Anything You Can Do (I Can Do It Better)
Betty Hutton and Howard Keel perform Irving Berlin’s song, from the musical film Annie Get Your Gun.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Train de vie: Musical Duel
Jewish klezmer meets Gipsy music. Happiness ensues.
From the 1998 movie by Radu Mihaileanu.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Beetlejuice: Dinner Scene
The famous scene from Tim Burton movie, where the guests of a haunted house are forced to sing Harry Belafonte’s version of the Banana Boat Song.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
tnx, bruna80
The 25th Hour: Fuck All!
Edward Norton delivers one of the best “love letters” ever written to the city of New York, in the 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
To Kill a Mockingbird: Courtroom Scene
Atticus Finch delivers his statement on the case of Tom Robinson, accused with an undeserved rape charge.
Just watched the movie (and all the other stuff on the double DVD edition) for the first time and I was delighted. Everything in this movie is in its right place, starting from the title sequence. Gregory Peck is completely absorbed by his interpretation. The courtroom scene is memorable.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Do You Like Opera?
Tom Hanks employs Maria Callas for explaining opera to Denzel Washington, and in that the lawyer will understand how it feels when you know you’re about to die.
From Jonathan Demme’s 1993 movie Philadelphia.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Lyrics for La mamma morta.
thx Viola*
25 Moving Movie Moments for Men
A list of moments in cinema that make men cry. A lot of them come in video.
Marcel Marceau (1923 - 2007)
Marcel Marceau died this past weekend in Paris. He was 84.
Here’s his scene from Mel Brooks’s Silent Movie.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
P.S. On a note. The Italian title for this movie is Mel Brooks’ latest madness. #__#
Related content: Así habló un mimo.
Ticklinks: A Big Fat Wad
13 Worst Accents in Film - Deputy Dog ’s awesome and very popular post.
50 Greatest Sex Scenes - Whoever decided to make the reader jump back and forth between two sites is an idiot. Aargh! However, the fact that Don’t Look Now came in at the top made up for that. However, I have to say this because it is bothersome: History of Violence at number 2 is a friggin’ joke.
The 50 must-watch web video clips - Good list even if I don’t get what the hell is so funny about the dramatic chipmunk.
The 10 Best Fake Movie Trailers of the Year - Oh, you know! A little different from our mash-ups roundup.
Our 2006 Best Films online list - Self-love.
Ticklinks: World’s Most Absurd Fight Scenes
Chainsaw kung-fu - you could almost hear the brainstorming session that made this stuff up.
Street laser fights - if this took any longer to make than an afternoon, I’d say it was a waste of time. (via Transbuddha)
Shoot from the crotch (posted Earlier) - even among this crowd of videos, this films seems to be a standout in altering reality.
Worst Fight Scene ever! (posted Earlier) - one of my favorite Ticklebooth posts ever.
Ladder Fight (posted Earlier) - I think they shot the Chainsaw scene and this one in the same location.
Kung Fu vs Yoga (posted Earlier) - this is actually a decent fight scene, the tall Yoga/ Indian guys is what gives this a streak of wackiness.
Ticklinks: Behind the Scenes
The Fly - Part one & two. The animatronics stuff is hilarious.
The haunting Six Feet Under title sequence. These guys are always interesting. (via Nozap)
Kubrick’s daughter documents The Shining. (Posted earlier)
The eight part look at The Godfather. Part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven & eight. Fascinating stuff, the info on the first two chapters (from the 70’s) are little more intriguing than the third.
Discovery on how animation is created.
Easy Rider documentary: Part one, two, three, four, five, six & seven.
Ingmar Bergman passes away at 89
One of the greatest artists in cinema passed away earlier today. When I was in college, there wasn’t another director I cherished or studied more than Ingmar Bergman. There is so much that can be said of Bergman’s work, especially when it has been so long and diverse as his, but I will focus on some of my favorite Bergman moments.
My first Bergman film was Persona. Till then, my knowledge of art cinema consisted of American Indies. I was working at an art movie theater at the time and one of the other workers, a Woman in her fifties, asked me if I had seen a Bergman film. I said no and she seemed surprised, then murmured disdainfully that I should check it out. So the next day, I went to the college library and rented Persona. It was like watching an alien mind at work, dissecting humans in all of its darkness. It has been so long since I have seen it but I can still remember the invisible energy in the film, every element and every expression carried some sort of hidden drama or code.
Cries and Whispers seemed like a continuation of Persona but in a more melodic structure. There are some great individual scenes here but the one that still sticks out is where the caretaker “warms” the sick person in bed.
I saw Fanny and Alexander with a non-film person who made me promise to walk out with them if they got bored. Knowing Bergman’s films, I was almost certain this might happen. But Fanny and Alexander was as mainstream as Bergman got. We stayed and I even remember a couple of approving comments made by my companion.
My favorite Bergman film has to be Wild Strawberries. I still have an old vhs dupe that I refused to copy over with another movie. The film fascination with time is evident in its story and also in its structure. Conversations and scenes go back and forth but everything feels seamless and intuitive. The last scene where Professor Borg finds his parents fishing is so beautiful. My heart breaks just thinking of it.
Related videos:
- Professor Borg’s first nightmare from Wild Strawberries.
- Peter Cowie on Winter Light.
- Ingmar Bergman Interview (Man Alive) - part one, two, three
- Teaser for Persona.
Similar endings: All roads Head home
When I watched Amelie a couple years ago, I felt like there were several moments of deja vu. It wasn’t till the very end when Amelie and her boyfriend ride around on the bike that it hit me, this was a French version of Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels.
Watch the Fallen Angels ending and then watch the very end of the Amelie ending.
That character from Fallen Angels is a harder Amelie. She takes care of the hitman much like Amelie takes care of her neighbors and her co-workers. Secretly taking care of people is a theme that runs through Wong Kar-wai films, especially evident in Chungking Express.
Both films create a world where the characters are isolated from each other. The two main female characters seek a connection but are also afraid of it. Other characters mourn severely for lost love.
I am not suggesting that Jean-Pierre Jeunet stole from Wong Kar-wai because the plots are quite different but I am certain there was an influence in style.
Ticklinks: Selling and manipulating
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism - This deserves a post on its own and I will probably do it later.
- Twelve master formats for television advertising explains all the manipulation techniques in advertising. (via Coudal)
- Century of Self - how Freud’s work was used to manipulate people to buy products, support a war and more. Disturbing.
- JibJab’s What we call the news!
- Coach Pacino’s stirring dialogue in Any Given Sunday where he motivates his players to fight one good battle.
Ticklinks: Funny Friday
The Internet Crash of 2007 - The Onion is at it again. (via Lifehacker)
Flagship Father Figure - My favorite MP3 blog takes a look at the best comedy albums from the past year. Great stuff.
The Best Hoaxes - The Bhopal/ Dow hoax is worth the price of admission.
You have no idea - How low can Bush go? Daily Show takes a look. Amazing.
Jolly Green Giant - Does anyone see the resemblance with Harry Potter’s recent giant? (via BB)
Rhwinter adds to our favorite scenes category with this clip from Fear and Loathing from Las Vegas.
Rhwinter also suggests this hilarious recut for television of the famous scene from Big Lebowski.
King of Kong - Trailer for a promising documentary that follows a middle school science teacher as he battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong. Geek central. (via DF)
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