ValentineXavier
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Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie.
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I agree completely. I would just add that TCM has to program to please a wide variety of tastes, and can't possibly program just to suit the narrow tastes of any one individual.
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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...
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I was thinking that maybe FMC saw TCM's line up far enough in advance to hope to draw in some TCM viewers by scheduling the first in the series.
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> {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."
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That reminds me of the only TV newsman named after a Tex Avery cartoon...
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fxreyman, I agree with your review. I would just add that Chaney fled to "Indian Territory," now called Oklahoma. As a native Oklahoman, all the outdoor shots I saw looked as if they could have been filmed in Okla., even though they weren't. The cinematography was indeed excellent. Also, according to Jeff Bridges, almost all the dialog was taken directly from the book.
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Christopher Walken.
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> As often happens when TCM is showing stuff I don't want to watch (or watch again, or watch right then), I change the channel.
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> I tuned into FMC and watched many of the Shirley Temple classics on the 25th, and Marilyn Monroe classics on the 26th. Inbetween, I steamed the last batches of tamales and in the respective evenings went to my mom's and my brother's houses.
Tamales I love, Shirley, not so much...
My DVR is always at least half full of TCM films I haven't had time to watch yet. So, when they program stuff I'm not interested in, I consider it a pleasant respite.
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*The Testament of Dr. Mabuse* is my favorite German expressionist film.
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I have seen the same cropping as in your "second TCM version" done to *How I Won the War*, which is coming up soon. I hope TCM gets it right. It was originally in 1.66:1, and I haven't seen it that way in years.
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I saw it, and liked it quite a bit. As Kinoma says, it was not a remake, but the Coen's version, made directly from the book. Most of the dialog came from the book. Bridges said he wondered why the Coens would do a 'remake,' and they told him they were making the book, and gave it to him to read. He read the book, and said it was a Coen bros. script, so he understood, and did it. All the acting is good, and the girl who plays Mattie is very good.
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Mowgli turns to crime...
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
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> PS I like the OP "pressed DVDs". You certainly can tell a poster's approx age by their choice of wording! The last thing to be pressed is vinyl LPs!
Commercially made DVDs are pressed. A die is used to stamp a plastic blank, just as for a CD, or a LP. Then with DVDs, and CDs, a thin layer of aluminum is deposited on the plastic blank. DVDs then have another piece of plastic glued over them. CDs are then coated with lacquer.
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I mailed 45 rolls of Kodachrome 200 to Dwayne's. I loved Kodachrome, it was the best. Dwayne's was the last place to process Kodachrome movie film, too.
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> {quote:title=TheCid wrote:}{quote}
> It would be nice if TCM showed more of the movies that are not on DVD. Many of the good, entertaining movies to which TCM has access are not on DVD, so it would be nice if TCM showed lots of these instead of showing many of the same ones over and over that are on DVD.
I go through the TCM schedule regularly, to decide what I want to record. I also look up the films to see what is, or isn't available on DVD. More than half the films I want to record are NOT on DVD, in fact, I'd say 60-70% aren't on DVD.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> I saw the theme as "disfunctional families", wholly appropriate.
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Maybe the idea was 'they're more dysfunctional than your family!'
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I've just been looking ahead at the FMC schedule, and thought I'd post a few things people might find of interest, none available on DVD:
December
28th *Seventh Heaven*
January
3rd *I Was an Adventuress*
*Journey to Midnight*
4th *Slave Ship*
5th *My Cousin Rachel*
6th *Champagne Charlie*
*A Hatful of Rain*
9th *Accent on Love* (Dalton Trumbo story)
11th *The Kremlin Letter* (John Huston, great cast)
Also, the George C. Scott version of *A Christmas carol* is showing several times in the next few days.
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> Do they make one of those for real life?
You can find anything on the internet.
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> {quote:title=clearskies wrote:}{quote}
> ... he's gotten a lot of flack for not joining the service?
He'd have gotten a lot more flak, flying over Europe...
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Sounds too much like Bergman for my tastes...
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> But what a lot of typin'!
Shouldn't this thread be called Stars of the Months?
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I was thinking that "The Destroyer" was "The Big Bopper."
Well, right after Holly disappeared, I posted asking about it, and was officially warned not to ask questions about posters, and some posts were deleted, much to my surprise. Anyway, if she's still here, her style has changed enough that I don't know her new name.
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> after 2 minutes of watching scrooge i noticed tcm hacking again, why does tcm zoom on people, we dont see the full background anymore, so many close-ups. the camera angles have changed, i know people dont pay attention to details, but the true classic movie lover has seen these films butchered by high school kiddies
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> Edited by: blondie_bush on Dec 21, 2010 12:01 PM
Look, if you are going to make these ill-conceived and inaccurate posts, you might at least try to use the correct terminology. "Hacking" has nothing to do with the presentation or aspect ratio of a film. 'Hacking a movie' would mean hacking it on a computer, in order to defeat the copy protection, and duplicate it. When you say "hacking," I guess you mean cropping.
TCM doesn't "zoom on people," or change camera angles. They don't have the technology, or the time. Either would be costly, and totally pointless. Sometimes they are sent a print that is not in the original aspect ratio, but that is not their fault. Once in a great while, on TCMHD, they may zoom a whole film when they shouldn't, or not zoom one when they should. That is an error, but not deliberate, as you seem to think.
And, if you're NOT a "high school kiddie," you're certainly acting like one.
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> 1st time I heard it, it sounded like "head lice" to me
I can never tell if people are saying "flyswatter" or "icewater."