ValentineXavier

This thread begs the question - Can one dream of a White Christmas, while sleeping in a Holiday Inn?

> {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > There are no movies by Peter Weir or Leni Riefenstahl that I particularly care for. Ouch again, another two of my favorites. Leni's early films were best, but I like pretty much everything Weir did, from *The Cars That Ate Paris* to *Master and Commander*.

There are now 8 of them, and this one makes 9. So, to avoid confusion, and not miss any of them, I thought I'd post links to them all! INFORMATION PLEASE FORUM: Year End Memorial Video @12/13 6:09am EST http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162919&tstart=0 TCM Remembers Music @12/13 12:28am http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162909&tstart=0 HOT TOPICS FORUM: Background Music @12/12 9:07pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162917&tstart=0 It's That Time of Year @12/6 1:49pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162817&tstart=0 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS FORUM: Miss TCM Remembers @12/11 7:36pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162923&tstart=0 Appropriate Music for TCM Remembers @12/13 8:28pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162942&tstart=0 TCM Remembers @12/8 11:48pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162859&tstart=0 TCM Remembers 2011??? @12/7 11:47pm http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162864&tstart=0 and counting... Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 13, 2011 10:28 PM Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 13, 2011 10:45 PM

I was just complaining in another thread about "TCM Remembers" that we only had five threads about it, and threatened to start a new one. Well, you beat me to it!

> {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote} > > Me again here, so that is one side of it, the industry, and then the People Magazine poll was of the public in 1987 that also rated her number 1. > > I know that is not of the posters here but it is classic movie experts. I think being number one though is enough to leave her out as the most over-rated by a mile, lol. > > If she was over-rated then she would not be picked number one, you can't be both. > On the contrary. To those of us who think she is highly over-rated, this proves that she is the most highly over-rated...

I think I'll start another "TCM Remembers" thread. I can only find five.

I dislike Kate intensely, (and I don't care for bimbos.) If I were Charlie Allnut, I would have strangled her, and left her to be eaten by whatever animals could stomach her. I think she is right for the part in *Bringing Up Baby*, and does well with it, but I still find her so annoying in it, that it is hard to enjoy. The only film I actually like her in is *Undercurrent*. It's a decent film, and she does well in it.

I haven't exactly lead a sheltered life in the sticks, and I didn't know its other meaning, until it came up in the news media, in relation to the Tea Party.

*AR!*

What great names we had for bands back then - Moby Grape, The Chocolate Watch Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lothar and the Hand People, Oedipus Rex and the M-F-ers...

When the Tea Party started, they called themselves "tea baggers." I have seen the clips on cable. It was after they found out the other meaning that they stopped calling themselves that. Personally, when used in context of a political opinion, I would not assume the sexual meaning was intended. But, I would suspect that, just as most Republicans refer to "The Democrat Party," instead of 'The Democratic Party,' using the term "tea bagger" is probably a veiled insult, without really alleging the sexual connotations.

> {quote:title=Ascotrudgeracer wrote:}{quote}Watching it on AMC at this moment...what a pleasure! > Can't tell you if it's cameras, lenses or Clooney, but this movie is beautifully filmed in glorious b&w that looks like the 1940's. > > This movie proves my point; the vintage look CAN be accomplished and is far superior to the crappy look of today's offerings. Glad you're enjoying it. I liked it too. Sorry you didn't catch it a while back, when it was on a channel w/o commercials.

It Came From Outer Space 1953 Them! 1954 The Monster that Challenged the World 1957 The Black Scorpion 1957 The Blob 1958 I believe that all of those have been shown in the last year, as was *Shapes of Things to Come*. I'd really like to see *This Island Earth*. It's a favorite of mine, and I don't think TCM has shown it.

> {quote:title=SoCalGal16 wrote:}{quote}. Many more then Barry Sotero has done in 3 years in office. But then again, Trump has talent. A modern day P.T. Barnum. SCG, I also believe that the reason you were called a "tea bagger," aka a 'tea partier' is because of this part of your post, not anything you said about Baldwin. I believe the spelling used by Birthers, conspiracy theorists, and Tea Party members is actually "Barry Soetoro," This is part of some of their theories that President Obama is not a US citizen. You seem to be insulted by being called a Tea Party member. Given the opinions you have posted, I don't think many people would reasonably expect you to find that an insult, even if someone on the left considers it a pejorative. That's as far as I'm going to go with this. I just wanted you to understand why you were labeled as you were. Although I disagree with your political opinions quite a bit, this is not a political forum, so I will make no attempt to refute them, and will not touch this subject again.

Well, I am *VERY* happy to be seeing complete, uncut eps of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour on the Encore Suspense channel, and think them very appropriate there. But, then I am rather unhappy that once or twice per B&W ep, they run a color ad banner near the bottom. Ugh.

Thanks for posting that. It gives definitive answers to lots of common questions. I'd say that it also indicates why we don't have true HD on TCMHD yet.

Michael, perhaps you could move this thread to the Czech Republic. It could use a good praguetologist...

Colorized movies look like crummy prints of old cartoons. They should just give up trying to make the colorized films look 'realistic,' and set out to use the coloring to make them look like cartoons. At least then, they would look like good prints of new cartoons...

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Noirish elements in HOLIDAY AFFAIR? Like what? Mitchum's daughter says the studio put him in this to counter his arrest. > Aha! One more noirish element I didn't know about! Seriously, I didn't claim the film was a noir, or even a near noir. It isn't. But, all of the actors are noir stars. Mitchum does get a noirish sort of bad break. Even some of the dialog, taken out of context, sounds sort of noirish: >*Connie Ennis:* Oh, you're always so wrong about me. I have a wonderful memory of a husband and a marriage. You're trying to take it away from me. >*Steve Mason:* Nobody wants to do that. I know. I'm sure Carl doesn't. All anybody wants is for you to live in the present and not be afraid of the future. You know, maybe it could happen again if you quit pretending that something that's dead is still alive.

It's usually called *The Fearless Vampire Killers*, but the full title is: *The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck*.

> {quote:title=Ascotrudgeracer wrote:}{quote}Those cameras from the 40's and 50's gave a texture to film that was so beautiful. Those machines must be somewhere...why not dust them off and use them? Utilize the mid-century microphones and recorders, too. > > As for the performers, I believe people today do not look like people from the classic days of cinema, AND it's more than hair and the fact that humans are forever getting larger. It just seems like when they try to make a WW2 movie today, the actors/actresses don't look right. Steve Soderbergh, in his 2006 film *The Good German*, used some old equipment, and old techniques, to give a period look. From the IMDb: >The film was shot as if it had been made in 1945. Only studio back lots, sets and local Los Angeles locations were used. No radio microphones were used, the film was lit with only incandescent lights and period lenses were used on the cameras. The actors were directed to perform in a presentational, stage style. The only allowance was the inclusion of nudity, violence and cursing which would have been forbidden by the Production Code. >Steven Soderbergh, wishing to shoot this film the old Hollywood way, banned the use of sophisticated zoom lenses used by today's cinematographers, returning to the fixed focal-length lenses used in the past. Furthermore, only incandescent lights were used which provided harsh, unnatural lighting. There were also no wireless body microphones, which would allow the faintest whispers to be heard, on set. Sound was recorded the old-fashioned way, with a hand-operated boom mike held above the actors head, which consequently forced the actors to speak in loud, crisp English.

I'll bet they held the anchovies.

Robert Mitchum Errol Flynn Orson Welles Paul Muni Malcolm McDowell... no particular order

Ouch! Fuller and Garnett are two of my favorites! I don't care much for Lucas either, but *THX 1138* is a great film.

I'll add Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon to the list. I'd even add Edgar Rice Burroughs to the list. When I was a teen, I couldn't put his books down.