ValentineXavier
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I work in a university library. It always closes at 5am, except during spring break (going on now,) holidays, and between terms. It opens at 8am week days, 10am weekends. We are open 24 hours, most days of the last two weeks of a term. I like working four 10s. I have three days off in a row. So, I have almost as much time off, as I work.
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More poking around on the AFI database. They don't list *La Strada*, either as a film entry, or in the filmographies of Richard Basehart, or Anthony Quinn. Do they list just some foreign films, but not others?
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Well, that makes three of us, and we're ALL big shots! So, hear that, TCMprogrmmr?
Geeze, I probably didn't spell that right, so they won't do it, just out of spite...
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Probably the non-Fellini Nino Rota films that are most seen are *The Godfather*, *The Leopard*, and *Waterloo*. TCM also showed the excellent *The Hidden Room*. There are only a few others I have ever seen.He has a huge filmography, going back to 1933. There are many on his filmography that I would much like to see, based on reading the IMDb:
*Rome: Free City* 1946
*Woman Trouble* 1948
*How I lost the War* 1948
*His Last Twelve Hours* 1950 with Jean Gabin
*This Angry Age* 1958 D. Rene Clement
*The House of Intrigue* 1958
*Purple Noon* 1960 D. Rene Clement
*A Quiet Place to Kill* with Carroll Baker
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I'm a fan of Bourdain's TV shows. He is very opinionated, and cultivates a 'bad boy' image. He often incorporates cinematic references into his travel/food shows. When he did a show in San Francisco, he drove the same model car McQueen did in *Bullet*, on some of the same streets, and did a V/O alluding to the film. He did a *Third Man* theme in Vienna, even going in the sewers! I look forward to seeing him.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 25, 2012 9:51 PM
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TCM aired *Princess Tam Tam* and *Zou Zou* within the last year, IIRC, less than two years ago, anyway. But, I hadn't seen them on TCM before that. At any rate, they certainly haven't played them too often to want to see them run again. Of the Robeson films, I don't recall seeing the last two you mention, so they could show them again, too.
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> The hilarious Harpo Marx is pin-up #2
You might be able to pin him up, but you could never pin him down...
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> And it would be nice if TCM could once again resurrect the version of *The Big Sleep* that includes the added materials tacked onto the end of the film.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
Yeah, Kyle, that's the version I want to see, and would also like to see the info at the end that compared the two versions. I probably have it on tape somewhere, from back when TCM showed it years ago. I'd love to see it again, on my big HD set.
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Well, in this case, it's probably a personal message, since sending someone a Prime Minister would be rather awkward.
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I also wish they would rerun *Princess Tam Tam*. They only ran it once, and my recording screwed up.
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No hyphen needed:
>mis?spell?ing
>noun -ˈspe-liŋ
>Definition of MISSPELLING
>: an incorrect spelling
No, I'm not applying for SM's job...
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I can see right through that thin attempt at humor...
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I did some poking around on the AFI site. I'd say it is another valuable source, but not definitive.
*Watch on the Rhine* 112m TCM, 114m IMDb, 109m AFI, 112m - my recording from TCM
*Mutiny on the Bounty* 1962 185m TCM, 185m IMDb, 179m AFI, 186m - my recording from TCM. It may be 179m w/o the Overture and the Entre'acte music, but the AFI makes no note of this.
*Killing of a Chinese Bookie* IMDb 135/109m, AFI 135m in main listing, 108m cut mentioned in notes at end. My recording from Encore, 108m.
*The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*, 124, 127-128m TCM database & AFI, 126m IMDb.
*Robinson Crusoe* 1954 90m TCM, 90m IMDb, 90m AFI, 89m - my recording from TCM.
*Tristana* 98m TCM, 95/105m IMDb, 95m AFI, 105m in notes below.
Conclusions: sometimes TCM gets their timings from AFI, sometimes they don't. Sometimes AFI is right, and sometimes they aren't. As you (lzcutter) said, the TRT can be the hardest thing to pin down! Also, the AFI does list foreign films, which their name would not indicate, at least to me. So, that was a pleasant surprise.
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I respect your opinion. Curtiz and Howe truly are greats.
But for me, a film like *White Heat* is just way more powerful.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 25, 2012 7:49 PM
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As far as I am concerned, they are irrelevant now. here's a case in point:
>Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars
>By Nikki Finke, Deadline.com - Feb. 22, 2012
>EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen?s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is one of the stars from Hugo, Paramount?s 11 nominated Best Picture contenders. ?Unless they?re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the Red Carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show,? an insider just told me.
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>The reason is that rumors reached the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that Baron Cohen would be strolling the Red Carpet in full costume as his character in the upcoming Paramount film The Dictator as a publicity stunt.
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>UPDATED (8:30PM ET): Later today, faced with all the bad publicity resulting from its action, the Academy tried to parse what it did when questioned by some media outlets. But the fact is that, this morning, the Academy?s Managing Director Of Membership Kimberly Rouch phoned Paramont?s awards staff to say Baron Cohen?s tickets had been pulled unless he gives the Academy assurances ahead of time promising not to show up on the Red Carpet in costume and not to promote the movie on the Red Carpet. The Academy made it clear that, without those assurances, it would not issue him the tickets. So he?s banned.*
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>Of course, the next best thing to that publicity stunt is all the media coverage which this ban is going to generate for Baron Cohen?s film. So the Academy has decided to act like dictators about the actor playing The Dictator. Ugh.
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>Loosen up, people. Frankly, the Academy looks like uptight wankers with this treatment of one of the globe?s funniest comedians. The Academy merely had to say no when that proposal was presented to it. Everyone involved in the ceremony was adamantly against it on the grounds that it makes a mockery of what Hollywood considers its most prestigious event. Instead, the Academy clearly wants another overly long, ridiculously reverential show about movies no one bothered to see where the best thing about the telecast will be the comeback of popular host Billy Crystal at age 63.
>The Dictator is a spoof about the ?heroic story of a Middle Eastern dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy never comes to the country he so lovingly oppressed?. Whether the fact that the 84th Academy Awards will be beamed into 200 countries had anything to do with this ban is unclear. But it is highly unusual for the Academy to pull a member?s tickets. An Oscars spokesperson acknowledged to Deadline yesterday: ?We would hope that every studio knows that this is a bad idea. The Red Carpet is not about stunting.? Oh really? Then why did Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park **** down the Red Carpet as J-Lo and Gwyneth Paltrow in evening gowns in 2000? Or Ben Stiller appear as an Oscar presenter in full blue Avatar makeup and hair in 2010?
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>Deadline reported yesterday that Baron Cohen?s plan was to come dressed as The Dictator and then change into a tuxedo and attend the Oscars as planned. He wasn?t scheduled to present an award, but he was arriving at Kodak Theatre as part of the Paramount contingent. Now he can?t do even that. Paramount has a Best Picture nominee in the Martin Scorsese-directed Hugo in which Baron Cohen plays the train station inspector of the movie about an orphan in 1930s Paris.
Since this release, The Academy has relented, and restored his tickets. He will walk the red carpet, in costume. Now it is being said that thw whole thing was an Academy set-up, to get them publicity. Either way, I think the Academy stinks for this.
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I'll admit I just don't get you guys who think *Yankee Doodle Dandy* was Cagney's best performance. I'd say he gave truly great performances in at very least half a dozen films. IMO, *YDD* is a piece of harmless schlock, and wasn't a film that could have a great performance.
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I work the circulation desk of the library, from 7pm, to 5am closing, four nights a week. Part of my job used to include making rounds of the building, but even then, I wasn't really a night watchman, as such. It was more to make sure no one was misusing the facilities. As I said to a couple of partially clad kids I ran across in a "Group Study Room," "This isn't the appropriate place for that. Surely one of you has a bed at home..."
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I'd say that *Little Big Man* is largely from the point of view of the Indians, but related to us by a white man living as an Indian. There is a difference. Also, in *Little Big Man*, Jack Crabbe is not some sort of hero-leader that the Indians need to follow, unlike the other patronizing films mentioned. I actually happened to read the book Little Big Man before the film came out. The book is a great read, and the film is rather faithful to it.
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While I'm not really a Disney animation fan, I'll readily admit that *Fantasia* is a masterwork. Dance of the Hours is easily my favorite segment. It's also worth noting that Disney and Stokowski invented multichannel audio for this film.
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I know I've seen it before, but long ago. I'm looking forward to seeing it, when I get off work.
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The single film I would most like to see replayed is the 1944 release version of *The Big Sleep*.
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*Christmas Holiday* 1944, a virtually never seen noir
*Johnny Nobody* 1961, a British neo-noir, with a religious twist
*O, Lucky Man* 1973 Starring Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren - a strange, surrealistic social commentary, with a continuous score by Alan Price of The Animals. one of my all-time favorite films.
*Hana-Bi* aka *Fireworks* 1997, a Japanese neo-noir, staring, written, and directed by Takeshi Kitano. A bloody gangster film, but with a heart, a soul, and a moral compass. Currently OOP on DVD.
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How about Nino Rota, films other than Fellini films. I've heard his scores for some, and they are as good as he does for Fellini.
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Oz-Born, or born in Australia, aka Oz.
So what is the most frequently shown movie on TCM?
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Well, just in case you aren't kidding, you should see a little envelope, next to "inbox" in a tab, on the upper right. Click on the envelope to bring up the screen to send, or read, personal messages.