Capuchin
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> The same goes more or less with all other videos, I try not to buy anything that is easily available for rental or library loan, because oftentimes I end up being less likely to watch something if I have it at home.
Neither rentals nor the library are viable options for everyone.
My post office box won't properly hold a DVD, so getting a scratched old Netflix means going back during business hours the next day and standing in line at the window.
The local rental shops only have the popular stuff -- nothing I can't already find on tv/ppv.
The library? Around these parts, that's a joke. It takes from 1 to 27 weeks for an interlibrary loan, and then they don't understand the difference between a 1930s classic and a 1990s piece of crap with the same title.
Besides, neither rentals nor library can fill the need to watch a movie just before I go to bed since I never know what kind of mood I'll be in or what might strike my fancy.
And DVDs are an investment -- with classic titles going OOP and download sites coming under the power of people who think they know what you should and shouldn't watch, a certain portion of any DVD collection is destined to skyrocket in value.
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I got an e-mail announcing a sale on Criterion DVDs. Since they have a lot of classics and slightly-hard-to-find movies, I checked it out.
I marked a few to buy later this week, but one title reminded me to check if another movie is out on DVD yet, and that led to something else . . .
In one swell foop, my "wish list" grew from six movies (about $100) to thirty eight (over $1,500).
Although I haven't thought about some of those movies in years, I'm now acutely feeling the lack.
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I'm glad to hear this since I've always thought it would be a great movie if it starred other people and was directed by someone else. :
You absolutely have to love the ending!
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Just because no one has mentioned them . . .
Daughter of the Tong (1939)
Murder, Inc. (1960)
Scarface (1983)
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*All That Jazz* The music energizes the action.
Not the whole soundtrack, but in *Indiscreet* I love the way the music swells the first time Cary Grant is seen.
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If you're a true fan, you should already have all the tapes and DVDs of his work and don't need them shown.
(Personally, I think he's greatly over-rated and I wince when I see his name on the schedule.)
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If this is a new release, I'd like to know when it was $59.99 (as the ad says) and when/why they put it on sale for $49.99.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> It is from last year's 100th Birthday Celebration for Joan Crawford.
I suspected that March, 2008 was a 100th Birthday tribute, but I couldn't resolve that with the fact that the TCM article says she was born in 1904:
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=192001
or that IMDB says it was 1905:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001076/
(She claimed to have been born in 1908, but I know of no source which agrees with her.)
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A quick peek at my database shows they usually play 20-30 Joan Crawford movies a year, but in August, 2007, they played an even dozen (including *Trog*), and in March, 2008 they aired:
A Woman's Face
Across To Singapore
Dancing Lady
Grand Hotel
Harriet Craig
Humoresque
Love On The Run
Mildred Pierce
Our Blushing Brides
Our Dancing Daughters
Our Modern Maidens
Possessed
Sadie McKee
Spring Fever
The Caretakers
The Ice Follies Of 1939
The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney
The Women
They All Kissed the Bride
Torch Song
Assuming normal cycle times, you can probably expect another motherload of her movies in March of either 2010 or 2011.
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For me, #1 is a tie between *The Haunting* and *Cat People*
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My favorite one-word title is *Telefon* -- it's just slightly exotic and has an overtone of intrigue.
*Rebecca* of course, because she was the most important character in the movie.
*Flubber* because you just know it's going to be funny.
Also intriguing and setting an appropriate mood for the movie:
*Hellfighters*
*Kagemusha*
*Kismet*
*Kwaidan*
*Laura*
*Mogambo*
*Nikita*
*Nosferatu*
*Raffles*
*Rope*
*Sabrina*
*Seconds*
*Vampyr*
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The best witch, ever, is Kim Novak in *Bell, Book, and Candle* (I'd gladly fall under her spell).
The funniest was Veronica Lake in *I Married a Witch*
Although it's a bit modern, you have to acknowledge the trio in *The Witches of Eastwick*
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote}
> There just might be more to this event than we are being led to believe.
It *might* have been a test by aliens to see how quickly we'd respond to a daylight sighting.
CNN disapproves of the family's politics.
CNN badgered the family for hours, to the point that the little boy vomited twice.
CNN took one comment out of context and are blowing it up into a headline-grabber.
The sheriff believed it was an accident, but to be sure, he brought in trained investigators to determine whether everyone in the family was telling the truth. At this point, pending the results of a forensics test, there is no reason to believe it was anything other than an odd juxtaposition of a scared child and a tether failure.
Because it interferred with air traffic, a determination will have to be made whether it was 'reasonable' for the father to foresee such an event (if the authorities believe greater precautions should have been taken, the father will face a heavy fine and/or jail time).
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*Hello Capuchin(Monk or Monkey?)*
Hooded cloak, like a cape with a wimple. In a venacular, it meant pulling the hood down over a woman's eyes.
*I also recommend Mark Scott Zicree's, THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION as a great source of info about the series*
Agree 100% -- sadly, the dust jacket on my copy is in bad shape, probably due to extensive use.
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What strikes me is that the people who are lying about seeing those movies are just putting themselves forward as herd-mentality dweebs with no eclectic taste.
If I was going to lie about seeing a movie, I'd first find the name of a film made in the 20s or 30s for which there is no existing print, no living person remembers watching it, and there is only scant info on plot/characters/camerawork. Then I'd be free to wax poetic about how it established the important principles, techniques, and themes which are the topic of discussion.
I mean, if you're going to lie, do it to establish yourself as a demigod of cinematic knowledge, not as someone who just catches the popular movies.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> OK, flame me, but Grace doesn't strike me as anything special.
My sentiments exactly.
The only thing I really liked her in was *Dial M for Murder* -- in just about everything else she was too flouncy and "you have to like me because I'm beautiful" for my taste.
Great person on all levels, but not my favorite actress.
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I find watching TZ episodes on DVD a little odd. Serling once commented how hard it was to write a half-hour drama that was interuppted every seven minutes by dancing toilet paper (or something to that effect, I don't remember the exact quote), but as a truly professional writer, he worked those "pauses" into the pacing of the story.
Seeing them without commercials, I sometimes feel the transisitions are a little aburpt and there are lapses of continuity in the sytle.
I wonder if anyone ever though of making it an option to have at least a few seconds of a "insert commercial here" card as an alert that the writer meant for the viewer to be distracted momentarily.
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I noticed the "Poor signal" and "No signal" at the tope of the screen, which I thought was quite odd because when something interferes with the transmission, there's always a blue bar across the bottom saying "Searching for Satellite Signal."
I was busy with other things, and didn't note the time it happened, and when I could give it my full attention, it was over and the signal was perfect.
This is with DirecTV.
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Ever have the feeling that Rod Serling is standing around the corner talking about you?
Some of my favorites (without spoilers):
"The After Hours" -- Anne Francis finds a department store quite disturbing.
"The Grave" -- Bounty hunter Lee Marvin is not superstitious.
"It's a Good Life" -- Billy Mummy is an obnoxious little brat that everyone caters to.
"Printer's Devil" -- Burgess Meredith as a typesetter with a nose for news.
"I Dream of Genie" -- Howard Morris figures out the perfect wish.
There's an anecdote about the pilot episode ("Where is Everybody") that I love --
A guy in a military jumpsuit is alone in a small town. He can't remember who he is or how he came to be there. He goes into a cafe, police station, etc., but can't find anyone anywhere. It finally comes out that he's training to be an astronaut and being in an isolation booth for nearly a month caused an hallucination.
That's how it aired.
What Serling wanted (and used in the short story he wrote based on that script) was when the guy goes into a movie theatre, there's no one selling or taking tickets, so he takes a ticket, tears it in half, and sticks the stub in his pocket. Later, when he's being carried out of the isolation booth, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out that stub.
While people who read science fiction loved that little twist, Serling was trying to sell the series to CBS and knew it would be too over the top for them.
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http://football.ugo.com/?cur=players-turned-actors
and don't forget Bill Goldberg -- footballer, WCW/WWE, 'star' (of sorts), and car buff!
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It's better to be in Limbo than in Effigy, where they're always burning people.
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My taste, especially when it comes to 'best' selections, varies with my mood, but the two favorites which come to mind are:
*Satyricon*
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*
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> {quote:title=b41960only wrote:}{quote}
> Dennis may have picked relatively mainstream flicks,
What I find interesting about the guest programmers is that they occasionally have very non-mainstream reasons for liking a particular movie.
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> {quote:title=patful wrote:}{quote}
> And I've always told myself the day that I got another one of those dreaded "please feel sorry for me" PM's (which I assume others received this afternoon) was the day I'd leave for the umpteenth time.
If that refers to what I sent, I can assure you it wasn't meant to sound like that.
I'm very matter-of-fact about the whole thing, and I only included that info to illustrate how her new rule would affect people who take their word seriously.
Actually, I often feel sorry for most other people -- I no longer have to deal with alarm clocks or a daily commute (which I always hated), I can set my own deadlines on virtually everything/anything, and no one expects anything of me. It's the kind of freedom that only trust-fund kids usually enjoy.
On your way to work tomorrow, think of me watching my new Jeeves&Wooster DVD, and afterwards, I might work in my flower garden or sand down a cabinet I'm building while you're dealing with your boss. Who should you feel sorry for?
I truly hope you don't decide to quit the forum -- you're very valuable here, and since we agree on most things, I've always respected your opinion.
It would be a great shame to see you leave because of anything I said.
And I really do hope everyone who enters has fun with the Challenge!
This ever happen to you?
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Yeah, I had that experience with a dame once. I thought she was going to cost me about $100 a month, but she wound up costing me about $1,500 a month.
$!00 a month for a woman? Either that was a looooong time ago or you were incredibly naive.
In 1967, a maid who came twice a week cost me more than that.