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I teach writing at the college level, so I've seen it multiple times. I think it's a great film about the writing process and the relationship between a writer and an editor. I'm always challenging my students to cut unnecessay verbiage, and the scene in which Thomas Wolfe is instructed to cut down his description of the blue eyes is a clip I often show. Of course, both Jude Law and Colin Firth are easy on the eye. Law is excellent, by the way, as the "hot mess" of a Southern writer.

A favourite film of many members of this board who will be happy with this news, though the old Fox DVD release of a few years ago is a perfectly fine one. (I don't know if it's still available, though). Love the Criterion cover, a perfect one for this film. Man, the performances in this film: Tyrone Power (his finest hour), Joan Blondell, Helen Walker and Ian Keith, in particular.

I'm looking forward to the new NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Director Guillermo del Toro won me over with THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017). He seems to be genuinely inspired by and respectful of classic movies, classic monsters, genre films, film noir. I'm excited to see what he and his team does with NIGHTMARE ALLEY. A couple of great casting choices in the remake are Toni Collette and David Straithairn in the Joan Blondell/Ian Keith parts. Bradley Cooper in the Tyrone Power role, wow what an enormous challenge! Casting Cooper is a similar circumstance to Power's casting... America's most clean-cut leading man as an alcoholic degenerate.

Cactus Flower

I assume this release has something to do with the upcoming new adaptation of the film. Just another example that so called remakes do not "harm" prior adaptations but instead bring more attention to them. E.g. lead to more people seeking out a film they wouldn't otherwise.

"This is all just part of my master plan to one day rule the entire universe. You know, just like those evil geniuses who I resemble tried to do in James Bond movies. I just need a cat to sit on my lap, now."

Well, I was pleasantly surprised by Alicia last night -- she merely introduced MARTY as a "beautiful" movie very close to her heart. I do remember Malone had previously talked about MARTY (no doubt initiated and scripted by TCM) in "body image" sociological terms previously, so apparently there was no need to embellish the revisionism further during the intro and outro.....

John Warner, longtime Senator from Virginia and the sixth husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dead at 94

I've been so busy I haven't been able to catch Noir Alley when its regularly presented on Sat or Sun. So I've been catching them On Demand (if they show up) lol. This is one film that I thought I'd seen already. But surprisingly no, I must have gotten it confused with House of Strangers where Conte also has a set of brothers. This was a new one for me. lol It. should be noted that after Bogart with 15 Noir, Richard Conte has the second most Noir appearances at 14 Noir.

"Whistle a happy tune" from THE KING AND I next Book

Tomorrow at Seven (1933) An egomaniacal serial killer warns his victims of their impending death. A crime novelist investigating the murders woos a girl so that she will have her father introduce him to a man who has collected much information on the killer. That man then receives a warning of his coming death. This movie has: Chester Morris, Henry Stephenson, Grant Mitchell and an intriguing premise. I am sorry to say that it falls flat despite that. Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins play inept detectives. I believe the failure of the movie rests on them. They are both excellent as second bananas but they have only each other to play off of here. There is no superior officer to keep them in check or show frustration at their failures. I do not expect perfection from a 1933 comedy murder mystery because they were still learning what works and what does not. I am sorry to say this is a grand example of what does not work. 4.4/11

That's true. I don't know if the Klan was strictly a pyramid scheme, but I'd guess it had similarities to one. Call it Klanway.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967) next: dream sequences involving food

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I don't know. Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Joy. . . .even Passengers. At a certain point you have to examine the vehicles and whether they allow for a 'leading lady' to rise to the surface. The Me Too movement didn't help. I'm not saying she's the only one either, Emma Stone and Marisa Tomei come to mind.

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Haven't seen it. But it's a British film, shot mostly in England. I don't understand the green card comment; but at any rate, since they were mostly Brits making a film in the UK, I don't think Willy Nilly needed to hand them out.

I only just today discovered its existence. I don’t keep up with movies these days. I’m the same w/ the docupics

Yep, the original Porsche 550 Spyders' bodies were made of aluminum and which as we know while lighter than steel, are also much more easily crushable. However a few years later, Porsche's next major race car's body, the model 904 here... ...would be made of fiberglass, and the same substance of which my until recently owned 550 replica was made of. True to some extent, but of course modern cars, both made for street use and for racing, have built-in crush zones which isolate the driver and passengers from intrusions into them and thus are much safer and survivable than back when James Dean had his 550.

Ugh. That movie must be JOHN WAYNE's worst. Even THE CONQUEROR has amusement.

Definitely THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Between reconstructing film and assembling scores (for 8mm mag sound in the early 70's; betamax restoration in the 90's; 2020 digital restoration) I can't begin to count the number of times I've seen this picture.

Has anyone else noticed that IMDb has changed their main page when you look at a title? It appears to have been reformatted and optimized for tablets and other mobile devices. The fonts are larger, and there is more separation between clickable/touchable items that are hyperlinked to other pages. Other IMDb pages appear to be untouched (for now, I suppose). I don't care for it much, but like everything else, I'll get used to it.

Pardo had one of those voices. It just takes a fraction of a second. There's others like Paul Frees. It's one of the things I like about TCM, you'll be watching a movie then out of nowhere you'll hear a voice that you're familiar with but it's coming out of a face you've never seen. And I guess that SNL skit is more on topic than I realized. Apology partially withdrawn.

48 Hours

My favorite Vietnam War movie is Go Tell the Spartans (1978) with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster. About the US' early entrance into the war.

It is less information spread over a wider area with touches of glitz. That is the trend for many sites which do not wish to maintain separate formats for desktops, telephones and tablets. The main page is now solidly in the new format. The pages of individual movies and television programs are in a process of migration to that format. It is possible to look at a movie's page in previous format and have it change to the new format when the page is refreshed. I would suppose that pages are ranked by use and they are converting the most-accessed ones first and are working their way down the list. I find it quite unfortunate that they do not offer the option to see the pages in: 'classic' format as many sites do when transitioning to the less-user-friendly formats.

More than you'd ever want to know about pronouncing your "Rs" in English. Do some Bostonians still add "Rs" where they don't exist (like JFK's "Cuber"?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English

And we should care about that here why? Sepiatone

Oh, GOD! Puh-LEEZE not "The Deer Hunter". Not unless someone shaves off 45 minutes of wasted film( and there's lots of it in that one). For Vietnam, someone already suggested Hamburger Hill, And CASUALTIES OF WAR ain't too shabby either. But with all the stupidity of attacks on Asian citizens lately, it wouldn't hurt to show '51's GO FOR BROKE about the all Japanese 442nd regimental division of WWII. Sepiatone

this is an interesting article i came across online RIPPING THE FILM SHREK TO BITS ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY, i share it because I admire the Hell out of a contrarian viewpoint (also, I didn't think SHREK was "all that" either) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/17/shrek-20-unfunny-overrated-low-blockbuster?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Variety @Variety Glenda Jackson Honored With Richard Harris Award by British Independent Film Awards Glenda Jackson Honored With Richard Harris Award by British Independent Film Awards British thespian Glenda Jackson is the latest recipient of the Richard Harris Award presented by the British Independent Film Awards. variety.com 5:24 AM · May 26, 2021·WordPress.com

Ginger Rogers

THE SEVENTH VEIL (1945) Next: Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine and Earl Holliman

Quincy M.E.

Not much presence for Spyders in movies. The best I could find is The Fast and the Furious--no not that one--the 1955 movie, of course:

Yes! You have guessed correctly, starlieyes. The song is "Loving You," which Jerry Herman wrote for Robert Preston to sing in the movie Mame. It's your turn. Here's a clip of the song as featured in the movie. I apologize for the pan-and-scan. I couldn't find a video in the correct aspect ratio.

I don't think many Harvard grads were in the Klan. I remember reading a number of years ago that the higher ups in the Klan made a fistful of money selling robes and lots of other Klan paraphernalia to the yahoos. They were very lucrative positions.

Up, Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension - Born On The Fourth of July - "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon" - Love this song and The Fifth Dimension song used in a movie that mentions Sugar in the title

Fantasia 1940

The Sea Chase Next: Gilbert Roland, Joanne Dru, Jim Backus

1934 It Happened One Night next: Clark Gable has an romantic triangle with Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly in Africa

Five Finger Exercise (1962)

It is available for viewing free with commercials on: TubiTV. https://tubitv.com/movies/504468?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed

You do not want to end up as The GEEK!

STELLA DALLAS (1937)

Sorry for the double post Peebs! I'll play your Elderberry Wine, how about ARSENIC and OLD LACE (1944). Next: "Champagne, cold as Valley Forge with three ponies of brandy beneath it."

Tom Hardy: Locke (2013) with Olivia Coleman & This Means War (2012) with Angela Bassett Next: Maggie Smith & Cameron Diaz