ValentineXavier

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}Lark's tongue? Is that the one gently sucked through the brains, like Babbette's Feast. > It's been a long time since I saw *Babbette's Feast*. I don't remember that part. I was thinking of Lark's tongue, as used in Medieval recipes, or the King Crimson album, Lark's Tongue in Aspic.

I have not seen the film. But, it is clear that if you have seen the film, and like it, awards are proof that it is a deserving film, and therefore, not over-hyped. But, if you don't like it, then the awards prove that it IS over-hyped. So, either way, it is really just one's personal opinion.

It's no contest at all. Jane Greer in *Out of the Past* beats them all by a mile.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > > But also, as old "stoners", we cannot deny props to Disney for "Fantasia", or the mind blowing "Pink Elephants on Parade" segment in "Dumbo". But that's just too few and far between. > I agree on both counts. I remember getting high and going to see *Fantasia*, in the late 60s, or early 70s. My friend and I lost it in the dancing mushrooms part, and began to laugh out loud. The girls behind us told us to shut up. I'm a big Rocky and Bullwinkle fan, too. Cheesy animation, yes, but brilliant humor, that most children would not understand.

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > h5. Tongue in cheek. Is that beef tongue, or Lark's tongue?

My grandmother took me to see *This Is Cinerama*, and *Seven Wonders of the World*, when I was a wee sprout, in the mid 50s. I remember liking them both, and marveling at the expanse of screen. To this day, I normally sit in the center of the front row in a movie theater. I'm probably trying to recreate that Cinerama thrill!

It's easy on the "class," and heavy on the "ic."

Here in Ann Arbor, I get three PBS stations, and several subchannels. But, I don't believe it's on any of them.

From the wikipedia, a list of Cinerama features, in its various formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama#Cinerama_features

I first saw it on TV in the late 60s. I was stunned by its power, and the fact that it was addressing racism, back then.

I actually liked the most recent Miss Marple, too. But, Hickson was great. On what channel is George Gently? Also, don't forget Clive Owen as DCI Tanner, in Second Sight. That was the first place I ever saw him. He is a very good actor. Any film noir fan who has never seen *Croupier* needs to check it out.

Well, I guess you have a SDTV then. If TCM shows a letter-boxed film on their HD channel, you can use ALL of the screen, for 1.85:1, or most of the screen, for 2.35:1. Watching the SD channel on a HDTV, with a LB film, you use way less than 50% of the screen, without zooming, and making the resolution worse.

1937's *The Hurricane* is a great island film, but not too relaxing...

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}It's Black history month, Whitney's in the news, and I don't remember seeing a thread on here that addresses white characters that turn black in American motion pictures. > Well there is Melvin Van Peebles' 1970 film *Watermelon Man*, where a white bigot turns black. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066550/

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My film favorite is Mr. James Lee Wong, aka Boris Karloff. I've liked almost all the British detectives shown in the PBS TV series Mystery, now called Masterpiece Mystery, but my favorites were Leo McKern, as Rumpole of the Bailey, Jeremy Brett, Helen Mirren as Jane Tennyson, and David Suchet, as Hercule Poirot.

I guess I'm the only Fleischer Brothers fanatic here, but I think they were the best. I love how everything, even inanimate objects, came alive in their toons, and often morphed from one thing into another. I think *Betty Boop's Sno-White* is the best toon ever made. It rotoscoped Cab Calloway, singing St. James Infirmary Blues. It was done entirely by one man, Doc Crandall, in six months. It was done BEFORE Disney did Snow White. No complete collection of BB toons exists, so I made my own, on DVD, 9 volumes. I love WB toons too, most especially those made before 1946. I have the complete laser disc collection. I don't like the way the WB toons were presented, on LD, or on DVD. They are really sort of haphazard. I would very much like to see a release of all WB toons in chronological order. I like MGM's Harman and Ising, and Tex Avery stuff too. Disney animation is pretty much technically flawless, but I find it rather saccharine.

Razor X, given that this has happened several times, and each time, the daily schedule says the film is letter-boxed, I suspect that somewhere along the way, these films are mislabeled as letter-boxed, possibly even by the distributor. As a result of this, the schedule shows they are LB, and the techs who set the upscaling equipment for the HD channel, tell the equipment to zoom in, thinking the film is LB.

He looks like Mr. Spock! Well, except for the smile, of course... Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 8, 2012 3:28 AM

I like to call him Charlatan Heston, but that's just me...

I found Tim Tyler's Luck on VHS about 15 years ago. I transferred them to DVD a few years ago. I don't know if they are available any more.

Derail a Viet Nam era munitions train, and hitchhike around the world.

Encore Suspense has finished showing all three seasons of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I have enjoyed many of them, and still have many to watch. They have started again, from the beginning. In the first go-round, I believe they omitted two eps. I'm hoping they show up in the second run. Does anyone remember seeing these? Season 1, ep 19 To Catch a Butterfly At first, a childless young couple (Diana Hyland, Bradford Dillman) are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father (Ed Asner) ? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394096/ Season 3, ep 26 An Out for Oscar Mousey bank teller Oscar Blenny, a guest at a desert casino, is enamored with Eva, a seductive casino hostess, who's happily juggling 2 male co-workers. With the sinister Bill she's conniving to ripoff the casino. When her boss discovers she's two-timing him, their confrontation turns violent and she kills her boss. Realizing that Oscar's just outside, she screams, so schlemiel Oscar can corroborate her damsel-in-self-defense tale. The casino owner limits the publicity damage, by firing Eva and exiling Bill, who drops Eva cold, to Mexico. Eva cadges a ride to L.A. with Oscar and soon they are wed. When Oscar is nominated for a promotion, slovenly drunken Eva is a big liability, especially when Bill resurfaces in L.A. Does Eva kill Bill, will Bill reveal all about Eva, or will Oscar decline the award? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394075/

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}Well I'm one of those Americans that feel Britain should just do away with the entire royal order. To me it is just downright silly. People are not special because of birth. Well, I sort of agree with you, but I think of them more as sort of mascots for the UK. They're pretty good at that. They are too expensive, though.

One of my favorite opening scenes is in Robert Wise's film noir western, *Blood on the Moon*, starring Robert Mitchum. The opening is so much the opposite of a standard western opening. It is the dark of night, there is a pouring rain. Mitchum, wearing a ten gallon hat, has managed to light a small fire, and is hunched over it. Suddenly, there is a cattle stampede that wipes out his little camp, and could easily have killed him. So dark, so grim, so miserable. Westerns may go there, but they usually open to wide open skies of blue, and the protagonist unimperiled.