Fedya
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Didn't she have to do a health and safety inspection for her cousin?
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Maybe they didn't want to pay for it.Recently, I had several conversations with the grandson of Claude Akins. We were going over the fact that Akins was in many hit movies and TV shows but never received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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And Liz Taylor looking at a man's package.
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Both sides of her face?Colbert breaks her glasses and becomes beautiful;
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There's a reason I did a Programming Challenge filled solely with films released in 1960 and later.As an old-timer of over 10 years, yes, these threads do get boring, but I can't resist the urge to read some of the responses and laugh at how easily people can get riled up over and over again.
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The Hoodlum Saint (6:00 AM) is interesting, if only for the casting of William Powell, Esther Williams, and Angela Lansbury
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I'm not a fan of Judy Garland's singing.
Sure, she could act, and showed it in movies like The Clock, but that singing drives me up a wall.
(Also, I like to see who's paying attention.)
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If you identify with the victims, horror movies and violent action films are not enjoyable.
We're supposed to identify with Bonnie and Clyde, even though they both get shot up at the end.
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A group of men fighting for their lives, and they all talk like they were at a tea party? Come on!
I'm reminded also of the Pvt. Snafu shorts that were shown as part of the five directors who served in World War II spotlight last fall.
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New Orleans (1947)
Society Girl (Dorothy Patrick) trained in classical music hears the new sound and falls in love with it. Conflict ensues with the people who think the new sound isn't proper.
That's the plot of the film, which has even less of a plot than, say, The Cobweb. It's also a story line that's been done over and over, with various embellishments (all those "put on a show in the barn" movies Rooney and Gumm did, or Twist Around the Clock). The embellishment here is the music of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday.
The story is a 4/10, not bad, but thoroughly unoriginal. The music is a 9/10.
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The worst people are the ones who put on a front of politeness and urbanity, masking their true evil underneath.Bad people hurt other people and swear profusely.
Think Herbert Marshall in Foreign Correspondent, or Alexander Scourby in The Big Heat.
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post-dubbed sound that throws the viewer off at times
Can't we just say numbers, like Fellini let us do?
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I think you mean the movie ended with Ann giving up her career. Carole was a bit too dead to give up hers.
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.But hey, priests can't be all bad if the young swingin' Bingle is one, writing some more of his hit songs, can he?
And Bing turned out to be abusing children, just like a real Catholic priest!
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She has another great line, something to the effect of, "You can go to some nice, warm place... and I don't mean California!"the 1933 version is worth a looksie, mainly for Glenda Farrell and some funny jokes about bootlegging.
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Dirty Gertie is of course a retelling of Somerset Maugham's "Rain" (and of the Joan Crawford movie), except with the ending changed presumably because black audiences had even more reverence for their clergy than white audiences would have had.
I mentioned in the "I Just Watched" thread that I saw Abar: Black Superman recently, and one of the interesting things Abar does as with his superhuman powers is to have a black reverend step into his Caddy after the service, and have the Caddy change into a horse and buggy, which is certainly an interesting commentary on the clergy.
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I hope you never blurted out "No wire hangers!" in a job interview.I got the job over 100 applicants so I always used Faye for interviews after that.
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So what did you think of Girl With a Pearl Earring?This documentary takes you through Tim Jennison's (sp?) journey to illustrate his theory of how the great Dutch painter Vermeer created his incredible paintings using complex optical devices.
OK so as an art restorer I'm sure this movie touched me more deeply than the average person.
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I can also recommend her final film, Out to Sea, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. (And Donald O'Connor, who gets to do a little ballroom dance solo and enrage Lt. Data.)
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If you have a good relationship with your mother.
For me, things like Mildred Pierce, Autumn Sonata, and Ordinary People would be more appropriate....
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That's Hedley, thank you very much.He's the male version of Hedy Lamarr to us of the movie world!
(And you've got Greg Peck and Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum and Joel McCrea and Sydney Greenstreet and... need I go on?)
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Bloody Mama (1970).
Roger Corman's low-budget take on Ma Barker, leader of a crime family in the 1930s. Shelley Winters plays Ma incestuously; the sons are played by Don Stroud, a young Robert DeNiro; Robert Walden, and Clint Kimbrough. (I think; I'm going by memory here.) Bruce Dern plays a fellow convict who's OK being a dominant gay in prison if that's how to get sex; Diane Varsi shows off her bare breasts as a prostitute.
It's interesting and over the top; I have no idea how based in reality it is. Shelley Winters looks like she's having a blast chewing the scenery as she gets to play unrelentingly evil. So evil that she turns off her sons. Robert DeNiro gets to shoot heroin. There are some nice vintage cars and some nice location shooting (all done in Arkansas).
Warning: there's a scene of implied animal abuse.
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That's an interesting position.It's when West starts trying to pass as a missionary(?!) that the film becomes actively painful.
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Abar (1977). A black doctor and his family move into a wealthy (ie. white) suburb of Los Angeles so he can focus on his research. Unfortunately, all his neighbors are preternatuarlly racist, in ways that make the cast of In the Heat of the Night look like pikers. So the family winds up being protected by Abar, the head of the Black Front for Unity.
It turns out that the doctor is working on a formula for invincibility, and after he perfects it, he administers it to Abar, who uses he newfound superpowers to make black teens go to college, black hobos drink milk instead of malt liquor(!), and black preachers ride a horse and buggy instead of a Caddy. Really.
The plot veers wildly, with a wacky western dream sequence and liberal use of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech punctuating things. Meanwhile, the acting ranges from pretty bad to unbelievably awful. The doctor is ridiculously wooden, while his wife resorts to over-the-top screaming.
And then there's the fabulous 1970s design. There probably wasn't enough of a budget for a wardrobe, so most of the people presumably wore whatever they had (thankfully, they didn't have Audrey Hepburn's Givenchy). This results in a lot of authentic 70s black fashion and some garish color schemes in the outfits. But there's even more garish color in some of the sets. The doctor's new house has lovely avocado green shag carpeting, and one room that's entirely bright red, as though it had been borrowed from Bergman's Cries and Whispers. (Because every blaxploitation movie should be compared to the Bergman œuvre.)
The result is an utter disaster, but one that winds up being a hell of a lot of fun.
1/10 if you're looking at it as a normal movie; 8/10 if you're looking for a "so bad it's good" experience.
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Just Saw This Petition Concerning A Classic Film
in General Discussions
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Now, if you want to lobby Congress to reduce the copyright lengths, have at it. Good luck going up against Disney's billions.