From Jason and the Argonauts: Skeltons, and the Hydra

From Clash of the Titans:  Medusa the Gorgon, Bubo the Owl, and Pegasus the Winged Horse

And from The Valley of Gwangi: Styracosaurus, Gwangi, Ornithomimus, and El Diablo the Eohippus

Good thread @El Loro 

I have always enjoyed the films as shown on TV, but not seen everything by RH, but have found a fantastic company releasing films on blu-ray and doing a very good job of it too. Below are the box sets I have purchased so far. 

EC, I think that I've seen all of the feature films that Ray Harryhausen worked on from the original version of Mighty Joe Young to the original version of Clash of the Titans. Mighty Joe Young was directed by Ernest B Schoedsack and written and co-produced by Merian C Cooper who were the key people behind the best monster film ever made, the original King Kong.

Wonderful stuff - I love the Argonauts movies - the skeleton attack was my favourite.

Amazing models  

El Loro posted:

From Clash of the Titans:  Medusa the Gorgon, Bubo the Owl, and Pegasus the Winged Horse

I like the owl

I remember the Argonauts film ....I can here the owl now 

Here's Bubo's first scene

Baz posted:

I remember the Argonauts film ....I can here the owl now 

Bubo is from Clash of the Titans

El Loro posted:

EC, I think that I've seen all of the feature films that Ray Harryhausen worked on from the original version of Mighty Joe Young to the original version of Clash of the Titans. Mighty Joe Young was directed by Ernest B Schoedsack and written and co-produced by Merian C Cooper who were the key people behind the best monster film ever made, the original King Kong.

Sounds like you are a bit of a fan El. I'm looking forward to finding a time to go through all my box sets. I think it will be during a holiday.  My box sets all come with a book and that should make for an interesting read too.

EC, my father was a bit of a fan and I saw the films with him over the years. The only one of his films that I can't be sure having seen was Mysterious Island. Though his and my favourite was the film that made Ray Harryhausen go into films and that's the original King Kong (1933). Despite its age it's never been equalled. Audiences who went to that film in 1933 must have had quite an experience. At the time it was the biggest opening weekend in the States and the success rescued RKO from bankruptcy.

Have you seen the recent Aardman film, "Early Man", El?

It wouldn't be a surprise to anyone that Nick Park was heavily influenced/inspired by Harryhausen, but he included a tribute to him at the start of the film (and references it again quite sweetly during the credits).

No, I haven't seen Early Man yet but will when the BBC show it (they seem to show all the Aardman films).

El Loro posted:

EC, my father was a bit of a fan and I saw the films with him over the years. The only one of his films that I can't be sure having seen was Mysterious Island. Though his and my favourite was the film that made Ray Harryhausen go into films and that's the original King Kong (1933). Despite its age it's never been equalled. Audiences who went to that film in 1933 must have had quite an experience. At the time it was the biggest opening weekend in the States and the success rescued RKO from bankruptcy.

It's interesting to me that your father seems to have had an influence on your taste in film, like many of us I guess we develop our tastes in many different ways. Thinking back, there are certain films and specific genre types that I have always enjoyed, mainly due to my fathers liking for those films.

To name just one, I would say Laurel and Hardy. He watched them whenever they were on TV. I have not seen any L&H for a number of years now, but think it's high time I did revisit.

Eugene's Lair posted:

Have you seen the recent Aardman film, "Early Man", El?

 

It wouldn't be a surprise to anyone that Nick Park was heavily influenced/inspired by Harryhausen, but he included a tribute to him at the start of the film (and references it again quite sweetly during the credits).

 

I want to as I always enjoy the Aardman output. Although now it's left the cinemas and I note that it about to be released on 4K UHD, I will pick it up on that format. 

EC, if you hadn't already noticed this the Talking Pictures TV channel has been having a season of Laurel and Hardy films for some weeks though they do repeat them. They've had feature films and shorts.
http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/
Sadly, the season seems to be nearly over but they are showing Way Out West in the morning tomorrow and Pardon Us on Tuesday morning. It's quite possible that they'll show quite a few of their films again at some time so it's worth monitoring their schedule.

Although I had seen lots of films with my father on television the key event in my life for watching films was watching 2001 at a re-release at the cinema. (unless you've seen that film on the big screen you can't experience the sheer impact of it as watching it on a television weakens it), I was fascinated by the technical challenges of the making of that film. One of the other influences was the films of the directot Michael Powell who was quite brilliant in some of the technical wizardy in his films (for instance Black Narcissus set in the mountains but actually shot wholly in the studios, A Matter of Life and Death with for instance the time frozen scene with just David Niven moving around - that technique is often used now but that was in 1945). And my favourite A Canterbury Tale (1944). The film starts with a prologue set in Chaucer's time, the prologue ends with a man releaasing a hawk which flies up and away through the sky then a split second later the hawk is replaced with a plane and we are in the present. If you've ever seen 2001, Stanley Kubrick does exactly the same technique with the caveman throwing a bone in the air then we move to 2001 and the bone is replaced with a spacecraft.

I've never really dropped onto that channel El.

However, my dad did have some L&H videos. I will ask my mum if she still has them when I next visit. 

I believe I was taken as a child to see 2001, but can't remember it really. It's a beautifully shot film. I find it amazing that films which came later looked a lot worse in terms of the spaceship. I would love the opportunity to see it at a cinema, my local multiplex have each year a season where they show old films. I went to see a number of Bond films on the big screen which were released before I was born.

@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities it's worth looking out to see if 2001 is being shown at a cinema near you. It was released in cinemas 50 years ago this week and the BBFC did issue a cinema re-release certificate a few weeks ago. And Warner Bros are showing it in several select locations as from tomorrow.

@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities you might be interested in looking at some of films of the Czech film director Karel Zeman as you are interested in the films of Ray Harryhausen. Some of his films have been released over the last couple of years on Blu-ray and DVD. They have English subtitles.

There's the 1962 film "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen":
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fabul...u-ray/dp/B0716PXY7Y/
There's the 1958 film "Invention for Destruction" (AKA "The Deadly Invention") (based on various works by Jules Verne):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inven...Zeman/dp/B07HSKMNMH/
and there's the 1955 film "Journey to the Beginning of Time":
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journ...Zeman/dp/B07WPX3SM6/

I quite often pick up Second Run blu-rays and peruse them in my local HMV store. They never seem to go in any of the offers unlike Arrow, Eureka (Master of Cinema) or Criterion to name three. 

You have certainly got me thinking about them again. I will have to keep my eyes open for some offers, they do seem an interesting label and one worth exploring. Ordinarily I would dip in and sample them, but I have a huge number of purchases planned right up to Christmas this year. 

I will have a good read of the links included and see if there is the odd film I can pick up - I do have a tendency to start buying most of a label once I get hooked. 

Edit:

Well, it did not take me long to go browsing!

This looks quite interesting El.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

https://secondrundvd.ecwid.com...129579233/category=0

I have already picked up one release from second run, mainly because it was billed as a limited edition and comes with a book.

https://secondrundvd.ecwid.com...114868207/category=0

Odd that this should resurface

I'm currently looking at wartime movie ideas whilst watching 'Let me in'

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-op...-about-women-wartime

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-op...out-children-wartime

Also did anyone see "Greasy Strangler" the other day - quite bizarre

Saint posted:

Odd that this should resurface

I'm currently looking at wartime movie ideas whilst watching 'Let me in'

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-op...-about-women-wartime

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-op...out-children-wartime

 

Also did anyone see "Greasy Strangler" the other day - quite bizarre

Saint - I saw Greasy Strangler a while back. I really loved it. It's one of those American movies that feels independant and not pampering to the mainstream, but takes its own path. I liked it so much, it made its way into my collection.

I'm thinking about picking up Odette as it is on offer in HMV.

I recently picked up this, which contains Rome, Open City.

‘An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn’ is by the same director as The Greasy Strangler.

You're a real film buff

Saint posted:

You're a real film buff

I am just very inquisitive when it comes to film and documentary making. 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

Saint posted:

You're a real film buff

I am just very inquisitive when it comes to film and documentary making. 

Then you must watch 7UP

Saint posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

Saint posted:

You're a real film buff

I am just very inquisitive when it comes to film and documentary making. 

Then you must watch 7UP

I recently watched 63UP, but you are right, I should watch from 7UP. Fortunately for me, Network on Air are releasing 7-63UP on blu-ray in October. I shall wait for one of their regular sales and grab it then. 

 To be honest, at £15 for 4 blu-ray discs, it's quite well priced to start with.

https://networkonair.com/comin...067-7-63-up-blu-ray-

I've told you before I am not buying anymore DVD's  . . .   stop tempting me.

So the other day I bought 'The Cottage'  

(sadly the trailer does it no justice)

A comedy that's passed under the radar you may like ...

Believe nothing - Rik Mayall - all on You Tube

And I might get 'Making Out' TV series cos I love Margi Clarke

And 'Letter to Brezhnev' or 'Blonde Fist' … no I won't !!!

Saint posted:

And I might get 'Making Out' TV series cos I love Margi Clarke

And 'Letter to Brezhnev' or 'Blonde Fist' … no I won't !!!

Letter to Brezhnev is out on BFI Video. 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

Saint posted:

And I might get 'Making Out' TV series cos I love Margi Clarke

And 'Letter to Brezhnev' or 'Blonde Fist' … no I won't !!!

Letter to Brezhnev is out on BFI Video. 

Never heard that . . . .

I SAID "Letter to Brezhnev is out on BFI Video".

@Saint

You can go off people y'know 

Read my lips, "No new DVDs"

 . . . . although 'World on Fire' is quite good - I never said that