ValentineXavier
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> Reed on weed.
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Looks almost as much like Lou Reed, as Oliver Reed.
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> Recently, I looked at which OUR GANG short films TCM has scheduled in January. Some of them have had scenes removed. I don't think TCM will air them in their original versions.
How could you possibly know that?
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> He said the films showed that children could play together regardless of race and we should learn from them.
Exactly! I felt that way, while watching them in the early 60s. They were really ahead of their time, in demonstrating the equalit of, and unequal treatment of, black kids.
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I feel like my dog got hit by a truck. I have loved the IFC for years. They have shown art-house films, and independent animation and shorts. They started adding comedy series', and other episodic made-for-TV stuff. That meant less films, but they still had a few good ones. Now, they are interrupting their movies repeatedly, with 4-5 minute blocks of the same old loud and obnoxious commercials shown on most cable channels. I won't even watch that stuff from a DVR. I'm sure I don't have to explain to anyone here how such interruptions ruin a film.
They have gone the way of AMC, which isn't surprising, since they are owned by the same Rainbow Media that owns AMC. They also own The Sundance Channel, so I guess the last place for such films on cable will also go, before too long. It makes me appreciate TCM all the more. Gee, I wish TCM would start an art-house film channel, with the same respect for the work that they show to TCM films!
So, IFC is currently showing John Huston's *The Dead*, but don't bother to watch it there.
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Amazon lists it as available only on VHS, 8 used, from $22.95. It has 3 new, starting at $249.95!
You might check Movies Unlimited.
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TikiSoo, I agree with you about *Red Shoes*, and *Black Narcissus*. Have you seen *Peeping Tom* ? If so, what did you think of it?
And, I also liked *A Matter of Life and Death*.
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You folks is McCreazy!
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> These movie are better suited for the October schedule. They have only made one movie that can be shown for both Halloween and Christmas, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) but its a Touchstone/Disney movie.
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> They have made 2 horror movies with a Christmas theme, "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) and "Jack Frost" (1996)
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Well, there is *Black Christmas*, which TCM is showing.
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> And if you like it I also recommend watching *Umberto D.*
I'll second that!
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> No, I do not consider myself a Star Trek fan. I always felt science fiction catered to a type of non-athletic audience. It just wasn't my thing.
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A "non-athletic audience?" I don't know what you mean by that.
> I assume you think I am like that character. I will leave it up to other readers to decide if you've been pleasant with that comment, and if you haven't, then that is probably on you, right?
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Well, it was meant to be kidding humor, not "pleasant," nor unpleasant. Whether others appreciate it would depend on their sense of humor, and perspective. But, I would say that your off-hand dismissal of a whole genre of film and literature certainly plays to my point.
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> The Germans used the mirror image of the *peace* symbol or better words hijacked it. In addition, they gave it a 45 degree twist which was also important to them
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True, but on Nazi flags, or any two-sided Nazi swastika, such as a stone carving, metal emblem, the swastika could be seen in reverse, so depicting them that way isn't always incorrect.
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> Most of today's Women's pictures (aka Chick Flicks are abysmal).
Pedro Almodovar makes great chick flicks
>Then again most of today's men's pictures (aka Action Flicks) are just as awful.
True.
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> From now on, I only go out with brunettes and redheads.
Have you ever noticed that women with black hair rarely get mentioned? I guess that's because 'blackheads' means something else entirely.
I like *Quicksand* a lot, in part because the film and the title are so perfectly matched. It is an inescapable spiral downward, which starts so simply. I don't even mind the ending, since in noirs, it is a novelty.
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You're obviously not a fan of the original Star Trek. NOMAD was an errant space probe that thought only it was correct.
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That's your loss. I did.
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> > Because Housman is hardly a household name.
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> Among Laurel & Hardy fans he SURE IS! And should be to all fans of classic movies.
Call me ignorant then. I am definitely a L&H fan, and even thought about him, when posting about *Them Thar Hills*, but didn't know his name, so I didn't post about him.
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> What does bother me is when I take the effort to read something and it is erroneous...complete waste of time.
I've long suspected you were related to NOMAD.
I don't particularly care for long posts, but they would be a lot easier to deal with, if this website wasn't so primitive that one encounters them from the bottom, up.
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> Mankiewicz makes stuff up. If he needs some history or background about a film, he just manufactures it,
Fred, he is hardly the first person to hypothesize that 'the flying saucer scare' was just a reaction to the supposed 'Red menace,' just as the Japanese monster films were inspired by the fear of nuclear bombs/war. Of course the commies didn't have flying saucers, but we didn't know that for sure, we were paranoid about what they might have, or be up to. Now, you don't have to agree with this analysis of culture and history, but don't accuse Ben of making it up, because he didn't, others did, long before he mentioned it.
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> > If Rooney in QUICKSAND needed to raise some money, he should have gotten some buddies together and put on a show.
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> LOL! Thats a good point.
The Rooney of *Killer McCoy* could have done it with a few quick games of pool.
I don't call myself a Mickey Rooney fan. I don't care for the Andy Hardy series. But, Mickey Rooney has made some damn fine movies, like *The Strip*, *Quicksand*, *Killer McCoy*, and a number of others. I'm glad TCM is showing them. If he was in a silent foreign language film, I'd watch that too.
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I'd always heard it referred to as "The Bicycle Thief," so I did a bit of quick checking, on IMDb, Allmovie, and the wikipedia. The literal translation of the Italian title is 'thieves of bicycles.' The film was originally released as *The Bicycle Thief* in the US. In the UK, and recently in the US with the Criterion edition, the title translation was corrected to *Bicycle Thieves*. But, some people prefer the original English title. I think I do too, but clearly, either is correct, since one was in use for many years, and the other is the correct translation.
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I'd really like to see the classic noir *Christmas Holiday*, the restored version of Ken Russell's *The Devils*, and some Jodorowsky films, like *El Topo*, *The Holy Mountain*, and *Santa Sangre*. Russell and Jodorowsky would be a good fit for TCM Underground.
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> That's a good list. I'd also like to see some of Jean Gabin's french films besides Quai des Brumes , Le Jour se Leve and Grand Illusion. Don't get me wrong, I like those films, but I'd like to see Pepe le Moko and maybe a few of his later films, like Le Chat or Touchez pas au Grisbi (love that title!) AND, I'm still waiting for someone to put out a version of Martin Roumagnac with subtitles...and not the chopped-up version shown in the States under the title The Room Upstairs.
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> Oh and since for some reason Ive never seen it, Id like to see The Bicycle Thieves as well, but I have no idea if that's been played on TCM before. Maybe a monthly theme on French/European film? New wave? Is that the term I want? The ones that came out in the 50's and were shown in Art Houses and so on?
*Quay des Brumes*, aka *Port of Shadows*, *Le Jour se Leve*, aka *Daybreak*, and *The Bicycle Thief* have all been on TCM, I think within the last year. Perhaps you missed them, because they used the English titles. I think *Pepe le Moko* and *Grand Illusion* were shown as well. I'm sure *Moontide* was shown.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 11, 2010 11:33 PM
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The sequel is called Several Species of Small Furry Criminals, Gathered Together in a Bar, and Grooving With a Dick.
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TCM shows them, and showed them all in release order, about a year or so ago. They'll probably do it again. They just did it for The Saint a few months back.
Any plans for Turner Classic Movies on Demand ?
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I think I read the same article, somewhere else. I read that the studios are thinking of charging Netflix ten times as much as previous contracts, for streaming rights.