ValentineXavier

A friend loaned me the DVD, but I have yet to get to it.

> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote} > > Oh, if you ever get a chance, visit the southern part of Louisiana that has a unique culture called Cajuns. They are a warm and friendly people who love food and revelry. Lafayette is a great little town right in the heart of southern Louisiana. > > The Cajuns came from Canada or Acadia. > > A great people... I'll second that. I lived in Morgan City. My dad and my Cajun stepmom lived in Lafayette, and New Iberia. My step sister lives in those parts now. Cajun food is the best!

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > FredC, > > There wasn't much traffic on the boards last night. I think ValentineXavier was the last post in this forum with a time stamp of about 9:00. > I was in the Widescreen Forum when it went wacky. I could read, but I couldn't post, and once I read things, they were still marked as unread. I couldn't log out. I tried the TCM home page, and most of it didn't come up. I think it was about 4 or 4:30am EST, when the forums were working again. When I got back on, there were no new posts since I went off, I think at about 12:30am EST, not long after 9pm PST.

They've shown it several times. I have no idea when they will show it again, but I'd bet that they do.

> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > I haven't seen it in years. My recollection is that she was dead but didn't know it. > > But, she did interact with living people and wasn't a ghost or a ghoul, in the traditional sense. I think that there is no rational answer, much like *Jacob's Ladder*, and *Donnie Darko*, she seems to be both dead, and alive. No explanation possible. Good film, though. One of the best no-budget films ever made, IMO.

I believe that they did show a couple, a few years back. But, they are very rare on TCM, I don't believe I've seen them before, or since, back then. Just a guess, but maybe they aren't generally available with English subtitles, and or in digital format. So, could be hard to find anything they could show.

Lists... well, I don't have anything against lists, really. They can be fun, and interesting. But, they also take a lot of time, effort, thought, even research. My guesstimate of how many film titles I have, between VHS, SVHS, LD and DVD is 4,000+. So, I'll just make a couple of very short lists: Best neo-noir Busby Berkeley western of all time: *The Big Lebowski*. Film currently unavailable in a quality DVD release that I would most like to have: Ken Russell's *The Devils*. Maybe if I get ambitious later, I'll try and list my favorite directors, probably 40 or so...

It will take me a while to come up with a list of ten! Certainly the first film that jumps to my mind is Fritz Lang's silent *Spione*. I had already seen several on your list - *Stray Dog* and old favorite - but *The Long Memory* and *The Criminal* were both new to me, and likely on my list of the 10 best I hadn't seen previously.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > And of course the kiss...and Madonna thought she was soooo risque for kissing Britney Spears a few years ago. *Marlene did it in 1930!* I repeat, Britney wasn't alive then... And, Marlene wasn't alive in 2003...

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > . Jeff Bridges playing a major John Wayne role?? I'm left speechless. The same guy in *Tron!* That does not compute. He bridges the gap...

> {quote:title=cinemafan wrote:}{quote} > > I noticed that when the announcer said that *Mush and Milk* was coming up, she pronounced mush as if it rhymed with "push". Not once, but twice. That had me wondering if mush is obsolete nowadays. I noticed that mispronunciation too. I think that mac and cheese has supplanted poor folk's food like mush. Well, ironically, it is still in fancy restaurants, like the one in *Mush and Milk*, where it is usually called polenta.

I enjoyed the Our Gang marathon quite a bit. I recorded all 24 hours. With the interstitials cut out, the 53 titles shown totaled a few minutes over 16 hours. I will try to fit them all on 8 DVDs. I've watched about a third of them so far. I was surprisingly impressed with the silents, and glad TCM ran them, as well as the talkies. I look forward to the Laurel and Hardy marathon! I haven't checked yet, but I'm hoping that the L&H films will be all, or at least mostly, different from those shown in the last L&H marathon. As to showing the shorts without breaks, I think the best plan would be to show them in two hour blocks, with some filler at the end. This would make them a lot easier to program on the DVR, and there would be no risk of missing beginnings and endings. Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 8, 2011 10:52 PM

> {quote:title=annelovestcm wrote:}{quote} > ok I know I am taking a risk here lol > > do all americans wear their shoes in the house? > > every time I see a movie or tv sitcom they are wearing their shoes in the house > > is it because that is the norm OR does it just look better on camera? I think it varies quite a bit. I don't wear shoes in my house. When I go to someone else's house during the winter, I normally take my shoes off when entering, to avoid soiling their carpet. But, I think that when most people go visiting, they keep their shoes on. Most of my guests come to watch movies. I tell them that feet, but NOT shoes, are allowed to use the coffee table in front of the couch as a foot stool. So, most eventually take their shoes off, to get comfortable.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > The very term "femme fatale", which I presume means "fatal female", implies that it is a female that has fatal effects, and this would be despite her intentions. You are quite correct. A woman doesn't have to be bad, or evil, to be a "femme fatale," literally a "disastrous woman." It can well be the man's obsession with the woman that makes her 'fatal' or disastrous for him. I think that in general a femme fatale is a temptress, i.e. sexually alluring. That isn't criminal, but has traditionally been considered an evil in itself in our (once very much more) patriarchal society. So, sometimes it is the woman's fault she is a femme fatale, sometimes it isn't.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > From The Big Sleep: > > > Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they're front runners or come from behind, find out what their *whole* card is, what makes them run. > > > > Lots of good ones! I just want to point out that it's "hole card," not "whole card." > > Thanks. I know next to nothing about horse racing and nothing at all about betting. They are kind of mixing metaphors. "Hole card" comes from stud poker, where some cards are turned up, and some are kept face down, so only the person whose hand it is knows what their "hole cards" are. The term "hole card' evolved to mean something a person holds back to use in a pinch, a sort of hidden strength.

> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > I think most of those were worthy, but I think the world would be a better place if all copies of *Saturday Night Fever* were turned into fertilizer, and donated to third world countries... > > Oh, Val--it's not that bad of a movie. I was a young woman when this film came out & it was lightning in a bottle. People couldn't get enough of it. It's not that it's one of my favorite films of all time or anything, but it's a well told story about a moment in time with a lot of catchy tunes. Part of my repugnance for SNF is that it helped popularized disco, which for a few years, at least, was the death of live music. I had lots of friends in bands, and only one who spun records at a disco... Oh, yeah, I hated disco music...

> {quote:title=TheCid wrote:}{quote} > This is Mitchum's best movie and Jane Greer is far better than the other actresses they tried to get for her role. Add an excellent performance by William Bendix and you have one of best movies ever made. I'm a big Mitchum fan, and I enjoy the film very much. But, Mitchum made at least 8 or 10 films that are way better than *The Big Steal*. As Miss Wonderly suggests, it would be a strong contender for best noir comedy, but thgose are pretty rare.

Impossible! Britney wasn't even born then!

I think NxNW is one of Hitch's best. But I agree, JI is a stinker.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > *The Lady from Shanghai, 1948* > > *and Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948* > > *depends on what mood I'm in...* > > > That would be . . . Bleak south of the border . . . or . . . > Bleaker south of the border? Well, I don't really think of either film as bleak. To me, TLfS is surreal mystery/intrigue, almost tongue-in-cheek, quite good fun. TotSM certainly has bleak parts. But it is a serious film, and is overall reaffirming, a story that demonstrates what really has value in life, and it isn't gold.

Fred, you won't regret it! Now, you need some advice on DVDs. Lots of blank DVDs are utter crap, totally unreliable, with Memorex, aka "Memo wrecks" being the bottom of the heap. The most reliable DVDs are Taiyo Yuden 8x, available from supermediastore.com, free shipping, often on sale for $.25 - .30 per disc, cheapest in lots of 600. I prefer -R to +R, but either is good. The most reliable in B&M stores is Verbatim AZO series. Unfortunately, these are becoming rare, usually replaced by Verbatim "Life" series, which are unreliable.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > What brand and model of DVR would you recommend? Im going to buy one. Fred, although I have two DVDRs, and two DVRs, and burn a hundred or so DVDs a month, Talkietime probably beats me by a factor of 10. I also frequent the AVS forum, and post under "kjbawc." I'll second the distillation of his advice, which is to buy a Maganvox 515, or 513, from Walmart on line. I know you've had problems with Maggies in the past, but these have been found to be the most reliable DVDRs (DVD recorders) currently available in the US. Both have large hard drives, so you can record marathons in blocks, edit out the interstitials later, and burn just the titles to disc. I think you would figure out how to use them fairly easily, and be very happy with either. The 515 has a 500GB HDD!

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote} > After that Marx Bros. marathon, I just repeated my New Year's Resolution to myself, > I am going to make sure I take all my meds on time. Anybody else feel that way? My New Year's resolution is to pay all my bills with 7-cent nickles...

Forest Whitaker Christopher Walken James Woods Peter Fonda Warren Oates Bill Macy Frances McDormand Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 3, 2011 10:12 PM

Happy New Year to you, too! I have been off-line for most of the holidays, but have watched lots of TCM. I estimate that I have seen about 30 films in the last two weeks, many from TCM.