SansFin

I went to many movies in big theaters at home and go to everything I can when I travel to where they have big theaters. I have very hard time feeling true movie experience in cineplex. I see little difference between mall theater and widescreen at home. It is cost, noise and tiny theaters that make me not go to movies as often as I once did.

When I learned to speak English we were taught: "Happy Christmas". Capuchin says it is because we had Englishman for teacher. I have mostly heard on television: "Merry Christmas" but there are times it is said as "Happy Christmas". What is the real difference?

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > "I will love you in a car, > > And I will love you near and far > > I will love you here and I will love there > > I will love you everywhere!" That is so wonderful tears are running down my cheeks! I hope your esso appreciates what a brave, delightful and creative lady he married! Capuchin and I have talked much about our vows and where to hold ceremony. It was going to be fast and simple civil ceremony but now that we must wait we have time to plan. I do not believe I could think of a thing as wonderful and creative as you did.

I like very much the Harry Potter books and movies. I will not read last book until I can also be watching it on DVD. That will mean waiting until second part is released. I find it very interesting to read while watching movie and this will be my very first time to do it when I have not read book or seen movie before.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > My wedding vows to Mr C were done in Seuss verse. That is so very sweet! It was also perfect timing to let him think you were normal until it was too late for him to back out. I am sorry to say I do not know of Bloom County. I was introduced to Dr. Suess by things not written by him: If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report I will look for Charlie Brown's Christmas My favorite comic strip is Calvin and Hobbes I searched and found no Christmas show based on it. I think it would have been quite unusual.

It was the 1966 television movie. I did not know there was a remake. It truly never entered my mind that any person would think it would ever need to be remade. I believe this proves I am too naive when it comes to the greedy minds of Hollywood. IMDb lists several remakes. I have seen Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving It is also very nice but it did not touch me in same way as How The Grinch Stole Christmas

I believe this is thread for things off-topic and which do not fit elsewhere or need their own thread. I have watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the first time. It is wonderful! I very much like classic animation done to high standards and for simple stories told with elegance. This show is both. I have seen other Dr. Suess shows and they are cute but do not have richness of this one. I hope all of you take time to watch this when you can even if you have seen it in past.

How does one make a compliment in Bizarro World? Is it like telling an actor to "break a leg" for good luck? Do you use teen-lingo where "bad" means "good"? Can it be made as "thumbs up" because that first meant gladiator was to slit opponent's throat? However you do it I wish to give your schedule a great compliment. Please use BabelFish-like program to translate the following from English to Bizarro: I love it! I think it is always good to recognize character actors and Grant Mitchell does seem to have been in every movie ever made. Perhaps what is most important is that you have used crazy themes to have reason to show many great movies. I have a problem with your selection of: Now Playing: The Show May, 2011. In Bizarro World would that become "Then Playing" and be a show about all movies showing in months other than May? Or does it become "Now Sitting in the Vault" as a show about all movies not being shown? Or do you translate both words and have "Then Not Playing" which is the show about all movies not being shown in other months which brings it back to what is being shown in May?

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote} > *SansFIn* --Love your "Day" day Thank you for your kind words but I am confused about which "Day" day you like.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Also fun is how he uses his angel powers to get David Niven to stay stuck to that chair. I love that scene! It makes him much more human to think he can do such a peevish thing and yet he does it with angel's style in subtle manner. I also love the scene where he makes the professor's glass refill with gentle wave of his hand and then he does very subtle trick of making bottle refill while professor watches glass intently. I have little experience with putting tinsel on Christmas tree but I think the true fun is getting into tinsel fight.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Why must everyone now refer to "Christmas" as "holiday" ? I am very sorry but I will call it holiday in America because it does not feel like true Christmas. It is two weeks early and is all about selling toys. At home it was more quiet joy. I have photograph of when I was 12 dressed as Snowflake Girl. I was adorable!

You may not feel like a spring chicken but I have a scar from a knife wound older than you are. I am sure others will be quick to provide detailed information but the quick version is that TCM's library of movies was split from TCM when Time Warner/AOL bought the system some years ago. It is just shuffling money from one department to another department in the same corporation but TCM does have to pay to rent any movie it wishes to show.

This is a wonderful and very touching movie. I feel it works on many levels. It is light-hearted fantasy and touching love story. It makes a new angle on romantic triangle. I did not think of it but a person pointed out it shows true spirit of charity by all memory of the angel disappears with him leaving behind only the good he had done. That adds wonderful element even if you do not consciously recognize it. They did not show it last year but did show it in distant past.

I have very much a love-hate feeling with silents. Some are my favorite movies of all time and yet there are others I cannot stand to watch more than few minutes. There is no silent movie I have seen which I think is only okay. I must thank TCM for showing *Silent Shakespeare* It is collection I never would have known about if they had not shown it. It is quite odd to think of silent version of Shakespeare because all the plots and stories of plays were old and it is only wonderful crafting of words which makes them special.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > But I'm dying to know...what movie did you see there? I am sorry to say I do not remember. I think it may have been a Western as I remember thinking it was not movie appropriate to that setting. The first time I saw *Holiday Inn* (1942) it was shown on side of a barn. They were playing movies for us because it was so hot no one could sleep. We watched many winter movies that week. At one place I was stationed there was standing order to show one movie every week. There were no rooms with wide enough flat wall space to make it bigger than watching television. Technician rigged up mirrors to show movie on the ceiling of hanger. We had to lay on our backs and movie was curved and backwards but it was very much fun. It made science fiction movies much more scary.

> {quote:title=ILoveGinger wrote:}{quote} > I speak for the entire TCM Community when I tell you WE DON'T WANT IT! You do not speak for me. I do not like reviewers because they always want me to like or not like a movie for reasons that have nothing to do with the movie. I do not care if an actor's performance was better or worse in another movie or if the movie marks a significant change in a director's style or any of the other things that try to make me see a movie within a body of work rather than letting me know if that particular movie is worth watching. I do not like Leonard Maltin in particular because his looks, his speech patterns and his style of writing are not to my taste. I feel as if I need a shower after watching him. I do want him to stay with TCM if TCM deems him an asset to the channel. They are professionals who know what is best for their business and I am not one to gainsay their decisions on such matters. I would much rather lose a few minutes a day of viewing time than to risk losing TCM completely. If you do not like him perhaps you should do as I do: not watch him or read his reviews. It may seem like an odd procedure for you but I have found it works marvelously.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > That is to say, the entire story points to > the events leading up to the female character's self -sacrifice. And it's that self-sacrifice that drives me crazy ! I have a great deal of trouble believing not only that the Irene Dunne/Deborah Kerr character would not allow Charles Boyer/Cary Grant to find out what happened, but that she would believe that this would be the best thing for them both. I am sorry to say I do not agree and I find it very possible. Being in love means being irrational. It is common thing for a person to not want other person to suffer in any way because of them. I had that in my life. When Capuchin and I met I fell in love with him more deeply than I had ever loved before. I let him go because being together would have meant the end of his career. He was passionate about what he did and I could not think of taking that away from him. I would have gladly given up my work and my studies and my home to be with him but I could not think of asking him to give up anything for me. I believe I also had great fear he might chose his work instead of me and that would have devastated me. Feeling of great self-sacrifice is much nicer than feeling of rejection. It was not until much later that I learned he felt the same way. He would have done anything for me but he would not risk my giving up anything for him. In movie there is also great fear that he would stay with her out of pity instead of love. It would be terrible thing to love a person and think they do not love you back.

My father was concierge for large hotel for foreign visitors. He asked a guest from a town I was to visit to write a letter for me to concierge of hotel I would be staying at there. Letter was only to ask to send me places nicer than usual tourist-traps. Concierge was really nice rather than guest-nice towards me. I thought it may be that he had daughter and he wished to treat me as he wanted her treated in strange city. He always had most wonderful recommendations for places where there were no tourists. It was not until much later that I learned the guest who wrote the letter to him worked for that country's ambassador and he had used the ambassador's personal stationery. Concierge sent note to my room to say I could see new movie if I could leave at once. A friend and I went to lobby and concierge introduced us to a couple who would take us. We did not speak their language and they did not speak ours but they seemed happy to let us ride with them in their limousine. It was night and I could see very little but portico made me think it was side entrance of large and very old hotel. Lobby was all velvet and heavy gilding. It looked very much like they had not changed style since 17th Century. No one asked for money or tickets. The only refreshment stand was a counter where we could chose which kind of champagne to have before movie started. Usher gave us seats away from people who had given us ride. Theater was strange because it had so many aisles it cut rows into sets of four seats together. There were eight other people in theater. Before movie started a man with a cart like a stewardess uses made drinks for us. After short films lights came on and man came to freshen our drinks and other man with cart brought us choice of nibbles. All through movie empty glass or plate was quietly replaced with full one. It was American movie in English and there was separate little screen showing slides with subtitles in two languages. When movie was over we went into the lobby. The other people started going through doors to other part of building. We wondered if we should follow them. A bell boy from my hotel came in with note from concierge that we should go with him. A limousine was waiting to take us back to hotel. Two days later we were on tour of city. Friend who had gone with me to movie asked guide to turn down a street because she thought she recognized something. It was very different in daylight and there was many trees and bushes in the way but it was plain to see it was same portico at side of building. We had seen a movie in the president's palace!

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > Compete with those beautiful French and Italian women? You are sure to be a very big hit. French woman is ordinary in France while you are exotic beauty. Everyone knows Imported is always better!

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > What I was curious about when posting this thread was, are there ever times when your "visit to this other world" doesn't work, your putting aside expectations of credulity for the film is broken, and if so, why? It may be very odd but I have great trouble suspending disbelief with Westerns. Many of my relatives had farms so I spent much time week-ends and summers in the countryside. We used horses for much of the work. It may be that Americans used horses so very differently but I find most scenes with horses in Westerns to be so obviously staged I cannnot enjoy movie. It is worse when horse falls. I have seen that several times and it is nothing like what you see in movies. Another thing is when cowboy makes sniper-quality shot with beat up old rifle which could not be accurate at more than a hundred yards. I believe a major issue is how much one expects to have to suspend disbelief. I have no problem with standing on bridge of starship or walking into a bank full of goblins. It is much easier for me to accept outrageous grand scheme than for me to accept many stupid little mistakes.

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > I don't really find the movies on the schedule all that mainstream (with some exceptions of course) Or perhaps we have a different definition of mainstream. I know very little about old movies. I watch many because I prefer them to recent movies but I have not studied them and I am far from being a cinephile. Perhaps because of how many I have seen I am slightly outside mainstream but not by far. In February listing there are exactly thirteen I did not instantly recognize title. If you subtract those and all movies made since 1960 there are perhaps a dozen I have not seen at least once and most of those are ones I have no desire to see because of their genre or theme. All of those I know are all very good movies and I may watch a great many of them again during the month but I believe the fact that I know them means they are mainstream.

filmlover - You have made a wonderful schedule. The themes are all very creative and many of them made me laugh. I like very much the movies for Michael Caine. It is deliciously wicked idea to have *Les diaboliques* followed by *How to Murder Your Wife*

The schedule is what I have come to expect of TCM in February. All the movies are very good and are worth watching again but there is very little I find exciting. February/Oscar month is very mainstream.

I find it very interesting that suspension of disbelief can let you accept ghost romancing living woman but it is which ghost which makes it over-the-top. A story can pile one thing on top of another and every person has their own limit of what topples the pile. Editor John Campbell said you can only have one thing requiring suspension of disbelief. Example given was that a story could have men landing on the moon or most people in America watching the same thing on television at one time. To have most people watching moon landing was thought to be too fantastic for science fiction stories in the 1950s. I believe we are more forgiving now of fantasy and science fiction movies because many things are now considered normal. The Star Trek transporters required suspension of disbelief in the 1960s but we now accept them as standard equipment for any spaceship. The thing like James Bond always having gizmo he needs appears in many ways. It is obvious no one can know all things but Sherlock Holmes always had knowledge of arcane or esoteric things which led him to solve mysteries. It does not matter how ancient or rare a language may be there is always an expert a detective can quickly reach to translate it accurately.

C.Bogle - You have made a wonderful schedule. It is very eclectic. You choose many movies I do not know but those which I do know are all very good so I must think others are equal and I must see them. I very much like number of foreign films you use. The Henri-Georges Clouzot/Filmsonor films are two of my favorites.