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2 hours ago, slaytonf said:
And as for Uncle Tom, one of the noblest, principled, and heroic of men, who lays down his life for the freedom of others, is used as the type of a spiritless, self-betraying sycophant.
I think it's reasonably safe to assume that 99.9 per cent of all human beings who use the term "Uncle Tom" in 2018 have zero idea that it refers to a specific fictional character or know anything about that character. That's a term that got isolated from the character a million years ago and has taken on a life of its own. I wouldn't attribute its use to people actually remembering the traits of a specific character.
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2 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
I guess another one that might get heat from certain PC crowds would be Thoroughly Modern Millie where the villains are Chinese, but it accurately reflects the villains in films in the 1920s , such as Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu, as well as the fear of white slavers and opium dens, and as such it is accurate period detail, and definitely not racism.
Yeah, okay, but why were Asians the villains in the films of the '20s? Because the films were made by white people who knew it was popular to prey on the fears of "The Other" among their mostly white audiences. Personally, I'm unsure "that's the way it used to be" is a good enough reason to perpetuate those stereotypes, even if you're setting your film in that era.
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I enjoyed his comment that Alistair Sim largely stopped making movies "to return to his first love ... sitting in his easy chair, looking out his window and yelling at kids to get off his lawn. No, wait ... theater. The cue cards should have read his first love was the theater".
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Both the movies you mentioned have aired on TCM in the US. Stagecoach, in fact, over here is probably considered overplayed! There have been Canadians who have complained on these boards before. I don't pretend to understand international copyright law, but I have definitely learned from years of being on these message boards that there are certain movies that can be broadcast on US television but not on Canadian television (I assume the reverse is also true? Although I'm not aware of an example).
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Completely forgot I was going through programming day by day. So, here are the movies airing from Feb. 21-24 I haven't seen. I'm not much for costume dramas or wilderness/rural living movies, so you'll see quite a few of those below:
Eskimo (MGM, 1933)
The Prisoner of Zenda (United Artists, 1937)
Lady of the Tropics (MGM, 1939)
The Rains Came (20th Century Fox, 1939)
The Black Swan (20th Century Fox, 1942)
The Yearling (MGM, 1946)
King Solomon's Mines (MGM, 1950)
Ivanhoe (MGM, 1952)
Knights of the Round Table (MGM, 1953)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20th Century Fox, 1958)
Born Free (Columbia, 1966)
The Taming of the Shrew (Columbia, 1967)
Day of the Dolphin (Embassy, 1973)
That makes it 71 movies in the first 24 days I haven't seen.
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Ooh, does this contain the uncensored intro? I better be alone if I'm going to play it!
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It's been a long time since I've seen this movie. I guess I need to watch again. When I first saw it, my impression was the entire movie had been showing us that Dottie was way too good a player to make any mistake on the field, ever. So, I automatically assumed she dropped the ball on purpose. Frankly, it never occurred to me that the scene was even SUPPOSED to be open to interpretation! Now, many years later, reading all these passionate views expressing the opposite opinion makes me think I need to watch again.
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8 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
And the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was inducted in 2015
Oh, were they really inducted and I missed it? Oops.
And I don't know, I could be wrong about the Pixies too. I remember a friend who very fervently expressed that they should be nominated, and maybe I'm just remembering that!
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On 12/21/2018 at 3:04 PM, LawrenceA said:
The middle contestant, a young woman, rang in and guessed "Laurel & Hardy". There was a very audible guffaw from someone in the studio audience, and the young woman shot an angry look in their direction. It was amusing, as far as your typical Jeopardy episode goes
This is maybe not as awful as the, I think, Indian woman who guessed "Colorado Rockies" in a football teams category that has made meme celebrity, but it's not great, for sure!
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On 12/21/2018 at 2:52 PM, LawrenceA said:
I believe that the shortlists of nominees were kept secret for a while during the early years, but they later made them public
Making the finals list at least once in the last five or six years that you didn't include was the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, whom I like, but they're probably a long shot, just another white boy blues band out of many on both sides of the Atlantic, at least in the minds of the voters, I suspect. But they had a couple of amazing guitarists in Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Bishop. Also, you didn't list the Pixies, who were finalists at least once, and are often said to be major influences on Nirvana, who got in their first year of eligibility.
Sting I would assume is a shoo-in as a solo artist at some point.
I would think to a certain segment of the population, it's criminal that the Smiths haven't gotten in. They are adored with Radiohead or Pearl Jam-like intensity with a certain segment of the music-listening crowd.
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12 hours ago, jakeem said:
They should do Steinbeck's "East of Eden" from the beginning, focusing on the relationship between the parents of Aron and Cal Trask (played in the 1955 film by Richard Davalos and James Dean, respectively).
There was an eight-hour East of Eden mini-series that aired on ABC in 1981 that covers the entire saga. It's available on DVD.
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3/23 - Sweet November. I only knew of the Keanu Reeves/Charlize Theron version. I didn't know it was a remake of a 1968 movie with Anthony Newley and Sandy Dennis.
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3/22 - Morituri, a pretty good and rarely aired Fox WWII espionage thriller with Marlon Brando. Curiously, it's listed as a Western.
And stay up late for Lifeforce! A slow-building alien vampire movie with some recognizable faces - Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Patrick Stewart. And a score by Henry Mancini! A stunningly beautiful 20-year-old actress named Mathilda May spends most of the movie walking around naked.
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Day programming on the 5th is seven Rex Harrison movies in a row, four of which I haven't seen before.
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I see King of Jazz, which recently got pulled for something ... the Burt Reynolds tribute? ... is back on for 3/4.
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That was fast, after an epic-length wait for the Feb schedule (which I'm still sorting through!). I'm guessing a world premiere of Death of a Salesman is not among the March films?
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I've made my way through another four days of programming, and I've seen almost all of the movies in this window already. I have something of an aversion to period piece costume dramas, which will account for a couple of the movies in the list below, and there are also several MGMs I've missed, though I'm sure TCM airs them often. I've always avoided Blow-Up, because it has struck me as pretentious and pointless, from all the things I've read about it, but maybe I will break down and finally watch it.
Anyway, here are the movies airing between February 17-20 that I haven't seen:
Fury (MGM, 1936)
Edward, My Son (MGM, 1949)
Quo Vadis? (MGM, 1951)
The Trial (MGM, 1955)
Khartoum (United Artists, 1966)
Blow-Up (MGM, 1966)
Philadelphia (Tri-Star, 1993)So, in the first 20 days of programming, there are 58 films I haven't seen.
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I know I have TCM to thank for ever having seen it. The first time I ever watched it was on TCM. But it must have been quite some time ago. As I check out moviecollectoroh's database, while I see it has aired 18 times on TCM, which is pretty good for a Paramount film, the last time was eight years ago. Hope they air it again sometime in 2019, since they're making a point of calling it out in February.
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Wow, posts on here are actually viewed by someone at TCM! That's encouraging. Presumably the intros for these films have already been recorded, so we'll see how they're handled.
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On 12/12/2018 at 8:35 PM, TopBilled said:
On the 18th of February, the 31 Days of Oscar theme is
SHOULD HAVE WON: 1952 BEST PICTURE
Hey, I don't mean to upend the this entire thread, but I am finally getting to this day as I carefully parse through each day's programming, and the way it's listed in the full schedule is "Best Picture Nominee Non-Winner 1952". May I ask where you got this "Should Have Won" idea? Have they changed it between the time you looked at it and I looked at it?
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Boy everywhere I used bold print on my above post, a capital A with an accent mark appeared before and after each of those bolded words. Had to go back and edit them all out. I have no idea what happened there. I hope it's not some new permanent thing that happens on these forums. I guess I could just stop putting titles in bold print.
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Laverne & Shirley was a staple of my childhood, though I stopped watching when the characters all moved to California, and Cindy Williams left soon after. While Happy Days continued to air in syndication, I really can't recall seeing L&S reruns anywhere. Consequently, I don't know that I can describe the plot of any single episode. But the characters are indelibly stamped in my mind. I'm looking at a cover of a DVD collection, and I'm struck by what a nice body Marshal had! I think I was too young to appreciate those things at the time. I do recall I was more drawn to Shirley, who seemed more refined and classy, while Laverne always struck me as a little loose! And milk & Pepsi! Yuck! When they initially appeared on Happy Days as a double date for Richie and Fonzie, they essentially had the same personality, but when spun off to their own show, Shirley became more of the cautious prude, and Laverne the carefree, hot-to-trot one (though any discussion of the girls actually having or not having sex was never brought up, to my memory).
While Williams was in a couple of major films (American Graffiti and The Conversation), I had to get on imdb to see what Marshall had done prior to the show. She seems to have been in that pool of talent that did whatever was needed in the world of television, sometimes appearing on the same show in different roles, as was more common in those days. Looks like her biggest claim to fame was playing Jack Klugman's secretary on 27 episodes of The Odd Couple. I've probably seen her on that show, as it reruns used to air on my local cable stations, and I'm sure at some point, I went, "Hey, that's Laverne!", but I don't really remember specifically from that show. I'd forgotten she was married to Rob Reiner.
After kicking off her directing career with Jumpin' Jack Flash, she had a bigtime trifecta of both commercial and critical successes with Big, Awakenings and A League of Their Own. I've seen those three movies and also Renaissance Man and Riding in Cars with Boys (I never saw The Preacher's Wife). Curiously, Riding was her last feature film, though I see she continued to direct in TV.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
What do you think of Nicks' solo stuff?
I think for the most part her songs are not as strong as her ones in Fleetwood Mac. Feels like I'm demeaning her to say I mostly like her duets with male artists (Don Henley, Tom Petty, Kenny Loggins), but I like all those songs. She showed that she didn't need Linsdsey or the rest of the Mac to make hits, and I think she deserves credit for that.
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Yeah, I forgot about Miles Davis, but they seem to have veered away from jazz since then (Simone excepted).
I really wasn't counting the early influences, though their memberships are valid, too. Considering country artists only since rock & roll began, the only one I can think of to be inducted is Johnny Cash, and his early career was sort of rockabilly, though more on the "billy" side than Jerry Lee Lewis or Elvis.
Academy Awards Best Picture: What should have won… IMHO
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IMO, all three of these are really strong movies. 1979 was a really strong year. Boy, I see The China Syndrome didn't even get a Best Picture nomination. I would have happily dislodged Breaking Away from the five nominees. It's just fine, but China Syndrome is the movie between the two I'd rather watch right now.