CineSage_jr
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Violence depicted in today's cinema isn't the problem, in and of itself. The reason modern films are so unsatisfying and inferior to their antecedents is the rampant literalism upon which their storytelling rests and relies. The cat-and-mouse relationship between writers, directors and audiences (in days past often forced on them by the Hollywood Production Code) no longer exists. There is, consequently, little or no active involvement on the part of the audience -- a sign of great respect on the part of filmmakers of the Classic Age -- in the storytelling process.
The audience's own imagination is the most powerful tool at the disposal of a filmmaker. It is also, ironically, the cheapest, as it costs little or nothing to plant a seed in a viewer's mind without actually taking the time, trouble and expense of showing him/her.
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Maybe that's why control became so important to him after he met "Madeleine's" double.
Well, Judy Barton isn't Madeleine's double, Scottie just comes to believe that -- until Carlotta's necklace tips him off that the two are one-and-the-same and that he's been played for a patsy
by Gavin Elster in persuance of his plot to murder his wife, the real Madeleine.
And today's critics generally agree that VERTIGO is Hitchcock's masterpiece; it's critics at
the time of the film's original release who failed to apprehend that.
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I remember that episode too with her love of Ramon Novarro......
Ironically, in real-life, Ghostley had no use for men, and Novarro no use for women. Two ships passing in the night, indeed.
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The school teacher's record collection...heartbreaking.
The one scene in the film I can never make myself watch.
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I never could get enthusiastic about ?All About Eve?. It?s about a young actress who eventually takes over the jobs that an old actress used to get. Isn?t that a common theme in movies about Hollywood starlets, gangsters, pop music stars, and Western gunslingers? Isn?t that the basic theme of ?Scarface?, where Paul Muni takes over the gang from its previous leader? Isn?t that the theme of ?Captain Blood?, who eventually took over the governorship from the previous governnor who had not adapted to modern times?
Of course it is (ironically, Fox made a film with the same basic plotline as ALL ABOUT EVE in that same year, 1950: it's called THE GUNFIGHTER). What is SHANE, but another homesteaders-versus-cattlemen story? But, by delving into character and avoiding clich?s and melodramatic simplicities, George Stevens, working from Jack Schaefer's novel and A.B. Guthrie and Jack Sher's screenplay, made it into something altogether more memorable and timeless.
There are only a dozen or so basic stories in the world, if one traces them back to Aristotle, and it's the treatment of those stories that makes them worthwhile or not (and copyrightable or not).
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I've always chuckled at how, in the short-lived 1960s NBC sitcom Captain Nice, Ghostley played the mother of William Daniels, who's all of seven months younger than she.
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And leave the homosexual jokes at the door, please.
Or, at least in a Minneapolis airport toilet stall.
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"important": of great weight in meaning, significance or consequence. Not necessarily "great" (or even "good") or "favorite", and the "great weight" may be for good or ill.
"Nine minutes...an important piece, Georgie"
- Papa Morris Gershwin (Morris Carnovsky), to George Gershwin (Robert Alda), after timing his son's latest composition with a stopwatch in RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945)
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Correctamundo.
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Of course, both THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE and CAT ON A HOT TINE ROOF were directed by Richard Brooks.
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FYI, CUTTER'S WAY was originally released under the title of CUTTER AND BONE.
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Nobody watches AMC (American Movie Classics anymore.
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Julie andrews is a bit of an enigma. With the exception of THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC (though I love the former film, I can't abide the latter) her films were all unworthy of her talent.
What's odd is that her career is defined to a considerable extent by the film parts she should've had (and did have on Broadway), and didn't get: Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY and Guinevere in CAMELOT. Both films would've benefited immeasurably from her presence.
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No trains in GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
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Because it's a 20th Century-Fox film and, while TCM has leased a small number of Fox movies, this isn't one of them.
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Upon further investigation, I found out what (Mary Pickford and Alexis Smith) have in common. They are both CANADIAN!!! A Canadian friend of mine would be particularly proud of this piece of information. They are both, obviously, actresses and also women. LOL, ROFL
Nope; the birth-name of both Mary Pickford and Alexis Smith was Gladys Smith.
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No, it's not, or Technicolor would have been sued by Paramount for violating its patents on VistaVision when it introduced Technirama. Technirama's film-transport mechanism is different, so it isn't VistaVision.
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Good point CineSage jr..that voice reminds me of that Fella...Bela!
Bartlett
Well, they were both on the same side of the Iron Curtain in NINOTCHKA.
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Well, since the death of Charles Lane at 102 a couple of months ago, and Bruce Bennett just short of his 101st, everybody else is just a baby.
Also, Billingsley is 91; Malden is 95; Richard Widmark 92; Kirk Douglas 90.
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I've always enjoyed the film, and Flynn is fine in it (though Walter Huston is the one to watch), but the movie was made as propaganda, and is very much in keeping with director Lewis Milestone's sensibilities that first came to the fore with ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. I do hope that Warner's will release the rest of Flynn's war films (the only one out being the superior OBJECTIVE, BURMA!.
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Especially since Garbo was one of the most overrated actresses who ever lived (she was much better in silents than in sound films). She spoke every line exactly the same vampish way, and that gets tiresome.
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You may have heard that there was a Japanese film with the same title. This is not a remake of that film.
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The Blackboard Jungle (1955) -- "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & the Comets is released in 1954 and spends one week in the Top 40 in May. Then The Blackboard Jungle is released with the song playing over the opening credits, and the record hits #1 on the pop chart in July 1955. It is probably the first mainstream movie to use a rock'n'roll song, and the record is the first rock'n'roll record to be #1 on the pop chart, thereby changing movie soundtracks, music marketing strategy and legitimizing rock'n'roll in popular culture (depending on one's view, either ending rock'n'roll as a music of rebellion or starting the rock culture).
Too bad it wasn't the last.
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I ALREADY POSTED THIS EARLIER THIS MORNING. POSTINGS ARE DISAPPEARING...
So, tell us at whose head is Glenn Griffin (Bogart) pointing his gun, and who plays the Hilliards' daughter (standing beside March)?
(and now, right after posting this, my previous post reappeared...)
Help Please to Name Amish/Quacker Film???
in Information, Please!
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I saw a movie maybe 30 years ago that starred Robert Taylor. It was a romance set in some type of Amish/Quacker community.
Quacker community? It can only be DUCK, YOU SUCKER, HOWARD THE DUCK, or QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A COUSIN IN THE BRONX.
The Quaker community is another matter, however...