In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Pixote, Ragtime, Buddy Buddy and Absence of Malice.
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@rosario5083 жыл бұрын
I must thank my father for taking me to see Ragtime when I was a kid. It still blows my mind to this day.
@kd17Burger2 жыл бұрын
It's very good
@reneedennis2011 Жыл бұрын
@@kd17Burger Yup.
@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын
Imagine a PG film with extended nudity today!
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
An example of a film that would never be made today.
@keithdoherty31783 жыл бұрын
Pixote is an ASTONISHING MOVIE !!!!
@kd17Burger2 жыл бұрын
Maria Perrila would have gotten my vote as Best Actress that year It's still very disturbing and it is 1981 and it's more disturbing than movies like Requiem for a Dream It's so bold and it's flat out Brilliant City of God owes so much to Pixote
@jimmyl3242 жыл бұрын
Pixote is a masterpiece
@user-rh2io7gm1l10 ай бұрын
Incidentally, the kid who played 'Pixote ,' *Fernando Ramos da Silva,* was a genuine street urchin who never rose above his station, turned to crime, and was eventually killed at age 19 in a shootout with police. He was a young husband and father.
@sonicgrub2 жыл бұрын
Ragtime is a masterpiece.
@alanquinn9845Ай бұрын
I really miss these guys. Seeing them on T.V. was a real treat. They helped me view a lot of good motion pictures.
@Autostade67 Жыл бұрын
One of the great 'sorrows' of 80s film history - that despite its several Oscar nominations - 'Ragtime' - laced with so much well known talent, has fallen in to virtual obscurity (and failed to make back its investment) while other, lesser 1981 films (some of them O. nominees and winners themselves) are regarded as classics.
@gmail42186 ай бұрын
Ironically, the last scene of Pixote is the most realistic, not "melodramatic" as Siskel said! I saw it when I was 13 and it still haunts me to this day.
@deanrane1961 Жыл бұрын
Pixote is an absolute groundbreaking masterpiece that has been highly overlooked for decades.
@QBAN20102 жыл бұрын
I sure do miss these guys
@reneedennis2011 Жыл бұрын
So do I.
@Gaucho972 жыл бұрын
They both nailed how brilliant Forman was and to think he had not even done Amadeus yet.
@ricardocantoral7672 Жыл бұрын
He did One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest years before Amadeus.
@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын
@@ricardocantoral7672 and superb Czech films before that
@letstalkcriterion2 жыл бұрын
Buddy Buddy was Billy Wilder trying to recreate the glory days with Matthau and Lemmon and he failed sadly.
@ricardocantoral76722 жыл бұрын
What's even worse was that was Billy Wilder's swan song. He continued to work on scripts for years and no studio wanted him.
@MrBoyYankee3 жыл бұрын
Damn @ThatOldTV your on the ball today.
@ThatOldTV3 жыл бұрын
Due to the pandemic, I work one week on and one week off. So, for a week, I posted as many videos as possible and then schedule one video a day for the next week.
@MrBoyYankee3 жыл бұрын
@@ThatOldTV I dig it sir. Keep on keeping on. Btw, I hope that you seen my comment on your posting of The Shakespeare in Love/Star Trek: 8 insurrection retro review.
@philiphalpenny3783 Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully warm words from Gene about Cagney here upon his return for 'Ragtime'..." He sets off patriotic sparklers with his every gesture".
@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын
The Cagney character is the villain of the film. Siskel missed that
@djmadijohnson2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe they didn't say anything about Wilford Brimley's performance in Malice....And wait a minute Gene likes Adios Amigos but hated house party
@ludwik7326 Жыл бұрын
I loved The 7 grand masters, I watched it with my grand father as a kid 😅
@SvenS22 жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore Buddy Buddy. The movie is hilarious, I highly recommend people check it out. The only reason it was bombed at the time was because social norms were completely different back then. The statements in this review are more blown out and exaggerated than a Nostalgic Critic review
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet77292 жыл бұрын
it didn`t do well cause it wasn`t funny..just grating
@kdohertygizbur2 жыл бұрын
@@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Exactly
@charliedontsurf702 жыл бұрын
I loved it too!
@kdohertygizbur Жыл бұрын
Funny is funny... regardless of time...and this movie stunk...in regards to our times
@TZ612 жыл бұрын
I don't remember "Buddy Buddy" being "excruciatingly bad", but it was definitely a sad and pale imitation of Wilder's, Lemmon's or Matthau's best work. More sad since it was Billy Wilder's last effort.
@reneedennis20113 жыл бұрын
I've seen Ragtimw and Absence of Malice.
@kdohertygizbur3 жыл бұрын
And ?
@charlieparker567811 ай бұрын
What do you want? A cookie?
@adamgrimsley29002 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where I can see Ragtime?
@hevyonez972 жыл бұрын
It's available on dvd...
@film79 Жыл бұрын
You can rent if here on KZbin for like $3.99
@jamesmitchell8922 Жыл бұрын
Pixote got snubbed by the Oscars.
@montysloungetv2 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't be 'pulled off the story' these days - you might get a pulitzer
@samaireoctober5584 Жыл бұрын
Pixote should be the entire segment, the other films are a joke in comparison.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
Ragtime is a classic
@jdayala-wright88753 жыл бұрын
Buddy Buddy had some laughs with Walter Matthau, the problem was Jack Lemmon's character who is too likable, he should have been played by a real jerk or asshole like a Chevy Chase where the humor is Matthau's hitman character trying to kill him because he is so annoying and cloying.
@kdohertygizbur3 жыл бұрын
It sucked ...if you laughed...then Ace Ventura had you in stitches
@jdayala-wright88753 жыл бұрын
@@kdohertygizbur Ace was funnier than "Buddy, Buddy" but not by much. Both movies have the same problems outside its central character the jokes aren't funny.
@kdohertygizbur3 жыл бұрын
@@jdayala-wright8875 the movie had no laughs , I can't believe the talent there couldn't see how bad it was
@jdayala-wright88753 жыл бұрын
@@kdohertygizbur It had a few laughs with Walter Matthau on screen at the opening sequences so there were a few laughs but the minute Jack Lemmon was on, the humor was gone because we like Jack Lemmon instead of a real asshole pain in tbe ass performer. I think the basis of this material is a raw black comedy that in order for the humor to work you really got to cast it right and go all the way with the vulgarity. Wilder has had success with this in much of his career unfortunately he and I.L. Diamond sanitized the dark edge of this french farce originally translated to mean "A pain in the ass" to where the humor disappears.
@kd17Burger2 жыл бұрын
@@jdayala-wright8875 the problem is that Billy Wilder, one of the Greatest Directors , still was stuck in the same 60s genre and didn't update the humor Walter Matthau as a hitman ? No way, if he had chosen a more conventional actor, maybe..it would have been a bad movie, I didn't have a problem with Jack Lemmon so much, but their chemistry with this material was DREADFUL
@JasonVictorEverett9 ай бұрын
Wow. Siskel didn’t like Absence of Malice..
@freddyfurrah3789 Жыл бұрын
I liked Jack Lemon, but I couldn't stand The other guy. Too bad Lemon was an alcoholic who smoked. I HATE SMOKING. TWO THUMBS DOWN, FOR CIGARETTES.