HarryLong
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Don't worry. They'll find something to show.
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>>The only good movie in the series was the first one.....<<
Saw that one when it was released to theaters & hated it.
Caught up with teh second one years later on TV & thought there were a few good ideas in it, so I watched the other 3 as they showed up on TV. Hated them.
Lasted maybe 30 minutes into the Tim Burton remake (the only Burton film I've disliked, too).
Don't much care if they do another or not - won't be watching it...
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I'm hoping the dateline on that "press release" is a tip-off... along with Burton's statement that he only wants to work with Depp & Carter for the rest of his life.
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"Fish" I think I get, but "shot" ...???
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>>As for the Universal horror films like Frankenstein and Dracula, I'd be surprised if those are included. In the last ten years or so they've been shown on TCM, AMC, Chiller, Cinemax and other channels. It's obvious that Universal has found it can make tons of money by leasing them for short periods and then putting them up for bid again. Even if the major horror titles aren't available, perhaps some of the lesser, rarely shown ones will be and TCM will show them for Halloween.
If you can't get hold of the classic Universal horror films on DVD (aside from a dwindling number of titles), you're doing something wrong. But there are a slew of Universal films from the 1930s and 1940s that are just never show anywhere. Like the non-horror James Whale titles, the Deanna Durbin films, those fun Crime Club flicks...
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>>I will say that the copy of BLUEBEARD that aired the other day was about as clean a copy as I have seen.
It looked to me to be the same version AllDay sold some years back. Not only is it cleaner but the Erdody score is less obnoxiously loud than it is in every other version I've seen. The only drawback is that the puppet show near the beginning is lacking many of the close-ups of the performers operating the puppets (which is which the music cuts off so abruptly at the end of the opera).
Edited by: HarryLong on Apr 6, 2010 4:09 PM
Edited by: HarryLong on Apr 6, 2010 4:10 PM
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>>Their are how many "CUTS" of Close Encounters of the Third Kind !?!?
I've lost track...
I wish Spielberg had left it alone after the first rejiggering that shows Dreyfuss going into the spaceship (which footage has, I think, been removed from later "editions").
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>>To show my nerdy side, back when this movie came out, I knew who Ray Harryhausen was!!
What does that make me? I still do.
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Valentine Dyall
(I'd settle for Howard Keel)
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>>I'm pretty sure that the version that UCLA Film & Television Archive restored was in 35mm. I could be mistaken about this, but I recall Z Channel showed the UCLA restored version and it was not letterboxed, when I recorded it. That was in the late 1980s though, so anything is possible.
I believe UCLA restored both the 35 mm & the 65mm versions.
Both are, in any case, included on the Milestone DVD.
And like another poster noted, it would be nice if the 1926 BAT would be shown - if onloy because it would have to be a better copy than all those crappy PD prints that are out there.
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Well, it's announcing a book that might be of interest to film fans. Whether the OP has any reason beyond just bringing to our attention (maybe he is employed by a PR firm...) I don't know.
But given there's a thread around here somewhere devoted to just how much of the shower scene Leigh actually did, I'd say this is of interest.
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No, patful, there are others of us out there.
A few weeks ago, all three of my co-workers _and_ the boss' were all yammeringa way about the previous night's contestants & I fel so out of the loop. I was watching Kurasawa films...
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>>"The Hurt Locker" ballet
The things I miss by avoiding the Oscar telecast...
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So... are we ever going to get to read Robert Israel's comments about his score for THE MAGICIAN?
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>>I didn't see anything in Spoto's book saying that Leigh was away from Hollywood when the shower scene was filmed. (I may have missed something -- it wouldn't be the first time.)
Wouldn't be the first time I mis-recalled where I read something, either...
But I do know that Leigh's later-in-the-day claims that the shower scene is all her all the time have been refuted---- somewhere...
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>> Buster Keaton is not funny <<
How distressing; I've been entirely wrong for 40 years...
Oh, wait! This was posted on April 1.
Ya got me!
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>.Abuse of women by men in the media, which it seems is the flavor of the decade, is gratuitous and misogynistic.
No argument that it is mysogynistic, but the preponderance of women as victims in fiction, particularly horror fiction, is anything but the flavor of the decade; it goes back over a century to the first real horror writings of the Romantics in the early 1800s (or does CASTLE OF OTRANTO date more to the late 1700s?).
It's a genre convention - not that I'm proposing that makes it right...
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Yes, with the amazing Paul Scofield. I set my alarm so I could trundle sleepily downstairs & hit the Record button but I haven't had a chance to wacth it yet. I will, though; I've been wanting to see this for ages.
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>>I DVR-ed the MB films they showed last night. I see very distinct changes from the Paramount offerings to the MGM offerings.
>>The MGM films, at least in AT THE CIRCUS, emphasize music as much as comedy. Also, the production values are much better at MGM. The boys are not carrying the films as much, because the productions are saturated with other actors the studio is trying to promote.
Yeah, apparently Irving Thalberg thought the reason DUCK SOUP failed at the box-office was because "the boys" weren't sympathetic enough in the Paramount films (which didn't stop the preceding four from being popular...), so he instituted the idea of the Marxes always helping out young lovers for the MGM entries & added bif production numbers (the Paramount films usually had some musical interludes but the most lavish is that Going-to-war segment in DUCK SOUP & in typical Marx/Paramount fashion it just sort of dwindles away into a series of black-out sketches rather the building to a big finale the way a musical routine should).
DUCK SOUP certainly looks lavish enough, even though there is a certain amount of re-use of standing sets, but at MGM everything had to be larger than life & Thalberg sure poured the money into the Chico/Harpo music numbers in OPERA and RACES.
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Arlene,
>>I have been a member for only a week, though I have been " a lerker " for some time. I just havent noticed that anyone has stated a preerance. Harry, thank you for your post.
Generally it's never been any kind of outright statement. But that I posted in the past couple days that I thought Fred MacMurray was a **** kinda speaks for itself. It's those kind of posts you have to look for...
Edited by: HarryLong on Apr 2, 2010 10:54 AM
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I was going to note that Spoto revealed the trick behind the one shot where the knife seems to pierce the skin.
(BTW, Hitchcock also uses a film-run-in-reverse shot in STAGE FRIGHT - has anyone else spotted it? Hint: it involved keeping Dietrich's hair from getting messed up.)
>>P.S.: In her book, "Psycho," Janet Leigh says that Marli Renfro was used only for test shots, and states flatly that Renfro "was not on camera during the shower scene."
Doesn't the Spoto book also address that much of the shower sequence was filmed while Leigh was away from Hollywood? Actors are known for claiming in their memoirs that they did things in their films (including performing dangerous stunts) that they certainly did not do.
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>>"Valentino" is one of those wacky Ken Russell biopics
One has to keep in mind that Russell often has his tongue firmly in his cheek on those biopics.
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That has to be a line of dialogue from one of his films, not something he actually said...
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>>I don't like making all that murder and mayhem seem like such fun.
While part of the brilliance of the film is the way it veers wildly in mood, I don't think any of the murders are treated as being fun. They're quite horrific.