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5 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
What did you think of this one?
Ooh, it's been a long time. I'm struggling to remember much about it. Reading the plot description above stirs a few memories, but not a lot. I mostly remember the Theron-Hatcher fight. Theron was brand-new to me, and I do remember being knocked out by her beauty. It came in a flood of post-Pulp Fiction movies and certainly tried to emulate that vibe, as I recall, but generally, I seem to remember enjoying it. I do like all those actors.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
GYPSY (1962)...every time I watch this movie I want to get my hands on the original negative, cut Roz Russell out of every frame she's in and replace her with Ethel Merman.
There was another thread about this recently, singing the praises of Ethel Merman to high heaven. I haven't seen any footage of her in the role, though generally I find her every bit as broad-as-a-barn as Russell. But several people are very passionate about how much better she was at the role, and I will defer to that opinion, not being any better informed.
This is one of my least favorite films for different reasons, as I also mentioned in that other thread. I never liked it because I went into it thinking a film called Gypsy might, you know, have something to do with the business of stripping. Instead, it's completely about an overbearing and probably mentally ill stage mother with whom I'm utterly exhausted five minutes into the movie, and Gypsy Rose Lee herself is relegated to supporting character status. And the stripping element doesn't come in until the last 10 minutes of what feels like a very long movie. And any time you're actively thinking about how long a movie is, it probably isn't succeeding.
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10 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
This is not me seeing what the film should have been, but seeing what the film actually is-- something meant to uphold gender biases about the way Americans participate in government.
I'm probably not phrasing myself as eloquently as I would like. This is something you've clearly given a great deal more thought about than me. Perhaps I should have said "as presented" than "as is". I don't know. I enjoy the story and I haven't given it much thought about any context greater than was it entertaining or not. You will condemn me as short-sighted and narrow-minded, I suppose, but that's what I mean about considering movies "as they are".
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3 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
It's really just one gag that is stretched out for two hours.
My favorite part of the whole movie is the Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant scenes, which is different than the main gag. That almost could have been a movie by itself. But is definitely far from my favorite Billy Wilder movie.
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I agree that Arthur's character was certainly more qualified for the job than Stewart's, but part of the plot is that Edward Arnold and Claude Rains want someone they think is lacking in perceptiveness and is easily manipulated to occupy the position. That doesn't apply to Arthur at all. And thus Stewart's waking up to just how corrupt things can get is an essential part of the plot.
I have no argument with anything else you write. I guess I just tend to focus on what films are rather than what they are not or what they should have been by modern perspective or even against the reality of their time.
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21 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)...I feel the story is sexist.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I'm not sure how this film with Jean Arthur's gutsy career gal, certainly unusual for the era, is sexist. Could you elaborate?
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I've actually seen quite a few of these: Used People, The January Man, Two Days in the Valley, Soapdish and New York Stories. The first two I actually saw in the theater, the rest from Blockbuster, back when that was still a thing. I go to the movies virtually every Saturday and sometimes Sundays, too, so I've seen a LOT of movies.
Maybe some of you would enjoy Twilight, the Paul Newman one, which has nothing to do with the sparkly teenage vampires. It's a pretty good modern noir. An embarrassingly rich supporting cast includes Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Liev Schreiber and a very young and spectacularly topless Reese Witherspoon.
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6 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I assume you know there is another thread, going back from 2017 that is more 'complete'; i.e. it has info on the 'special' Fox release of the missing segment. (i.e. something I either forgot or didn't know).
cmovieviewer has brought that thread back to Page One if moderators want to combine it with this one. I tried to find it, but it was a more daunting task than I realized! Searching for W.C. Fields or Tales of Manhattan or even both together yielded more than 1,300 posts that I just didn't have the patience to sort through. So, my thanks to him (?).
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Tales of Manhattan has aired on TCM three times, I believe once in 2017 and now in January of this year and again this week. I've watched two of those airings. I believe the January, 2018, airing was the one I didn't watch. Anyway, the two times I watched, it was stated in the introduction on both occasions that the print about to be shown would contain a restored segment starring W.C. Fields that had been deleted from the original theatrical release. In fact, on neither of those occasions did the print contain that segment. I can't speak for the one time I didn't watch. I don't care to elaborate, and I'm not trying to cause trouble. I would just like it to be known for the record that this happened.
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Wasn't aware of that site. Thanks!
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I don't ever really plan ahead of time to seek out free stuff on Amazon. I usually just click on a link from imdb, and if the movie I want to watch costs $2.99 or $3.99, I go ahead and pay it. If it ends up being free, it's just a bonus. I don't know that I ever randomly selected two movies in the same night, and they were both free. But if you have a Prime membership, you can watch Second Chorus (Paramount, 1940) and Some Like It Hot (United Artists, 1959) for free this month. Not sure how much movies available on Amazon Prime will change if all the MGM/Warner/UA stuff gets yanked away for its own stream. But I'm trying to enjoy it while it's still there.
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Wow, you're not kidding! Your post sent me scrambling over MovieCollectorOH's database at its new web address, and according to it, Road to Rio has NEVER aired on TCM! Must be some kind of rights issue tied into this one movie.
Road to Rio was actually the first Road movie I ever watched. Someone recommended it, and I rented it at Blockbuster sometime in the '90s before I'd ever watched TCM. I guess from one that viewing, I'd just assumed I'd seen it again on TCM - it's easy to get those Road movies confused, unless you're a real devotee - but I guess not.
FYI, there are two different videos of it on YouTube. One of them is four minutes longer than the other; I don't know why that is; it may just be that they run at different speeds. They both look to be watchable prints.
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24 Films to Watch on Filmstruck While You Still Can:
http://www.vulture.com/2018/11/filmstruck-streaming-movies.html
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Hope I don't sound like a jerk for pointing this out, but obviously a couple of those people died well before there was a TCM. But I get your point.
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2 hours ago, jakeem said:
For the first time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will reveal shortlists simultaneously for nine categories. The announcement date will be December 17, 2018 -- a little more than a month before the overall Oscar nominations are unveiled.
The nine categories are:
- Best Foreign-Language Film (87 countries were in competition for this award, but the shortlist should feature only nine pictures. When the overall nominations are announced in January, there will be only five finalists).
- Best Animated Short Film.
- Best Documentary Feature.
- Best Documentary Short.
- Best Live-Action Short.
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
- Best Visual Effects.
- Best Original Score.
- Best Original Song.
Sorry, still confused. This is before voting begins? That means you're only allowed to vote for the films that have been placed on the shortlist in these categories? Does that mean the Academy (or some committee within it) gets to pick ahead of time which films members are allowed to vote on in these categories?
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On 11/2/2018 at 8:37 PM, jakeem said:Monday, December 17 -- Oscars shortlist announced.
What is this?
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Going to attempt to post a link to Bill Hader, one-time host of Essentials, Jr., appealing for the salvation of FilmStruck. There's a profanity word within the hyperlink. I don't think the autocensor here would eliminate that? But we'll see ...
https://news.avclub.com/bill-hader-would-love-it-if-we-could-all-get-our-****-t-1830201629
Edit: Well, yep, this website turned the word into asterisks, but if you click on it, it still works.
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11 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
I'm not sure who Clare is though.
Her full name is in the OP. She's also a redhead and is some sort of wine expert, I guess. She'd been in at least one previous TCM Wine Club spot, I think with Eddie Mueller.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I heard an NPR review of it yesterday that said it was best when seen along with the "making of" feature THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD.
This article also mentions the interdependence of the two films.
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2 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
Some major spoilers in that article.
I have noticed that every article I've seen, including some whose links have been posted on here already, casually give away the fate of the main character. Maybe they feel the same rules of decorum don't apply when the movie is over 40 years old, even if its being released for the first time. Sorry for contributing to that and not providing a Spoiler Alert warning. I just kind of assumed most of you had read those other articles already.
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There are some billboard-sized pics of Anne Frank up in my city right now promoting a museum exhibit, and I have to say, however great an actress she was, Audrey was WAY too old to be playing the little girl I see in the few photos we have her. She progressed into adolescence during her time in hiding, I guess, and we don't have any photos of that, but still, Audrey was THIRTY in 1959! Perkins was 21, and I agree also too old, but she still had a bit of a teenage look about her. Natalie Portman played her on Broadway when she was about 16, I think, and that's maybe the closest big star interpretation we've had to being age-appropriate.
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I suspect when the appointed month rolls around, TCM will show only the winner's videos, or possibly just snippets of them, on air and maybe have a link to them somewhere. I doubt there's any single place you can go to view all the entries.
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It's a ton of movies, so complaining about just one omission probably comes across as petty, but I would have liked to have seen Man's Castle from Columbia in 1933 included, in which Farrell plays the "other woman" in a Spencer Tracy-Loretta Young romance. I think it aired when Young was SOTM.
Die Hard on TCM?
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TCM occasionally shows films in the theater that have never appeared on their network.