Film_Fatale
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> And maybe someone (not you, 'visualfeast') will realize that responding to threads so old that the persons who started them are no longer members - or they haven't posted here in years - has a confusing and negative effect on these Forums.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
That is an unrelated issue. There are any number of reasons why that thread could have been bumped to page 2. Please don't use visualfeast's confusion to push your own personal agenda, Kyle.
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Happy B-day, William Powell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984)
Happy B-day, Clara Bow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 29, 1905 - Sept. 27, 1965)
Happy B-day, Thelma Todd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 29, 1905 - Dec. 16, 1935)
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Anyone here a fan of the Carry On movies? IIRC, TCM pulled some of these movies off the schedule a few months back.
Well, what's a measly ?150 for the pleasure of owning all 30 Carry On movies?
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Did you consider *Mrs. Miniver* ?
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Good storytelling is what really matters. If the story is compelling, it doesn't quite matter if the effects aren't perfect. But excellent effects aren't much help if the movie is a bore.
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Woo-hoo! SUTS starts Friday!!! Mucho Michael Caine!!! B-)
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> {quote:title=ILoveRayMilland wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> > I have learned three things from reviving old threads:
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> > 1. The FOX Movie Channel is run by politically correct wussies.
> > 2. TCM is never going to translate any movies into Arabic.
> > 3. Mae West did not have any "black" blood in her.
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> > And the search for more goes on ...
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> LOL! I LOVE IT!
I want to see a "Top 10 Things I learned" list B-)
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Fear not, Oliver Stone is back again.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/07/w-trailer-walk.html
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> No, the real reason TCM never shows INCAS is likely that the clueless programmers don't have a good grasp of the contents of the film packages TCM's contracted for with outside producers.
True, that.
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> As for my number one choice for a shawing on TCM, it's Billy Wilder's FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO.
I also wish I could watch it on something better than an old VHS tape.
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Nice cover!
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You could always rent them. Although with some online retailers selling it for around $35, it comes to $3.50 each, less than what some video stores charge these days.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> Now I hope if Elvis Mitchell does another slew of interviews...he talks to some actresses about their likes and influences. Enough with the boy talk...let's get the ladies in there.
Amen to that!
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CK, don't mean to rain on your parade but there was already a thread about the new Tyrone Power film collection that was started when the set was announced. It isn't very hard to find old threads on related subjects if you use the search function. You're quite good at surfing the 'net, so I'm sure you know how to use a search function.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> Could it be becuz Quentin knows more about movies than Elvis Mitchell???
I don't know if he does. I mean, maybe he does, I dunno. But I think Elvis might have been a bit uncomfortable about having to keep the conversation on topic, and he reminded Quentin near the beginning that he was there to talk about classic movies, not just all the movies that he likes.
The thing about Quentin, for me - I mean, yes, he's done some movies I enjoyed. But nearly everything he's done strikes me as having nothing but movies as a frame of reference. You hardly ever feel his movies reflect real life experiences. That is one of the things the classic directors were so good at - maybe because so many of them went through some pretty intense experiences themselves during their lifetimes, particularly the European emigres.
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When a studio forgets to renew a copyright on a movie, that film is effectively in public domain hell. The market gets flooded with horrible-looking videos that sell for peanuts, and the studio that used to own the rights typically won't bother with a proper release.
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The L.A. Times has a story on the new Tyrone Power set...
A film feast for fans of Tyrone Power
The new 'Matinee Idol Collection' DVD set offers a wide sampling of the Hollywood star's work.
July 28, 2008
Tyrone Power was much more than an astonishingly handsome face.
From 1936 until his untimely death at age 44 in 1958, Power was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, equally at home in comedy ("Love Is News"), swashbucklers ("The Mark of Zorro"), thrillers ("Witness for the Prosecution"), drama ("The Razor's Edge") and period pieces ("Lloyd's of London").
Though he usually wore the white hat in films, he did delve into his darker side in 1947's classic film noir "Nightmare Alley."
His fans can feast on his films with the "Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection" DVD set, coming this week from Fox Home Entertainment.
Besides offering four new featurettes on the affable, romantic leading man, the collection includes 10 films he made while under contract to 20th Century Fox, including his first movie for the studio, "Girls' Dormitory" in 1936.
The melodrama, starring Herbert Marshall and Simone Simon, features Power in the last 10 minutes as Simon's charming cousin.
The set includes numerous lightweight comedies -- only Power's charm and comedic skill save them from obscurity -- including 1937's "Cafe Metropole," in which he plays a debt-ridden young man who must pose as a Russian prince to woo an American heiress ( Loretta Young); 1939's fluffy souffl? "Day-Time Wife," in which he plays a married man who is having an affair with his secretary; 1937's "Love Is News," which finds Power as a reporter who falls for a rich girl (Young again); the 1948 fantasy "Luck of the Irish," in which he plays a political writer who encounters a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway in an Oscar-nominated turn); and 1948's "That Wonderful Urge," which casts him yet again as a newspaper reporter who falls for a feisty heiress ( Gene Tierney).
Mixed in with the comedies are some terrific dramas, including 1940's "Johnny Apollo," a fast-paced story about a young man who turns to crime to help save his stockbroker father (Edward Arnold), and "This Above All," a 1942 war drama in which Power plays a disillusioned military hero who falls in love with an idealist ( Joan Fontaine).
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Susan King
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Personally, I'd get much more excited about watching the old Batman serials that were made, I think, in the 40's. I wish TCM could show those.
http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2006/05/columbias-bat-flash-in-pan-long-before.html
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The only thing that ruins classics for me is when one of them is caught in PD hell.
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Well, I hope folks are aware of it now!
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Could it be that I would like to hear from folks who don't follow the DVD forum?
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So are you a fellow addict?
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That post about The Heiress was 3 years old...
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> {quote:title=sarah1493 wrote:}{quote}
> I don't understand Eva Mendes playing Crystal Allen...I think they could have gotten somebody SO much better, but I guess we'll see.
I think she's OK. But only time will tell how well she does here.
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Bad news for those who had gotten their hopes up about a DVD release of the Batman TV series:
Unfortunately, we have another little bit of bad news for you. It seems the Comic-Con rumors of the 1960s Batman TV series finally coming to DVD are untrue. The rumor was based on an Adam West comment in AgentDVD magazine, indicating that he was working on special features for a Batman DVD. Turns out, he was working on HIS OWN DOCUMENTARY DVD about his time on the series, tentatively called Adam West: The Batman Dairies. Naturally, word got around, the buzz spread fast and the story got all out of control. Our friends Dave an Gord over at TVShowsonDVD have a full update today. The sad fact is, Warner still owns the license to the Batman franchise, Fox still owns the actual series and neither seems in the mood to compromise on making a deal to release it on DVD. It's almost enough to make frustrated fans go buy a bootleg DVD version of the series - and they DO exist. I saw them on sale down at the Con just this past weekend. Hey, I guess Fox and Warner are just happy to leave money on the table over this show.