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| Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 28 2006, 02:58 PM (1,142 Views) | |
| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Dec 28 2006, 02:58 PM Post #1 |
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I've jumped on the blogwagon. Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide is open for business. It's a movie review blog dedicated to alcohol-related films. I decided to expand upon the "Soused Cinema" article I wrote for Modern Drunkard Magazine. Hopefully, I'll eventually have enough material to publish the reviews in book form. In the meantime, the blog will provide incentive for me to keep writing. There's not much content up right now--a couple of introductory posts and one review (Chaplin's One A.M.), but I'm going to try to post one movie each day while I'm off from work this week. Once I'm back to the grind, I hope to average a movie a week. If anyone's interested, the address is: http://boozemovies.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Ignatz |
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| Rogmeister | Dec 28 2006, 05:47 PM Post #2 |
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I wonder what other movies they'll eventually review? Beer? Jackie Chan in The Legend of Drunken Master? Sam Whiskey? Smokey and the Bandit (where they're hauling Coors over the state line)? |
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| KanSmiley | Dec 28 2006, 07:15 PM Post #3 |
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The entire Thin Man series, The Days of Wine and Roses, The Lost Weekend, any Dean Martin movies, or any Rat Pack movie. Kan |
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| Bonga | Dec 29 2006, 01:00 AM Post #4 |
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Barfly. Shakes the Clown. Strange Brew. Tight Little Island. Drunks. Interesting idea, and I look forward to seeing the site develop. Good luck, here's raising a pan-galactic gargleblaster to your success. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Dec 29 2006, 01:08 PM Post #5 |
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ARTHUR, THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE, THE COUNTRY GIRL, and D.W. Griffith's talkie, THE STRUGGLE, come to mind. In KISS THEM FOR ME Cary Grant orders no end of stingers. Of course there's SIDEWAYS. Plenty of drinking in TOPPER too. In GIGI there's "The Night They Invented Champagne," and in THE SKY'S THE LIMIT there's "One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)." Dan Duryea's drinking drives the plot in BLACK ANGEL. I could go on and on. |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Dec 29 2006, 01:24 PM Post #6 |
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I appreciate the suggestions, especially the more obscure (I'll have to keep an eye out for THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE and THE STRUGGLE). I reviewed some of the films above in my "Soused Cinema" article, and I plan to post those in a slightly revised form. Many of the other suggestions are on my "to watch" list. I also plan to put together several Fields features as it gets closer to the release of the "W.C. Fields Comedy Collection Volume 2." By the way, I just posted a review of WITHNAIL & I. Thanks for the encouragement, Ignatz |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Dec 29 2006, 02:35 PM Post #7 |
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I really enjoyed the review, and can't believe I forgot Fields! Guy Kibbee drank a lot in the Busby Berkeley movies, and there's a wonderful scene in a bar in THE GOOD FAIRY, which is about as neglected a great picture as I ever saw, especially considering that it was written by Preston Sturges and directed by Wyler. And what's the name of that picture where Wallace Beery is a wrestler? Anybody know? Kegs of beer downed in that one. Then there's that bottle in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. They drink out of it for three hours and it's never empty. Speaking of long, there's lotsa ice clinking in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, too. |
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| George Kaplan | Dec 29 2006, 03:24 PM Post #8 |
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The drunken millionaire in City Lights--who proposes toasts while emptying bottle after bottle down Charlie's trousers! |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Dec 29 2006, 07:44 PM Post #9 |
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Sturges' PALM BEACH STORY will also merit a mention based on the scenes with the Ale & Quail Club. |
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| JazzGuyy | Dec 30 2006, 06:20 AM Post #10 |
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Rio Bravo with Dean Martin's drunken deputy. |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Dec 30 2006, 03:23 PM Post #11 |
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The Thin Man (1934) review is now up. |
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| marlin lee | Dec 30 2006, 09:03 PM Post #12 |
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I'd add Thunder Road and White Lightning. |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Jan 4 2007, 08:22 PM Post #13 |
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Last night I watched the delightful comedy, The Great Man Votes (1939), with John Barrymore in a late career performance of pickled perfection. I absolutely loved the film, and I quickly whipped together a review for the Booze Movies blog. Here's a link to the review: http://boozemovies.blogspot.com/2007/01/gr...votes-1939.html I've also posted a few more reviews since last we spoke of the firewater-fueled film site. Cheers, Ignatz |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Jan 16 2007, 08:18 PM Post #14 |
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This week is "W.C. Fields Week" over at Booze Movies. Today I posted a profile of the Great Man entitled, "A Toast to W.C. Fields, the Great Man of Soused Cinema." Throughout the week, I will follow up this article with brief reviews of the five films contained on the W.C. Fields Comedy Collection DVD set (International House, It's A Gift, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, My Little Chickadee, and The Bank Dick), so check periodically for updates. By the way, since I last mentioned the site, I've also posted reviews of Barfly (1987), Factotum (2005), Remember Last Night? (1935), Dumbo (1941), Strange Brew (1983), and American Beer (2003). |
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| Inspector Carr | Jan 17 2007, 05:30 AM Post #15 |
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BeerFest (2006) I know it's new, but my son and I enjoy comedy group Broken Lizard's work...(Supertroopers) |
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