Fedya
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What sort of wine goes with Soylent Green?
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14 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
It does seem silly to "pair" wine with movies. It would be like serving Chinese food if you're going to watch THE GOOD EARTH. Will it immerse you into the film more? I doubt it.
I've always wanted to serve quails in sarcophagus with a showing of Babette's Feast.
And fava beans and Chianti with Silence of the Lambs.
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I can tell you it's Ona Munson on the right.
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22 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Make a Wish (1937) - Wholesome musical from RKO and director Kurt Neumann. Bobby Breen stars as Chip Winters, a precocious ten-year-old singing prodigy who is attending summer camp in Maine. Across the lake from the camp lies the residence of composer Johnny Selden (Basil Rathbone), who has moved from the city in order to overcome his creative stagnation. Selden meets Chip and the two become friends, and the youngster decides to try and set the older man up on dates with Chip's mother Irene (Marion Claire). Also featuring Donald Meek, Henry Armetta, Leon Errol, Billy Lee, Ralph Forbes, and Leonid Kinskey.
The plot doesn't sound all that much different from the Shirley Temple version of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
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The following movie, The Hour of 13, is a remake of the 1934 Robert Montgomery movie The Mystery of Mr. X. I really like the Montgomery movie and haven't seen the remake, although I'm not so much a fan of Peter Lawford.
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Rieslings are about as sweet as I'll go in whites. It's more that the drier stuff starts getting a lot more expensive. One thing I did try where once was enough was retsina.
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19 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Of Course, many people are buying wine out of a box, but the point is they are buying and drinking wine in Middle America.
In many parts of Europe, it's increasingly normal for the sorts of moderately-priced wine we'd buy in magnums (the 1.5L size as opposed to the normal 750 ml bottle) to be sold in 3L boxes. I remember reading an article (can't find it, sadly) where an Australian vintner said something to the effect of, we're in the business of selling wine, not glass. If wines like that were sold in boxes here in the US, I'd be more likely to buy them. (The only thing is that since I only drink a glass with dinner, I don't necessarily want to be tied into the same type of wine with dinner for a couple of weeks.)
Of course, it's generally only the further downmarket blends that get boxed here in the States.
Edit: 2008 article about "designated" Italian wines being boxed
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I've always loved the hoops the writers of The Great Lie had to go through to get the story to comport with the Production Code.
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On 4/3/2018 at 7:22 PM, speedracer5 said:
Wow. This thread was originally created when I was a senior in high school!
Get off my lawn!
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44 minutes ago, shutoo said:
The Last Movie Star (2017) I should start by saying I'm not a big Burt Reynolds' fan..I always get the feeling he's playing the character of 'Burt Reynolds'. Here he sort of is playing himself..and he's surprisingly good at it.
He was doing the same thing 40 years earlier in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, a really fun movie that knows enough not to take itself too seriously.
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2 hours ago, NickAndNora34 said:
DeVito's character was annoying,
You're not the one who had to put up with Anne Ramsey 24/7!
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I like the 1974 Juggernaut.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1958)
The British representative on the former island colony of Gaillardia reports some shady goings-on involving Soviets passing themselves off as dancers but actually being mining engineers looking for... something. The Brits send Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) to investigate and make certain the Brits wind up on top. There are all sorts of complications in that the island has an unstable political situation and a corrupt prime minister (Peter Sellers).
The movie winds up being less than the sum of its parts, trying to do a lot of things but doing none of them well.
Also known as Man in a Cocked Hat.
5/10
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On 3/31/2018 at 1:47 PM, speedracer5 said:
Lol. Isn't that the case with pretty much every mystery film?
I think it's especially apt for Murder on the Orient Express.
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I've always thought of Lee Tracy as being extremely cynical and hard-boiled. Watch him in The Strange Love of Molly Louvain at 12:45 PM Wednesday (April 4), for example.
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I only had to go through 26 pages at 7:00 AM ET.
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I liked the commercial for Murder on the Orient Express the helpfully told us, "Everyone's a suspect."
No ****, Sherlock.
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Fred Derry had PTSD. At least Peggy Stephenson knew how to deal with it.
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17 minutes ago, Hibi said:
It is pretty bad. I've yet to be able to sit and watch it all the way through.....
I couldn't make it all the way through, either.
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4 hours ago, calvinnme said:
This thing is pure rat a tat action and precode one liners , largely powered by brassy Glenda Farrell who really carries the weight of the energy of this thing. Kibbee is great in his small role as the frustrated wannabe lover.
Glenda reading Guy Kibbee's "Dear Jane" letter (I'm probably misquoting slightly, but it's fairly accurate):
"Yep, it's us. 'To the GD sisters'. I wonder if he means 'gold-diggers'... or that other well-known word."
The first time I saw the movie, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at that line.
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17 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
The Arrangement (1969) June 30 - I still haven't seen this Kirk Douglas/Elia Kazan movie.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
(The movie, not that you haven't seen it.)
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Tony Randall is good in No Down Payment, but the movie as a whole is a mess, coming across as though the writer and producer had a checklist of social issues they wanted to touch on.
But it's got the trope that the suburbs are bland and malevolent, so people praise it.
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1 hour ago, cigarjoe said:
r*e*d*n*e*c*k*s. (can you believe that was censored????)
The proper phrase is "necks of color".
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54 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I enjoyed the lab scenes, like a 40's version of CSI, and the primitive technology they had to use.
Like the vacuum cleaner?
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I've mentioned it before, but: Zardoz wine