JackFavell
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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.
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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.
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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....
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I agree completely, but the fact that it IS Rio Grande makes it even more striking an error in judgement......
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> {quote:title=Film_Fatale wrote:}{quote}
> Well, I'll make sure to add them to the Netflix queue B-)
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> They're subtitled, right? I don't mind bad audio if at least I can see what they're saying.
Absolutely.
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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.....
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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.
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He seemed enthralled with Chaney, almost compulsively so.... like he was a long lost father or something...
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Maybe it's only the PROMO. not the actual movie???
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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.
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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!
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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!
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_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.....
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> no doubt about it, Mr Roberts!
LOL!
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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.....
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Thanks guys, for the info.... I must have had the non-color version, since my funds were limited at the age of 9-12. I just loved the combination of colors in that scene, and later with the red of the cloak just floating in the night sky.....hovering above the unknowing couple. It was a nice shock to me to see it restored like that.
You also inadvertently told me something else I wanted to know- that there are scenes missing. Certain parts of the movie bothered me, because, for instance, Mary Philbin would jump from one side of the room to the other, and back. I realized that although it is great to see a restored version, we really do not have the full movie.
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Did you watch Chaney the other night?
Phantom was AWESOME! I LOVED the red cape scenes...I've never seen the color part before.... I was wondering if the color was new to this version (I haven't seen the movie since I got the 8mm from my library when I was a kid)? I don't remember there being color, but it was so long ago, I might have forgotten.
When I was young, I didn't like the movie because of Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry. I thought they were rather stilted. I liked them much better this time.
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Ach! Gorgeous pics of Conrad.... How amazing that he can look so different. I love him.....
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That was nicely said, Cinesage.
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> {quote:title=Film_Fatale wrote:}{quote}
> I do get AMC, but I practically never watch it... except perhaps for *Mad Men*, because the sight of movies getting butchered with pan-and-scan and commercials... it's almost more than I can bear! :0
Oh, I agree. And How!
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I am glad Leguizamo was on Elvis Mitchell. I have always liked his work, although not always the movies he is in. I think he is a fairly untapped resource, as far as Hollywood is concerned. He has a lot of talent that I am sure is buried - the roles he gets don't explore one tenth of what he's got going on under the surface. I like his edginess, and the feeling that you are never sure which way his characters are going to go. I think the comparison to Garfield is quite appropriate- they have the same scary kind of emotional intensity.
I also loved the question about whether Leguizamo and his family liked West Side Story- even though the actors were not Puerto Rican. His answer, along the lines of "We didn't KNOW that! It was like a holiday for us...we were on TV for once." made me laugh out loud....
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I don't get FMC.
The more I think about it, the more I believe it was AMC. I bet that's why I was not watching carefully, because I couldn't stand the commercials. I do believe that it was a premiere of the letterboxed version, though. I am almost positive.
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Oh, 3 AM. I guess my daughter will NOT be at school after all....
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> I don't suppose you'd remember if you watched the old "regular" version or the widescreen transfer with the "Fox Grandeur" version? To me personally it was a revelation to find out there were widescreen movies being made way back in the early 30's.
I don't know, but I do believe it was on TCM last year (2007), sometime in late summer or early fall. I think it was right after I got my cable switched so I could get TCM......maybe in July, or August? I think it WAS widescreen, now that you mention it. That's probably why it looked so good to me. Unless it was on AMC.... I just can't remember what channel.
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