Fedya
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It's a lot of fun. The movie focuses on the group's 1977 tour of Australia, with the framing story of a radio reporter whose job it is to get an interview with the group. But, just like the characters in Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the guy keeps coming up just short, instead interviewing a lot of regular people along the way. I wonder how many of them were actors; the taxi driver who hates ABBA must have been an actor. But the two little girls had to be real people. One of the girls says that ABBA's outfits look sexy, and both of them start laughing because they used the word "sexy". As for the group themselves, the backstage stuff is really worth seeing.ABBA: the Movie. As opposed to, say, ABBA: the Lunchbox. (Not an original joke, unfortunately). Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, no less. OK, I have to see this.
The schedule isn't showing up for me. I presume TCM didn't include 9 To 5 for the SOTM salute to Hayden?
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This thread needs
Sydney Greenstreet's laugh.
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The Prell was destroyed by its monsters from the id.
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When was the last time before this week that TCM showed it? My computer search function must be on the fritz, because I've got the monthly schedules going back to July 2007, and the computer only found this week's airing.While I agree with Vautrin that The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie is aired by TCM relatively often,
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It is? It aired once in 2014 (31 Days of Oscar), once in 2013 (31 Days of Oscar), zero times in 2012, and once in 2011 (Summer Under the Stars). Unless I missed an airing for Elizabeth Taylor's memorial tribute.Given that A Place in the Sun is a strong candidate for The TCM Overplayed Hall of Fame,
Or perhaps my computer's search function isn't working?
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Worse than Going My Way?Can't stand KC, never could, still think that Dances with Wolves is the worst movie ever to be awarded Best Picture, just awful.
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To be fair, we have posters who whinge when TCM shows non-studio era, non-Hollywood stuff.The problem isn't the imports, it's the utter mediocrity of the great percentage of so much of the studio era Hollywood product.
Anyhow, This Property Is Condemned was new to me this month, and a commenter at my blog said he'd never seen A Place in the Sun before.
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Isn't Joan Crawford's blackface scene in Torch Song referred to in That's Entertainment! III as "tropical"?
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I find this topic mean and offensive.
Would it be mean and offensive to like this post?
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Visual News found a gallery of vintage movie theater slides at the Library of Congress site that the exhibitors would have run before and between the movies back around 1912. Pete Smith probably would have recognized some of these when he was making Movie Pests 30 years later:
Of course, there's nothing about turning your cell phones off.
(The rest of the photos are at the link above.)
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Considering Rolling Stone's journalistic standards, do we know that Taibbi even watched the movie?
Seriously, I've only seen the commercials, and the two words I'd use to descrive Amreican Sniper from those ads are "mawkish" and "tedious". Come to think of it, that's the same impression I got from the commercials for War Horse, but for whatever reason that movie didn't seem to endgender so much horrified shrieking from the critics.
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If they showed Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and the other famous movies, people here would be complaining that TCM was running the same repetitive stuff againWednesday appears to be honoring Michael Curtiz, although I'm not sure how he'd feel about the selections made.
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Saying that doesn't allow people to complain about how horrible and repetitive they think TCM is.This is NOT entirely accurate. During daytime hours all the films are from other actors, NOT Poitier. Poitier just happens to be listed in all the films at night.
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Would you rather have one person "insulting" you with 29 other posters "liking" it, or thirty posters "insulting" you?It SHOULD NOT BE used to like an insult that someone has directed towards another poster you happen to dislike.
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Socialist realism: Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Boy marries tractor.
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So they ripped off William Castle's Strait-Jacket. I hope Robert Walker Jr. didn't wear the dress Joan Crawford wore in that movie.Robert Walker Jr also appeared on an episode of "Murder She Wrote" where he plays the returning convicted axe murderer brother of a woman who is getting married and, wouldn't you know- the groom ends up dead.
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I was going to mention 36 Hours and The Liquidator too, but see somebody beat me to the punch. I don't think anybody mentioned his supporting roles in 1950s films like The Catered Affair and Separate Tables.
Maybe now TCM can finally show Zabriskie Point?
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"Fedora" is a HAT STYLE. STETSON is a BRAND of hat!
Stetson is a brand of cologne:
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Using square brackets (the ones next to the P if you've got a standard QWERTY keyboard) put IMG= followed by the internet address of the image, inside square brackets:
If you click on the "Quote" button at the bottom right of this post, and turn off the "what you see is what you get" button on the text editor (the one at the left of the first row), you should get the raw code for the image.
Alternatively, you can use a pair of IMG tags the same way one has opening and closing tags in HTML:
[ IMG]http://turnerclassicmovies.invisionzone.com/uploads/profile/photo-thumb-15222.jpg?_r=1396834341[ /IMG] without the spaces in the IMG tags, should yield my avatar:
(The board software apparently changes it to the first format.)
Of course, you need to have someplace on the internet other than your own computer where the image is. I've got a photobucket account, but there are other free image hosting sites.
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Look for the telephones. That was one of the places they hid the microphones needed to pick up the sound.
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Cole Porter's "You're the Tops" originally had a line referring to Mussolini that was changed for fairly obvious reasons.I just wanted to add that it isn't just Capra being a conservative that is so surprising, although it is to me, but it is his fondness for facist dictators and informing for Hoover, that really blows my mind.
One of Marie Dressler's dogs in Dinner at Eight was named Mussolini, but once Hitler came to power, they didn't want to have a dog named after a Fascist dictator, so they changed the name of the dog to Tarzan (if memory serves) in post-production.
Frankly, I don't see why admiring Fascist totalitarian collectivism is any more beyond the pale than admiring Communist totalitarian collectivism. Totalitarian collectivism is vile regardless of what outer garments it's costumed in.
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And Perry Mason gets Col. Potter to kill George Raft's brother in Red Light.
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I hate that Shelhammer doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're".
Now, I don't know the names of EVERY cast member,
You could HAVE gone to IMDb in order to LOOK up the names of the ACTORS in the cast. For the record, it's Simon Jones as Shelhammer in that version. Thurston Howell played him in the 1973 TV movie.
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I'm reminded of my reaction to Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, although perhaps I just saw the wrong version since he supposedly kept re-editing the movie. That, or F For Fake.For me, possibly the worst film ever made is Terry Gilliam's Brazil, as pretentious a pile of crap as there ever was, and it fooled some punters into thinking it was great!
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Bikers and hippies!
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Will we get a movie about hikers and bippies?