ValentineXavier

To me, there are two qualities that make a film an "essential." These are innovation, and influence on the world of cinema, or culture in general. I'm sure there are many great, innovative, but totally obscure films. I'd love to have them brought to light for all to see. But, no matter how good they are, they aren't currently essential to understanding modern film, or culture.

> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote} > Yes! That's what happened and I do have Comcast...but I made a mistake. It was Episode's 3 and 4, not 4 and 5. I wonder what made that happen. Comcast moves in mysterious ways, its tragedies to perform.

> {quote:title=JefCostello wrote:}{quote} > Red River/Rio Bravo (John Ford).......actually directed by Howard Hawks I've often said that Howard Hawks directed most of my favorite John Ford films.

> {quote:title=Stephen444 wrote:}{quote} > >wouldbestar said...I started watching I Died a Thousand Tmies a/k/a High Sierra III last night and realized I'm most irritated by two-time Oscar winner Shelley Winters. > > Her style is, in some cases, intentionally irritating. I mean who would want to be married to the mother in "Lolita" 1962. Exactly. She most usually plays needy, clingy, manipulative characters. She does it well, so her characters are rarely sympathetic.

> {quote:title=bwande wrote:}{quote} > WOW , now Loretta Young is one of my favorites so that choice shocked me. What movie is Loretta really not liked in. I loved her in Midnight Mary. what a Fox. > > > For me Hands Downs Can't Stand and won't watch is Hanoi Jane AKA, Jane Fonda, Can't even stand the sound of her voice. What a piece of work. I've always thought of Jane as sort of a modern Loretta...

Okay, it's long after 6pm, May 21st. Is everyone still with us? I thought so! THE UNWRAPTURE God is getting tired of a various weirdos claiming to know when the world will end. So, he decides to play a little joke on them, and their followers. They expect to be "Raptured," lifted naked, into the sky, as their clothes fall to the ground. God, played by Mel Brooks, decides on a switcheroo. In the "unwrapture," their clothes are lifted up into the sky, while the "Rapturists are left naked on the ground. Mimi Rodgers was particularly surprised to be standing around naked, and not getting paid for it.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > *" Before the site changes, the links were under "Full TCM Schedule," up at the top, with options to print a full month - this month, next month, month after that. Can you please ask them to reinstall links for those upcoming months? Thanks!"* - VX > > Hi VX. > > OK. So I was mistaken. You remember such links to the full-month pages being there in the past. I am sure that returning them will be an easy addition. > > Kyle In Hollywood I'm absolutely 100% sure they were there before the changes. They were not under the "Month" button in the drop-down, but under the "Full Schedule," as I said above. There was the current month, and the next two months. Now, for one month past those three months, I could only access those when someone posted a link. Yes, one would think that returning the buttons would be easy.

I had only heard them referred to as "color girls," but it seems you are correct, "China girls" is the common term. I found a site with a work of art, composed of 60 of them. Five of the 60 are clickable to enlarge. The link to one enlargement is below. Click on "Back to girls on film" to see all 60. http://www.juliebuck.com/portfolio/photos/girlsonfilm/04.htm

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Now I'm the one with a thesis-like post. And spot-on, I would say.

> {quote:title=TCMWebAdmin wrote:}{quote} > 3 MONTH SCHEDULE - Available by month through the dropdown menu (calendar) on the Schedule > Let me know if there are new issues not addressed that need reviewing. > > > > Thanks again everyone for your patience, > -Renee Renee, I don't think most of us consider this problem fixed. What you're talking about will let us access any individual day for three months ahead. What we want, and used to have, are links to print out a full month for June and July, just like we can for May. The addresses still exist, Kyle posted them in the other thread. But, we can find no links to them with the drop down menus. Before the site changes, the links were under "Full TCM Schedule," up at the top, with options to print a full month - this month, next month, month after that. Can you please ask them to reinstall links for those upcoming months? Thanks! Edited by: ValentineXavier on May 17, 2011 9:11 PM

Up until a few months ago, I had to turn off my Comcast Motorola DVR pretty regularly, or it would get really slow to respond. Sometimes I would have to unplug it, and let it reboot, to clear things up. Sometimes rebooting will let you play stored programs that wouldn't play before. Years ago, I had to unplug the cable box at least once a week, to restore Dolby Digital audio.

You're right. You really need to rule it out before you talk to the cable company. It will help with your righteous indignation.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > If anyone wants to know what is the *worst* movie ever made about protitutes, it probually is "Vice Squad" (1982). Even today after all these years, I still remembered what one film critic said about it, in that it should return to the gutter where it came from! The worst movie ever made about prostitutes, that I've seen anyway, is *Pretty Woman*.

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > > I'm of the opinion that BEN-HUR is by far the best of the biblical epics. The question is, Is it the only good one? I'll admit that I'm not big on Biblical epics, but my favorites are the 1956 *The Ten Commandments*, and *The Life of Brian*. Of course both *BH* and *TTC* have the insufferably self righteous Charlatan Heston, but *TTC* also has Yul Brynner, Edward G., Vincent Price, John Carradine, and many more. I could do without John Derek, though.

That's definitely worth checking, but numerous cases of the local head end screwing up, and sending it out on the normal audio channel have been reported on these forums lately.

For main stream film, then, VERY kinky!

Anyone who can answer my question will know what color girls are, but many people won't. "Color Girls" are the girls in a few frames of the film leader, before the count. They also have a color chart in the frame. They are used to see if skin tone is right. Different film manufacturers, different film stocks, and different countries, use different color girls. In Japan, they use Japanese color girls, with Japanese skin tones. In Africa, they use black color girls, with appropriate skin color to shoot black subjects. So, what I would like to know, does anyone know of a source, preferably on line, where they have a variety of color girls? Of course I tried the wikipedia, and Google, but had no luck.

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > Doesn't that hurt? Only after it sprouts.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > It sounds as if you may have written your thesis on this subject. Not yet...

Fred's right. There seems to have been a lot of this lately, and it is almost always a problem at the head end of your local cable company.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *Young Jackie's head is as big as mom's and stepdad's! YOW!* > > But it gives credence to that whole face symmetry and head size that separates the truly beautiful film stars from the rest of us. Hmmm... I didn't think that their heads got big until after they became stars...

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > Myrna was sort of tart-like in the The Mask of Fu Manchu, when she played Boris Karloff's daughter and tried to seduce one of his victims. Perhaps my memory is faulty, but as I remember it, Fu Manchu used a concoction to turn the guy into a Zombie, and gave her to Fah Lo See (Myrna) to play with. No seduction was required, and Myrna was a dominatrix, with a whip, not a mere tart!

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > More importantly, where does a Canadian learn to say "y'all"? Probably from watching *GWtW*

We had at least three campus film societies, back in the 60s and 70s. Sadly, they are all gone. But, we do have the Center for Japanese Studies Film Series. It has gone on for a couple of decades, and I've seen many excellent Japanese films there, amny for the first time. *Hana-Bi* and *The Eel*, to name just two.

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > > Jackie Cooper with his mother, Mabel, and stepfather, C. J. Bigelow Young Jackie's head is as big as mom's and stepdad's! YOW!