SansFin
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My favorite modern short movie is *Burn-E* (2008). It is set in the world of *Wall-E* (2008) and shows the work and frustrations of an other robot.
It can be seen at:
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*Les Diaboliques* (1955) is a wonderful movie! I rank it highly in my list of favorite movies.
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The problem may be with the recording speed. The movies we record one to a DVD with a two-hour recording time are crisp and clear on our HDTVs. The movies we record with several on one DVD with a four or six-hour recording time are fuzzy. We have one DVD of many movies with a twelve-hour recording time and the best that can be said of it is that the audio is good.
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> {quote:title=SonOfUniversalHorror wrote:}{quote}
> She was being sarcastic,
This reminds me of *Roxanne* (1987):
C.D.:We haven't had any irony here since about '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.
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My favorite short movie is: *The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics* (1965):
Capuchin's favorite short movie is: *Anita Liberty* (1997). It is available on YouTube but I must warn of some bad language:
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TCM has recently shown many wonderful movies in their tributes to Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. I feel they have also greatly improved their selections for TCM Imports recently and they have brought us many gems..
If I had to chose my favorite foreign movie airing in this past year it will have to be *Un homme et une femme* (1966).
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> {quote:title=vallo13 wrote:}{quote}
> "I think of the TCM audience the same way I think of women I've wanted to date,'' he says. "Initially they have no interest, but eventually I wear them down.''
This quote reminds me of an adage: Great floods do not harm grand boulders. It is constantly irritating drips which wear them away.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I can't stay up all night and I can't record all night.
> How can I watch all these movies??
Perhaps you can watch half the night and record the other half?
I have an embarrassment of riches as much more than one hundred hours of movies were recorded for me while I was away. This month has also many evenings and nights filled with movies I wish to watch. It is on evenings such as this that I am paring down the list as I do not like the vast majority of Spencer Tracy movies.
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> {quote:title=classiccinemafan wrote:}{quote}
> The things I want to know:difference between -r and +r and how to finalize
Others have said well the difference between the formats.
I will endeavor to find specific information on formatting for you if you will post the brand and model of DVD recorder you possess.
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> {quote:title=Lori3 wrote:}{quote}
> Although I feel sorry for the poor kitty getting all wet. To heck with the actors let them get wet, but protect Orangey!
Many cats do not mind water. It is an odd thing that most cats look miserable when they are wet even when they enjoy it.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> I'm beginning to think maybe you're not a big cat fan.
I love cats very much. I believe I would not prize them as highly if they were not dangerous.
This is the cat in *Kuroneko* (1968).
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}
> The tagline for that one is "cats aren't always cute and cuddly".
> Are so.
I believe cats have the native intelligence to know that if they spit and hiss that people will be on their guard and not let them close.
They know also that when they appear cute and cuddly that they will be welcomed into a position where their claws can easily reach a jugular vein.
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I found it an odd coincidence that it was mentioned after the first movie that it took eight hours to patch Boris Karloff into his costume as the mummy. I have been watching Face Off which is a reality show in which make-up artists compete. They show models having latex appliances being applied and then painted and them being fitted into costumes. I had focused on what the make-up people were doing and my thoughts never turned to what the models were experiencing during the hours it takes to apply a look.
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> i know just what you mean about Oskar Werner. He often looks depressed, or carrying the weight of the world's moral malaise on his shoulders.
He reminds me in many of his roles of a soliloquy on the horror of being in the middle of the thirty-four. If his I.Q. were seventeen points lower he could be happy and content in his role as a nameless cog in a great machine. If his I.Q. were seventeen points higher he would have the confidence to hold himself forth as worthy of special consideration.
He lives in the middling ground between dolt and genius which is a lonely place fraught with peril.
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I believe the scenes in James Bond and Austin Powers movies of villains stroking their cats derive from scenes in *Shinobi no mono* (1962).
Cats are significant in scenes in *The Case of the Black Cat* (1936), *The Cat Creeps* (1946) and *To Catch a Thief* (1955). A cat is an alternate persona in *Kuroneko* (1968).
I wish to also step aside again and I ask all pardon me if they feel it is off-topic. I know of sociopaths only by aiding in medical treatment for other diseases many years ago and by psychology courses necessary for my profession. I am not holding forth as an expert. I have not see the Ladd movie for many years and I meant only to extrapolate what might have been the basis of his behaviour as it was presented by others. I did not mean to imply his character was by necessity a sociopath.
There is a movie of which I remember little but that near the ending a black cat came out from behind red curtains and there was a suggestion that it was a woman who was able to transform herself.
I believe most horror movies have a cat in at the very least a cameo or in the background of a scene.
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Early sportscats:
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You may be interested in *Stray Dog* (1949) as it is noir and it is a classic of Japanese film.
*Pale Flower* (1964) is a Japanese crime drama which I feel borders on noir.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> The guy was a hired killer, not a raving psycho sadistic maniac. I'm not defending hired killers, obviously, but I wouldn't put them in the same psychological category as that.
My only experience with sociopaths is one ward of a hospital in which I had a few months of training. It was explained to me then that some had "matured". They had tortured animals when they were young as most sociopaths do. That stimulation had grown boring and predictable.
They were at the stage then that the only stimulation which had a great effect on them was causing the death of a person and watching that death. Two at least in the ward had been captured because they knew the authorities were approaching but they could not run away because the person they had killed was taking a long time to die and they had the overwhelming need to watch until the end. They were the most charming patients in the hospital.
I found it an odd dichotomy that they had no desire to strike or in any other way to hurt a person they could not kill.
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I have wondered if it would be great expense for them to have young actors introduce a movie which inspired them and led them to acting as a career.
They could write their own script which would be vetted by an expert. They would work for guild minimum as they are appearing as themselves. They would benefit from the exposure. Many such segments could be filmed in one day as they would not suffer fatigue and there would be no delays when make-up or wardrobe needed retouching or adjustment as they would be prepped while some other person's segment is being filmed.
They would bring natural passion and enthusiasm. They would attract viewers of their own generation. They would be variety. It is possible one or more of them might be found to be an appropriate host for one of TCM's weekly features or a month-long theme.
I love Robert Osborne dearly and I wish for him a long and healthy life and a continuing interest in doing the introductions. But he can not do it all and I see the need for others to participate.
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I am sorry to say that I am so cynical that I believe the most viewed movies of all time were most likely the anti-STD movies of WWII as they were shown each month to millions of soldiers in all theatres of operations and it often happened that movies which were captured by an enemy would be shown to their own troops in order to stress the importance of the issue while providing a relief from the repetition of their own movies.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
>> Foreign films evolved more slowly.
> That's an interesting point. And I've actually thought they were further advanced. They seem more modern to me. The focus on relationships has greatly interested me.
I mean by evolving slowly that they did not readily take on new attributes such as those which denote Hollywood films of the 1960s. They seemed to me to continue a gentle refining of their core.
>> *I believe a good example of this is Kuroneko (1968) which is also known as The Black Cat (1968).
> That's a terrific suggestion for me, particularly with Halloween fast approaching. I really haven't delved into Japanese cinema. The only ones I have seen are *Tokyo Story* and *Godzilla*.
Oh my, oh my, oh my!
Did you miss all the tributes to Akira Kurosawa and Toshir? Mifune? They were wonderful films spanning many genres and sensibilities.
I would suggest you watch *Yojimbo* (1961) as I believe you like Westerns and it was remaked as *A Fistful of Dollars* (1964).
I would suggest also you watch *The Hidden Fortress* (1958) as it has elements which are similar to Westerns and to Marx Brothers movies.
I would need to know how you feel of those movies before I can suggest more.
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I am sorry and I apologize that this is not truly on-topic. I feel it is appropriate in that I hope to dispel a misconception and emphasize a character trait.
> {quote:title=RMeingast wrote:}{quote}
> True sociopaths hate animals and people.
They do not hate animals or people in the traditional sense. A true sociopath lacks the ability to empathize and so they regard other beings in the same way in which a normal person regards furniture or forks.
The manner in which a person or animal is important to a sociopath is that they are an object which can be manipulated or controlled. The sociopath requires constant stimulation and the greatest stimulation is perceiving humiliation and pain which they have caused. It is this need to hurt beings which is the cause of them being labeled as hating people and animals.
Raven's character can like cats because he does not find hurting them to be an adequate stimulation because it is so very easy and they die quickly which ends the stimulation. He can receive a stimulation by their purring and antics which is nearly equivalent to eviscerating them because it is much less but it lasts longer.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> I believe it's far worse today than in the 60s thanks to social media.
I find one point in it particularly telling. His wife is excited about his promotion because it might mean they can have a second wall screen and she has been told that having a second wall screen is like having your family grow around you. How many people today have large flat televisions in nearly every room?
> I don't believe men and women know to raise a family anymore and it's going to get a heckuva lot worse. The selfishness of today is out of control. We are captive to self-image.
I believe we are at a critical pivot. The gap between haves and have-nots is going to widen with the new generation because their early experience with the bright and shifting patterns of iPads and its responsiveness to their touch will increase mental development at a crucial stage and increase their their sense that they are and should be in control.
It is also a time when the children of haves receive more tender and loving care at crucial stages of development because their parents can hire cheap immigrant caregivers who view children as precious while the caregivers are free from the normal household duties and chores which would prevent them from giving their own children such attention if they had remained in their own country.
The have-nots can not give their own children such tender care as they do not have the time because they are so busy eking out a living.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> It's just the style of the 60s films from Hollywood struggle to connect with me as much as the 40s and 50s. But I'm guessing the foreign-language films of that time will connect with me.
Foreign films evolved more slowly. Japanese filmmakers in particular took more care in using a style which best told the story rather than doing what the audience expected or which they might think they wanted.
I believe a good example of this is *Kuroneko* (1968) which is also known as *The Black Cat* (1968). It is in black and white despite most other movies of that time being in color because Kaneto Shind? knew that black and white would evoke more basic and primitive fears. He uses the stylized drama, fluid movements and elaborate make-up and costumes of traditional kabuki theatre.
A trailer for it can be seen at:
I must give the warning that it is a horror movie which few forget. It preys on subconscious and primitive fears. I have heard it said that it is not a good movie to play in your bedroom because it will give the monsters under your bed nightmares.
RAMBLES Part II
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There are characterized dolls in formal attire seated at a dining table in *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937). Robert Montgomery as Lord Dilling pays approx. twenty Pounds for the doll of Joan Crawford as Fay Cheyney.
My first thought when I saw *Thunder Birds* (1942) starring Gene Tierney in the schedule was that she would be a marionette in a tiny rocket ship ala' *Thunderbirds Are Go* (1966).
I believe I could not enjoy watching the movie while I have that image in my mind.