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"........You'd expect Russian actors to best embody the characters in the novel. Sergey Bondarchuk himself played Pierre, a great clumsy bear of a man, and from what I can tell, an avatar of Tolstoy himself. Awkward and uncertain, bumbling through different phases of his life, from hands-on lord-of-the-estate, to fervent Freemason, to The Man on a Mission to Save Russia. We see his anguish, loving Natasha from afar, devoted to her, despairing of ever attaining her. Vayacheslov Thikhonov is suitably sardonic as the doomed Prince Andrei, embodying the bleak nihilism of the Russian psyche. Central to all is Lyudmila Saveleva as Natasha, the greatest woman in all of literature. It would be unfair to expect an actress to fully realize her in a role, but she comes as close as you can expect any single person to do ........ =============================================== AGREED.......... the 3 principal actors were excellent + we got to hear their thoughts too ! -but final battle scenes in last part went waaaaaaay too long overall, great version......would certainly recommend....... from a dummy without the gumption to tackle the novel

Nehemiah Persoff Dies: Prolific Actor Of ‘Yentl’, ‘The Twilight Zone’, ‘Gunsmoke’ & Many More Was 102 - "...........He played Leonid Brezhnev in the 1983 miniseries Sadat, and in 2003, he came out of retirement to appear uncredited as a rabbi, along with Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak, in a scene of the HBO miniseries adaptation of Kushner’s Angels in America. On the film side, Persoff had roles in Humphrey Bogart’s final film The Harder They Fall (1956), and in following decades appeared in The Wild Party, Some Like It Hot, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Voyage of the Damned and Twins. He voiced Papa Mousekewitz in 1986’s An American Tail, and in perhaps his most indelible film role played Reb Mendel, the father of Barbra Streisand’s title character of Yentl (and the subject of the film’s best known song “Papa, Can You Hear Me”)......... https://deadline.com/2022/04/nehemiah-persoff-dead-obituary-actor-yentl-gunsmoke-was-102-1234995573/

not even ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, SILENT RUNNING. ETC.......... Still,,,,,,,,Programmers REALLY not that big on sci-fi

wow.........Bogart??????

late SUN., 4-3 (times ET) 12:00 SILENT SUNDAY............. am An Inn in Tokyo (1935) Crime A factory worker, on the road with two sons finds work and a friendly widow, but a sudden ... Director Yasujiro Ozu Cast Yasujiro Ozu, Yoshiko Okada, Hideo Shigehara "An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tōkyō no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film. The screenplay is credited to Uinzato Mone or Winthat Monnet ("Without Money"). In fact, the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu was short on cash...... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inn_in_Tokyo 2:00 TCM IMPORTS........... am Carmen Comes Home (1951) Comedy A satirical look at the misadventures of a strip-tease artist when she returns to her home... Director Keisuke Kinoshita Cast Toshiko Kobayashi, Hideko Takamine, Takeshi Sakamo... https://cinematalk.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/karumen-kokyo-ni-kaeru-carmen-comes-home-1951/ 3:45 am Carmen's Innocent Love (1952) 1h 30m | Comedy A sharp-tongued riff on women's place in postwar Tokyo and the nearly impossible contradic... Director Keisuke Kinoshita Cast Keisuke Kinoshita, Keisuke Kinoshita, Keisuke Kino... ".......A quasi-sequel to Carmen Comes Home (1951)—Japan's first full-length color feature, which, unlike this film, was released during the Occupation period—Carmen's Innocent Love (Karumen junjo su) goes even further than the earlier film in employing Takamine's naiveté and innocence (she considers her profession, stripping, an art form) to riff on the country's ever-changing moral, social, and political climate in the postwar era. Holding true to his diverse stylistic interests, Kinoshita boldly uses askew camera angles to visually support the film's ideological premise (among other things, it could also be seen as an ironic comment on post-war female emancipation..... see: https://letterboxd.com/film/carmens-innocent-love/

premiere on UNDERGROUND late Fr. nite........ Se e: https://www.pophorror.com/day-of-the-dead-1985-at-35/

late FRI., 4-1 UNDERGROUND....... 2:15 am (ET) Day of the Dead (1985 ) American post-apocalyptic zombie horror film written and directed by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. The third film in Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, it stars Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy and Richard Liberty as members of a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida, where they must determine the outcome of humanity's conflict with the undead horde. "....RT's website's critical consensus states that "Day of the Dead may arguably be the least haunting entry in George A. Romero's undead trilogy, but it will give audiences' plenty to chew on with its shocking gore and scathing view of society." On Metacritic the film holds a score of 60 out of 100 based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews"......... See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_(1985_film)#Release_and_reception

"You're Awful" with Betty Garrett from On The Town -weakest oscar song winner

Mickey Rooney - best portrayal of a sociopath

tough, but let's go with Barry Lyndon - Realistic Mafia movie

Premiere late tonight........... WHY SUCH A DUMB TIMESLOT ??? 3:30 am (ET) War and Peace (1966) 5h 57m | Adaptation Epic adaptation of Tolstoy's novel centers around the lives of two families during Napoleo... Director Sergey Bondarchuk Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav ... ".........Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in the USSR. War and Peace also won the Grand Prix in the Moscow International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since its release, the film is often considered to be the grandest epic film ever made, with many asserting its monumental production as unrepeatable and unique in film history.......... In the United States, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the 26th Golden Globe Awards.[91] The picture was the Soviet entry to the 41st Academy Awards, held on 14 April 1969. It received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Best Art Direction. ........... Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of 19 reviews were positive, with an average rating of 8.97/10.......... SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(film_series)#Critical_response

# 7) made her debut on stage in the chorus as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923, at age 16, and within a few years was acting in plays. Her first lead role, which was in the hit Burlesque (1927)

Next: "Sunset Boulevard" --------------------------------------------- #2) directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett.

Phil Silvers - someone you wish had been given a chance at more diverse roles

Brighton Rock (1948) - film features many characters from a small town

early THURS., 3-31 WHY SUCH A DUMB TIMESLOT ??? 3:30 am (ET) War and Peace (1966) 5h 57m | Adaptation Epic adaptation of Tolstoy's novel centers around the lives of two families during Napoleo... Director Sergey Bondarchuk Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav ... ".........Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in the USSR. War and Peace also won the Grand Prix in the Moscow International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since its release, the film is often considered to be the grandest epic film ever made, with many asserting its monumental production as unrepeatable and unique in film history.......... In the United States, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the 26th Golden Globe Awards.[91] The picture was the Soviet entry to the 41st Academy Awards, held on 14 April 1969. It received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Best Art Direction. ........... Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of 19 reviews were positive, with an average rating of 8.97/10.......... SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(film_series)#Critical_response

Here's an old thread on the topic......... 'Valmont' vs 'Dangerous Liaisons' "............Forman's "Valmont" is a much different film from Frears' "Dangerous Liaisons," which was nominated as one of last year's best pictures. The Frears version is cerebral and claustrophobic, an exercise in sexual mindplay. Forman's is more physical. In "Dangerous Liaisons," the characters seem turned on by the idea of seducing the innocent...." https://forums.tcm.com/topic/257128-valmont-vs-dangerous-liaisons/#comment-1905064 😎

yeah..........it's a MEDIUM for adult Cinema