ValentineXavier

OOPS! LP, I want to apologize. LP, I did not intend to bend your thread from directors that broke their molds to jack of all trade directors. So, please, some OT directors too!

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > What a neck Ida had!

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > I don't know if TCM has showed it before, but I wish they would air the Soviet sci-fi silent "Aeita - Queen of Mars" (1924). Has a unique costume and set design. > I'm virtually certain they did run it, as I think that's where I saw it, but that was probably a decade or more ago. Of course, they could show it again, it's due! They have shown *The Man With a Camera*, and several Eisenstein classics. I'm not saying that they couldn't show more, but I wonder how obtainable Russian silents are?

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > Loy and Powell were warmer--they felt like a comfortably married couple who not only loved each other, but liked each other as well. I'd say they enjoyed each other, and I don't mean just in the bedroom.

> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > ---Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese filmmaker, does the Russian film *Dersu Urzala* (I think I spelled that wrong) *Dersu Uzala* It's a common misapprehension that Kurosawa did mainly period samurai films, but they make up less than half his work. Still, Dersu was different in various ways, beginning with its funding by the Russians. Then, there are the directors like Robert Wise, who direct just about anything, from *The Day the Earth Stood Still*, to *West Side Story*.

> {quote:title=Big_Bopper wrote:}{quote} > Silent movies are the best thing on TCM. The problem is they refuse to show Soviet silents B.S. They have shown several that I know of, and I'm not much of a silent fan.

It wasn't me, honest! But, it does remind me of something. Back in the early 80s, I went to a campus film group showing of *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, because Kenneth Anger's short film *Invocation of My Demon Brother* was being shown before it. The crowd was very noisy, as you would expect for *TRHPS*. They stayed noisy when Anger's film started. I'm a pretty big guy, and I always sit front row center. I stood up, my back to the audience, and yelled, at the top of my lungs, "Shut up, you a*holes, this is the film I came to see!" Well, it got very quiet, and stayed pretty low, while Anger's film played, then they cut loose when *TRHPS* started.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > *Timecode*, and Andy Warhol's *Empire*, 485m of - guess what? The Empire State Building. Somehow, my quote of the question about other films in real time got lost. The two films above were shot in real time.

Thanks. It does look interesting. We'll have to see how people like them, once they are out. I just bought a second Pioneer DVDR with HDD, and a three-target DVD duplicator. So, I've shot my wad for a while. After they've been out for a while, maybe I can afford one. The comes the problem of plugging it into my already massive amount of equipment!

*Blade Runner* is a deeply philosophic film. It is about the nature of humanity, and seeks to define it. I think it not only looks good, but is good.

If you liked that one, you should check out *Salt of the Earth*, if you haven't already seen it.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > > I love the music in The Third Man I think it's perfect. > > I think the music is the most perfect music of any film ever made. > The only match of film and music that comes close to *The Third Man*, that I can think of is *Zorba the Greek*. And, the music is a bit similar... Perhaps it Zorba even has a zither.

*I Wake Up Screaming*

*Timecode*, and Andy Warhol's *Empire*, 485m of - guess what? The Empire State Building.

Now, on the other end of the scale of movie going experiences, I think my strangest was when I was about 7. Part of a friend's birthday party consisted of taking us to a theater for two films. One was *World Without End,*, and the second is a better-remembered 50's sci fi film, *Attack of the Crab Monsters*. AotCM was pretty scary to a 7 year old. Well, the kid behind me 'enhanced' that scare, by grabbing the back of my neck, and squeezing, every time a giant crab came on the screen! By far my strangest movie watching experience happened at home. I had just driven home, about 80 miles, from my mother's funeral. We have no relatives in this part of the country, so I was alone, and as you might imagine, rather despondent. I decided to try an take my mind off things by watching a movie. I decided on *Treasure of the Sierra Madre*, because, to me, the film is about what has real value in life. I had seen the film many times before, but there was something I had never noticed. The film starts in 1925, the year my mother was born, The poster for the lottery says that the drawing was on Feb. 14th. It seems to me that it is now the day after, or Feb. 15th, 1925. That is when my mother was born.

They also had great cocoanuts.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > As for the film clips, it all comes down to budget. You can blow through your budget obtaining the very best looking clips available very quickly. Make no mistake, film clips for this type documentary are not cheap. And the rights clearances may have something to do with the versions chosen as well. > The owners of the best prints may well want a small fortune to use their material, but I don't think rights would be an issue. Short clips in a documentary should all be fair use.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > A lot of his attention was also focused on "getting" as many Hollywood women as possible. Like I said, for him, it was a hobby...

When I go over the TCM schedule to make a list of what I want to watch/record, I always look up the films on the IMDb, check timings, check aspect ratios, and check to see if they are available on DVD. Of the films I am interested in watching, I'd say that less than half are available on DVD, with a few available on VHS only. LD's are no longer available. I count the things that were on VHS and LD, but not on DVD, as as big a treat as films not released at all. I do own about 500 LDs, and wish some of those were available on DVD. I have transferred a few myself.

Even though your link in another thread didn't work, I found your post. I hadn't been in this forum before, as there are so many, and time is finite. I agree that 24fps is an issue. The 'no dedicated R/L stereo outs' will be an issue for very few people, only those who would want both R/L outs, and multichannel analog outs at the same time, The multichannel outs can be configured to produce only R/L stereo outs. I have an OPPO DVD player now, and it produces a superior image with its upscaling. Everything I've read about the OPPO BDP 83 says the SD DVD upscaling was significantly better than the SD OPPOs, and pretty much everything else out there. I see that the BDP 93 will use a different upscaling chip, purported to be better. But of course you are correct, we must await release, and reviews, of the BDP 93, before we know if it is as good as the 83. I'd say that the main thing you missed in my OP on the subject is that I was comparing the OPPO's price to other reference players, not just BD players in general. Just a guess, but I think most of us will have more DVDs than BDs for quite a while, so really good upscaling of DVDs is an important factor. Also, the 83 plays DVD-As, and SACDs. Hopefully, the 93 will as well. Also, there will be an audiophile edition of the 93, as there was of the 83.

Well, not perfect, what is? But, TCM shows at least three times as many films I really want to see, as I have time to see. So, if they show some I don't like while I have time to watch, I can lower the DVR's content a bit, and that's a good thing.

Yeah, I don't want to draw the thread off topic. When I click your link, I get "Specified thread (0) not found." If I run across the thread, I'll respond there.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Howard Hughes could've turned it into a much more powerful studio. But he lacked the vision that Zanuck and Mayer had. I don't think Hughes lacked vision, what he lacked in the movie business was attention. Remember, he was a millionaire businessman, inventor, pilot. Films were a small part of all he did. I still think he should have been buried with the Spruce Goose. Films and actresses were a hobby to him. If they had been central to his business life, he would have crafted a much more powerful studio.

Lena Olin is very sexy, but not all that beautiful.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > I'm hard-pressed to come up with any "pros" re the Production Code. Well, the Hays Office people all thought they were pros at what they did. But, as far as I am concerned, they should all have been "cons," convicted of violating the Constitution of the USA.