markfp2
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While it might not cost TCM that much to put one cover on one issue when a subscription is running out, many of us subscribe two or three years ahead so it's not something that they have to do for every subscriber, every year. To do that for every issue to every subscriber would probably cost them as much as envelope mailing and they've already said that as cost prohibitive. I'm not sure how many subscribers would want to pay more just for an additional cover or an envelope.
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > You may also want to check out movies from your local library
I think many people forgot about their local libraries when it comes to movies. I'm very lucky, our county library system has 25,000+ DVD titles (and that doesn't count multiple copies) of just about any genre you could think of. Classics, Criterion Collection, foreign, recent releases, you name it. They even still have about 20,000 VHS tapes, many of which are not out on DVD. All of them can all be ordered online and delivered to whatever branch is convenient. All for free.
As they say "libraries aren't just for books anymore."
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As others have said we all have done dumb things. I know more than once the second I've hit a "post message" key I've regretted it. You're good person for admitting your mistake and making a public apology. Take a break and clear your head or whatever, but do come back. If only perfect people posted here, these boards would be blank.
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Glad you found it so enjoyable and obviously worth waiting for. TCM came through once again.
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That's great to hear. I was planning on ordering the region 2, but I'll hold off now. Thanks.
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You sure it's not the region 2 release that's out in Europe? If it is a region 1 release here it certainly will be welcome.
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As far as I'm concerned it's Elia Kazan's first film A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN.
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> {quote:title=cody1949 wrote:}{quote}
> Will we ever see a restored non-public domain print of THE RED HOUSE ? It's one of my favorites.A DVD release or a showing of a cleaned up print on TCM would be most welcomed. What do you think about this?
It would be wonderful, but I'd be very surprised. From what I've heard the original film elements are gone. I've been told that there is a 35mm release print in an archive or private collection somewhere, but I don't know where or the condition.
Over the years, I've bought at least 15 VHS or DVD copies of it. Every time I'd see one from a different company I'd get it in hopes of getting a better copy. In every case, it was mastered from the very same terrible 16mm print. I've gotten so I know each scratch and splice by heart.
THE RED HOUSE is a terrific thriller that deserves better than to only exist in crappy PD copies.
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> {quote:title=johnm_001 wrote:}{quote} This was just a neighborhood house, not the first-run houses, which were even more palatial.
That's pretty impressive for a neighborhood house. You're right, we did take them for granted then, but who would have guessed that they wouldn't always be there. I'll take one of those over going to a multiplex anytime. Thanks for sharing the photo.
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Wow! We have so many talented programmers here that Charlie Tabesh had better watch his back. I'd love to vote for all, but since it can only be one my vote goes to _lzcutter_. Best of luck to everybody.
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For those those of you who live in upstate New York or like to drive. The beautiful, classic Capitol Theater in Rome, NY has scheduled three 35mm showings of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Friday 12/18 at 7pm and Saturday 12/19 at 2:30 and 7pm. This is a great chance to see this film on the big screen; without commercials, the way it was suppose to be seen. With an admission price of $5.50 for adults and just $1.50 for kids it a bargain too.
For details and a map go to [www.romecapitol.com].
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> {quote:title=zasupittsfan wrote:}{quote}
> There, I said it.
Well, every one to their own opinion. While I have a lot of respect for Chaplin, I much prefer Keaton.
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Welcome to the boards. I thought you'd find it at the bottom of the page with the other international sights, but I didn't have any luck. However, I did a Google search and found it with no trouble. Enjoy.
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I'll defend poor Charlie here. MURDERS IN THE ZOO is one of those films that really works better with an audience rather than watching it alone on TV. I recently saw it at a film society screening with a capacity crowd. In the scene following Charlie's run-in with the mamba, his line "Is there a good laundry in this town?" brought the house down. Granted with a 63 minute running time it did appear he was in it a lot, but he was better than a lot of actors who were put in other films just for comic relief.
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
>Seriously, it took them two and a half hours to show "Frankenstein" from 1931, and it's no more than an hour twenty minutes at most.
Exactly. All those commercials are the reasons that channels like AMC can outbid TCM for films like that. Probably 98% of the time TCM shows films that no other channel wants, but when it comes to those Universal horror films, they're lined up with open checkbooks trying to snag them.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} I think it was less noticeable people entering during a film back then. People were more polite...a time when a stern look could shut a motor mouth up quick. Those days are long gone.
Hi Lynn,
You are so right. Today, a stern look to the wrong person can get you shot or stabbed.
Another thing back then was that theaters were bigger than you'll find today. Most cities of any size had at least one with 2,000 seats so unless it was a packed weekend show, people had a lot of space to themselves. We had one in my hometown that had almost 3000 seats. I loved going to weekday matinees there because even with a couple of hundred people they were spread out enough that you still felt like you were alone. It's too bad that audiences can't experience that today.
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:}{quote} movies used to be shown continuously, with people wandering in at any point, then leaving at the same point in the next showing. Is there anyone else who would be driven crazy by this approach?
When I was growing up in the 1950s and my family and I would go to a movie, unless we happen to go to the first show and saw it from the start, we just got there when we got there and stayed until we saw the whole thing. It was just something that most people did back then. The odd thing is that nobody seem to care if they walked in on the middle of the film. I can still remember my dad saying "let's go, this is where we came in."
As a kid it didn't bother me, but as I grew up and developed into a film buff I stopped the practice and couldn't understand why people would want to see a film from the middle. Of course, I would never think of doing it now. As my wife likes to remind me, I'm like Woody Allen in ANNIE HALL where he won't go to see a film he's seen dozens of times because the credits had already started.
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A night? They could easily do a month. I think it's a great idea.
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> {quote:title=BruceGhent wrote:}{quote} This one, as well as THE GATHERING aren't available on DVD.
I know a lot of people look down their noses at made-for-TV movies, but there really were a lot of good ones. It's really is to bad that most seem to have fallen into limbo and aren't available.
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I'm afraid you won't find BEWITCHED here. TCM only runs movies and movie- related specials. No TV shows. As for THE WIZARD OF OZ, it's a standard on TCM and gets run at least a couple of times a year. They just ran it a short time ago.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} They fall out of habit of watching the channel and are replaced by viewers who think reality shows on ice trucking, logging, Alaskan fishing, etc is the bees knees.
OK, you found me out. So I'm gonna blow my image and admit I'm hooked on ICE ROAD TRUCKERS. Guess I'm just waitin' for one of those trucks to go through the ice. I do agree with everything you said though and I have to admit that the show doesn't belong on the History Channel. Even National Geographic Channel is running shows about the toughest prisons in the world and a new series about the repo man taking people's cars in the middle of the night. Is nothing sacred?
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Welcome to the boards. You have to remember that TCM doesn't program just for the east coast. It programs 24 hours a day for all the time zones. When a film is shown at 1am in the east it's only 10pm on the west coast.
Usually, TCM tries to schedule repeats at different times to give everybody a chance to see it at a convenient time. For example, on January 4th TCM is showing Billy Wilder's great war film FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO at 1:15 am, the middle of the night here in the east, but prime time in the west. On February 22nd it's showing again at 8pm eastern while folks are still on their way home from work on the other coast. I imagine future showings will be scheduled in the morning or afternoon.
It's a no-win situation for TCM. No matter what time they schedule a film, it won't work for somebody. As another poster pointed out the best thing to do is to record the films you can't watch and then you can see them whenever you want to.
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Chris, that all sounds interesting. You may want to send a letter to TCM's Vice President of Programming, Charlie Tabesh.
Turner Classic Movies
1050 Techwood Drive
Atlanta, GA 30318
Good luck.
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I'm on DirecTV so the only way it could happen to us would be if we're watching a local channel that happens to be running one at that time. If that's the case, it would be the only channel it would be on, not networks like TCM.
It use to that the FCC only required over-the-air stations run the tests. Perhaps, they've change the rules and now require local cable companies to do it too. If that's the case, I'm glad I'm on satellite.
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> {quote:title=castillo wrote:}{quote} I moved to a small city Utica and is very limited the media access here
If you are talking about Utica, New York, I believe its library is part of the Mid-York Library System and allows you to draw on the resources of all the member libraries. Obviously, I don't know what they have as far as DVDs go, but it's worth checking out. The system I was talking about is west of you in Onondaga County.