slaytonf
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Like the well-known Norwegian Blue, I've been pining for some movies not seen long since on TCM. Unlike it, I'm not nailed to my perch. Why anything would be nailed to a fish---
Some of these films shyly showed their faces once in the hoary past, and quickly ducked away back into the halls of cinema, some were familiar friends that dropped by a number of times, but have grown distant. Now, my memory might not be what it used to be, and maybe it never was, so some of these movies may never have been shown on TCM, in which case, they would be premieres:
*Comanche Station* (Randolph Scott, Bud Boetticher, dir.)
*Danger Lights* (Jean Arthur with silent film eyebrows)
*Destry Rides Again*
*Funny Face* (Stanley Donen at his best)
*La Guerre Est Finie* (decent Alan Resnias, with Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, and a very young Genevieve Bujold)
*Lovers Courageous*
*Machine Gun McCain* (bad people come to bad ends, sometimes not so bad people, too)
*Seven Men From Now* (the best of the Scott/Boetticher westerns, terrific Lee Marvin)
*Tommy* (you can't beat those beans)
*Their Own Desire*
*The Spoilers* (John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott--who plays a heavy!--all this and Richard Barthelmess, too!)
*The Killing* (early Kubrick noir, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray. Nikki Arcane rules)
*The Day the Earth Stood Still* (good luck getting that again!)
*The Dark Horse* (aw, my recorder kicked out before the end)
*Start the Revolution Without Me* (who would think the Reign of Terror could be funny?)
*Laura* (good luck on that one, too)
*Barbarella* (you know, there were some deep philosophical themes addressed in that movie, as soon as I find one, I'll let you know)
*What's New Pussycat?* (a wacky sixties comedy that's actually funny--it still ends in a chase, though)
*The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* (charming sad-sweet-sad movie with Michel Legrand music)
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* (Maggie Smith in her prime)
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It is the annual remembrance of people from the film industry who have died in the past year. It airs repeatedly in December, so watch for it. The music is a song called "Wait," by M83, according to lavenderblue19 in another thread in this forum.
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Maude: God bless you, Barbara Stanwyck!
Sudie Bond
They Might Be Giants
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TCM showed it a few months ago. They might again.
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You may not be far off with the name. Does Charlotte ring a bell? If so, it might be Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid:
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Hamlet: How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the
card, or equivocation will undo us. (Act V, Scene I)
True, Mr. Barry composed the scores for only the first 11 Bond movies, so I thought it not too much of a stretch to make that qualified exaggeration since it had such a nice ring to it. Mr. Conti, if I have it right composed the score for For Your Eyes Only. Mr. Hamlisch did the same for The Spy Who Loved Me.
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As you watch the movie, if you watch the movie (and why would you not?), you may be overcome with a sense of international intrigue, of the cold war clash of clandestine institutions, and instead of a lion, you might be inexplicably expecting Oddjob to come charging out of the bush. Don't feel anxious, you not are suffering from some previously undescribed form of synesthesia. It is merely the result of the film score being written by John Barry, who as far as I can see, is responsible for all the James Bond movie scores, though not the famous theme. Looking over his work, he is quite under-recognized and appreciated. Some of the films he scored include Midnight Cowboy, Petulia, Walkabout, The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants, Out of Africa, and Dances With Wolves.
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Alec Guiness and Maureen O'Hara in Our Man in Havana. As zero as zero can be.
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OK, who's this venerable lady?:
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Criterion has a economical line, called eclipse, on which they have released Bernard's Les Miserables along with Wooden Crosses, a WWI film. Eclipse films have the same quality, but without the extra material that comes with the standard Criterion disks.
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Victor Mature.
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Amen.
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Is it as derelict as it is made out to be?
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It looks like it was shot at an actual drive-in.
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Bernard's Miserables comes in two parts, a bilogy? Definitely the only version that comes close to doing the book justice.
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Isn't that picture of Ben Hur reversed?
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Tonight an action-packed line-up of thrilling adventure movies! TCM kicks it off to a great start with Les Miserables, the thrilling adventure and romance movie about Jean Valjean, relentlessly pursued by the remorseless Inspector Javert, while simultaneously striving to raise a cute-as-buttons gamin, only to lose her to a callow naively idealistic youth. Thrills! Action! Adventure! Romance! Thrills!
TCM follows that up with the spellbinding Les Miserables, the thrilling adventure and romance movie about Jean Valjean, relentlessly pursued by the remorseless Inspector Javert, while simultaneously striving to raise a cute-as-buttons gamin, only to lose her to a callow naively idealistic youth. Thrills! Action! Adventure! Romance! Thrills!
And, to cap the evening off, what else but Les Miserables? The thrilling adventure and romance movie about Jean Valjean, relentlessly pursued by the remorseless Inspector Javert, while simultaneously striving to raise a cute-as-buttons gamin, only to lose her to a callow naively idealistic youth. Thrills! Action! Adventure! Romance! Thrills!
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Mrs. Pike: How long has she been in America?
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Three days.
Mrs. Pike: Three days, and to meet Horace right away. . . .How did she come over?, I didn't know the boats were running.
Sir Alfred: Battleship.
Mrs. Pike: Battleship?
Sir Alfred: Weell, actually, a cruiser.
Mrs. Pike: Then she must be very, very---
Sir Alfred: Oh, very !
Janet Beecher, Eric Blore
The Lady Eve
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You mean I really got one?!
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The only thing we've ever seen on TCM, as you probably know, is Billion Dollar Brain. I've suggested The Ipcress File, and Funeral in Berlin a few times, to no effect. Perhaps if someone else does, like, say, you, the TCM schedulistas might make more of an effort.
Are you sure you can't find prices any lower than that?
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Joan Blondell.
OT: A moment of silence and prayer
in General Discussions
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I have heard much about the Proverbial Slippery Slope, and am curious to see one. I must admit, though I have looked diligently, I have yet to see one, unless it be the one descending into indiscriminate slaughter.