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I was checking with some post- people about creating HD for a film, and his response was, some director's like a challenge. I think in terms of eye candy, *300* does it for me. In terms of creating magical and emotional response, Jean Cocteau's *Beauty and the Beast* is my favorite. The transfiguration scene of the Beast is pure magic to me... and to others as well, for Disney Co. lifted that scene almost whole for their version over 40 years later!
As far as then and now argument, I say it's apples and oranges. I can love a 1952 MG, seen in *Two for the Road* and still also love a Mazda Miata. Just for different reasons.
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Sorry to get back to the thread so late, but I have had an event-filled week.
The backstory that was referred to it not unusual; it is frightening to some actors for a filming/production schedule to go too well! They prefer the tension of a production team that will keep them focused. Also, some actors (not all) will consider the problem-plagued production a good omen! They reason, I think, that if they deal with the problems early on, then the release will be smoother. Its their counter-intuitive thinking kicking in.
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I think the sweetest moment on *Mon Oncle* is the playtime fun of the son with his uncle. Having raised two sons to adulthood, this is just the way boys behave sometimes. Hulot interacts with the children perfectly. He lets the boys act their parts, and yet they don't really upstage him.
In *Play time*, I was at first confused by the setting. A pleasant confused. You're right, cc, it's best to watch Tati develop his visual style to the viewer. His is a very distinctive progression in storytelling. Most of the great directors develop in technicality, rather than in storytelling. But Tati depends on story/situation rather than narrative storytelling, so I feel he's developed his situation progression. He is a wonderful handle on what is amusing in life, the non-sequitor of it all!
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Favell: Prince Regent! ! ! It's one of the reasons I cannot bring myself to watch *House*..
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Tatillon: As far as a fountain is concerned, I would vote with the wife on this one. Lobby cards- Oui! Fountains -no! But I would enjoy the stepping stones . .. . Just bought a home in St Paul, so now I know what I need to decorate...
CC: I am fascinated by what Tati will overlook to find humor. All the times people spend entering the garden of Hulot's brother (in-law?) nobody ever trips on the gate lower cross post!!! I am wondering why he would do this? I'm surmising it's because it is too easy a laugh. Tati is committed to us being amused and thinking about it first, as if encouraging us to think for and anticipate the punchline-so to speak...
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Leon Ames: *Peyton Place*
Celebrity - Russ Tamblyn
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In my Collections of One series: I have a Lobby Card from *My Geisha*. Which I think should have been a part of their recent Asian series. But that's for another thread at another time.
This last weekend, I saw a walkway of stepping stones, and I started laughing hysterically! The Latent Tati effect that I've read about here!
CC or Tatillon: Have you ever been tempted to buy a fountain of a fish?
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*Mr Deeds Goes to Town*:
There's one person who is drowning, and another who is just tired of rowing and wants a free ride... Who would you expect me to rescue? The person who is drowning, or the person like Mr Cedar, who is just tired of rowing? A 10 year old child knows that!
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> {quote:title=TCA1969 wrote:}{quote}
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> I, personally, would love to see more Christmas/Holiday movies shown during late >November/December. It seems like every year, the number shown on TCM shrinks...and as >huge fan of both the network and Christmas movies in general, this makes me a little sad.
If you watch All Mine To Give, you will be sad.
Really though, I would love to see WWII era Christmas Movies shown. "*To Each His Own*" is a favorite I haven't seen in a while, and the Ginger Rogers' "*I'll be Seeing You*" would be great!
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Oh, yes! Mr Bean! ! ! But to be honest, I really enjoyed Rowan Atkinson's work in Blackadder more. Absolutely _loved_ the Blackadder Series! ! I think Blackadder II and the III especially. The characters were the best!
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> Trafic is hit and miss (oops, bad pun). I find some of it insipid, but there are some clever >moments too. For example: cars that reflect their owners down to the movement of the >windshield wipers.
I think it is a good pun myself. The only bad puns are those that must be explained.
> The story follows Mr. Hulot as he and a small crew must deliver a prototype camper car, laden with gadgets, to an Amsterdam auto show.
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I swear I saw this car near Nottingham, England in 1996! But we weren't near Sherwood Forest.
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Love that Pun! ! !
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A reflection of our gaget-laden life. I think that's where people got the idea of multitasking behind the wheel... It makes you wonder how Hulot would handle iPods and cell phones!
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OMG! You guys are suckering me into this one real fast! ! ! Why don't they write stuff like this anymore? I think we used to be far more creative in our writing.. Loveless was one of the strangest bad guys I ever saw. The whole character development was so much better than what we see now. Don't you agree, Friartuck? Was there an episode where James West had a Sherlock moment and lost a true love? Or was that my imagination?
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....That the beautiful steed Maid Marion (Olivia DeHavilland) rides in the "captured in Sherwood Forest" scene from *Adventures of Robin Hood*, is no other than Trigger - Roy Rogers palomino.
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I will have the best luck watching it through the Walker Art Center or the U (University of Minnesota) Film Society. Otherwise, I now have the DVD, and I'm enjoying it there.
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There's a theme night "Hollywood" night; choices abound:
*Two weeks in Another Town*
*Singin' in the Rain*
*Going Hollywood*
*Sullivan's Travels*
International:
*Day for Night*
*Cinema Paradiso*
I know there's more...
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Here's a thought: How about Hulot staying at Fawlty Towers? When I was in England in 1996, I stayed at a place similar called the Overcombe Hotel in Horrabridge, Devon. Without John Cleese, but with Maurice and Brenda, and a wonderful assortment of characters that meet nightly in the lounge. It was wonderful, and I think Mr. Hulot would have enjoyed the walk down the lane to the Pub along the river, The Leaping Salmon. Complete with family (pub) cat...
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Thank you CC, for the introduction of the "Straight Dope" link. The article is carefully researched and very informative. They're amazing, the French, aren't they?
I loved *Mon Oncle*, and the delightful way the visual humor built up around each other. The whole fountain routine is great. Tati uses these visual running gags with the characters (and the props!) that forces you to see it fresh everytime you view it! The first time with the fountain, I believed it was malfunctioning; the second time around, it is a selective then you realize it's for show; but then maybe not. At least that's the way I saw it. Then when it is employed during the garden party, tres bien! The whole stepping stones routine was halarious as well; The set up of people trying their best to stay on the steps, then the result! Great pacing.
I loved the Bouncing Pitcher routine as well. No, Sorry Hulot, not everything bounces! LOL ! It a great build up and wait for it (its a short wait) joke.
Mr. Hulot and his high-water pants are great. Tell me more about *Trafic*, when did you first see this again, and Where Does One See *PlayTime* in 70mm! ! !??
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Please don't bit my head off about this, just consider me stupid, but what is this thing about the French and Jerry Lewis? Did Jerry employ some of Tati's ideas that the French picked up on? I find Tati's work far more challenging and rewarding to watch, so maybe it has to do with French taste.
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Alec Guiness - Kind Hearts and Coronets
Oliver Platt
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> Without question, one of my favorite directors. Tati's films are ingrained in my memory, so much so that I can run scenes anytime I desire. And my life is better for that--although staring into space and laughing aloud may be a social detriment.
I do that too. It helps to be wearing a bluetooth or my iPod earphones, people don't back away as much.
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> The hotel that served as the setting for M Hulot's Holiday still exists. Make your reservations:
> Link [H?tel de la Plage|http://www.relaischateaux.com/en/search-book/hotel-restaurant/laplage/]
I took a friend on a tour of France a short while ago (via the blogs) I might want to revive this journey! Thanks for doing the research.
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I see your fondness for *The Apartment*, which shows your life insurance company in the opening in similar fashion. I love your droll sense of humor. Do you like puns?
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Ah, yes; the small-mindedness of micro-management. So how did Pixar escape with drawing RATS with more personality? (In Ratatouille)
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As typical of me, I have a collection of _one_. But I like it; it's the friday night opening program to Stanley Kubrick's *2001: A Space Odessey*. I received at what was the NEW Southtown Theater in Bloomington. The Theater has since been torn down. It doesn't look like something the MGM studios put out, though. It looks like something the theater owners, in this case, the Ted Mann Group, produced themselves. On a mimeograph. Technology of 1968.
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I remember seeing Star Wars for the first time at the old St Louis Park Theater, where it had just opened, with my older brother and his wife and kids, who for some strange reason insisted we all sit in the front (they knew something I didn't)... And when the Empirical "Destroyer"? first flew overhead, we all ducked!!!! What an unforgettable experience!
Are Today's Special Effects Really So Much Better Than Yesteryear's?
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So true! *The Haunting* is scary because it doesn't come right out and Say "Booga, Booga, Booga" -To borrow Groucho's quote from *Night at the Opera*. It let's our imaginations take us that extra step of what frightens us the most: the unknown. That is what I believe made *The Blair Witch Project* such a success. The story fed just enough for us to let our imaginations and our emotion of fear take the story to our darkest parts of our minds.
The lack of information provides us the opening to fill with what is scariest for us. I always felt the movies are emotional and responsive storytelling; it requires our engagment. The viewer will get less out of the experience if they are treating it passively. It is not TV. In fact, Friartuck has a thread about the Wild Wild West, which shows you can get more our of TV if you engage the mind.