HollywoodGolightly
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> My personal choice to direct the film would have been Fred Zinnemann (informally retired for years by then, or William Wyler, but he'd been dead for several years); either man would've made the unsparing, unsentimental film the subject matter demanded and deserved.
I would agree that the material probably demanded and deserved an unsparing and unsentimental film. However, just to play devil's advocate, if making it a little lighter and more comforting for the viewer helps it to reach a wider audience, has the cause of shining light on the subject been better served?
And ultimately I think that if you want to see a movie that is truly shallow and manipulative in its treatment of the Holocaust, you would have to watch a much more recent movie that also happens to star Ralph Fiennes - The Reader.
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> {quote:title=Terrence1 wrote:}{quote}
> And since when does a movie have to be a box office success to qualify for an Oscar nomination? That just is not fair! Any opinions on that?
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> Terrence.
I don't know if the unwritten rules of the Oscars were the same back then as they are today. Nowadays it certainly helps to have done reasonably well at the box-office, but doing TOO well can be a bad thing, too. Acting awards nowadays occasionally going to modest hits, like Kate Winslet in The Reader, if I remember correctly.
So I take it that Sirk's remake is your favorite version of Madame X, then?
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}
> I was excited when I saw the first trailer last year- but will live up to the hype?!
joe, you may want to take a quick look at the Variety review, which I hope is reasonably accurate. It doesn't contain major spoilers, I think, if you already know who plays the villain in the movie. If you don't know and don't want to find out until you watch it, you had better avert your eyes.
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Anyone here excited about tonight's Essential - William Wyler's Funny Girl with the great Barbra Streisand?
Wyler's next-to-last film helped Streisand win her first acting Oscar in an unusual tie with Katherine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter.
The story of Fanny Brice obviously has plenty of appeal for anyone who remembers the appeal of the Ziegfeld Girls - and gives Walter Pidgeon one of the best roles of the late part of his career.
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I actually like the pace of One, Two, Three and admire Wilder for pulling it off, but of course such pace would not work for every film. Now, I don't know if it was Truffaut or Hitchcock who said it, but someone who was a very well-known director once said that for those in this profession, there's simply a very high burn-out rate, for whatever reason(s), and I think it is not always possible for every director to remain at the top of their game, especially once they're in their 60s. Of course, some directors are able to pull it off, but a lot really seem burned out creatively by their mid-50s or early 60's.
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Lost Horizon
A Christmas Story or Christmas in Connecticut ?
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Neff, Walter - Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
nw: negligence
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Charles Ruggles was in A Stolen Life with Walter Brennan
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I also have mixed feelings about Wilder's post-1961 films, and certainly all of my favorite ones are the ones he'd made by then, capped by One, Two, Three. But there is something quite interesting even about the ones that aren't completely successful, especially The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
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Hair
nw: prognostication
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Larrabee, Linus - Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina (1954)
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I seem to remember this one getting the briefest of theatrical releases, and going practically straight-to-video.
Which doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a good horror movie.
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Have you ever had a chance to watch West Side Story in a theater, shown in 70mm?
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Michael Corleone
Al Pacino in The Godfather
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Great article, I can just picture him in Florence with one of his fans...
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Well, Ray, I guess it's safe to say it was the same worn print - but I'm still glad I recorded it this time!
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> {quote:title=CEBandello wrote:}{quote}
> I hope they have Ron Chaney (LC Jr's Grandson), who has done so much to keep his Grandpa's legacy alive, as a Guest Programmer featuring his Grandpa's films.
That would be terrific, it just remains to be seen if TCM's new neal with MCA-Universal might include all of those titles LC Jr. was in. Hopefully, it will.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - no stinkin' badges!
Next: Hamlet
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Night of the Iguana
nw: monsoon
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Marlene Dietrich was in A Foreign Affair with John Lund
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Peck, Gregory
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All This, and Heaven, Too
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Cyril Ritchard was in The Winslow Boy with Robert Donat
What happened to great movies?
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> The biggest limitation for modern films being enjoyable for "ANYone" is usually the language or violence. Thank goodness Disney & Pixar make films almost everyone can enjoy, even though they are labeled "kids movies".
I think the Dreamworks animated movies have been getting better of late, even if they are arguably not quite near as good as Pixar's.
Probably the biggest problem as far as Hollywood is concerned is that they continue to think in terms of quadrants. It's not going to be easy to make that mentality go away: how do you get major corporations to change the corporate mentality?
And in an age where everything - from magazines to TV channels - is increasingly niche-focused, how do you try to move in the opposite direction? The idea of a nation where most people watched the 3 major networks and where a magazine like LIFE could appeal to a wide segment of the population has never seemed more quaint, I think.