Cinemascope
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I'd be particularly interested in anything by Eddie Muller, his audio commentaries on DVDs are usually pretty informative and insightful.
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It totally makes sense that a lot of young actors these days don't look like they've lived through anything interesting. Life is almost too safe now in the U.S. The actors who first appeared in movies during the Golden Age all lived through more trying times, WW1, the Great Depression, WW2; European emigrees had fled Nazism -- I think all of these life experiences changed the expressions on people, and especially for actors who'd draw upon real-life events to help summon up certain emotions.
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If it's any help, imdb.com now has a "tv schedule" feature that alerts you when a movie is playing on TV. For some strange reason it doesn't include films on FMC, but it does tell you when something's playing on either TCM or AMC.
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Guess you never attended a weekday matinee?
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Well you don't see an awful lot of epic comedies, that's for sure! B-)
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nice photo, metsfan!
The only small quibble I have with today's CR marathon is that the FMC programmers made it very difficult to be able to record the movies using the TiVo schedule... a lot of them started or ended a few minutes before or after the scheduled time.
However, it's good enough to have them TiVo'd right now, and if I should want to record any one of them again, I believe most of them will be showing again a few more times.
Next month will also bring a showing of the Rita Hayworth musical, My Gal Sal, which I originally watched on TCM in the 90's (before Fox had its movie channel). It's a delightful old-fashioned musical, which for some strange reason is one of Rita's lesser-known movies (and IMHO through no fault of its own!).
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Criticism isn't a science. When you find a nice critic whose opinions you can rely on, it can save you a lot of bother when it comes to choosing which movies to watch, or not watch. They can also point out a lot of things that perhaps wouldn't have occured to you, that can enhance your enjoyment of any particular movie.
Certainly these days, with websites and blogs galore, it shouldn't be very hard to find someone whose writing you like.
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I'd say dame has a nice, classy ring to it... and I don't see why it would have to do with an era necessarily, in the UK it's still used regularly.
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Don't you just love Oscar predictions? I don't have any of my own, but here's some interesting ones:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/02/23/movies/20070223_OSCAR_GRAPHIC.html
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Tnx for the update filmlover, I'll take a look
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Yup, there's probably nothing much on at that time anyway.
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Well, that might just be one of those cases where the lack of rear-projection may have actually helped by eliminating any kind of visual distraction, and in a way making the scene more genuine.
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Well, yes, it's possible, but then again I don't see why it would be any more likely in the case of Eastwood and the spaghetti westerns than with any other unknown actor in any movie...
Leone's films almost take place in a universe of their own, so in any event anything that Eastwood could have thought of would have had to fit into Leone's vision, wouldn't you say?
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Indeed jdb, the Godfather movies strike me as more of a saga than an epic.
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The Thing -- both the Howard Hawks original and the '82 film -- could be classified as either sci-fi or horror, I suppose, though perhaps the concept bears more resemblance to the horror flicks of the 50's.
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Isn't Amazon also offering the Ultimate JB sets at around $45, if you buy all 4? Or did that offer expire?
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LOL I wasn't talking about buying anything. I found the Chinese DVD at my local library, so I assumed it had to be genuine, I've never heard of a public library supported by taxpayer dollars engaging in copyright infringement!
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It's spelled "Que Sera, Sera". The songwriter just passed away a few days ago... there's a thread in general discussions about that.
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> Does anyone want to say what car they learned
> to drive on?
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VW Bug
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An impressive talent on many fronts, no doubt!
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You see a distinction? Well for starters it's good to admit your earlier statement was full of sweeping generalizations.
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I don't need to prove myself anything, thank you very much
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Yup, and they're both Fox movies...
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Oh you've got to be kidding!
What car do you drive?
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These are the kinds of things that make me glad to have given up on driving and turned to public transportation.