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Streaming Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) Online

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 by watchstream

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)iMDB Rating: 5.7
Date Released : 14 January 1970
Genre : Drama
Stars : James Coburn, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Hooks, Perry Hayes." />
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Size : 700 MB

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Up on the roof

Based on an overlooked Tennessee Williams play ,also known as " kingdom on earth";it was not the first time Lumet had filmed a Williams work :"the fugitive kind" in 1960 was not particularly memorable ,a vehicle for the playwright's good friend Anna Magnani.

"Last of"...AKA "blood kin" is ,in spite of a poor rating,a more interesting adaptation :Lumet is at ease when he works in an enclosed place (see for that matter "twelve angry men" "murder on the orient express" "a dog day afternoon" "deathtrap").James Coburn is cast against type as the owner of a southern property which has known better days but the actress is not exactly how Williams depicted her in his play:"a poor man's Marilyn Monroe" .

There are only three characters but interest is sustained till the end with a final unexpected revelation a la "suddenly last Summer" .There are many flashbacks ,not unlike those of Brooks' "cat on a hot tin roof" and the beginning of the movie is a good trick ,a spoof on stupid contests .It was a cinematographic play with its impending flood and its neglected yard where the new wife lets her domestic appliances Interracial triangle in which the Myrtle/Chicken relationship sometimes recalls Blanche /Kowalski;the sexual tension is represented by the rise of waters ,and "to go up on the roof" means "to make love" in Williams' language (it's the last line of the play).

"The seven descents of Myrtle" ("kingdom on earth" ) is to be staged in Paris next September with pop singer Johnny Halliday as the terminally-ill owner,under the French title " LE Paradis Sur Terre".

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Streaming Mission Batangas (1968) Online

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Mission Batangas (1968)Mission Batangas (1968)iMDB Rating: 4.6
Date Released : 17 February 1969
Genre : Adventure, War, Action
Stars : Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Keith Larsen, Pol Salcedo
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Size : 700 MB

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Dennis Weaver is a mercenary pilot in the Pacific during WW2. He agrees to help Vera Miles steal the Phillipine treasury of gold away from the conquering Japanese forces.

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Forgettable film, notable only for the opening sequence

I saw this movie a long time ago and most of what I remember is that it is your standard, man starts off a heel and turns out to be a hero even if he doesn't think he is capable, plot. Dennis Weaver is a pilot during WWII, that flies anyone anywhere as long as they have money. Of course he finds out that during war, money can only go so far and he finds himself fighting a noble cause - that is, helping some Filipinos and Vera Miles, escape the Japanese. There is a scene in the beginning that has stuck with me all these years. Weaver is going to fly some rich (most likely corrupt) businessman out of the Philippines. The businessman is heading to the plane holding a briefcase full of cash, when somebody shoots him with a machine gun. As the camera does a tight close-up of his face, his eyes bulge and a small drop of blood trickles from his mouth, money from his briefcase flutters all around. This had a huge impression on me and I always think this scene best illustrates the cheapness of life. The rest of the movie doesn't even come close to being an average movie.

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Watch Oni no sumu yakata (1969) Online

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Oni no sumu yakata (1969)Oni no sumu yakata (1969)iMDB Rating: 7.8
Date Released : 31 May 1969
Genre : Drama
Stars : Shintarô Katsu, Hideko Takamine, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Satô." />
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Size : 700 MB

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Streaming Détruire dit-elle Online

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 by watchstream

Détruire dit-elle (1969)Détruire dit-elle (1969)iMDB Rating: 7.1
Date Released : 6 March 1970
Genre : Drama
Stars : Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss." />
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Size : 870 MB

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Cold summer

I had some idea that this was a Marguerite Duras version of Last Year in Marienbad early on in the film. After all the characters we see are in an existential limbo, a comfort zone, staying in a hotel in the countryside that seems to be outside things somehow. There is the Marienbad feel initially that the characters need to break out by a supreme effort, that they need to have the will to love. They are perhaps Beckettian slouches, avoiding the local forest although they constantly resolve to go there; why go into the forest when we can stay in the park they reason. There definitely is that going on but I think so much more as well.

Further into the film you can start to feel similarities to David Cronenberg's wonderful early movie Stereo (incidentally released in the same year). In that movie volunteers in a blank deserted modernist university have brain surgery to remove their ability to speak but increase their power for telepathy. Some characters in the experiment are dominant and control the others, some resist the melding, but a group identity is formed, hideously psychosexual. In this movie you feel that the inhabitants of the hotel are undergoing the same process. Stein is the master, Alissa his Stradivarius, Elisabeth a psychological weakling, becoming a golem, Max Thor Stein's henchman. At one point Elisabeth's husband arrives and all four of the main characters refer to themselves as German Jews, Stein is in them all. Amongst many merging references is the beautiful line that Stein delivers on the subject of Max and Alissa sleeping together every night, "one day they'll find the two of you shapeless, clotted like tar" The location to go into more detail is a hotel absent of staff, absent of the outside. There is a beautiful grove outside where white sun-loungers are thinly spaced out on the daisy-strewn grass, where white cast-iron chairs with backs made of symmetrical curlicues poise. Max and Stein have a conversation at the start of the movie, "What season is it?" "Cold Summer". That sums up the feel of the place. Another point is that there are no children, this is actually reminiscent of another masterpiece Jens Lien's 2006 movie The Bothersome Man, where the lack is the difference between a world with flavour and no flavour.

After a while the movie becomes very stylised, the shots are static and really close up, the scenes conversational. It took me a little while to realise that what's going on is that I was becoming a hotel resident, being enveloped by the scenes, joining the group. The effect is quite overpowering, I felt like reaching out and touching Max's blazer, like kissing Alissa (I have never felt that way in a movie). During a card game I actually felt like I was holding a hand.

Alissa (Nicole Hiss) is so strange, described as having the hair of a child, with a bearing both uncertain and yet sure at the same time, like a Delphic Pythoness. A tactile women who in a key scene has parted lips through which no words emit.

The ending has more than a hint of Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). It is no coincidence that this film raises the spectre of so many others brilliant ones.

To keep the mood going after the film is over I recommend playing Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question".

This played to a very sparse audience at the Institut Francais' Cine Lumiere in London on 25 October 2010.

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Watch Heubodengeflüster (1967) Online

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Heubodengeflüster (1967)Heubodengeflüster (1967)iMDB Rating: 3.7
Date Released : 29 December 1967
Genre : Comedy
Stars : Peter Carsten, Elfie Pertramer, Renate von Holt, Gunther Philipp." />
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Size : 870 MB

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Watch Made in Sweden Online

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Made in Sweden (1969)Made in Sweden (1969)iMDB Rating: 5.8
Date Released : 17 March 1969
Genre : Drama
Stars : Lena Granhagen, Per Myrberg, Max von Sydow, Karl-Birger Blomdahl." />
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Size : 700 MB

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Streaming Nagagutsu o haita neko Online

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Nagagutsu o haita neko (1969)Nagagutsu o haita neko (1969)iMDB Rating: 7.5
Date Released : 18 March 1969
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Stars : Susumu Ishikawa, Toshiko Fujita, Rumi Sakakibara, Asao Koike
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Size : 700 MB

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Sentenced to death for rescuing mice, swashbuckling cat Pero is evading a trio of bumbling feline assassins when he meets a timid boy named Pierre. Kicked out of home and cheated of his inheritance by his greedy brothers, Pierre joins Pero as a nomad. Arriving in a kingdom, they learn the Princess Rose is to be given to the wealthiest man in the land. Seeing that Pierre is taken with the girl at first sight, Pero presents him as a duke to the royal family. Rose falls for Pierre's gentle ways, but it turns out the dark prince and wizard Lucifier seeks to make the princess his bride and snatches her away to his castle. Can Pero and Pierre overcome this great adversary?

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Vintage Nip Toon.

Fabulous wide screen cartoon feature from the days before Manga and anime had entered common our toon speak. This one was particularly imposing in it's first generation colour with the Japanese track.

Don't expect too much connection to the fairy tale we had thrust on us as kids but the chase down the spiraling INSIDE of the mountain remains printed in the memory after thousands of cheapo kiddie toons have faded.

This one comes from the days of the first Astro Boy series and while it has a style and imagery of it's own, it's not hard to imagine the people who did them downing tea and other substances together out of hours. Note Hayao Miyazaki's credit here. It would be particularly interesting to get to see a collection of his work from this period.

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