Film_Fatale

Susan, I am very sorry to hear that and I truly hope that at least it's been detected early so that there will be greater chances of effective treatment. Here's hoping you find the strength to get through the weeks and months ahead.

It's a great little movie that somehow has been very much overlooked over the years, imho. When *A Million to Juan* came out in the early 90's, I had NO IDEA it was based on a Mark Twain short story or that it had previously been made into a movie with Gregory Peck.

Dennis Quaid was in *Jaws 3-D* with Lea Thompson B-)

Well I have the DVD and it sure doesn't include any deleted scenes/numbers. It's a shame, if Fox still has it somewhere. What would be really nice is to have a box set with both *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* and *Gentlemen Marry Brunettes*, but the 2nd one was originally UA release, not sure if there's any way ofor Fox Video to issue it on DVD.

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote} > MetroManic, I went to my local Barnes and Noble on 8/4 psssst! It's MetroManiac, not MetroManic.

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote} > BTW, Film Fatale, do you own an R2 DVD player, since you have listed some European releases? I know many titles have been released in Europe and bypass the USA, but I would rather spend my money on a Blu-Ray machine than a dual player. Oddly enough the only film that interests me on that list is THE INNOCENTS and that one has already been released in the USA. I do have a multi-region player, you can find some for almost the same as a regular DVD player here in the U.S. It seems at least some Blu-Ray titles might not be region-coded, which in theory means you could buy a European Blu-Ray title and play it here in the U.S. -- I'm not 100% sure, tho. Maybe filmlover knows more about this.

Another special set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001DHE8XE *BFI 75 10 DVD Box Set - European Cinema* (Limited to 500 copies - Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) DVD Description 2008 is the British Film Institute?s 75th Year and alongside the BFI's special 75th programmes, free events and cultural extravaganzas, Amazon is marking this special event with a handpicked selection of ten of the best of European Cinema from the BFI's collection in this strictly limited edition exclusive box set. This collection is strictly limited to 500 copies in a one off replication It includes: La Kermesse Heroique - Jacques Feyder Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne - Robert Bresson Partie De Campagne - Jean Renoir The Threepenny Opera - GW Pabst Regarde La Mer And Other Short Films - Francois Ozon Le Cercle Rouge - Jean-Pierre Melville Celine And Julie Go Boating - Jacques Rivette Tristana - Luis Bunuel Distant Voices Still Lives - Terence Davies The Innocents - Jack Clayton (C'mon CK -- I know you're itching to cut-and-paste this and try to pass it off as "your find" )

He was in *The Canterville Ghost* which also stars Margaret O'Brien

I don't believe I've seen this mentioned here before. To be released Oct. 28: *10 Years of Rialto Pictures 10 Discs Box Set* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001CW7ZTY Reportedly will include: Army of Shadows (1969) , Au hasard Balthazar (1966) , Band of Outsiders (1964) , Billy Liar (1963) , The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Mafioso (1962), Murderous Maids (2000), Rififi (1955), The Third Man (1949) and Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) - Criterion (C'mon, CK, cut and paste this info to pad up your post count!!! You know you want it!)

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I'm not buying any movies on BR at this moment unless they're a limited edition. It's easy enough to rent most of them.

*Honolulu* which stars Eleanor Powell

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-davis5-2008aug05,0,4028812.story *Luther Davis, 91; writer for film, stage won Tony Award for 'Kismet'* By Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 5, 2008 Luther Davis, a writer for stage, film and television who won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical "Kismet" and whose screen credits include "Lady in A Cage," a thriller that starred Olivia de Havilland, has died. He was 91. Davis died July 29 at Calvary Hospital in New York City of natural causes according to his wife, actress Jennifer Bassey Davis. He had been a resident of New York City. "Kismet" was a lavish spectacle that opened in 1953. Davis and Charles Lederer wrote the book, which brought the pair a Tony award in 1954. The show also won the Tony for best musical. A fable set in ancient Baghdad with opulent production numbers and music adapted from classical scores by Alexander Borodin, the show included two memorable songs, "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads." Alfred Drake played the leading role, a public poet who spends his days at the bazaar with a beautiful daughter played by Doretta Morrow. Costumes and sets were "splendid and voluptuous," wrote Brooks Atkinson in a review of the show for the New York Times, but the overall effect was "pretty heavy on its feet." The show was a box office success that ran on Broadway for more than a year and later toured. Davis and Lederer teamed up again for a movie version of "Kismet" in 1955, directed by Vincente Minnelli that starred Howard Keel and Ann Blyth. Luther is also credited for the musical libretto of a 1967 television adaptation starring Jose Ferrer and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Another of his major Broadway shows was "Timbuktu!" which opened in 1978. Davis produced it and wrote the book. The story is based on "Kismet" and set in Africa with an all-black cast that included Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore in the original production. The show was nominated for four Tony awards. While he was working on "Timbuktu!," Davis met his future wife when she and a group of friends were financial backers for the production. "He was the most gracious man, who treated everyone the same, a sewer cleaner and a duchess," she said of her companion of 30 years. They married in 2005. Davis' most recent Broadway show, "Grand Hotel," opened in 1989 and won five Tony awards including best director and choreographer awards for Tommy Tune. Davis wrote the book, inspired by a novel written in the 1920s by Vicki Baum. "Grand Hotel" is set in a luxury hotel in Berlin with a cast of characters that included a fading prima ballerina (Liliane Montevecchi), a gigolo (Pierre Dulaine) and a baron (David Carroll) along with a bellboy, chauffeur and other members of the hotel staff. It ran on Broadway for more than two years. Davis received a Tony nomination but did not win the award. Starting in the late 1940s, Davis had a parallel career in the movie business. He kept a home in Los Angeles for more than 25 years, his wife said, and wrote more than a dozen movie scripts. In one of his early screenplays, "The Hucksters," (1947), Clark Gable plays an advertising agency man trying to bring integrity to the business. Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet and Ava Gardner are also in the film. "A Lion is in the Streets" (1953) written by Davis, stars James Cagney as a Southern peddler who makes his way into politics and goes after corrupt businessmen. "Lady in a Cage" (1964), which stars Ann Sothern and James Caan along with De Havilland, is a psychological thriller. De Havilland plays a wealthy woman who gets stuck in an elevator in her house and is tormented by thugs who break in. Davis was born in Brooklyn, New York, Aug. 29, 1916. He graduated from Culver Military Academy in Indiana and went on to graduate from Yale University in the late 1930s. During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Forces where he worked in intelligence. He was stationed in Burma, China and Europe and rose to the rank of major before he completed military service. Davis was married twice. His first marriage ended in divorce. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughters, Rory Bolender of Los Angeles and Noel Davis of Orange, and grandson Cody Rivers Duval. Contributions in his name can be made to The Actors Fund website, www.actorsfund.org.

An interesting column in today's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/movies/homevideo/05dvds.html August 5, 2008 Critic?s Choice New DVDs: ?The Inglorious Bastards? By DAVE KEHR ?The Inglorious Bastards? Now that Quentin Tarantino?s long-gestating remake of Enzo G. Castellari?s 1978 Italian action film, ?The Inglorious Bastards,? finally seems on the verge of going into production, Severin Films has issued a lushly appointed, superbly engineered three-disc edition of the original. A product of that brief, heady period when Italian genre movies challenged Hollywood for dominance of the Western world?s drive-ins and grindhouses, ?The Inglorious Bastards? is a slapdash but appealing riff on the themes established by Robert Aldrich?s consummately cynical film ?The Dirty Dozen? in 1967. Aldrich established his reputation in 1955 with ?Kiss Me Deadly,? a now classic film noir in which he systematically portrayed his protagonist, the private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker), as a thuggish lout. ?The Dirty Dozen? performed a similar debunking operation on a larger scale, recasting the tightly trained commando units of World War II propaganda movies as a gang of unruly, unbalanced convicts and miscreants, plucked from various military prisons and sent on a sordid suicide mission. ?The Inglorious Bastards? has little of Aldrich?s underlying moral seriousness and nothing of his deft rhetorical irony. Mr. Castellari?s heroes are not dangerous madmen but instinctive anarchists: they don?t make the trains run on time, they blow them up. Their anti-authoritarianism is both a reflection of postwar Italy?s healthy disenchantment with Fascism and a romanticized version of the left-wing militancy being espoused then by students. Where ?The Dirty Dozen? imagined an organized military raid, complete with an authoritarian leader (Lee Marvin), ?Inglorious Bastards,? also set during World War II, resists anything as formal and constricting as an actual plan. The group consists of half a dozen court-martialed G.I.?s being sent to a prison camp (or execution) for a variety of irresponsible infractions. The gang is liberated when its convoy is attacked by German fighter planes, which kill their guards and leave the boys to roam more or less free through the war-torn fields of southern France. At first they have no leader, though one emerges: the men naturally gravitate toward the highest-ranking officer in the group, Lt. Robert Yeager (played by the Swedish actor Bo Svenson). The suggestion that even the most dedicated anarchists flock to charismatic authority figures may be Mr. Castellari?s most subversive observation. Yeager?s unofficial second in command is a cigar-chomping private, Canfield, played by one of the major figures in the American blaxploitation cinema, Fred Williamson. (Mr. Williamson?s sideburns and swagger are what Robert Downey Jr. is parodying in the coming comedy ?Tropic Thunder.?) The film, which has appeared under a half-dozen different titles, was called ?G.I. Bro? in urban markets to appeal to Mr. Williamson?s fan base. Chance frees the prisoners, and chance largely dictates their movements, as Yeager and Canfield hatch a vague plan to get the group to neutral Switzerland. The boys seem less like deserters than like school kids playing hooky, and a couple of armed confrontations with German troops only add to the sense of playacting. Mr. Castellari?s machine guns may emit impressive bursts of flame, but they leave bodies intact and largely unbloodied. Bombs explode and send stuntmen soaring through the air, propelled by unseen springboards. Being shot seems only slightly more inconvenient than being tagged out. For long stretches ?The Inglorious Bastards? seems less a war movie than a teen idyll, and its most fantastical sequence arrives when the gang stumbles across a group of female SS officers skinny-dipping in a stream. The interlude looks like a lost sequence from a Russ Meyer peeping Tom nudie of the ?60s, and Mr. Castellari seizes the opportunity for some classic exploitation imagery: busty blond fr?uleins blasting away with automatic weapons. When the boys accidentally wipe out a unit of American soldiers disguised as Germans for a secret mission, ?The Inglorious Bastards? belatedly discovers a sense of mission and purpose. The misfits will take the place of the trained troops in an attempt, led by a stern officer (Ian Bannen) seemingly parachuted in from another movie, to sabotage a train that for exotic security reasons the Germans are using as a mobile V-1 rocket lab. It?s time to shape up ? which, rather disappointingly, they do. Mr. Tarantino seems to have retained very little of this plot, at least to judge from the details of his script that have leaked onto the Internet. In the new version the boys reportedly make their way to occupied Paris, where they aid a young Jewish woman who owns a movie theater in sabotaging a film premiere for the Nazi brass. The Tarantino ?Inglorious Bastards? will certainly be longer, more detailed and more elegantly structured than the Castellari version. And it will doubtless give full reign to Mr. Tarantino?s symphonic gifts for conjugating moods, movements and tempos. But the almost childlike playfulness of Mr. Castellari?s film (the climax involves the destruction of a toy train set) will just as certainly be missing from the new film, if only because current Hollywood production methods won?t allow for such a nonchalant, anything-goes approach. Making movies hasn?t been this much fun for a long time now, one reason watching them may seem even less so. (Severin Films, three-disc edition, $29.95; two-disc edition, $19.95; not rated)

TCM programmers have been known to browse here. From time to time.

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > Jake Gyllenhaal and Jonathan Togo: > > I don't think I'd ever heard of Jonathan Togo before. Now I'll just think of him as "the guy who looks like Jake Gyllenhaal!

Well, of all the movies they showed on Marie Dressler day, none was a bigger stretch than *That's Entertainment! III* because I think the only part where she appears is precisely a clip from *Hollywood Revue of 1929*.

*Wall Street* nw: egalitarian

Oh yes, of course, he's the good guy in this movie.

*Monty Python and the Holy Grail* how about picaresque

*Pete Kelley's Blues* with... Jack Webb

I haven't seen that since it came out, but it sounds a bit creepy. :0

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > While we are on the soapbox here, I have also noticed something in the last month that really bugs me. Why have a full day of movies from one star, and then show all their worst movies? OK, sorry to digress.... > > I agree with the person who said this is just a summer thing.... in fall, we'll get back to better movies.... I don't think they show only their worst movies, although in some cases I guess you get kind of a mixed bag. But usually some of their weaker movies are precisely the ones you can't find anywhere else - because they've never been released on home video and nobody else bothers showing 'em.

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > So are you from Canada? Are you asking because of the spelling?

That's the thing, these days (at least in the U.S.) you're more likely to find an IMAX theater than a theater equipped with 70mm projectors.