Fedya
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The double-a in Kaaren Verne's name comes across as Danish or Swedish to me, even though she was German.
Well, Germany did end up with a small Danish minority in Südschleswig after World War I....
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4 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Any serious athlete would have spare laces and such.
Sure, but how can you know which pair of laces is going to break during the routine?
Marat Safin once got defaulted from a tennis match for smashing all his racquets and having none left to play with.
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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Hint stick to Disney or pre 60s movies....
Oh, there are a lot of more recent (at least, more recent than Taxi Driver) movies with difficult themes that I really liked. There are other movies where I found the characters difficult, but understood why the movies are highly regarded: Albert Finney's alcoholic in Under the Volcano is a great example of this, and I'd say Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Autumn Sonata are the same way.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
The thing I like about TAXI DRIVER the most, oddly, is the final violent confrontation sCENE- Which it has been building to for the entire film, and then when it happens it’s fast and ugly- no slow, operatic, romantic glorification of the bloodshed the way we have today.
Oddly, it seemed to me that scene was playing out in slow motion.
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Taxi Driver (1976).
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a Vietnam Vet who, broken by the experience, is now working as a cabbie in New York of the era when Ford was telling the city to drop dead. Bickle doesn't like what he sees, so he decides to fix things in his own way, in part by helping out a young prostitute (Jodie Foster).
Everybody says this is one of the greatest American movies of all time, but I found it an incoherent, meandering, baffling mess, with a lead character who was such a jerk I didn't care what happened to him. (For what it's worth, I was also left cold by Scorsese's earlier Mean Streets, but to nowhere near this extent.)
4/10
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Flash photography probably does a number on the delicate fabrics. Not your one flash, but the millions it would ultimately get over the years.
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Secret Ceremony sounds like a fascinating mess.
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I'm reminded of the scene in The Best Years of Our Lives where Dana Andrews shows Teresa Wright a bottle of perfume at, I think $2.95 and tells her it's a rip-off at half the price.
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You're not paying for the ingredients; you're paying for the name.
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22 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I personally think either Shirley MacLaine for THE APARTMENT or Deborah Kerr for THE SUNDOWNERS should have won instead.
Jean Simmons wasn't even nominated for Elmer Gantry.
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Damn Lawrence A's nimble fingers!
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7 minutes ago, Stephan55 said:
Jean Renoir, the name sounds like that of a French Master Painter doesn't it?
You do realize the painter was his father?
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Rafer Johnson would play himself as a color commentator in 1970's The Games, loosely based on the 1960 Olympic marathon competition.
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Well, I really am a crotchety blankety-blank like my avatar!
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Did Zouzou bring her petals as well?
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33 minutes ago, Hibi said:
She was responsible for Hepburn's drab attire pre-model in the film
Have you stopped to think it takes talent to make Audrey Hepburn look drab?
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Double or Nothing (1940).
This "Broadway Brevity", a WB short, stars Lee Dixon as Bill, a stunt double who gets knocked out in a stunt. When the dentists use laughing gas during the dental work, Bill has various hallucinations about other doubles.
The framing story is inane, but for those of use who are fans of old movies, the doubles are a hoot. Among the better ones were those impersonating Mae West, Greta Garbo, Joe E. Brown, Zasu Pitts (here pronounced "Zay-soo"), and Hugh Herbert.
8/10. Probably available as an extra on some DVD, but I watched as it filled out the time slot from the recent airing of The Divine Lady.
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3 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
( as well as Elisha Wood and the aforesaid "hero".)
Nitpick: I think you mean Elisha Cook, Jr. Elijah Wood was probably a bit too young to be in Stranger on the Third Floor.
And I've always enjoyed Elisha Cook whenever I see him in a movie. Even in Blacula.
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1 hour ago, Swithin said:
If TCM really wants to get into a serious study of film, they can screen a few of the West-scripted films
Yeah, I'd like to see Sextette. Oh, you were still referring to Nathanael West, not Mae.
1 hour ago, Swithin said:Nathanael West was married to Eileen McKenney, whose sister Ruth wrote My Sister Eileen about her. On December 22, 1940, Nathanael and Eileen were killed in an automobile accident in California, just a few days before they were to leave for NYC, for the Broadway premiere of the play My Sister Eileen, which opened the day after Christmas that year.
They were on their way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral when they got in that accident, weren't they?
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23 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
For example I had to go through and find every reference to some books with the word Indian and change it to Native American on the computer or to verify some boring thing like the exact city of publication and whether or not the title was preceded by an article.
Perl and sed are your friends.
Of course, changing the references wouldn't be helpful to books about Diwali.
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10 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Or you could just watch Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in which the title characters challenge Death to a game of Battleship!
I thought it was a game of Twister.
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On 3/6/2018 at 11:46 AM, Thenryb said:
Boring movie and boring book. Major plotline centered on designing drapes.
The curtains are a macguffin.
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3 hours ago, DVDPhreak said:
Hosting within the TCM channel should be within most people's capability.
Have you ever done any broadcasting?
I was a newsreader at my college radio station ages ago, and even without having to worry about blocking, it's a lot more difficult than you'd think.
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19 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
part of the fun of watching a movie is being surprised by the plot!
In A Night to Remember, the ship hits an iceberg.
The Japanese attack at the end of From Here to Eternity.
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Hubert de Givenchy has died
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Then Karen Carpenter would have looked that good, too.