casablancalover
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No, this is the right place to note it. I saw The Fountainhead last night.. turned one aspect into a drinking game.
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>Howard: *I expected you to come here.*
>Dominique: *I didn't know your name, but you know mine. But you haven't tried to find me in all these months.*
>Howard: *I wanted you to find me and have to come to me.*
>Dominique: *It gives you pleasure to know you're breaking me down, I'll give you a greater satisfaction. I love you, Roark. Would it please you to hear I've lived in torture all these months? Hoping to ever find you again and to see you just once more? But you know that, of course. That's what you wanted me to live through..*
>Howard: *Yes*
>Dominique: *Why don't you laugh at me now. You've won.. I have no pride left to stop me. I love you without dignity, without regret. I came to tell you this, and you'll never see me again.*
>Howard: *You want to know if you can make me suffer, don't you? You can...*
>Dominique: *Roark, you're everything I've always wanted.*
Guess what movie I've been watching..
Another tender moment from The Fountainhead.
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But Jonny, _I had to actually spell it out_.. Don't take too much credit LOL. . .
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 28, 2010 8:40 PM
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Actually, I credit JonnyGeetar. He got me thinking on this. The Women isn't the standard romance formula. It's just the Reno thing and all the western getups makes a perfect little cinematic joke and ties it all up in a lasso.
I think Anita Loos and Claire Boothe Luce are brilliant!
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>*If you can't lay your dirty fingers on decent idea, and twist it and squeeze it and stuff into your own pocket, you slap it down! Like dogs, if you can't eat something, you bury it!*
I thought Long John Willoughby said it best...
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, I read Riva's book. It's one of the best of the "child of star" memoirs. It doesnt paint a very flattering protrait of Marlene, but most stars werent all that great in the child raising dept. Especially glamour queens.........
I think when you are too busy obsessing on yourself, you don't have time for raising children. They come throughly helpless, and your time must be spent on them.
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I see I may have gotten into the JakeHolman style of just music. Why not both?
I hope to see more of AJ's posts (I mean she found Dead Can Dance!) and I do love music, but not knowing the details is fun for me too. I love research and the old looking stuff up, though I don't have all the resources I used to have. The ex has most of the books.
For quite a while I didn't care for Mozart at all; too plinky-plinky-plinky. But the later works are beautiful.. sorry, I will look up some unusual superlatives...
Here's a guy who moved me from the disco seventies to something a little deeper. Boz Scaggs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYmp2bKvbQ
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 28, 2010 5:46 PM, still searching for superlatives...
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Perfect for Dorothy now.. We are approaching a full moon, and Moonlight Becomes Her..
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JF: I love that! How prescient. Au courant..
>*I guess all the good ones are married.*
Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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>*How dare he make love to me and be a married man!*
Ingrid Bergman, Indiscreet (1958)
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I don't want to read too much into it, but it's fun to look at the basis of The Women. It isn't the romance standard formula for me.
Good girl is wronged by bad girl.
Good girl must stand up for herself when "friends" seem fair-weathered.
Good girl and bad girl have showdown, and it is the talk of the townsfolk.
Good girl has to face the crisis, is supported by true blue sidekicks.
Good girl wins respect of all around by clearing the air of the deceit.
Good girl vanquishes bad girl-who exits "the town".
Exchange cowboy for girl....
Men just up the ante, adding guns and a card game.
BTW- I just LOVE the repeated reference to *Jungle Red.*
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With the abilities of CG and the newest sophisticated digital editing, we may yet see a classic reborn.. CM- get thee the copyright!
I vote for Clooney/Stanwyck in...The Lady Eve or Remember the Night.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 28, 2010 10:31 AM
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What an interesting way to view this. Communist/Gay? Does it take place in San Francisco? But it sounded just bad, not so bad it was good- bad.
And yet we go on about it.
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Loved it, MM.
I drifted back to youtube for another Michael McDonald solo, and I discovered the last LP record I purchased. Kenny Loggins, Keep the Fire. I did wear out a song on it.
This is it:
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Your observations are persuasive, Lafitte. The whole movie with its themes, make it a wonder. That is for another thread. I am going to have a bagel and some smoked salmon now, and be glad it's not Ale-brod.
Thank you again for your musical and story knowledge here.
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Started by whom, I wonder...
(not making any suggestions)
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Actually, seeing the scene again something comes at me from left field. There is a shot of the sister and the father listening in the next room, both looking rather strained. Maybe the meaning isn't lost on them...
Wasn't the singing beautiful, by the way. Papin was wonderful, to me.
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Oh, but it was a fun myth...
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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}
> How about Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg - "Tell Me To My Face."
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> And something slower from the same album, "Since You Asked."
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Those are so beautiful, and ring of truth. Lives committed to one another. Face to face; experience by experience. They are on top of thread for more to enjoy.. Thank you.
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Amazing Lafitte to read this, for I know the story plot, and it is so lyrical, so poetic, and so redemptive, this aria now seems wrong...but it is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music in film.
This, and Kiri's aria in A Room With a View. Thank you for your insight.
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
> It's funny that you mention John Wayne, because I remembered something today I read a while ago in Inside Oscar :
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> He shot down a question in regards to her reputation for being frosty and aloof with fellow actors and was quick to point out that visiting servicemen were always welcome at her dressing room, unlike others he had worked with.
*He didn't mean the way Clara Bow always welcomed the USC football team, did he?*
> Meanwhile...
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> Hedda Hopper called Arthur "the most criticized star in Hollywood"
*Hedda Hopper? Did she know some of the posters here?*
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 27, 2010 9:57 PM, on "tense" patrol...
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>*Why he's plum loco for you countess! He likes you even better than his horse! And it's such a blasted big horse too!*
Paulette Goddard, The Women (1939)
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Happy to oblige..
In honor of Mozart's birthday, something from Babettes Feast, but which opera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAQuQkT-lIk
The music starts at the 3:45 mark..
movieman1957, please correct me if I'm mistaken.
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I did not care for the movie, Elvira Madigan, but absolutely adore the Piano Concerto 21. I like this and one other.. Thank you MM.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 27, 2010 5:50 PM
Otto Preminger as a director
in Films and Filmmakers
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> Preminger was best at dialogue drama. Having really smart people talk about really interesting issues. LAURA is fine. So is WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. But ANATOMY OF A MURDER and ADVISE AND CONSENT are scintillating. Even today, let alone at time of release, I think, "I can't believe they're talking about this!"
Anatomy of a Murder has some of the best drama scenes that actually feel like a real courtroom trial. I've sat on juries, can be boring to tears, but the sidebars and smartness with George C Scott and Jimmy Stewart is great dialog.
Advise and Consent is great too, and follows a period where the general public had an actual interest in politics. The Best Man, Seven Days in May (which I'd like to see in May), and The Manchurian Candidate. But back to Otto...