ValentineXavier

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > We had Divorce...so how about Divorce and Re-Marriage? > And of course, *My Favorite Wife*

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Hmm, I'm trying to think of a film that I regard as a Western that doesn't have horses in it. I'm sure there must be at least one. Well, there is that neo-noir Busby Berkley western, *The Big Lebowski*... no horses that I can recall. I just remembered a few more favorite, rather unusual, westerns: *Greaser's Palace*, directed by Robert Downey Sr. definitely not for every taste *Dead Man*, a great film by Jim Jarmush, a great cast, including Johnny Depp and Robert Mitchum *Zachariah* 1971, an interesting artifact of the psychedelic era, lots of musicians in the cast, including Country Joe and the Fish, and Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw

I think this is an under-appreciated film. The plot is just so weird! Hollywood is always remaking films. Instead of remaking great, successful films, they should remake a film like this, loaded with great ideas, crying for development and a budget, but the original is just a B picture. TCM has shown it before.

Funny, but I noticed the opposite. When people are driving a car at night, they don't turn the headlights off when they get out of the car! They just walk away, and leave them on, presumably for quite some time, in some cases. Now, if you want to see a film where the headlights of cars are an important plot point, you should check out *The Cars that Ate Paris*, an Australian film, directed by Peter Weir.

There are also CMOS sensors, which use less electricity than CCDs. One CMOS chip, made by Foveon, actually senses all three colors on the entire chip, because different colors penetrate to different depths in the chip. I think only Sigma cameras use the Foveon chip. Canons have used CMOS chips for quite a while, and Nikon began using them a few years ago. I think both still have CCD cameras as well. But, the principles Fred cites are accurate. Pixels are roughly equivalent to grain size in film. The more megapixels, the sharper the picture. This is usually accomplished by having larger chips. The chip replaces the film frame, as the objective of the light coming through the lens.

*The Salad of the Bad Cafe* Convict gets out of prison, and visits a local ptomaine palace, for his first meal as a free man. Accustomed to prison food, he doesn't notice the salad he orders has browning lettuce, spinach turning to goo, and fermenting tomatoes. He mistakes the resultant upset stomach for love for the proprietress. She spurns him with a punch to the gut, and Michael Dunn cleans up the mess. *Midnight Plowboy* A west coast oriented remake of *Midnight Cowboy*. A studly young Nebraska farmer tires of sod bustin'. He heads for LA, intent on plowing as many furrows as possible, and getting paid for it. Once he gets there, he finds out that it can be hard to tell the boys from the girls.

Agreed. Not that realistic, perhaps, but lots of fun. Nick and Nora were fun drunks too.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > Hey I LIKE Barbarella; it's a very fun movie! But if she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress and activist, not the best choice for her (though she did look fabulous). Much as I agreed with her political views, I'll have to agree with you. The film was fur out.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Interesting post, Valentine, and very nicely written, as usual. I'm humbled to say that of the Westerns you list, I have only seen *One Eyed Jacks* . It's what I would classify as a "psychological Western", although there certainly is action in it as well. But it's more about the Brando/Maldon characters and their relationship. This makes it a more interesting Western, for me. > > I love Sam Fuller, but have mostly seen his noir work. Now that I'm more aware that he made a number of Westerns I'll be on the look-out for them. His first two films are westerns, *I Shot Jesse James*, and *The Baron of Arizona*, but as Fuller made them, they are not typical westerns. *Forty Guns* is probably the best of his westerns. They are all good, and well worth watching, but I would say that some of his other films top them. *One-Eyed Jacks* is almost a noir to me, but has many of the themes of a standard western. As the characters are very detailed, and their thinking makes the film what it is, yes, certainly psychology plays an important part. You should check out *El Topo* (The Mole.) Some call it a spaghetti western, a genre I don't care for. It is actually very avant-garde, and pretty far out there. If you like it, you might also like *The Holy Mountain*.

Kathryn Bigelow, director of the Oscar-winning *The Hurt Locker* acted in a couple of films, so I guess she qualifies, but barely.

Yeah, I figured that pianos were the most common. The restored theater where I live has had the same organ since 1927, and they still play it for silents, unless they have an orchestra.

> {quote:title=aretha wrote:}{quote} > This really has gotten ridiculous. i never would have thought my saying that i came to a classic films channel looking for classic Black films during Black History Month would not only question my being a representative of my own demographic but then even be charged with committing slander of the network! > It certainly has gotten ridiculous, and it's certainly not your fault this **** match started, as they sometimes do around here. I may be wrong, but I think the 'bordering on slander' thing was aimed at My Favorite Films, not you. I think that most, maybe even all, of us take your concerns seriously, even if we can't agree on what would be an appropriate remedy. So, please don't be discouraged from speaking out on these forums.

> {quote:title=rosebette wrote:}{quote} > > Unexpected pleasure, "Last Chance Harvey" with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, which we discovered while channel-hopping on late night TV. Lovely and gentle romance of two lonely people. I liked that too. Kind of the opposite end of the spectrum to *The Graduate*, you might say. I liked seeing Hoffman in something new, to me.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Nobody ever said a silent film had to be watched with music. That is how most audiences have been conditioned to watch them. Given that most silent films had a score, commissioned or selected by the creators of the film, and that most theaters had an organist, or pianist, playing that score, if not an orchestra, your statement is absurd.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > Marlene Dietrich should have been the first one mentioned! > > True, but her singing is sort an acquired taste. I personally like it, but there a lot of people don't. Better not let the 'boys in the back room' hear you say that... Dietrich made her name playing Lola Lola in *The Blue Angel*, and often had singing parts in her films. Had she not been a celebrated actress, I'm sure she could have made a name for herself as a cabaret singer.

Burl Ives is a man who can sing, and act. But, his guitar playing is probably better than his singing.

> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} > Beware of Gila monsters under those rocks. We should take up a collection and buy him one, for a pet. Happy anniversary, Fred.

Today's cars are safer, but the cars of the 50s definitely looked better in technicolor than today's cars would.

> {quote:title=hsmovies wrote:}{quote} > Have a 9.1 A/V system So, you should be especially appreciative of silent films with great modern musical accompaniment, be it a modern score, or a modern rendition of the original score.

If I told you, I'd have to kill you... or maybe the TSA would do it for me. Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 6, 2011 2:41 AM

So, Bette Davis drove 90 miles in 96 minutes to save her pet dog from a tarantula bite? Too bad she didn't know that tarantulas aren't poisonous.

*Run of the Arrow* is a Sam Fuller film.

B. Traven believed in miracles.

I'm trying to remember - didn't TCM show some black films back in June to celebrate "Juneteenth," which is a holiday in Texas, and 35 other states, to celebrate the day black people there found out about the Emancipation Proclamation? If I knew how to find old schedules, I'd look myself. One film that would be on the top of my list to celebrate black history is the 1984 Brazilian film *Quilombo*. Most people don't know it, but the first republic in the Americas was formed by Africans who had escaped slavery, and formed their own community, Palmares, in the jungles of Brazil. It existed from about 1605 to 1694, when it was finally conquered, after several attempts, by the Portugese. Even today, kids are taught in college that Haiti was the first black republic. Not so. Palmares beat that by 200 years, and the black Africans beat the white Americans to forming a republic by 171 years. Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 6, 2011 1:23 AM

I was thinking that the anti-Mubarak protesters needed seven samurai, to help them defend themselves. I only saw it once, on ABC? (I think,) but there were actually two chariots following the camels and horses! Fred, the protesters eventually were making cardboard helmets. It's just that they didn't expect to be attacked. So, if you liked *Missing*, DON'T MISS *Z*, also by Costa-Gavras. Just as exciting, with even more political intrigue, also based on true events. Coming soon on TCM.