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The one film of Ava Gardner's I have always wanted to see was "The Little Hut" I know this film is out of print, but I keep hoping to find a copy somewhere on VHS!

The Black Hole The Color Purple Creature from the Black Lagoon Clockwork Orange The Pink Panther Pretty in Pink The Man With the Golden Gun GoldenEye The Purple Rose Of Cairo Purple Rain The Blue Dahlia Snow White

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/joancooper2.jpg Joan Crawford's only film with Gary Cooper was 1933's "Today We Live"; Cooper played an American pilot to Joan's English heiress. Click on Link for pic! Nic pic too!

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/joancooper2.jpg Joan Crawford's only film with Gary Cooper was 1933's "Today We Live"; Cooper played an American pilot to Joan's English heiress.

Then there is the film "Coffee and Cigarettes" the film stars Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Steven Wright, The White Stripes, RZA and GZA from the Wu Tang Clan, Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina (among others)!

Also read the book: Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall by Richard Barrios The subject is dealt a much lighter hand than Vito Russo allotted its predecessor, "The Celluloid Closet"!

The 1961 epic film El Cid is coming to DVD for the first time in almost a decade, with a brand new deluxe edition DVD on January 29. Go to this link: http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/67/25967.php to watch an exclusive clip! MOVIEWEB: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Cid is more faithful to the actual chronology. Charlton Heston adds one more character to his gallery of historical portrayals as El Cid, the disgraced Spanish knight who rids his country of its Moorish conquerors. The triumphs of El Cid's military life are not matched by his private affairs; he is betrayed by his bride Chimene (Sophia Loren) and is made a political pawn by the avaricious Spanish landowners. El Cid has a climax unique in the annals of movie epics: the final assault against the landgrabbers is led by a dead hero. El Cid established the short but generally profitable reign of producer Samuel Bronston as the King of the Epics; his imprint on the film is much stronger than that of director Anthony Mann. Special Features - Cast Interviews - 1961 Radio Interviews with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren - Feature-length commentary from Bill Bronston, son of producer Sam Bronston, and historian-author Neal M. Rosendorf, assistant professor of U.S. international history at Long Island University - Documentary on the importance of film preservation and restoration - Featurettes on Bronston, director Anthony Mann and composer Miklos Rozsa - "Making of" documentary, "Hollywood Conquers Spain"

BEST LINE: When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara.

The article was sent to me by a friend, I will find out where he got it from! I'm a huge Otto Preminger fan as well as a fan of "Anatomy of a Murder", so a friend sent me the article since we spent one night talking about this film, as well as about the career of Otto for hrs! I will find out where the article came from and let you know! Also check out the book: Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King great book!! Lots of great info! The 1 film Otto Directed W./Joan Crawford "Daisy Kenyon" is "FINALLY" coming to DVD Mar 11, 2008!!

The strangest Burt Lancaster film I ever saw was at the Denver FIlm Fest which was "The Swimmer". This movie is not for everyone, but everyone I know who's seen it admits that it's one-of-a-kind. Burt Lancaster is flat-out powerful in the lead, as the man who decides one day to swim his way through his neighbors' pools to his home. As he makes his way pool by pool we learn more and more about Burt's real character. A kaleidoscopic study of how we see ourselves, versus how others see us. One of my favorites, please give this movie a shot!

Joan Crawford did 1 film W./Gary Cooper Called: "Today We Live". It was "supposed" to come to DVD but plans fell through! I never seen this film, only bits of it! Today We Live. MGM, 1933. Directed by Howard Hawks, 115 minutes. Joan Crawford stars as "Diana Boyce-Smith," a young, wealthy, playgirl Englishwoman during WWI. (This is her first film with future husband Franchot Tone, whom she would marry in 1935; her only film with Gary Cooper; and her first of three films with Robert Young.) The film was based on a story by William Faulkner that didn't include any women, so a few changes had to be made!

Joan Crawford did 1 film W./Gary Cooper Called: "Today We Live". It was "supposed" to come to DVD but plans fell through! I never seen this film, only bits of it! Today We Live. MGM, 1933. Directed by Howard Hawks, 115 minutes. Joan Crawford stars as "Diana Boyce-Smith," a young, wealthy, playgirl Englishwoman during WWI. (This is her first film with future husband Franchot Tone, whom she would marry in 1935; her only film with Gary Cooper; and her first of three films with Robert Young.) The film was based on a story by William Faulkner that didn't include any women, so a few changes had to be made!

Joan Crawford did 1 film W./Gary Cooper Called: "Today We Live". It was "supposed" to come to DVD but plans fell through! I never seen this film, only bits of it! Today We Live. MGM, 1933. Directed by Howard Hawks, 115 minutes. Joan Crawford stars as "Diana Boyce-Smith," a young, wealthy, playgirl Englishwoman during WWI. (This is her first film with future husband Franchot Tone, whom she would marry in 1935; her only film with Gary Cooper; and her first of three films with Robert Young.) The film was based on a story by William Faulkner that didn't include any women, so a few changes had to be made!

Joan Crawford did 1 film W./Gary Cooper Called: "Today We Live". It was "supposed" to come to DVD but plans fell through! I never seen this film, only bits of it! Today We Live. MGM, 1933. Directed by Howard Hawks, 115 minutes. Joan Crawford stars as "Diana Boyce-Smith," a young, wealthy, playgirl Englishwoman during WWI. (This is her first film with future husband Franchot Tone, whom she would marry in 1935; her only film with Gary Cooper; and her first of three films with Robert Young.) The film was based on a story by William Faulkner that didn't include any women, so a few changes had to be made!

My list of Romantic Comedies: Bringing Up Baby Pillow Talk Pretty Woman When Harry Met Sally Notting Hill My Best Friend's Wedding The Wedding Singer French Kiss Crossing Delancey The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Breakfast at Tiffany's Roman Holiday It Happened One Night It Started in Naples Bus Stop (Marilyn Monroe)

You should check my Thread: Happy Birthday William Bendix January 14, 1906 ? December 14, 1964! I loved him in "Macao" W./Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum!

In the film "River Of No Return" Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum share a cup of coffee several times through out the film! I know it's TV but let's not forget to mention David Lynch?s "Twin Peaks" (TV & movie), where special agent Cooper glazes with enlightment whenever talking about or sipping some coffee. Besides, coffee is an optic and methaphysical symbol in many important scenes. Also the BIG coffee movie of all time ..."O Lucky Man" from 1973. The main character is a coffee salesman!!

Otto Preminger is in the midst of reappraisal. Foster Hirsch just published a new bio about the bald and fulminating showman, the New Yorker's David Denby recently discussed the director/producer on the occasion of Hirsch's book and Chris Fujiwara's more analytical book "The World and its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger", and there was also a retrospective of Preminger at NYC's Film Forum. There are times when it seems like there's very few big rediscoveries to make in Hollywood cinema. The longing that maybe there's someone out there who has been overlooked strengthens the idea that Preminger needs new viewers and new understanding. Skidoo, for instance, which I'll be writing about shortly, is an astonishingly strange film, strange in that mind-roasting way that makes it really distinguished. Preminger's less-seen films deserve a revival, but his best work hardly needs a defense. The 1959 "Anatomy of a Murder" is a juicy, involving court-room drama with a splendid Duke Ellington soundtrack. It's about the wolf-like ardor for the law, a legal duel over a pair of wasted lives, held in a small town that sits right on the line between "picturesque" and "squalid." Preminger takes us to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The leaves on the local trees are gone, and the unnameable horror of a Michigan winter isn't too far away. The main character, an oddball called Biegler (Jimmy Stewart) is a slightly bohemian ex-district attorney; he's fond of fishing, inexpensive bourbon, those black, crooked Italian cheroots, and jazz. His nearly non-existent law practice is suddenly energized by a phone call; he's rung up by a lady whose husband has just been arrested for emptying his Luger into a local bartender, Barney Quill. The accused -- a surly, dead-behind-the-eyes Lieutenant Manion, played by Ben Gazzara -- isn't exactly remorseful. He believes the Unwritten Law will get him off: Quill had beaten and raped Manion's wife. You can call me Laura." The name is a charged one in Preminger's work, and Lee Remick's Laura Manion is apparently as lethal as the "Laura" Gene Tierney played in that earlier Preminger film. Remick, a solid actress who died young, is these days remembered as the mom in the original version of "The Omen". However, there was a short period right before 1960 when Remick used to play The Woman Most Likely to Spontaneously Combust. "Everybody in this movie needs a cold shower," said Pauline Kael on Remick's debut film "A Face in the Crowd", and the first one in the bathroom should have been Remick, whose baton-twirling routine was as bad for the male heart as a triple bacon cheeseburger. Here, Remick's Laura wears skin-tight pants suits, carries around a frowzy lapdog, and lives in a trailer park. And even if Stewart is aware of Laura's lethal hotness (she tries to sit in his lap while he's standing up, in Philip Marlowe's phrase) he's able to hold her off. Biegler rounds up a dream-team of his alcoholic best friend Parnell (Arthur O'Connell) and his hard-working secretary (Eve Arden). And he has to move fast, since down in the state capital in Lansing, they've decided to send up a shark-like prosecutor (George C. Scott, at his most mandarin) to nail up the case.

It's time to renew the lease on an American classic. The Apartment is getting a new collectors edition release on February 5. The classic Billy Wilder film stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray. Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine) with his callous boss (Fred MacMurray). Director/co-writer Billy Wilder claimed that the idea for The Apartment stemmed from a short scene in the 1945 romantic drama Brief Encounter in which the illicit lovers (Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson) arrange a rendezvous in a third person's apartment. Wilder was intrigued about what sort of person would willingly vacate his residence to allow virtual strangers a playing field for hanky panky. His answer to that question wound up winning 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The Apartment was adapted by Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach into the 1969 Broadway musical Promises, Promises. Special Features - Audio Commentary from Bruce Block-Film Producer, historian, UCLA Professor and AFI Member - Inside the Apartment Documentary - Tribute To Jack Lemmon

This is in "Hot Topics" too!

This is in "Hot Topics" too!

WOW you saw "Christmas Holiday"?? This is 1 Gene Kelly film I have been trying to see for years! I read somewhere that Gene plays a charming, psychotic, homosexual murderer? Is this true? I know that it was never placed on VHS & from my understanding there are no plans for a DVD release! I have heard that although the film was a box office success for Durbin, she was criticised for having tarnished her trademark persona playing a dance-hall "hostess" (aka a prostitute). I read in a book that it was considered one of the bleakest noirs of the 1940s!

What about Abbott and Costello?? Can't forget them! Also: Lana Turner & John Garfield in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" Audrey Hepburn, Cat & George Peppard in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Richard Gere & Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Marilyn Monroe & Don Murray in "Bus Stop" Marilyn Monroe & Clark Gable in "The Misfits" Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson "Giant" Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton "Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", " The V.I.P.s" & " "Cleopatra" Rock Hudson & Doris Day "Pillow Talk"

The one film I know I'm supposed to love, but I just "DON"T get is: "Citizen Kane" from Orson Welles. I'm a "HUGE" film buff, & remember taking film courses, & this is 1 film we had to see in "Film Appreciation" class, & I remember getting up and just hating it, esp the end when you find out that "Rosebud" is a sled! A SLED! AHHH! Let me start of by saying that I understand that this movie was important when it was released, and that it had great influence, and I respect it for that. I found it extremely dull though, I can't believe people claim this is the best movie ever made. It sure isn't There is nothing in the movie that grabs you and makes you genuinely interested in Charles Foster Kane. Nothing. There's nothing to cause you to dislike him or to feel especially endeared to him (or to any of the other characters.) The famous, one-word death breath of "Rosebud" turns out to be nothing more than gimmicky, and 30-45 minutes after watching him saying it, hoping that somehow the movie would really develop something around that phrase, you finally decide you just don't care why he said "Rosebud." This is probably one of the most overrated pieces of celluloid ever made

Joan Crawford & Clark Gable! Joan co-starred in 8 films W./Clark: Dance, Fools, Dance ('31), Laughing Sinners ('31), Possessed ('31), Dancing Lady ('33), Chained ('34), Forsaking All Others ('34), Love on the Run ('36), and Strange Cargo ('40). Also: Jane Russell & Robert Mitchum "His Kind of Woman" & "Macao"!