Fedya
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Tippi Hedren screaming for somebody to shoot her fallen horse in Marnie.
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I suppose AT LEAST with No.45 it's, as they say, "What ya see, is what ya get", huh. Although, what I'm seein' isn't all that impressive, unfortunately.
My Canadian friends refer to Justin Trudeau as PM Zoolander.
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What similarities are there between Donald Trump and Lonesome Rhoades? If anything, one could argue the movie is more of an indictment of the Patricia Neal-types who did everything they could to get Hillary elected.
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I prefer the short B movies Fox distributed while the studio was hemorrhaging money on Cleopatra. Even the bad ones are interesting for their badness.
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Oh, God! (1977)
John Denver plays a supermarket assistant manager in suburban Los Angeles with a wife (Teri Garr) and two children. One day in the mail he gets a letter claiming to be from God, who wants to meet Denver at a particular place. Of course, the couple think it's a practical joke, but a couple things happen to pique John's curiosity.
Eventually, God reveals himself to Denver, taking the form of George Burns since that's a form Denver would be able to comprehend. God wants him to spread the message that yes, God exists, that he's interested in humanity, and that people have the capacity to solve their own problems to make the world a better place. Naturally, trying to spread God's word causes all sorts of difficulties in life for Denver and his family.
Denver does well in the role despite not being an actor by training. Burns is quite good, and most of the supporting cast does a fine job too. The premise of having God come into your life is, I think, also well-handled. The one weakness is that the writers played to the stereotype of the idiot televangelist (Paul Sorvino plays it for all it's worth, however).
The highlight might be the vintage 1970s look. I tend to like contemporary set decoration -- that is, movies from the 50s set in the 50s, or the 70s, set in the 70s, and so on -- more than looking back at periods much of the audience lived through. This one has all the goldenrod appliances you could ask for, as well as the ancient by today's standards supermarket. And then there's John Denver's AMC Pacer.
And John's hairstyle would have given Sydney Guilaroff a coronary.
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I think The Conversation is one of the best films of the 70s.
Better than Roller Boogie?
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Isn't there a difference between psychotic and non-psychotic breaks?
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Connery plays an international reporter attempting to demonstrate he's a serious journalist and not just a shallow, globe-trotting pretty boy.
Does he know the difference between an ism and a kangaroo?
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I'm sorry the people of Puerto Rico have such lousy taste.
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And sadly, to save money, many state run institutions for mental health have closed down, and the "residents" turned out into the streets to be folded in with much of the homeless. At least, here in Michigan.
There was also the problem of people using psychiatry as a weapon against undesirables. This was especially true in places like the Soviet Union, but even some classic films like Suddenly Last Summer deal with the topic.
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From one of the IMDb plot summaries:
A senator comes to visit to tell the residents of Dogpatch that their town is to be used as an atomic bomb testing ground, unless they can find *something* necessary about the town.
(That's only part of the plot.)
I'm 99.9% certain the movie was on TCM, although I gave up on it halfway through since I didn't care for it.
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Is that the about trying to station nuclear missiles in Dogpatch or somesuch? If so, yes they have shown it. I'll let the poster with better access to past schedules (Linux doesn't want to search my files for some reason) tell you when.
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His girlfriend swings both ways on the uneven bars?
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And it's not Long Island -- it's Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, of course, is on Lawn Guyland. And upstate doesn't begin until the 518 area code. Don't let New York City types tell you otherwise.
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The Big Sleep (1978) Café au lait Noir (White Coffee)
Is this version at least coherent?
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How about those wine glasses?
If memory serves there were a couple even more outrageous than that.
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now that Vertigo can be seen better, does it now rate a #1 ranking as the Best Picture of All Time (Sight & Sound, 2012)?
An emphatic NO! I think Vertigo is probably Hitchcock's most overrated movie.
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Worse than the Ritz Brothers?What is really bad? The Yacht Club Boys for one. There are four of them, one more than the Three Stooges, and apparently they are going for that kind of humor but they are not funny.
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They. Call. Me. MISTER. Clavin!
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Mardi Gras group Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus honors Carrie Fisher in New Orleans
Don't ever change, New Orleans.
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and so to then perhaps have more moolah to maybe pay whatever film libraries such as those owned by Fox and Universal
Dollars to donuts those incessant promos for the Midnight Lace DVD weren't to get the rights for tonight's showing, but in part to finance getting all the other stuff Universal has, like the pre-1950 Paramounts.
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Somebody needs to edit a lot more than just the thread title.
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Xavier Cugat was Catalan, not Brazilian.
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Now that I think about it, I bet the poster who complained about the "raunchy" documentaries was talking about the one with the gay black cabaret performer.
I wonder what said poster thinks of Hedy Lamarr in Ecstasy.
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A Movie Of Saura
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I shall never forget the weekend Saura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass.