JackFavell

> {quote:title=rohanaka wrote:}{quote} > I do know what you mean...sometimes when I am watching something really good....the "unreal" aspects....like black and white film or even subtitles disappear. That's it exactly! I get so completely lost in a movie sometimes that I am convinced of things that may not be there! Black and white lets me create a whole world in my mind, and I think that is why in some ways, it is a better medium than color. So, what color is this dress?

Bronxie- it is well worth the time invested. :x

Oh, geez, that bottom one in the cossack uniform is beautiful! I can think of some rather romantic scenarios to go with it!

Of course, McGavin is just the best, but I think Melinda Dillon is a wonderful actress. And Peter Billingsley is perfect. >Mr. Parker: "Where's the glue?" >Mother: "We're out of glue." >Mr. Parker: "You used up all the glue on purpose!" >Mother: "Ralphie, you're lucky it didn't cut your eye! Those icicles have been known to kill people." And this line always cracks me up..... >Ralphie as Adult: (narrating) Meanwhile, I struggled for exactly the right BB gun hint. It had to be firm, but subtle. >Ralphie: "Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!" >(everyone stares at Ralphie) >Ralphie as Adult: They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. >*Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue steel beauty. The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive. Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pringing ducks on the wingand getting off spectacular hip shots.*

Interesting article, interesting follow up discussion. I will lurk here a little more. I was surprised at some of the movies picked, like Barefoot Contessa, as well. and I certainly would have put Ivan The Terrible far above Potemkin, for sheer beauty..... No *Brief Encounter* ? Now, really. That's just wrong.

Thank you, Jake, for posting this article....

I would love to see a Gloria Jean tribute! Just putting in my two cents....

Well, I finally found this thread! I just wanted to say again here, how striking the movie was on TCM the other night. Having seen this movie years ago in B&W, I finally understand how GORGEOUS a movie it really is! The tinting and Chaney's remarkably sympathetic performance make me like this movie SO much more than I ever did before. I just loved Chaney in red, his cape floating over the lovers on the roof. What a great movie! I think this is now my favorite Chaney, though I haven't seen many of his movies for a long while. A big thanks to Ray Bradbury for picking some silents during prime time, and for his love of Lon Chaney.....

Although this one was on a list previously, it's the one I thought of first- and I think it deserves a separate post: James Cagney - *The Roaring Twenties*

I'll check it out!

I am shocked easily... :0

I actually looked up the TCM schedule, and they have it listed the same as always... B&W. Not that I trust the schedule completely, either.

I have never seen Blue Velvet- I have had so many people describe scenes from it that I got too creeped out to see it! I think I might actually like it, though.

Don't get me wrong, I looove the color in LHTH! I think it's gorgeous, but I also feel that the saturated color is sort of a metaphor for Ellen's suffocating love....

I agree completely, but the fact that it IS Rio Grande makes it even more striking an error in judgement......

> {quote:title=Film_Fatale wrote:}{quote} > Well, I'll make sure to add them to the Netflix queue B-) > > They're subtitled, right? I don't mind bad audio if at least I can see what they're saying. Absolutely.

They made a lot of those promos when Turner came out with colorization. I was just thinking that maybe they just dug the promo from the vault...... I will certainly be offended if they show the movie colorized, and I am sure that they will have a LOT of complaints if they do.....

I would say the print is OK, in some ways very fine. I had no problem with the picture quality at all. I had a VERY hard time with some of the remixing and levels sound wise. However, the movies are so good that I would recommend them in spite of the few problems in the tech areas.

He seemed enthralled with Chaney, almost compulsively so.... like he was a long lost father or something... Message was edited by: JackFavell

Maybe it's only the PROMO. not the actual movie???

I have only seen them the once- about 6 months ago. But on the basis of that one viewing, I am going to buy the set. I was so impressed with the way the characters relate, and how non-judgemental the movies are. I think that repeated viewings could only be better and better, like seeing old friends.

Ro said: Was the Big Trail colorized or something? The VHS copy had was black and white....and not too great a copy at that No.... I was just carried away by my I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. Sorry. The black and white images were so vivid, I guess I just saw how green everything was, and the beautiful sky..... I too was shocked at that ad for Rio Grande. I cannot think why they would show that!

Too true, too true, FF. We are lucky... and lucky to have TCM to show these classics, and during prime time too! BTW, I loved what Ray Bradbury had to say to RO, though I was somewhat dismayed to find that his mother took him to see these movies at so young an age!!! Maybe we wouldn't have had so imaginative an author if he hadn't seen Lon Chaney at the age of three!

_Bronxie_ - Beautiful that the music took center stage here- I have always loved that score! Breathtaking the way the sea envelops the entire picture. Now I have to go watch it again. Might I make a plea here for people to go and rent the original *Fanny Trilogy* from 1932- 36? Please give it a try, no matter what you think of the first movie, to get through them all. The second is my favorite, but they are all interconnected. I think that Marius gets the raw deal as far as characters go (so it isn't ALL Horst's fault), but if you see Pierre Fresnay, I defy you not to feel sorry for him at the end.....

CM- Thanks for mentioning *Shadow of a Doubt* and *Leave Her to Heaven* ! Shadow is my second Hitch fave, mainly because of the Thornton Wilder/Hitch combination, and because of the AMAZING cast, especially Joseph Cotten. The dark side of small town life shown in Our Town is turned upside down in the script, leaving Wright (and us) to appreciate those very things we hated so much about it in the first place.... but we can never go back and see our town the same way after the movie ends..... Leave Her to Heaven is in glorious, sickening Technicolor- I always think of that color as being a manifestation of Tierney's emotional sickness.....