Fedya
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> By contrast, on the Fox Movie Channel, you get no music and only a few seconds between the beginning of the intro and the start of the movie, which doesn't give me enough time to finish up a rack before I start running up the stairs.
Are you sure of that? Don't they have the end of the Fox fanfare, followed by several seconds of "whooshing" with the "Next feature in..." and the thing going around like those old countdowns at the beginning of reels of film?
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> Some of us still yearn for the Chet Baker "Look For The Silver Lining" morning intro.
Some of us don't I always found it incongruous before movies such as *Mildred Pierce*.
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What I learned from the remake last night:
On a scale of 1 to 10, Dr. Phillips was a 37; Rock Hudson's character was about a -53.
And if you didn't get thsi from the dialog, you certainly got it from the musical cues.
I have a headache from the movie pouding its main points into my head with a sledgehammer.
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I always thought it was Damn... Good... Actors.
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Perhaps you should have linked to [this xkcd comic|http://xkcd.com/386/] instead, SansFin. ;-)
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I wonder if Fred hates [*The Narrow Margin*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044954/] because the handheld camers make the cinematography so cheap.
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> This does not apply to naked girls' brains, however, as that part of their body is unimportant. It is a little known fact that young women in 1930s movies wore a special kind of hat to protect their brains from becoming too furrowed.
I would have thought they wore something like the spaghetti colander Robert Hutton (who had a steel plate in his head) designed for his assistant in *They Came From Beyond Space*.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema
So none of those Ealing comedies are classics, since they're not Hollywood. Ditto all those Weimar-era Ufa movies; Rossellini's "War Trilogy"; Jean Renoir's work, or the first 15 years of Alfred Hitchcock's career.
At least, that's what your saying if you're suggesting "Classic" only refers to classic *Hollywood* cinema.
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Couldn't most of your criticisms hold for much of the rest of the New Vague? (That is what "la nouvelle vague" translates to, right?
)I can think of several movies that are considered classics of various European countries' "new waves" that I find to be incredibly pretentious bores. *Jules et Jim*. The last half-hour of Godard's *Breathless*. *Closely Watched Trains*.
I'm reminded of a line delivered by Marlon Brando, who is also lionized for breaking the mold. In *The Wile One*, Peggy Maley asks him, "What are you rebelling against?" and he of course responds, "What have you got?" This is somehow considered brilliant, when it's really nothing more than breaking crap simply for the sake of breaking crap. And too much of the time I get the impression that the "new wave" directors are simply rebelling for the sake of rebellion. And there are a lot of people who seem to think this automatically makes such films better.
For the record, I happen to like Godard's *Alphaville*, and Milos Forman's Czech movies, and several of Truffaut's movies. But not everything all of these (and other filmmakers I haven't mentioned) is good just because it may be the antithesis of the Hollywood studio system.
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I was going to ask if it was Dutch. But of course, we all know Dutch is just German with a bad accent. :-p
As for the OP, I'd like to see him/her try to pronounce names of actors or movie titles in, say, Russian (Ilya would be a good one) or Czech (Jiř?), or maybe Finnish, if there are any Yrj?s out there who acted. :-)
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Excerpts of Judy Tyler singing in *Bop Girl Goes Calypso*
This is one of those movies that's so unbelievably awful it's an unintentional riot, and has to be seen to be believed. The basic plot is that a college professor uses a device that looks like a glorified applause meter to determine scientifically that rock and roll music is on the way out, and will be replaced by calypso. Seriously. There's also a character who's a professor of Eugenics, and George Jetson in the cast.
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Did you actually have anything to say, or did you screw up the quoting so badly that whatever comments you had are trapped in a wall of text?
I can't speak for anybody else, but I know that when I see such a long wall of quoted text anywhere, I can't be bothered to read what the poster is actually saying.
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> Maybe us Canadians should spend more time at the liberry.
You need to get oot more often. Get up off your chesterfield!
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Jack Palance's character in *The Silver Chalice* is a sort of magician.
Palance's illusions in the movie were advised by [John Calvert|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-calvert.html], who had played the Falcon in a couple of films in that series and brought magic to the Falcon's persona. There's a very interesting documentary about Calvert called *John Calvert: His Magic and Adventures*, about his career which lasted well into his 90s. (He's still alive, and will turn 102 next month.)
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> But why didn't Charlotte Vale go off with Jerry Durrance and his daughter at the end?
I thought he was in a marriage where the wife wouldn't give him a divorce.
But, it's been a long time since I've watched the movie in full, since I usually stop just after
the wonderfully hilarious nervous breakdown. Go on, make fun of me! You think it's fun making fun of me!
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> Missing also is Juno and the Paycock, Hitchcock's adaptation of Sean O'Casey's play.
This aired on TCM when they did a week-long tribute to Hitchcock back in October of 2004 or so. I didn't think it was a particularly good movie. (Then again, I have an animus towards Southern Ireland.)
I hope you weren't implying that *Number 17* is a silent. It's a really fun early talkie, if you can understand the dialog. The special effects aren't all that great, but the story makes up for them. :-)
I'm really pleased to see they've finally been able to get *Lifeboat*, which is one of Hitchcock's more underrated films, if you ask me. This is the one year where I think he clearly deserved the Oscar. Certainly, he deserved it more than Leo McCarey.
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How many of them did James A. FitzPatrick visit in his Traveltalks shorts?
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> Atticus Finch and his children live a middle class life in *To Kill a Mockingbird* (Miss Maudie and Dill's Aunt Stephanie likely do as well).
Isn't there a scene in which Atticus' daughter asks him if they're poor and he more or less responds affirmatively? After all, several of his clients are paying him in barter, what with the Depression going on.
One thing that hasn't been brought up so far in the thread, I think, is the movies of the 50s and 60s set in suburbia, such as *No Down Payment* or *Divorce, American Style*.
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Sounds a lot better than *The Story of Mankind*. ;-)
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> In the case of groceries, maybe they should just stick to the weather, but even that is not going to result in a law suit. I hardly think something along the lines of "I heard we're getting a thunder storm later today, I won't be able to mow the lawn !" is controversial material.
There are cultures where the people simply don't want to engage in this sort of small-talk. My Finnish friends say this is one of the things about America that they find irritating.
They told me what is apparently a common Finnish joke:
Q: How can you tell a Finnish person is interested in you?
A: When he talks to you, he looks at your shoes instead of his.
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> I'd also LOVE beyond words a SOTM for Bela Lugosi!!!! I'd be totally trippin' out!
The could show his comic turn in *Broadminded* in prime time. Granted, it's not really a horror movie at all, unless you consider Joe E. Brown playing a baby at a "baby party" horrifying. :-)
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From the pre-Vitaphone days of experimenting with talking pictures:
[Gus Visser and his Singing Duck|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-dgkiUHj4]
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*Summer Holiday* is, of course, a remake of the play and 1935 movie *Ah, Wilderness!*
Also from 1935 is *A Midsummer Night's Dream*
*Sunnyside Up* from 1929 starts off on the Fourth of July and is mostly if not entirely set during the rest of the summer.
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> You are now showing tripe that even my tv rating limit blocks.
Which specific title was this? (I have a feeling it was one of the shorts in TCM Underground.)
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Tootsie ??? not AGAIN!
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> Well, it wasnt I who singled out Tootsie for the original complaint. There are a LOT of films in constant rotation throughout the year (I think Ice Station Zebra currently may be in the lead) Why pick a fight with me?
To be fair, Hibi, I think Lavender was likely responding to the most recent comment, which might have at the time of his/her post been yours. Due to this forum's unfortunate default design of putting the newest post on top and unthreaded comments, there seems to be a lot of simply clicking on the top-most reply link even when making a generic reply.
(One can set in one's preferences to have the oldest posts on top, which makes more sense, since in English we read from top to bottom.)