ValentineXavier
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I can't remember if it's on Friday evening, or Saturday evening, but PBS station WTVS in Detroit shows a film, then repeats it early in the am. I think it was *SHWTD*.
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*AoDJ* has one of my favorite Flynn lines: "this time, I'm wearing my old clothes. *Captain Blood* has to be my favorite Flynn swashbuckler, but *AoDJ* is well done, and great fun.
I'll put in a plug for another underrated Flynn performance, in John Huston's The Roots of Heaven*. Flynn plays a dissipated man, as he was then in life. It's also his second to last film.
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
> Some bright exec then figured out a way to make the same idiots who have to have the latest cellphone want and need and overpay for a *conspicuously consumptive flat screen television which has the built in lifecycle of a gnat,* as opposed to the 20-odd years of a CRT.
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> Ahhhhh, progress.
This is exactly why I own, and advocate DLP TVs. They use about 1/3 as much electricity as a plasma screen. They have a better picture, and they use a projection lamp. You replace the lamp every 3-4 years, and the TV lasts forever, with the picture looking as good as the day you bought it. But, they are 8-12" deep, so people don't buy them, even though very few people actually hang their thin screens on the wall. Mine is a Samsung, but they no longer make them. Mitsubishi does, and their prices are from reasonable to dirt cheap, like $6-700 for a 63" screen.
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Watching June Alyson in *High Barbaree*, I was struck with how much she looked like Jane Greer, except for the hair.
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I've been watching them on Encore. So far it seems that in the third season, they are definitely stepping into scifi,and the paranormal on a regular basis. I also liked the one starring James Caan, Walter Koenig, and Tony Musante, Memo from Purgatory. It was written by Harlan Ellison, and directed by Joseph Pevney, who directed several eps of ST:TOS.
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I can't quite remember the name myself, but it was shown on TCM within the last year. It was from the 40s, or early 50s. B&W, sort of a comedy/mystery. Is he a reporter, looking for a story? I can't remember the leads. I do recall liking it, and the little onomatopoeic rhyme, to sound like the rails sounds, was infectious. I'm sure someone will remember it.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Not to get sidetracked, but suppose someone wanted to go to a drive-in (it was the only venue showing a film they wanted to see), but the person didn't own a car. Could he walk in?
Yes, but they would have to bring a window to hang the speaker on.
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You certainly don't need cable service to be able to watch your DVD player. Just running a HDMI cable from the DVD player to the TV, and selecting the correct input, will let you watch the player.
Cable and broadcast TV have changed in the last few years. All OTA (over-the-air) broadcasting is now digital, called ATSC (the new standard.) Your WS TV will have a tuner for that, if it's fairly new. It should also have a tuner form QAM, which is the digital cable standard. It should still have an analog tuner. The analog tuner is what would get you the basic cable channels in the past.
Cable companies are phasing out analog, so they can free up bandwidth for more HD channels. It is happening at different rates, varying by location and cable company. Comcast, in my neck of the woods, is down to ~20 analog channels left. They have some clear (unscrambled) QAM channels, which a QAM tuner could get.
To get OTA ATSC channels, you will need an antenna.
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I haven't seen it before, and probably won't watch it for a few days. If no one fills you in by then, I will.
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For a while, the Windsor station's movie was called "THE FLICK." But, the L and the I seemed to run together, with unintended consequences.
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> {quote:title=chaney7 wrote:}{quote}I believe Yankee Doodle Dandy was colorized but it was done many yeas ago and they made a poor job of it.
*YDD* was the first colorized film I ever saw. I could have done a better job, using just a red and a blue marker.
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> Looking for reasons why the traitor Goldstein was changed to Calidor in the movie... ...Did it have anything to do with McCarthy and his witchhunts of of Hollywood?
Yes. Calidor was the name of a witch having an affair with Joe McCarthy. The name change was meant to get Joe's goat.
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It is as you say, usually TCM has plenty of timeslot to accommodate a film, and once in a while they do not. I always note the running time, and pad the DVR recording if it is tight. When the previous film ran long, I thought I was going to lose some of the end. But, I got lucky, and got it all, with 30sec. to spare, Whew!
I suspect that when a film runs long, it is because TCM was misinformed about the running time by the distributor. One would think that they would check running times when they get the digital copies, but that may not be far ahead enough to adjust the schedule.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}*Brazil* is the biggest pile of crap ever put on film. Sorry, I see red when I think about that big fat pretentious cliched bore. I'm an Anglophile and love Monty Python but think Terry Gilliam (an American) is a great animateur but a lousy director. I walked out of Gilliam's *The Time Bandits*. I couldn't walk out of Brazil, because I was going to a dinner party in the neighborhood, and it was too cold to walk around.
You are entitled to your opinion, as are we all. Mine is that *Brazil* is an excellent film, even prophetic, as it has become more relevant since it was made. I think it, along with some of Gilliam's other films, i.e. *The Fisher King*, *Twelve Monkeys*, and *Tideland* are some of the best of modern films. And, I liked *Time Bandits* very much too, I just don't think it rises to the level of excellence of the other four of his films I've cited.
As to Gilliam's skills as an animator - I am a Monty Python fan, and loved his animation. But, mainly for his sense of humor, and perspective. Anyone who has seen a lot of experimental animation, collage animation, stop-motion animation, etc., as I have, would likely tell you that Gilliam's technical animation skills were nothing special.
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> Nothing *at all* against TCM, but wouldn't one think they would make sure long before the airing that everything was in place for the broadcast to happen and prevent issues like this from arising?
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TCM can't exactly search Sony's vaults for it. All TCM can do to "make sure" is to get assurances from the distributor that it is available. I see no way that TCM could independently confirm that. I don't know how far ahead TCM gets their digital copies, but that would be their first opportunity to confirm, with certainty, that the film is available.
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Clore, are you saying that TCMHD showed it in a wide aspect ratio, but TCMSD showed in a different aspect ratio, i.e. 1.33:1? That would be really weird, and would seem to be an error in setting the equipment, somewhere along the line.
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I prefer my eggs hatched.
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I'd say that *Ran*, *Brazil*, and *Kiss of the Spider Woman* by themselves justify 1985 as a decent year. Sadly, even though I am a Nicolas Roeg fan, I've never seen *Insignificance*.
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I'm looking forward to them very much. I've never seen the silent version. My DVR is programmed for both.
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> Bound for Glory was an interesting movie and very relevant to events today, but it is a highly political movie. It pits 'the man' against workers and it has a very pro-union POV as well as an anti establishment one.
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> Based on the movie, if Woody was around today he would be entertaining the Occupy Wall Street groups. I'm not taking sides on this, one way or the other, but just pointing out how Woody was portrayed in the movie. (I admit I don't know much about his actual life).
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The movie *Bound for Glory* is based on Woody's autobiography, which has the same title. The film is very true to the book, so Woody is portrayed as he portrayed himself. I think it's a fine film. It is known for its early steadicam work, and the Haskel Wexler cinematography.
Anyone interested in Woody should get the Library of Congress recordings, recorded in March of 1940, by Alan Lomax. I think they are about three hours long (at least,) and now available on CD. I have them on vinyl. There are several monologues and dialogues with Woody, telling about his life, amid many of his songs.
BTW, Pete Seeger did play for Occupy Wall Street, as did David Crosby, and a few other old folkies. No doubt Woody would have too.
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From *Dead Man*, my favorite Jim Jarmush film:
>*Nobody:* I was then taken east, in a cage. I was taken to Toronto. Then Philadelphia. And then to New York. And each time I arrived at another city, somehow the white men had moved all their people there ahead of me. Each new city contained the same white people as the last, and I could not understand how a whole city of people could be moved so quickly.
Nobody is an Indian, who is sort of a spiritual guide to William Blake (not the poet,) played by Johnny Depp.
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A couple from *The Trial of Billy Jack:*
>*Prosecuting attorney:* Do you expect us to believe that you have absolutely no fear of the death penalty.
>*Billy Jack:* I have a lot of fear, but I have a lot more respect. Long ago, I learned that he's my constant companion. He eats with me, he walks we me, he even sleeps with me.
>*Prosecuting attorney:* (not understanding him) I'm sorry, I must have missed something back there. Who is this faithful companion of your?
>*Billy Jack:* Death.
>*Jean Roberts:* Y'know, I really feel sorry for your children.
>*Prosecuting attorney:* You feel sorry for *my* children?
>*Jean Roberts:* Yes, and for you too. You know me... and you know I don't lie. It must be terrible to make it seem that way just to earn your money.
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I loved *Tree of Life*. I think it's a great film, a cosmic/Zen view of the place of a few particular humans on our planet. Yes, missing the first 5 minutes of it hurts your understanding of it. It is a circular film, and missing a segment, one cannot see the circle. But, even if one sees it from the beginning, it bears repeated viewings, to reveal what it has to say. I really should pick up the DVD, and watch it again myself.
Nights of Cabiria--Forgotten Fellini
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*NoC* is definitely one of my favorite Fellini films. My very favorite in *Juliet of the Spirits*.