JonnyGeetar

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > For gals I would say it was Barbara Stanwyck. 3 time nominee but never a winner expect an honorary one in 1981. > Stanwyck was actually nominated four times: Stella Dallas ; Ball of Fire ; Double Indemnity and Sorry, Wrong Number

i totally know what you mean. a coupla' Halloweens ago I watched Frankenstein (1931) on AMC (they get first crack at all Universal movies) not only was the print crap, but the movie (which is an hour and twenty minutes AT MOST) lasted two and a half hours with all the commercials which, yes, are indeed EVERY FIVE EFFIN' MINUTES. AMC is essentially a commercial delivery system. if parts of movies happen to get shown along the way, okay fine, but it's the commercials that matter. And I remember a few years ago (maybe five?) the year's end, "ten-best list" issue of TIME magazine picked AMC as one of the ten best things on Television, they even took the time to diss TCM in the paragraph. what knobs! ps: the movie of the razor's edge is OVER TWO HOURS even w/o the commericials?! I've read the book and would be really hard-pressed to see how they could fill out 20 minutes with that story. Seriously, not a damn thing happens in it. Edited by: JonnyGeetar on Feb 21, 2010 6:41 PM to show utter contempt for the knobs at TIME magazine

> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}> Oh, well, it's not much more egregious than misspelling Geraldine Page's name. No. Ben's mistake is much more egregious. He got paid to make it. Seriously, I wish you'd chill with the Microsoft Spellcheck routine.

> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote} THE COBWEB wastes several stars who are right at the top of their game. They were lucky this film didn't mean "curtains" to their careers. If I recall correctly, John Kerr evaporated pretty soon after. (I know this is mean, but I'm totally cool with that.)

Burton's one supporting nod for My Cousin Rachel is one of the more bizarre noms over the years as he is on screen for (at the very least) 98% of that film (Olivia de Havilland has more of a supporting role than he did.) I think Daily Variety (which used to have a HIGHLY accurate poll they ran before the A.A. show every year) predicted he would be the winner. It was one of the rare times they were wrong as Anthony Quinn won in the first of his two big upsets. In re: to Peter O'Toole, I did not see Venus but I think Forrest Whittaker (sic) is a HORRIBLE actor who got super lucky with being cast in a juicy part. I did not care much for Last King and O'Toole has been beyond fabby in more films than I feel like listing... I wonder if maybe Peter has an attitude problem or something (one of the reasons I think maybe Bacall got snubbed in 1996) Have you ever noticed Peter O'Toole has a doubley phallic name? (I stole that last bit from Groucho Marx)

I searched for other posts on this movie but found none. What a box of Cracker Jacks! What a buffet of great acting! And I've never seen an early talkie that utilized sound so very, very well. Terrific!

> {quote:title=Terrence1 wrote:}{quote} > Stanwyck really hated that wig in "Double Indemnity." It was strictly Billy Wilder's idea. I guess he felt she would come across more seductive with it. It's perfect, it makes her look like the cheap, 10 cents a dance dame she's playing and it frames her glimmering eyes wonderfully for the scene where MacMurray is killing her husband and she's clearly delighted. I will defend that bad wig to my dying day.

Letter from an Unknown Woman is coming MARCH 27 at 10:15 pm. It gets banished to the salt mines afterewards, so make sure not to miss it. I forgot all about Bedlam ! That is a really good movie. Much better than Lewton's overpraised "straight" horror movies. God, The Cobweb sucks. I can't think of any better cast (save for John Kerr) more WASTED in any film ever. Filming Lust for Life must've been hard on poor Vincente. Edited by: JonnyGeetar on Feb 18, 2010 4:13 PM

> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote} > Dare I say Bogie for " Casablanca", "In a Lonely Place" and "The Harder They Fall" - or at least a nomination for Best Actor for the latter two? AND High Sierra , and The Maltese Falcon and To Have and Have Not , and (the ultimate sin on the part of the AMPAS) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Dan Dailey in When my Baby Smiles at Me my ****.)

(to me) this film is much like to have and have not in that it is an acquired taste, the first time one sees it, one may think "eh, what's the big friggin' deal?"...You have to see it several times (and sometimes catch pieces here and there) to really "get it"- at least I did. i still don't think it's up there with the best of John Huston's stuff, but then again, his best is pretty damn good. Does anyone know whether the song "Key Largo" (often performed by Sarah Vaughn) was inspired by the movie or play? "Key Larrrrgo/ I lo-uh-uh-ve Key La-ar-ar-go/ how empty it seems/ in only my dreams"

> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote} > Other films that dealt with mental illness: AUTUMN LEAVES and THE COBWEB. Ah, yes, the Joan Crawford ouevre is rich with films dealing with mental illness (wonder why?) I've always thought The Cobweb was more a film about interior decorating as opposed to mental illness (those damn drapes!)

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Nobody knows other films about mental illness other than the ones I listed? Possessed (1947, one year before the snake pit) Suddenly Last Summer The Caretakers (1963) The Blue Dahlia Splendor in the Grass (to some degree) The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue Long Day's Journey Into Night The Best of Everything Whatever Happened to Baby Jane A Streetcar Named Desire Vertigo Shadow of a Doubt and The Legend of Lylah Clare- everyone in that film is 'effin nuts and it will also drive YOU insane

Two For the Road is, I think, the best performance Audrey ever gave on film and one of Donen's best. Man, she would have only been 80??!! We lost her too damn soon. ps- anyone else think Henry Fonda was wearing WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much makeup in War and Peace ?

> {quote:title=rover27 wrote:}{quote} > All I know is that she had to have been wearing a really bad blonde wig in "Double Indemnity". And yet that wig adds so much to her performance, I don't think it'd be the same film without that tacky wig. The Devil and Miss Jones was on this weekend, and I have to say, Jean Arthur sported the same kind of Egyptian-Headpiece style 'do with much less success.

While 1939-1946 was the golden era of Hollywood (ironically as the world was crumbling); '47, '48, and '49 is a strange, watershed era before the glorious run of the 1950's. Someone should write a book on 1947-1949 in cinema, call it "The Dark Years" or something....

I have always heard that Joan Fontaine gave the perf of a lifetime in Letter From an Unknown Woman in the same year, but it was a flop and she didn't have the momentum. I have never been able to see it, but it's my understanding TCM will be airing it soon (thanks) The novelette it is based on is great though. Love Stanwyck and Sorry, Wrong Number but it's so obviously a 20 minute radio play fleshed out into 90, and she vanishes for a big chunk in the last third...same director as Snake Pit to note. I love Irenne Dunne, but I'd rather she won for Penny Serenade or The Awful Truth Olivia is AWESOME in The Snake Pit - she does so much with her face, but I wouldn't give it to her (thanks to the hindsight that comes with history) because she SO RICHLY DESERVED IT the next year for The Heiress (talk about acting with your face! She says SO MUCH with just an expression in many scenes in that movie.) I dunno, 'til I see Letter from an Unknown I defer in judgement. However, I have just NEVER gotten why Jane Wyman won for Johnny Belinda ...Well, I guess the fact that it was a HUGE blockbuster and there was probably an "emperor's new clothes" thing where no one dared to speak up and say "uh, what the hell did she do, other than spend the whole movie with an expression on her face like someone has just stomped on her foot?" I like Jane Wyman, she was the best part in a lot of lousy movies ( Night and Day comes to mind) but best actress for that twaddle? Eesh. I really like Lew Ayres in it though... 1948 was such a grim year for movies! Not saying they were bad, just dark is all.

Jezebel is on right now. Man, Donald Crisp was in EVERYTHING wasn't he? I wish I could say my opinions about Bette and the film had changed...I don't think I can make it through the next 15 minutes of "hunny chiles" and hokum. And the costumes are tacky and the sets are claustrophobic and it's stagey as hell. I can totally see how people in 1938 ate this **** up though. (all apologies to W. Wyler)

> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=WhitSt wrote:}{quote} > > "Sergeant York" was the biggest grossing movie, after GWTW, in the 40s and 50s. > > And where did you dig up this silly, and utterly unsupportable, statement? > > As though SERGEANT YORK, of all things, was a higher-grossing film than colossal epics like THE TEN COMMANDMENTS or BEN-HUR. I looked it up. It was in the top ten for the forties, but not hot on the heels of GWTW... However, Mr. Sprocket.... A lot of us get things wrong in both spelling and facts, this is not Wikipedia, Maltin's Movie Guide or Cahiers du Cinema . People make typoes and the hinges of their mental filing cabinets get rusty. It happens to some of us plebs who live at the foot of the mountain. BTW, I am sure I misspelled any number of things in this reply. We all do this because we love movies and opinions, as goes the quote, are free. There is no need for you to be quite so condescending and vitriolic in your repeated pop-ups, like some obnoxous version of that talking paper clip on Microsoft Word to say; "HEY DUMMY, YOU GOT THAT WRONG!" Not many people post anything on this site at all, but when they take the time to do it, I make an effort to respect and not negate their view because of sloppy syntax, spelling, typoes, or the fact that I don't agree with it. BTW, the "peppermint patty" pun is LAME. cAN't Wate 4 u to pointe out ALL me spelking erors in this, BTW.

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > We could go on and on, you and I, about Evita. Everytime I see it, as good as Madonna is, I keep thinking she put a Bad Karma on the production. Just a feeling I have about it, that's all. > Unpack that for me, when you have the time. It's funny, I whipped out my copy of Inside Oscar and perused the noms for 1968. 2001 did get a (richly deserved) nod for the sets- but lost (rather stupidly) to Oliver! 1968 was a _killer_ year for movies and the technical awards were miles off in wins and nods. as far as costume design went: PLANET OF THE APES got nommed, which is funny given what I read in your last post. The real travesty is that Funny Girl did NOT, I repeat DID NOT get nominated for best costume design. WTFiest. I also have a very hard time understanding Ruth Gordon's Oscar win for Rosemary's Baby I love Ruth Gordon, I am thrilled she won an Oscar (and look at the pics of her at the cermony accepting the award, she looked so glam!) but she just had to've won more for who she was and the fact she'd been up so many times before for writing and acting than anything she does in that film...which is not one of my favorites.

> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote} > I'm having trouble seeing Hoffman sitting on a horse with an eye patch with 2 Navy colts, putting the reins in his teeth while yelling "Fill your hand, you son of a b****". Now I could see him as "Lucky Ned Pepper" Maybe if he was dressed like Dorothy from Tootsie "Fill your hands you SOB...and by the way....(rips wig off) I'M EDWARD KIMBERLY, THE RECKLESS BROTHER OF MY SISTER EMILY!!!" (My, this is becoming an odd thread,,,)

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > No, the most **** moment in Costume Design and Make-up nominations was the exclusion of 2001 -A Space Odessey... > Good (as always) to hear from you, CB. Did Rudi Gernreich (sic) do the costumes for that? From what I've read and seen, any and every poor bastard who had to work with Kubrick should've be nominated for something...or given three years free therapy. I dunno know, I still think Evita's exclusion is slightly WTFier, but they're both pretty darn WTFish...****-ey...**** ever. They should change how they do the costume award.

Gump's not that bad, but Fiction's not that great. In the whole 1994 Gump v. Fiction battle, I would actually pick Four Weddings and a Funeral: one of the most charming films of the last 30 years. I was stunned it managed to even get nominated, although it was the first pic to be nommed for solely best picture and screenplay (and nothing else) since Decision Before Dawn in 1951. And Mike Newell has certainly done well for himself since.

the costume design award has been rife with **** moments, 'specially in the last 20-30 years...Ghandi's win has always been a bit odd to me...And the 1996 non-nomination for Evita (which broke the record for the number of costume changes and has some STUNNING work) in favor of the (winning) designs from The English Patient which frankly couild've been bought off the rack at any Banana Republic in America has been #1 in my book as far as stupid decisions where the technical awards were concerned. ps- I am sure I misspelled Ghandi

> {quote:title=msbisonnet wrote:}{quote} > Could you see Wayne playing Ratso? That would have been fabby beyond words. Conversely, would love to have seen what Hoffman could have done as Ghengis Khan in The Conquerer or even as Chaka Kahn in I Feel For You: The Movie

I was kidding about the "brazen infidel" thing... personal curiosity: which repeats are you most sick of?