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FROM DALLAS,TEXAS...
The UA 90th Anniversary Film Festival, which celebrates the anniversary of the studio created by the likes of Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. The latter's actually a month-long celebration to be held at the :Inwood Theatre", beginning April 4 and running through April 26.
Here's the schedule for the fest, which marks the first time in forever most of these films have been screened on the big screen -- and note, they're one-day-only screenings, so you miss it, you missed it. Midnight Cowboy screens April 4, followed the next day by Dr. No. On April 11, the Inwood will screen The Magnificent Seven, followed by the original Thomas Crown Affair on April 12. Raging Bull screens April 18, followed by Robert Wise's West Side Story the following day. Rounding out the event are Some Like it Hot on April 25, followed by closing-fest film Annie Hall.
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Sunrise Stadium 15 at Las Olas Riverfront 300 SW First Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 954-761-9400
In honor of the 90th anniversary of United Artists, the Sunrise Las Olas movie theater will be featuring UA classics each week from April 22 to May 15. The schedule is as follows:
April 22 - "Annie Hall"
April 23 - "The Apartment"
April 24 - "West Side Story"
April 29 - "Some Like It Hot"
April 30 - "Raging Bull"
May 1 - "Rocky"
May 6 - "The Magnificent Seven"
May 7 - "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
May 8 - "Midnight Cowboy"
May 13 - "The Great Escape"
May 14 - "Dr. No"
May 15 - "The Manchurian Candidate"
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From Portland:
UA 90th Anniversary Film Festival Mar 14-May 22nd at The Laurelhurst Theater Pub Beer, Pizza and $3 admission!!
United Artists & Laurelhurst Theater Presents ten classis films
. Here is a chance to see some great film clasics on the big screen for $3
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***West Side Story 3/4-3/20
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***Judgement At Nuremburg 3/21-3/27
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***The Manchurian Candidate 3/28-4/3
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***The Great Escape 4/4-4/10
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***The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 4/11-4/17
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***The Magnificent Seven 4/18-4/24
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***The Raging Bull 4/25-5/1
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***Some Like It Hot 5/2-5/8
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***The Apartment 5/9-5/15
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***In The Heat Of The Night 5/16-5/22
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Best Angela Bassett film..."Strange Days"!
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LOL!! Hugs!
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"Not The Girl Next Door" was a really good bio! Very positive!! 1 of the best books about Joan!
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Monica Rivers: We're running a circus, not a charm school.
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Angela Bassett has had good days ? becoming a mother to twins, winning a Golden Globe, being nominated for an Academy Award. Then there was Thursday.
"Do you ever have one of those days? I woke up and the sun wasn't really shining but then it burst through the clouds and it was glorious. Hallelujah!" Bassett exclaimed to the crowd at the ceremony for the 2,358th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bassett, 49, was joined by husband Courtney B. Vance, their children and guests Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne and Rick Fox, her co-star in the new film "Meet the Browns," out Friday.
Fishburne, who starred alongside Bassett in 1993's "What's Love Got to Do With It," highlighted Bassett's resilience in the industry. She landed an Oscar nomination for the role portraying Turner triumphing over abuse.
"You get a lot of no's in this business and you have to have that desire and determination which is what Angela has," Fishburne said.
Whitaker gushed that Bassett was "a powerful artist, a beautiful person, a mother, a wife, a friend who illuminates my life."
Born in New York City and raised in Florida, Bassett snagged bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale before starting her career in theater and then moving on to film.
Her film credits include 1998's "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
At the ceremony, she recalled moving to Los Angeles from New York in 1988.
"I meant to stay six months but I stayed. Today my cup runneth over!" Bassett said. "I am crying now, I cried yesterday and the day before. ... This day is so, so special to me."
Films:
Passion Fish (1992)
Innocent Blood (1992)
The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Panther (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Meet the Browns (2008)
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Several books I have on films state the following:
Most B-Movies have the same things in common; Think of them as a "B-Movie Berometer":
1. Poor sound quality and poorly timed audio/sound tracks.
2. Obviously fake, or very cheesy "Special Effects"
3. The "Stars" are not recognized actors, or even recognized as extras in other films.
4. The plot, or story line is poorly written or the movie literally has no point.
5. The acting it self is very poor; There is no suspension of disbelief.
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I have a nasty imagination, and I'd like to be left alone with it.
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Jujamcyn Theaters has announced that A Catered Affair, a new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by acclaimed composer John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, will open on Broadway at a theater to-be-announced in the coming season (Spring 2008). Prior to Broadway, the new musical will inaugurate the 2007-8 season at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre (performances begin September 20th), it was confirmed by Jujamcyn Vice President Jordan Roth.
A Catered Affair is set in the Bronx of 1953. Funny, heartbreaking and oh so human, this musical play reveals relationships strained to their limits when a couple must decide whether to spend their life savings on a family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with a lavish catered affair. Harvey Fierstein's book and John Bucchino's score seize the opportunity to explore the meaning of family and the need for love, both new and reawakened.
A Catered Affair will be produced on Broadway by Jujamcyn Theaters, Harvey Entertainment/Ron Fierstein and Richie Jackson. The musical is based on the Turner Entertainment motion picture distributed by Warner Brothers and written by Gore Vidal, and the original teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN CRAWFORD!!!
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New Word: .......balmy breeze!
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Dandelion..the only film that comes to mind is "Daisy Kenyon"
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
Trivia:
He loved the number 7. He often placed numbers that added up to 7 in his movies.
He often said that his personal favourite of his own films was "Shadow of a Doubt".
Directed eight different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Albert Bassermann, Michael Chekhov, Claude Rains, Ethel Barrymore and Janet Leigh.
His 'MacGuffins' were objects or devices which drove the plot but which were otherwise inconsequential and could be forgotten once they had served their purpose.
He was one of the first 100 persons to have his name set into the pavement in London's 'Avenue of the Stars' in Convent Garden.
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New Word.....elopement
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Avocado ...That Night in Rio
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Years ago, someone noticed that if you start the film The Wizard of Oz playing in your DVD and then cue up your compact disk of Dark Side of the Moon as the MGM lion roars the third time, many coincidences will occur as the music matches the film in amusing ways:
During "Breathe", Dorothy teeters along a fence to the lyric: "balanced on the biggest wave." The Wicked Witch appears on her bike at the same moment the clocks chime before "Time" begins. During "Time," Dorothy breaks into a trot to the line: "no one told you when to run." When Dorothy leaves the fortune-teller to go back to her farm, the album is playing "home, home again." "The Great Gig in the Sky" seems to match the tornado sequence nicely. "Money" begins just as the film switches from black-and-white to color. Glinda, the cloyingly saccharine Good Witch of the North, appears in her bubble just as the band sings "Don't give me that do goody good ****." The munchins' dance seems to match "Us and Them" well. The Good Witch confronts the Wicked Witch as Gilmour sings "And who knows which is which". The song "Brain Damage" starts about (but not exactly) the same time as the scarecrow launches into "If I Only Had a Brain". As Dorothy listens to the Tin Man's chest we hearthe heartbeat at the end of the album.
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Vertigo Trivia:
Release date: May 9, 1958
The film is based upon the novel D'Entre les Morts (From Among the Dead) which was written specifically for Alfred Hitchcock by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. They had heard that he had tried to buy the rights to their previous novel Celle qui n??tait plus (She Who Was No More), which had been filmed as Les Diaboliques1955). Source / More (Book)
The movie contributed a new type of camera shot to history, a rapid panning-out and then zooming-in shot. It?s called ?Hitchcock zoom? or ?contra-zoom? or ?Vertigo shot?. Source / More (Book)
The 96-room hotel York will be renamed as the Vertigo. Kim Novak?s character lived in room 501, which still retains many of its aspects captured in the film. Source / More (Web)
The Spanish mission doesn?t actually have a bell tower - it was added with trick photography. The mission originally had a bell tower but it was demolished in 1949 because of dry rot. Source / More (Book)
The encyclopedia on Vertigo: Sensation that a person?s surroundings are rotating or that he himself is revolving. Usually the state produces dizziness, mental bewilderment, and confusion Source / More (Web)
Kim Novak: ?Hitchcock didn?t like me in his picture and he felt I was ruining it. I got some of the best notices in my career. But Hitchcock couldn?t blame himself, so he blamed me.? Source / More (Book)
Hitch: ?In the second part of Vertigo, when she?s dark and looks less like Kim Novak, I even managed to get her to act. But the only reason I took Kim Novak was because Vera Miles was pregnant?. Source / More (Book)
Director Billy Wilder: ?Vertigo without Kim Novak is no fun?.
Remarkable:
James Stewart was very interested in starring in North by Northwest, begging director Alfred Hitchcock to let him play Thornhill. Hitchcock claimed that Vertigo?s (1958) lack of financial success was because Stewart looked too old.
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL TCM FRIENDS!!
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