LonesomePolecat

yes, metz, you are correct-- been away from my comp, sorry metz's thread

I saw that Kurosawa tribute (which is why I am a Shimura fan now), but showing the movies one month out of many years' worth of months I call pretty infrequent. Mostly I'm saying it's sad that there aren't more foreign films on, but I guess they're expensive to show.

to add to that initial list: "Fantasia was good animation for the time." ARG!!!! IT'S GREAT ANIMATION FOR ANY TIME, YOU MORONS!!!!! I feel better now.

That's right. It's been too long since I saw that. Well here's a clever quote from one of my favorites: *MAN: There appears to be some slight rosiness in the laryngal region.* *DAME: Slight rosiness? It's as red as the Daily Worker and twice as sore!* What's it from and who said it? Bonus: who wrote it?

Although it sounds like it's referring to Luther Billis I know it's not from that, so it must be someone like him. Is it referring to Tony Curtis in OPERATION PETTICOAT?

Leslie the Great - Tony Curtis in THE GREAT RACE

As a foreign film fan I must say Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura are the least seen

I can't say enough how excited I am about* THE INNOCENTS!!!! :^0*

Not being seen in your PJs is hilarious to me. One I thoguht of is more on TV than anything, which is that people almost never turn the lights off when they leave the house! THe other one is all those lovely women going to bed with all their makeup on. I know it's because you have to wear makeup to be seen under the lights, esp in technicolor which washes you out like crazy, but it's still hilarious. Only a few times do you see them take it off or wearing cold cream or something, and that's usually for comedy's sake. The one time I thought was great was in The Women when Norma Shearer is going to bed in full makeup as usual, then Virginia whatshername, her daughter, gets in bed with her, kisses her and says, "I taste lipstick!" Then Norma says that she hasn't washed yet. I thought, what a clever way to get around the fact that you can't remove the makeup.

I'm glad to see people saw *Lured* and are taking notice. Love that movie.

I was watching the commentary on The Day The Earth Stood Still and even the commentator (Robert Wise perhaps, I don't remember) was saying how funny it was to see two guys eating breakfast in their own house wearing 3-piece suits. What a formal time it used to be, and how informal we are now. But then I've seen movies set in modern LA costumed by East Coast people who dress us up way more formally than we actually dress (i.e. hanging around their own house in shoes, which people don't do unless they're coming or leaving), so who knows if that was even accurate, though it seems like it would be. Still idiosyncrasies even today.

Mr Roberts, you completely read my mind. I can't see how Platinum Blonde and My Man Godfrey are cookie cutter, or even 42nd Street though you could say its "sequels" might be, but we could list individual movies all day, so let's not get started. Every era has movies that were cranked out by studios etc that all look similar, so I don't see why the 30s even would be any different. This is just part of studios and the second half of the name "show business" --being a business it's bound to happen. "Oh, the people want westerns, so go make some." For example. For this very reason I've seen a lot of cookie cutter silents as well.

An American in Paris

Cagney, James

Queen Guinevere - Vanessa Redgrave in CAMELOT

OMG!! HE'S SO HAWT!!! TEAM WILLIAM POWELL!!! But, seriously, I find this excellent news.

Nothing Sacred

Walter Slezak was in LIFEBOAT with Hume Cronyn

How Green Was My Valli (a remake of C Bogle's How Green Was My Vallee, which is a remake of the 1941 classic) The story of the Welsh mining family is remade into a 1960s rock musical starring Frankie Valli as the little boy and his Four Seasons as his family. As they all come back from the mines they sing hits like "Can't Take My Mines Off Of You" and "Mine Like a Man". Remember that hit song he sings to his sister in law: "Sherry baby, Sherry baby Won't you come to the mine? Why don't you come on with your jumpsuit on Ooo, and your miner's hat Come on, we'll ride the mine car Girl, you found that coal like that!

Busby Berkeley?

Queen, Steve Mc

Juno and the Paycock

Audrey Hepburn in "Gigi"? Note: if I'm right, the thread is open because I'm out of town all week

Virginia Mayo was in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES with Dana Andrews

I know what you mean about DVD. I have LOTS of movies on VHS that are not on DVD yet. They are phasing out VCRs so quickly that this scares me too. The nice thing about DVDs is that computers can play them, but we shouldn't be releasing stuff on evil BluRay (I hate the HD revolution--makes regularly filmed things look stupid) until we've released everything else, or anyway found some way to let people access those classics once our VCRs die. (I hope that doesn't happen). Time goes by too fast. Can't we just enjoy our technology? Must we progress for progress' sake? Anyway, it makes me think of that little moment in Men in Black in which Tommy Lee Jones holds up a 1" disc that will revolutionize the way we listen to music, but his comment sums it all up very well: "Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again." Now I feel pretty stupid about that first paragraph. I may delete this tomorrow, so laugh at my tirade now. Oh well.