SansFin
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I wish that Funny Face and How to Steal a Million had made the lineup.
I share that wish with all my heart. I love them also. How to Steal a Million (1966) holds a very special place in my heart. The virtually magical world shown in: Funny Face (1957) is a complete joy.
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Love in the Afternoon (1957)Sabrina (1954)
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Have you seen Miloš Forman's Loves of a Blonde by any chance?
I must confess that it is many years since I have watched it. I remember it being very touching and moments were very funny. I understand that that can be said of most movies by: Milos Forman but this movie has also charm which amplifies all feelings.
I understand why my history might bring that movie to your mind but the type of fraternization which we were to do was meant to be of completely different type.
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So, you LITERALLY got sent off to Siberia, HUH?!
(...I take it anything written by Solzhenitsyn wasn't to be found on the shelves of your new base of operation's library, right?!)
That base is considered to be north of: Siberia.
I do not remember a library there. It was a drab little place staffed with unhappy little people. I had no duties there. It was a place for me to wait until question of what to do with me went up the line and then came back down. It is sad to say that it is best for person in such a situation that decision not be reached quickly because that would mean situation is so very one-sided that there are no arguments for leniency. I 'kicked my heels' for nearly two months before I was returned to my previous unit. My privilege to travel to other countries for scientific and medical conferences was revoked permanently and there were minor forms of bureaucratic harassment but my commanding officer considered the incident minor and continued to treat me kindly.
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So it was the U.S. Military that sent the poor guy off for "fraternizing with the enemy", huh?!
He was the lucky one. USAF pampers their own and so he was given seat in passenger cabin for return to United States the morning after we tendered our request for marriage. I was much more quickly shoved into back end of cargo aircraft for flight to station near: Kara Sea.
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For some reason I thought Capuchin was native born American.
He is. He was pilot in: USAF then. I was office-flunky with: PVO strany. Project for military meetings was part of: détente.
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OMG! So YOU are that guy, are ya Capuchin?
He is. It is usual that he is not worthy of discussion but I believe the story of our meeting has sufficient interest despite it including him.
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She's definitely kept in touch -- she's hit me six times today! (Okay, so maybe I deserved one . . .)
I do sincerely hope that all here understand that comments made by staff do not reflect opinions of management of this household. I would like also to make it clear that four were mere pokes and that he richly deserved more than he received for other two.
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I do not know if you will include this because movies were important part of it but they were not the only part:
I was in the military. I was chosen to be part of group for informal meetings and conferences with other military staff because my record looked impressive and my unit did not truly need me. There were many scheduled activities so that we could meet and interact with others socially. It is probable that this fraternization was true intent of the project as leaders wished to establish friendlier relations and greater understanding.
A great aspect for me was that movies were shown nearly continuously on the base and arrangements had been made so that we would not have to wait in line or pay at local movie theaters. It is sadly true that all tended to congregate with members of their own forces. There quickly came strong 'encouragement' from superior officers to have more personal interaction with others.
It was for this reason that I took initiative to speak with one person whom I had observed attending many of the same movies I had chosen to watch and who seemed to enjoy them as much as I did. I guided him to suggest we sit next to each other at a movie.
It was in this way that we watched: How to Steal a Million (1966). It might be thought a disaster as 'date' because I spilled my drink on his dress uniform and his watch snagged on mine and opened a seam. It was truly quite wonderful. We both knew the movie well and we found much to share. It seemed quite natural that we pressed our shoulders against each other during scene where they are squeezed in closet.
That experience led us to attend many more movies in days following. It is sad to say that our level of fraternization led our superior officers to end our participation in the project and we were quickly sent to posts literally on opposite sides of the world.
It is by this that watching that one movie led to each of us losing our place on promotion list and having disciplinary advisement being placed in our records and suffering minor harassments for more than a year.
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I am very sorry to have to appear as backward third-grader who does not understand much of: American culture but could some person please explain why this is appearing now and not on: April 1st? I did think that was only date for such things.
I must wonder also why this is not in: Vicious Rumors or other over-the-top humour thread.
I feel that webpage for it is well done for gag-site even although all links do not work. I feel this dark joke is nearly worthy of: The Onion news-parody site. I have perverse sense of humour and so appreciate jokes of this type.
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is there room for Miley Cyrus in this group?
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I have adopted policy to rarely mention: foreign movies but I make exception to alert all that: Woman In The Dunes (1964) is this week's: TCM Import. It is very powerful visually and has great personal intensity. It might be termed: International film rather than: Foreign film because of its wide acceptance in many countries.
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I am very sorry to say that confirmed reports state that both: Justin Bieber and: Kanye West are alive and well.
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I just want everyone to know that TCM does steal from our schedules. I have had many a premiere of mine end up being a premiere on TCM, such as A NEW LEAF and WHAT A WAY TO GO, among others, and have even had whole themes being lifted from my schedules.
I have had that honor also. The one which meant the most to me was premiere of: Camelot (1967) within theme which included some of the movies which I selected for my schedule.
One daytime theme was nearly exact duplicate of a day in a schedule by: Capuchin except that they changed the sequence.
I have seen other Challenge themes and premieres being used in actual schedules. I am convinced that presenting premiere within good theme is very best way to attract the attention and interest of: TCM Programmers as I have seen many more premieres paralleling Challenge entries than I have seen premieres which were touted by threads in this forum.
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Laura (1944)The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)Airplane! (1980)I do not know if you would consider: Happy End (1967) to be a flashback.I believe that: A Man and a Woman (1966) has flashback scene but it has been so very long since I have watched it that it may be I am projecting from memories they state.Serenity (2005) has many powerful flashbacks. The opening is false-flashback within flashback.Edit: I should perhaps note that opening of: Serenity (2005) is sequenced as: informational flashback to establish setting followed by: false-flashback to establish character conflict followed by: flashback to establish plot. I feel that it is perfect opening for movie because it firmly puts viewer into that world and intensely presents motif of movie. I believe that it is great determinator as any person who likes opening of movie will like all of movie and any person who does not like opening will spend their time better watching completely different movie. The first two flashbacks can be seen in clip at:
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All of these schedules are quite wonderful! I do hope that: TCM Programmer continues to monitor the: Challenges and is prepared to
stealborrowbe inspired by them.I find after consideration of all factors that my early prediction was accurate:
I must vote for: Skimpole.
The birthday tributes to: Howard Hawks, Don Ameche, Clint Eastwood, Frank Morgan, Josef von Sternberg and Paulette Goddard are truly the heart of: Classic Hollywood. I must admit a tiny bit of bias as I choose: Paulette Goddard for: Star of the Month in my first-ever Challenge entry exactly six years ago and selected some of the same movies.
What truly touched me in this schedule is the delicacy, understanding and relevance of the movies selected for comparison of: Alexander Sokurov and Aleksei German. I have seen many people include foreign movies in their schedules but there has at all times been a dissonance. Your selections have a resonance which highlights their commonality and divergences. It is excellent comparison.
I congratulate all entrants for their wonderful taste and I thank them for all the hard work.
I thank also: Stevomachino for creating a wonderful Challenge. I know that it is not easy and that running the Challenge can be much hard work.
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Benny Hill is the funniest human being who ever lived (although, he didn't have a sitcom).
Benny Hill is indescribably precious! I love his skits! He is so perfectly innocent in all his petty crimes. I wish I had a collection of his series.
I love AbFab. It is unfortunately true-to-life in so many ways.
I believe that I am the only person in the world who detests: Keeping Up Appearances.
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May to December (1989 to 1994)Anton Rodgers plays Alec Callendar who is a widowered, fifty-three-year-old solicitor. He is balding, paunchy and has a penchant for speaking to a photograph of Perry Mason. He is very kind and caring and is somewhat beset by his skirt-chasing partner, a space-cadet office worker, his Marxist son in university and his prudish daughter who is married to the local vicar. His sole source of moral support is his mature and very business-like secretary.Eve Matheson plays Zoe Angell who is a twenty-six-year-old physical education teacher at a local school. She comes to him because she needs a divorce.Zoe Angell: Mr. Angell, my childhood sweetheart, has been having an affair.Alec: How did you find out?Zoe: Oh, the usual. He kept coming home at 2 A.M., 3 A.M., all hours, reeking of guilt. He said he'd been working late.Alec: And you suspected otherwise.Zoe: He's a milkman.They find they have a mutual love of musical theatre. They are very strongly attracted to each other but are very hesitant to enter into a relationship because of the difference in their ages.Alec decides to make a grand event when he receives the final declaration of her divorce. He puts on full kit which includes sporran, kilt and other accessories of his Scottish heritage. He wraps the decree in presentation form and has a bottle of good champagne. He goes to her apartment to surprise her. She does not see this as a reason to celebrate and this leads to an argument:Zoe: Can't you understand, Alec? I've got a bit of paper that says: Zoe Angell, you screwed up eight years. I certainly didn't expect Ginger Bloody Rogers to come waltzing in and turn the whole thing into: "Singin' in the Rain."Alec: Debbie ReynoldsZoe: What?Alec: It was Debbie Reynolds in: "Singin' in the Rain." It wasn't Ginger -Zoe: Alec, we are having a fight. We are not playing film buff of the year.I love this television program very much! It has all of the best elements of: British situation comedy. The main actors are good people and you would like to know them in real life. There is an ensemble of odd characters. Each little event of a day is very common and logical sequence until it becomes outrageous situation.It is sad to say that this program is excellent only during first two seasons. Eve Matheson then took the opportunity to tour with the National Theatre in: King Lear. The replacement actress was more mature and decision was made to make Anton Rodgers look younger and so the difference in their ages did seem to be a matter of perhaps a decade rather than her being half-his-age.
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SansFin, I'm watching a Mosfilm production at the moment, and I was wondering if you could tell me why is it that in most of their films, the credited actors and crew are referred to by the first initial and last name, instead of the full name. Is it simply a cultural thing, a traditional practice, or was there more to it than that?
That is how it is done in all things. Best is to have full first, middle and last names. I believe that you might understand that requires considerable room for some names. You might have instead initials of first and middle names and full last name or initial of first name and full last name. Full first name, initial of middle name and full last name is not done.
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"Tales of Manhattan" (1942)--About a cursed coat and its' owners fates.
I love that movie very much! The Ginger Rogers and Henry Fonda segment is my favorite:
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I have to cast with a bigger net I'm afraid as I've not seen enough foreign films to do just genres.
I believe that I have several decades more experience watching foreign movies than you do. It feels odd when I am looking at list of movies in a genre and thinking that it is excellent foreign movie and then realizing that it is: American or: British movie which was foreign to me but is not considered: foreign in this forum.
I have done now my lists for most obvious genres in select decades. I would have to also cast wider net to include movies which are of smaller genres or genres spread over several decades.
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Magic Moments
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I feel that: Formula of Love (1984) is wonderful movie about magic and a magician.
It is from a story by: A. Tolstoy concerning: Alessandro Caliostro who was: 18th Century magician / mystic / occultist / fakir / alchemist and all-around con-man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cagliostro
Caliostro is making a tour demonstrating his magic and supernaturalism while fleecing the aristocracy when he is called to remote estate to help a young noble. The boy is deeply and insatiably in love. He needs Caliostro's help because the woman he loves is a statue and he hopes the magician will bring her to life.
It has moments which are very quietly touching and moments of wild comedy. It is funny and acerbic and philosophical.