cascabel
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Oh, yes--and the ridiculous attempt by the Mitchell estate to suppress it! Now, TWDG would probably make a much better musical than GWTW--if there has to be a musical. I'm just grateful those "missing" hours turned out to be the sequel that even my GWTW-besotted sister didn't want to see again.
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Thank you for the reminder. I love David Lean movies and Madeleine is one of my favorites. Ann Todd's performance hints at the complexity of the real Lena/ Madeleine, who seemed to be so much more than an acquitted murderess. She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, a friend and possible employee of William Morris, member of the British Socialist Party, with an active family and social life. There's more information about the rest of Madeleine's life in these articles:
History Scotland Magazine--life after trial
http://www.historyscotland.com/features/madeleinesmith.html
photo of elderly Madeleine Smith/ Lena Wardle in US?
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You really got my sister's hopes up with this question. "There's an nine hour Gone With The Wind print out there somewhere! Find it!" I skimmed through this:
GWTW--IMDB--rough cut of film 4&1/2 hours
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/alternateversions
GWTW--official site
GWTW--online exhibit
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/gwtw/
GWTW--The New GA Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2472
GWTW--wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_%28film%29
....before realizing you must be referring to the GWTW sequel, Scarlett. I guess the movie and the mini-series aren't bundled together anymore.
GWTW & Scarlett
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gone-with-the-Wind-Scarlett-Mini-series-VHS_W0QQitemZ160143330326QQcmdZViewItem
Scarlett (1994)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108915/
While researching, I found some news about a GWTW musical. This actually sounds sort of interesting, since it seems like there will be more emphasis on the lives of the slaves at Tara.
GWTW--Broadway musical
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You're very welcome!
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Hello, candi352. What a frightening movie that is.
Diabolique
http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=73044
more info at IMDb Les Diaboliques
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/
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I'm so glad Kyle found it for you. Any program that teaches people to think critically is worthwhile. The following websites might already be known to you, but, just in case:
World Wide Web Virtual Library--Film Index
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/Index.html
History Of Film Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/history_film.html
History In Film
Film History By Decade
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I'm sorry your experience here was a hurtful one. Sometimes the forums go crazy. I noticed you did receive a quick suggestion from always helpful and knowledgeable vallo and additional information from falc. It looked like folks were riffing on the bird theme for fun, not out of malice. I think, if they had known the answer, they would have given it right away. People here get a little rough sometimes, but most are nice.
The jokes can jog memories and also increase traffic to a thread, keeping it prominent and making it more likely that an expert like Pat or vallo will eventually stop by with the conclusive answer. So many threads are buried after being viewed by almost no one. That might mean a missed opportunity for further education. It's not just the particular answer to a question that's important (and it is important!), but the ongoing accumulation of knowledge. I like a few John Wayne movies, but I don't know much about him. I remember that, after reading your post and the first funny comments, I checked out Wayne at IMDb, hoping to find some tiny part of the puzzle for you. I didn't find one, but I learned some new things in the process. Then, curiosity aroused, I searched for comments on Wayne movies all around the board. That's sort of how it works for slapdash amateurs like me. The challenges are fun and educational--and even more so when lots of posters contribute, motivating me to investigate something I wouldn't ordinarily, which might help me to answer another question in future.
I hope this hasn't discouraged you from participating. Please stay with us. You've already taught me a few things.
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Hello. Sounds like Dark Victory with Bette Davis in a wonderful performance. Makes me weep, too.
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Louis Malle made gorgeous films. I'm so jealous on behalf of the pallid little movies I've been enjoying lately. Why can't they all look this great? The reckless adults and willful children he features in most of his work were put into good historical context in the movies shown on Wednesday. Au Revoir, Les Enfants and Lacombe Lucien were heartbreaking. Lacombe Lucien can also be seen as sympathy for the devil, where the apprentice demon is only an out-of-work, ignorant boy.
Elevator To The Gallows--Beautiful Miles Davis score, Jeanne Moreau, the wonderfully moody look of it. However, as Dobbs points out, the plot has some funny holes. That may or may not be intentional. After all, the supposedly adult leads are no smarter than dopy kids, and the teenagers are idiots. The political subtext doesn't explain much, and the puritanical prison sentences are almost gleefully presented. No one will actually be transported to the gallows in the end. Perhaps it's a parody of film noir?? (Some more goofs the modern viewer schooled in TV drama forensics can't help but notice: Why doesn't Julien have blood splattered on his clothing after standing so close to his boss while shooting him? Why don't the police know the boss didn't commit suicide as soon as they've checked his hands for gunpowder? Why didn't Julien ask the police to lift his prints from places in the elevator car they wouldn't normally be?) What does it matter when it looks and sounds so good?
Zazie Dans Le Metro--Adult problems overwhelm a child's limited understanding. Our shared world is a nightmarish street party where drunks scream ancient jokes in your ear. If you don't laugh, they'll beat you up. This is not a light-hearted, whimsical comedy! It's a weary slog through childish confusion and aggression. (I prefer Buster Keaton, but I'm trying to understand Zazie.)
The Fire Within--You're given no special reason to become emotionally involved with the lead character--in or out of his sumptuous sanitarium--even though it is obvious where his illness is taking him. The natural vitality is drained out of every situation and relationship. Viewers see things as the sick man does. It is extremely cold and clinical, like watching a computer simulation of a lab rat in an experiment. This movie makes a study of despair into an argument for "rational suicide"--a horrifying challenge to those of us who believe there's no such thing.
Murmur of the Heart--There are superior coming-of-age movies--The 400 Blows, Forbidden Games, The Member Of The Wedding, To Kill A Mockingbird, Cinema Paradiso, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, etc. I want to like this one, too. I'll keep trying.
Black Moon--This succeeds beautifully in capturing an adolescent girl's troubled dreams. I love it when the children put on the little Wagner concert, I get upset when the old woman disappears. Cathryn Harrison is amazing. Her nude scenes are too innocent to be offensive, but they also weren't necessary (which calls the director's judgment and motives into question?)
Thanks, TCM, for showing all these beautiful, baffling movies. I would love to see more foreign films on the schedule.
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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.
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Welcome! Please keep trying to post. The board just seems to slow down at odd times--weekends, maybe.
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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.)
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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.):
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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)
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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.
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Absolutely beautiful! Thank you--especially for posting photos of the earliest Hitchcock ladies and my favorites, Madeleine and Ingrid.
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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.
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Hear, hear! The awards should only go to the sound people who know how to bring up the dialogue when it matters.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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If no one here can identify your movie, and IMDb doesn't help, you might try submitting the quote at:
Movie Quotes
http://www.moviequotes.com/submit.cgi
I've never done that, so I don't know how it works or how good the people there are. Might be worth a try, if it's driving you crazy.