Tikisoo
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1 hour ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
But a drummer that loses time just kills practice sessions and historically that has caused more riffs between band mates than anything else a drummer does.
And as a gal who has dated my share of drummers.....some of my favorite drummer jokes:
How can you tell a drummer's at the door?
He keeps knocking & doesn't know when to come in
How do you get the drummer off your porch?
Pay him for the pizza
What do you call a drummer with half a brain
Gifted
Why do guitarists put drumsticks on their dashboard?
To park in the handicapped spot
What's the difference between a drummer & a savings bond?
The savings bond matures & makes money.
Ba-da-boom!
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Well, I'm not a fan of the Beatles-mostly because I was there when they first hit the airwaves. But I absolutely appreciate their role in our musical/cultural history.
It is a milestone for anyone turning 80, (but as already stated by txfilmfan) notable for a rock n roller.
With all the negativity these days, Ringo's Big Birthday Show celebrating his life & contribution to our lives is a WELCOME diversion!
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In another thread I posted a photo of Gina Lollobrigida:
Which reminded me of my favorite Vamp Yvonne DeCarlo:
A different photo of Gina L:
...reminded me of smoldering hot Linda Darnell:
...who in that pic reminds me of sultry gorgeous Dorothy Lamour:
Hollywood definitely liked a certain "type" (me too)
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4 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
I felt like there was something going on between Burt's and Tony's characters (slightly romantic) even though Gina L. comes between them.
...I didn't think even I was sexy enough to make a gay man straight, dahling...."
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7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
But the second time I saw it, I "got it"- (surely the print and sound have been cleaned up digitally by now...?)
makes a great companion film to WHISKEY GALORE or THE WICKER MAN.
This is a Criterion release, it looked & sounded great. Check your library.
I agree I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING has a similar feel/setting as WHISKEY GALORE '49 (a favorite)...but The Wicker Man '73? While I liked that movie ok, I don't see much of a connection.
I was reminded more of Michael Powell's EDGE OF THE WORLD '37 making a perfect double feature with this, then add WHISKEY GALORE for a bonnie Scottish Triple Feature.
(the castle ruins ^^^ is shown in the upper right horizon of the box landscape painting, reassuring that not much changes)
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Well I'm recording more this month than usual. Although there are many great movies listed, there are very few I've not seen already.
7/22 1:45AM THE EXILES ’61
7/22 2:30PM TEA & SYMPATHY ’56 (amazing I've never seen this!)
7/23 7AM PERFECT STRANGERS ’50 (A Ginger/Morgan I don't have)
7/23 1:45PM WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS ’62 MR LOVE ’86 (fun philanderer double feature)
7/28 8:00PM ENTER LAUGHING ’67 12:00AM THE COMIC ’69 (fun Carl Reiner double feature)
8/1 2:15AM VIBES ’88 (hoping it hasn't been pulled)
Next month is SUTS and like Feb, usually the same chestnuts. I catch up on DVDs recorded previous months.
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I hadn't seen I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING '45 since my initial viewing several years ago. I watched it again last night and enjoyed it even more than I remembered. It's a Powell/Pressberger movie-I should have known- it has the perfect balance of story, sentiment & visual impact. A huge P/P fan now, I was unfamiliar with their tremendous body of work when seeing this movie the first time.
It's the story of a headstrong young lady Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) who is traveling to a remote island in Scotland to marry a wealthy industrialist. It is very unclear whether she loves this man or has even met him before, because her feelings are not expressed, it's very matter-of-fact. Traveling along with her is a military officer also trying to get the remote island, to spend his furlough with his family.
True to Scotland, harsh weather prevents the last leg of travel and they wait it out in Tobermory*. They walk along the ruins of a castle (extant) that carries a legend/curse that becomes theme to the story. They make it to the next leg of the journey & stay at a wonderful hotel (extant) and attend a Gaelic homespun party.
The charactors are starting to fall for each other, so Joan stays with friends of her fiancé's in a gorgeous estate home. There she meets more enchanting people and we get more Scottish atmosphere. One of the residents is a very young Petula Clark!
All these places & charactors add to the couple's story and especially to Joan's realization of what is truly important in life. I had to include a few screen caps of the sumptuous locations, sets & photography that visually tell the story.
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OK, so we all know how the story will end. Powell & Pressberger (as usual) add delicious spice to the ending to keep it from being corny or trite & then tie it up in a bow revealing the legend of the castle curse.
Well, I know where I'm going once we can travel again....
*Tobermory is a favorite Scotch, but I'm out. Talisker Storm is my appropriate substitute for this movie.
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I'm watching a Criterion release of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING. Amazing restoration of this great movie. Looking forward to the extras, including revisiting the locations.
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On 7/3/2020 at 1:52 PM, NipkowDisc said:
colorizing ..it adds depth, realism and lessens age.
Wish colorizing would lessen MY age!
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4 hours ago, YourManGodfrey said:
Blow-Up (1966)
I have this on DVD after reading favorable impressions like yours. I was puzzled by it, didn't seem to gel for me. This may be the kind of movie another viewing might strike the viewer wholly differently.
And I loved Kubrick's THE SHINING. It's a cerebral horror story, very dreamlike, a nightmare. The visual impact is from the sets & actors-no need for gore.
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12 hours ago, Fedya said:
We'd get the politicized Federal Theatre Project, or things similar to what were proposed in the Shirley Temple movie Stand Up and Cheer.
Many of the greatest plays (made into wonderful movies) were part of the WPA. Same for gorgeous public art mural paintings & sculptures. I live next to a beautiful park with cobblestone stairs, newels & drainage sluices built by out of work masons during the Depression.
With so many out of work, seems like a good idea to get people employed.
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I have never seen these popular or "best" pictures:
TITANIC (was interested in cgi boat, not romance) AVATAR, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, THE SHAPE OF WATER, THE ARTIST, GLADIATOR, BRAVEHEART (everyone says I'll love it since I love Scotland, horses, men in skirts)
...and only saw THE ENGLISH PATIENT because I was in Baltimore and wanted to see a movie in the Senator Theater-gorgeous! (lots of time to enjoy the sconces)
After seeing stinkers like Forrest Gump & Dances With Wolves, I realized all the hype just doesn't apply to me & my tastes. I've even given super hero movies & LOTR a try and even on the big screen, they fall flatter than Aunt Jemima pancakes.
A friend working on DEATH TO SMOOCHY 2002 told me it was an embarrassment, the worst movie ever and gave me a promo VHS tape when it was finished. I loved it, thought it was a funny & philosophical black comedy. It was then I realized what appeals to the "masses*" usually won't appeal to me-that's why I'm a classic movie fan.
*what I call the great unwashed/unenlightened
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On 7/1/2020 at 6:23 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
She has been famous for so long, I just don’t think there’s anyway she can be entirely sane.
Those are not the actions of someone who has their **** entirely together, IMOAgreed she must have had a weird childhood, growing up in an adult biz. Maybe her unusual choices are her eccentricities, result of her restricted formative years. Things are even scarier now, I would hate to go through life so guarded.
15 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:I used to pride myself on hating the most beloved/best reviewed film every year- BRAVEHEART, FARGO, TITANIC, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, AMERICAN BEAUTY, Sometimes I felt like Charlton Heston shouting out the ingredients of Soylent Green as everyone side-eyed me and kept walking on.
Ohmigod this is exactly how I've felt through the years about not only my dislike of some popular modern movies, but most notable about ACTORS. When JFK came out everyone told me I had to see it. I LOL at Kevin Costner's performance and couldn't believe anyone could have liked that movie.
Then it was Tom Hanks. I have held my stomach through several of his movies only to come to the conclusion he has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. Put him in a strong story and he can be ignored, but in an insipid one like Gump, oh Lordy I thought I'd tear my hair out!
And all was confirmed when I heard first hand what Hank is like on set. Wish I could repeat details, but let's just say it's apparent to the crew Hanks never ACTS, just speaks lines to get it over until his coffee/lunch break.
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On 7/1/2020 at 7:15 PM, misswonderly3 said:
I do think all the tired cliches about Canada that I sometimes see on this site have had their day. Not even so much because they're mildly (and only mildly) insulting to Canada, as because they are tired and also untrue.
Canadian films have come a long way from MST's 80's Rowsdower & Teenage Nightmare type movies. They are typically high quality productions and definitely well acted. I sometimes think not breaking big in Hollywood acting results in a better balance of work/sanity/family life that Canadians have cultivated.
Canada is just more civilized, less populated & slower paced than the US. Toronto is like "Little NY" and my least favorite Canadian city. There is nothing wrong with FBC, supplementing industry of culture & the arts. Imagine US government dollars spent that way.
The most notable accent quirk (aside from spelling ie "behaviour") I picked up from Canada is "pro-cess" and "pro-gress" instead of the NY "prah-cess" and "prah-gress". I'd say about 200 miles south along the Canadian border has a hybrid accent-most notable in the midwest "Fargo" accent.
I loved that old I AM CANADIAN commercial-we have those black squirrels now too!
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I sometimes go the other way in looking for a big star's not-as-successful parents in small roles.
David Cassidy's mother Evelyn Ward in an old episode of Perry Mason TV show:
And my favorite Joanna Moore, Tatum O'Neal's mother in a notable performance in an Andy Griffith episode:
While Tatum has some features of her famous dad, she's the spitting image of her sweet mom^^^
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7 hours ago, kingrat said:
Burt Mustin as an old man
I've tried finding pictures of Mustin as a young man to no avail.
2 hours ago, YourManGodfrey said:Hopscotch (1980)
Thanks for the review. I'm just discovering movies from the 70's-80's, since I was too much a wild child to watch movies at the time. My remember my Mom loved HOPSCOTCH when she saw it in a theater and always wanted to see it. Skipped the TCM broadcast finding the library has a copy.
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Wow, his daughter is the spitting image of her dear Mother Estelle.
I tuned in to TCM last night to see the REMEMBERS spot & I knew he had just passed. They must have had that in the waiting (probably one ready for others too)
Am I the only gal who found Carl a super handsome guy? Being handsome made him funnier, just like Lucy being pretty made her funnier, maybe unexpected.
I loved Carl's body of work, especially OH GOD which I often use to introduce younger people to the joys of classic film. It has that extra level of personal philosophy to the humor. I also very much enjoy his Steve Martin period, especially DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID and ALL OF ME (glad to see others like All Of Me too)
I just recently borrowed from the library IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE OBIT, EAT BREAKFAST *(2017) an HBO special on being 90+. It was WONDERFUL!
*after a famous George Burns joke.
That guy was so talented-writer, actor, director for TV, theater, movies for decades.
Thank you-thank you-thank you for making the world a better place-rest in peace, Carl.
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15 hours ago, Fedya said:
Use the rocks to make music like early man.
...or woman.
One of my favorite places....
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7 hours ago, Dargo said:
parroted Tiki's earlier misspelling
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15 hours ago, skimpole said:
Bresson never lets us forget that her suicide is also desperate, pathetic, a dead end,
This movie sounds like a real downer....many of us are already in a saddened state.
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I'm noticing a real divide between the sexes here:
Seems like Debbie's movie performances have little impact for the men in this group while the women mention her strength, personal struggles and giving-her-all in her performances, adding to her likability.
I'll stick my neck out and reckon it may possibly have something to do with her as forever "cute" and not innately sexy. June Allison, Jane Powell are also mostly perceived as "cute" and not as well liked by men in general as well. Leslie Caron, in contrast is "cute" but still retains a sexiness about her.
Be kind. It's only an observation and a guess at best.
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I just looked for My Six Loves in my library's list of available Debbie Reynolds movies, no luck.
But I was reminded of one of my favorite Debbie movies 1959's THE GAZEBO which has shown on TCM before- a black comedy
(nice Reynold Brown illustration)
Spotted this oddity of smiling dismembered heads ATHENA '54 also starring fave Jane Powell:
Description sounds like a stinker, I'll skip this one. But I did request HBO's BRIGHT LIGHTS the documentary of Debbie & Carrie's personal life at home. I watched it on TV & it's worth a revisit.
Debbie was a very good singer (like already stated a triple threat) and it's unbelievable her singing in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN was dubbed. Particularly ironic since voice dubbing is central theme of the movie!
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17 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
one that I'm sure you'd also like very much is My Six Loves. It's a sweet, pleasant film and Debbie's great in it If you ever see that it's on I think you'd enjoy it.
Wow thanks for mentioning that- what a cast!
Cliff Robertson plays the romantic lead (I'd watch him in ANYthing) and Alice Ghostly, Alice Pearce, Hans Conried, John McGiver, Jim Backus, Sterling Holloway!
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32 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Ha ha ha that photo is amazing.
What I like about the photo is how it tells you everything visually: the contrast of performance vs real life. The perspective of the "real life" figure is so much larger than teeny "performance" figure. Extra points that we know how the little girl turned out.
There's a lot to be learned from those two lives.
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Ennio Morricone, Influential Creator of Music for Modern Cinema, Dies at 91
in General Discussions
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Beautifully stated.
I bought this double disc CD when it first came out in 1995 since all my other Morricone was on LP.
I have amassed several Morricone soundtracks found at yard sales & thrift stores, even though I never liked any of the movies they were created for. The movies can range from the famous Spaghetti Westerns to romantic dramas to sci-fi and spy intrigues - Morricone music is consistently unique and inspiring.