Fedya
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40 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Yeah, I wish they'd license more movies from outside of MGM/WB/UA/RKO, but they don't seem to agree at TCM HQ.
I have a feeling it's more of a cost issue than that they don't agree.
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23 minutes ago, calvinnme said:
Except for that woman who always calls me stupid
But you are, Blanche, you are...!
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So did I, Lawrence.
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Only if you think liberals today still oppose censorship.
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You liked Once Upon a Time? I thought it was one of Grant's worse films, at least of the ones I've seen. I've got about two dozen to go.
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It seems to me all he's doing is posting links. Doing it in the form of embedded tweets can be annoying for those of us who want more control over formatting, however.
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11 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
But it can obviously be used for any type of film, and it has, by one country or another.
Two words: tentacle erotica.
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What sticks out for me in The Howards of Virginia is the wig Cary had to wear.
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3 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I doubt this one was in the original story from 1964, but I kind of like it--Ned is tired of his affluent vanilla world and is swimming away from it to become a proto hippie.
In 1964 it could have been beatniks. Ned would have been behind the times, wouldn't he?
And you don't need to add carriage returns unless you want to start a new paragraph. The text should wrap automatically.
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20 hours ago, Vautrin said:
When I saw the N for Nudity I thought it might concern Burt and his former babysitter. Turned out to be the two old fogies and the south end of Burt.
Bummer man.
I just reviewed Women in Love over in the "I Just Watched" post. You might like the nudity in that one....
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Hitch wanted Gary for Foreign Correspondent too, didn't he?
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I think it works better with Cummings in the role because he's an everyman, which Cary Grant (as talented as he is) most decidedly isn't.
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I didn't care that much for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, as I mentioned earlier in the thread.
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Please tell me The Winslow Boy hasn't been removed from the schedule and that Goodbye, Mr. Chips is only for Canada.
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Women in Love (1969).
Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden play Gudrun and Ursula, a pair of sisters in 1920s England with unconventional views on love. One day while rubbernecking at a wedding, the see the brother of the bride (Oliver Reed) and his best friend (Alan Bates) and after another meeting or two begin torrid relationships. The two coupled f*** their way through life, spouting philosophical nonsense, until another man shows up on a ski trip in Switzerland.
I think the scene that summed it all up for me was when Gudrun and Ursula wandered off at a garden party. Ursula is singing, and a herd of cattle show up, frightening her. Gudrun confronts that cattle -- with interpretive dance. The cattle, suitably baffled, wander off, realizing that the film already has enough BS and doesn't need theirs.
And the couple that got married at the beginning drown themselves at the garden party to get out of this turkey.
Jackson won an Oscar in a weak year for actresses. I can't blame her; she does the best she can with the leaden material.
5/10 for the cinematography.
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Nobody likes a fat man except his grocer and his tailor.
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Pat and Mike and House of Wax as well. Oh, and Kid Galahad since we don't have enough Elvis.
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When did they remove We Go to Monte Carlo from the schedule?
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
The Spider Woman (1943)
Did she kiss anybody?
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As long as it finds what you're looking for.
On my blog at Blogger (which should be using Google's search engine), I did a post about the movie Animal Kingdom a few years back. I did a search of the blog for it today, and that post didn't show up.
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I found it trite and formulaic, filled with Hollywood tropes about China. And I don't like children's choirs either.
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That's followed by the not-very-good Inn of the Sixth Happiness at 2:00 PM, an overlong bore with Ingrid Bergman playing a missionary in China. It's based on a real story, and the real-life protagonist hated what they did to her character in the movie, turning it into a cheap romance.
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Pretty much ever actor has been in rotten movies.
Well, maybe not Maria Falconetti.
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Lucille Ball got a SUTS salute on her centenary, which was a Saturday.
Should TCM stop doing Memorial Day weekend marathons and "glamorizing" war?
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Decoration Day should be for Civil War movies and Armistice Day should be for World War I movies.