JackBurley

Thanks Mr. Howell. Your list looks like the list of movies that I had the best of intentions of seeing, but they passed me by. I chased Infamous down all over the country, and it would always close just as I was about to go. And of course, anyone who saw it told me how great it was (just to twist the knife). Now I'm in the same situation with Little Children, a most evasive flick...

"Wow; June Allyson a ****??? Just goes to show, there's no accounting for taste!!! She's absolutely my LEAST favorite actress; just something about her. But interesting to read all the gossip; sounds like Hollywood marriages, alright!" Well I'd always heard she was a lesbian, so this thread set me straight. I guess she wasn't a lesbian, she just played one on the screen (They Killed Their Masters)...

"I had a chance to see the 3D Kiss Me Kate, which would have been more fun to see in 3D, but other things came up." I hope you'll see it in this format eventually, Mr. Lover. I've seen it a few times and it's my favorite 3D movie. Ann Miller's striptease is great as she tosses her accessories into your lap.

I found it! Here's the dialogue between Cesar Romero and Lillian Porter from Orchestra Wives toward the end of the "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" number: CR: Hey Mousie! What's that; a safety deposit vault? LP: I "boined" [burned] myself! CR: Well next time you start a bonfire, let me know, we'll roast some marshmallows. LP: You sad man.

Please excuse this selfish exercise. I've been referring to this thread throughout the year, updating my list as the year progresses and new favorite films are seen. With the arrival of 2007, I'd like to bump up my list so that it's easier for me to find: 1998 Central Station Elizabeth Gods and Monsters Living Out Loud Little Voice Opposite of Sex Out of Sight Velvet Goldmine 1999 All About My Mother American Beauty Being John Malkovich Election Fight Club The Matrix Sixth Sense Summer of Sam Sweet and Lowdown Talented Mr. Ripley Three Kings 2000 Almost Famous Before Night Falls Crouching Tiger, Sleeping Dragon Finding Forrester High Fidelity Kilometre 0 Memento Requiem for a Dream You Can Count on Me 2001 Adventures of Felix Beautiful Mind Enigma Gosford Park Ghost World Hedwig and the Angry Inch In the Bedroom Le Placard Legally Blonde O Shipping News Y Tu Mama Tambien 2002 25th Hour About Schmidt Adaptation Barbershop Catch Me If You Can Chicago Far From Heaven Good Girl The Hours Igby Goes Down Minority Report The Pianist 2003 American Splendor Elf In America Lost in Translation Mudge Boy Pieces of April Station Agent 2004 Motorcycle Diaries La Mala Educacion The Sea Inside Hotel Rwanda Ray Kinsey Millions Sideways Walk on Water 2005 40 Year Old Virgin Brokeback Mountain Capote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Crash In Her Shoes Jarhead Junebug Mad Hot Ballroom Shopgirl Transamerica The World's Fastest Indian Everything Is Illuminated 2006 Find Me Guilty Tsotsi The Devil Wears Prada Quincea?era SherryBaby The Science of Sleeping The Queen Casino Royale Dreamgirls The Good Shepherd 2007 Miss Potter Notes on a Scandal Volver Little Children The Painted Veil

Thanks for that information Mr. Lover! I'd started a Garden of the Moon thread over in the musicals section last night, as this is a movie I've been looking to watch for decades now. I rearranged my calendar so that I can be in front of my television tonight. Thanks TCM! http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=94552&start=0#7868645

When I was 16 years old I bought a three-record set of Warner Bros. music [on vinyl]. A pal and I listened to it often, and we were especially intrigued by a wild song called "The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish". The rendition is lively and more than a little bizarre. It's so strange that we used to wonder just what was going on on the screen! Last summer I began a one-man campaign to see if TCM would show it; I suggested it nearly every day on the Suggest a Movie page of this website. It took three months, before it popped up on the schedule and will be shown later today (January 11). Thank you, TCM! Busby Berkeley directed this rarity, and I'm very excited to finally be able to see it. I called my childhood chum to tell her it will be on, so she can see it too. I'm a little nervous to see it too. It's been many years of awaiting this day; what if it turns out to be terrible? Well, at least I'll finally know. Anyone going to join me in watching this one?

"I get a kick out of the way they are often so dated and insider in their references. In 'Meet Miss Bobby Socks', the eponymous youngster suggests to Bob Crosby's crooner character that he "get himself his own radio show, like Bing Crosby's." I guess since Bing Crosby set the standard for crooning at the time, he's the brunt of lots of well intentioned ribbing. In Step Lively, a petulant Marcy McGuire threatens Frank Sinatra with, "From now on, I'll listen to Crosby!".

You have company, Mrs. L., in your disappointment. As I recall, the musical version of Goodbye Mr. Chips was a box office bomb...

I wish you'd put a warning on that post, Ms. Cutter. It's sickening to read, and each entry is like the twist of a knife. It makes one frantic to save all that's left. Studios should be training legions of volunteers to restore their works before they're completely lost. I'd be the first in line...

Opening private mail with impunity is most inefficient. I've found a letter opener does the trick much better. Both of our copies of Matter of Life and Death will be our little secrets...

I believe that's from Only the Growing Nose and was spoken by Jimmy Durante.

"The melody played on the piano was a Chopin etude." Thanks Mr. Studios. In what scene does this occur?

Thanks Mr. K, but your copy won't be necessary. Maybe I should have just linked this thread to the other, for this was my reply: I too have a copy on DVD, but I suspect it might be a pirate copy* and the guilt that I feel is burning a hole into the DVD shelf. I long to have the "real" thing; and have long hoped it would be a lustrous Criterion Collection edition, with a rich transfer and generous extras. The one that I have features an interview with Jack Cardiff, which is great (but would be nicer if I could rid myself of the suspicion). When Columbia gets its act together I'll be buying a copy as soon as it hits the stands... ___________ * A well-intentioned friend gave it to me, and I'm afraid I repaid him with a stern lecture about copyright laws and support of the arts.

Though you tease us with the notion of its availability, apologies aren't necessary. Here's what CineSageJr. reported in another thread on the subject two week ago: "The American rights to the film are held by Columbia; Criterion tried very hard to get the rights, going all the way back to the laserdisc era, but couldn't swing it. Grover Crisp, who heads the studio's Restoration Division, told me that they do have plans to release it, but that the bonus materials are taking longer to do than had been forecast (though it was in August '06 that he said it). Unfortunately, TCM showed the film only once, as part of their Powell-Pressburger retrospective, while showing others -- BLACK NARCISSUS, THE 49th PARALLEL, THE RED SHOES -- numerous times. Happily, a friend had made a DVD-R of the film from that one-time showing, and then ran off one for me (I also have a commercial Region 2 DVD from the U.K. [there are more than one issue). The picture quality's okay, but there's a bit of horizontal distortion, making everyone and everything seem rather overweight. If ever there were a film that deserved a first-class restoration and transfer, AMOLAD is it." I'm drooling with anticipation.

Which reminds me that Chester Morris has Jean Harlow in his grip when he slaps her across the face and she replies, "Do it again! I like it!" in Red Headed Woman (now out on DVD).

Ah, his stage name... I wonder how confusing this is for the pooches. They supposedly changed "Terry"'s name to "Toto". Perhaps they still called him Terry to his snout, but just kept the billing "Toto"? I wonder if all the various Lassie's were called by their real name... Thanks Mssrs. Feaito and Mongo!

"definitely put 'A Matter Of Life And Death' aka 'Stairway To Heaven' on the Netflix queue if you haven't seen it before..." Is that possible? As far as I know, this essential movie hasn't made it to DVD in the U.S. yet; though it has in Europe. I've been lucky enough to see it on the big screen a few times and have been waiting [im]patiently for a legitimate disk to be released.

"Asta" was the dog that starred in The Thin Man series and Topper. He was also an important character in one of my favorite comedies, The Awful Truth.

Gone With the Wind features Clark Gable squeezing Vivien Leigh's head with his leathery mitts, threatening to crush her skull; this is just before he carries her up the stairs for more off-screen manhandling. I seem to picture a hysterical Lana Turner being grabbed by her upper arms and shaken (not stirred), but I'm unsure of what the movie was. The Bad and the Beautiful? Imitation of Life? All of them?

"I always' wonder who this guy was.Hopefuuly he will get an oscar nod. Is 'Little Children; out yet? I'm afraid it's released and already gone from many theatres. It opened in October in San Francisco. I regret that I missed it, and hope that all the Oscar buzz will revive it at one of the local second-run theatres...

South Pacific is certainly the most thematic for a desert island. There aren't many island musicals, are there? Pagan Love Song, Blue Hawaii... is that it? Bing Crosby should have made Robinson Croons So with Dorothy Lamour... Anyway, if I'm abandoned like Ariadne on some island I think I should pick a lengthy musical (since we're only allowed one). Cukor's A Star Is Born has the breadth to sustain for some time. I'd consider New York, New York too... I assume we're to construct a screen using a sail from our ex-vessel? How will we project it? With kerosene and a cocoanut shell, a la Gilligan?

"Regarding Rita Hayworth, I think Nan Wynn does a beautiful job for her in 'You Were Never Lovelier', and I think Hayworth does about the best lip-synching in that film that I have ever seen. ..." I didn't know Nan Wynn dubbed for Rita Hayworth. Ms. Hayworth certainly had many voices. Martha Mears has already been noted, and I'll add that Anita Ellis sang her Gilda vocals. Great item about Gloria DeHaven's mother, Ms. Ayres.

I believe it was Rupert Holmes who wrote the lyrics to "Widescreen": There are songs that sound like movies There are themes that fill the screen There are lines I say that sound as if they're written There are looks I wear the theater should have seen But though I've made my life a movie The matinee must end by five And I must stagger out into the blinding sunlight half alive Wishing I were back inside the picture show There where it's always night Notice how the screen is wide The second role I've said around too tight Will I stay? Yes, I might Oh widescreen wider on my eyes Lie my mind with lies Find the world like nothing that I've seen Oh widescreen dreams are just my sighs As we walk from out the movie Are we acting out a scene Does the orchestra play chords When we start loving? Do we move just like slow motion On the screen? Life's a constant disappointment When you live on celluloid But my movie expectations are a dream I can't avoid Waiting for a man to say the things That I heard in the film last night But he doesn't want to play the role And he can't pick his cues up right Will I dream? Yes, I might! Oh widescreen winding round my eyes Blinding me with lies Finding I've been fooled by what I've seen No, widescreen dreams are more than you How can lies be true? All we have is life and mind And love we find with a friend Oh let the movie end...

Fascinating post regarding the various GWTW prints, Ms. Cutter. When you bring up the "Vinegar Syndrome" I'm tempted to link other threads on the subject as background for our compatriots. In fact, I think I'll give in to temptation now. Here's a thread from last year, when you linked an excellent article about Nitrate film that Leonard Maltin wrote: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=75491&start=0#7771430 Wouldn't it be great to have "stickies" for this kind of information? (Major hint to TCM Web Master.)