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37 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Well any time a movie has any whistling my parrots go nuts trying to sing along. The one cockatiel will react to music but only in certain keys.
I found this out by playing guitar in front of him; It took me a while to clue into the fact that when I played a song in C he reacted to that pitch. Same song in another key, little to no reaction!
My parrot head bangs to metal music sometimes. He doesn't try to sing or anything like that. Occasionally he'll just start saying his name a lot or start screaming. But I honestly think he does that randomly and not in response to anything in particular.
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Was the “Introducing” credit the studio’s attempt at making a star from their new personality or was it some type of credit tied into a significant raise of some sort?
Not every new star gets an introducing credit either. I don’t recall “Introducing Errol Flynn” for “Captain Blood.” I’m curious how that credit comes about.
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1 hour ago, lydecker said:
Joan Fontaine in "The Man Who Found Himself."
Honestly, if Fontaine’s name wasn’t listed there, I don’t know that I would have recognized her. In her 40s-50s films she bears more of a resemblance to sister Olivia, but not in this photo.
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My parrot loves musicals—especially colorful ones like “Singin’ in the Rain.” He’ll sit on the arm of the couch, watching the screen and bobbing up and down.
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Last night, while watching “Some Like it Hot,” my parrot was sitting on the top of the door to his cage calmly preening his feathers. Then, when Spats & co. are shot up, my parrot flew away, at breakneck speed, and perched himself up in a different room, up in the light. The way he was flying, you’d think he was the one being shot.
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I am reading the same book (Little Women) that I was reading two months ago. I haven't been reading every day, I haven't read in awhile.
It takes me forever to get through fiction. Non-fiction however, I can zip through it in a week if I made an effort.
I have to say that I'm struggling getting through Little Women. Not because I can't read (obviously), but I don't think it's all that well written? Sorry Louisa May Allcott. Or it could be that I really seem to dislike 19th century literature. The things that the little women say in this book are so ridiculous, I just don't find it believable. Granted, I didn't grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War, so I don't have first-hand knowledge of the speech patterns of teenage girls of that era, but I find it hard to believe that 12-year old Amy would say things like: "You don't need scores of suitors. You only need one, if he's the right one." Great thought. But from a 12-year old?
I should probably read something else, but I'm halfway done with this book, I want to finish it. I'm trying to see how closely the various film adaptations follow the novel. I have to say that the film adaptations are all over the place compared to the events in the book. Right now, the 1994 version seems to follow the events of the book the closest.
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It’d be neat if they showed the original introductions and/or footage from the festival... but not sure if that’s realistic.
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It looks like the schedule for the special home version of the film festival has been released:
http://filmfestival.tcm.com/special-home-edition/
It's 4 days
of presumably the films that were set to air during the festival.EDIT: It's a feature of films that have aired at the festival in the past and ones that were slated to air during this year's festival.
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On 3/18/2020 at 12:17 PM, LawrenceA said:
Criterion is having a 30%-off sale from now through April 30.
The prices are still a bit too high, and I have some medical bills to pay off, so I'll probably be waiting until the next B&N sale. Hopefully those will still happen!
I don't know if you have this in your email, but Criterion sent me a $10 off coupon yesterday.
I'm planning on purchasing Leave Her to Heaven which just came out today.
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On 3/20/2020 at 9:42 AM, LawrenceA said:
Warner Archive is having another 4 for $44 sale.
Warner canceled the sale due to their distribution centers having to close for corona. I hope they reschedule this when this whole thing is over.
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In the last few months, TCM On Demand on Dish has really beefed up their offerings. Almost every movie that airs on TCM ends up on On Demand—except for a handful of Noir Alley offerings. TCM On Demand used to only be SD, but in the last few months or so, they’ve switched to HD.
If it were a normal time, I’d also say that the library is an invaluable source to find classic movies.
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Not specifically about a person... But the Imagineering series on Disney+ is fantastic.
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Very rarely will a movie be a blind buy for me. The only actors whose films I feel confident blind buying are Errol Flynn and Lucille Ball.
Aside from Errol and Lucy, there are other actors whose films I actively seek out and purchase if I enjoyed them: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, William Powell, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Eleanor Powell, Doris Day, and Robert Mitchum... Probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head.
As for directors, I've sought out Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray, Robert Siodmak, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Carol Reed, Charles Chaplin, John Huston, Ernst Lubitsch, Elia Kazan and David Lean.
I love buying boxed sets because I feel like I'll get more bang for my buck. Occasionally, buying a boxed set is the only way to get one particular film that I am seeking. I own many TCM Greatest collections. I also have 4 Errol Flynn boxed sets: Errol Flynn Signature Vol 1 and Vol 2; Errol Flynn Westerns; and Errol Flynn Adventures. I have 3 Lucille Ball collections; 2 Doris Day collections; Marilyn Monroe boxed set; 2 Joan Crawford boxed sets; Myrna Loy and William Powell boxed set; a Busby Berkeley collection; a classic musicals collection; a Doris Day/Rock Hudson collection; a Gidget collection; a Frankie and Annette boxed set... and probably many more.
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Who needs March Madness when you can watch the same movie 64 times in a row?
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I don’t care what anyone says. I love The Brady Bunch. I’ll just keep on keep on watching them too!
The Silver Platters 4Eva!
lol.
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If Hallmark insists on showing this crap for 6 months out of the year, I wish that they would just create a Hallmark Christmas Movie channel a la the Hallmark Mystery channel.
At least “my girls” are on Hulu, unedited.
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I don't get what the big deal is/was, don't like it? Watch something else! It's 2-2.5 hours.
I also like Jacqueline Stewart. I think she does a great job introducing her segment.
I find it interesting that a poster would simultaneously complain about newer films being shown on TCM while at the same time, bashing Silent films for showing on TCM. I guess a movie can't be too new or too old.
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I've watched quite a few things off and on over the past few weeks. Many were re-watches. Some I may have forgotten about completely.
Last night however, I watched:
Carmen Jones.
I recorded this movie a couple months ago (early enough that the Film Festival was still being advertised) and watched it last night. I recognized the music (not the lyrics) immediately. I never realized that the songs I recognized were from the Carmen opera. Some of the other songs with the new lyrics I recognized the music, but not the words. While Dorothy Dandridge's operatic voice double sounded pretty good, I found Harry Belafonte's operatic voice double very off-putting. I am not a fan of operatic music to begin with, but I wanted to see a Dandridge film and I like Belafonte.
With that said, I'm not sure what to think about this movie. I liked the storyline, and boy does Belafonte really go through the wringer for Dandridge. I wasn't a fan of the music with the lyrics. While I get that the story was depicting the story of Carmen the opera, I found the music so out of place.
I loved the costumes and I thought Pearl Bailey was fantastic. I may check out Dandridge in another film.
I don't think I'll need to watch Carmen Jones again. It didn't do anything for me.
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5 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Double foray into popcorn films of 1986. Top Gun was mostly a cardboard drag (Meg Ryan has only two minutes in it yet she's livelier than anyone else in it), but Big Trouble in Little China was a lot of fun.
Big Trouble in Little China is awesome. I really want Kurt Russell's shirt that he wears in that movie. I also love his boot knife.
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I’ve seen Born Yesterday, The African Queen, The Blue Lagoon, and 101 Dalmatians.
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I really enjoyed “I Wake Up Screaming.” My only issue was the weird score that accompanied the film. Why repeat the same two songs over and over? Why “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” ?That had to be a deliberate choice on Fox’s part since that was an MGM song.
Aside from the music however, I loved the cast and the storyline. I wish we could have seen a scene of Landis viewing Laird Cregar’s shrine to her. That, combined with him watching her through the window each night was definitely creepy. Sadly, the motive/cause behind Landis’ character’s death is still prescient today. I’d seen this movie before but had forgotten how it ended. I guessed Cregar and my husband guessed Elisha Cook Jr.
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I also loved “The Brady Bunch Movie,” “A Very Brady Sequel” and “Xanadu.”
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I’ve been lurking all weekend. I’ve been feeling under the weather (no I don’t have coronavirus) and I think I’m hopefully finally coming out of it.
For SUTS, I’d like to see:
Edmond O’Brien
Paulette Goddard
Dorothy McGuire
Joan Leslie
Barry Sullivan
Ida Lupino
Ann Sheridan
Richard Conte
Zachary Scott
Eleanor Parker
Dane Clark
Gordon MacRae
Ann Blyth
Jack Carson
Charles Coburn
Arthur Kennedy
Don Ameche
Ralph Meeker
Rhonda Fleming
Dan Duryea
Alan Ladd
Claude Rains
Jean Harlow
Barbara Stanwyck
Dick Powell
James Cagney
Jack Lemmon
Robert Ryan
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3 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I didn't know they were still around. I saw them live in '93. One of the better live rock bands that I ever saw.
We saw them a couple years ago when they came through Portland the last time.
What sucks is that they literally just played in Portland last night. We weren't able to get tickets to that show (tickets sold out in 30 minutes), so we got tickets for the next night in Eugene. The governor's ban on events with more than 250+ people was announced while the Portland Tool show was in progress.
They're apparently postponing, which is better than canceling. Ticketmaster hasn't even announced the cancellation yet. We found out via Tool's social media and the venue website.
And Introducing. . . .
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The Princess Bride has an introducing credit for Robin Wright who of course plays the title role.