ValentineXavier
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Sprocket Man, I know Stewart and Fonda are often compared, and for good reason - they were both about the same age, they were contemporaries, they both worked for the same director on many occasions, and they were personal friends. They also both, in very different ways, projected an "image" of " the average decent American man"; *I cannot think off-hand of any films in which either actor played a committed hard-core criminal.* (Except, late in his career, Fonda in *Once Upon a Time in the West.*
Well, I would agree with you, but, in a few films, the 'law' wouldn't. Jimmy Stewart was a murderer in *Carbine Williams*. Henry Fonda was a murderer in *Grapes of Wrath*, and in *The Long Night*.
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
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> 3. I am going to sound like a heathen, but I never listen to the scores on silent films. I always put the volume on mute and just focus on the visuals. They are 'silent' for a reason. LOL Thus, using 'my' logic, the lack of a score should not prevent Sony from making those early Columbia silents available to enthusiasts and fans of those stars you mentioned whose work gets neglected.
Well, actually, they weren't silent, for a reason. And, I'm pretty sure most heathens would prefer them with their intended musical accompaniment.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> Why not just have her co-host a night of her favorite films? This pajama party nonsense cheapens the channel imo. Do they think she is going to attract young people in the late night hours?
I can't imagine that anyone would think she would attract young people. Far more likely she would attract old geezers like me, who grew up hearing her, and think she's still pretty hot for a woman her age. If it were a Miley Cyrus pajama party, you'd be right.
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> I think Lynn is correct in saying that Fox is probably keeping the widescreen version for FMC...I noticed this with CLEOPATRA and TURNING POINT. Both air in widescreen on FMC, but when they appear on Encore and Flix they are in pan-and-scan versions.
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> It's cheaper for channels to lease the non-widescreen copy, and I am sure that's what is going on with TCM. Budget, budget, budget.
Given that Fox said there wasn't a WS version, yet they showed one on FMC, they may indeed be holding out on TCM. But, in case you haven't noticed, almost everything on Encore and Flix is shown full screen. For most SD movie channels, full screen/pan&scan is the norm. I think FMC is trying to be a serious movie channel, since they show most WS films letterboxed. But, they provide them to others in full screen, since that is what most of them want.
I don't see how it could possibly be cheaper to provide a full screen copy, assuming they have a WS copy. Either would be supplied in the same format. Of course, if a transfer was needed to provide a WS copy, that would be costly.
Given that the version TCM showed is actually LB for the first few minutes, and the person who reported seeing a LB version on FMC, I'm wondering if perhaps sleep intervened, before full screen did?
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I read the whole thing. Good article. Your earlier post just had the wrong mdb...
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Am I alone in finding Nick Charles' excessive drinking somewhat off-putting?
I always found it to be part of the charm of the film. As Mrroberts points out, prohibition had just been ended. To be able to openly, and legally, enjoy alcohol in public seemed novel, and worthy of celebration. I can understand why some would find their drinking objectionable. But, I would point out that they didn't get drunk, and stay drunk, like hard core alcoholics.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> IMDB trivia says the film was re-released in 1940, with additional updated news footage added to the end of it.
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I just checked IMDb trivia again, and didn't find any mention of that. I also checked the list of release dates, and didn't find 1940 on it. Perhaps you have IMDb Pro, and it has this info?
On the regular IMDb, which I viewed, under "Goofs," it lists these referred to events, which hadn't happened yet, as "anachronisms."
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Congratulations, Prairie Storm!
To those who don't know what an interroceter is, it is a (among other things) a video interplanetary communication device in that 1955 sci fi classic, *This Island Earth*.
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Well, I'll admit that I've never heard of mole wrestling.
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I agree, *Dead Again* is a fine film, that well-uses B&W and color.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> He has been doing this style now for almost twenty five years without many changes: still images with a moving camera going across or zooming, famous actors reading newspapers, letters, book passages, etc, modern exterior footage that gets more grandiose as he goes on and interview footage shot in rustic home settings that look like they could be living by candle light.
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> I love many of his early documentaries, especially the one on the Brooklyn Bridge and the one on Huey Long and I adore the *Civil War* (though more for Shelby Foote than the other historians) but Burns has settled into a style that he keeps repeating documentary after documentary and doesn't seem to show any desire to move beyond it.
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Although I am a fan of Ken Burns' docs, I agree completely. As I was on the screening committee of an experimental and independent film festival for 18 years, I can attest that there are far more, and far more interesting, styles of documentary film making than you are likely to see on TV, with the rare exception shown on PBS, like on POV, or Independent Lens. I'll just add that Ken Burns is the best Ken Burns-style documentarian there is.
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> *Chicken mole, although it was invented by the Spanish, during the conquest, is another good example of the combo.*
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> This is not correct. Mole, the word, is a hispanization of the N?huatl (the language of the Aztecs) word Molli. This word means "sauce", and there were many pre-Cortesian moles. The only real ingredient that the Spaniards added was the chicken, since the turkey was used prior to their arrival. The best known mole (and the national dish), Mole Poblano, was supposedly invented in a convent in Puebla (hence the name) in the 18th Century, but it was a refinement of already existing sauces. Most traditionally, it is served with turkey.
The 'mole creation story' I had heard, and read numerous places, was the one about being invented in a convent, for a visiting Bishop, IIRC. Also, supposedly, the ingredients were picked to show him the flavors of the New World, and the name came from the Spanish for "ground," as in ground together, "molido," or "moler," to grind. Please understand that I am not questioning your origin story. I should hardly be surprised, as the Spanish stole all they could from the Indians.
Having toured Mexico four times, by bicycle, I was aware that turkey mole is more traditional, and that turkeys were indigenous to the area. I often turn Thanksgiving turkey leftovers into turkey mole. Also, I have a recipe I acquired in Mexico, as yet untried, that calls for 5 turkeys, and seven chickens!
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These films have all run on TCM in the last year, or two, Some have run in the last few months.
The Dragon Murder Case
The Conspirators
The Damned Don't Cry
Svengali
The Mad Genius
All three Greenstreet films
Two Seconds
Lightning Strikes Twice
Private Detective 62
Hotel Berlin
Nobody Lives Forever
Dangerously They Live
I think some others have shown too, but I'm not certain about them.
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According to the IMDb, the film was released on May, 6, 1939, and was based on a real case from 1938. But, it does include events that hadn't happened yet!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> NOTE: The neighbors of this guy indicated that he sounded crazy whenever he talked to them, and there have been cases of crazy guys thinking that they murdered someone, when in reality they didnt do it.
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> So we cant assume that this is the guy who actually did it.
I agree completely. And, even if he did do it, it may have been random, and his expectation of a payoff for a 'hit' a psychotic fantasy. If he did do it, and it was a hired hit, it seems exceedingly strange that he hasn't been paid off yet.
And Fred, while you are doubtless correct, that most anyone can learn to shoot, and do so in a tight pattern, from reading the Detroit papers, it seems that most gangbangers are lousy shots. They hit bystanders as often as they hit their targets. But, if this guy did it from a bicycle, it could have been almost point-blank range.
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Surely it can't be sadder than *Old Yeller*... If it was, I don't think I could take it!
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> {quote:title=HarryLong wrote:}{quote}
> And Jack Webb is the equivalent of fingernails on a *blackbird*.
Sounds like the Maltese falcon...
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> {quote:title=HarryLong wrote:}{quote}
> When you have a spare moment, could you drop by and help me with this *Interoceter* I got in the mail?
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Do you have the old triangular model, or the newer hexagonal model?
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On my Comcast, SD is 66, and HD is 185.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> I thought that was my secret until Capuchin made his winter chili.
He adds a tablespoon for each two pounds of meat.>
I consider good chili a religious experience. I'm sort an amateur archeologist/anthropologist, with my main interest being the Central America/Mexico cultures. Historically, chocolate and chilis were often paired. Chicken mole, although it was invented by the Spanish, during the conquest, is another good example of the combo. I think that is what inspired me to add chocolate to my chili recipe. I buy 5-8 varieties of dried chilis, and grind them myself. I don't use chili powder.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Tip when making chili: a secret ingredient that makes it delicious is about a teaspoon -no, dammit, let's throw caution to the winds - a tablespoon of cocoa. Real cocoa powder, no sugar added. Add it to the chili around the same time you'd add the chili powder.
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Got it covered - I use one or two squares of baker's chocolate, depending on how much chili I am making. It melts right in. Cocoa powder is fine, too.rosebette, I, too, was much affected by *Lost Horizon* when I saw it as a teen. It is certainly a spiritual film.
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I would have liked to hold the Mayo...
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> *Wings of Desire* is a wonderful film, and I agree, on a higher level than *Pleasantville*/
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> I'm sure you know, Valentine, that Wim Wenders made a follow-up to *Wings of Desire* (1987) in 1993, *Faraway So Close*. Although I have seen it, unfortunately it was only once, and so long ago I can't recall if Wenders did the same thing with the black and white/colour idea.
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*Faraway So Close* is a decent film, but not in the same ballpark with *Wings of Desire*. To the best of my recollection, *FSC* is mostly color, since Bruno is human for most of it. But, it does go to B&W.
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I'm always impressed with Virginia Mayo. At a glance, you might think she was just another Hollywood pretty face. But she had such a range - from *White Heat* to *Wonderman*, and *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty*. And, she did them all very well.
Perhaps Arturo has...
He does have many imitators. I've seen them.
Phooey - another flatscreen print
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Thanks for confirming that the print was in WS throughout. You may be right about there not being a WS digital transfer.