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Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:57 am
by smilergrogan
Over the weekend I saw back-to-back from Netflix: "The History Boys" (pretty good) and "Anzio" (awful). What song figures prominently (i.e., is sung by major characters) in both films?
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:25 am
by Bob Juch
I haven't seen
Anzio, but I'll guess:
Bye Bye Blackbird
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:07 am
by smilergrogan
Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:58 pm
by secondchance
smilergrogan wrote:Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
A very young Reni Santoni (Poppie from Seinfeld) starred in the comedy from the 60's called "Enter Laughing." Directed by Carl Reiner, it's a kind of semi-autobiographical story. Rob Reiner had a quick debut in this movie, and the cast also included Shelly Winters, Elaine May and Don Rickles. It was pretty darn funny, if memory serves...
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:01 am
by frogman042
Second Chance wrote:smilergrogan wrote:Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
A very young Reni Santoni (Poppie from Seinfeld) starred in the comedy from the 60's called "Enter Laughing." Directed by Carl Reiner, it's a kind of semi-autobiographical story. Rob Reiner had a quick debut in this movie, and the cast also included Shelly Winters, Elaine May and Don Rickles. It was pretty darn funny, if memory serves...
Enter Laughing was on TCM not that long ago and I hadn't seen it since I was a mere tyke. Also the showed Five Easy Pieces as well not that much earlier - seeing those two films caused me to generate the following trivia question:
What unites the movies:
Enter Laughing
Lonely Are the Brave
Klute
and Five Easy Pieces
---Jay
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:42 am
by WheresFanny
It's also in Melvin and Howard. I love hearing Jason Robards singing it. And Glenn Close did it in Maxie, but not as good (although I am probably the one person in the free world who even knows that movie, much less loves it. Ha!).
Can you tell this is one of my all time favourite songs?
Re: Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:41 am
by SportsFan68
WheresFanny wrote:It's also in Melvin and Howard. I love hearing Jason Robards singing it. And Glenn Close did it in Maxie, but not as good (although I am probably the one person in the free world who even knows that movie, much less loves it. Ha!).
Can you tell this is one of my all time favourite songs?
I love Maxie! How come it never comes around on the late show?
Harumph.