clore
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>I can appreciate the technical expertise involved for CGI effects only so long, and then start to miss the human element in what I am viewing.
Wise words indeed. I can really appreciate CGI when it is used as a part of set design or art direction. For example, the recreation of a late 40s Los Angeles was the only good thing about GANGSTER SQUAD, one of the most derivative films that I've ever seen. I'm just glad that I didn't spend money to see it.
Otherwise, too many films look like video games to me.
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>Give me this anyday over a swishy pirate and overblown CGI effects laden film like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Or as some called it when it was released - a swishbuckler.
I won't get into the debate about CGI here other than to say that it's a nice tool when used properly. So are matte paintings, and I've seen bad ones in films of yore. It's a fine line that has to be walked between transporting us to the world of escapism and hitting us over the head with it.
I love THE CRIMSON PIRATE for example, but its grace is that it winks at the genre while still giving us the marvelous acrobatics of Lancaster and Cravat. Plus it's all shot on real locations. It's fantasy of course, but there's enough realism in it for the little kid in all of us to sit there and want to be on that voyage. -
Great Garfield's ghost!
Doesn't he appear via flashbacks? If CITIZEN KANE can be included for an Alan Ladd tribute, I guess that anything goes.
LOVE IS A RACKET was included for a day of George Raft films in January 2013, but his scenes never made it to the release print.
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>According to the IMBd, this film correctly reflected the original Johnston McCulley pulp series magazine cover that was the original basis for the bandit by having the actor's head completely covered by a mask, rather than just half his face.
Plus it makes it a whole lot easier to hide the stunt men. Which is part of what disturbs me about shining armor movies. You could claim that it's C. Aubrey Smith as Zorro in one of these and who would know the difference?
Do you remember a mid-80s TV show called THE MASTER? It would have us believe that a 60-year-old Lee Van Cleef was a ninja. In truth, it was Sh? Kosugi under the robe and mask doing the stunts.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying THE SEA HAWK tonight which reminded me of this great thread.
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Not so much a joke, but just an observation of a coincidence.
The other day I had on THE MACOMBER AFFAIR and got a ral sense of deja vu when Peck said to Bennett "We're in it up to our necks."
It struck me that I've heard Peck recite a similar line many times and then it came back to me:
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From WHAT'S UP DOC?
Streisand: Love means never having to say you're sorry
O'Neal: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
A riff on this from 1970, also starring O'Neal:
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Time Warner cable has nothing to do with TCM other than carry the signal. It's been five years now since the cable company was spun off from the parent company. They only lease the name "Time Warner" from what used to be the parent company.
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>I've always assumed that when one of the actors in the 1951 sci fi classic, The Thing, makes a passing reference to Gary Cooper in Sergeant York, it was, in fact, an inside joke since Hawks worked uncredited as director on that film.
In BALL OF FIRE, Dan Duryea, holding the profs as hostages, announces "I saw a movie last week" and proceeds to wet down his gun sight with saliva, just as Cooper did in SERGEANT YORK.
Within that same scene, Duryea also yells in regard to his weapon "Watch out, it's gonna spit" which is a nod to Paul Muni in SCARFACE.
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Plus today's Benedict Borgeaus tribute isn't too shabby either.
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I just noticed that three of the spaghetti westerns listed to air on Thursday, March 6 are noted as being in black-and-white on the full month schedule.
Maybe the software they use to extract info from the AFI has got a bug or two in it.
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Face of Fire (1959)
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
Dir: Albert Band Cast: Cameron Mitchell , James Whitmore , Bettye Ackerman .
BW-79 mins,
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I'm surprised that PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW is being aired prior to midnight.
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For me the big news is seeing FACE OF FIRE on the schedule. I've requested it a number of times. I haven't seen it in 48 years.
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I heard of someone who was at a party being held by Klemperer. There was food and drink and Werner said "Here, try some of this liver p?t?."
The person sampled some and immediately grabbed a napkin and spit it out.
"There's a hair in it" he explained.
Werner said "Oh, then maybe you would prefer this bald p?t?."
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I had to go back to a saved schedule to notice if the MPAA-style ratings were there. I've never noticed them. I just never paid attention since as you say, most of the TCM schedule are films that pre-date the ratings.
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When I was a kid in the late 50s, WOR-TV would air YANKEE DOODLE DANDY in a 90-minute slot. I thought that it was about a tough kid who grows up to be a jockey, then entertains the troops. His father dies and he dances on the table before going to meet the president.
I had perhaps seen one or two musicals before, but the recreations of stage acts in DANDY had this 8-year-old very confused.
By 1964, the film ended up on WCBS where it played in complete form on July 4.
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Actress Kim Hamilton must have found Klemperer's noggin appetizing - she married him.
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I just saw the promo for the new season. Osborne and Barrymore going on about how they've now viewed over 100 films together.
Technically, it's about half that since each title is repeated, thus after two years there are 52 screenings and 52 replays.
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I don't even get the red X. I see nothing at all past the ellipsis.
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Terry O. Morse was an editor from 1927-1973. He also dabbled as a director of B movies at Warners as well as the American shot footage for GODZILLA .
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>I must say I thought Ship of Fools was quite dreadful, and I was wondering if its admirers had any response to Pauline Kael's withering review in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Is that the one that ends "Stanley Kramer runs for office in the arts?"
I have that book in deep storage, but I recall that comment at the end of a review for a Kramer film. She was comparing Kramer to a politician who runs for office by promising a lot but delivering very little.
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You're right, Arzner edited THE COVERED WAGON among others.
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I've got a few more for you...
Sam O'Steen who edited THE GRADUATE and CHINATOWN directed I LOVE YOU...GOODBYE and SPARKLE as well as a number of TV movies.
Reginald Beck who edited a number of Joseph Losey films directed THE LONG DARK HALL.
Stuart Baird who edited SKYFALL directed STAR TREK: NEMESIS and U.S. MARSHALLS.
Jim Clark who edited CHARADE and DAY OF THE LOCUST directed the Vincent Price/Peter Cushing film MADHOUSE.
He's not to be confused with James B. Clark who was an editor at Fox (GARDEN OF EVIL) and later directed FLIPPER.
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I met her way back in April of 1968 when 2001 had its NYC premiere, complete with red carpet celebrities. She was kind enough to sign autographs for all of those whom then-husband Gary Lockwood nastily turned away.
I hear that Gary is now willing to sign at nostalgia conventions, only 50 bucks for the scrawl of a guy who is more of a "never was" than a "has been."
Mind you, Paul Newman was also refusing to sign that night, but he did so with a smile and some self-deprecating humor.
The Enchanted Cottage Question
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>It's called not having a very attentive continuity editor.
It must have been the same person who didn't notice that the carving on a post in THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR that Anna was told would be visible to all the ships at sea, was actually facing inland.