Cinemascope
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Dash, take a quick look at this morning/afternoon's schedule....
Gold Diggers of 1935
Gold Diggers of 1937
Broadway Melody of 1936
Born to Dance
A Day at the Races
Then at 8pm ET it's the Best Picture Marathon starting with Ben-Hur and The Best Years of Our Lives
For the most part we're still watching mostly classic movies.
In a few weeks, TCM will also be premiering 6 lost RKO movies that have recently been "rediscovered" and will be shown publicly for the first time in decades (see "Hot Topics" for more on that).
Don't let the odd showing of a 90's movie fool ya....
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Wow, it's awesome that the six missing movies are getting so much press!!! Can't wait to watch them on TCM!
I'd go to the Film Forum if I was in NYC but it's enough to know that TCM is going to show them soon...
BTW how did they get the Dutch subtitles off the print that was found in the Dutch museum?
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Aye, inquiring minds want to know!
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Paramount deserves a swift kick in the rear for not realizing its library of classic films could be, like, valuable!
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I'd have to go with San Francisco in Vertigo.
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I doubt Robert Wise could really have stashed away the footage... as a young editor working for a major studio, he'd probably try to avoid any impropriety that, if discovered, could have ruined his career.
I don't think he liked having RKO override Wells wishes, but I don't think he could have done anything... if RKO had realized he hadn't done as instructed, they could have just replaced him with someone who did what he was told.
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Just a couple of minor points... I'm looking at the notes on the Criterion laserdisc of The Magnificent Ambersons.
Apparently, OW was "recruited by the U.S. State Department Committee on Inter-American Affairs to make a film in South America as a gesture to promote hemispheric relations in wartime," which I suppose OW might well have regarded as a patriotic effort during WWII.
Also, Robert Wise was the original editor OW had chosen (he had also edited Citizen Kane, it was after the sneak previews that RKO ordered Wise to make the changes they saw fit.
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Last September's 3-D series was awesome, hope they'll be doing it again this year!
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Probably won't be released any earlier than this summer, but it'll be worth the wait!
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Kinda wish this thread hadn't stalled...
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Color of Money is OK, one of Scorsese's more commercial movies. But The Hustler is a real treat!
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Trailers from classic movies are almost invariably more fun to watch. It's true they didn't always give an accurate idea of the movie... whether this was accidental, due to the marketing department having only limited footage to work with, or the product of deliberate marketing, I do not know for sure.
But since most of us have seen these classics, that's what makes them so much fun!
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Hiya confounded....
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Well, did he ever actually say that he had influence over the making of the movies? I certainly don't recall him ever saying any such thing.
When he went off to Italy to work for Leone he was a big unknown, having only worked on some B-movies and a little TV. There's certainly no reason to think Eastwood would have had much clout during the making of these movies... it's more likely that he was just a hired hand who did what he was told.
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This, too, shall pass...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service FTW!!!
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Awesome to have a chance to TiVo it, shame it's not on DVD yet... with GR and JS, how could it not be?
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Bumping for MG who was asking about the HD format war
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Exactly, just like how P.J. Hogan's Peter Pan isn't a remake of the Disney animated version...
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It's too bad some people don't have a sense of humor and can't detect a parody of negative threads....
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It's a generational thing... by the 60's a lot of young people were listening to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan... they probably weren't very interested in old-fashioned musicals.
Even when a songwriting team managed to turn out fairly successful musicals, a success on the theater didn't translate to equal success in movie theaters... look at Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice. Of their 3 musicals together, only Jesus Christ Superstar was filmed in the 70's... Evita wouldn't be filmed until the 90's and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was never turned into a movie.
More recent Broadway blockbusters like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables also didn't translate to movie musicals.
And let's not forget that a lot of the fans of the old American composers don't exactly have a very high opinion of Lloyd Webber...
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Intolerance, yes, possibly the first great epic.
Leone's movies I would classify as either Western or Drama, accordingly. Il Gattopardo is a historic drama and an epic, and The Godfather I'd just consider a drama.
Obviously others will feel differently. And I would certainly be inclined to agree with calling The Godfather, Part II an epic because it cover so much more ground and a much longer time span than its predecessor.
But categorizing movies is often arbitrary, except for stuff that's very easy to tell apart, like silents & talkies, most westerns, etc.
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It might just be a mid-life crisis... you'll find out about that in another 20 years...
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And I wouldn't mind them playing more of her silents, either, I'm not sure I can remember which ones I've seen.
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