CineMaven
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If you have the Encore channel (Channel 252 on Time Warner Cable: Encore Action) and are fans of all things Bond, James Bond (whether its Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton or the real & only Bond: SEAN CONNERY) and you don?t feel like looking for the DVDs you own, there will be a James Bond marathon Sunday October 10th:
7:00 am - 9:15 am ?Thunderball?
9:15 am -11:30 am ?Licence to Kill?
11:30am - 1:45 pm ?A View to a Kill?
1:45 pm - 4:00 pm ?The Man With the Golden Gun?
4:00 pm - 6:15 pm ?Octopussy?
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm ?You Only Live Twice?
8:15 pm -10:10 pm ?Dr. No?
10:10pm-12:15 am ?Live and Let Die?
12:15am - 2:30 am ?The Spy Who Loved Me?
2:30 am - 5:00 am ?On Her Majesty?s Secret Service?
5:00 am - 7:10 am ?Moonraker?
7:10 am - 9:05 am ?Goldfinger?
9:05 am -11:20 am ?Never Say Never Again?
11:20am - 1:40 pm ?Living Daylights?
1:40 pm - 3:45 pm ?Diamonds Are Forever?
3:45 pm - 6:00 pm ?For Your Eyes Only?
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ?From Russia With Love?
Maybe one of your favorites are among these.
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Ladies, please count me in. I'll peel potatoes...but I won't do windows. Who left the garage door opened?
Who invited Ida?
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I found "ACE IN THE HOLE" as prescient as "NETWORK". I love that Kirk Douglas was never afraid to play a rat ****!!!
Now for something reallllllllllllllly scary: "I am not a witch...I am you." Mommeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
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"Anyway, there are a lot of films that I only WISH I owned and are NOT on this list and so I know I would have to mix them all in an throughout THIS list if I were to be making a ?fa-
vorite westerns of all time list? (and PLEASE don?t? ask me to do THAT, ha...)"
Wow!! Ro, your list looks pretty extensive to me. What films do you WISH you owned? Is there even anything left??
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?I was watching IN NAME ONLY the other day and trying to see the story from Maida's viewpoint. Didn't work, lol)? - < ( Bronxgirl ) >
HA!!! Poor Maida. She was a conniving wench, wasn?t she? Her dark beauty was quite a contrast to Lombard's blonde openness and friendliness.
"Maida is so hateful, I don't think it's possible to look at things from her point of view!? -
< ( JackFavell ) >
HA! Wives are always hateful when they don?t let their husbands be with their true loves. I hate when that happens.
?Hmmm... Grass Is Greener... One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing... sounds like a chance for more tortures to be delivered! he he he he...? - < ( Ollie ) >
Oh boy, I see Samuel S. Hinds on the table in "THE RAVEN" and the giant pendulum?d blade tick-tocking towards my Sammy?s chest, and you Ollie...as Bela Lugosi saying in your thick Hungarian accent:
"I like to torture!?
"Unfortunately, it really is torture, because every time I get a movie, I realize there are two more that I want.? - < ( JackFavell ) >
Which reminds me of Wimpy who would eat a pile of hamburgers...but the pile would never go down. Ever notice that?
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"We're allowed to go off topic on this thread, right? You know what Shepard play I like a lot? TRUE WEST." - < ( redriver ) >
We're not going off topic. We're rambling. We're rambling and roaming in conversation with each other. I remember "TRUE WEST" with Tommy Lee Jones back in the 80's here in NY. Wish I'd
seen him then.
"Personally, I hardly ever dash off the porch onto the lawn with my back turned on a gun-totin' femme. Not any more!" - < ( Ollie ) >
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Tomorrow there are mini tributes on TCM to Howard Hawks and Rouben Mamoulian.
Checking out Hawk's "Criminal Code" (1931) now. It's on in the background of my chores. I heard a semi-familiar voice. He was playing a hardened convict. I looked up. I squinted my eyes. The man had sandy hair and a build like Charles Bickford, tall thin, burly. I looked again. OMG!
It was Andy Devine.
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Howdy...it's your fav'rite tin-horn here visiting the West. This is my list of Westerns I own on DVD (in alphabetical order):
1. Buchanan Rides Alone
2. Comanche Station
3. El Dorado
4. Far Country
5. High Noon
6. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7. Ox-Bow Incident
8. Red River
9. Ride Lonesome
10. Rio Bravo
11. Rio Lobo
12. Tall In the Saddle
13. The Tall T
14. Trail of the Lonesome Pine
15. True Grit
Ha! Pitiful ain't it.
I had a fleeting thought of trying to create a Western montage similar to what I saw in the femme fatale tribute cited in the Noir thread. But who am I kidding. I don't have ten films you'd call a classic. Guess I'll go make potato salad with wimmin folk, if even they'll have me.
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Ha.. that DOES about sum it up, doesn't it? That is the THIRD great "tag line" I have seen for this movie in this entire chat, ha. Between you and Mr Movieman... and that GREY person.. ha. you should all three go into business w/ one another.
Boy, that'd be squirrels to the nuts.
But even if it is nice to get a "do-over" in our hearts, it still it does not always "undo" stuff that we set in motion on the outside.
So true Ro. Sorry is not the band-aid for everything. And our actions often effect a whole lotta people.
Wasn't he SOMETHING??? Wowsa.. I still am just so pleasantly suprised thinking about how "captivatingly HORRID" he was. ha.
Oh yeah. Webb Garwood was a piece of work!
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TCM, if you are seriously reading our suggestion...will you please see about getting that other bombshell to appear: DOROTHY MALONE.
Thank you.
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Well aren't YOU the lucky one Mr. Ollie_T!!! You got a great YouTube tribute dedicated to you.
I'm STILL mesmerized by that Femme Fatale video Miss G. posted. (Yup, it's now on my iPOD). Just another YouTube clip? Not really, not if you're a discerning film noir denizen. It is fantastic. The editor picked out so many great small moments and looks. I think JANE GREER has the deadliest eyes in film noir. RITA HAYWORTH has hair to die for. LAUREN BACALL had the greatest mouth. GENE TIERNEY has a great face to hide behind, LANA TURNER is the deadliest cotton candy you could taste, and AVA GARDNER's darkness is to drown in. (Uhm...this is all subjective you understand). WHOA! Check out the last shot we see of Ava in the car. The editor creates his cast of lethal ladies with a flash of white in between. Did you see that last sidelong glance of contempt Ava gives? Chilling! That was the editor's choice to include that.
You know, on YouTube I often see clips just strung together placed on top of music. ACK!! But this took skill and love & knowledge of movies. More lethal ladies could have been included perhaps, but this is really fine just as it is. And he includes the men whose been ensnared too. They look so helpless...pitiful. No, I don't feel sorry for 'em, but they still look pitiful. Burt's longing as he's being willfully ignored by Ava. Look at the slight moment when Kirk's mouth is agape as he looks at Jane Greer. Check out Welles standing against the wall. Listen to some of Alice Cooper's words:
"One look could kill"
"My pain, your thrill"
"I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name"
This editor picked the right music and moments. His video also shows the depth and breadth of some of the most breathtaking women in Hollywood of the 1940's. Thanxx for highlighting it Miss G.
I was like a deer caught in the headlights.
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I've said it on television and I'll say it here again: TCM is a film buff's dream.
They take such care with their themes. They spotlight all things classic from A - Z. Hey, Z...Robert Z. Leonard. Who'd have thunk that he'd be entrusted with such budget fare of M-G-M as "Ziegfeld Girl." One can get a good solid film education by watching TCM, and then a sturdy lesson on in-depth film analysis by reading many of the posts on this Board. I'll be watching.
...and reading.
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"Without me, the two of you would die more miserably than rats!"
- Walter Huston in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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Beautiful, talented, bawdy, funny, dramatic, well-loved, didn't take herself seriously. Great voice. Not forgotten by movie buffs.
Oh...And Mrs. Clark Gable.
Glad TCM acknowledge her today.
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Tracey, thank you very much. A fairy godfather sent me the DVD. I hope you get a chance to see it. I mean, you've seen that type of film before: "I Was A Teenage WereWolf" " I Was A Teenage
Frankenstein." But it's still a lot of fun.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
A friend and I had drinks at Puck Fair (Irish bar near Houston Street) and we saw Sam Shepherd at the bar. I say Jessica Lange and Katharine Ross are two very lucky ladies.
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Thank you SueSue. I think Anne has been in a number of classics: "Blackboard Jungle" "Bad Day at Black Rock" to name two. I think she'd be great!! How 'bout her with Leslie Nielsen???
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Ahhhhh. Thanx!
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I don't sleep.
I'm a retired old maid spinster who cut classes a lot back in college to go to retro movie houses, and stayed up late after my parents went to bed.
That's how I did it and do it. Come on you two.
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Yeeeeeeeup. Low & growly with a drawl. Oh yeah...I love his voice too.
"Love Sam Elliot's voice. Did you ever see him in A Death in California where he played that charismatic villain?" - < ( MissGoddess ) >
You know, I don't know this movie at all. Gotta look that up.
"Sam Elliot--the man & voice of my dreams. Sigh. What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!!" - < ( Helenbaby >
I saw "Up In the Air." I'm not remembering Sam in there. What's wrong with me?? Oh, Vera Farmiga is an unsung, under-rated jewel in today's crop of actresses.
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JackFavell writes - "Oh, that This is Your Life episode was so worth it! How gracious Bette was, and how honest. I loved how Olivia rushed up to hug Bette! How very sweet they were toge-ther. I also loved seeing Bette and William Wyler together..."
When it works right...it's a great relationship: director & actor. I've got to find it and check it out again.
Helenbaby writes - "I only wish I could summon up the ....courage to act like those dames that Miss Stanwyck & Miss Davis played. It would have saved me from lots of stuff throughout the years."
We can't change the past...but we can the present...and the future. Go Helen...go Helen.....
Redriver writes - "A friend of mine in Chicago said, "Small towns are scary. You get off the bus and everybody knows it."
I live in NYC and there's something to be said about the anonymity here. But I'm actually looking for the peace and quiet and slower pace of a small town.
JackFavell writes - "Boy, is that the truth. And you can never escape what people think of you. If you start out on the wrong side of the tracks, that's how people will see you, no matter your accomplishments or how far you rise in the world."
True. Guess the trick would be not to care too much what people think. I am still learning that trick. Anybody got that down pat yet? I need lessons.
Just finished watching "(500) Days of Summer" with Joseph Gordon Levitt. Yeah...it's a modern movie but such a great commentary on who we fall in love with. I highly recommend it.
I'm now watching "Lifeguard" now. 1976 with Sam Elliott and Anne Archer. Parker Stevenson's so pretty. But Sammy, Sammy Elliot...is gorgeous. Tall, athletic, hairy and that Tom Selleck mustache. :x Loved him in "Tombstone."
Uhmmm...is he still with Katharine Ross?
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"hmmm. I'm going to have to invest in a spinning wheel of Death......"
After you finish playing with your wheel...you've got to get & watch "Blood of Dracula." It really is a good hot mess!
Check e-Bay on the wheel.
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I would agree with that. I think of Hodiak and Corey in "DESERT FURY." Love Dorothy Malone in it and Widmark's scene getting his finger cut is harrowing. I love this and "DUEL AT DIABLO" as well. Nice coupla stories criss-cross in that one. And that Garner looks soooo rugged doesn't hurt either!
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My aunt and I saw Bette Davis at Town Hall interviewed by John Springer a ton of years ago. She said she played more good girls than bad girls in her career. Funny how we mostly remember her 'bad girls.' They're so much more fun. I guess with all the movie stars we like, we come to them at different times of our lives.
I think the thing with Bette Davis is that she supremely believed in herself. Think of where she came from and what she came from. Plain, middle class background. Nothing grandiose. Yankee upbringing. Think about Crawford, Stanwyck, Clara and all those girls who came into Hollywood in the 20's, the 30's. Not a Paris Hilton in the bunch. Just plain ordinary girls. At first Hollywood called Bette a little brown wren...they didn't think she was sexy enough. Pretty nondescript, by Hollywood standards. But she persevered. She believed she was good..and then believed she deserved better. I love the Meryl Streep tribute to her on TCM b'cuz I remember coming home from school and seeing the 4:30pm movie and Bette'd be on. I guess I loved Bette at first b'cuz that same aunt I referred to above, used to love her and would go to the movies (in the 40's) to see her...and I idolized my aunt.
But I came to my own conclusion about Bette as I grew up. And when I'm in tough situations where confrontation is necessary, I pull out some mental images of Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck at their most fiery and then I go in. I've heard, like you, Mary Astor say Bette was a big factor in her career and practically gave her "The Great Lie." HA! I'm sure Miriam Hopkins would say differently. Benevolent volcano indeed.
I liked what you said here Helen:
"She may have run all over her male co-stars, but to me she seemed to bring the best out of some of her leading men. Most of them held their own against her, probably because she, or the characters she played, demanded it.
She and Barbara Stanwyck shared a couple of male co-stars: Fonda, Brent, Cagney, Flynn among others. And a good actress knows that she looks good if she helps her co-stars to look good.
I like to think that there's a little bit of Bette Davis in all us gals at one time or another. What a great legacy for her, that we might sometimes use her strength to help us get through the night.
Dream Guest List for 2011
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Thank you Sue Sue. I would also love to nominate the appearance of PIPER LAURIE.