Film_Fatale
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Thank you, tobitz!
And today, happy b-day to Academy Award-winning editor, Ralph E. Winters!!!!!!!!!!
(June 17, 1909 - Feb. 26, 2004)
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If they released it on DVD, they could just have that added as a bonus feature.
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It is a fun genre.
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I actually saw the ad and was wondering if they'd screwed up!
You don't suppose you could ask them to let you have the right set for $9.99? If they don't, you could say it's false advertising!
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> {quote:title=mateo107 wrote:}{quote}
> the other day i was overjoyed to find a Criterion/Eclipse DVD for Wings (1927) available for pre-order on [bestBuy.com|http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=16995815&st=wings&lp=4&type=product&cp=1&id=1878334]. unfortunately, it turns out they just have the wrong description up for a 1966 Soviet film. hope nobody else gets fooled by this.
The sad part is, it's not like it couldn't happen. I mean, Criterion has licensed movies from Paramount before. So if Paramount doesn't release it on DVD, one can only hope they'd license it to someone who would!!
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Happy B-Day, James Robertson Justice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(June 15, 1907 - July 2, 1975)
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Happy B-Day to Dorothy McGuire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(June 14, 1916 - Sept. 13, 2001)
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> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote}
> CineMaven, I believe THAT KIND OF WOMAN was shot in widescreen VistaVision. The print that ran on TCM was cropped. Therefore, the close-ups were very awkward. I really didn't believe for a minute that Loren would leave her life of luxury to run away with Hunter for possibly three days of happiness. Maybe because Hunter is not much of an actor and isn't quite convincing in this film. Barbara Nichols is another unsung actor much like Edie Adams. Both were very active in the 1950's and always very good. This might be Ms. Nichols' best film role.
Maltin's guide says that it was filmed in VistaVision. Here's hoping they'll be able to get a letterboxed print one of these days...
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Aye, I hope he won't suffer.
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Sad news today...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_en_ot/people_paul_newman
*AP Exclusive: Newman friend says actor has cancer*
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Paul Newman, the legendary actor and philanthropist, is battling cancer, his longtime neighbor and business partner said Wednesday.
Newman, 83, has recently appeared gaunt in photos, and dropped plans to direct a play in his Connecticut hometown. Writer A.E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman to start Newman's Own salad dressing company in the 1980s, said the actor told him about the disease about 18 months ago. He did not specify what kind of cancer, but said Newman is in active treatment.
"I know that it's a form of cancer," Hotchner told The Associated Press. "It's a form of cancer and he's dealing with it."
Newman issued a statement late Tuesday that he's "doing nicely" but didn't specifically address questions about cancer. A call was placed to his spokesman Wednesday seeking comment.
The Oscar winner appeared to have lost weight when he was photographed during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race last month. Martha Stewart, in an entry dated June 6, posted a photo on her blog of herself with the actor, who looked thin, at a luncheon to benefit the Hole in the Wall Gang camps for critically ill children. (The Hole in the Wall Gang was led by Newman's affable outlaw character, Butch, in the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.")
Newman won an Oscar for his leading role in 1986's "The Color of Money." His screen credits also include "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke," "The Verdict" and "Road to Perdition."
Hotchner said Newman had an operation a few years ago. "It was certainly somewhere in the area of the lung," he said.
"He's battling," Hotchner said. "He's doing all the right stuff. Paul is a fighter. He seems to be going through a good period right now."
Asked about his prognosis, Hotchner said, "Everybody is hopeful. That's all we know."
In 1982, Hotchner and Newman started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $200 million, according to its Web site.
Last month, officials at Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse cited unspecified health issues when they announced that Newman would not direct "Of Mice and Men" this fall.
Newman lives in Westport with his wife, Joanne Woodward.
Two friends said Tuesday that Newman appeared to be doing well.
"I think he's feeling quite well," said actor James Naughton, who spoke to Newman on Monday night. "As far as I can tell he's doing very well."
Newman had an infection over the winter, but seems to have that under control, Naughton said. He was lively at this month's Hole in the Wall Gang camp fundraiser, he said.
Michael Brockman, Newman's racing team partner, said Newman told him recently that he wants to get back into his race car for a test run and possibly another competition. His last race was last fall, he said.
"I think he's doing better than he was," Brockman said, noting that Newman had regained most of the weight he had lost.
"I think he looks great," said Brockman, who saw Newman last weekend. "I wish I looked that good."
Brockman called Newman "one of the best guys I ever met."
"He's just a regular guy," Brockman said. "He's humble."
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Happy B-Day, Gene Wilder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Born June 11, 1933)
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> {quote:title=northbreed wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks for your advance notice re "Double-D" DVDs for 2009, shearerchic. Whenever I periodically check the TCM boards, I enjoy reading your interesting, no-nonsense scoop(s). Good job!
I also always look forward to shearerchic's posts! B-)
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Aww, shucks, thank you!!!
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This might not be such a bad idea, if it keeps him from posting everywhere else.
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> I recently read a bit of interesting news. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is set to be released on DVD sometime in October with commentary by Angela Lansbury. This film has been a long time in coming, so I for one am looking forward to its release and what Lansbury has to say about the making of this classic.
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Edgecliff,
Just found an official announcement. I'm excited about this title!
Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Picture of Dorian Gray on 7th October 2008 priced at $19.97 SRP. George Sanders, Angela Lansbury and Donna Reed star in MGM?s 1945 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Victorian horror novel about a man who stays eternally young while his famous portrait ages through the years. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards - winning one for Best Cinematography and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Miss Lansbury.
The Picture of Dorian Gray has been remastered especially for this release and boasts new bonus features, including cast commentaries, a vintage short plus a special cartoon.
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Happy B-Day, Judy Garland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000023/
June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969
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Anyone else here wondering if TCM was able to find a print of the complete version of They Won't Believe Me ? I'm curious because they showed a version that was about 80 minutes long, but Maltin's guide lists it as 95 min. long.
So anyone know if there is, in fact, a longer version than shown by TCM today?
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It didn't exactly "go out of print". Fox recalled it, before most stores even had it on the shelves.
But sorry, I have no idea why they recalled it and why they are still holding on releasing it.
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> The best thing about the original film is that it preserved Harrison's performance. Hepburn looked lovely and there are those gorgeous sets and costumes- but as a cinematic experiencit was kind of static. Miss Knightley would be a nice Eliiza and who will be her Professor Higgins? Hugh Jackman can sing and will look great in those period clothes.
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It might be interesting to see them doing a musical.
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Well, I watched *The Optimists* the other night, one of the Legacy/Paramount releases. Just wanted to mention that the transfer appears reasonably well done; the film looked pretty good for a movie of the early 70's. The DVD has anamorphic widescreen transfer and closed-captioning, but nothing at all in the way of extras, like the article mentioned.
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> Let's look at this on the bright side: one of the cheesy studio-tour rides ("King Kong") was destroyed. Now, if only a way can be devised to burn down the rest of Universal's crappy idea of "Hollywood history" (the "E.T.," "Back to the Future," "Jurassic Park" rides, etc.) while leaving the historic movie lot intact.
I don't think they made those rides thinking about "Hollywood History". They're just attractions, they're there for fun, and I'm sure that Universal Studios feels they have to compete with other theme parks in the area, like Six Flags and Disneyland, to continue attracting visitors.
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Op-Ed Contributor
*Hollywood Is Burning*
By JONATHAN KUNTZ
Published: June 7, 2008
Los Angeles
THE most famous back lot fire in Hollywood history was intentional. In 1938, David O. Selznick staged the burning of Atlanta in ?Gone With the Wind? by torching the old ?King Kong? Skull Island set on RKO?s back lot and then filming the spectacular results.
Another Kong, this one a 30-foot, animatronic gorilla featured in the Universal City tour, went up in flames this week, along with various sets, film prints, audio recording and videotape storage vaults, as Universal Studios suffered its latest conflagration. The tour quickly reopened and now offers a view of the fire damage as part of the tram ride.
Most of the back lot acreage built up during Hollywood?s classic studio era was long ago sold off for housing developments and commercial space (Century City lies on much of the old 20th Century Fox back lot), but Universal Studios has always held onto its 230-acre lot, once a chicken ranch, supplementing profits from moviegoers with tickets to tourists eager for a behind-the-scene glimpse of Hollywood.
Catastrophe has been too common from the start: in fact, Universal City?s elaborate grand opening in March 1915 was cut short by disaster ? a stunt flier was killed when his plane crashed near the horrified crowd.
There have also been many studio fires in Hollywood?s 95 years, including about a half-dozen at Universal: made of wood, sets catch fire easily. From the earliest days, film producers prided themselves on having well-trained, vigilant fire departments. Bragging rights went to the lot with the biggest water tower.
Among the sets that burned this week were the courthouse square from ?To Kill a Mockingbird? and ?Back to the Future,? and a New York street from countless films and television shows. These sets themselves had been damaged and altered many times, and were mostly false fronts to begin with ? so what has really been lost? The physical residue of great movie memories, no more, simulations of simulations. The studio can rebuild the sets, as they have before ? now configured as much to the tour tram as to the camera ? and they?ll likely be better fakes than ever.
More serious may be the loss of the circulating 35-millimeter theatrical prints. While not original masters, these are the copies made for screenings at repertory theaters, art museum retrospectives and in college classes. Universal has already canceled screenings of ?Rear Window? and Howard Hawks?s ?Scarface? for the U.C.L.A. film history class I teach, along with all their other titles for the indefinite future.
Universal controls a big chunk of Hollywood history. Their own prodigious output includes ?All Quiet on the Western Front,? the third film to win the Oscar for best picture; classic monster series like ?Frankenstein,? ?The Mummy? and ?The Wolfman?; the comedies of Abbott and Costello; the melodramas of Douglas Sirk; and hundreds more. In addition, through wise acquisitions in the Lew Wasserman era, Universal also owns the rights to many additional Paramount titles, including various Alfred Hitchcock classics, the Marx Brothers movies and Billy Wilder?s film noir ?Double Indemnity.? Prints of many of these seem to have been destroyed.
This latest fire, I hope, will prompt Universal and its fellow majors to better preserve not just key titles like ?Duck Soup,? ?Dracula? or ?Vertigo? ? which will surely be reprinted and return to circulation ? but also the other 90 percent of their inventories, the less famous and therefore more vulnerable titles that the studio may not feel justify spending thousands to save. These are exquisite samples of 20th-century American culture and deserve to always be seen in their extravagant, sensual, big-screen glory.
Still, Hollywood can never be reduced to its physical remains, to false fronts or plastic film. This is an industry that delights in creating something memorable out of something fake, and creative destruction, rebuilding and reuse have always been part of the magic.
After all, the burning of Atlanta in 1938 was actually a beginning. Selznick and his crew immediately cleared the Kong wreckage, and then used the space to build the dozens of structures, from the Atlanta rail yards to Tara, needed for ?Gone With the Wind.?
Those sets were used many more times: Atlanta was recycled into Mayberry for ?The Andy Griffith Show? and then Gotham City in the television series ?Batman.? The area is now an industrial park.
Jonathan Kuntz is a professor of film at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Thanks for sharing, filmlover!
Also I agree it would be nice to see Wings released either by Criterion or PHV, if they were willing to do a good job themselves (which I doubt).
Today's NYT has a nice article on the new Carmen Miranda collection:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/movies/homevideo/17dvds.html