LonesomePolecat
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I on the other hand watch MORE when they show these types of movies.
You're going to hate next month when Mickey Rooney is SOTM.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
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Professor *Robinson* --Tully Marshall in *BALL OF FIRE*
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Wow, filmlover, that is amazing! What a schedule! Danny Kaye = awesome SOTM. Wish I could come up with clever titles like you do (i.e. "To Baldly go" is hilarious for Yul). I've seen that Michael Caine on Acting and it's fantastic--a great choice for TCM, esp. for his birthday. THe Rocky Horror theme is so fun! That is a perfect Underground film. Why have I never thought of it? And great minds think alike---I was going to do a Runyon theme for my next schedule. And your festival choices are mouth-wattering. Great job!
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Iselin, Mrs - Angela Lansbury in *The Manchurian Candidate*
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*What's So Bad About Feeling Good?*
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Gene Lockhart was in MEET JOHN DOE with Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan was in SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF with Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern's daughter is Laura Dern
Next: *Mildred Natwick* to *Jim Henson*
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This is a good time to mention one of my favorite Sleuth movies, *Murder By Death* --a massive parody or tribute to all the cinema sleuths from that era. Hilarious!
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Nice schedule--some fantatic cinema on that list. Especially Lifeboat, a great movie, but often overshadowed by Hitch's other works. I love "The Gay Deceivers" - every time I watch those movies I think, "Was it as obvious back then that these characters are supposed to be gay, or are we just more aware of it now?" And Rear Window is definitely essential. But I must say, having seen Kitten WIth a Whip, it belongs over in the Underground section (it's a pretty bad movie), but it fits the fashion theme anyway.
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I just remembered all THREE of my cats have movie character names. Funny how I forget. There is Harpo, yes, plus the other two are named from recent animated films: we have Kida, from Atlantis, and Chihiro, from Spirited Away. Even their nicknames are movie names. Kida has a permamently stuffy nose, so we either call her Wheezy, from Toy Story 2, or Darth Kida. And Chihiro doesn't meow so much as squeak, so we call her Beaker, from the Muppets. Funny how they just become their names.
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The big pro of the code is that people were forced to be more creative. I just watched the commentary on the DVD of The Manchurian Candidate and John F, the director, was saying how he had to do certain things because of the code, but not that he looks at it, that was all you needed anyway. Once you can show anything, people show everything, which is easier than good writing, eh? Not that all the code-era movies are amazing, or that there are absolutely no good post-code movies, but I've noticed a greater creativity in the code-era films.
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And the clip we all know is seen in "That's Entertainment" (or is it "That's Entertainment II"?)
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Everything mentioned is good. Just for dance merit, I love popping in anything by Fosse or Robbins, so "Steam Heat" from The Pajama Game, "Cool", the Prologue, the Dance at the Gym, and "America" in West Side Story, and the bottle dance from Fiddler on the Roof. Goosebumps every time.
For older movies, my #1 = "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain. I adore this dance!
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SansFin, that joke was so funny. I was hysterical!
But, seriously, Pyewackit, what a great name. Makes me want to buy a black cat and call it Cosmic Creepers from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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They haven't been separate for a long time, since there are never enough b&w films these days to make a whole category, so they just group them together
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Every single halloween we have about 15 movies we watch. Actually I never counted them. But these are they (not counting the obvious Great Pumpkin):
Bell Book and Candle
Arsenic and Old Lace
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Murder By Death
The Haunting
Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit
Nightmare Before Christmas
Icabod Crane (the awesome Disney cartoon narrated by Bing Crosby)
Trouble With Harry
Hocus Pocus (lame as it is, it's my childhood)
The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Poltergeist
The Birds
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
....and now I forgot what else
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Well, it's an italian film, so it's pretty much cheating to mention it, but the filmmaking of the scenery in *Il Postino* (1995) is so beautiful it makes you want to go there. And it's a great movie.
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Sorry, it's a very disturbing movie, and it offends me to pieces, but it's still one of the greatest movies ever made. There is more to filmmaking than agreeing with our beliefs, after all. Not to mention how influential it was. To ignore it would be to change history.
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(Sorry for the delay, I'm doing a show this week)
Very good!!! It was on my mind, because of the recent holiday.
You're up, lana!
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Very good!! A great screenplay and a great movie.
You're up Mr666!
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hint: this movie should have been watched last weekend....
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It is fun to see how many different ways you can link movies. For example, in every single schedule I've done, I've ALWAYS scheduled *What a Way to Go* (among others) as a way of requesting TCM to show it (because I LOVE it!), and I've never scheduled it with the same movies or in the same way. Once it was combined with other movies that start with "What", and this time it was under Dean Martin, and who knows what I'll do with it next (that is, unless they show it on TCM, in which case I won't have to schedule it again).
In fact, it becomes a challenge to come up with a new way to present it. Ah, yes, lots of fun. And thanks everyone for your kind words. "It's nice to know our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
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Sorry, I'm here. Yes, Five Graves to Cairo is definitely one of those movies everyone has to see. An essential, in other words. Brilliant.
Next quote is not from an obscure movie, but one that's on my mind:
"That was a TWO muffin rabbit!"
Speaker & film?
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Kingrat-- awesome schedule with some awesome movies! I especially love "when actors direct" because I thought of doing that, too (when I watched Hello Dolly and thought how weird it was that it was directed by Gene Kelly), but you did it one better pairing it with "when directors act." What a master stroke. And I love all your fashion selections. Great work!
When billing doesn't match screen time
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This is funny because I was just watching the film version of Neil SImon's *Lost in Yonkers* for the first time and was amazed that Richard Dreyfus got either first or second billing, when he shows up 45 minutes into the film, and is only in 1/3 of the rest of it. He had a good agent I suppose.