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There's a couple of other Streisand movies I would love to see on TCM. The complete version of 'The Owl and the Pussycat' (1970) to start with. Yes, I know it's been shown before - but it was an edited-for-tv print that was shown. And 'Up the Sandbox' from 1972. These are my favorite Streisand movies - just as long as they're not edited for television.

Read about Shirley in 'Dutchman' (1967) and tell me you don't wanna see that! Which reminds me - she was an alluring (if somewhat odd) beauty way back when. It was around the time I saw her in 'Endless Love' (1981) that it hit me that she was aging poorly in that respect. Actually, let me take that back. I just realized she was about 44 when she filmed that - and that considered, she didn't look like she was aging all that poorly after all. Anyway, not everyone can maintain like Jane Fonda.

What a dreadful loss to film-goers was John Belushi. He might've become a truly great actor.

Watched it, recorded it, put it in my personal collection. It's the 2nd time I'd watched it - the first time is what made me decide to record it when it played again. Seems to me that Knight is very, very good in this - I felt like I understood everything that was going on inside her at all times, so either her acting was perfect or my intuition leads me on. Certainly the sweetest of all James Caan's performances. I'm actually beginning to form a new appreciation for his work as I revisit it. I thought he was so ridiculous in that John Wayne movie he was in, I think it may have prejudiced me going forward - filing him under "shallow beefcake" for many years. Finding I may have been wrong about that, based on some of the movies I've watched over the past year or so, very much including 'The Rain People'.

Me too. It was the "can't miss" show of the week for me. I used to say to people at work on Thursdays that "it's l.a. law tonight" and rub my hands together. They'd just stare at me blankly because for them it was knots landing night. Richard Dysart was the class of the show.

I loved the Los Alamos location. It felt wonderfully suitable to such a darkly-themed narrative. I also loved the 1983 timeline and the supportive infrastructure to that. I actually feel like I'm in 1983 when I'm watching this film. So many things I like about the American adaptation. Maybe if I was a Swede I'd feel different, but it's the American version that mesmerizes me, and that's the version I recommend to anyone who asks.

What would be the point? A person could die from all that effort put into "proving" the unprovable. Everybody (except you, maybe) probably understands that when someone asks "what's the best movie", it's an opinion-centric question - to which the answer is subjective, and therefore unlikely to be convincing to anyone who doesn't agree, no matter how many words are used trying to do so. So, what you claim you "want" is a mischievous demand.

There are some movies that were made in colour that should have been in black and white. I always felt that 'The Ugly American' (1963) would have been a more powerful movie had it been in black and white - and that it would have been more highly regarded by critics and audiences. I think 'Rebel Without a Cause', for all its classic status, would've been better in black and white as well.

Looks like Charles Bickford to me.

Just remembered 'Nebraska' (2013) - another in black and white, starring Bruce Dern. One of 2013's best movies - 6 Oscar noms.

Limited to just the 21st century: 'The Ring' (2002) scared me the most of any horror movie this century.

Hey, if they're just gonna get rid of it, I'll take it! Well, maybe not me, but there's this video store I know that'd surely display it with pleasure.

These boards are a china shop now? But twinkeee isn't even here any more.

I remember very well the first time I ever noticed Geoffrey Lewis. It was in a movie made for tv - a western called 'The Gun and the Pulpit'. He played the part of a really cool gunfighter. One of the things that drew my attention to him was that he so much resembled Mr. Deinisch, one of my high school physed teachers. The resemblance was very much around the mouth. Anyway, I really liked him in that movie and would identify him immediately forever-after when I saw him in anything. Which was often. One of out best unsung supporting players.

Its the teeth that crack me up. I wouldn't change that thing for the world.

Now, there's a movie that should be shown on Underground.

'The Killer Shrews' is always the first thing I think of when I see James Best in anything. Those dogs with the rugs on their backs were pretty darn scary. Thank goodness for oil drums.

In my opinion, 'Let Me In' is the better of the two movies. I'll give the Swedish film an 8; the American adaptation gets a 10. Outstanding movie about vampirism. Horrifying and sympathetic in equal measure.

Was Not Was Hello, Dad. I'm in Jail.

A few other very good b&w's come to mind - Joel Coen's 'The Man Who Wasn't There' (2001), Jim Jarmusch's 'Down by Law' (1986) and 'Dead Man' (1995), Coppola's 'Rumble Fish' (1983), David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' (1980) - and his cult film to end all cult films, 'Eraserhead' (1977). There's probably a few others I'm not remembering. Every one of these movies - including those already mentioned in the past few posts - enjoy an honoured place in my private collection. I guess I must really like black and white movies - when they've got something else going for them, anyway.

That thing is a riot!! I love it. Every time I look at it, I laugh my bum off.

Because they're afraid of misunderstandings. Jimmy doesn't like misunderstandings. I don't mind them, though - so I don't use smileys.

As the mid 60's arrived, movies shot in black and white became increasingly few and far between. Audiences in the late 60's tended to think of them as cheapskate productions. In the 70's, a few of the better filmmakers would now and again go against the grain, and by then black and white was so uncommon that it became noteworthy, usually accompanied by a sense of greater artistry. This is still the case today.

That's Frosty? Looks more like Cuddles the Comfort Doll.

Just one. O Mama Mia.