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I see that the ‘Recent Posts’ box refers to June 8 for Steve’s videos and Feb 7th for Frances’ new page.
I feel as if I’m in one of Steve’s beloved sci-fi movie time machines flitting back and forward between present, past and future!
Thanks Bob….those “post” issues have been fixed…..my second July 8th post is having even more issues…hoping to get that one fixed soon.
Looking forward to your 2nd 8 July post
Hey Bob…..Damn sleep got in the way….I have 58 minutes before we leave for the airport….so much to do on the website….and only 57 minutes to do it.
In the Belfast of “Holy Ireland” of the 1950s and 60s churches and other religious organisations discouraged, and often forbade, their memberships to attend movie houses. The latter tended to be referred to by such bodies as “dens of iniquity” or “Devil’s caves.” Each a mini little Sodom and Gomorrah!
As there was no swearing or overt sex in films back in the early decades I never completely understood the to me paranoia over the matter as the reasoning was never fully explained, but I guess it maybe had at least something to do with factors such as (1) [albeit tame by today’s standards] the violence in movies such as the Cagney/Bogie gangster ones (2) partially-clad women appearing in music hall scenes or in the saloons of westerns. In the latter case whilst the true screen profession of the actresses didn’t register with us kids, adults were fully aware of the reality of the situation – Randolph, Audie and Johnny Mack among the hookers!
Immediately opposite The Castle cinema building that I haunted in my youth is one of East Belfast’s most prestigious churches and a neighbour of ours, mild-mannered Mr Quinn, was an Elder on the church committee. True to his church’s edicts he never went to the cinema until on one occasion he thought it would be all right to go see The Robe as it was supposedly a “religious” film. Unfortunately a fellow Elder looked across the road and saw Mr Quinn in The Castle queue and the latter lost his position as an Elder. It was the talk of the street for weeks.
DIRECT EXPERIENCES 1/One night in the early 1950s I was standing outside the then Alhambra cinema in Belfast’s city centre just gazing at the posters when this middle-aged women who was passing suddenly lashed out at me with her fist and struck my ear, whereupon she shouted at me “Heathen!” and then fled up the street like a deer.
2/Nowadays with the multi-screens, queues outside cinemas are rare but in at least the fifties and the sixties over here queuing for up to an hour at the single-screen theatres then in existence was almost a nightly occurrence. Such queues were “captive audiences” for the “hellfire” preachers who would stand at the top of them and severely lecture us patrons in booming voices. I recall one night in 1960 queuing outside Belfast’s central Royal Avenue cinema for my second visit to Psycho when one such preacher put us all under the cosh with warnings such as: “Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho,” he said pointing up at the marquee above us “Enjoy it while you can, friends, because while Alfred Hitchcock will be in Hell where you’re all going, there’ll be no cinemas there!” So the bad news for Work Horse, Steve, Flora and others among us devotees of Hitch’s work, is that Norman and Mother aren’t the only ones who will end up being punished if that preacher had gotten it right!
I am currently in Reykjavic, Iceland ( my wife wanted to see the summer solstice here). The sun sets currently at 12:03 AM and rises about 2:50 AM here.
Hey Dan…..that is awesome. Very envious of you and your wife. My son was in Iceland for a brief stopover…..but I have never even come close to visiting there….and seeing the summer solstice is a lifetime memory for sure. Have a great time….and thanks for checking in while you are on adventure! I of course have to ask….did you go to a Reykjavic movie theater?
No. There’s only 1 near the hotel, a place called The Cinema which only shows documentaries about Iceland by 1 Valdimar Leiffson who also owns the cinema. There are 7 films in constant repertoire and none is longer than 55 minutes. According to the website you sit on a couch watching them.
They are advertising Toy Story 4 and Men in Black: International playing somewhere on the other 4 cinemas in town. There is a theater in a big shopping mall you see the outside of. This is on the other side of town. This is told to us the tourists while you’re doing the city bus tour.
Hey Dan….thanks for the look at Iceland and their movie theaters. Sounds like Mr. Leiffson has made a theater out of home movies and a couch….lol. Sounds pretty interesting. Good to know that Woody and Buzz have reached Iceland. Glad to hear you and your wife are having a good time. I really appreciate these “reports” from Iceland. Makes me so glad we started this hobby thing so many years ago. Stay safe.
After a March that I thought was going to kill UMR….April was a nice bounce back month when looking a total views for the website. March 2019 saw a decrease of 23% for the month.
Previous April Totals
2015 108,336 views
2016 285,375 views
2017 341,704 views
2018 368,359 views
2019 396,378 views up 7.60% over 2018
So basically UMR lives….It’s ALIVE!
Glad March did not kill Ultimate Movie Rankings. Glad your April was better than 2018.
Hey Helakoski….thanks for the kind words. March was very frustrating for sure…April turned out to be a good month….if only I could fix the “comment edit” button. Good feedback.
Hello Bruce,
So sorry to read your comment about March but as a « fidèle » readers and sometimes commenters on UMR, i have been coming every weeks for years and several time by week but I have to say that sometimes for the new pages I don’t even know the name of the actors or the actress.
In USA you have so many stars or great second actors but many of them are not known in France and for that reasons I cannot make a comment.
Good to read that APRIL is better and for May I drink for a big succès a glass of Chardonnay
Santé
Pierre
Hey Pierre good to hear from you. I agree some of the latest subjects are far from household names. Not saying we are getting near the end of subjects…..but I feel the “legends” have been done. I remember my old English professor….he used to say….”I wish I could read Romeo and Juliet for the first time…again.”. I sort of feel the same way on the latest UMR subjects. April really rebuilt my spirits….many times in March I was ready to give up. May is starting off well too. Hope you enjoyed that big succès a glass of Chardonnay Santé. Good stuff.
This thread is time killer!
I am really amazed
Thanks James….lots of comments……that is one of my favorite thing about this website.