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On 8/26/2018 at 7:31 AM, rayban said:
This film is an absolutley amazing adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel of the same name.
Its' distribution has been limited by legal matters that resulted in the seizure of the film in an bankruptcy lien.
I found it on the MGM channel (633 in the tristate area).
It was written and directed by Menahen Golan, who was at the top of his form.
Crispin Glover couldn't be more effective as Raskolnikov, the law student who thinks that he might be a superior human being and, thus, above the law.
One night, to test his theory, he murders an old pawnbroker and her sister, who interrupts the crime.
Thereafter, he suffers the most dire consequences, because he realizes that he is just a human being, after all.
John Hurt is also very effective as Porfiry, the police inspector who suspects Raskolnikov of the crime.
The supporting cast is superb - it includes Vanessa Redgrave as Raskolnikov's mother, Matt Servitto as Raskolnikov's friend, Razumikhin and Anital Dicker as Sonia, the prostitute who falls in love with Raskolnikov and Sophie Ward, as Dunia, Raskolnikov's sister, who is engaged to a wealthy man, who is nicely played by Richard Lynch.
The film is set in the near-future of the 21st century, which actually adds to the film's dark and compelling atmosphere.
Some great films get lost, unfortunately.
This film is one of them.
And, why, oh, why, isn't Crispin Gover a big, big star?
Some rising actors just have their potential moments come and go, I think. I recently mentioned Christian Slater in another thread. Glover's closest moments to big-time stardom were his playing Michael j. Fox's dad in Back to the Future and his David Letterman appearances (which I'm still not sure if they were Andy Kaufman performance art or a guy who was really struggling to get through the day). But either the big studios considered him too odd, or he followed his own muse. You can look at his career path on imdb, and while he's in some big Hollywood blockbusters, they're all in smaller roles, while his larger roles are all in indie films.
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54 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
I would agree up to a point.
Midnight Cowboy (1969) was the first big budget film I saw at the time that got NYC in the 1960s right.
However since going on my Film Noir tangent and delving into exploitation/experimental films, you find that quite a few of those were shot guerrilla style on the streets of NYC and LA and they really capture that time period well. Films like The Savage Eye (1960) is a snap shot of 1960 Los Angeles, Blast Of Silence (1961), The Love Statue (1965) of Greenwich Village beatniks and coffee houses, Flesh and Lace (1965) showed a NYC topless bar and it's el dominated neighborhood, Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965) discotheques and Times Square. Other Times Square snapshots are in Hot Skin And Cold Cash (1965) about a NYC prostitute, Aroused (1966) and The Sex Killer (1967) about serial killers on the loose in Manhattan. Another snapshot of Times Square and Jazz Clubs is in One Naked Night (1965). Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) had jazz clubs in Philadelphia. The Incident (1967) captured NYC subways. The Pick-Up (1968) was a snapshot of Las Vegas.
Yes, I didn't think about Midnight Cowboy. Good example!
As for all the other films you listed, I've never seen any of them, except for The Pick-Up. Heck, I don't think I've ever even HEARD of any of them! I bow to your superior '60s film knowledge! I'm pretty much limited to knowing about the box-office champs and the Oscar-winners/nominees. I'm definitely intrigued by Teddy Bear after seeing the poster!
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Looks like this will be only its second TCM airing. I was watching the night of its only previous airing in January, 2015. It's okay. Mercedes Ruehl's (sp?) performance is particularly nice.
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As far as the programming choices go, I've seen 12 of the 21 selected films previously, which is a larger percentage than I would like. I'm not a TCM Day-Oner, but I've been around for more than 15 years now, so I've definitely seen the same big-star, best-known films air a lot. However, a number of these films I've only seen once or twice before and won't mind seeing again.
I'm a huge Gilda Radner fan and am happy she's included, though my initial thought was weren't there any actual Gilda movies they could show, rather than a TV special? But other than The Woman in Red and Haunted Honeymoon, I'm not sure how many movies she ever did.
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Are guests allowed to post again? I don't ever see this, unless Allanex has resurrected a 13-year-old thread.
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2 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Whoops, duplicated my entire post above accidentally. I don't know how to eliminate a new post altogether, but I deleted the text, at least.
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On 8/26/2018 at 2:01 PM, jamesjazzguitar said:
Interesting; Do you only feel that way about the decades other than the 60s?
I'm more in line with Fedya; I.e. I don't have "issues' with 60s films that represent the 'present day' (but many of them are corny and \ or misrepresent the hippie movement, being a step or two behind what was really 'present'), as much as post-60s film that try to capture a 60s vibe. I.e. too many miss the mark.
So many '60s films I've seen on TCM do seem to be at least a half-step behind reality, made by old white people who want to appear like they have some idea of what modernity is about. How many '60s movies have dance scenes where the kids are grooving to some kind of generic jazz-pop with horns or generic surf guitar music that sounds like watered-down Dick Dale? And the effects! Dig all the crazy split-screens in Charly and Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, I love you, but that wasn't your finest moment). Even the Beatles movies have old-school corniness in their jokes and storylines, though there are elements about them that are refreshingly modern.
I would say it almost wasn't until movies like The Graduate and Easy Rider that some '60s movies set in the '60s really began to feel authentically '60s. Granted, the former is largely set within a world of privilege, but it still feels true to its time. Its Berkley seems more serene than the real institution would have been at the time, though Norman Fell's landlord makes a pointed reference to "outside agitators". (Bulitt doesn't do too badly, I guess: that scene of McQueen and Bissette at that trendy restaurant with a flute-led jazz quartet feels pretty authentic).
By contrast, many '70s movies feel really lived-in and of their time. I watched Speilberg's The Post, and I don't want to come down too hard on it, because I really enjoyed the story and the acting. But as for creating the authenticity of the Washington Post in the '70s, for all the money it obviously spent on costumes and sets, it doesn't hold a candle to All The President's Men, which has one of the strongest you-are-there senses of veracity in movie history.
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2 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
I told ya! guessed two of 'em didn't I. the odd couple and the goodbye girl. probably very easy for tcm to get a hold of those.
I knew they wouldn't knock themselves out for any of the better films like the two I mentioned.
I bet the odd couple and the goodbye girl get shown on tcm a helluva lot more times than the out-of-towners and the prisoner of second avenue.
Well, THAT is easily checked, thanks to moviecollectoroh's amazing database!
And while I'm hesitant to let Nipkow know he's right about anything (he always think he is, even when he isn't), here are the results. I personally would have guessed Goodbye Girl, an MGM-WB co-production, would have obliterated the other three in airings, but in fact:
Paramount's The Odd Couple has aired 45 times.
The Goodbye Girl has aired 39 times.
The Out-of-Towners, also from Paramount, has aired 14 times.
And The Prisoner of Second Avenue, despite being from Warner Bros., has only aired 7 times.
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Is The Wild Affair the British film with Terry Thomas in a supporting role? IMDB gives a different year for the release date than TCM, 1965 instead of 1963.
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Boy, he channeled Jack so hard in Heathers, I wasn't sure he'd ever be anything but a Jack imitator! But he seems to have found his own style. He never became a major star, as I'm sure he was hoping for early in his career, but he's had a long and interesting one. I hear he's great in Mr. Robot, which I haven't seen.
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On 8/9/2018 at 8:12 AM, TopBilled said:
The October spotlight has been decided. It is Funny Ladies. I created a special thread in the Spotlights forum.
I'd completely forgotten the Thursday primetime lineups were initially blank. Looks like I need to go look at your thread and see what's been scheduled!
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November schedule not up yet as we move into final week of August? Haven't seen anybody start that thread yet!
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10 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Who doesn't love this film? It's my favorite Neil Simon story.
THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS (1970)
That scene where Lemmon tries to get the woman to get his wife out of the bathroom, and she drags out the wrong woman is one of the 10 funniest scenes in movie history, IMO! I never fail to let out a belly laugh like Santa Claus every time I see it.
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Welp, I guess that reveals I hadn't watched your video link! I'll check it out now.
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And ... Danny Boyle is NOT directing the new Bond film, after all.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/danny-boyle-quits-james-bond-movie-over-creative-differences.html
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This is an obscure example, but Christian Slater speaks directly to the viewer frequently in Kuffs. First one I could think of.
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I put "original" in quotes, because you could go back to the 1936 Bing Crosby movie with a completely different plot for the first use of the title, but I discovered tonight that three years before the Steve Martin movie, Pennies from Heaven was a six-part BBC mini-series starring Bob Hoskins! Has anyone seen it, and if so, how does it compare?
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Don't know if I'm the only one here who used to work in newspapers. Anyone remember those? Columnists and editorial writers used to sign off with "30", especially if it was their last piece ever for a publication. I'm pretty sure I knew what it meant at one time, but I've forgotten. So my first thought when I saw "30" as your thread title was that it was your final post ever!
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Whirlpool!
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I don't really have any dramatic stories, but there's definitely a dramatic increase in parents bringing infants or very young children t to movies that really don't seem suitable for them in my part of the world. I'm not really that worried about the sensibilities of the children anymore. What with the video games and the stuff on the Internet, I suspect children for the most part are a lot less traumatized by that stuff than I would have been at that age. But I do resent the kids who make noise the whole damn movie and the parents that don't do anything to shush their kids. I would say in 90 per cent of all such instances, the parents make no attempt whatsoever to quiet their children, possibly because the youngest generation of parents really don't comprehend any difference between protocol at a movie theater and in front of their home entertainment system in their living room. The younger you are, it seems, the less likely you are to perceive any need whatsoever to behave with different rules of etiquette in public than you do at home. And so, that has made my movie-viewing experiences more annoying.
I have had a few movies short out on me in recent years that the theater couldn't restart, or in once instance by the time they could restart it, it would have spilled over into the scheduled time for the next screening, so they wouldn't finish it for my group! Two of the movies I distinctly remember this happening in were The Intern and Alien Covenant. I still don't know how either of those movies ends, so nobody spoil them for me in case I ever watch them at home! In all such instances, I got a voucher to see another movie at the same theater.
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3 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Aretha Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was among the honorees in the second year of the ceremonies. She did not attend, but here's her induction, featuring Keith Richards, Clive Davis, and Franklin's brother Cecil.
I didn't know she'd been unable to attend. While they've been showing the induction ceremonies, or at least an edited version of them, on HBO for a number of years now, the ceremonies from the first 10 or 12 years of the Hall's history - sadly, when all the original titans of the field were getting inducted! - were not televised. All we have are a few YouTube clips here and there, like this one.
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My Aretha iTunes collection is embarrassingly light. I have only four songs of hers: Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (from her very early days at Columbia Records, who never knew what to do with her), Respect, A Natural Woman and I Never Loved a Man. She's one of those artists I've always meant to get more songs by but have kept on the back burner. It's a shame it took this to snap me into action, but I will be definitely buying some more Aretha songs in the next few days.
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I hope I'm not jumping the gun. Being reported on several news sites, but her imdb page hasn't been updated yet. One of the true greats. You will be missed, Lady Soul.
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13 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I liked the cast of the current movie franchise, especially Quinto as Spock (he is a fine actor that has done other good work).
While I was clearly being a wiseguy Spock is an asexual being and so if there was some push-back it really wouldn't surprise me.
Actually in the new movies Quinto's Spock was having a hush-hush sexual relationship with Zoe Saldana's Uhura.
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thank you, TCM, I was pleasantly surprised...
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Hamlet (1948) was distributed in the US by Universal. You could argue that doesn't really make it a Universal production, but I feel it was highly likely someone from Universal was among the people who took the stage when it was announced as the Best Picture winner!