ValentineXavier

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} >To top it all off, I'm sort of like that "most interesting man in the world" in that I don't often drink beer, but when I do, I prefer DOS EQUIIS. > > Sepiatone > You should try Negro Modelo and Bohemia. Both are better. But, Dos Equis IS way better than Corona.

Thanks, TCM for giving me a two day break, on the 16th and 17th. I can catch up on a few of the films I've saved from other days...

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} >This was a more exciting film than Peyton Place. What isn't ?

Fred, I haven't seen it yet, but there is a 2007 Russian version, called *12*. I've seen it listed on cable. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/ I agree that *12 Angry Men* should not be shot in 2.35:1, but I think 1.85:1 would have worked.

*The Bed Sitting Room* is a favorite of mine. But, it is so weird and surreal, that it was four years before Richard Lester could get another film financed.

Fellini's *Roma*, and *Juliet of the Spirits*. Vittorio de Sica's *Umberto D.*

> {quote:title=johnbabe wrote:}{quote}Garbo was star of the month in 2005 - 7 years is a long time! Not in dog-years...

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}For my money, "Sturges' best" were HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO and UNFAITHFULLY YOURS. For mine, his best are *The Great McGinty* and *Sullivan's Travels*.

*Silent Blade Running* Eco-droids Huey, Dewey, and Louie, learn that they are to be replaced by replicants. So, they hire Deckard to take them out, without telling Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern.) After Deckard deals with the replicant replacements, he discovers that Freeman is a replicant. Huey, Dewey and Louie protect their main man, by bumping Deckard into a compost shredder.

Deleted, because it was too silly, even for me... Edited by: ValentineXavier on May 1, 2012 11:06 PM

2 x 0 = 0 Sorry!

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}It is a little-known fact that the popular Motown song by The Supremes, > STOP ! In the Name of Love! > is a reference to old-fashioned telegrams. Everyone thinks the girls are begging their lover to *stop* breaking their heart(s), but in fact the song title is simply quoting a telegram. I've got two more for you. In the song Leader of the Pack, sung by the Shangri-Las, most people think they say "Yes, we see." In reality, they are demonstrating that they are trilingual, because what they really say is "Yes, oui, si." In Elvis Presley's hit Return to Sender, he sends his girlfriend a letter, which comes back the very next day. The only way that could happen is if Elvis' girlfriend was fooling around with the postman, and he took the letter straight to her, not the post office, she wrote "return to sender" on it, and then the postman returned it directly to Elvis. Little-known pop music facts...

> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote} > > If we were all speaking face to face to one another , none of you would have the guts to say hat you say to me on here. > > I can't speak for others, but as for myself, not so. I am never afraid to tell someone to their face when I think what they are saying is a load of equine excrement. When on line, I am more restrained.

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} > I am sure many here may be tired of my enthusiasm for Odessa. I will end with the thought that I know of no other city where a public stairway has been immortalized in movie and myth. > Well, there is the long public stairway that piano movers Laurel and Hardy struggle with, but I'll admit they really don't compare...

Thanks for the facts, Clore, even though they don't seem to have an effect on some people. I was sure I'd seen it in the last year, but I was off by a month.

Looks like that shot was taken near noon, as there are such short shadows.

Currently, TCMHD is not showing any true HD, even for films, such as *North by Northwest*, where HD transfers (including BD) exist. I don't believe there has been any official statement on why that is. Speculation is that TCM is waiting until they have HD transfers for at least a majority of what they show, until they start showing true HD. There is also a possibility that they still need more HD equipment. Right now, everything shown on TCMHD is probably up-converted from SD masters. It is possible that they first down-convert things available in HD, then up-convert, there has been no official statement, AFAIK. I think that unlikely. Up-converting SD does provide a better picture than the TCM SD channel, for various reasons. This is particularly noticeable on wide screen films that are letterboxed in SD, but shown filling the screen side-to-side for 1.78 - 2.75:1 films, and top-to-bottom for 1.66:1 films. We don't have to zoom a SD signal to fill the screen any more. So, TCMHD, at it's best, looks like a good anamorphic DVD, which IS better than SD. TCMHD in France is showing true HD, and the resolution is stunning. I have seen the screen caps posted on the AVS Forum. Lucky dogs... BTW, standard cable/OTA HD signals are 1080i, and 720p. 1080p is the Blu-Ray standard, but not generally available on cable or satellite.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}This was supposed to be outdoors. That planet must have had multiple suns. See the shadows on the ground. > Well, Ben had multiple sons, so why not?

Two of my favorites not yet mentioned - Joseph Calleia, and J. Carrol Naish.

With DVDs, a pause button is a decent substitute. But, VCRs usually went out of pause after 5 minutes, and even that could damage a tape. Also, completists would want to have the intermission score.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}They have Beignets out here in the Southwest, but they call them Sopapillas. Similar, yes, but not the same. For one thing, sopaipillas usually are part masa, not all wheat flour. NOLA beignets are sort of doughnut like, and sopaipillas are usually crispy, or close to it. I like them both. My favorite way to eat sopaipillas, learned when I was a kid in Texas, is to break a hole in one, pour honey inside, and rotate it around, so the honey coats the inside. You couldn't do that with a beignet, at least not the ones I've had.

> {quote:title=photoz wrote:}{quote} >Some moron decided to butcher French and LEAVE IT THERE ALL THESE YEARS. And then TCM did NADA about it and LEFT IT THERE. My utter contempt and disgust will plague you forever, you guilty morons. > > CHANGE IT. TCM. JUST DO IT. Like Nike. Don't be absurd. TCM shows what the distributors send them. They can't change the film. Your argument is with the people who supplied them with the film.

> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote} > > Anyway , 30 minutes throught the picture , my dvr suddenly stops and asks if i would like to delete it. I lost 1 hour of the movie. > I'm guessing that you have Comcast, like I do. This is a common problem with their Motorola DCX DVRs, this and related problems, like black screen recordings. I'm on the *AVS* (Audio Video Science) forum, and no one can figure out if there is a specific trigger, so I can't help you avoid the problem. It seems to be a firmware glitch. All I can suggest is what I do to avoid the disappointment of not seeing the whole film. If you have Comcast, the ^ up button skips 5 minutes ahead, and the arrow down button skips 5 minutes back. I use the ^up button to jump, 5 min. at a time, through the whole film, to see if it is all there. I do that shortly after recording it. If there is a problem with it, I delete it, and start checking the schedule to see when it will be on again. And, I never get frustrated by seeing an incomplete film part way through.

I realize I'm in a tiny minority, but I don't like*The Godfather* in the least. So, I don't miss it.

YOW!