Bogie56
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I'm one of the oldest people around this place and I was a kid when the CLASSIC ERA of films was still in place and active and still classic.
I saw TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE in a movie theater when it first came out in 1948. I rememembered parts of that film all of my life. That was still the CLASSIC ERA of American films.
So, were you aware that this was the 'classic' period of motion pictures when you saw Treasure in the theatres in 1948? Had they already arranged that is would end in 1960?
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He may have selected 1966, because in '67 all hell broke loose in the counterculture.
Well he actually stopped at 1965. I said prior to 1966. So, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is not a classic but Village of the Giants is.
Don't you think it may have and something to do with the films he was deleting from his bigger guide and wished to add to this 'classic' guide?
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According to Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide it is anything prior to 1966. He should know, shouldn't he?
You don't think he did that just for marketing, do you?
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Bummer, THE KING`S THIEF was on this morning at 10:30 am EST. TCM `s scheduling drives me crazy sometimes. I was at the vet with my cat, so I missed the film. George Sanders and Ann Blyth costarred. Maybe I will be able to see the movie on my tablet. David Niven was always Mike Todd`s choice for Phileas Fogg. David suggested Robert Newton for the role of Mr. Fix. Robert had a serious problem with alcohol, but he promised that he would refrain from drinking during filming. Robert was true to his word, but when the film was completed he went back to his old habits. Sadly he died at 50 from a heart attack before AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS premiered. The only previous movie that I had seen Robert act in was THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1954.
A friend of mine told me a story about Robert Newton. Pinewood studios had forbidden him to bring alcohol onto the lot so he got around this by hanging long bits of string out his dressing room window and attaching bottles at the other end 'off the lot.'
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The title of the Channel: Turner CLASSIC Movies. Not Turner Crappy Movies.
Let's start at the beginning shall we? What is a classic movie?
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Never saw the flick. So, was she referring to a BEAR?
Or........did you mean grisly?
Sepiatone
thanks for your correction!
Perhaps I should have observed the words of Homer Simpson "You tried your best but you failed miserably. The lesson is ... never try."
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"You could have knocked me down with a feather. Grizzly, that's what it was. Grizzly. There's only one word for it. Grizzly. I told my poor old mother when I got home at night and that's what she said, 'how grizzly, Emily. Grizzly'."
- Kathleen Harrison to tourists at the murder site in Night Must Fall (1937).
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Wednesday, October 21/22
2:30 a.m. City Lights (1931). One of Chaplin’s finest. Some might say a silent classic from 1931. The spaghetti eating sequence had me in stitches.
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Can I tempt anyone with some black pudding and haggis? Yum!
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Just a trivia side note re, Casablanca. In the Peter Lorre biography, The Lost One his character is listed as 'Guillermo' Ugarte. His first name is never mentioned in the film.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is just about as perfect as you can get in the film medium.
I would put Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) right up there too.
I've heard it all now. Likening these films to text messaging.
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Here you go everyone. The 50th anniversary is here and a new restoration is about to hit theatres.
Warning to epileptics: this trailer has those annoying fade to blacks every few seconds that unimaginative editors are in love with these days.
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Tuesday, October 20
A good selection of popular American films made by women in the evening. Yet in Canada two of these (Sleepless in Seattle and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway) are being replaced by films made by men.
5 a.m. Home For the Holidays (1995). I haven’t seen this Jodie Foster film.
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is voodoo woman gonna be shown? tom conway plays the mad scientist.
Guaranteed when Tom is SOTM, TCM will pick his two best films and won't play them.
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I actually saw a part of SAVING MR. BANKS last night when I was changing channels.
It was a scene where Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) was on the phone with P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) telling her he'd arranged for her to visit Disneyland.
I didn't continue watching since I wanted to see the beginning.
I must admit that I did find Tom Hanks annoying as I usually do.
Walter Pidgeon would have made a great Walt Disney. Plus he was already a Wally.
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not a fan of bush at all but why did redford wanna star in this for? hey, I personally like dan rather despite his journalistic bias which I just look past and focus on the man's professionalism and I doan blame robert redford for liking dan rather so much that he would wanna rehabilitate his image with this film but truth cannot be manufactured where there is none. rather and mapes took the bait and they got burned. bush ain't to blame for that.
This bears repeating ... I like the part in the Forbes article where it says that the scandal obscured the overall truth of the controversy.
I have yet to see the film but I wouldn't be surprised if the 'phoney' memos were plants so they could then reveal that and discredit the investigation.
It's a very old trick that is hard to see through.
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CBS fired "60 Minutes II" producer Mary Mapes (the Cate Blanchett character) and pushed Rather into retirement after the "Memogate" fiasco in 2004. Needless to say, CBS is a bit antsy about how the Tiffany Network has been portrayed in "Truth." So it has refused to run ads for the movie. And it doesn't end there. I watched "CBS Sunday Morning" yesterday and they had Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan talk about upcoming films. Guess which one wasn't even mentioned?
Here's a Forbes magazine piece about the controversy:
As for "Memogate," here's the Wikipedia entry on the issue:
Thanks Jakeem,
I'm more interested than ever to see the film. I like the part in the Forbes article where it says that the scandal obscured the overall truth of the controversy.
It is akin to 'giving' the prosecution a planted phoney expert witness then exposing them when they are on the stand. There goes your case with the bathwater.
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But, if Fred is anything like the other septuagenarians I know, he'll never be able to figure out how to set the clock on the vcr in a million years, let alone set the timer-record.
Don't mention that to my 92 year-old uncle. He can show me a thing or two. He even has his bird feeder wired so that if a squirrel climbs on top it gets a small electric shock!
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I was watching CNN this morning and they did an interview with Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett about their new film, Truth (2015).
During the interview they kept referring to the controversy surrounding the original 60 Minutes story on which the film is based.
But not once during this interview which was approximately 7 minutes long did they mention what the 60 Minutes controversy was about.
It left me wondering if that line of questioning was edited out of this CNN spot because the media is still responding to the heat they got from the story years ago.
Even the trailer for the film is ambiguous in that regard. It's like going to the bother of making All the President's Men and being afraid to mention Watergate.
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"Do you remember when he used to cut worms in half ..... with his teeth?"
- Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster referring to his brother, Jonathan in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Monday, October 19
I can take the day off. Seen all of these. Jezebel (1938) at 6 p.m. is probably my favourite.
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I think I was paying about $15 a month for cable TV plus TCM. But I was getting 95% old classic movies on TCM. Now I'm paying $76 a month for Directv, and I'm getting about 50% newer movies, mostly in prime time, and to watch the best older movies I have to try to stay awake from midnight to 6 AM. I can no longer afford to buy another VHS tape recorder, or a new DVD recorder, or a new DVR recorder to record the old movies in the middle of the night, of the kind I used to receive in the daytime and prime time on TCM back in the 1990s. So, now, I'm paying much more and getting much less.
You are right, the best stuff is often on in the middle of the night and most people would have to record it.
You should look into buying a used vhs machine on craig's list, or something. They are as cheap as $10. dvd recorders aren't much more. Most people are just tossing them out in the garbage. You might be able to pick up two or three for free by asking around.
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Has anyone seen Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)? I think it was on TCM a while back. I'm a fan of Frank Langella. He was great in Frost/Nixon (2008) among other things.
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I haven't seen SAVING MR. BANKS in its entirety. I'm sure Emma Thompson is great in the movie, but I'm not a fan of Tom Hanks.
I haven't seem MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING but am looking forward to it.
I highly recommend SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.
Emma Thompson is quite good in Saving Mr. Banks. I liked her as the Hilary character in Primary Colors (1998) too. But of those not already mentioned two of my absolute favourites are her supporting role in In the Name of the Father (1993) and the highly underrated Carrington (1995). Jonathan Pryce is brilliant in Carrington.
On the flip side I thought Effie Gray (2014) which she also wrote was dreadful.
WHAT IS A CLASSIC MOVIE
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Well, there you go. As a kid of the 60's I loved that era. What with Connery's Bond. Zulu, the Great Escape and a zillion other films.
And I thanked you know who that those stodgy, trashy, kitschy, ridiculous films of the 1950's were behind us.