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    4.  L’Equipage (1935, Anatole Litvak, France

    A Pretty decent love triangle film with WWI Flyers.  A very young Jean-Pierre Aumont discovers that the woman he is in love with and is having an affair with is the wife of his Squadron Leader, Charles Vanel.  Vanel who is so great as a hard nosed villain makes this character completely sympathetic which gives Aumont a crisis of guilt.

    Litvak would remake this in Hollywood in 1937 as The Woman I Love.  And like the Algiers (1938) Hollywood remake of Pepe Le Moko (1937), The Woman I Love is remade virtually shot for shot.  The battle and stock footage is lifted straight from the original.  So, not only did these films purchase the literary rights but the film rights too.  Paul Muni does a credible job in the Charles Vanel part but my goodness, Louis Hayward is no Jean-Pierre Aumont.  Miriam Hopkins seems bored playing the love interest.

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  2. On 9/10/2020 at 8:38 PM, Livrefemme said:

    Bogie, do you have any recommendations as to any devices that I may use in order to continue to enjoy recording?  Much gratitude!

    You need to identify the EXACT problem.  Are you able to record the commercials and introductions on TCM but when the movie comes on it stops and you get an error message?

     

  3. It could be a cable company upgrade.  My provider started blocking recordings to DVD or VCR some years ago now.  If that is the case you will need a special device between your cable box and your recorder to make it work.

    The way to check if it is your cable provider (mine denied it was them and it was them) is to see it you are allowed to record the TCM commercials and introductions but all that stops when the movies start.  The way also knew it was my specific cable provider was that this was not happening to a friend who lived just outside the city with a different cable provider.

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    We regret to inform you that Oscar-winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82. The sad news was published on Sunday evening by his wife Olga Menzlova. The winner of the prestigious Oscar film award for the film Closely Watched Trains went to the film heaven on Saturday evening.

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    Jiri Menzel was born in 1938 in Prague as a son of famous writer and screenwriter Josef Menzel. In 1962 he finished his studies in directing with Otakar Vavra at FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). In the 1960s, he was a co-founder of the Czechoslovak New Wave film. His first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, based on a literary masterpiece by his favorite author - Bohumil Hrabal - from 1966 won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Another of his films Vesnicko ma strediskova (My Sweet Little Village) was nominated for an Oscar in 1985. The safe film Skrivanci na niti (Larks on a String) received the Golden Bear Award at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1990, and in 1996 he himself won the Czech Lion for his long-term artistic contribution to Czech filmography.

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    In 1977, he signed the so-called Anticharta, which condemned the declaration of Charter 77. He later said in an interview that the majority of Czechs served the communist regime at the time, and he is not ashamed of his signature, because it is a shame especially of those who forced him to sign.

     

    From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the ensemble of the Jara Cimrman Theater. Since the 1970s, he has also been involved in theater directing (he himself claimed that his main occupation was a theater director who only happened to be filming). He has also worked as a theater director abroad, for example in Sofia, Bulgaria and in the former Yugoslavia. He collaborated mainly with Prague theaters - Drama Club, Vinohrady Theater.

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    He taught at the FAMU in Prague and was a foreign member of the American Film Academy. He is the holder of the high French artistic title of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et Lettres). He became the founder of cable television CS film.

     

    Let's recall his major works.


    As a director:
    • 1965 – Pearls of the Deep / Perlicky na dne
    • 1965 – Zlocin v divci skole
    • 1966 – Closely Watched Trains/Ostre sledovane vlaky
    • 1968 – Crime in a Music Hall/Zlocin v santanu
    • 1968 – Capricious Summer/Rozmarne leto
    • 1969 – Larks on a Thread/Skrivanci na niti
    • 1974 – Kdo hleda zlate dno
    • 1976 – Seclusion Near a Forest/Na samote u lesa
    • 1978 – Those Wonderful Men with a Crank/Bajecni muzi s klikou
    • 1980 – Cutting It Short/Postriziny
    • 1983 – The Snowdrop Festival/Slavnosti snezenek
    • 1985 – Cokoladovi cmuchalove
    • 1985 - My Little Sweet Village/Vesnicko ma strediskova
    • 1989 – The End of Old Times/Konec starych casu
    • 1990 – The Beggar's Opera/Zebracka opera
    • 1994 – Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin / Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina
    • 2002 – short story One Moment in a project Dalsich deset minut (Ten Minutes Older)
    • 2006 – I Served the King of England/Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho krale
    • 2013 – The Don Juans/Donsajni

     

    As an actor:
    • 1964 – Misto v houfu
     1964 – If a Thousand Clarinets/Kdyby tisic klarinetu
    • 1964 – Kazdy den odvahu
    • 1964 – Obzalovany
    • 1965 – Nikdo se nebude smst
    • 1965 – Bloudeni
    • 1966 – Closely Watched Trains/Ostre sledovane vlaky
    • 1967 – Soukroma vichrice
    • 1967 – Dita Saxova
    • 1966 – Navrat ztraceneho syna
    • 1966 – Hotel pro cizince
    • 1966 – Flam
    • 1968 – Crime in a Music Hall/Zlocin v santanu
    • 1968 – The Cremator/Spalovac mrtvol Remastered
    • 1968 – Capricious Summer/Rozmarne leto
    • 1970 – Nevesta
    • 1973 – 30 panen a Pythagoras
    • 1976 –The Apple Game / Hra o jablko
    • 1978 – Those Wonderful Men with a Crank/Bajecni muzi s klikou
    • 1979 – Modra planeta
    • 1979 – Hra na telo
    • 1981 – Buldoci a tresne
    • 1981 – Ferat Vampire / Upir z Feratu
    • 1982 – Hearty Greetings from the Globe / Srdecny pozdrav ze zemekoule
    • 1983 – Fandy, o fandy (directed by Karel Kachyna)
    • 1986 – Utikejme uz jde
    • 1989 – Nezny barbar (directed by Petr Koliha)
    • 1990 – Marta a já
    • 1990 – Zvlastni bytosti
    • 1991 –The Elementary School/Obecna skola
    • 1992 – Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
    • 1994 – Joint Venture
    • 1995 – Ma je pomsta (directed by Lordan Zafranović)
    • 1995 – How to Deserve a Princess/Jak si zaslouzit princeznu
    • 1996 – Truck Stop
    • 1996 – Hospoda
    • 1996 – Draculuv svagr
    • 1997 – Franciska
    • 1999 – All My Loved Ones/Vsichni moji blizci
    • 2000 – Sametova kocovina
    • 2002 – Utek do Budina (directed by Miloslav Luther)
    • 2002 – Potonulo
    • 2007 – Medvidek
    • 2009 – Operace Dunaj
    • 2018 – The Interpreter/Tlumocnik

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