ValentineXavier
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
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> I found it harder to believe that he (or anyone else for that matter) actually likes This Sporting Life (Man, that is one _deep hurt inducing_ movie. )
Well somebody likes it. It is rated 7.8 on the IMDb. I'm a great fan of Lindsay Anderson, its director. *O, Lucky Man* is one of my favorite films. But, just seeing a few clips, I know how brutal *This Sporting Life* is, so I've never watched it. But, I recorded it, so finally, I will.
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> {quote:title=mr6666 wrote:}{quote}
> "Duck Soup" is my favorite Marx Bros movie. Best script & gags and no boring romantc side story to interrupt the fun. "Badlands" was a great pick too.
> Nice choices by McKenzie (whoever he is)
*Duck Soup* is certainly one of my favorites, too.
*Badlands* has such stunning cinematography, and good performances. I'm not generally into the "killing spree" sort of movie, but this one is free of artifice, with no glorification or spectacle.
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They could be twins!
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*A Star Is Borneo*
Clint Eastwood, planning to remake A Star Is Born, ponders, how can I add some life to this vastly over-done turkey? I know! I'll set it in exotic Borneo!
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Comics:
*Doonesbury*
*Fritz the Cat*
*Howard the Duck*
various Spidermans, Supermans, X-Men
*Daredevil*
Modern Shakespeare:
the Basil Dearden/Patrick McGoohan take on Othello, *All Night Long*
Peter Greenaway's *Prospero's Books*
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 19, 2011 4:24 AM
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Nope, I haven't seen that one. *Woman in the Dunes* is coming up in a few weeks...
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MovieProf., I don't believe you say it explicitly, so for the few here who may not know, I thought I'd state that the Kennedy administration came to be known as "Camelot."
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No one has mentioned *Holiday Affair* with Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendel Corey.
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> This is neat stuff, I love the comments on Basil Rathbone and The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
Yeah, I loved Bruce calling Rathbone "two profiles, stuck together!"
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, I tried to stay mainly with U.S. or British productions filmed in Italy. However, I did mention BICYCLE THIEVES and LA DOLCE VITA since they are so well-known internationally.
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> I should've also added OPERATION CROSSBOW.
Two more non-Italian made Italy setting films -
*A Bell For Adano*
and Spike Lee's *Miracle at St. Anna*
OOPS! HOw could we forger *The Da Vinci Code*, and *Angels and Demons* ?
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 18, 2011 8:52 PM
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I saw this film in the theater, when it was released. It is a good film, surreal and anti-war, by Richard Lester, one of my favorite crazy British directors. Its original aspect ratio is 1.66:1. I recorded it from Indeplex, a couple of years ago. That recording is 1.33:1, made by cropping the sides. I recorded it on both TCM channels, HD and SD, in hopes of seeing it in the OAR. Sadly, it was not to be. TCMHD showed the full width of the OAR, but cropped the top and bottom, to produce a 1.79:1 print. TCMSD seems to have actually cropped an already cropped 1.33:1 print to 1.66:1, so that the OAR had been cropped on all four sides! Actually, that four sided crop is the way I have seen it on other channels lately.
If you happen to have recorded it on both channels, and compare, you will note that the TCMHD version shows more image at the sides than the TCMSD version. And, the TCMSD version shows a little more image on the top and bottom than the TCMHD version. My 4x3 Indeplex version has considerably more image on the top and bottom than either TCM version, and the same on the sides as the TCMSD version. I compared the three versions in several placed to determine this.
I am surprised that the two TCM versions were different. Perhaps they could have been using the same copy, but processing it differently for each channel? I don't know. Yes, I'm sure that TCM meant to present the film in its OAR, but it wasn't. It is not available on a region 1 DVD. I guess I'll have to break down and buy the Aussie DVD, to see the original aspect ratio.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 18, 2011 8:38 PM
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (with Myrna Loy) was just on Sunday.
If you're not eatin' Wham,
You're not eatin' ham!
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> {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote:}{quote}
> The movie "The Greek Tycoon" has that disclaimer. You recall that it stars Jacqueline Bisset as the widow of a slain U.S. president. She is pursued by a Greek tycoon, played by Anthony Quinn. Who were they trying to fool?
Pericles Pernassis - at least that's what Rocky and Bullwinkle called him, when they satirized him.
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
>... They set up Will Hays and Breen as the arbiters of content in their films, and could have withdrawn their participation in the Breen vetting at any time.
Had they withdrawn, their films would not have been shown. They had the choice - submit, or get out of the business. That is hardly voluntary.
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Set in Italy, all Fellini:
*Amarcord*
*La Strada*
*Juliet of the Spirits*
*Fellini Satyricon*
*Fellini's Roma"
*Nights of Cabiria*
... to name only a few of my favorites. Of course, Italian directors, kinda like shooting fish in a barrel...
So, I'll add *The Italian Job*, 1969 version, of course.
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My favorite US directors, no particular order, and doubtless I've forgotten a few, and yeah, I know many are not US born:
Orson Welles
John Huston
Michael Curtiz
Sam Fuller
Raoul Walsh
Robert Siodmak
Jacques Tourneur
Jules Dassin
Fritz Lang
Jim Jarmush
David Lynch
John Waters
Roman Polanski
Preston Sturges
Terry Gilliam
John Sayles
Spike Lee
The Coen Bros.
Edgar Ulmer
Favorite Canadian directors:
Guy Maddin
Atom Egoyan
David Cronenburg
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 18, 2011 2:13 AM
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
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They sleep by cameras.
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I could fill 'em with sand, if I had 'em...
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Prohibition era - a pair with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante:
*Speak Easily*
*What! No Beer?*
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My favorite terrified coal miner film! Nice big bugs, too.
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A pity the Muni/Niemoller film never got made!
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Indeed I do remember Cinerama. My grandmother took me to see the earliest ones. I saw *2001* at the Detroit Cinerama, and later, from the front row of the Hollywood Cinerama.
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Anti-Nazi resistance:
*A Day In October*
*Flame and Citron*
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> *COLD WAR*
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*Dr. Strangelove*
CITY STREETS - WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ?
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> It was such an unusual role for Kibbee that I was not even sure that it WAS KIbbee.
He was really quite a versatile actor. My favorite role of his was as Hagthorp in *Captain Blood*. I love it when Erroll says to him "You son of a Yorkshire steer, and bless your rusty heart, it's a gunner you are!" As he sinks a Spanish long boat with a single shot.