Fedya
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> How can you be afraid of the "dreaded ignore function?" You just got here!
Somehow I have a feeling the OP didn't just get here.
So many new posters with almost the exact same complaint. "OMG! They're showing so many of these horrible silent films!" (Yes, I know that in this thread, the OP's complaint is that they're not airing a particular filmmaker's silents.) There's something odd going on.
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On the other hand, if it's the 98-minute version, you'll also get to see the interesting *The Case Against the 20% Federal Admissions Tax on Motion Picture Theaters* in the remaining time.
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*The Man Who Knew Too Much* is no more a criticism of fundamentalist religion than *Foreign Correspondent* is a criticism of the dupes who join "peace" organizations.
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> I'm doing all I can to look young, but if I want to look like I'm in my late teens, I better REALLY get on the stick. I'm doing my facial isometrics as I am posting.
If you're not careful, you're going to wind up with a face like Mr. Sardonicus. :-)
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> Yeah, exactly. Influenced by postwar Italian Neo-Realism and not by '30s German Expressionism? That would a major misstatement, alright.
Since noir is a French word, I'd think there was a French influence on the genre. ;-)
More seriously, I think of *Le jour se l?ve* (aka *Daybreak*, and remade by Hollywood as *The Long Night* several years later) was one of the earliest noirs.
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> I, too, found that a tad odd. I believe Cousins was referring to cinematographer Karl Brown (who is not credited with working on *Greed* on imdb).
I would have guessed Karl Struss, although he didn't work on *Greed* either.
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Harpo Marx discovered gravity in *The Story of Mankind*. :-)
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> Also, since I first saw it years ago, I haven't been able to take a shower without the bathroom door locked, and sometimes with a char in front of it.
You and the other posters put off taking showers because of *Psycho* need to watch it in a double-bill with *Les diaboliques*. ;-)
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> Also, since I first saw it years ago, I haven't been able to take a shower without the bathroom door locked, and sometimes with a char in front of it.
You and the other posters put off taking showers because of *Psycho* need to watch it in a double-bill with *Les diaboliques*. ;-)
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Which print was this? I know the Hitchcock silents were restored by the BFI and given new scores, but I presume last night's airing wasn't that print?
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> I was watching the movie and at the end of the movie Ben M. refers to this movie being a take off on the Battle of Verdooon. He pronounced it like that when it's supposed to be the Battle of Verdun. I would assume most people would know that even if they aren't history majors.
I would assume most people would know its pronounced with a nasal vowel, being French.
Sorry, but if you're going to complain about Mankiewicz getting it wrong, then you ought to get it right yourself.
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Nothing can top [this headline|http://brooklynmutt.com/post/321924126/headless-body-found-in-topless-bar-classic-ny]
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Ooh, I think I can beat everybody else to the punch for once!
The synopsis you give sounds very much like the plot of [*Theodora Goes Wild*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028355/], with Irene Dunne as Theodora, an author who writes a salacious book under a pseudonym, and Melvyn Douglas playing the book's cover art illustrator and disgusing himself as a gardener when he goes to visit Theodora.
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TCM ran the Torchy movies one a week every Saturday at noon early this year.
Did everybody in *Snowed Under* have to be so %&^@% loud?
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> After all, none other than the great Wilson Pickett (and shirely no one would accuse him of bubblegumtry) covered The Archies' Sugar Sugar .
[This|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wns58pGwhfU] is my favorite cover of "Sugar Sugar". :-)
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> I see it's black and white.
I guess the color really was washed out then. :-)
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Or as a wag on another site where I posted this responded,
> The Love Boat,
> Soon won't be making another run....
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To be fair, James, some of us think *The Godfather* is overrated.
(I'm not a Marlon Brando fan.)
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Pacific Princess, 1971-2013
[Love Boat makes its final run to Turkish scrap heap|http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/love-boat-makes-its-final-run-turkish-scrap-heap-5528903]
> The MS Pacific, a cruise ship made famous by its appearance in the popular US 1970s television show *The Love Boat*, has sailed its final voyage to a ship-breaking yard on Turkey's Aegean Sea coast, a shipping group said today.
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> Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500-tonne, 171-metre-long vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers' Association of Turkey.
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I've always noticed black text on a light-colored background. I will admit, however, that I don't watch for every single "up next" voiceover, so I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed some with low contrast.
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> Now this comment came out of left field: Of course, some people think it's nostalgic, like Chet Baker's singing, so that must make it superior
I've seen a couple of people say how much they liked the old "Sunny Side of Life" opening. To me it never felt appropriate for "difficult" movies like, say, *The Lost Weekend* or *The Days of Wine and Roses*. It also didn't really have anything to do with movies. (I'd also argue that all those old openings had to be discontinued because they were in a 4:3 ratio, and TV is transitioning to 16:9 and high-def.)
There have also been posters who mentioned several times in the past that they'd like to see old AMC faces like Bob Dorian or Nick Clooney brought back.
I'm also a member of a game show discussion board, and there are people who get comically irritated when The Price Is Right changes set pieces in its games, to the point that other posters have the standard sarcastic reply, "Change is hard."
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> They are not his words to manipulate.
I didn't manipulate them at all. Manipulating would have been moving them around. That would be like one of those movie ads that quote a bunch of critics, where they'll quote a critic like "This is {...} a great movie!" where the word removied in the ellipsis is "not".
The original poster made a bunch of unrelated points, and I decided to answer them one by one. I figured it would make more sense to do it that way than to leave the wall of text there and answer the points with a wall of text of my own.
Edited by: Fedya on Aug 5, 2013 9:08 PM, because the screwed-up posting system makes it impossible to use square brackets, even when they're syntactically the correct thing to use.
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> I'll never forgive you TCM for not showing Frankenstein and Dracula this October.
There are also people who would complain if TCM were only showing the well-known horror films in October.
> Those two films are the movies that started it all for horror.
If FW Murnau and Tod Browning could hear that comment, they'd be spinning in their graves.
> How can they show hammer's frankenstein / dracula and not Universal's ? This is a crime.
Could you cite relevant case law on this?
> What TCM trying to do ? become another Cinemoi with all of these british and french films they've shown the past couple months ?
Cinemoi is no longer available anywhere as far as I know. And Fran?ois Truffaut made some of the best movies out there.
> I hate the new background grapics.
De gustibus non est disptandum.
> I liked the old jazzy theme from back in the 90s/early 2000s.
If you're talking about the bandbox, I've never understood why that has more to do with film than other openings. Of course, some people think it's nostalgic, like Chet Baker's singing, so that must make it superior
> The new grapics look and ugly and boring. It makes the channel look generic and boring.
They're easier to read
> I hate those dvd ads. They're annoying. How can you people go on watching this channel without talking about these annoying ads ?
They're paying for the acquisition of certain movies. Every time you see that Universal Westerns of the 50s ad, dollars to doughnuts it's helping to pay to acquire things like *Magnificent Obsession* or *Ruggles of Red Gap* (since Universal owns the 1930s and 1940s Paramounts). Ditto the stuff that's mentioned in the "Hi, this is the TCM Classic Movie News for {insert month here}" feature
> and everytime some one goes against TCM's programming/graphics , you all flame the heck out of that poster.
I agree. The people who think TCM is changing beyond recognition and are impervious to evidence that this is not the case flame those who try to present such evidence.
> I'm a person just like you. I'm not here to start trouble. I just want to be heard. Everytime I come on here to start a topic, posters either ignore my post or it goes off topic by another poster. why is that ?
Just a guess: your writing style makes you sound like you're raniting?
> that's what drivesme and new people away from the TCM board.
I thought it was the clunky interface myself
> We can't have a decent thread without it being taken over by someone else.
Have you tried starting indecent threads?
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John Ford. A ford is a place where you cross a river, and a john is a toilet.
That's probably not what you had in mind, is it? :-) It could be worse. I could have suggested Van Johnson.
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> What ever happened to the r in the word War in modern British English?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents
And when you say "modern British English", do you mean [Received Pronunciation|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation] or [Estuary English|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English]? Somehow I have a feeling it's the former, since the latter came about after 1960 and you don't acknowledge any movies made after 1960.