Film_Fatale
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Oh, it was minor, but it was still so funny in that it was not funny...
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> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote}
> All this party can do is cut and paste anyways. !
This is the saddest part, especially when he brags about being more knowledgeable about movies than anyone else on the boards! But you're absolutely right, talking to this person is like trying to reason with a rock.
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> {quote:title=mickeeteeze wrote:}{quote}
> And Rose is a good choice. Young, smart, knowledgeable, great looking and sexy.
> Why do people have a problem with that?
> Beats me!
I don't understand it, either.
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Happy b-day, Terence Stamp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 22, 1939)
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Although I've seen them countless time on home video, I never had a chance to watch any of them theatrically.
When I eventually upgrade to Blu-Ray (not a huge priority since the overwhelming majority of movies being released on BR right now are new releases) these will be some of the first movies I'll want to watch in high-definition.
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I agree that a Classic Disney channel would be very nice. I would love a chance to watch all those old Wonderful World of Disney TV shows.
But I would definitely expect that they would show UNEDITED versions of their old animated features, like I mentioned before, including *Melody Time* and *Fantasia*. Even if they were preceded by some disclaimer about how they don't condone the racial stereotypes or the use of tobacco by some of their chracters.
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Give it enough time, and Judd Apatow will become the Preston Sturges of our time.
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I love Larry Fishburne and he's usually really really cool. However, that bit with trying to be funny with his shoe just didn't seem funny at all.
Aside from that, it was a good installment of Under the Influence.
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*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 22, 2008: The Body Snatcher*
?The Body Snatcher,? TCM, Tuesday, July 22, 6:30 p.m. (EST)
In the early 1940s, Val Lewton pioneered a series of B-budget horror films for RKO that emphasized mood and atmosphere over shocks and more traditional melodrama. At the studio?s insistence, Lewton signed Hollywood?s foremost horror movie star Boris Karloff, beginning a collaboration that would benefit both artists.
Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, ?The Body Snatcher? (1945) was the first of their films together. Although he has top billing, Karloff does not play the leading role. The brilliant British actor Henry Daniell (who was billed third) plays the main character, Dr. MacFarland, a medical instructor in 19th Century Edinburgh, who is forced to buy corpses from grave robbers to supply the students with cadavers to experiment on.
In one of his all-time best performances, Karloff plays John Gray, a cabman who provides the corpses. When he can?t find suitable specimens at the graveyard, he murders the victims himself. (Second billing went to Bela Lugosi, whose bit part as a servant was added for publicity purposes.)
Directed by Robert Wise, ?The Body Snatcher? is a fairly subtle and low-key little film until the final scene which is one of the scariest moments to be found in a classic horror movie.
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Anyone else thing that the packaging for the Season 1 DVD set is one of the coolest "special" boxes ever? (It's shaped like a giant Zippo lighter, in case you haven't seen it).
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It's one of the few 3D movies I've never been able to catch in 3D at a revival house. Movies like *House of Wax* and *Kiss Me Kate* can still look very very good in 3D if a good projectionist is in charge.
One thing that not many people realize is that you can sort of get the same kind of effect looking at *any* movie, if you watch it with just one eye. Sure, it might not seem like a very practical idea, but if you try it a few times it *can* work, because it is the same principle: instead of using 2 eyes to watch images captures by 2 cameras put side-by-side, you use one eye to watch images captured by one camera.
It's actually easier if you get the hang of it with normal photographs, with which you may have to try looking at it from various distances. Once you find the right distance, looking at the photograph with one eye will seem like 3D. I'm totally serious about this.
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Well, I wasn't even alive at the time... however I've read/heard that at least some elements of the show may have been slightly exaggerated for dramatic impact - namely the lack of prominent women in the field of advertising. However I can't vouch for this being true or not.
And I agree with CineSage on the slow dramatic development. But I've only seen the first 3 episodes (the 1st disc of Season 1 on DVD).
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I don't doubt that they'll dumb the show down as much as they can and might even decide against mentioning any more independent films and foreign-language movies.
Also didn't Ebert get into some kind of a fight with the TV company over who owned the trademark of the "thumbs up/down" review? I could swear I read something about that many months ago.
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In his weekly DVD column, Dave Kehr of the NYT highlights *Vampyr* from Criterion and a re-release of *The Mummy* (the original of course).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/movies/homevideo/22dvds.html
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this comes up every so often, and I think it's already been discussed to death.
for what it's worth, I'll say I'd like TCM to concentrate on the kind of stuff that doesn't get shown much anywhere else... silents, movies from the 30s 40s 50s and 60s; occasionally, a few more recent movies if they represent important cinematic accomplishments; and also foreign-language movies in their Sunday slot, representing the very best that movies not in the English language have to offer.
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You consider that a positive trend? I would consider them being a little less backward than they were before.
I will perhaps consider it a positive trend when they issue (and/or license for broadcast) _unedited_, _unaltered_ copies of classic animation films like Fantasia, Make Mine Music, or Melody Time.
As some of you may know, these movies have been digitally altered due to PC reasons. Among other things, they removed the cigar from Pecos Bill and made other changes regarding things that they thought could get them in trouble with some parents.
At the very least, they could have the unaltered version of the movie along with a warning, like WHV does with some of their old cartoons from the 40's and 50's.
That, and also of course releasing Song of the South on video. If WHV can release The Jazz Singer in a sensitive way, acknowledging the insensitive stereotypes while also giving the film its credit as a historic milestone, Disney could do it too with Song of the South.
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Thank you, Ella.
And today we wish happy b-day to:
*Don Knotts (July 21, 1924 - Feb. 24, 2006)
*Norman Jewison (July 21, 1926)
And a young British actress who has been in a lot of great foreign-language movies:
*Charlotte Gainsbourg (July 21, 1971)
(She's also reportedly the goddaughter of Yul Brynner)
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> I saw the staircase! It's in Los Angeles proper, not far from the Ennis-Brown House (Frank Lloyd Wright design). While the movie shows the stairs on a grassy hill then, it has now been fulled in with houses right to edge of the stairs now. The stairway is marked with a plaque.
> So ironic; I was just telling a friend about the house built in Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House. It is situated in Malibu State Park, and used as a records and adminstration building.
I would love to see that staircase myself!
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filmlover had already mentioned the *JFK* ultimate collector's edition back in late June; however I don't think it had a specific release date attached. The release date is now being announced as Nov. 11th:
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If you're talking about a TCM promo, those often have clips from famous movies that might have aired at some point. If they are promoting a specific showing of a certain movie, it will usually say so right there on the screen.
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Glad to see others enjoy it, too. And, yes, much of the praise goes (rightly I suppose) to Meryl and C. Baranski, but I also appreciated what everyone else brought to the movie. This includes Brosnan, who still seems to me to be quite charismatic for some reason.
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I think even Brosnan knew he wasn't such a good singer, but he took on the role with brio.
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*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 21, 2008: Kiss Me, Stupid*
?Kiss Me, Stupid,? TCM, Monday, July 21, 11 p.m. (EST)
The Catholic Legion of Decency played a major role in forcing the Hollywood censors to create the 1934 Production Code; 30 years later, however, the authority of the Legion was greatly diminished and, by the end of the Sixties, the Code was no longer in effect, having been replaced by the Ratings system.
In a last attempt at flexing its muscle, the Legion took on master filmmaker Billy Wilder over his 1964 farce ?Kiss Me, Stupid? and, unfortunately, won. United Artists forced Wilder to reshoot a crucial scene and then gave the film a limited release, resulting in a box-office disaster that Wilder?s career never recovered from.
?Kiss Me, Stupid? may not be one of Wilder?s best, but it still has some hilarious moments. Dean Martin does what has to be the funniest (and creepiest) self-parody imaginable, playing himself as the world?s sleaziest human being.
When Dean?s car breaks down in a small town named Climax, Nevada, it seems like a godsend to music teacher and would-be song writer Orville Spooner (Ray Walston), who invites Dean to spend the night at his home so he can show off his songs.
Afraid that the lecherous singer will put the moves on his attractive wife Zelda (Felicia Farr), Orville sends her off to her mother for the evening and hires the town hooker Polly ?the Pistol? (Kim Novak) to impersonate his spouse.
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*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 20, 2008: The Music Box*
?The Music Box,? TCM, Sunday, July 20, 8:50 p.m. (EST)
The classic 1933 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy "The Music Box" not only has the distinction of being the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, but also, to this day, remains the finest film ever to win in this category.
In addition, it is a perfect example of how Stan and Ollie could take a single situation and milk every possible laugh out of it. In this case, the boys are furniture movers who have to deliver a player piano in a crate to the home of a woman who purchased it as a birthday present for her husband.
The catch? The woman?s house is located at the top of a hill accessible by a large cement outdoor staircase. And so, for about two-thirds of this 30-minute masterpiece, Stan and Ollie try to haul the piano up the flight of steps.
Inevitably, every time it seems as though they?ve almost gotten the piano to the top of the stairs, something (or someone) causes to go sailing right back down.
The only Laurel and Hardy film to win an Oscar, ?The Music Box? is one of the funniest movies ever made and proof positive that the worst thing that ever happened to Hollywood slapstick was the death of the comedy shorts.
TCM's Ben Mankiewicz to replace Ebert & Roeper
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Seems like Ben Mankiewicz is now going to be half of the new team replacing Ebert & Roeper....
*Disney names new hosts to replace Ebert and Roeper*
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A day after influential critic Roger Ebert quit the film-review show he co-created three decades ago, the Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday named two new hosts and unveiled a new format for the nationally syndicated program.
Ben Lyons, a film critic from cable channel E! Entertainment Television, and Ben Mankiewicz, a moderator on cable network Turner Classic Movies, will take over as hosts of Ebert's old show when it is relaunched on September 6, said Disney's Buena Vista Productions studio.
The show will be renamed "At the Movies," dropping the surnames of Ebert and Richard Roeper, the program's last permanent co-host, from the title.
Ebert and Roeper, both columnists for the Chicago Sun-Times, announced separately this week that they were leaving the program -- with Ebert, 66, saying on Monday the show was headed in "a new direction."
Disney said "At the Movies" will continue to feature back-and-forth commentary between the two hosts, but the set, music and graphics will all be changed.
In one new segment, Lyons, 26, and Mankiewicz, 41, will be joined by other critics via satellite. The pair also will give their picks for three favorite films in theaters each weekend.
"With the addition of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz as our talented, charismatic new co-hosts, and exciting new segments planned, we're confident that audiences will be enjoying 'At the Movies' for many years to come," Disney-ABC Television Group executive Brian Frons said in a statement.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Ebert, who created the show in 1975 with the late film critic Gene Siskel, said by e-mail that the new format "sounds like a pilot for a new entertainment show, not a continuation of the traditional format."
Ebert said he and Siskel's widow, Marlene Iglitzen, will retain rights to the trademarked catch-phrase "two thumbs up."
Besides his role as a film critic for E!, Lyons conducts red-carpet interviews with celebrities.
In addition to appearing on Turner Classic Movies, Mankiewicz hosts a live radio talk show called "The Young Turks" on the liberal broadcast network Air America Radio.
Disney spokeswoman Bridget Osterhaus insisted "At the Movies" would "stay true to the movie review format."
"It's not an entertainment news magazine that reports on celebrities or anything like that," she added.
Ebert, arguably the nation's best-known movie critic, was sidelined as host of the show after undergoing surgery in 2006 that cost him his voice.
Roeper, 48, has anchored the show with a variety guest-hosts since then. He said on Sunday that his last appearance on the program would be on August 17 and that he intended to co-host another film review show that "honors the standards established by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert more than 30 years ago."
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Eric Beech)