ValentineXavier
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Well, I left *Fando y Lis* for you...
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Fred, did you ever read the link below, posted a couple of days ago? It explains how Falk came to be picked, and how the hat scene got into the film. It is an excellent essay by Roger Ebert. It also points out that his cinematographer was the same guy who shot Cocteau's 1946 *Beauty and the Beast*. That was the look they were going for, and got. Not 60s European art films. I had previously said that it reminded me of Cocteau, not realizing the connection.
RMeingast wrote:
>An excellent article by Roger Ebert about this film is available here:
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}
> The world needs more shoutouts to Phil Ochs. I saw him in 1972 or 3 ar Georgetown U with Odetta and...Ricardo Montelban! I should have known he was in trouble when he sang, "I attend all the Phil Ochs concerts, I sure wish he'd write some new songs" while performing LOVE ME I'M A LIBERAL
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> I'd go to any movie filled with Phil Ochs' songs.
PBS showed a great bio film on Phil Ochs, just a few months back. I'm sure it is available on DVD. It was an independent production, probably available from most online dealers. I became a Phil Ochs fan when I went to college in 1966. I have all his old albums, and many of them on CD. We could sure use him today!
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}I hope someone noticed that **** wore a different secret disguise this week.
Yeah, dark glasses... must have left his goatee at home. Well, it was better than Superman's disguise.
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Oh my, all the old chestnuts.
Ah, well, we can roast them over an open fire, and show them around Christmas...
I'll add:
*El Topo*
*Santa Sangre*
*The Holy Mountain*
*Erendira*
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I always recommend antiwar films to "war lovers."
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Not hypocritical, just lackadaisical...
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I think it is one of the best sci fi films ever made, and I like all its noirish affectations. In fact, I still prefer the original release version, with the film noir style voice-over. The film was very innovative, and remains very influential. Its theme is an age-old one - What does it really mean to be human?
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Arturo, there are also plenty of gringos promulgating the hypothesis that the Mexica came from the Lake Powell area originally. Of course the language relationship is not definitive, but it is there. These days, they can do an analysis to see how long one language has evolved, since it split from an earlier root. I don't know if that has yet been done in this case, but it would be interesting.
Ultimately, both explanations may be true - perhaps the Mexica did originate in the US southwest, but their "Aztlan" was closer, on their path to Lake Texacoco.
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> {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote}Not technically African American but has TCM ever shown *Black Orpheus*, or *The Gods Must Be Crazy* ?
I saw *TGMBC* when it first came out. I loved it, and how it made the white folks look stupid and inept, while the Bushmen looked intelligent, skilled and wise. Then I read somewhere that Bill Cosby hated it, because it made black people look stupid. It's all in your point of view, I guess...
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I'll see all those, and raise you a *Lisztomania!*
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Great art work, Kyle! The guy in this one looks so much like a young Jeff Goldblum, to me.
> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}Remembering Memorial Day, 2012.
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> Works of Jes W. Schlaikjer, WWII Artist for the War Department.
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of schlaikjer011 by hlywdkjk, on Flickr>
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*Killing Zoe* is a favorite of mine, too. That reminds me of *Romeo is Bleeding*, which I would be happy to see on TCM
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
>I'm afraid I do not know the reason for TCM's not showing The Silver Cord.
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They were afraid it would be confused with *The Silver Horde?*
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}
> The Magic Christian
> Zabriskie Point
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> But I wouldn't necessarily restrict them to Underground time.
I'll second that! And, also *Rat Pfink a Boo Boo*.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> Unless it's been updated, the schedule I saved on my PC does not indicate that THE WARRIORS will air in letterboxed form, a pity as the cinematography of Guy Green is a primary asset.
Actually, it's not that unusual for TCM to show the WS version, even when the schedule doesn't note it as being letterboxed. So, we can hope we get the LB version! When there is doubt, I usually program my DVR to record it on both TCMHD and SD.
I was trying to find this film on the IMDb, and I find that it is also called *The Dark Avenger*.
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Arturo, while the location you suggest for Aztlan is the traditional one, in paragraph one below, I believe that the hypothesis in paragraph two below is currently the one in vogue, at least on this side of the border. It does seem to be the most discussed, on the archaeology and anthropology websites I read.
>Eduardo Matos Moctezuma presumes Aztl?n to be somewhere in the modern-day states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoac?n. Indeed, scholars are all consistent in naming the measures of "150 leagues" from Tenochtitlan that were documented by the Spanish scribes taking notes from conquered Mexica as the distance to the place of origin, coinciding in all ways at Chicomoztoc, "Cerro del Culiacan", which is indeed a humped mountain when seen from the south face.
>It has also been proposed that the original site of Aztl?n was the area around what is now Lake Powell. Part of the migration legend also describes a stay at Culhuac?n ("leaning hill" or "curved hill"). Proponents of the Lake Powell theory equate this Culhuac?n with the ancient home of the Anasazi at Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park. Researchers who believe Aztl?n was located in the Lake Powell region also cite the fact that the language spoken by the Aztecs and the Ute people belong to the same Uto-Aztecan linguistic group.
>Archaeologist Kelley Hays-Gilpin from Northern Arizona University acknowledges the linguistic connection between Mesoamerican and North American peoples. However, she theorizes that the Aztec's ancestors may have traveled north before returning south. Hayes-Gilpin believes Uto-Aztecan speaking people spread north to an area of the American West that could have included Utah. Out of those cultures, some groups could have migrated south to northern Mexico, and some could have, as she says, moved to the Valley of Mexico where they subjugated tribes in that region.
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}
> For V. Xavier:
> http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/488555/Ganja-and-Hess/
> I think.
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You think correctly! Thanks for doing what my brain couldn't, by putting a title to this unusual film.
I wish TCM would run *Princess Tam Tam* again, my copy was screwed up. They did run some other good Josephine Baker films, too. I wish they would show the few films that Cab Calloway made.
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1. *The Fugitive Kind*
2. *The Wild One*
3. *One-Eyed Jacks*
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I searched for them on TCM, and they aren't currently scheduled, which would mean in the next ~3 months. I'm also wondering if they will show them.
This is the list under the character, Dr. Robert Ordway, from the IMDb:
1. The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949) Played by Warner Baxter
2. Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947) Played by Warner Baxter
... aka "The Crime Doctor's Gamble" - USA (poster title)
3. The Millerson Case (1947) Played by Warner Baxter
4. Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946) Played by Warner Baxter
5. Just Before Dawn (1946) Played by Warner Baxter
6. Crime Doctor's Warning (1945) Played by Warner Baxter
... aka "The Crime Doctor's Warning" - USA (poster title)
7. The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945) Played by Warner Baxter
8. Shadows in the Night (1944) Played by Warner Baxter
9. Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943) Played by Warner Baxter
Oddly enough, that list doesn't include the first one of the series, which TCM is showing:
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I'm a Mitchum fan, and haven't seen it in years. I don't think that TCM has shown it, but I wish they would.
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
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> CHARLES WINNINGER (1884 - 1969)
Charles bears a strong resemblance to Alan Hale, Jr. and Sr.
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*200 Motels*
*Baby Snakes*
*Pink Flamingos*
*Female Trouble*
*Wonderwall*
*If*
*O, Lucky Man*
*Britannia Hospital*
*This Island Earth*
*Shadey*
any Les Blank film
the death of the video store
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The slower speed quality of DVDRs varies widely. The early ones weren't very good at the slower speeds. But, from about 2006 on, many offered full D1 at LP, and produce a very good picture, unless there is a lot of very fast movement. Then, you may see some artifacts.
I still have two SVHS VCRs. Mostly, I recorded in SP on them. But, sometimes I did use EP, which was almost as good as SP on standard VHS. SVHS EP was no where near as good as LP on a good DVDR. I can't imagine that VHS EP would be.