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Or, maybe Deja View.

*Daughter of Horror* was released two years later, with voice-over narration. I don't think it's cut. If so, very little. There is a thread about it in another forum.

> {quote:title=rewrite wrote:}{quote} > . I believe they blew it up to fill the screen on the HD channel -- thereby cutting off the top and bottom of the frame. I'm sure that was a mistake. I do seem to recall that it was listed as letterboxed in the monthly guide. That must have been the origin of the mistake, and not the fault of a technician.

> {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > It, by contrast did not do that much for me. That's such a great straight line, but I'll pass. This isn't the place to be too suggestive.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > How about a biography of Lori Berenson. I'd pay to see that. She was pretty hot, before she spent all that time in Peruvian prison. Maybe a musical? Perhaps a satiric send-up of the Sendero Luminoso?

I work four 10s, Sat. - Tues., so I can go to matinees, and there are usually just 10 - 20 people in the theater. So, usually, audience noise isn't a problem. If I am going to see a film, I try to get there in the first week or two, before the print gets trashed. Also, when a film is playing on more that one screen in a theater, I make sure I see it on the biggest screen, not a smaller one. Our local multiplex has 6 - 8 large screens.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > Ignore the thread, just like I ignore about 80% of the threads on this board. Really? I always thought that if you didn't post, it meant you agreed with everything on the thread!

Thanks for the correction. I guess I can no longer add and subtract.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > "The term you were groping for here is monochrome. " > > I thought that was a song by Paul Simon. Ah, you have no idea how that hurts... I have done photography for many years, and I loved Kodachrome above all others! But, Kodak stopped making it. I used my last 5 rolls in September. They also stopped making almost all Ektachrome, including the asa1600 stuff I used to use to shoot concerts at night. So, alas, I shoot no more.

> {quote:title=filmguy24 wrote:}{quote} > Actually there is a "screwball" film noir and a very good film it is too: *The Big Steal* (1949) with Robert Mitchum, and Jane Greer- the stars from what might be the BEST film noir- *Out of the Past*. *The Big Steal* is a really good chase film, and the interweaving of comedic moments with threatening ones is excellent! I can recommend this highly! Good call. *The Big Steal* is a screwball noir, and fun, even if not the classic that *Out of the Past" is.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > I have a technical type question about this series' segment on silent films, and in fact about silents in general: Does anyone know why sometimes silent movies are not so much black and white, or even sepia-toned, but appear in pinkish or bluish shades? *They're still basically b & w,* definitely not colour, but instead of black, grey and white, they look somewhat pink, or blue. Sometimes even sort of golden. What's up with that? The term you were groping for here is monochrome.

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} > When I learned to speak English we were taught: "Happy Christmas". Capuchin says it is because we had Englishman for teacher. I have mostly heard on television: "Merry Christmas" but there are times it is said as "Happy Christmas". What is the real difference? No real difference. I believe Capuchin is correct. In the UK, they usually say "Happy Christmas," and in the US, we say "Merry Christmas." But, we do say "Happy New Year."

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > I am of the Semitic persuasion. When I was a kid going to after-school Hebrew School, the principal of the Hebrew school instructed us that whenever our classes in regular school sang Christmas songs during the Holiday season, we should sit there with our mouths shut and refuse to sing. He didn't restrict the advice to religious-themed carols, either. I can understand that. Obviously, singing songs about a religion you don't share would be inappropriate. Seasonal songs, w/o religious overtones, like Frosty the Snowman would seem okay to me, but there are a lot of songs that skirt the line, like Winter Wonderland. I dated a Catholic girl in high school. I was a Presbyterian at the time. My church opened a Friday night 'coffee house' for teens, with attendees playing instruments, 60s folkie stuff. I wanted to take her. She had to get her Priest's approval to enter my church...

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > I've known more than one person who works in retail who was specifically instructed to not say "Merry Christmas" to the customers, or they'd be "spoken to" by management. possibly fired if they do it again. Now that's sad and ridiculous. While I don't think it should be a firing offense, I think in a retail situation, or in any situation dealing with the public, "Happy Holidays" is the best, most inclusive thing to say, unless one knows that the person they are addressing is a Christian. As a curmudgeonly atheist, I wouldn't be offended to be greeted with "Merry Christmas," but I'm certain that a number of people of other religions, already feeling marginalized by the Christian majority in the US, would feel further put upon, even if they didn't express it. But, calling *The Bishop's Wife* a Christmas film is an accurate characterization, not an unwarranted assumption of another person's religion.

> {quote:title=The_Destroyer wrote:}{quote} > I forgot to mention that. I've always wanted to see *the late Peter Boyle as Joe McCarthy*. I'd like to see that too, But, Peter was actually 32 when he made *Tail Gunner Joe*, and he lived another 29 years. But, having a dead man play Joe McCarthy would be interesting.

It's on my DVR, and I look forward to watching it. I did listen to a bit of the intro V/O. I can see Criswell, but I was more reminded of Coffin Joe. But, then I found out the narrator is Ed McMahon. YOW!

When I was a kid, in the 50s, "Happy Holidays" was a common greeting, and often on Christmas cards, long before some fundamentalists decided to make a stink about it. I use the term, because it includes Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the days your work place may be closed in between. So, I don't see anything wrong with calling a film a "holiday film," or a "Holiday season film." But, if a film is actually about Christmas, like say, *Miracle on 34th Street*, I don't see anything wrong with calling it a "Christmas film" either.

I went to school with the Unabomber. Not exactly a star... he taught the freshman calculus course I took, but taught a different section.

I'm thankful that I just got a second DVD recorder, so I can double the rate at which I save all the TCM films I want to see, but don't have time to see.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mel Brooks' *Silent Movie*.

> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=Carvel wrote:}{quote} > > In *Wings of Desire* (1987) the angels see the world in b&w. When one angel becomes a mortal, he sees the world in color. > > Those who complained about PLEASANTVILLE would probably also have something to say about that film too. *Pleasantville* is a good film. *Wings of Desire* is a great film.

The perfect place to show 1970's *Deep End*.

I don't consider *It Happened One Night* to be a screwball comedy either. But, at any rate *They Just Had to Get Married" was released a year earlier, in 1932. I saw it ages ago, but I recall it being a lot screwier than *IHON*. Unfortunately, its a Universal, so we probably won't be seeing it soon.

I still go, when there is something I want to see. I enjoyed *Avatar* in 3D IMAX. For IMAX, I sit in the third row. In standard theaters, I sit in the center of the front row. I like the big screen experience, to be surrounded by the film, and the sound. Unfortunately, most of the films I want to see are somewhat less popular than *Avatar*, and are out of the theater in a couple of weeks, often before I get around to going to see them.

*All About the Three Faces of Eve* An aspiring young actress claws her way to the top. Her psychosis gives her an advantage. While most people can only manage two-faced, she can manage three-faced!