ValentineXavier
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Easter is the only day of the year when there is an advantage to having Alzheimer's disease - you can hide your own Easter eggs!
So, Happy Easter to everyone, and pardon this small threadjacking.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Apr 8, 2012 9:57 PM
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Sorry, Miss W., I certainly didn't mean to creep you out. I meant it to be a silly take-off on the film *The Manster*, which I was reminded of in the other thread, when someone referred to Ben as "the Mankster."
Ben, if you are reading this, I'm sure Miss W. is not the least bit dangerous, an obsessed stalker, or any thing like that. She is indeed very amiable, and I'm sorry I've embarrassed her.
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*The Mankster*
Miss Wonderly encounters Ben Mankowicz, who touches her on the shoulder, transferring a strange virus. She develops a sore on that spot, that doesn't heal, but continues to grow. One day, she looks in the mirror, and is shocked to see an eye looking back at her, from her shoulder. It continues to grow, and develop, eventually forming an entire head of the Mank, living on her own shoulder. Now, if this were a horror film, she would be driven insane. But, it is a love story, and she is content to have Ben with her, where ever she goes...
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}It'd be nice if there were more people like Atticus Finch in this world. I know I would like to be more like him.
Well, we have Morris Dees, and Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center. They are real people, and heroes to me.
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> {quote:title=soniquemd21921 wrote:}{quote}I'm disappointed TCM didn't air If... during this programming block. It's Malcolm McDowell's first film, and one of the best movies of the 60's.
I'm a big fan of Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, and *If*. I, too, wish they would show it. It would be great to see the whole Mick Travis trilogy. However, I don't think I've ever seen *If* on TV. I think its subject matter, given all the school shootings that happen these days, may be keeping it off the air.
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> I'm Polish, but many have told me I CAN'T be, because my name doesn't end in "ski"!
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Sonny Bono ended in "ski," and he wasn't Polish.
Mr. Rocketblast, "mano" means hand in Spanish. Marathons generally involve "pies," pronounced pee-ays.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > Herein lies the problem - is it the nothing of the Existentialists, or the nothing of the Buddhists? Of course, superficially, it would seem to be the nothing of the Buddhists, but the film never fully embraces that. The Existentialists' nothing seems to run as an undercurrent, but neither is it embraced. Perhaps it would have been best to clearly delineate a dichotomy, or even a fusion, of the two, but that isn't done either. Thus, the film remains hollow.
> Is it the hollow of the Shias or the hollow of the Sunnis?
It's the hollow of Icabod Crane.
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Wow! He really blew it with *Brute Force*.
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Slaytonf, you do realize, don't you, that you did NOT directly answer Jake's either/or question? Shane's elevation/salvation could as easily come in death, as in continuing to live...
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}You'd think his favourite guitarist would be Ozzie Osbourne.
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> ( It is a little-known fact that they are first cousins, twice removed.)
Oh, I'd bet Ozzie was removed more than twice. It wouldn't surprise me if he was removed hundreds of times.
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> I would definitely say that NOTHING HAPPENS in The Razor's Edge the novel(la)/overlong short story...
Herein lies the problem - is it the nothing of the Existentialists, or the nothing of the Buddhists? Of course, superficially, it would seem to be the nothing of the Buddhists, but the film never fully embraces that. The Existentialists' nothing seems to run as an undercurrent, but neither is it embraced. Perhaps it would have been best to clearly delineate a dichotomy, or even a fusion, of the two, but that isn't done either. Thus, the film remains hollow.
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I'll request *Eversmile, New Jersey*. It would be great as a double bill with *Marathon Man*. ;
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Can't agree with you about *Juarez*. It's a favorite of mine, and I find it well-cast. BTW, Muni was deliberately being as stiff as he could be, because that was a well-known character trait of Juarez. Brian Aherne, hairdo and all, was perfect as the self-deluded fop, Maximilian. Bette does her best as Carlotta, and pulls it off reasonably well. But I'll admit that she would not have been my first choice for the role.
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> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}The ending: Did Shane live or die after the Gunfight?
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> Jake in the Heartland
Probably.
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As I live in Ann Arbor, 3.5 miles from the restored Michigan Theater, I've seen a lot of classic films on the big screen. I saw an Orson Welles retrospective, the complete films of Frederico Fellini, restored, and many others. We also have a free Japanese film series on campus, shown on a reasonably big screen, which I have attended for decades. Back in the 80s, when *Lawrence of Arabia* was restored, I went to Detroit's Fox Theater to see it on the big screen.
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> {quote:title=danjw wrote:}{quote}Interesting that Agee feels that "Notorious" is not one of Hitchcock's best films. He says it "lacks" the qualities that make up his best films. I wonder wahat those "qualities" are since nowadays it is considered one of his best movies.
Agee doesn't say that *Notorious* is not one of Hitch's best films. He says:
>NOTORIOUS lacks many of the qualities which made the best of Hitchcock's movies so good. But it has *more than enough good qualities of its own.*
Most of what TopBilled has quoted from Agee is raves for the picture. He seems to be saying that it IS a very good film, just for different reasons than most of Hitch's other films.
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infinite1, thanks for setting those Philistines straight about Captain Marvel. DC property indeed - NOT!
Back in the day when Marvel Comics re-imagined Captain Marvel, he was drawn by Jim Starlin, my favorite comics artist, and Marvel was my favorite.
A bit about Jim Starlin:
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>After writing and drawing stories for a number of fan publications, Jim Starlin got his break into comics in 1972, working for Roy Thomas and John Romita at Marvel Comics. Brought in by fellow artist Rich Buckler, Starlin was part of the generation of artists and writers who grew up as fans of Silver Age Marvel Comics. At a Steve Ditko-focused panel at the 2008 Comic-Con International, Starlin said, "Everything I learned about storytelling was [due to] him or Kirby. [Ditko] did the best layouts."
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>Starlin's first job for Marvel was as a finisher on pages of The Amazing Spider-Man. He then drew three issues of Iron Man, introducing the character Thanos. He was then given the chance to draw an issue (#25) of the "cosmic" title Captain Marvel. Starlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an elaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a number of Marvel titles. This eventually led to a complex cosmology that has remained a part of the fictional "Marvel Universe" continuity. Starlin left Captain Marvel one issue after concluding his Thanos saga.
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2K is 2048 pixels of horizontal resolution, compare to 1080 for HDTV. 2K is nice, but 4K is as good as 35mm film, resolution-wise.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}This was discussed a couple years ago. I believe his name is actually spelled "beri beri", as in the disease, the point being that he adversely affects everyone with whom he comes in contact, like a contagious disease.
Beriberi (one word) is a nervous system disease caused by a vitamin B1 deficiency. It is not contagious, but tends to show up in people living together in dietary-deprived conditions. Did Warren behave as if he had a nervous system disease?
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Five years from now, Gaumont restorations would be a great theme month for TCM...
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If only we could confront Henry with that bit of history, perhaps we could make him realize that his famous comment is self-negating.
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I don't have any links, but Rick Bayless's show, Mexico, One Plate at a Time did the last series in Baja California, and met with several US citizens who had opened restaurants there.
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Yes, many people I know consider Obama to be a right-winger, and not who they thought they elected. But, I haven't been to Mexico since 1994. All the US exiles I met there had fled the Reagan-Bush political climate. And, they weren't vacationers. Many had small businesses, others lived like gypsies.
I'd say that US retirees who move to Mexico, to live out the rest of their lives under the jurisdiction of Mexican law, are a clear case of people choosing Mexico over the US, i.e. "going the other way."
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That is a well-known experimental film, and is available on more than one DVD compilation. I think I have it, and also *Manhatta,* with a few more on one DVD.
*Manhatta:*
President Obama will introduce To Kill A Mockingbird TV showing Apr. 7th
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> Atticus Finch types would have been killed back then, or their homes and offices burned down. Morris Dees has an easy life, protected by the feds today. Different eras, different men.
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I don't doubt than an Atticus Finch would have been in great danger back then. But, Morris Dees has successfully beaten numerous Klan and Aryan Nations people in court, and had a real impact on hate groups in the US. One can hardly dismiss that, just because it is less dangerous for him than it was for Atticus.
> A real hero of the old era was Medgar Evers, who is forgotten today, totally unknown by most people today.
I haven't forgotten him. Kids should be learning about him in school today.