SansFin
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The Sky's the Limit, it's one of the few Fred Astaire films I haven't seen.
I believe that you will like this. He is goofy in some ways and deeply troubled in other ways. I rank it as fully equal to: Top Hat (1935) and: Holiday Inn (1942) for completely different reasons.
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We have three fantastic schedules so far! It'll be difficult for people to choose their favorites.
How is everyone doing? I know that I set a tentative end date of Sunday, January 10, because I wasn't sure how the holidays would treat everyone.
Would anyone like more time to work on their schedule? I'm open to extending the end date in order to accommodate the craziness of the holiday season--I'm sure nobody here would object to the end date being extended a week or so.
The schedules are indeed quite wonderful!
I am sorry that I have not had time to offer specific opinions on two of them. I will perhaps wait to do that in: Voting Thread. I feel that they are worthy of more detailed consideration than I can give them at this moment.
I am sorry to have to say that I will not have a schedule for this Challenge. I made several attempts but found problems which were not easy to overcome. It may be for the best because I doubt that I could compete with these schedules.
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SansFin- I love love love that you mentioned 13 GHOSTS. I don't care how goofy it is, it's a lot of fun! I haven't seen PALMU'S ERROR, VOSKRESENIYE, THE CREATION OF WOMAN, or LETTER NEVER SENT.
I like it very much exactly because it is goofy! I feel it would be deadly dull if it were played straight.
Palmu's Error (1960) was the first of several movies for that character. He is in many ways a Finnish: Det. Columbo and I believe that: Det. Columbo may have been in part based on the character. It is truly a treat to watch.
Voskreseniye (1960) is based on a story by: Leo Tolstoy. I believe that TCM aired in the not-distant past a French movie based on the same work.
I believe TCM has aired the other two movies.
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I doubt that I fit in category of: voyeur but I am not comfortable if there is not a movie playing during my idle time. It is the same as with people who can not stand to wear shoes in their own home or must have window open all the year. I do not have to be watching the movie just as people do not dedicate their full attention to their stocking-clad feet or stand in breeze at all times. It is comfortable background and I can pause at times to watch or listen to certain favorite scenes when my subconscious has brought to my attention that they are upcoming.
I believe that I come to this feeling honestly because of my more-than-common exposure to movies in my youth. I have related in other thread how I 'watched' movies for several hours nearly every day while I was so very young that I could not understand them. I worked for that uncle later as cleaning girl and general gofer when he was given legitimate movie house. It was family obligation that I attend all-day playing of movies when my uncles organized and operated children/family entertainment days each month. It was also that I would watch movies each day in the theater in the hotel for which my father worked while I waited for him to take me home after school. It was due to my father's position that I would not have to pay to go to any movie in the city
One reason for my wishing to learn English and German languages in school was because movies of those languages were shown each week in each class. Watching of the movies was usually split over two days and then we would spend most of the other days that week watching clips and discussing what was said as well as practicing the words and phrases. I loved those classes because we were watching movies and there was nearly never any homework but those classes did have highest failure/dropout rate of all courses given. We would also often in English class act out scenes in the movie. It was in this way that I was: Debbie Reynolds, Claire Trevor, Ingrid Bergman and Fredric March as well as many supporting players.
Movies were important to me for social reasons when I was in college. It was often that circumstances would give many of us unexpected free afternoon and I could take two friends to see movies for free. There were times also when important foreign movie would be playing in the city with access limited to good party members but I could bypass such restriction and take a boy interested in it.
A small aspect of my duties while in military was arranging details of entertainments for civilians during potential crisis. I had to screen many movies and select which ones might be appropriate for showing/viewing.
It is by these things that I perhaps came to being a: 'film buff' but it seems to me that movies are a part of my life and no prurient: 'voyeur' aspect is attached.
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1960:13 GhostsThe ApartmentFall of the House of UsherOcean's ElevenPlease Don't Eat The DaisiesPsychoSeven ThievesSpartacusThe Time MachineForeign:Late AutumnThe Virgin SpringL'AvventuraPalmu's ErrorZazie Dans Le MetroWhen a Woman Ascends the StairsVoskreseniyeThe Creation of WomanLetter Never Sent
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I am sorry to say that this thread leapt forward at a time when I had little time for it. I had much to prepare for Christmas Supper and then yesterday was Christmas . . .
I will inject here only that all should be aware of: Ballad of a Soldier (1959). I feel it is one of the most powerful and affecting movies ever made.
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I feel the only movie of: 1956 which needs attention from me here is: The Forty-First (1956).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049783/
I write a little concerning it and provide more at:
http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=6283#p157590
I will warn that this does not have a Hollywood movie ending!
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1953:The Big HeatGenevieveHouse Of WaxKiss Me KateMan in the AtticPeter PanPickup on South StreetRoman HolidayStalag 17The War Of The WorldsForeign movies:WifeSadkoGate of HellUgetsuTokyo StorySummer with MonikaThe Earrings of Madame de...Lucrèce Borgia
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1952:The Bad and the BeautifulBeware, My LovelyFive FingersThe Importance Of Being EarnestPat and MikeThe Pickwick PapersThe Quiet ManSingin' In The RainThief of DamascusForeign movies of 1952:The Inspector-GeneralFlavor of Green Tea Over RiceThe Life of OharuIkiru
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I did think that all here had been thoroughly marinated in my personal history!
My uncle ran a small movie house showing foreign movies. He would tend me while my mother worked. My highchair stood next to his projector. It became a family joke that I could read a foreign language before I could speak because I would be very quiet all the time a movie played but I would begin to fuss the moment: "Fin" appeared on the screen as I knew it meant the movie was done.It has been from that time a basic part of me that I do not wish movies to end.A friend performed the registration for my account on this site. He needed to know what to enter for: Username. I did not wish to use name which related to specific actor or character or movie or genre because my taste is wide and changes slightly over time. "I will castrate you with dull butter knife if you interrupt me during a movie" was suggested but I felt it would be cumbersome for repeated log-ons. "Movie lady-of-the-night" with slightly less polite wording was suggested also. I finally settled on: "Without End" because it best embraces my feelings towards movies. I put it into French so as to appear classy.-
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I am sorry to say that I was not aware that appearance of sanity was requirement for participating in this thread.
Perhaps I should recuse myself.
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I admit that I quit the list after page ten. I have watched most of them up to that point. The ones which I have not watched seem to be of types which are not to my taste. I find mildly depressing the great number of them which I have no desire to watch again.
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1951:Another Man's PoisonThe Day the Earth Stood StillThe Desert FoxThe House on Telegraph HillThe Lavender Hill MobThe Man With A CloakNo Highway in the SkyRhubarbStrangers On A TrainThe Thing From Another WorldForeign movies of 1951:HakuchiThe IdiotThe Night Before Christmas - This movie is available on: YouTube with English subtitles. Go to: YouTube and paste: "The night before Christmas 1951 noch pered rozhdestvom EN subs Russian animation by Russian animation eus347 subtitles" into Search box.
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1950:
The Asphalt JungleCinderellaCyrano De BergeracThe Flame and the ArrowFortunes of Captain BloodHarveyIn a Lonely PlaceKimTensionWhere the Sidewalk EndsForeign movies of 1950:Les Enfants TerriblesRashomon-
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I want more camp trash! (Maybe when we get to 1996, Butch Camp will be on someone's list!)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) would surely top my list of: post-2000 camp trash.
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I'm ready for 1950.
That is very much how I feel. It is sad to say that calendar now shows it to be 2016. I believe that being sixty-six years behind is new record for me.
One important aspect of my excluding foreign movies from my lists is lack of available information. I remember in particular one movie which affected me deeply. The title was simply: The Girls. It was made during WWII. Many might call it propaganda as it was very much: "our heroic people facing Nazi menace with courage and wits." I searched several times for any more information on this movie and could find no references at all.
A different but significant aspect also is how terribly lazy I am. We have database of movies shown on TCM since approx. 2002. Database was compiled for use in TCM Programming Challenges. I can sort so as to have all movies in any particular year displayed. I copy that list to word processor and then prune severely until list is so short that I must make decisions and weigh considerations on each as to whether to delete or allow it on final list.
I might add as addendum to list movies which I believe are of particular significance and have full descriptions on: IMDB.com and which I know are available for free viewing with subtitles in English on: YouTube. Those will generally be movies made in 1960s.
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SansFin, feel free to give us some foreign language films in your lists. The great era of Russian films is approaching too.
I am sorry to say that I have at all times found that to be disappointing dead-end. It does seems as if a few here appreciate Japanese and French movies of various eras but that is all interest there is in foreign movies. I have ventured several times to inform others that: Mosfilm placed very many of their wonderful movies for free viewing on: YouTube but those threads elicited little response and I doubt that any gave that channel more than cursory glance.
I fear that to mention any foreign movies would be equal to empty entry in list as I am sure that none here have watched them and none have more than perhaps passing desire for more information. It might be different if I had time and energy to do proper research to present comprehensive information and if my writing were sufficiently compelling to inspire others to seek out those movies.
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1949:
The Big StealThe FountainheadImpactThe Inspector GeneralIt Happens Every SpringKind Hearts and CoronetsThe Secret of St. IvesThe Third ManWake Of The Red WitchWhite Heat-
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Here's my "I've not seens" from your lists, in order of posts:
SansFin: JULIA MISBEHAVES and UNFAITHFULLY YOURS.
They are both comedies which are mixture of screwball and very touching. I tend to rank comedies higher than dramas because it is so very difficult to 'get it right' in comedy. Drama improves with rehearsal but comedic bits quickly wane when repeated and it is not easy to maintain enthusiasm for a line which was funny twenty-seven times ago.
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1948:
Command DecisionEaster ParadeHamletJulia MisbehavesKey LargoMacbethPortrait of JennieRoad HouseRopeUnfaithfully Yours-
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For those who would dare to think that I should make resolutions for New Year:
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My favorite Hollywood movies of 1947:
The Bishop's WifeDark PassageDear MurdererThe Ghost and Mrs. MuirHigh BarbareeLady in the LakeMiracle On 34th StreetThe October ManThe Two Mrs. CarrollsThe UnsuspectedIt is obvious that my tastes are shared very little with others here.
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We have been down since Thursday with severe colds. We have spent most of the time drifting in and out of sleep except for when we need to prepare chicken soup or new gallon of orange juice from concentrate. I am waiting now for chicken soup to heat so I can return to bed with mug of it.
None need feel sorry for us as we are resting comfortably due to OTC medications and pharmaceutical relief of muscle aches.
We had excellent weekend because: BBCAmerica was having marathon of: Doctor Who. We know all episodes and so it was as if we were with old friends. Since their marathon ended we have been watching: Harry Potter movies. We place them on repeat and so we do not have to worry when movie ends. We change movie to next in series when one of us feels ambitious. They are simple stories told in engaging manner and so do not tax us. We have watched them often before and so they are as if old friends also.
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Faye Dunaway was: Vicki Anderson in: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and: "The Psychiatrist" in the 1999 remake of the same name.
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