ValentineXavier
-
Posts
6,917 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Posts posted by ValentineXavier
-
-
Well, my humor is so obvious that sometimes people don't see it...
-
> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}
>
> Red fish fishing is very good most of the time, too.
>
I'd rather do my red fish fishing at K-Paul's Kitchen...
-
do do do do
do do do do.... bummmm!
my little rendition of T-Zone music, in case you didn't get it.
-
Fred, you're spot on about Kim Darby. She played Miri, in a classic Star Trek ep, back then.
-
Well, we fried leftover cornmeal mush in Oklahoma, too. But, I preferred hushpuppies, also called hot water cornbread, because they are just made of boiled cornmeal, a little salt, cooled, then shaped by hand, and fried.
-
True. Now, if they would just add Joe Bob Briggs as a host...
-
> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> There were no 2000 movies in 1995. I just can't believe that,
A total lack of foresight on TCM's part...
-
Yes, that would be a metaphysical explanation.
Could she perhaps 'dream' the rest of her life, as she is dying?
Could she have entered an alternate reality, where she lived, but is still in contact with the reality where she died, and being called back to it?
These are all possible explanations for this film, and the other two films I mention, but they aren't really rationally possible in the real world. One of these explanations may be what the filmmaker meant. I still just see it as an enigma, without a definitive solution.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 9, 2011 9:21 PM
-
Well, I'm from Oklahoma. There, "mush" means corn meal mush. It's not really the same as grits, aka "hominy grits,"which are a coarser grind, and I believe, treated with lye. Mush is usually made from white corn meal, which is traditionally more finely ground than yellow corn meal. It is still that way, if you buy the brand in the round cardboard container with the Quaker Oats guy on it. If you're buying natural, organic, gourmet cornmeal, who knows how coarse the grind? But, in my family at least, real, honest-to-goodness cornbread, made w/o wheat flour, or sugar, it is made with white corn meal, because it is the finer grind. And so, polenta is a fancy version of cornmeal mush. Much tastier, of course, than the plain stuff.
-
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.
-
I like seeing them in chronological order, not mixed up. I do understand starting with talkies in primetime. After that, it was chronological.
-
> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
>
> No one has any idea of what technology will be in place in that era eighty years down the road. One thing we can be certain of we won't be watching television in the manner we do now.
>
Multipurpose computer chips implanted in our brains, with direct access to whatever the internet has evolved in to, cell phone like communication, with video option to see out of the other person's eyes. As far as entertainment, movies, etc. goes, they will be transmitted directly to our optic nerves, in 3D, to us, wherever we are, and whatever programming we choose.
-
Arabella Bishop: I believe you're talking treason.
Peter Blood: I trust I'm not obscure.
*Captain Blood*
-
> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> These bugs are in a big fight for dominance now. The more time passes, the bigger the bugs become. Sort of like a Darwinian situation I guess.
That's why we have to keep buying bigger screens, so the logo bugs can get bigger...
-
I think that the IMDb may be in error. I see that the PAL DVD release is listed as WS 1.78:1. Virtually all Hollywood studio pictures made in 1956 were in WS. At any rate, I'm sure TCM believed that to be the original aspect ratio. I like the film. Next time TCM runs it, I'll check it out to see if it looks cropped.
-
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...
[B]1939: HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST YEAR - DAY BY DAY - as it happens!!![/B]
in Your Favorites
Posted
> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
>
> By the way, does anyone besides me have trouble of thinking of Jackie Coogan being married to Betty Grable? Uncle Fester married to the pin-up queen?
If I had had anything in my mouth when I read that, I would have spit it out!