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Love The Shining. But after seeing Popeye, Duvall will never be anything but. . .

author's note, I am about to discuss a film and a filmmaker that- when the name of either is mentioned- the train has a tendency to jump the tracks. All apologies for any chaos that may ensue. (music starts) "Midnight, the stars and you....." THE SHINING (1980) "ROKU" must be from the CANTONESE for "lasts about four years" because my FOUR YEAR OLD ROKU TV SET DIED ON ME and I went and bought a nicer, even bigger one (42 INCHES?), and then I decided to check this out (for the ninth or tenth time?) on the ROKU channel, where it does have commercials but is unedited and does include the sometimes deleted sequences of WENDY being a nitwit during the hotel tour, the SKELETONS in the lobby (which I actually think should've stayed cut, IT'S HOKEY) and more of JACK'S INTERVIEW. Aided by those 42 inches of screen, I remembered how EXHILLERATING and (DARE I SAY?) GAME-CHANGING that third act Is: it makes up for what I see as numerous shortcomings in the first two. STEADICAM and POV has become so ubiquitous by now that I think it's easy to take for granted how RIVETING (and innovative) ITS USE IS IN THIS MOVIE: as for NICHOLSON, i have always felt that he was in the unique position of being both the perfect actor for and totally miscast in this role. I mean, it is what it is, but with RANDALL P McMURPHY at the helm, all the nuance goes out that bathroom window as he takes that axe to the door. Would it have been a different movie with a different actor, say JON VOIGHT, who shaded the character and gave us more of a sense of FIGHT to JACK'S PLIGHT? Absolutely, but that doesn't negate how ABSOLUTELY PERFECT NICHOLSON IS in the ballroom scenes with MR GRADY THE FORMER CARETAKER, or in the scenes wherein he snaps at his wife for interrupting him while he is writing, [and I will tell you as someone who is a (still mercifully un-produced) writer, I WILL REACT THE EXACT SAME WAY IF NOT WORSE IF YOU COME AND INTERRUPT MY PROCESS WITH SOME STUPID BULLSH*T WHILE I AM TRYING TO HAMMER OUT A SCRIPT. ] As for SHELLEY DUVALL, I know I like to kid her for being a WALKING EDVARD MUNCH PAINTING (and LORD KNOWS she could have stood to have gone to a KNIFE HOLDING CLASS to prepare for the role, I have always myself thought that knives were pretty self-explanatory, but I don't know, apparently SHELLEY was just totally new to the concept. I still don't know WHY SHE HOLDS IT LIKE THAT)...sorry, where was I? Oh yes, I KNOW this experience was really hard on SHELLEY and I know she's been having a difficult time lately (also, she AND KUBRICK were NOMINATED FOR GOLDEN RASPBERRIES FOR THEIR WORK ON THE SHINING!!!!!) but SHE IS OUTSTANDING IN THIS FILM, really a tour-de-force, a very real and fearless performance, the kind that is so full of guts and risks that it could be mistaken for bad acting when it is very much the opposite (see also: JULIE HARRIS in anything) If I could fudge any one thing about the 1980 Oscar Nominations, it would have been to get SHELLEY a BEST ACTRESS nomination for her work in this film.)

Now that's a hat!

Bogie in his classic beater from Treasure of the Sierra Madre. One look at this fedora and you know Dobb's life is filled with broken dreams.

From Chinatown, here's John Huston in a magnificent Stetson Open Road fedora.

You're speaking my language brother! I love hats. A good hat makes any clothes ensemble look better. I've had a few eight-panel/newsboy caps through the years but never had the privilege of owning a fedora, the king of headwear, mainly due to my oversized noggin. I make it a habit to pay special attention to the hats in films from the '30s thru the early '50s, the golden age of cranial haberdashery, after that the switch to stingy brims began along with the nation's decline. Here's one of my favorite hat scenes from the Astaire/Rogers film Swing Time. You get a nice assortment in this one. Fred in his Top Hat, Victor Moore with a bowler (another one I long to own), and a couple of very nice snap brim fedoras. Speaking of, check out that angle on Frank Jenks brim! Now that's how you make a statement!

Ok, I've kept quiet for 4 pages worth of SNL trashing. I was prime age (18) when SNL started and always rushed home from a night out to catch it. Of course it was revolutionary sketch comedy in the first few seasons, but when revisiting the "golden years" doesn't hold up well for me. I have been pleasantly surprised in the past few years at how much I have enjoyed both the writing & cast. I love Baldwin's Drumpf and think it was brilliant. Many sketches have me laughing out loud & I find the present cast excellent. Drumpf is a big crybaby & needs to grow up & realize: elect a clown, expect a circus. But obviously we are different camps, possibly a generational thing as I would never watch a show called FEAR THY NEIGHBOR - just tawdry. Knowing that "true life reality" shows can so easily skew perspectives, I don't waste a moment's consideration. Remember-I was approached with an offer to "star" in one a few years ago. But I am glad all of you voiced your opinions, otherwise I'd never know there's people out there who feel that way. Reading your opinions really helps broaden my own view of what's popular/not popular & why. I'm going to chalk up our differences to being an old lady hippie.

Noir fans have much to look forward to in the coming weeks, as TCM is presenting “Friday Night Neo-Noir” in July. The lineup is (ET): July 2 08:00 PM Harper (1966) 10:15 PM Point Blank (1967) 12:00 AM Warning Shot (1967) July 9 08:00 PM Get Carter (1971) 10:00 PM The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 12:00 AM Chinatown (1974) July 16 08:00 PM Pulp (1972) 09:45 PM Body Heat (1981) (a TCM premiere) 12:00 AM To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) July 23 08:00 PM Blood Simple (1984) 10:00 PM Night Moves (1975) 11:45 AM Cutter's Way (1981) (a TCM premiere) July 30 08:00 PM Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982) (a TCM premiere) 10:15 PM Mona Lisa (1986) 12:15 AM Tequila Sunrise (1988) (a TCM premiere) Plus there is also the regular Sat-Sun Noir Alley schedule: June 26, 27 - Shadow of a Doubt (1943) July 3 - Guilty Bystander (1950) (a TCM premiere) (no Noir Alley repeat on July 4th) July 10, 11 - The Bribe (1949) July 17, 18 - Los Tallos Amargos (1956) (a TCM premiere) July 24, 25 - Cause for Alarm! (1951) July 31 - Hollow Triumph (1948) (Summer Under the Stars starts on Aug. 1) If Eddie has prepared the intros for all of these, he must have been very busy.

DAWN AT SOCORRO (1954)

My answer, which you quoted, is the edited answer. Isabelle Adjani plays a character much younger than herself in QUEEN MARGOT. *** Next: lots of espionage

Could not agree more. SHELLEY DUVALL is perfect for that role.

Rene Clement Louis Lumiere Roger Vadim

Although I thought she was great in all roles she did, BORN YESTERDAY and IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU are tops with me. Sepiatone

Me too. I have four eight panel caps(AKA: "Newsboy") , one dating back 30 years. And three different designs of Fedoras. And a couple of flat caps. But in NO WAY, do I own, or will EVER own one of those BASEBALL style caps you see way too much of. And with the bill pointing in every possible direction! Sepiatone

I do! I love wearing hats.

I'm still waiting for Warners to do a 35mm release of THE FRENCH LINE. I have a 16 Tech print. It's a lot of fun. And, of course, there is THAT DANCE! A friend of mine has a 35mm tech print of the original dance. For the final release, they used mostly long shots of Jane. Someone put up a youtube using both left and right (it was in 3D) prints of the original dance:

William Powell was literally a man of many hats. Fedora Top Hat Straw boater Homburg And even a Bowler

Georges Méliès René Clair Jean Renoir Jacques Tati Henri-Georges Clouzot Jean-Luc Godard Robert Bresson Agnes Varda Jacques Demy Éric Rohmer

tcm oughta show Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr and James Mason in Hatter's Castle. "Hats, hats and even more hats for tcm programmers to cover their skulls!"

Was going to post him from Myra Breckenridge but had to go with Raquel.

THANKS! Never heard of it either, I'll be glued to the 60" Sony tonight! Can't wait to hear everyone's impressions tomorrow! 😎

Hermione Gingold is best known for her performance as the grandmother in the Oscar award-winning"Gigi". She was also outstanding in another Hollywood musical, "The Music Man". On Broadway she co-starred in Sondheim's "A Little Night Music". I'm no fan of his solo work, but I'm guessing she introduced the song "Liaison". While "Send in The Clowns" was the big hit from the show. I had a nice live recording of Mel Torme singing "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"--I imagine that was the World War II favorite with lyrics written by her husband Eric Maschwitz. And he also wrote a song that I vaguely know--"These Foolish Things (remind me of you)". But his main claim the fame has to be as one of the co- screenplay writers of James Hilton's "Goodbye Mr Chips", which was Oscar-nominated for best screenplay in 1939. I never noticed Eric much before, but Hermione, yes "I remember her well".

Vera (2011 - )

Lansing, Joi

Maude (1972-1978)

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Harris, Richard

Gould, Harold

Brennan, Eileen

Angeli, Pier

Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1991)

Van Johnson Next: hero

Mary Hartman Mary Hartman

Sydney Greenstreet made his film debut at age 61 in The Maltese Falcon (1941). If you're going to start late, you might as well start at the top. next: famous for playing various nationalities

The Jolson Story (1946) -- Larry Parks as Al Jolson The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) -- Keefe Brasselle as Eddie Cantor Elvis (1979) -- Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley I'm Not There (2007) -- various actors as Bob Dylan Nina (2016) -- Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone Tender Mercies (1983) Crazy Heart (2009)

Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988)

https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm Scroll down towards the bottom to get to the beginning of the August schedule. Last I saw, it was only partially available; but that was a few days ago.

Co-written by Michael Barrie, who shares a family(?) last name with H.E. Barrie, scriptwriter of genuine cheesy space-women icon Missile to the Moon (1958)....Father-son tribute? (Five years after the Cat Women, if you're wondering.

Don't know 'bout Nip, but I sure do!

AKA "JAN IN THE PAN"

Do you mean that Paul Douglas starred with Judy Holliday in the Broadway play Born Yesterday? I know that Broderick Crawford starred in the movie version. Born Yesterday is my favorite Judy Holliday movie. And to think she beat out Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. and Bette Davis in All About Eve for the Oscar that year!

La Bamba (1987) - Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) - Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge Cloclo/My Way (2012) - Jérémie Renier as Claude François Marina (2013) - Matteo Simoni as Rocco Granata

Jane Fonda then and now

Yes. He probably also likes the song 'Legs' by ZZ Top.

The Family Way (1966) TCM -9/10 A newly wed young man (Hywel Bennett) moves into his parents house with his new wife (Hayley Mills), he finds he cannot consummate his marriage. This is a very funny and often touching film, one of my favorites of 1960s British cinema. The acting is excellent, Bennett was one of the more underrated actors of the time. Former child star Mills is now a lovely young lady and shows she can now handle adult roles. The best performances come from John Mills and Marjorie Rhodes as Bennett's parents. John Mills is the macho laborer father who is puzzled by his bookish, sensitive son. Rhodes provides some of the biggest laughs with her dry wit. John Comer is Hayley's understanding dad and Avril Angers plays her drama queen mother. The funniest scene in the film and one of favorite scenes ever has the four parents getting together to discuss the couple's problem. Rhodes tells of her own honeymoon in which her new husband brought his best mate along! The writing is very witty and expertly performed. There is also an interesting twist to the story. There is great location shooting in Lancashire, beautifully capturing the country life of the town. Paul McCartney went on his first ever solo project when the did the music score for the film. It has more of a classical than pop feel, this came at around the time The Beatles were trying more experimental music with their Revolver album. Just a great film in every way.

Have this hanging on the wall of my office. It was my favorite movie as a kid, my first introduction to Jane Russell. Second was her full figured gals ad for Playtex brassieres. Love her in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, didn't really get the fun of this scene until older- It took big cahunas for her to star alongside petite, eye catching Marilyn, I give Jane lots of credit. Russell certainly was smolderingly beautiful, love her unusual mouth.