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There always was homelessness here in the United States, but it took a steep increase, partly due to the tanking of the economy, and partly due to the de-institutionalization, which released thousands, if not millions of mentally ill people out onto the streets with no follow-up care. While sticking the mentally ill into the huge human warehouses isn't the answer (Many if not most of the state hospitals have closed, due to being really archaic and brutal.), just dumping them out into the streets to fend for themselves was a very poor way to handle this situation.
Nope. Tuberculosis.
A television musical, whether live or not, would not have been a good fit for something so beautiful, powerful and relevant as West Side Story. Such a thing would've cheapened it...big time.
That's also very true, Reaperscout. Moreover, "Dunkirk" is one of the few war movies that don't glorify war, as is "Saving Private Ryan."
Good point, Reaperscout! "Dunkirk" is a good movie, but I could not and would not bring myself to see it again, due to its extreme intensity.
I saw "Dunkirk", which was a very well-done movie, but it's certainly not for the faint of heart!
So far, it hasn't flopped. "Dunkirk" is playing at a bunch of movie theatres in my area, including the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, MA, where I've long held an annual membership, and it's doing quite well indeed.
I thought "Vertigo" was kind of overrated...and boring, but I did enjoy "The Birds", "North by Northwest", and "Psycho".
I saw "Psycho" for the first time on the TCM Channel for the first time last month and enjoyed it a great deal. I immediately recognized the late Simon Oakland, who also played Officer Krupke in the film version of "West Side Story", the latter of which is my all time favorite film.
I'd love to see "Psycho" on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, however.
Don't worry about that, Daisy. I wasn't able to limit my list of favorite classic films to five either...Notice?
I think that the baby was more than likely Colin's, not Billy's.
I thought that Madilyn slept with and had sex with Sgt. Sullivan, not Billy Costigan.
I agree that the first four gangster films on your list are the best gangster films, but since I've never seen "American Me", I'm unable to compare that particular film with any of the others.
The two leading actors, (the late) Peter O'Toole, (the late) Omar Sharif, and Alec Guinness, as well as Anthony Quinn, were fantastic in their parts the film Lawrence of Arabia.
Seeing any famous film on a great big, wide movie theatre screen, with the lights down low provides an already powerful and famous movie not only with more beauty and a grander experience, but even more power, as well.
This:
"it seems to borrow more from its predecessors than reinvent what's great about them. "
is one of the biggest problems with Ben Affleck's "The Town". I think it was quite disingenuous of Ben Affleck to borrow so much of "The Town" from other, better crime films. This is what helped cheapen "The Town" quite a bit, and it doesn't have enough of the really gritty believable scenes and characters that most other crime movies have.
I saw the film "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" on TV a number of years ago, and enjoyed it, but I thought that the book on which this movie was based was much better.
Here's another thing too, bge95: Doug and his accomplices in crime/buddies weren't the only ones who were working for Fergie. The two Dominican guys that Doug and Jem beat up on, and seriously injured were also working for Fergie. The Town's Alternate Ending also makes that clear.
Rear Window was a bit overrated for me, but I liked The Defiant Ones very much.
I enjoyed The Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest, and Sunset Blvd. a great deal, as well.
Thanks again, Daisy. The film West Side Story always brings back good memories, plus it always feels fresh and new to me, like I'm watching it for the very first time. I never fail to notice things about this particular movie that I didn't notice in previous viewings of this film, as well.
If your sister studied West Side Story in English during high school and had a book version of it, that's cool, too. One woman I knew who was a seventh-grade teacher taught a whole course on the film West Side Story, in which she showed the film, and she got a real kick out of it.
Well...one never knows. West Side Story does come back to the cinemas and what few non-profit, independent repertory art-house movies that there are left here in the United States. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for WSS...you might get lucky some day. If you know of a movie theatre that has a website, buy a ticket online beforehand to make sure that you get one, and start early to make sure you get good seats and all. Hope I've been of some help here.
Thanks, Daisy.
West Side Story actually did win all those Academy Awards, and they were well-earned, too. When the film West Side Story isn't playing at a movie theatre in my general area, I have driven not only to the opposite end of the state in which I reside specially to see a screening of this film, but I've made special road trips to neighboring states to see a screening of the film West Side Story, also.
I've gone to NYC twice to see it, plus I've been to Providence, RI, and, this past April, I made a special road trip up to Portsmouth, NH, to see a screening of West Side Story, as well. I stayed overnight in a Quality Inn just a little ways down the road from the movie theatre, and then drove back to Boston the next morning. It was fun, overall, and it only took me an hour and a half to get there.