Thursday, January 1, 2026

Movies I Have Seen - January 2025 (1 movie)

 

3 Movies 


Lawrence Of Arabia. 1962, Starring 


The crew consisted of over 200 people. Including cast and extras, over 1,000 people worked on the film.[18] Members of the crew portrayed minor characters. First assistant director Roy Stevens played the truck driver who transports Lawrence and Farraj to the Cairo HQ at the end of Act I; the sergeant who stops Lawrence and Farraj ("Where do you think you're going to, Mustapha?") is construction assistant Fred Bennett, and screenwriter Robert Bolt has a wordless cameo as one of the officers watching Allenby and Lawrence confer in the courtyard (he is smoking a pipe).[19] Steve Birtles, the film's gaffer, played the motorcyclist at the Suez Canal; Lean is rumoured to have provided the cyclist's voice shouting "Who are you?" Continuity supervisor Barbara Cole appeared as one of the nurses in the Damascus hospital scene. It may be the longest theatrical film with no female speaking roles. Women appear in crowd scenes or as extras.


Hollywood Suite, 1 January 2026, with Dr. Connie Luther. Soundtrack: "


The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo


Anachronisms: 

When Lawrence arrives at the Suez Canal, the ship which comes into focus is a late-'50s Blue Funnel Line ship.

The airplanes used during the raid were DH Tiger Moths. They did not go into production until late 1929-early 1930.

In his interview of Faisal, Jackson Bentley mentions that "certain influential men" in America want their country to join World War I. However, this conversation occurs after the fall of Aqaba, which was in July 1917; by that time, the US had already been in the war for several months.

During the attack on Aqaba, a Turkish soldier is seen with a Browning M1919 machine gun. Which would not have been in use at the time of the Arabian revolt (1917) and it would not have been used by the Turks.

When Allenby and Lawrence visit the officers' bar in Cairo, immediately after Allenby says "Shall we go outside?", a bright yellow American school bus is briefly visible driving by the distant window in the right-middle portion of the frame.

In the attack on Aqaba, a white pickup truck can be seen in the background parked next to some white buildings.

Following Lawrence's memorial service, the view of the front of St Paul's Cathedral shows that the left-hand clock face (the North) is missing. This was actually destroyed during the Second World War, which did not begin until 4 years after T.E. Lawrence died.

Contrail over Damascus when Allenby in discussing the Arab Council on his balcony

When Lawrence reaches the Suez Canal, a steam freighter passing through blows its whistle. The whistle is an electric siren whistle. In 1917 most merchant ships were steam-powered. The ship's whistles would also have been steam-powered and would have given out a bellowing sound, not a piercing shriek as from an electric whistle as seen in the film. A steam whistle would have also emitted a great, highly-visible jet of steam upon being used.

At 1 hour 48m 56 seconds Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn) is smashing telegraphic equipment. In front of Auda Abu Tayi is a vacuum tube of approximately 1940 vintage and on the left hand side of the screen is a SupetHet radio receiver again of approximately 1940's vintage (with the tuning capacitor half open). Although vacuum tubes had previously been invented (1904) it is most unlikely that these would have been used in telegraphic equipment in Arabia in 1916. The Morse code heard when Auda Abu Tayi smashes the equipment is of an electronic nature again not available in 1916.

At the end of the film, the army truck passing Lawrence's car in the opposite direction (after the motorcycle passes by) is a modern cab-forward design not seen in that era.

In the opening scenes set in 1935, not only are three phase electricity cables visible in many shots, but a color UHF television transmitter is also visible over Lawrence's right shoulder.

Just after intermission, when Lawrence strikes a pose atop the train car for Jackson Bentley's camera, Bentley exclaims, "Yes sir, that's my baby!" But the Arabs attacked the Hejaz railway in 1917, and that phrase likely wouldn't be popular until 1925 when the Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn song of the same name was composed and recorded.


Cocaine Bear (released as Crazy Bear in some countries). 2023, Starring 


Allan Henry, a stunt performer and actor, played the role of the bear and is credited as "Bear Performer". He used custom-made, meter-long aluminum limb extensions to portray the bear's movements. While playing the bear, Henry did not have tracking markers on his face for animators to turn into digital muscle movements but provided a crucial reference point for the animators to create the bear's physicality and emotional state.


Crave, 2 January 2026. Soundtrack: "



Anachronisms: 

When Sari dumps out Dee Dee's backpack, one of the items inside is a Rubik's Cube. The tiles are made of plastic. The film is set in 1985, at which time the colors were made from adhesive paper. Plastic tiles did not start until 2014.

The movie is supposed to take place circa 1985, but the ambulance that shows up to the ranger station is a 1994 Ford Econoline.

While the Rocky (1976) films existed in 1985, the toy title that Henry wears did not exist for sale at that time. It was released in 2006 to coincide with the sixth film Rocky Balboa (2006). It has since become a rare collectible. It's based on the Heavyweight Title from Ring Magazine.

When the bear is attacking Eddie in the woods, Stache tells Eddie to "just tap out." While there is evidence of the "tap out" as a means of surrendering a fight in martial arts dating back to the 19th century, the term did not become common in popular culture until the rise of mixed martial arts in the late 1990s, nearly 15 years after when this film is set. However, just because a phrase wasn't in common use it doesn't mean that Stache wouldn't know and use it. They were clearly an early adopter of the phrase.

Reba's dreadlocks would likely not have been a permitted hairstyle by a police force in 1985.


Caught Stealing. 2025, Starring 



Crave, 5 January 2026. Soundtrack: "



Trivia: 

The scrolling credits change direction (bottom to top, side to side, sideways) in sync with the credits song.

The NL Wild Card tiebreaker game that Hank turns off at the end of the game was won by the Chicago Cubs, who defeated Hank's San Francisco Giants and advanced to the playoffs.


Anachronisms: 

Matt Smith's character calls the English top league the Premier League, despite it being set in 1998, when the league was called the Premiership until 2007.

In Hank's room, above the bed, you can see a "stolen" NYC subway sign featuring the "W" line. The "W" label for this alternate "N" line was first used in 2001, 3 years after the time the film is set

The film takes place in 1998, but during one scene Russ references "The Idles", a band that was not formed until 2009. The Idles worked on the movie soundtrack.

During the Taxi scene, you can hear a recent Arabic song is playing in the background, though the movie is set in 1998.

A 2001 Ford Ranger, a 2004 Hyundai Elantra, and a 2021 Toyota Sienna can be seen at various points in the movie. A 1999 Infiniti G20, which would have been brand new at the time the movie takes place, has an extremely worn clear-coa

The NYC subway sign above Hank's bed shows a yellow and black Q train logo, indicating it runs along the Broadway line in Manhattan. At the time the movie was set, the Q ran along 6th Avenue with the B, D, and F trains and, like them, was orange and white. The Q joined the N, R, and newly created W lines in 2001.

During the driving scene with Hank, Lipa and Shmully, when the brothers admit to have killed Yvonne, twenty-first century automobiles can be seen out on the streets between shots. The movie is set in 1998.



















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