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Loved 'Indian Summer'. Really charming movie.

I'd be scared.

So many good Jeff movies. 'The Fabulous Baker Boys' (1989) is a favorite.

If TCM is starting to show us made-for-cable movies, that's a very good sign. Lots of excellent ones to see.

Yes, I liked that sleazy movie very much myself - and what actress conveys a sense of a sleaze better then Virginia Madsen, huh? Jennifer Connelly has been a huge surprise. In this - one of her early roles - I took her to be a wiling to be nude bimbo actress (magnificent body!) that would barely be heard from in any important way. Wow - was I wrong about that instinct! She has proven herself to be a wondrously gifted actor.

Dang - I missed 'Full Moon High' this morning. I'd heard it was really funny parody. Wonder if TCM will ever show it again.

When I used to watch them on Shindig, Hullabaloo, and shows like that in '64 and' 65, it was Wyman who gave me the best kick with his bored gum-chewing, suit-wearing thing. Where the Beatles wore uniforms, smiled and shook their heads all the same, the Stones all dressed differently and affected an individual stance. I loved being a teen in the 60's. Greatest time to be one EVER!

I'd trade lives with him in a nanosecond.

You can tell yourself whatever you like, but when Holden asked how big a part Mae had in the movie, he wasn't asking to be told what happens to her.

Spoilers are a bad habit for Lorna. Wish he'd break it.

Yeah, if he's in it, there's always gonna be something to like. He's incapable of giving a bad performance. Tomorrow is, hands down, the best - the highlight day of SUTS 2015. Hope you all have about 22 hours worth of room on your recorders. Get it all - It's worth it.

I remember when 'A Big Hand for the Little Lady' played in our theater back in 1966. None of us knew anything about it. What a delightful, surprising movie for that era. I remember the audiences really enjoying it. Jason Robards is absolutely brilliant!

Thanks for posting that video of 'Far Away Eyes', Vautrin. Mick really is a great frontman, isn't he? A lot of natural acting talent he has. It's strange maybe that I have no use for country music - not since the 50's-70''s anyway. New Country just annoys me - I repeat, no use for it. And yet, when classic rockers do country, I often like it.

Maybe...little bit (Robert DeNiro here). They became one of the harder-edge bands in the late 60's onward - a fair bit different from the blues-rock they'd been earlier in the decade when Brian had more influence. My point is, there were times when I felt they would throw some stuff in that they knew was hard-edged to the point of 'badness' (in the punk sense). Some offensiveness couldm't help but be picked up by some people (some girls!). The album cover of 'Beggars Banquet' alone would indicate a certain direction toward a certain kind of offensiveness. Even the title 'Let It Bleed' had something of an offensive sound to it. All in good fun, wot.

I don't know why you keep bringing up that stupid thing. That's a clearly inferior version. The "extended" observatory scene is just lame. It was rightfully cut down to make the movie better. And the British demand that the "precognitive dream" be changed, while Menzie's brought everyone back in to shoot an alternate scene so they'd shut up, is most certainly not an improvement. Corny, cheesy, boring - much less cool than the original twilight-zone-y version we all know over here. The British version is an alteration on a classic that makes for a worse movie and I see no reason for TCM or anybody else over here to show it. Only a lunkhead would even ask for it, let alone make a repetitively-stated issue out of it. I've yet to hear a single person say the British version is better than the American version. The American version is said to be better every time. Until you came along, anyway.

I love the 1931 'Frankenstein'. It's my favorite of all of the Universal Frankenstein movies. I love the no music. I love the imagery. I love the pathos that is so abundant in that original chapter. Truly great cinema.

I don't know if it's the photo show accompanying, but I like the country tonk version much more than the hit version. When I look at images of Brian, I feel heartbreak. There's a sweetness to his face that isn't present in any of the others.

Reminds me of when Homer Simpson was blindfolded as they were doing a "this is your life" bit and Krusty the Clown says "hey Homer, remember me" and Homer goes "brrrrowwwtthh, (imagine Orbison's growl in 'Pretty Woman'), Kathleen Turner!"

I loved 'One hour Photo' (2002). Some people I knew said they thought it wasn't very good, but I know some pretty un-insightful people. I wouldn't call it a film-noir, though - or neo-noir, as the case may be. It's a tragedy about a lonely conservative man who simply can't understand why those who have such gifted lives with family and loved ones - a life that he would give his right arm to have - disrespect, dishonour such a gift. It causes him to psychologically break somewhat, and do something he should not do. Robin Williams is perfect in the role, showing so much of the sensitive human-ness he's shown before - most memorably long ago in 'The World According to Garp' (1982). Whenever the term "neo-noir" is raised, the very first movie I think of is 'Johnny Handsome' (1989). Man, would I love to see that one again.

I've never had any problem making out the words he speaks - in any movie. I think it was just so unusual that he was natural rather than stagey in his enunciating that people weren't used to it and, not liking it when the unexpected happens, called it "mumbling" to voice their qualms about something new in film-acting.

Those who are not normally into Hitchcock probably haven't seen it - so yes, I'd say they're probably pretty much unaware of Walker's performance. Having heard of a movie doesn't mean being familiar with it.

Thank heaven for make up, ay? And a ton of it I'm betting.

I would love to see the 1985 version of 'King Solomon's Mines' with Richard Chamberlain. Somehow I missed it back then, but I remember that critics absolutely lambasted it for its "racism". Yeah, whatever. The friends I knew who saw it thought it was terrific. But I think the critics must've won out because the movie has virtually disappeared. And I haven't gotten to see it, dammit!

Not really. Once in a very blue moon TCM has shown the odd one - usually on Underground - but it's like pulling teeth to get them to show any kind of quantity of such product.

But not cute-outrageous, ay?