ValentineXavier

The zombies have disgorged the December schedule!

TCM and TCMHD have exactly the same schedule. TCMHD isn't really in HD. The content is uprezzed to HD. So, WS letterboxed movies fill the screen, without being zoomed, (except on rare occasions when they screw up.) That makes them sharper than TCM SD. At their best, TCMHD movies look like a good anamorphic DVD.

Someone with rubber gloves?

As was Edith Head to costumes, and Natalie Kalmus to Technicolor, as I'm sure you know. Such fiefdoms were common then, as I'm sure you know.

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} > > As I watch movies only for entertainment and as escapism and I have not postured myself as a film academic so I can spiel off esoteric words I am often treated as if I only just fell off a turnip-truck. I find your writing clear and cogent. One does not have to have a degree in film criticism to make intelligent observations. A certain level of grammar and spelling are necessary to make one's expression intelligible, and you certainly have that as well.

gagman66, I have reached an accommodation with this screwy set up thusly: Set "Plain Text" as the default. When you wish to quote, switch to "Rich Text," and hit the quote function. Immediately switch back to "Plain Text," and do any editing you need to do of the quote. Then add your own text. Leave it in "Plain Text," to preview, and or post. If you need to edit further, your default is still set on "Plain Text," for when you click the "Edit" icon. Stay in "Plain Text" to edit. This has worked for me. Hope it helps.

Well, the wikipedia has some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Shearer

The two Mels, Brooks and Gibson, met at a party, and hit it off. Mel B. found out that Mel G. was a big fan of *Silent Movie*, and Mel G. found out that Mel B. was a big fan of his two films made in dead or obscure languages, *The Passion of Christ*, and *Apocalypto*. So, they decided to co-produce a movie called *Closed Captioned*, to be silent, but closed captioned in Etruscan. Of course, movie theaters don't have closed captioning, so the only ones who can get the dialog in theaters are Etruscan lip-readers. When it comes to cable, all Etruscan speakers - well, readers - will be able to enjoy it. The Mels chose Marlee Matlin to do her first turn at directing the film, for her ability to work in silence. To take direction, all actors will have to know Ameslan. Intensive courses will be given. Nick Nolte was rejected for a leading role, due to his vocabulary, limited to a sign consisting of a single digit. What is the film about? What does it matter? No one will understand it anyway...

5. Pasolini's *Salo: 120 Days of Sodom* or, since that one's a bit hard for TCM, alternately... 5. *The Great Dictator* Point being that I would never end with *Triumph of the Will*. I consider it a challenge that must be met.

Well, I screw up at #7. I talk too much to be cool. While I do agree with your delineation of "cool," I'd say that most of it can be summarized by 'unflappable.' Reading your description reminded me of Emma Peel and Mr. Steed, the very definitions of cool, on the old The Avengers TV show. It also clarifies why the movie was so awful. Uma Thurman was a passable Emma, but Ralph Fiennes, a fine actor, was totally flapped, as Steed.

I'll go with Paulette Goddard and Julianne Moore.

> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote} > Floridians are correct (in this, if nothing else), because both the English conch, as well as the Spanish concha, derive from the Latin concha (pronounced "KON-ka"), which is, in turn, derived from the Greek konchē ("KON-kay," meaning shell). The English is not derived from the Spanish, and conch is, emphatically, pronounced "konk." You must be from Florida. By that logic, the Spanish are mispronouncing it too. BTW, I had two years of Latin in HS. People living in the Keys call themselves "Conchs," with the "ch" hard. I will gladly pronounce it that way, for that idiosyncratic usage. Merriam-Webster lists the hard "ch" pronunciation, as the third pronunciation in line of acceptability. Here's how it says to pronounce it: >Rhymes with CONCH >craunch, paunch, raunch, stanch

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}One of the funniest sights out there was seeing cowering pedestrians standing at a red light waiting for it to change, with not a car visible on the horizon. I spent a few weeks in LA, living with the Diggers, back in '68. I stepped one foot off the curb, into the street, trying to see if an approaching bus was going to my destination. I got a jay walking ticket for it. So, I decided to take a $10 night flight to San Fran. I figured it was cheaper than paying a jaywalking ticket.

*Glory Alley* has been on before, so hopefully, it will be on again. Don't miss it next time!

I'll have to try the griddle, but crunchy is the opposite of what I think of as perfect tamales. Freshly cooked, the masa should be creamy, not granular. Reheated, it's always granular. Over cooked, granular - undercooked - granular. Just right - creamy!

Not quite the same, but try topping some tamales with some frijoles charros. If the tamales are leftovers, it helps, making the masa more palatable.

Jackie Gleason. I loved him in The Honeymooners when I was a kid. Years later, I saw him in *Gigot*. What a difference!

> {quote:title=CasaCinema wrote:}{quote} > Dang. Now I've got a hankering to hit a panaderia (bakery) and get some molletes, campachanas, pan de polvo and marranitos. I'll have some empanadas de carne, and a liquado de guanabana, sandia, y fresa. That's a good breakfast, or lunch. For dinner tonight, I had tamales de puerco rojo, from Detroit's Tamaleria Nuevo Leon.

The 2008 film *Walt & El Grupo* is well worth checking out. It shows on Flix or is it Encore? - every so often. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223150/ >Wonderfully entertaining documentary from writer-director Theodore Thomas, working alongside the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distribution arm, chronicles a turbulent time in Mr. Disney's life: the years 1940 and 1941, when an animators strike and the looming threat of a dominant union threatened to tear the Disney Company apart. With the war in Europe putting a financial damper on Disney's output overseas, "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia" fell into the red, causing Walt to owe the bank four million dollars. An invitation, then, from President Roosevelt for Disney and his hand-picked team to make a good will tour of South America came as a godsend, although Disney was initially reluctant to travel through Latin America "just shaking hands". He turned the trip to his advantage, however, and released two pictures dedicated to the culture of our neighbors and their people, "Saludos Amigos" in 1942 and "The Three Caballeros" in 1944. Looking back, the movies, though certainly entertaining, were just a stop-gap while Disney came up with bigger ideas, but the underlying notion here--that Walt felt utterly betrayed by his employees--lends this documentary a tough emotional core. Walt also lost his father during the trip, and one senses the emotional weight on him as he is photographed on boats and emerging from planes, waving at the crowds. This is a beautifully-produced sentimental journey, wherein still shots come to life and (now-aged) witnesses and relatives recount this fascinating chapter in Disney history.

> {quote:title=allthumbs wrote:}{quote} > > and Val, the truncated/chaotic (edited) version apparently is the thing that captivated the filmmakers and writers of the French New Wave. Oddly, the article contradicts itself on that point. It says: >About this time I found a translation of Francois Truffaut's original 1955 review of Kiss Me Deadly in Cahiers du Cinema. It stated, "As the hero and his mistress take refuge in the sea, THE END appears on the screen." That sounded hopeful. Perhaps the film had been released in two versions. That would indicate that Truffaut saw the original ending. Later, it says this: > And film students reading the old literature about an anarchic, deconstructed conclusion that inspired Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard will soon be wondering what the writers were talking about. Given what Truffaut wrote about it in 1955, and their guess as to the reason for the editing, I think that Truffaut saw the original.

There is an on-going thread on *The Misfits*, in the Films and Filmmakers forum. http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161906&tstart=0

Lots of DVD players, especially cheap ones, can play PAL DVDs, and convert them to NTSC, so long as the DVD is Region 0, aka Region Free. You can go to: http://www.videohelp.com/ look in the left hand column, click "DVD Hacks," and see if your DVD player is listed. They will tell you how to make it Region Free, usually just by using your remote. If your player can be made region free, then it can also convert PAL to NTSC. It may be able to convert even if it can't be made region free.

Well, Rick isn't a native Chicagoan, but an adopted one. I feel a certain kinship to him, as we are both Oklahomans, both attended the Univ. of Michigan, both spent time in Mexico, and enjoy it's food. Unfortunately for me, I have not had the considerable success he has had. I much enjoyed his show on PBS. If and when I make it to Chicago, I do hope to eat at the Frontera Grill. He also owns Topolobampo, much too upscale for my budget, and a taqueria, which I could afford, but I hear it's always packed. Obama considered asking him to be the White House chef, but I doubt he could have accepted, as he just has too much to do.

It seems that our two dictionaries are of different opinions... It is my opinion that any opinion worth having is based on a logical consideration of what facts and observations there are about a subject. Of course, two people can consider the same facts and observations, and reasonably come to different conclusions. My real point wasn't to "correct" you, but to assert the opinion, that opinions can have a factual basis. The definition you cited seemed to imply otherwise, though not definitively. Since you cited a recognized authority, I wasn't even "correcting" you at all, but taking exception to that authority, in just this one case.

I enjoyed watching it when I was a teen. As an adult, not so much. But, there are plenty of well-thought-of films that I find to be much worse. I wouldn't advocate wiping out any of them.