ValentineXavier
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I haven't seen it in years, but remember liking it quite a bit. It's not just a circus film, but an escape plan thriller.
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I'd bet they fell right over.
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If I can find it locally, I'll try it. My favorite brew is Bell's Porter, available in a few states. Good with BBQ, but a bit rich to go with popcorn.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Now, according to the Napoleonic Code, Streetcar is not a noir.
Exactly! And, since Louisiana laws are based on the Napoleonic Code, Tennessee W. Would not be a part of a noir set in New Orleans. In his noir masterpiece, also starring Marlon Brando, *The Fugitive Kind*, Brando leaves NOLA for Mississippi, where noir is often practiced openly...
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You only need two colors for vikings, yellow for the hair, and blue for the eyes. Should work fine.
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I didn't say she had any common sense. That behavior is probably why she got their harshest prison, where many die. Personal opinion, someone was bribed to get her into a normal prison, after Peruvian public opinion had died down. But, the transfer order was done in court.
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}
> I've only seen Drag Strip Girl but might consider the others if it's midnight or so and I'm out of a good chardonnay.
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I'd recommend a robust, spicy, old vines Zin with most JD films. If they have a lot of music, a Willamette Valley Pino Noir is a good choice. Unless you're having popcorn. In that case, stick to beer, preferably a lager. Stay away from the IPAs. They are awful with popcorn, or JD films.
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I know that, I've seen film of her since she was out. She looks more like 60. For several years she was held in a high altitude prison, very cold, with no mattress, blankets, or even windows on the cells. It aged her a lot. She's lucky to have survived it.
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Or, maybe Deja View.
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*Daughter of Horror* was released two years later, with voice-over narration. I don't think it's cut. If so, very little. There is a thread about it in another forum.
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> {quote:title=rewrite wrote:}{quote}
> . I believe they blew it up to fill the screen on the HD channel -- thereby cutting off the top and bottom of the frame.
I'm sure that was a mistake. I do seem to recall that it was listed as letterboxed in the monthly guide. That must have been the origin of the mistake, and not the fault of a technician.
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> It, by contrast did not do that much for me.
That's such a great straight line, but I'll pass. This isn't the place to be too suggestive.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> How about a biography of Lori Berenson.
I'd pay to see that. She was pretty hot, before she spent all that time in Peruvian prison. Maybe a musical? Perhaps a satiric send-up of the Sendero Luminoso?
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I work four 10s, Sat. - Tues., so I can go to matinees, and there are usually just 10 - 20 people in the theater. So, usually, audience noise isn't a problem. If I am going to see a film, I try to get there in the first week or two, before the print gets trashed. Also, when a film is playing on more that one screen in a theater, I make sure I see it on the biggest screen, not a smaller one. Our local multiplex has 6 - 8 large screens.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
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> Ignore the thread, just like I ignore about 80% of the threads on this board.
Really? I always thought that if you didn't post, it meant you agreed with everything on the thread!
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Thanks for the correction. I guess I can no longer add and subtract.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> "The term you were groping for here is monochrome.
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> I thought that was a song by Paul Simon.
Ah, you have no idea how that hurts...
I have done photography for many years, and I loved Kodachrome above all others! But, Kodak stopped making it. I used my last 5 rolls in September. They also stopped making almost all Ektachrome, including the asa1600 stuff I used to use to shoot concerts at night. So, alas, I shoot no more.
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> {quote:title=filmguy24 wrote:}{quote}
> Actually there is a "screwball" film noir and a very good film it is too: *The Big Steal* (1949) with Robert Mitchum, and Jane Greer- the stars from what might be the BEST film noir- *Out of the Past*. *The Big Steal* is a really good chase film, and the interweaving of comedic moments with threatening ones is excellent! I can recommend this highly!
Good call. *The Big Steal* is a screwball noir, and fun, even if not the classic that *Out of the Past" is.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> I have a technical type question about this series' segment on silent films, and in fact about silents in general: Does anyone know why sometimes silent movies are not so much black and white, or even sepia-toned, but appear in pinkish or bluish shades? *They're still basically b & w,* definitely not colour, but instead of black, grey and white, they look somewhat pink, or blue. Sometimes even sort of golden. What's up with that?
The term you were groping for here is monochrome.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> When I learned to speak English we were taught: "Happy Christmas". Capuchin says it is because we had Englishman for teacher. I have mostly heard on television: "Merry Christmas" but there are times it is said as "Happy Christmas". What is the real difference?
No real difference. I believe Capuchin is correct. In the UK, they usually say "Happy Christmas," and in the US, we say "Merry Christmas." But, we do say "Happy New Year."
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> I am of the Semitic persuasion. When I was a kid going to after-school Hebrew School, the principal of the Hebrew school instructed us that whenever our classes in regular school sang Christmas songs during the Holiday season, we should sit there with our mouths shut and refuse to sing. He didn't restrict the advice to religious-themed carols, either.
I can understand that. Obviously, singing songs about a religion you don't share would be inappropriate. Seasonal songs, w/o religious overtones, like Frosty the Snowman would seem okay to me, but there are a lot of songs that skirt the line, like Winter Wonderland.
I dated a Catholic girl in high school. I was a Presbyterian at the time. My church opened a Friday night 'coffee house' for teens, with attendees playing instruments, 60s folkie stuff. I wanted to take her. She had to get her Priest's approval to enter my church...
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> I've known more than one person who works in retail who was specifically instructed to not say "Merry Christmas" to the customers, or they'd be "spoken to" by management. possibly fired if they do it again. Now that's sad and ridiculous.
While I don't think it should be a firing offense, I think in a retail situation, or in any situation dealing with the public, "Happy Holidays" is the best, most inclusive thing to say, unless one knows that the person they are addressing is a Christian. As a curmudgeonly atheist, I wouldn't be offended to be greeted with "Merry Christmas," but I'm certain that a number of people of other religions, already feeling marginalized by the Christian majority in the US, would feel further put upon, even if they didn't express it.
But, calling *The Bishop's Wife* a Christmas film is an accurate characterization, not an unwarranted assumption of another person's religion.
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> I forgot to mention that. I've always wanted to see *the late Peter Boyle as Joe McCarthy*.
I'd like to see that too, But, Peter was actually 32 when he made *Tail Gunner Joe*, and he lived another 29 years. But, having a dead man play Joe McCarthy would be interesting.
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It's on my DVR, and I look forward to watching it. I did listen to a bit of the intro V/O. I can see Criswell, but I was more reminded of Coffin Joe. But, then I found out the narrator is Ed McMahon. YOW!
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If you wanted to give her another Cocteau film, I'd say *Orpheus*. Some Cluzot wouldn't be out of line, like *Diabolique*. If she hasn't seen Fellini, she should - perhaps my favorite, *Juliet of the Spirits*, the lead character is a woman, and it's a wonderfully surreal self discovery trip. Has she seen any classic Japanese directors, like Kurosawa, or Mizoguchi? *Rashomon* and *Ugetsu* are good starting points for them.