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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #74: Movies Set in a Hotel




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movie Set in a Hotel

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Hey, it's Thursday again. A little update on the list for next year, I'm done with it. I'll publish it this weekend so look out for it. 

A Room with a View (1985)
Partly set in a hotel, it is about a young Englishwoman in the early 1900's who travels to Florence with her older cousin. There she meets an eccentric young man and his father who were willing to switch rooms so that Lucy and her cousin could get the room with a view. This movie is just filled with awkward people being awkward about their feelings.

Somewhere in Time (1980)
I've picked this movie before; I think it was for a Time Travel theme, because yes, this movie has time travel. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson it follows a man from the 1970's who goes back in time to meet a woman in the late 19th century after falling in love with a photograph of her he saw at the hotel he was staying. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for the movie so I guess this will be the most faithful adaptation of it.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Because it's the holiday season and this is one of the movies from my childhood. Is it me or is this movie really much sadder in tone than the first one what with him being alone in place he's not familiar with and then there was the pigeon lady.

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 So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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12 comments:

  1. DellDecember 10, 2015 at 7:42 AM

    Haven't seen any of these. Yes, that includes Home Alone 2. A Room with a View is the one I've been meaning to see, but never can seem to get around to. Thanks for the reminder.

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    1. WandererDecember 17, 2015 at 3:43 AM

      How can you not have seen Home Alone 2? It gets aired so frequently during the December period. You have at least seen Home Alone 1 right?

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  2. Brittani BurnhamDecember 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM

    Nice picks! I've always had a soft spot for Home Alone 2. I haven't seen the other two though.

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  3. joel65913December 10, 2015 at 9:08 PM

    Two of your picks are ones I really love the third not so much.

    Room With a View is so beautifully shot with perfect performances from the entire cast, even the intertitle cards fit the movie to a tee. Great choice especially since the view from the pensione is the pivot for the entire story.

    Somewhere in Time has such a dreamy, enchanting feeling expertly set to Rachmanioff's music and the wonderful chemistry of Reeve and Jane Seymour. It was the first film I thought of but was sure it would turn up so I moved on to other choices. A friend of mine went to the island where this was filmed for her honeymoon and said it was exactly as she imagined it would be, a lovely throwback since motor vehicles are restricted on the island.

    The Pigeon Lady was the only part of Home Alone 2 that I liked otherwise it was agony to sit through.

    Here's what I came up with for the week:

    Bobby (2006)-Intermingling stories set in the Ambassador Hotel on June 4th and 5th 1968 as several groups prepare to attend the Democratic presidential primary rally at which Robert F. Kennedy will speak and will ultimately have a tragic outcome, his assassination. Filmed at the actual locations that events occurred just before the hotel was demolished.

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)-In an absolutely gorgeous island hotel in the Adriatic a group of wealthy people sun themselves and bitch at each other until one of them turns up murdered. Thank goodness Hercule Poirot is among the guests and can put the "little gray cells" to use solving the crime. Hugely enjoyable version of Agatha Christie's mystery with Peter Ustinov a perfect Poirot-clever, urbane, canny and sly. The entire cast seems to be having fun with a brilliant Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith making great sparring partners with dialog dipped in venom. Amazing costume design.

    Dear Heart (1964)-In New York for a postmaster's convention Geraldine Page, a single kind hearted postmistress meets traveling salesman Glenn Ford who is staying in the same hotel. Tired of the road he’s become engaged to a pushy woman more out of a longing to put down roots than passion. Now an unexpected spark ignites between the two strangers, what to do? Sweet, gentle comedy/drama of two lonely souls slowly realizing they are meant for each other. Great supporting cast includes Angela Lansbury and both the actresses, Alice Pearce and Sandra Gould that eventually played Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched.

    Honorable Mention-Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)-Glossy remake and relocation of Grand Hotel to New York's Waldorf-Astoria. Slick and well-acted by a star studded cast, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold and Van Johnson among them, but missing both the grit and pathos of the original.


    Looking forward to seeing what next year's themes will be.

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    1. WandererDecember 17, 2015 at 3:48 AM

      Oh the intertitle cards in A Room with a View is so old school.
      Somewhere in Time is such a dreamy movie...and so is the cast :).
      Home Alone 2 - Awww...I guess you have to be a kid when you see it first.
      Of your picks I've only seen Bobby. Can't say I remember much.

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  4. DanielDecember 10, 2015 at 10:51 PM

    Oh, Somwhere in Time! So beautiful, so dull, so romantic, so ridiculous. I kind of love it (I think?) even though it makes absolutely no sense at all. A Room With a View is so great. Love everything about it. Home Alone 2 was fine as a kid, but I can't imagine watching it now.

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    1. WandererDecember 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM

      Somewhere in Time is not dull...take that back :)
      Beware of Somewhere in Time book spoilers below.
      I totally understand about it being a little ridiculous. I mean he sorts of meditates/hypnotises himself into traveling back in time. It sort of make better sense in the book because I think the movie may have change the part that Collier was dying of a brain tumor when he went to the hotel. Basically it is suggested that it could be a desperate fantasy/possibly the tumor causing him to think it was all real.

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    2. DanielDecember 17, 2015 at 10:48 PM

      Ooooooooooooooooooh I may have to read the book!

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  5. BirgitDecember 10, 2015 at 11:57 PM

    Love Somewhere in Time and saw it at the movie theatre when it came out. A room With a view is another great movie but I need to re-watch it since it has been a long time. I finally saw Home Alone 2 last year (still have to see the first one). I would say it was funny and I love Tim Curry.

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    1. WandererDecember 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM

      I don't even remember Tim Curry in it. I haven't seen it in ages.

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  6. Katie HoganDecember 11, 2015 at 5:58 AM

    I haven't heard of Somewhere in Time. Of course Home Alone 2!! It has the best hotel staff - can't beat Tim Curry. Didn't think of this and I was watching it the other day. I also didn't think of A Room With a View - bootiful!

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  7. Kevin PowersDecember 11, 2015 at 11:22 AM

    Home Alone 2 is a great pick! Love it.

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