687481604584445852009-09-18T22:39:44.902+01:002009-09-18T22:39:44.902+01:00I had a similar experience watching To Kill a Mock...I had a similar experience watching To Kill a Mockingbird in a shabby old theatre, complete with film breaking partway through. Perfect.Susan Dhttp://www.destevenson.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-73430231874298666182009-09-18T20:26:30.773+01:002009-09-18T20:26:30.773+01:00I wish I could have come to see this! Love the UPP...I wish I could have come to see this! Love the UPP and Hitch, and have never seen this film. Googie Withers is utterly gorgeous, and Nauton and Basil are great too. Oddly enough, all three star in one of my favourite films, 'Dead of Night' (1945), which is possibly the scariest film I've ever seen. Basil and Nauton are the 'light relief' in one of the stories (it's a portmanteau film), playing a pair of golfing friends - when one of them dies, he haunts his friend who has married his fiancee...<br /><br />ButtonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-72241981939337934712009-09-18T13:58:42.329+01:002009-09-18T13:58:42.329+01:00You should also see "Rope", a 30's H...You should also see "Rope", a 30's Hitchcock film all shot with one camera, about two young men who decide to murder an acquaintance, just to see if they can. They serve dinner over the trunk in which the body lays, and the cat-and-mouse is whether their teacher (Jimmy Stewart) can work out what they've done. Really great acting & gorgeous camera work. Think it's been colorized, but the B & W version is better, in my opinion.Bridgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-34054461868076881972009-09-18T08:59:10.732+01:002009-09-18T08:59:10.732+01:00I love that film. But I've never veen to the ...I love that film. But I've never veen to the UPP - wrong end of town for me, but if they're showing things like that, then I must make the trip!verityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825551404394913715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-23197285043345879332009-09-18T08:57:59.760+01:002009-09-18T08:57:59.760+01:00One of my favourites is I Know Where I’m Going. It...One of my favourites is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037800/" rel="nofollow">I Know Where I’m Going</a>. It was shown on BBC4 this week as part of their Scottish season, so they may put it on again. <i>Whisky Galore</i> is another good one of the period.callmemadamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711070764040041338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-66176919089713808292009-09-18T08:37:38.357+01:002009-09-18T08:37:38.357+01:00The UPP is my favourite cinema in oxford too! And ...The UPP is my favourite cinema in oxford too! And I had never really noticed what the top of the building was like. I went for the first time with *you* to see Once (Irish musical thingy!) and also had a traumatic HSM3 experience there with some Japanese children! <br /><br />I second Brief Encounter as I love it and Bette Davis rocks. <br /><br />Lge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-55682926199613041342009-09-18T08:35:23.862+01:002009-09-18T08:35:23.862+01:00I've seen this film on TV but never on the big...I've seen this film on TV but never on the big screen. But I am now back in Oxford so will certainly be going to the UPP soon -- perhaps I'll see you there! When I lived in Oxford in the 1980s it was called the Penultimate Picture Palace, by the way -- I wonder when and why it dropped its pen?harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04470091985662379182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-37979087270667564052009-09-18T08:31:21.450+01:002009-09-18T08:31:21.450+01:00I really envy you seeing The Lady Vanishes on the ...I really envy you seeing The Lady Vanishes on the big screen. I'd second the recommendation of I Know Where I'm Going! and would add A Matter of Life and Death (and pretty much anything by Powell and Pressburger, really) to that.Tanya Izzardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05229305256800572696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-62315658521948911762009-09-18T08:18:35.469+01:002009-09-18T08:18:35.469+01:00Have you ever seen the Oscar-winning All About Eve...Have you ever seen the Oscar-winning All About Eve? That's a cracker. And I'm a Cary Grant fan and loved Notorious with Ingrid Bergman (that was colour, mind you, so probably a bit more recent). And... um, Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday is always worth a look.litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-67272804439114816092009-09-18T07:43:19.408+01:002009-09-18T07:43:19.408+01:00Simon, regarding the origins of your favourite cin...Simon, regarding the origins of your favourite cinema:<br /><br />"The Ultimate Picture Palace is a small single screen theater located on Jeune Street near St. Clements Street, off Cowley Road. This theater was built around 1911. After operating as a cinema for a few years it closed around 1920. From then, the building was used for storage for almost six decades before opening as a cinema again in 1974.<br /><br />The building is Grade II Listed". This information (unverified by me) comes from http://cinematreasures.org/Dark Pussnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-8328328445277319802009-09-18T06:35:06.094+01:002009-09-18T06:35:06.094+01:00Simon, I second Green for Danger, Random harvest, ...Simon, I second Green for Danger, Random harvest, Suspicion & I know where I'm going. I'd add Rebecca, Waterloo Bridge (with Vivien Leigh & Robert Taylor)some of Bette Davis' best, Now Voyager, Old acquaintance & The letter, A place of one's own, The wicked lady (both these with Margaret Lockwood), Intermezzo. Most of these are the cinematic equivalent of our favourite reading, middlebrow fiction.lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509400868331534237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-31952428701394041852009-09-18T05:45:25.815+01:002009-09-18T05:45:25.815+01:00I enjoy thirties movies like The Thin Man, Libeled...I enjoy thirties movies like The Thin Man, Libeled Lady ... those are both Myrna Loy films. I adore her because of the way she plays everything so straight. Not sure if you are looking for any humor though.<br /><br />I love Spellbound too. And have you seen Laura? Classic film noir.Kristen M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02335598194501733541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-34347708546458233902009-09-18T02:04:59.123+01:002009-09-18T02:04:59.123+01:00The 39 steps- Robert Donat version
Green for Dang...The 39 steps- Robert Donat version<br /><br />Green for Danger- Alastair Sim<br /><br />? I Know Where I'm Going!-Wendy HillerValhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003915263556622215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-40784210243195022792009-09-18T00:26:55.670+01:002009-09-18T00:26:55.670+01:00I love old movies, and watching them in an old the...I love old movies, and watching them in an old theatre would be absolute bliss. <br /><br />Almost anything from Hitchcock is a treat as far as I'm concerned. Suspicion is a favorite of mine, but I know a lot of people don't care for it. For something sentimental, I love Random Harvest. It brings me to tears every single time.Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09896331683344872038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-19639713272823163832009-09-18T00:19:36.117+01:002009-09-18T00:19:36.117+01:00We watched Sabotage by Alfred Hitchcock recently a...We watched Sabotage by Alfred Hitchcock recently and loved it, made in 1936 it should fit the bill nicely.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07415316482631852565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-60713414089759841362009-09-17T23:28:12.093+01:002009-09-17T23:28:12.093+01:00That film sounds wonderful! Back in the days of IT...That film sounds wonderful! Back in the days of ITV digital I used to have the TCM film channel and they used to show all the old classics. 'Spellbound 'with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman is one of my favourites - absolutely horrendous Freudian melodrama but a must see all the same! And 'An Affair to Remember' with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr is an absolute tearjerking classic, you must see that!Rachel (Book Snob)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13669640788036671572noreply@blogger.com