SansFin
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I like *Blade Runner* very much. I have meet many people I would recommend for a Voight-Kampff test. It is prominent on my list of DVDs I wish to own.
I do not believe it is an appropriate movie for TCM as it has a modern feel. It does not evoke the atmosphere or the sensibilities of the classic era.
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> I am curious about this remake of the 1928 version of the film.
I believe from what I have read that it is not a favorable comparison. I have seen comments that it is fine when considered in its own right and it is not held to such a higher standard. It is what it is.
It has been decades since I have seen the original and it never became a favorite of mine.
> I am always happy to watch a good looking frenchman.
That is why I mentioned it.
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Which role would you cast him in for a movie:
A) A wise and knowledgeable counselor whose judgement is always trusted?
A used car salesman?C) A playground lurker who gives candy to little boys?
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I wish all to be aware of a movie which is scheduled to air on this coming Thursday. It is *The Man Who Laughs* (1966).
Jean Sorel is the star. He is very easy on the eyes and very, very French.
I believe the men will like to see Lisa Gastoni in a tight Italian costume.
I have not seen this movie. I am anticipating it greatly as one of the characters is Lucrezia Borgia. She is one of my great idols. I believe it may be wonderful if they have kept faithful to her character even although the plot is contrived and it is not based on a historical incident.
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I thank you for giving us such a wonderful tour of this week's airings!
I would not wish to prevent any person from watching *La Roue* (1922). I will say that I do not like it at all. I am not comfortable when a boy wishes to make love to a girl who he believes is his sister. It is worse when a man wishes to make love to a girl who he has raised as a daughter. To have both plots and to treat them as normal and usual does not endear me to the movie. I have never also been a fan of Abel Gance's turn-a-ten-minute-story-into-a-fourteen-hour-epic way of making movies. Many of the individual shots and scenes within his movies are wonderful. I do feel that the whole is far less than the sum of its parts.
I am wondering if *Petulia* (1968) is good. I like Julie Christie and Richard Lester's work.
I am greatly disappointed that a scheduled movie will not air. *Malaga* (1960) is in the Now Playing for Thursday afternoon. It is a Dorothy Dandridge movie which I have not seen. I believe her chemistry with Trevor Howard might be wonderful. I understand they had to change the schedule because in the issue it shows *Hot Millions* (1968) as filling three hours when it is a 107 minute movie. It is sad they cut one which they have not aired recently.
I am greatly anticipating *The Man Who Laughs* (1966) because I am fascinated by all stories of Lucrezia Borgia. She is one of my historical idols. It will not matter to me that the story for this movie is highly contrived. It has Jean Sorel who is very easy on the eyes. I believe the men will like to see Lisa Gastoni in period costume.
I am confused about *Alias Boston ***** (1942) as I have seen the series and the description given reminds me of a movie in which a woman convict escapes during a Boston **** Christmas show and this description says it is a man. I will have to find that DVD and watch it.
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I recorded it to watch today. I watched until approx. the forty-five-minute mark before I erased it.
It was much like a camp 1950s sci-fi-monster movie without the camp or the monster. It was as if they had a large special effects budget and spent it all at a toy store. The only drama was questioning who was going to shout at who next.
The profanity was odd. It was almost as if it had been dubbed. The actors did not seem comfortable saying the words in those contexts and so separated them from the rest of their lines.
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I am wondering if *Meteor* (1979) in the early morning is as good as it promises. Ronald Neame has been the director or cinematographer on several of my favorite movies. Stanley Mann wrote several excellent screenplays. The cast includes: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella and Henry Fonda.
I believe that when that much talent is in one movie it is either wonderful or dreadful.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> So when you were in elementary school, Mom gave you screwdrivers for breakfast?
Fruit juice was always a treat. It was not an every-day thing. I do not remember having orange juice then. It was apple juice or cherry juice with meals on special days.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> I've never understood drinking Vodka, because I just don't get the attraction of something that the better it is, the less flavor it is supposed to have.
I could ask why people drink water when it is tasteless when it is pure.
Vodka has a bite even when it has little or no taste. It is that sensation which is desired.
It is popular to add pepper to add taste and to add to the bite.
Vodka is also the best thing to drink when eating as there are many flavors which are not water soluble and so you can not taste them unless there is alcohol to dissolve them onto your tongue.
> I like things with lots of flavor, like dark Jamaican rum, or Mezcal.
I like rum in banana bread.
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> Of course, we can't discuss movie drunks without bringing up William Powell as Nick Charles.
I thought of this thread while watching one of the Thin Man movies a few days ago. It is the one in which James Stewart kills his ex-lover's husband.
Mr. Charles is superbly intoxicated in the scene when he is hearing for the first time that the husband has been missing for days. He is trying so very hard to act as if he is not drunk.
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I have found them next to the tin foil and plastic wrap in the supermarket.
These are the ones I like:
http://www.reynoldskitchens.com/slowcook.asp
I tried a store brand and they tore. I should not say "they" because it was only the first one which tore and I threw the others away so I would not risk another such thing.
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I recommend the use of slow-cooker liners highly.
We make chili in the winter. We keep it in a slow-cooker so we can have some at any time of the day and we add sauce and spices and browned meat to compensate for what we remove. After several days there is a crust on the sides which nearly needs a chisel to remove.
There is also a crust when you remove some and do not empty the crock until later.
They are also handy when you make more than one meal's-worth. You can let the crock cool and then put it into the freezer. You can then remove the liner with the food inside. The next time you wish that meal it fits precisely and you can put the cooker on low heat and it thaws it and reheats with no fuss.
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}
> SansFin, in all seriousness, I'll bet it took some getting used to for you to enjoy the taste of vodka.
I have always had it. I remember not liking the fruit juice at school. I am sure it was because they did not put vodka in it as was done at home.
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I liked him very much in *The Mechanic* and *Telefon*
I did not see him as one-dimensional in these movies. It is more that he is a complex character who has intentionally suppressed his emotions in order to deal with the matter at hand.
I think this is particularly shown in the moments when he does have to be guarded. In *The Mechanic* it is the scene when he is discussing the letter the woman wrote to him. In one phrase he is self-depreciating and demonstrates his appreciation for absurdity.
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A person who is truly interested in their health will never drink a thing which is not purified by alcohol. I prefer Vodka. Fifty percent is a minimum to kill germs and negate harmful biotics.
An Yanshi grows tea using panda poop. He is selling it for so much that an average cup of tea costs $200.
People pay $15 a cup to drink coffee which has been through a civet's digestive system.
Trying to understand the world is another good reason to drink Vodka.
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I missed very much your post during the weekend.
I was wondering if *The Murder Of Dr. Harrigan* (1936) this morning was to be good. I was surprised to see Ricardo Cortez in such a low-budget and poorly-written movie. It was interesting in its way. It will not become a favorite.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> Some historians argue though the English found tea easier to handle, since it didn't require grinding and roasting, thus that's why coffee fell out of favor. But I don't buy that argument; the Europeans were drinking more coffee, not less, and their coffee culture was more refined than the English.
I believe the added steps may have had a subtle but significant difference.
An English Gentleman who had been reduced by financial injuries to the point that he had to become a tradesman could retain a vestige of his dignity by becoming a purveyor of tea. This was because tea was a drink of Empire and it meant having to maintain sophisticated relationships with exporters in far-flung corners of the Empire. It was true also that the trade was in general one of judging the quality of the tea and determining whether it should grace the table of a Duke or be bundled up and sent to the Continent.
Having a trade which depended on diplomacy and taste was very nearly like not being in trade at all.
It was not in the best interest of these fallen-Gentlemen to deal in coffee because the extra steps would mean having to establish and maintain a workhouse for roasting and grinding the product. This would greatly increase the investment of those who often worked out of their carriage and it would firmly establish that they were tradesmen rather than connoisseurs sharing their knowledge and discernment.
It was in their best interest to establish and maintain that coffee was unfit for even the lowest servant of a great house. This snobbery filtered down to the lower classes. It also affected imports: an English shipowner who aspired to respectability did not wish to be associated with such a base thing.
There was no corresponding impulse on the Continent. Every grocer could import tea from England. There were elite dealers who maintained high standards but they were hampered by the fact that they could rarely buy tea at the source because the best areas were owned and controlled by the Empire.
The extra steps involved in processing coffee were insignificant when compared to the difference in cost so grocers were happy to include it in their trade.
I believe the death knell for tea in Early America was twofold: tea was the drink of the English Empire and it was expensive. Coffee came in on ships flying American flags and it was cheap.
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I believe this is the best explanation for the black and white era of photographs and movies:
http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/b8b36f38250d102d94d7001438c0f03b
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*Bed and Sofa* (1927) is very complex in its personal and social issues. It is both gritty and charming. I would rank this movie more highly than any other you have listed for the year.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> Showing foreign language films in a foreign language class makes good sense. I don't think my HS did it, but I took two years of Latin, and I'm not sure there are any films in Latin...
Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.
Was there not a recent movie in which Aramaic is spoken?
I wished to learn English so that I could understand American movies which had no subtitles. We were given the choice in school to learn to read, write, speak and understand a foreign language or to learn only to understand and speak it. I choose the second way because there was no homework and we watched foreign movies. I could think of nothing more wonderful!
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> I don't recall ever seeing any feature films in school. The earliest film I remember seeing was in 4th grade, when they showed us Bell Labs science films.
We watched a theatrical movie each week in each foreign language class. I do not know how the classes could be taught if not for them.
I do not remember watching any movies in the lower grades. We watched many movies in the upper grades. They were documentaries made by the government. In my last school we had two rooms in which movies could be shown and I believe those rooms were in use all of the time.
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We did not watch movies more than perhaps fifteen years old in school. We did watch modern "art" movies. They had slang that the mainstream movies did not have. I think it must have been very difficult to find movies of that kind as they had to have coherent streams of conversation and actual plots.
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Congratulations Countessdelave!
I believe all the schedules were excellent. It has been shown by the vote that yours is twice as excellent!
I hope you will take a moment to savor your victory and then begin to plot what bedevilment of a Challenge you will set for us!
All who entered deserve congratulations for their work and wit. I do hope the TCM programmers do take away many ideas from these schedules.
I wish to thank kingrat for setting and running a wonderful Challenge.
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I hope all watch *Krylya* (1968) tonight. I also hope that some could feel how personal the war was for some people.
Mr. Osborne gave a wonderful introduction!
A used car salesman?
New Doris Day featurette -- with wonderful narration by Ms. Day herself!
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I am very happy that she participated in that featurette. It is wonderful beyond words.
I am saddened that so many people are expecting or demanding that she do more. She left movies at a time she was suffering physically (exhaustion), emotionally (loss of her husband) and financially (she had been betrayed). Most people collapse totally from such combinations of trauma and they never recover. Withdrawal from public life is a natural response. That she is now slowly expanding her public presence is a wonderful sign.
I am sure she knows the dangers which lie ahead if she makes public appearances. Many of those who are now clamoring for her will turn away and say: "she has become so old".
I am and we all should be very appreciative of what she does for us and welcome her return at a pace with which she feels comfortable.