Bogie56
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4 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Wow, now that sounds interesting! I know almost nothing about Mountain, but I believe Pappalardi was the producer of Disraeli Gears and maybe some other Cream albums and also was an extra instrumentalist and maybe co-writer of the music on a couple of songs. In fact, I think Pappalardi's wife or girlfriend of the time may have written the lyrics of one of the songs (the boys in Cream don't seem to have been too interested in writing a lot of lyrics themselves). Unsure if this is the same woman who would go on to shoot him. But you've given me a new Wikipedia wormhole to go down!
There is a moral here. If you choose to buy a gun for your wife just be careful not to **** her off.
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Saturday, December 26
What no reverse shot p.o.v.? For all we know this could be Herman, the kind-hearted tinker who lived three doors down.
4 p.m. Ben-Hur (1959). A good day to watch a 4 hour biblical epic.
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13 hours ago, Vautrin said:
Considering Leslie West's weight problems, I'm surprised he lived as long as he
did. R.I.P.
He made it much past partner, Felix Pappalardi who was shot and killed by his wife in 1983.
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Friday, December 25
9:15 a.m. The Great Rupert (1950). I wasn’t expecting much from this B Jimmy Durante Christmas film but it surprised me. Sometimes a film is so earnestly silly that it is amusing.
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13 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
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Thursday, December 24
10 a.m. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). Mickey Rooney and girl trouble.
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14 hours ago, johnpressman said:
I second "The Luck Of Ginger Coffey" but why don't you enjoy "Lies My Father Told Me"?
I thought Lies was okay but I guess I liked many others more. Have you seen many of the films I listed? They might be hard to see outside of Canada - but as in Silent Partner and Mon Oncle Antoine you now have better luck seeing them in America!
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Wednesday, December 23
11:45 p.m. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1945). Grumpy Monty Woolley in the heartland for the holidays.
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Tuesday, December 22/23
3 a.m. Bachelor Mother (1939). Garson Kanin picture with Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn.
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My Top Canadian Films
1. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
2. The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
3. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
4. Spider (2002)
5. The Hounds of Notre Dame (1980)
6. Les Plouffe (1981)
7. Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
8. Jesus of Montreal (1989)
9. Kabloonak (1994)
10. Threshold (1981)
Goin’ Down the Road (1970)
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Dead Ringers (1986)
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Quest For Fire (1981)
Atlantic City (1980)
The Fly (1986)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Heartaches (1981)
Room (2015)
Perfectly Normal (1990)
A History of Violence (2005)
Skip Tracer (1977)
The Far Side of the Moon (2003)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
Outrageous (1977)
The Rowdyman (1972)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Black Robe (1991)
Joshua Then and Now (1986)
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19 minutes ago, johnpressman said:
Along those lines, how about "Lies My Father Told Me" for best Canadian film?
I'll work on my top ten. But Lies won't be on the list.
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22 hours ago, Vidor said:
They replaced what's been called the best Canadian film of all time...in Canada?
Sadly. My guess is that films like The Silent Partner and Mon Oncle Antoine have Canadian tv rights wrapped up by some network like the CBC which doesn't show movies any longer or some cable movie channel that has gone belly up.
But on the subject of the Best Canadian movie have you seen The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)? It's a Mordecai Richler story that takes place in post WWII Montreal directed by Ted Kotcheff. Richard Dreyfuss stars in the title role. Jack Warden, Denholm Elliott (brilliant!), Micheline Lanctot and Randy Quaid co-star. This is my favourite Canadian film.
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Monday, December 21/22
9:45 p.m. The Miracle of the Bells (1948). With Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli and Frank Sinatra. Replaced in Canada with Designing Woman (1957).
3:45 a.m. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983). Not a kids X-mas movie, for sure. With David Bowie.
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Sunday, December 20/21
2:15 a.m. Mon Oncle Antoine (1971). Quebecois film by Claude Jutra. Replaced in Canada with Lili (1953).
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Saturday, December 19
10 p.m. Lady on a Train (1945). with Deanna Durbin and Ralph Bellamy.
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2 minutes ago, midwestan said:
I've never seen either film you mention here Bogie, but I think it's rather odd that a movie shot partially in Canada and co-starring one the Dominion's comedic icons cannot be seen north of the 49th. Well, I guess it beats a TV screen with a test pattern on it. 😐🎅
The Silent Partner was a Canadian production but it may have had some establishing shots that placed the story in the U.S.. I cannot recall right now.
I have a dvd of it.
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Friday, December 18/19
4 a.m. The Silent Partner (1978). Christopher Plummer makes a pretty good villain in this one. John Candy and the beautiful Celine Lomez co-star. Shot in part in Toronto’s newly built Eaton Centre.
Replaced in Canada with the Jim Brown film, The Slams (1973).
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Thursday, December 17/18
1:15 a.m. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). I thought Max von Sydow did a pretty good job as the Big Guy.
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Wednesday, December 16
Bernard Herrmann
8 p.m. Vertigo (1958). Hermann at his best.
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5. A Man and a Woman (1966) Claude Lelouch, France
This is so well known that I don’t think I need say much about it. I recently saw it again for the third time and moved it from number 8 of the year to number 5. According to my diary I actually didn’t like it much at all when I first saw it in college. This time I think I just enjoyed its relaxed approach much more.
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) Claude Lelouch, France
I was happy to watch another film with this screen couple but I wondered why it was taking so long to see them in a scene together. After quite a while it was revealed that they separated soon after the finale of the first film. Anouk Aimee goes on to become a film producer while Jean-Louis Trintignant is still involved in car racing. The film begins with a very exciting rally race. The couple get together 20 years later as Aimee wishes to produce a film about their love story as seen in the first film. During production she decides that today’s audiences need something more and she injects a murder plot into the story along the lines of Dial M For Murder. The irony for me is that this complication served to make the film a mess and actually removed what was the charm of the original: a simple love story.
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8. The Best Years of a Life (2019) Claude Lelouch, France
Another sequel to A Man and a Woman (1966). I say another as it completely ignores everything in A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986). Jean-Louis Trintignant’s Jean-Louis Duroc is now living in assisted living and his memory is fading. His son, played by the same actor in all three films by the way, thinks it will help him if he is able to see his one true love again whom he seems to remember well. He tracks down Anne Gauthier, played by Anouk Aimee and she agrees. It seems that they parted (again) after the last one because he couldn’t stop chasing skirts. Lelouch keeps this one simple and that’s why it fares better than 20 Years Later. I found it an enjoyable watch.
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Monday, December 14
Laurel & Hardy SOTM - Replaced in Canada with the Bowery Boys
6:12 p.m. The Music Box (1932). Oscar winning short.
10:45 p.m. Our Relations (1936). This is my favourite Laurel and Hardy feature where they play mis-matched twins. By Leo McCarey when he was at his best.
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I didn't want to create a thread just for this. I noticed it in The New Yorker. But the copy that I found on YouTube wasn't very good quality.
The Front Row A Lost Orson Welles TV Pilot as Groundbreaking as “Citizen Kane”
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14 hours ago, Swithin said:
As a Carry On groupie, I was lucky to be in London (one of my early visits) to be able to see Carry On London. Sid James and a few of the others were in it. Hattie Jacques was not, but many years later I was walking my dog up Eardley Crescent and came upon the only blue plaque that ever really impressed me:
I was renting a flat from a friend in London for 6 months when he was sailing around the world and I thought about getting one of those blue plaques made with my own name on it and putting it outside his door for when he came back.
I believe Barba Windsor was announced to be in the film Carry on London but as I said I don't think it ever got off the ground.
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When I was at Pinewood in 2004 there was a pre-production office for Carry on London. It was a planned modern reprise of the series but I don't think it ever got off the ground for some reason.
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Death Takes No Holiday -- The Obituary Thread
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I managed to see Mountain in Toronto and was a fan but the band was superseded by others in fairly short order. I was a fan of The James Gang as well.
I had a group of friends and we used to each buy different groups which made it interesting. And one friend had a vp of a Record label for a neighbour and he used to get about 10 albums in exchange for just a car wash.