cigarjoe
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9 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
cigarjoe, you know I respect you and your movie knowledge. However, with respect (and I mean that), I have to say that most of the films you list above are not actually Canadian films. They're American (and in one case, New Zealand) films that are set in Canada. And maybe just "set", not actually filmed, in Canada.
Some on your list are actually Canadian (Alien Thunder, Black Robe, Saddest Music in the World), but most are mainstream Hollywood studio films about all those Canadian cliches, like Mounties and mountains (anything beginning with the letters " m o u n t", I guess)
I appreciate that you're familiar with all those films on your list. However, it's kind of like when TCM does their "Irish" day - you know, their programming on St. Patrick's day. Most of the choices are American Irish movies, full of hearty cheerful comical Irish-American policemen and fiery red-haired quasi-Irish beauties. Even "The Quiet Man", filmed in Ireland, is mainly an American movie. And it's too bad, because there are so many really good genuinely Irish films.
Well, c'est le meme chose avec Canadian films. There's a myriad of excellent Canadian-made movies, many already listed on this thread. But I have a feeling TCM won't be airing any of them on Canada Day or any other day. However, there's a good chance they'll air "Rose Marie", whether on July 1st or some other time. After all, it's got a Mountie in it.
23 hours ago, LawrenceA said:If the channel were to devote 24 hours to Canadian themed films, what titles would you choose?
He didn't say "just Canadian Films," mon chéri. 😉
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4 minutes ago, TheCid said:
There is also that classic Twilight Zone episode where she is driving cross country.
The Hitch-Hiker (1960)
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16 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
The Exiles (1961) - 5/10
Unusual blend of documentary and artifice from director Kent Mackenzie. The movie follows one night in the lives of a group of young Native Americans living in Los Angeles. The cast is all non-professionals playing themselves, or at least versions of themselves, with most of the dialogue based on transcripts of previous interviews that the cast gave to the filmmakers. So the "actors" are re-enacting scenes that they had described at an earlier date, but presented here as spontaneous and true-to-life. For me, the experimental nature of the film didn't really work, with much the film's 72 minute running time taken up with boring, mundane stuff, a lot of small talk and meandering pointlessness, which may, in fact, have been part of the point. The saving grace for me was the excellent B&W cinematography of L.A.
Source: TCM
I liked it for the cinematography of Bunker Hill, the plight of Native Americans is not much different even today on a lot of the poorer reservations.
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Somebody who knows please explain the difference between credits (see below) and how they are determined for an extra bonus. 😎
For instance take John Williams on IMDb he's got:
Composer (155 credits)
Soundtrack (390 credits)
Music department (220 credits)
Italian Ennio Morricone credits are:
Composer (518 credits)
Soundtrack (326 credits)
Music department (158 credits)
Elmer Bernstein credits are:
Composer (252 credits)
Soundtrack (131 credits)
Music department (147 credits)
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Shallow Grave (1994) The new flatmate of three preexisting roomies turns up dead of an overdose. The flatmates find his syringe and a suitcase with a large sum of money. The roomies decide to keep the loot and bury the body out in the woods. Of course it all goes to hell pretty quickly and the new roommate's accomplices come looking for their money. 7/10
Director Danny Boyle, stars Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor.
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6 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Norman Jewison, Marie Dressler, Walter Pidgeon, Mary Pickford, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, John Candy, Glenn Ford, Deanna Durbin, Colleen Dewhurst, William Shatner, Martin Short, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, Keanu Reeves, Norma Shearer, Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland, Leslie Nielsen, Keanu Reeves, Laura Linney, Chief Dan George, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, David Cronenberg, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Brendan Fraser, Alexis Smith, Genevieve Bujold, Ryan Gosling, Barry Pepper, Catherine O'Hara, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Bruce Greenwood, Raymond Massey, Ivan Reitman, Rody Piper, Kate Nelligan and Raymond Burr.
Don't tell me they are all Canadian.....
just kidding, if they are you forgot Lorne Greene
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
I forgot about Guy Maddin. I'd have to include at least one of his strange films. I liked that one, and My Winnipeg. I need to see more.
I haven't seen My Winnipeg, but have seen Keyhole (2011)
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Not Canadian myself but.....
Silent Barriers (1937)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Canadian Pacific (1949)
Pony Soldier (1952)
The Wild North (1952)
Alien Thunder (1974)
Death Hunt (1981)
Black Robe (1991)
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
The Saddest Music In The World (2003)
..... would be a start.
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Little Odessa (1994) Story of a Jewish hitman who is sent back to Little Odessa in Coney Island to do a job, complicating things is the fact that it's his home neighborhood and his dysfunctional family is still living there, it all goes to sheet. You can't go home again. Tim Roth, Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Furlong. 7/10
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4 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Bette's daughter B.D. Hyman posted this video on YouTube. It's part of her ministry.
So she's talking about Donald Twump invoking witchcraft when he bewitch's the fear of caravans at 1:55.
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17 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
I have to point out that this moody, mysterious song, "The Stranger Song", is by the great Canadian song-writer Leonard Cohen. Although not written for the movie per sec, it suits this film perfectly.
Cohen's music fills the soundtrack to McCabe and Mrs. Miller; one of my favourite Cohen songs ever is featured later on in the film - "The Sisters of Mercy". One of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote.
The Italian Western Keoma sort of homaged McCabe & Mrs. Miller (note the correct title reflects their business relationship) and Leonard Cohen. Music by **** De Angelis Maurizio De Angelis
Keoma is sort of a supernatural Western, it begins with a screen door flapping in the wind. Fate represented as an old woman, a witch perhaps, rummaging through the detritus of a battlefield collecting useful things. Keoma rides up and she questions why he came back. He's back perhaps from the dead.
Here is the sung version after the above intro if you want to skip right to the title song jump to 3:30 :
Below the title sung by Sybil & Guy
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Another Spaghetti Western, Keoma theme an instrumental version:
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Fits a snowbound Western pretty good Ennio Morricone's The Great Silence title:
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Barbara Luna still active
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Kathie Browne active 1955 to 1980
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Linda Lawson active from 1959 to 2005
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Asa Maynor active 1956 to 1972 wife of Ed "Kookie" Byrnes
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6 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
I know Quentin Tarantino is not a fave on these boards, and that includes his greatest film, Pulp Fiction. (I get the feeling there aren't many "Pulp Fiction" fans on this site...)
Wrong.
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We must not be her "crowd."
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Tracey Roberts 1950 to 1994
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Jan Harrison 1956 to 1964 active
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Peggy Castle 1947 to 1966 active
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Joan Tabor 1957 to 1964
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Barbara Bain first credit 1959
just kidding, if they are you forgot Lorne Greene
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