JackFavell
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Jeff, I have a special fondness for William S. Hart, so I can't wait till you dig up those posters! He was one of the few stars whose movies I could get at the library when I got my projector, and I bought my own copy of Tumbleweeds when I was twelve or so. Happy posting!
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Thanks for the info! I really was curious about that photo... I would never have guessed she was ill, she looks so glamorous in the picture......
Nipper- You are so right about Marie making others look good.....I love her ability to shift focus from one place or person to another, I was noticing it while watching the movies. It would have been easy for her to upstage people, but she would always allow focus to go back to where it was important......
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aaagh. I can't stand that I am stuck here in a burg that has no foreign film theatre..... it is awful. One theatre occasionally gets things that are most popular, like La Vie en Rose, but then I can't find anyone to go with me..... bummer.
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LOL, Cinesage!
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CM- that was beautiful!
You say Garbo's Marguerite is "not very nice" to take money from the Baron to finance her tryst with Armand, and I agree to some extent, but this was the only way a woman of that time could get money. Women were not able to work, except as courtesans; or own anything, except through their relationships with men. Marguerite's relationship with the Baron is just more overtly horrible than what women went through in their everyday lives back then. So she is trapped. And the implication is that men like the Baron are sort of to blame for creating the trap in the first place.
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No snorting out my nose this time- Hey, I've got to go - my neighbor is having problems with her fridge-and I have to help out- see ya later!
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Unfortunately, I have to go help my neighbor with her refrigerator- it's on the fritz! So I can't chat anymore today- I'd love to talk more about Lang, since I am woefully out of touch with most of his other movies...catch ya later.
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*M* is thought provoking, and it's filmed in a gritty, smoky noir style that is hard to forget. But I think it transcends the genre. I find it a film, like Ford's films, that I can't stop thinking about after watching. It leaves room for interpretation in the same way, strangely enough.
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You are making me giggle uncontrollably here-
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Vertigo- King Kong is a great choice! They keep trying to remake it, but the first still stands as the very best version, and the very best of it's genre.....
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Hello, Frankie! I knew you would pop up if I mentioned this movie.
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Ken- I agree! I could have easily put a couple more Ford films on as well- You are the brave one here!
I really wrestled with putting How Green Was My Valley on as well, but tried for a tad more diverse list. The truth is, I could make ten more lists ( but I won't) (sigh of relief from other posters)
Miss G- I honestly don't know why I kept coming back to *M*. It just wanted to be on the list! Maybe it is the subject matter, maybe the way it is filmed, maybe Peter Lorre. I think it is so different from any other movie of it's time or after. It is modern, and that's strange for a 1931 movie....It is also a precursor to many many movies right up to now.....
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Ro- this is so weird, I should have known you were an Okie too - though I was born in Texas, I moved to Norman, Okla. when just a baby!
There was some great pickin' going on in those videos! I have some Bela Fleck CD's and I have seen Sam Bush quite a few times....once in a big fancy concert with Emmylou Harris. It was just the two of them for the first half, and he just blew the ceiling off. A great player. I thought it looked like him in the video, then read the little blurb on the side to see. it is interesting to see them "way back when" in New Grass". I find it funny that we both started out with the same idea- to escape country music. Now here we are comparing notes!
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-I'm pretty predictable!
No, you just have good taste.
and I didn't mean to slam Hitch- I realize that my first sentence came out sounding like I thought he WASN'T important, and that's not true. I just couldn't pick ONE of his movies as an inspiring, beyond time event....
My list stands up to scrutiny, so here it is:
*Sunrise*
*M*
*The Wizard of Oz*
*The Best Years of Our Lives*
*The Searchers*
It killed me not to put *Gone with the Wind* on, but I felt that it was in contention with The Wizard of Oz, and creatively, The Wiz beat it....
I also was trying to create a list of only American movies, but found that *M* was still floating around in my mind.... It is hard to put M on the list, but not Ran, or The Marseilles Trilogy. So I think my list is quite flawed.....
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I spent my formative years in Oklahoma, before moving around a bunch, and I used to hate country and western music. That's all anyone listened to in my town..... Conway Twitty had a house (it was actually a small castle) in our town- that did not help......I had a low opinion of Johnny Cash, and for that matter, anyone else connected with country music. I remember when Elvis died it was torture, because though he was a rock and roll star, they played all sorts of more country inspired stuff for weeks and weeks, and I really am not an Elvis fan.
Then, after I moved away, I started to hear music that I actually liked- Old timey- like Ro said. Ernest Tubb, Flatt and Scruggs, Willie Nelson (only because he did old songs like Blue Skies, and he had such a sweet voice), Dolly Parton, Bob Wills, and Mama Maybelle Carter. Emmylou Harris is a particular favorite. I like yodeling, I discovered, and bluegrass is just about the best music ever. What I don't like is more modern country. I even like Johnny Cash now.....
Here is a group called Riders in the Sky- I don't know if they are still touring, but their shows are great fun. They are as goofy a bunch as you will ever see, but their musicianship is top notch. Each of them can sing beautifully and play like an angel, but they also tell ridiculous jokes, and Woody even does rope tricks. Too Slim dresses up as a sort of a Gabby Hayes type sidekick. They were inspired as kids by the movies of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Kids love them.....and so do I....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7reUQINQRQ&feature=related
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Hey Kimpunk- Glad you are back- hope things start turning around and going your way.
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I agree! best programming I've seen for a while. Please continue the great job, TCM. This is what we wait for.....
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Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown....
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I just talked to my neighbor down the street. She watched "The Great Escape" for the first (!!!!!) time today. She loves James Garner, but I forgot he was coming up on TCM! I will have to tell her to come down and watch......
I'll try to watch Cash McCall, but I end up missing huge chunks of movies lately because I am getting ice pops from the freezer or setting up a game, stringing beads and doing pretend makeovers......not to mention the stuff I'm doing for my daughter... (rim shot)....
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Jenny - you are great! Made me LOL.
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Isn't it strange that at that time, I thought Natalie and Robert Wagner were getting so old, and now I look at them and think how young they really were......
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Frank will like Sophia's own "scenery", too.
That's exactly what I thought.
I would love to see More than a Miracle again, especially because I missed the very beginning.....
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It amazes me what people let come out of their mouths. You would think that they would be really embarrassed to WRITE stuff like that.
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Laffite- Great examples! I DO always feel like a voyeur when I watch Jacques Tati--- I never really thought about it before. He sets up tons of scenes in which we watch people at their most foolish. Watching them try not to look foolish is just icing on the cake....
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Yes, I would die without TCM and Netflix!
I am actually so impressed with Netflix right now. I had a dvd that I sent back almost 2 weeks ago and it never arrived.... I called today and they were so nice, told me not to worry about it, and my next movie would be on the way... Then they sent two e-mails, one to ask me how the customer service was, and the other to tell me that if they find the movie, they will notify me. I can't remember if I've ever had such a pleasant experience reporting a problem.....