cascabel

Hello. This is just a hunch. If by narrative you mean you're hearing too much commentary on television programs, then you might have the sound of your television tuned to SAP (Secondary Audio Programming). Are you hearing commentary in a foreign language or a description of everything onscreen (DVS--Descriptive Video Services for the blind) or a repeated apology that SAP is unavailable? If so, you can call up your TV menu and switch the sound from SAP to MAIN. Here's some more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_audio_program http://www.accessdome.com/com-sap/sap.general.asp Children have been known to fool with TV remotes, hoping to freak out their parents. And vice versa, of course.

Welcome! Please keep trying to post. The board just seems to slow down at odd times--weekends, maybe.

Hi, cinemafan! I keep hoping some historian will answer your question. All I can say is that I really enjoyed this movie and the book on which it was based. Biopics, of course, have to suggest more than explain. There just isn't time for everything--even in 2+ hours--and viewers want the story to move along. The only major criticism I've read of the book is that it places too much emphasis on the czarevitch's hemophilia as a triggering event of the Russian Revolution. (By the way, the author, Robert K. Massie, won the Pulitzer Prize for his Peter the Great book, and he has a son with hemophilia.)

Hi. Try looking here: http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/browse_list.asp?cid=si&dept=GermanSilentFilms&subdept=F%2EW%2E+Murnau&media=d Third or fourth one down the list is the restored version with color tinting and new score? About KINO German Horror Classics collection (restored version, choice of scores, etc.): http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=5893&atid=0&category=Home%20Video%20Reviews&titleName=Nosferatu&menuName=MAIN Message was edited by: cascabel

A few clips of the incredibly lovely and gifted Deborah Kerr. (It's been so long since I've seen Beloved Infidel, but I remember the "silly Lily Sheil" rant. No one has captured that for YouTube yet.) Such a sad day. Thank you for starting this thread. British Beauty morphed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2uzdfcDTkM Deborah Kerr and tea from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) from Julius Caesar (1953) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq6jJOpnvqk&mode=related&search= from An Affair to Remember (1957) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSJrDV_3edE from The Innocents (1961) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmwJ-IB6ceY&mode=related&search=Innocents%20haunting%20gothic%20ghost%20movie%20horror%20trailer%20Deborah%20Kerr

Proceeds to benefit The DAX Foundation. http://daxfoundation.org/pages/3014/ The feral cats in my town might feel threatened by this charity, but I believe others would applaud their good works. Meaning my feline neighbors no offense, I'll throw in a cocoa tin full of uncollectible nickels. BTW, I'm beginning to think I'm the only one on this board who still loves Citizen Kane--and I don't mean grudgingly admires it a tiny bit.

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you--especially for posting photos of the earliest Hitchcock ladies and my favorites, Madeleine and Ingrid.

Yesterday's schedule was wonderful. It was great seeing silent movies on a weeknight. People are drawn to such different things. I love silent films and most movies from the '30s and '40s. They're worth looking at for aesthetic and historical reasons--and just personal taste. I wish TCM would only show post-1963 movies that fit my definition of modern classic film: extremely good (there are so many fine late-20th century movies TCM has yet to play) and rare (mostly art house, foreign-language) or cult/camp (again, very personal choice). But I've made my peace with TCM by deciding that the movies they play that I don't like are someone else's idea of classic--making that other person happy. So be it. In the end I probably see more of what I like than other viewers. otterhere--I live short walks away from places so quiet I can hear dragonfly wings beating. Quiet is beautiful.

Hear, hear! The awards should only go to the sound people who know how to bring up the dialogue when it matters.

I hope this thread stays prominent as Angela Lansbury appreciation and to advocate for that honorary Oscar. Miss Lansbury is brilliant--so sly and knowing in Gaslight, then the essence of purity in The Picture of Dorian Gray. One of the nicest actors, but adept at playing selfish, overbearing characters who are complicated. As mothers and mother-substitutes---reluctantly nurturing in Bedknobs and Broomsticks; greedy and implacable in The Last Unicorn; controlling, frantic, grief-stricken and seriously confused in All Fall Down; cool and indifferent in The World of Henry Orient; ice-cold evil in The Manchurian Candidate. As sexpots---love-starved in The Long, Hot Summer; world-weary in The Harvey Girls; viciously scheming in Mutiny and Please Murder Me; peevish in The Court Jester. I wish I had seen her on Broadway--but maybe there's still a chance? I'm just catching up on Murder, She Wrote. I enjoy watching her with all those classic movie star guests. And--don't forget--she's on TCM tonight in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

butterscotchgreer----I'm about to run out the door, but I wanted to stop in and say that I wish more young people had your good taste. Your parents must be very proud!

CoopfanDan---"... the sad kind are right up my alley." If you like sad songs, may I recommend you have a listen to Sinatra's albums In The Wee Small Hours and Frank Sinatra sings for Only The Lonely? You'll find some of the saddest, most beautiful songs there.

I loved Frank Sinatra's voice and his way with a song lyric in his early and middle periods. "Say It", "Too Romantic", "This Love of Mine", "I Could Make You Care", "It's Always You", "You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again", so many songs with Tommy Dorsey. His take on the best standards: "Stardust", "Night And Day", "Imagination". Then every song on his mid-'50s albums In The Wee Small Hours and Songs For Swingin' Lovers. He lost me with most of his later songs--but it doesn't matter, his earlier work was magical, and I always go back to it. He's an impressive actor--intense, but agreeable. I really like him in Higher And Higher, The Miracle Of The Bells, On The Town, Guys And Dolls, The Man With The Golden Arm, Can-Can, and (one of my favorite movies) The Manchurian Candidate. This past May, while traveling around Lake Tahoe, some friends and I stopped at the Cal-Neva Lodge and wandered into what we thought was called the Sinatra Room. When an employee there told us the room was scheduled for renovation we wailed and complained. Then we were told thrilling stories about a secret passageway and a ghost-sighting, allowed to do a song-and-dance on Sinatra's stage, primp in his dressing rooms, sit in his burgundy plush booth, and admire the multi-ethnic wall decorations he supposedly designed. I don't know how much of what we heard was true, but I hope the owners don't destroy this piece of history. It's a little shabby and dusty, but such a time capsule of the early-'60s.

Please don't lay you doon and dee. One song usually knocks another out of your head. "Annie Laurie" lyrics http://ingeb.org/songs/annielau.html http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_annie.htm

I can't wait to see your documentary. What an fascinating and beautiful lady. for recent Marsha Hunt quotes and photos: http://sfciviccenter.blogspot.com/2007/01/marsha-hunt-at-noir-city-5.html

Thank you for starting a Spencer Tracy thread. I loved Tracy in 20,000 Years In Sing Sing, The Murder Man, Fury, Boys Town, Northwest Passage, Inherit The Wind, and, especially, Libeled Lady and Bad Day At Black Rock. Even in his most benign and comically-befuddled roles, he comes across as smart, tough, and tormented by some secret pain. His mannerisms--the popped eyes, double takes, hands over the face--can irritate in movies I don't like. But, oh well. He could phone in a performance with so much steely presence and mischievous stage business, that I can't take my eyes off him. This might be the minority opinion, but I'd rather see him playing against Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy than Katharine Hepburn. (I like her a lot in other--non-Tracy--movies.)

Apparently, there is a network that plays made-for-TV movies--White Springs TV. WSTV http://www.whitesprings.tv/ WSTV wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Springs_Television

Where to find made-for-TV movies: Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Made-TV-Movies-REALLY-Want/lm/23YN04QAYVL3N http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=333916011 Superseventies http://www.superseventies.com/made-for-tv_movies.html Yahoo http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Television_Shows/Made_for_TV_Movies_and_Miniseries/ Disney http://www.ultimatedisney.com/tvmovies-dcom.html ebay http://www.ebay.com shopzilla http://www.shopzilla.com shopping http://www.shopping.com mega net http://www.mega-net.net/entertainment/television/tv_shows/made_for_tv_movies museum of broadcast communications--TV miniseries http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/miniseries/miniseries.htm museum of broadcast communications--movies on TV http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/moviesontel/moviesontel.htm Message was edited by: cascabel

Hello. Here's one place offering it. http://www.hollywoodsattic.com/shopping/pricelist.asp?prid=3562

Happy birthday, Laraine Day! I'm looking forward to watching The Locket for the first time. I also wish Foreign Correspondent could be shown today. Fedya--It's going to be hard to watch I Married A Communist again without mentally recasting it with actors from The Godfather and The Sopranos. Fun! Thanks! Message was edited by: cascabel

I'm happy to read that TCM is producing a Val Lewton documentary. http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=184352

I know people--people very close to me--who hate these films, but I love them. These might not be what you mean by the term--but they wouldn't fit my idea of good mindbenders, if they weren't also heart-crushers. I experienced an intense emotional reaction to all these movies at different times in my life--and I'm still trying to figure them out. Vampyr 1932 Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943) http://www.ubu.com/film/deren.html The Innocents (1961) if.... (1968) Don't Look Now (1973) 3 Women (1977) Pi (1998)

I like this movie, too. But I don't understand about the "35mm print material". Is this something that would prevent a good DVD version from being made? I'm sorry if that's a silly guess. If you don't mind, could you explain, please? Thank you.

Hello. I know it's difficult to find new movies suitable for the whole family. Not everyone would agree, of course, but I think most of TCM's programming is "safe" for families. These are--for the most part--movies well worth discussing at the dinner table. TCM has a Family Films Forum: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/forum.jspa?forumID=139 There are many websites where you can get advice on family films. Here's a sampling: parent previews http://www.parentpreviews.com/ family style film guide http://www.familystyle.com/ common sense media http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ This is one of my family's favorite movies: Stars In My Crown (1950) http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=713

Ahhh. Even this version makes me teary. Thanks.