Big_Bopper
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I'm the guy who posted a thread bout this last time. Unfortunately when I read this I was unable to post.
A new restoration needs to be done on 'THE THING" in which the 16mm footage is blown up to 35 frame by frame. I have a copy of the cut version & it is much sharper than the TCM version. I guess they thought just replaceing the missing stuff was enough. The funny thing is they replaced some of the 35mm footage with 16mm! The people who cut this movie did so for a reason & that reason is what the movie means.
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An opinion is an opinion. Just because the revolution is mentioned does not make it propaganda. They have THEIR history & stories to tell. & You without having seen them are sure they are propaganda. its like a kid not liking spinach. Well if its russian it MUST be propaganda. the FACTS speak for themselves. TCM is not showing them. That is the FACT. Why they are not showing them is opinion. I'm saying TCM or rather WB is afraid to face criticism for showing them. Gutless. Why dont you list what soviet silents TCM has shown & when. get busy.
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that was a joke
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What happened to Soviet Silents...? In the 60's they were reissued with soundtracks & in doing that they stopped being "Silent" films. So since the end of Soviet union in the 90's film archives have been working to restore them to their original condition. That is why TCM needs to show them. Because they have not been seen yet in these new versions.
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TCM has relegated POTEMKIN as "The Soviet Movie" in which that is the only example of Soviet movies - after which youre on youre own.
Potemkin was made as one of a six part series called 1905. In 1905 Russia had a failed revolution & later on they got it right. After that they decided to tell their unique story to the world in silent cinema. They didn't make that many good movies but the ones I listed are worth seeing if TCM will DO ITS JOB.
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more trailer park trash. like on E bored. lol
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they have shown Potemkin 20 times. other than that they are few and far between. They showed END OF ST. PETERSBURG, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, EARTH. Every movie is political. you just dont notice it.
TCM needs to show newly restored versions of STRIKE, GENERAL LINE, STORM OVER ASIA, AELITA, BED AND SOFA, OCTOBER, MOTHER, ENTHUSIASM, NEW BABYLON & FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE.
TCM is narrow minded on this topic. They have a problem showing them. They want to avoid controversy. By being gutless. I suppose the lazy cutter/filmlover tcm apologists will crawl out of the woodwork now. where's my can of raid?
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I cannot stand Robert Osborne. WB has overused this man to cause disgust. Exactly what not to do on a tv channel. Enough is enough. Next turkey... please...?
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Silent movies are the best thing on TCM. The problem is they refuse to show Soviet silents due to so called propaganda which is making a (wrong) judgment to condemn all these great movies. If you show just Hollywood silents you are stereotyping the minds of viewers. That is what made Soviet silents great. They broke the stereotyping Hollywood was relentlessly perpetuating. Yes there was a Russian Revolution & it is talked about in their movies. That does not make it propaganda. TCM is being narrowminded on this topic.
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As with just about everything, if you want something done right, you must do it yourself. Not rely on electronics. You must turn the record device on yourself & off when over. this way you'll be assured to get your movie if you want it bad enough.
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I write down in a composition notebook the schedule but I noticed TCM changes the times so it is necessary to turn on the record machine manually as the timer will mess up. I missed the 2nd half of DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER. & Many others...
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How many bases does our military own? thousands! Thats millions of employees to staff the bases & for what purpose? Nobody knows! Our state cannot afford to fix our roads, thanks to your army soaking up billion$ that could be used for road repairs. Who killed the Kennedys? Evidence points to your military who you say you need to be free. Last time I checked killing a president was against the law. Blame it on whoever you want, just dont hand me any crap about what wonderful things the army does for us. They are making work for themselves that we the people cant afford to pay. tribute indeed...
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Free from what? We need another army to protect us from this army. Aside of the fantasy of Veterans day meaning anything, How about we reduce the size of our army to one within the realm of our ability to afford one. This army costs too damn much for falling out of bed drunk every day & fighting fake terror wars just to make "work" for them which is ... falling out of bed...
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I think if you want to see anything about Hollywood if TCM is involved fuhgeddaboudit. This whole idea of Louis B. Mayer as a kindly old gent is neuseating. Nobody gave two craps about silent movies & so when Brownlow made his history of Hollywood THEN all of a sudden the clips he used are worth a fortune. Well now nobody is going to bother teaching future generations about the film past when the Brownlow Hollywood history is suppressed. You already have the best history youre going to get & not using it! Thats TCM for you.
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"But then came the 20th century where we went from horse and carriage to the moon in less than 70 years,"...
the moon by way of Area 51, if you believe the fake spacetrips
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Read Michael Balcon's book. I posted the details of Mayer's conflict with Balcon & it was removed. So I don't think I'll do that again. There was nothing about Mayer that was likeable. Mr. Hyde with a split personality.
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Yet another attempt to present a candy coated propaganda image of Louis B. Mayer. Kevin Brownlow said in his book Mayer went around wrecking careers of talented people. Rex Ingram & John Gilbert, Michael Balcon, etc. A horrible man - easily the most hated in Hollywood. Even his family hated him. But leave it to TCM to TRY & sweeten his image. Mayer wrecked Hollywood in order to get Republicans in power. Bringing in Washington to "investigate" the writers guild. Dont get me started.
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THE PASSIONATE STRANGER 1958 was filmed in BW & Color. The story has a novel being read & those scenes are color. The real life story is bw. I highly reccommend it. Dir. by Muriel Box
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Kevin Brownlow's verdict carries more weight than turkeys on this board. & he wrote on the credits 1929. There is no debate. Stop arguing. There is a 1925 version. It was NOT shown. There is a 1929 version & it WAS shown.
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There were two cameras rolling on the picture, one for european viewing & there are two negatives. If you look at "Cat & the Canary" shown on TCM they used an alternate negative. Its different from the American version. Same with Phantom of the Opera.
For those of you got offended bout what I said about R.O. forget it I was only kidding, I mean about him being senile. Not! No I was only kidding.
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Its a 1929 movie. It says so on the credits. Expert texpert....
Kevin Brownlow wrote: "A Restoration of the 1929 reissue". I think that settles it.
Get off your high horse.
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Its been on TCM so many times you'd think he'd know. But R.O. is looking so old he's probably senile. Yes I hope the original turns up.
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The movies that interest me I have had for years on vhs & when they show up on TCM in widescreen more often than not are just cropped top & bottom. The top & bottom are more important than the sides. Recent ones like Convicts Four & Al Capone were cropped. If you are watching on the new tvs maybe you wont be able to tell. Like fake stereo in records, the film companies sometimes can't be bothered to remaster a movie - its easier & cheaper to crop it.
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Scorsese foundation helps restore "La Dolce Vita"
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press
Saturday, October 30, 2010
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(10-30) 11:03 PDT ROME, Italy (AP) --
Martin Scorsese hailed "La Dolce Vita" as changing world cinema forever as he presented the restored version Saturday of Federico Fellini's back-and-white classic.
Scorsese, who was 18 when "La Dolce Vita" first came out in 1960, spoke of the impact the movie had on him and of the importance of preserving films for future generations. His institute for the preservation of film treasures, the Film Foundation, helped restore it.
"We have an obligation to the future, we have an obligation to our children to at least let them know this is here, this is what it was like," Scorsese told a press conference at the Rome Film Festival. "This is grand opera from Italy in the late 19th century."
Scorsese described "La Dolce Vita" as a landmark work both in world cinema and in Fellini's own production.
The movie broke narrative rules in that "there's no story, there's no plot, and the film is an epic length ? three hours," Scorsese said. It said it had "a moral intensity, an intelligence and a maturity" that was unprecedented at that point in commercial movies.
"This leveled the playing field for commercial cinema all throughout the world," the American filmmaker said. "This changed everything."
The movie follows Marcello Mastroianni's character ? a journalist ? as he covers jet society, movie stars and Rome's nightlife in the late 1950s. Through Mastroianni's eyes and quest for happiness, Fellini depicts a self-indulgent, ultimately decaying society.
The Rome festival marked the 50th anniversary of the movie's release with a world premiere of its restored version, an exhibit and other side events. Also shown at the festival were some scenes that did not make the final cut, including one bit from the iconic scene where Anita Ekberg seductively splashes in the Trevi Fountain. The Swedish actress came to Rome for the screening.
Scorsese, a New Yorker of Italian origin, is a great admirer of Italian cinema. His 1999 documentary "My Voyage to Italy" pays tribute to the Italian films that have influenced him, including those by neo-realist masters such as Roberto Rossellini or Vittorio De Sica, or Michelangelo Antonioni.
Influence is an elusive idea, one that can't be defined, Scorsese said Saturday. Still, he said, Fellini inspired him to be creatively free, both with "La Dolce Vita" and with later films such as "8 1/2."
"He wiped away all his concerns as a filmmaker with story on this picture and changed the world that way," Scorsese said of Fellini. Since "La Dolce Vita," Fellini never told straight stories again and started constructing his movies like "giant murals."
"La Dolce Vita," Scorsese said, "gave us the freedom to go ahead and break open cinematic narratives" while at the same time creating "a spectacle of life, a spectacle of a society, a culture ? and a satire."
Scorsese said his favorite "Dolce Vita" character is Mastroianni's, "because of the downward trajectory that he so charmingly makes" and because of the look "of acceptance" on Mastroianni's face at the end of the movie.
"This is something that is very beautiful," he said.
Too Many "Marathons?"
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I have been very concerned by these marathons especially Andy Hardy because I despise the andy hardy pix.
I'd like to see a marathon of Soviet silent movies - NEW VERSIONS
Aelita, Fragment of a Empire, Mother, Strike, General Line, Enthusiasm, Storm Over Asia & October
Something different than hollywood stereotypes.