HollywoodGolightly

Classic directors only? Just kidding. A lot of the obvious favorites have already been mentioned so I will try and spare everyone the usual Hitchcock-Ford-Capra-Wilder-Wyler-Fleming-Lubitsch-Lean yadda yadda yadda and mention only the ones that either haven't been mentioned already or aren't likely to be mentioned: D.W. Griffith Erich Von Stroheim Abel Gance Buster Keaton G.W. Pabst King Vidor Raoul Walsh Tod Browning Sergei Eisenstein Michael Curtiz Busby Berkeley William Wellman James Whale Richard Thorpe Phil Karlson William Castle Anthony Mann Leni Riefenstahl Alexander Korda Marcel Carn? Jean Renoir Ren? Clair Henri-Georges Clouzot Jules Dassin Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Max Oph?ls George Cukor Vittorio De Sica Jacques Demy & Agn?s Varda Roman Polanski Sam Fuller Nicholas Ray Robert Wise Alain Resnais Louis Malle Jean-Luc Godard Fran?ois Truffaut Luis Bu?uel Carlos Saura Sergio Leone Jean-Pierre Melville Akira Kurosawa Kenji Mizoguchi Mike Nichols Federico Fellini Bernardo Bertolucci Ingmar Bergman Sam Peckinpah Robert Altman John Schlesinger Peter Greenaway Rainer Werner Fassbinder Aki Kaurism?ki Pedro Almod?var Alfonso Cuar?n John Woo Wong Kar-Wai Hayao Miyazaki

Uh... Pygmalion perhaps?

The Yellow Rolls-Royce When Dana wanted to get her dad something really special for Father's Day, she decided to throw caution to the wind and get him....

Wrighter, Marge - Jan Sterling in Union Station

A Majority of One nw: vegemite

Kane, Gail (In The White Sister, tonight's Sunday Silent feature)

Claude Akins was in The Killers (1964) with Angie Dickinson.

Quine, Richard - directed The Solid Gold Cadillac

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Sorry, I hope you folks aren't discussing this one in one of the other threads, I just didn't see a separate thread for it. I don't know much about it, except that I'll be recording it tonight for later viewing. Apparently it has only been released on VHS before, never on DVD. Does anyone know much about it?

> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > Ingrid Bergman was nearly six feet tall. She had few leading men who weren't shorter than she was. Good point, CineSage. In that regard, she was without a doubt _above-average_.

You're probably right about that, I haven't checked the blogs recently, but it's always a good thing when there are several choices available so that conversations have more chances of taking place. Plus the site is still in a pretty early stage, so nobody knows which way it could go eventually. But I think it's a good thing they didn't just stick with the initial groups that they had 2-3 weeks ago.

> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote} > I know that this thread is devoted to DVDs, but I am listing how many of both types I have in my collection Both DVD and VHS. Since a great many people here still use VHS to tape off of TCM. I think that's a good idea, Rey. Obviously many of us also have VHS tapes and blu-rays, maybe even laserdiscs, but it would make for a very awkward thread title to include all of those. > What I am doing and have been trying to accomplish these past few years is to replace my VHS tapes with store bought / by on the internet DVDs. I do not have a DVD-R machine, nor am I willing to purchase one. Is there any reason you decided against getting a DVD recorder? I'm only asking because I have found it very convenient to be able to transfer anything from TCM or other movie channels into a DVD-R, each of which can be as cheap as $0.25 or so. > Maybe Holly or Frank would know, but my guess is that not ALL current titles on regular DVD will also be produced on Blue-ray discs? Chances are, it won't happen. DVDs have been around for about a decade, and there are still many titles that were once released on VHS that aren't out on DVD. The same could happen with blu-rays. Nobody really knows what the format's life expectancy could be, or how willing most movie fans would be to choose a digital delivery format (streaming, downloading, etc.) Right now, studios are still reluctant to release some older movies in blu-ray because the blu-ray sales might account for maybe 5% or so of all the copies they will sell on both formats. But as more people switch to blu-ray, that could change quickly. The tipping point, most likely, will be the release of very popular movies, like the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Lord of the Rings trilogies, which aren't on blu-ray yet. (Though LOTR could supposedly be released on blu-ray this year). By the time all of these movies are on blu-ray, the format will be well on its way to being adopted by most people. Still, classics are always going to be tricky, because a lot of movies just aren't in good enough shape to look good in a HD format. It really takes a good restoration and a careful video transfer to make them look as good as they can on blu-ray. We can expect this to happen with the most popular of the classics, but maybe not with the more obscure titles.

Oh, it wasn't a musical? Ooops. I wonder if TCMWebAdmin would mind moving this thread to the comedy forum....

They seem to have added _a lot_ of new groups since yesterday.... it looks like just about any recognizable actor you can think of is going to have a group of their own, which is a good thing.

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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > If that is what they wish us to do then somebody from TCMWeb or TCMWebAdmin should come on the boards and tell us. The way I look at it, TCM has always prided itself on being up to the latest in technology (with the possible exception of HD broadcasting) and having a social networking website that allows TCM viewers to interact with each other would seem to be a part of that. As it is, there are users in the forums that already use this part of the website in a way that is closer to the typical use of a social networking site. So it might just be a matter of someone at TCM (and not with the third-party contractor developing the site) thinking that as soon as people start looking at the new "CFU" site with all its bells and whistles, a great number of TCM viewers would like the new site better, especially the younger viewers who already spend a lot of their time online in other social networks - viewers which are almost certainly vital to TCM's long-term strategy. This is just an educated guess, but I think TCM will promote the new "CFU" much more aggresively and dedicate more resources to it, because it is the "web 2.0" thing to do, so it makes it look like TCM is being more aggresive in keeping up with new trends, and avoiding becoming too old-fashioned even as it continues to show the _very_ old-fashioned films that we love.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > You mentioned Alan Ladd. When he played opposite Sophia Loren (I believe in "Boy on a Dolphin) they used all sorts of tricks to hide the fact that she was taller than he was. And this was in the best Hollywood tradition, too - didn't they do the same with Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca ?

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I haven't seen CRY OF THE CITY in a long time. The only thing I remember is Hope Emerson massaging Richard Conte, or was I having a nightmare? That scene is definitely one of the most memorable in the movie, I think. I finally caught up with it; overall, I think I liked this material better when it was called Manhattan Melodrama, but this Robert Siodmak film is still worth watching, especially for fans of crime & noir - there's good performances here by Mature and Conte, and a very early role for Shelley Winters (I've seen very few of her movies from the 40s). Watching this one only about a week after New York Confidential, in which Conte also played a NY mobster, I am inclined to think that as good as he was to begin with, he would definitely get better with the years, obviously culminating with his role as Don Barzini in The Godfather. Overall, Cry of the City probably isn't as impressive a movie as Siodmak's The Killers, which he'd made just two years before, but it still has some good moments.

Eigeman, Chris

Minnelli, Vincente - directed Yolanda and the Thief

Kill Bill It was a dark, gloomy night in Noir City, when Detective Cardelli suddenly caught up with....

Mickey Rooney was in Young Tom Edison with Fay Bainter.

In the Good Old Summertime

Did they really show it with "Dark Side of the Moon" on the SAP? It's too bad I missed that.