Bogie56
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Why bother recreating a HOT TOPICS forum....?
...when posters simply change the title of their tired old threads (to be a "new" topic) in attempt to garner interest in an exhausted, dead theme.
And to keep their 'views' and 'replies' count going for some insane egotistical reason
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Perhaps the HD versions of these new releases will make it onto TCM. that would be another benefit.
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Sunday, October 4/5
As others have noted …
2:30 a.m. Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931) with Michel Simon has been replaced by G.W. Pabst’s Kameradschaft (1931). This is a real shame as La Chienne is the original of the film that follows …
4:00 a.m. Scarlet Street (1945). La Chienne remake with the great Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea combo
A double shame as the day seems comprised of mostly repeats such as Hush .. Hush and The Killers.
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Interesting article (list of films is at the bottom) about films which Fox plans to release on HD. Many of these films have never been released to home video before.
https://willmckinley.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/classic-film-fans-get-lucky-on-foxs-100th-birthday/
Lydecker
Glad to see State Fair, The Affairs of Cellini and Bad Girl made the list.
Now if only Paramount would get its act together. There are so many great Paramount films from the 30's that could use a polishing and rerelease on dvd.
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Saturday, October 3
8 a.m. Chimes at Midnight (1966). One of my favourite Orson Welles films. His depiction of the Battle of Shrewsbury is a lesson in technique over budget. Again, Welles is way ahead of his time. Good on BR.
9:30 p.m. Trade Winds (1938) with Fredric March and Joan Bennett would be my pick. Only in America though. We Canucks get Saddle the Wind (1958) I’m sorry to say.
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Bogie, I assume you're going to cover this, but an advance sneak preview if you please ...
Chimes at Midnight, directed by Orson Welles and some heavy hittlers in the cast. It will be interesting to see how it looks, originally it was a mess due to exceedingly low budget. It would be to good to be true if they restored this. Orson plays Falstaff in a way off the beaten track (I have reservations about this). I haven't seen it in ages and I am practically breathless waiting for it. I think non-Shakespeare fans might enjoy this, you get Orson, Jeanne Moreau, and others.
Early AM, Oct 4 ...
I have seen the fully restored Chimes at Midnight and it is great. It is on BlueRay now. Chimes was on TCM a few months ago but I cannot remember what the verdict was on whether or not they showed the restored version.
One of the key tell-tale signs would be is the first reel in sync? The ADR of the actors in the first reel of the old Chimes had not been fitted so the sync was very wobbly. The entire film was post-synced which is quite an undertaking. In the restored version the sync has been fixed in the first 20 minutes.
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I may be oversimplifying, but in his earlier film roles Hope seemed to use self-deprecating humour to his advantage and this was one of the things that was endearing about him.
In his later films his zingers were all too often directed at others making him seem much more arrogant.
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I see were you're coming from. Maybe a better question is how many people in Toronto and the general area are fans of her 70s Blaxploitation films? I assume those films appeal to a more narrow audience than, say, the film she did for Tarantino.
Cinematheque screenings are most often one-off shows. Especially those with a celebrity introduction. It has been my experience that Toronto has an enthusiastic knowledgable film going public that is large enough to usually sell out an event like like.
That said, the Pam Grier nights are coming hot on the heels of the Toronto film festival and as a member I received very little notice of the screenings.
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2 things:
1) There was a movie made about German brassiere manufacturers called "Stoppenzumfromfloppen"
Thank you Mr. Gorman for keeping us abreast of this. It has a certain urmenschgefuhnaturlichkeit about it.
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Bingo. I wouldn't call one person trying to get something going without any takers a controversy, though.
Makes me wonder why we bother to control ourselves like that.
Yes, quite. I was being obliquely sarcastic.
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Better be careful here, I noticed the orig. thread "Categorizing Threads", regarding 'gagman's' posting, has "gone into the cornfield".
I managed to visit the cornfield to review that thread and for the life of me could not find anything at all offensive in it.
It was a bit critical of the moderator's decision to move the Colleen Moore thread and no more.
One person seemed to approve of the decision. Perhaps that was the controversy?
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Friday, October 2
I see they are trotting out some of Bob Hope’s worst films again.
11:30 p.m. The Haunting (1963). This Robert Wise chiller is the pick of the bunch. Great atmospheric sound effects. Much better than the CGI-laden remake.
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Otto Sander won't . . . but the great thespian TOBY DICKMAN, Jr. is on track to be SOTM for Jan.
See his starring roles in these great cinematic abominations:
THERE'S A FUNGUS AMONGUS
Was that released in Canada as There's a Humongus Fungus Amongus ?
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How often does TCM have a monthly schedule that isn't 95 percent cheese?
This month (October) is just about the best I've ever seen - I'll be filling my Hard Drives to the max this month and that'll come in handy for the very light December.
Sure wish 'Burnt Offerings' had stayed on the schedule this month, though. I feel that loss.
Well, there you go. I thought September and November were not bad. October is dull (in my opinion). But December takes the cake as far as bad scheduling.
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I think this may be the worst December schedule on record that I've seen in a long time.
Endless repeats of the same old Christmas movies, Sinatra films that we have seen time and time again and virtually nothing new and original.
Programmers were sleepwalking through the creation of this schedule!
Lydecker
Absolutely agree. I've just finished going through the first week and it is nothing but repeats and very cheesy Sinatra films.
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The December schedule for Canada is finally up.
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Fans of Pam Grier May like to visit Toronto's TIFF Lightbox on October 1 (tonight!) and October 2 as she is set to introduce 3 of her films: Jackie Brown (1997) Oct 1; Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) Oct 2.
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Thursday, October 1
midnight. The Love Light (1921) directed by Frances Marion starring Mary Pickford, Canada’s, … I mean America’s Sweetheart.
BTW, Diahann Carroll introduces her own film, Claudine tonight at 8.
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I suppose Otto's part in Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt (1974) was so small, it may not get featured in his SOTM.
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Keir Dullea will introduce two of his films at Toronto's TIFF Lightbox as part of the Canadian Open Vault Series.
Paperback Hero (1973) and Black Christmas (1974) on December 15.
For the longest time I suspected Keir Dullea was Canadian. For in addition to the two Canadian films listed above he did the Starlost tv series in Toronto in 1973-1974 as well. He is in fact from Cleveland.
Dullea was in Toronto last year to introduce 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). He was just terrific at that event. The TIFF bought its own new 70mm print of 2001 and it has an extended run late in December.
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Ok everyone!!! Let us get this straight, if it is for Tim Conway the originatory should edit the title...if it is for Tom Coway, George's brother, then please move the discussion under George Sanders as a SOTM. Now that Tom's name is mentioned...the two would make wonderful brothers of the month. Am in the process of reading the Brian Aherne biography of George (mostly a group of compelling letters and communication from his wife Benita to Aherne) but regardless very interesting.
As a strong supporter of George Sanders I encourage any Tom Conway fans to migrate to the George Postings. Wouldn't it be great, days devoted to interchangeable films with the brothers.
Yes, George comments are most welcome here.
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Otto Sander won't . . . but the great thespian TOBY DICKMAN, Jr. is on track to be SOTM for Jan.
See his starring roles in these great cinematic abominations:
THERE'S A FUNGUS AMONGUS
STOMPIN' GRAPES LEADS TO PURPLE FOOT DISEASE
HIS EYE MAY BE ON THE SPARROW, BUT MINE WAS POKED OUT BY SATAN
BLOOD SAUSAGE: The Casserole Movie
and "IT'S HARD TO EAT CHEWY FOOD WITH NO TEETH" (it's a documentary)
Do you think they will show It's Hard to Eat Chewy Food With No Teeth in its entirety? I had heard it was cut down from its original 412 minutes to a meagre 65.
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Interesting. The L.A. Times article about the work UCLA is doing didn't mention this. While it said that the vast majority of silent movies have been lost, it didn't say that many of those that were saved/preserved/restored are not being made available to the general public. I assume UCLA doesn't do that. What group or company is doing this and what would be their motive?
I hope drednm responds to you on this. I believe he mentioned before that UCLA is in possession of several films at least that are not available to the public. Like the Academy Award nominee The Noose (1928).
I'm relaying third hand information so again, I hope he can enlighten us a bit more.
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can't believe such a fine actor has never been SOTM or even had a SUTS tribute!
I had heard that Tom had a brother.
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