BPerkins
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I think Orson Welles was friends with Marion Davies. He would say that his only regret about the film was that many people would assume Susan was Marion and that that wasn't his intent. For that matter, it isn't like the film is about Hearst either. Citizen Kane is like a dark American fairy tale or myth that takes ambition and power as its themes and spins it into these variations on the thrill of success and the bonds that are made and broken between people, and cruelty and humiliation. I don't think that's pretentious but compared to most classic Hollywood movies its a pretty cold and dark place, and that might be why some people are disappointed by it.
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I might sound like Pollyanna, but being 25 and seeing a trailer on TCM for The Karate Kid was interesting. It put it into context, my generation loved that crap. I'd rather watch Howard Hawks films and I won't be watching The Karate Kid, but the 80's happened, there's nothing we can do about it now, and I think TCM is dedicated to American cinema in a way that is broader than exclusively having good taste.
And I'll join the team that says TCM hasn't crossed any lines of bad taste with their ads. This website, for instance. Beautiful.
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Yeah I bet that's it. It might've been a bra. I thought she might've been some kind of performer wearing some bikini top thing. I bet it's Killer's Kiss. I haven't seen it in a while.
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The "Open All Night" sequence TCM plays in the small hours and ends with the Edward Hopper painting has this one shot of this woman taking off her earing in front of a mirror, it looks like it might be in a dressing room. It looks film noirish. Does anyone know what movie this is from?
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I doubt Tabu was a big enough sensation to inspire a perfume, but who knows. It's a collaboration between Robert J. Flaherty and FW Murnau. Murnau was one of the most esteemed German filmmakers (he made Nosferatu, The Last Laugh, etc.) and he came to America and made this great film Sunrise with lots of freedom and money. That movie flopped and he had more interference in his following projects. So then he went to Tahiti and made Tabu, this very lyrical, simple, beautiful film starring native non-actors. And then he came back to the states and died in a car crash right after making it. He was something like forty years old, so, it's very tragic.
Pandora's Box is the most elegant film, isn't it? Not just Louise Brooks but the whole design of it. I could watch that film a thousand times.
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Napoleon is to silent films what FFC's The Godfather is to sound films: overrated. Watch Louis Feuillade films!
Also:
Intolerance
The Outlaw and His Wife
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Tabu
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Jean Simmons in Angel Face comes to mind.
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Thought I'd add to the list the Carl-Theodor Dreyer series they did in September 2004. They showed most of the films he made, including most if not all of his silent films. That was highly appreciated by people like me. Oh, and Robert Bresson's Joan of Arc movie, which isn't on video. That was good of them.
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A while back TCM aired "Europa '51", an Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini collaboration. Anyone know why "Voyage in Italy" hasn't (to my knowledge) been shown or why it's so unavailable?
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Film Noir
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Something interesting about this great film is that, from what I've read, Nicholas Ray was sick throughout much of the shooting and Ida Lupino had to direct some of it. And that's how her directing career got started.
I really want to see Robert Ryan in 'Billy Budd'. I'm a big fan. He's awesome in The Set-Up, Caught, The Naked Spur, anything else he's in. I also really want to see him in Jean Renoir's Woman on the Beach. Anyone see Billy Budd or Woman on the Beach?