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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I've been exhausting myself on YouTube with the French Riviera, so as a change of pace (or place) clicked on the Amalfi Coast and have decided that Ravello is the loveliest town in that area. Cultured, quiet, un-glitzy, beautiful medieval architecture. The main piazza overlooks the Mediterranean. Please tell me this village still remains that way. I fear you think me a world-wise globe-trotter who knows all the best places. It is sad to say that is far from the truth. I traveled to major cities when I was in the service many years ago. They all looked the same because we always stayed at business-style hotels and went only to government buildings and meeting halls. It was a rare time when I could explore places by myself and then I had very little money. The money to buy a good meal at home does not buy a muffin in Brussels. The best thing about those trips were seeing movies in places meant to watch them. A Japanese horror movie is much more scary in a theater with Japanese people. It is as if their fear infects you. It is much the same with romantic movies in France and comedies in Germany. I was able to explore a tiny part of France when I worked for a company which provided services for doctors. We spent most days tracking down parts for broken X-Ray machines or finding specialist nurses on short notice. The pay was tiny and the office so small it would not be possible to find room to stand if all employees showed up for work. The perk was the four best employees each year had a month of expense-paid travel during which we looked for hospitals and clinics that could use extra foreign-speaking doctors during the high season so that our clients could have working vacations in places they could not afford in any other way. It is sad to say that I know nothing about Italy. I looked at some pictures of Ravello and it looks charming beyond belief. It also look like an area which cannot become permanently overrun with foreigners because there are few places for them to build villas or large resort hotels.

I do not know if it will fit the standard you wish but there was a movie I saw with Kris K. the singer -I do not know how to begin to spell his last name-. It showed a busy back room at a bank as news of financial collapse came from a radio. As the camera panned from the stars the room very busy and as it went around there was less and less activity until it came back to the stars standing in a dark and abandoned office.

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > Now what was the last movie you saw on TCM that you enjoyed? I do not think I have seen a complete movie all year. I have made lists of movies I wish to see and Capuchin either marks it as one he has and I have watched or he records it for me to watch if the world ever stops spinning for so long that I can sit down for two hours in a row. I was able to watch much of *Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes* which was listed in schedule as *Rififi* I very much love that movie and for many years I wished to be Viviane/Magali Noel. She is so worldly she is able to accept suffering as payment for her pleasure. I hoped I would have that intensity when I grew up. I never achieved it. The one time a man struck me in anger I broke his arm and four of his ribs. I was able to watch the first half of *Band of Outsiders* I have not seen this movies in many years and I had to look it up to be reminded of it. I do not like the story so much as I like the way it is told. It has many things I had never seen in any movie before. I was almost able to watch *Any Wednesday* with Capuchin. He knows I love Jason Robards nearly as much as I love Steve McQueen. It is sad to say the world conspired against us. There was a power failure at the moment Dean Jones entered and the power stayed off until one minute before I had to leave to go to work. It is fortunate it was a recording and was not the actual broadcast so I will some day be able to see it.

> {quote:title=Ollie_T wrote:}{quote} > Maybe TCM's paying their web-contractors by the page-transmitted now, not realizing that they get charged more for many additional pop-up pages than the old schedule's all-info-on-one-page style. I have not seen it stated officially in any manner but I have been told by people who use such things that the new format for the monthly schedule is much more user-friendly now than it was before when accessed on a telephone. The listings before took up so much room on the screen only one movie could be viewed at a time and now it is possible to see several. CM - I am still waiting for a good oportunity to watch Meg. The computer I use to access the Internet is Capuchin's and is in his bedroom which is also his office or it is his office which is also his bedroom because it is not clear which came first. I do not use sound at all because I only spend time on the computer when he is sleeping or is supposed to be sleeping. I am sorry I have not found time when he is awake.

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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Are you familiar with Menton? I was perusing YouTube the other day, always on the lookout for new Riviera spots to possibly add to my itinerary, and it seemed really lovely, very luxurious yet relaxed, casual,not tourist-trappy. Saw their Lemon Festival. I love lemons! I have surely been through it but I am sad to say I remember nothing and I did not mention it in my notes or my diary. Several times I flew to Genoa to rent a car to drive to Marseilles. I spent most of my time poking around the coast near Nice, Cannes, St. Tropez and Toulon because those were areas our clients were likely to go. If I were ever to return to the area I would search for places by what I could not find: I would find the smallest names on the map and if there were no tourism photographs of it I would add it to my places to visit.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I wonder if the villa is still in the Lazaroff family, or if they sold it, I am sorry I have not had time before to fully look for the villa. I believe I have now found it. http://www.royalvillaseurope.com/pdf/france-frv41.pdf They do not list a price but I will be very surprised if the rent is lower than $75,000 a week and I will not be surprised if it is more than twice that.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > It's too bad that that area was taken over by tourists - one of the charms of it is that it looks so completely french and nary a tourist in site, except at the casino. I believe the entire area would be nothing more than quaint fishing villages if it were not for foreigners. By foreigners I mean even French people from Paris and Dijon and Rennes who go there because they have no seacoast of their own. The caste system of the area is not based on earnings or education but on whether you serve people on two-week vacations or you serve people who rent villas by the season. I have a very great dislike for places where I am seen only as a walking cash register. When a young local man looks you in the eye he only wishes to judge your nationality so that he will know whether your purse holds Pounds, Dollars or Marks. Such people learn from birth to smile pleasantly while they calculate exchange rates. I grew up with service industry. My father was concierge for large hotel for foreign visitors. My mother worked various jobs such as maid, tour guide and interpreter. I know very much the attitude 'they are not a real person, they are only customer'. It makes me very uncomfortable to be on the other side. That is why I prefer to find places where foreigners are a novelty.

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > Maybe I will do "Google Earth" tonight.... I have not seen the movie in a very long time and I do not have a copy so I have no way to try to match the scenery in it to the topographic maps. In a very rough estimate I believe the area may be found by going to Google Maps and paste 43.148977,6.416852 into the search box. You should use 'Satellite' icon on upper left of map.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > "Near Cavaliere" I would love to spend a vacation trying to find it! It should be possible to go to the tourist bureau and find what you wish to know. In most places they are very proud of movies and stars in the area. I will suggest you do not go to the area from Cavalaire-sur-Mer to Le Lavandou if you have no other reason for going there because there are so many foreigners and so many cater to them rather than being truly French. I found the coast from Cabasson to La Londe-les-Maures much more interesting. It was a wonderful mix of truly rustic and very private high luxury. The last time I was there it was May of 1994 but I do not think things change much over time in that part of France.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I'm also desperately on the hunt for THAT VILLA. WHERE IS IT????? I am sorry to say I cannot provide an address. I found a reference which states the location was: 'St. Tropez, near Cavali?re, Var' and: 'In the villa owned by Peter Lazareff and Helene Lazareff, specified by Myl?ne Demongeot in his autobiography secret drawers *Editions Le Pr? clerics* 2001 (ISBN 2842281314)'. If you use the satellite feature of Google Maps and compare the topography to what can be seen in the background in the movie you may be able to come very close to finding its exact location.

I do not know what the problem could be with your television provider. I am in United States and I use DirecTV and *Bande A Part* -Band of Outsiders- is currently being shown. I am recording it as I know I will not be able to watch all before I must leave. At this moment they are in cafe and are having their minute of silence which I have always loved as it is so very different. I am sorry if you cannot see it. It is an excellent movie.

I wish I would have remembered this movie was scheduled so that I could have posted a thread to advise all to watch it. I do not like that people call it *Rififi* because the title is truly *Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes* I believe the movie is much like its title: it cannot be reduced to simple terms of this and that and each person translates it in their own way. For many years I took the title to mean 'The trouble with men'. I could not imagine any woman more sensuous or worldly than Magali Noel. I wished very much to be like her. I was sure that being a bad woman carried a heavy price but that the penalty could be embraced as part of the joy of being thoroughly wicked. I was twelve. It is a disappointment in my life that I never became that kind of person. I hope that TCM airs it again soon so that more people will see it.

I am ashamed to say I did not think of them being in danger before they sent me the message. They are hundreds of miles north of Tokyo. I did not think of how far and wide the damage is spread. I find this vexing as I have tried very hard to find damage patterns for the area and can not find anything. If I was in Odessa I could go to an office and pull live satellite feeds with analytical overlays. The theater where Yoshi works has a walk-in freezer from an old business which they converted to be a film vault. I do not think they had the only print of any major movie. It was not that kind of place. They did have the works of local film-makers and it was off-site storage for film students at University. Several people who rescued and restored films of the region kept their collections there. They had a stack of canisters which were American films captured by the army during World War II. It makes me sad to think the building may not be there now and the films there are lost forever even if they were not big-budget Hollywood productions.

I have heard from two friends who live in Ofunato in Japan. They are safe and their homes are safe. They are not allowed to go to area where they work which is near Hotel Marumori which is on the coast. They know many homes have been destroyed. They have not heard of any of their friends being dead but there are many they cannot contact. It is easier for them to send me a message to send on to their parents than it is for them to call their parents. Everything there is very confused. One has just been made manager at the theater but she fears it is not there now. The last time Capuchin and I were in Japan together these friends took us to see *Nikita* where people were shouting at the screen and acting as people here do at showing of *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*

I find it odd that there is no synopsis of a movie in the schedule unless you can click on the expand button. Once you are able to do that then suddenly there are three synopsises: the normal one, a sort-of one from Maltin and the pushy one from the advertisement for the DVD. It has become very much an all-or-nothing situation. It is also slightly amusing that for some movies the descriptions are so different from one another they do not seem as if they are speaking of the same movie.

I am very much looking forward to seeing the entries in the June challenge. Sadly I do not believe I will be able to enter. I can not expect my schedule to change until August and I have reasons to think it will become worse then. I give you my congratulations again Kingrat and I know you will create a wonderful challenge.

My initial reactions to the new format are mixed. The removal of the forums search box is a great loss. I always like to check before starting a new thread that there is not another thread on the same subject. It will now also be almost impossible to find a thing you know you read without remembering exact thread in which it appeared. Adding the database and site search box is nice. I remember several times having to leave the forum to go to the main page so I could search for a movie. The new daily schedule is horrible. I need to see at least the actors names if I am to be drawn to a movie I do not know. This format makes me feel as if I must research each and every title rather than simply looking down a list to find a thing I might like. If they insist on hiding what we need to know they should have an expand all button for the page so we do not have to click on the tiny expand button in each and every listing. I like very much that we can select a genre on the weekly schedule. It is unfortunate we are not able to select more than one so that we can see all our favorite genres on one schedule and see how they correspond. I regret their decision to include the Maltin review information because that space could be put to much better use. This is apart from that Maltin is a lowest-common-denominator choice and I always feel as if I need a shower after watching him. Putting wallpaper in that manner is horrible. It is far from ergonomic and all professional websites stopped doing it years ago. It very much gives me a sense of claustrophobia. By itself it is a nice picture but that position distracts the eye and makes it harder to see the important information. The monthly schedule looks much cleaner but only because they removed important information. You can make anything look nice if it is only to be pretty rather than be useful. I will have little time for the forum until my work is finished. I hope they will have fixed the worst of their mistakes before then.

The voting is now closed. The final tally is: Kingrat - 7 countessdelave - 3 LonesomePolecat - 3 Fedya - 1 Congratualations Kingrat! I very much feel that all of the entrants are winners in their own right and we all win when we see these marvelous and wonderful schedules. I wish to thank all who participated in this Challenge. The baton now passes on to Kingrat. I hope all will give him the support you gave me.

This post is to remind all that there are only twelve more hours to enter your vote for your favorite schedule. The current tally is: Kingrat - 7 countessdelave - 3 LonesomePolecat - 3 Fedya - 1 I understand how difficult it is to chose only one as they are all excellent but please make your choice before it is too late. If you tried to vote by Private Message and did not receive a reply from me please resubmit it as they do sometimes fall through the cracks. Edited by: SansFin on Mar 9, 2011 12:19 AM because I posted before checking the Private Messages.

I thank all for their time and attention to this thread. I also thank very much those who have taken the time to vote. The current tally is: Kingrat - 5 countessdelave - 2 LonesomePolecat - 2 Fedya - 1 There is still one and a half days to place your vote if you have not already decided which of the magnificent schedules you like the best.

The voting has begun to heat up! As of this moment the tally stands as: Kingrat - 2 countessdelave - 1 Fedya - 1 LonesomePolecat - 1 I wish to thank those who have voted and I urge everyone else to vote!

Everyone who was a registered member on the boards prior to January 1, 2011 is eligible to vote. Thank you for your vote gagman66.

Four definite votes have now been tallied. There are three and one-half more days to vote for your favorites among these great schedules!

I am very sorry gagman66 but I am not understanding your post. Are you wishing to split your vote and give thirty-three percent to each of three of the entrants or are you not yet voting for one?