Cinemascope
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Oh you're right it is sooooooooooooo condescending to point out the difference between foreign movies and foreign-language ones.
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I loved Rock Hudson and Robert Stack, too.
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So there aren't any critics that you enjoy reading regularly, online?
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That's 3 foreign-language films, all subtitled.
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I really was being facetious when I said 'do away with critics', but I truly feel all we need are 5 or 6 good ones from the main cities like N.Y, Chi town, L.A, Frisco,
And is it really *that* hard to just narrow down the 5 or 6 critics that you really care about and ignoring the rest of them?
No, guess it must just be easier to say they're all corrupt, ignorant and crooked.
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Yes, there is a difference in being a paid professional (who has to review all kinds of crap) and an amateur who reviews what they love, but I would place more blame on the films and the industry themselves.
As CS says, I don't think people grow up thinking there is a bundle of cash in the critic biz. They do it because they love films and want to share them with others.
I agree with that completely. My only guess is some people are jealous that some folks get paid to watch movies on a full-time basis.
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No, I don't.
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Honestly, I'd just rent the Criterion DVD. They usually have lots of cool extras.
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Huh? Did I miss a burning bush somewhere?
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Yes, there is a difference, but the point is -- for those who are all to ready to satanize professional, paid critics -- that these days anyone who thinks they can do a better job, can try to do so through a blog or personal website.
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Yeah, there's still tons of titles waiting for "rescue". It's sad, and makes me wish that no more classic movies should ever end up in the public domain.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/
Tarantino's Grindhouse Fest celebrates cinematic cheese
If you want to know what made Quentin Tarantino the man he is today, look at the L.A. grindhouse life he?s loved.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2007
Some kids love Disneyland, but for little Quentin Tarantino, the happiest place on Earth was always a scabby L.A. movie theater. That's where he could sit in the dark with bloodied samurais, dangerous pimps and zombie brides. His search for the next matinee took him to every freeway and to distant neighborhoods, which is why Tarantino now knows the city like the back of an amputated hand.
Sometimes, it's even hard for the filmmaker to say where the movie screen stops and the real Los Angeles begins.
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Yeah, I think WHV said they have something like 200 titles (not including new releases I assume) coming out this year on DVD.
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I looked at the screenshots but didn't really want to read anything until after I'd watched the films.
I was most curious to see a screenshot of the film that has the Dutch subtitles.
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Yup, the re-release apparently had a narration added. I believe the DVD has both the original 1925 version and the 1942 re-release.
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And I think he can be a lot of fun to read -- I can totally see why he won the Pulitzer Prize -- and sometimes I won't agree with his opinion but still enjoy what he had to write about certain movies.
In the end, a lot of movie critics aren't that different from you or me, they like movies a lot, sometimes bordering on the obsessive, and for many of them, it's a job they'd rather have because of their love for movies than something else that paid better but kept them in an office all day long.
Ultimately in this day and age I think it's hypocritical to whine about critics because now, everybody can be a critic, all it takes is a blog.
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Battle with cancer
In 2002, Ebert suffered a bout of papillary thyroid cancer. He underwent surgery in February 2002, which successfully removed the cancer. He later underwent surgery in 2003 for cancer in his salivary gland. In December 2003, he underwent a four-week course of radiation treatment as a followup to the surgery on his salivary gland, which altered his voice slightly. He continued to review movies, not missing a single opening while undergoing treatment.
He underwent further surgery Friday, June 16, 2006, just two days before his 64th birthday, to remove cancer near his right jaw, including a section of jaw bone.[16]
On July 1, that same year, Ebert was hospitalized in serious condition after an artery burst near the surgery site; he later discovered that the burst was likely a side-effect of his treatment, which involved neutron beam radiation. He was subsequently kept bed-ridden while a means was sought to prevent future arterial problems.[16]
Ebert filmed enough TV programs with his co-host, Richard Roeper, to keep him on the air for several weeks. However, his extended convalescence has necessitated a series of "guest critics" to co-host with Roeper, including Jay Leno (a good friend to both Ebert and Roeper), Kevin Smith, John Ridley, Toni Senecal, Michael Phillips, Aisha Tyler, Fred Willard, Anne Thompson, A.O. Scott, and George Pennacchio.
An update from Ebert on October 11, 2006 confirmed his bleeding problems have been resolved. He is receiving rehabilitation care at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to regain his lost muscle strength.
The first movie he reviewed after a three-month absence was The Queen. Since then he has reviewed Marie Antoinette, Man Push Cart, 49 Up, Stranger Than Fiction, Volver, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. He has also written an analysis of the 79th Academy Awards nominations in which he briefly comments on movies he's seen but hasn't yet reviewed including Babel and Happy Feet.
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Sounds like a great soundtrack MissG. Congrats on your new acquisition!
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Ah yeah, TiVo's are great help, what with the dual tuner and 35-80 hours worth of memory, it's scary how easily you can get hooked, lol!
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Great photos!
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Well, everyone's got a right to put a lot of importance on fashion and style if they want. To me it just represents being willing to buy whatever Madison Ave. wants to sell America (and the world) instead of seeing clothing as something that need not be more than strictly utilitarian. I'd rather look at people and appreciate them for who they are and what they think rather than what they wear.
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Once again, I can see that you have very darn near lost touch with reality. Movie studios spend the bulk of their advertising dollars on media buys -- advertising in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and billboards. That is the bulk of the tens of millions that it costs to market a movie these days. On a handful of them, they won't even bother screening anything for critics if they don't think it's going to get good reviews. Why bother? Massive publicity campaigns are more likely to get people into the theaters than the opinions of reviewers these days. What people see advertised all around them there is a good chance they will want, just like they end up wanting fast food, fast gas-guzzling cars and all kinds of useless items.
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Who is Michael Medved? Who is Cynthia?
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You're right. Italics should come with a condescending warning.