Film_Fatale
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The TCM schedule is usually more reliable.
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> LOL..Like Indian Jones said..:"It's not the years. It's the mileage." ..
It's "Indiana", btw.
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And what does a 2007 movie have to do with DVD releases of classic films?
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Takes one to know one...
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You mean to tell me your dad doesn't take you so you can get into the R-rated movies? Oh, sorry about that.
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Well, I'm sure it must be fun when your dad takes you to the movies.
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What else would you like TCM to show? That biopic where Jennifer Love Hewitt played Audrey Hepburn? Seriously....
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Do you really have to spend nearly all of your time here regurgitating stuff from other websites?
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Are you paid to do publicity for the Encore channel?
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Some good pre-codes on the schedule there.
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> >You ever watch them together in 1900 ?
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> Was that their combined weight?
Heh heh. I was referring to Bertolucci's movie.
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> Gerard Depardiu and Robert de Niro
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You ever watch them together in *1900* ?
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> 1:30 AM -- early Tuesday morning
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> *Young and Innocent* (1937)
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> A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he's framed for murder.
> Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-83 mins, TV-PG
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> A very good early British Hitchcock movie.
A really good Hitchcock title... not yet on DVD, but scheduled for release later this year.
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> They are not showing any of Carol's Silent Two-reel Mack Sennett comedies from the late 1920's? One of them RUN, GIRL, RUN! (1928) was recently restored by Lobster films of Paris.
Well that's definitely something to look forward to!
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> Unless, of course, you're talking about Elvis Mitchell and the "Private Screenings" extended interviews when you say you want less talk. But most of the posters here seem to like those.
Those are cool, too, as long as they don't overdo them.
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Well, that's too bad. I guess I won't be putting it on my rental queue.
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Has anyone seen the TV version w/Matthew Broderick? Is it any good?
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It's not available on home video. Your best bet is to record it next time it shows on TCM, at least until WHV, which controls the classic MGM library, releases it on DVD.
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_*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 14, 2008: The Dentist*_
?The Dentist,? TCM, Monday, July 14, 10:05 p.m. (EST)
?(W.C. Fields?) ability to sense the crippling pettiness of daily life was nothing less than magical and his art was never purer than in the four shorts he made for Mack Sennett in 1933,?
Andrew Bergman, ?We?re in the Money: Depression America and its Films.?
?The Dentist,? starring Fields in the title role, is the first of these breathtakingly funny short subjects. This two-reeler is divided into two parts. The first half finds Fields playing golf with his buddies; the second part has Fields in his office tending to his patients (who would have been much better off if he had remained at the golf course).
Made before the 1934 Production Code went into effect, ?The Dentist? features many jokes that were cut by censors in later years, most notably the sequence where Fields and the female patient (Elise Cavanna) whose tooth he is trying to extract assume several suggestive positions.
Another gag that ran afoul of the censors was the moment when patient Dorothy Granger bends over to point to her ankle which had been bitten by a ?little dog.? Standing behind her, Fields gives her the once over and mutters, ?You?re rather fortunate it wasn?t a Newfoundland dog that bit you.?
(BTW, the films that TCM are showing Monday before and after ?The Dentist? ? The Marx Brothers? ?A Night at the Opera? and Alfred Hitchcock?s ?North by Northwest? ? aren?t too shabby, either.)
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Yes, it might have been. Still nice to watch again, huh?
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Has it ever been shown on TCM?
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Any Lubitsch fans watch To Be or Not To Be today?
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I think I still like "76 trombones" best. B-)
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In his weekly Q&A column this Sunday, author and critic Mick LaSalle had some interesting insights after being asked a question regarding his book about Pre-Code Hollywood....
*Dear Mick*: I recently finished reading your book "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood." It's amazing to see where we've come as a society and how that's reflected in the movies that are made. It's easy to see how the church and our patriarchal society wanted to quell the lifestyle of independent, powerful women.
John Hiebert, Fresno
*Dear John*: With regard to censorship, the haunting question is this: Does controlling the content of movies actually control people's behavior within a society? It's one thing to say that censorship doesn't work, but what if it does? I know women in their 70s and 80s who tell me that they felt like freaks in the 1940s and '50s because none of the culture's images of women corresponded with their own emotions and ambitions. Feeling alone and at odds with the mainstream, some of them conformed, buying into what movies and magazines told them was the recipe for happiness. This is precisely what censors assumed would happen, and even if they were right only some of the time, that's a fact with all kinds of implications. It means that movies are as powerful as the censors thought. It means that it's essential that the movies never again fall prey to a cabal of narrow-minded hypocrites. But it also means that the people who make movies - being powerful, being the repository of the culture's dreams - have a responsibility to the culture in which they operate. It means they shouldn't pump poison into the national bloodstream.
But who decides what is poison? That's the problem. We've tried censorship. It leads to bad art, ignorance and lies. Right now we're trying freedom, in the hope that - in an unrestrained, market-driven system - not all movies will degenerate into blood sport and pornography. (Of course, the punch line is that, by the time they all become blood sport and pornography, we won't notice anymore. We'll just keep defining those terms down until they mean nothing.) Anyway, stay tuned.
To hear Ask Mick LaSalle with commentary, trivia and lots of extras, download his podcast at sfgate.com/podcasts.
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Personally I think it wouldn't be quite as memorable if it were in colour.