Sepiatone
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I liked *All That Jazz* for the fact it proves selfishness need NOT have redemption, that hating yourself doesn't mean you can't love others, and that suicide doesn't HAVE to be immediate. There can be seen some sense of tragedy in Schieder's character having a warped sense of integrity and willing to die in defense of his vision. While a few might actually mourn at his passing, HE didn't seem to mind.
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Love is a many splenored thing.
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That's another aspect of this movie I like. They were poor( or close enough to it), but were decent, upstanding people. Dad worked nights, DIDN'T work "at the office", wear a suit to his job, or as lower in the income brackets, didn't drink a lot. Hollywood DID have a habit of pidgeonholing classes in that manner.
AndyM is right. I too, would like to see more of Stewart's work. He was flexible enough to be either a good cop, OR creep.
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That would work if these "lists" were made up by only one person. But the lists of "100 Greatest Movies" or "50 Greatest Songs" and such are the results of narrow polling. I've seen many of these kinds of lists over the years, and the first thing I think is, "Nobody asked ME!". And therefore, the lists do NOT tell us anything about ANYbody.
But I will admit that they DO provide information as to what's out there. On the list might be the titles to several movies I've not even HEARD of, and it might induce me to put an effort into seeing it. That it might be on some "Greatest" list might further induce me to see WHY it's thought of in that light. But for the most part, the list of "100 Greatest Movies" likely contains information that can be found elsewhere. And without any preconcieved notions.
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For me, it depends on two factors:
1. What's the MOTIVE? Do they think the STORY is better in color? Or that simply more people might WATCH it if it's in color? It would seem to me that if color is required to coax or hold someone's interest, then they really don't CARE for the STORY. They just want their eyes to be dazzled.
2. IF they found some other proccess to colorize that doesn't call for bleaching out the negative, then I might be interested in the results. The old proccess left the colorized versions look too "homogenized" and lifeless. And the old colorized version of *It's A Wonderful Life* had Jimmy wearing that horrid GREEN SUIT when begging Potter for help. THAT would have to be changed for me.
But when it's all boiled down, for me, if colorization never was invented, it wouldn't matter. Old B&W movies never bothered me.
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How do you see MILDRED fitting in for Valentine's Day?
Actually, I found myself watching two movies on my STARZ/ENCORE free movies selections:
*It Could Happen To You* ; The Nicholas Cage/Brigette Fonda movie in which a cop who wins the lottery splits the winnings with waitress Fonda. They eventually fall in love.
*Finding Nemo* ; Yeah, NOT Valentine's Day stuff, and I also have it on disc, but it was already on, so I stayed there.
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*The Crying Game* ? Really?
I'd like to see HALLMARK'S card for THAT!
And Duck's desire for schmaltz leaves out *The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre* .
Some of those silly, romantic fluff pieces made in the late '50's-early '60's might be good. *A Summer Place* , *Gidget* , or any Day/Hudson, Day/Garner or Sandra Dee mind candy movie would help fill the bill. Maybe even those Annette/Frankie flicks.
Actually, as I just posted on another thread, I wound up seeing a more RECENT movie, NOT what some here would consider a "classic" in the sense of it's age, a movie that spewed all kinds of schmaltzy romance type stuff...
*It Could Happen To You.* Nicholas Cage is a cop who offhandedly offers to split the winnings if his lottery ticket wins with waitress Brigette Fonda, to make up for not having extra money for a tip. His ticket winds up winning, and he keeps his word to the chagrin of his wife. Eventually, after the ensuing circumstances and other factors, they wind up falling in love. Duck would be pleased with this one.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 15, 2013 5:56 PM
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I would imagine that Redgrave would be. unless he, like Everett, was also gay.
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Re: *Five Came Back*
My feeling is the angle of the story in NOT showing any rescue team efforts gives the movie the level of urgency the survivors felt. In an actual situation like this, nobody really KNOWS what efforts, if any, are being made in their rescue. So they need to act accordingly. This gives the audience the sensation of being there WITH them, instead of merely being observers. This leaves the audience feeling as if whatever solutions are agreed to are in the best interest and sound in it's reasoning. Showing scenes of rescue efforts unknown to the survivors would have cheaply sensationalized the story, and would have left the audience frustrated and dissapointed.
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I have it on DVD. Only ONE disc.
I'll be tuning in elsewhere.
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At this writing, I've yet to look at the list. I might eventually get around to it, but lists like these, like "lists" made from "polls" that center around , "Best Chocolate Maker" or "Best Guitar Solo" are as useful as those same lists here in these forums. MY "best" might be YOUR "Stinkeroo". And vice-versa. They really serve no inherent purpose whatsoever.
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No love scene in GOLDEN?
I'd say both the scene where Fonda finally gets back to the comfort of Hepburn's presence after losing his way in the woods, and the exchange between Fonda and Hepburn at the end when he collapses while carrying the box of dishes were TRUE "love" scenes.
Or were you referring to something more "base"?
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I wasn't on the edge of my seat, but it WAS a grabber. A gritty, updated version of the old children's story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". I just HAD to see how the kid would get redeemed. And one of the few film roles I liked Arthur Kennedy in.
And, no. In those times it wasn't unusual to leave kids alone at home. Most parents in those days didn't treat their kids as morons and urged them to be somewhat self reliant. Raised by a single mother in the mid 1950's, there were many times my brother and I were in situations where we had to look after ourselves. She even taught us some basic cooking skills, and let us know the punishment for screwing it up was NOT worth the effort to be lax.
To use a keyword not known by too increasingly a number of parents of late: *Discipline* .
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Have a happy, Kim. Glad you're still topside of the dirt.
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No, it doesn't. But it DOES describe, in a sense, the way the guest programmers "pick" the movies they do. At least according to previous posts.
I also "don't get" what prime rib in a curry house has to do with those who hold the "rights" to certain movies have against allowing some movie channel to SHOW the damned movie.
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I guess I'm old fashioned in the sense that to me, movies are stories, and stories usually have some kind of point to them. Not neccessarily MORALS. And in reality, many circumstances, while not having a point, at least have some type of PURPOSE. One could make the arguement that *The Grapes of Wrath* was "neo-realism" in that IT had no "point", but had a purpose; ie. the Joad family looking to start a new life. The movie came to no actual conclusion, offered no "moral". But the viewer had SOME idea of what and why. Many of the foreign "neo-realism" films didn't even offer THAT.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 13, 2013 3:53 PM
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So you mean that if someone dies at the "last minute", they might NOT get mention? So why not tack them on to NEXT years tribute?
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No disrespect towards your Dad, but BOO-HOO-HOO!
So "The Great One" used profanity. Probably NOT the first time in his life. Probably the first time on FILM, though. Gleason probably felt LIBERATED by the proccess. Like CARL REINER claimed to feel while doing one of those "roasts" on Comedy Central. It took TOO long for movies to realize that people DO cuss, and movie goers who might actually cuss in THEIR daily lives have no room to complain. It's always tickled me that television would take strident measures to make sure children didn't hear people use "swear words" on TV, while in fact, once that TV goes on the fritz, Dad wil put his foot through the screen using every cuss word in the book!
The OIL OF OLAY folks need to come up with a "Skin Thickening" cream.
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If that WERE the case, TCM should get some clever elecronics geek to make them a "juke box" type of device that plays DVDs instead of CDs, put it on that set that Osborne uses, fill it with DVDs of everything they have to show, give their "guest programmers" a roll of quarters and let them make the choices THAT way.
Sorry, but I just don't understand all this crap about "rights" to show certain movies. If TCM offers a flat fee to obtain the rights to show a movie, then isn't it in the best interest of the "rights" holder to just go ahead and do it? All TCM needs to agree to is state, after the movie is shown, that it's available on DVD(if it is). Thereby, the "rights" holder is actually getting PAID to advertise, and is helping to generate sales. If sales of the movie is the name of the game.
I just don't GET it.
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I have nothing to add here. I'm just replying because it's about time somebody posted something in this thread besides YOU, TopBilled.
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That kind of stuff can be fun on another medium, like radio. Back in the '70's, I liked to "surf" radio stations to find what was playing elsewhere. One late Saturday night, I worked the dial onto a station where all you could hear was that sound you'd find when the stylus of your turntable arm hits the end of a record..."bumph-click, bumph-click, bumph-click". We listened to that for FIVE MINUTES before moving on, guessing the DJ wasn't waking up none too soon. About 15 minutes later, we happened back on that same station, and STILL "bumph-click, bumph-click, bumph-click"! Of course it WAS about 2:30am, and we might have been the only stoners(besides the DJ, that is)listening.
On local television in that era, their "Late, Late Movies" on weekends would be interrupted by "News Updates" which featured a guy reading copy over a teletype machine noise background. Often, this guy would sound three sheets to the wind with much longer than needed pauses between news stories.
But I can't think of any acceptable reason for something like what's described here to happen unless it too, happened about the same time of night.
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Just about a week ago or so, I saw an old film from 1930(DANG! Forgot the title) with Arthur Lake in it, and he played his part NO DIFFERENT than he did DAGWOOD in the "Blondie" movies. Not a whole lot of range.
But both my wife and I noticed there was a strong resemblance(lookswise) between Lake and more contemporary actor D.B. SWEENY. Kinda made us wonder....
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Yeah........ok, if you say so....
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*The Cooler* was William H. Macy's movie all the way. Baldwin to me was an annoying distraction.
"Smokey" had the country going on the CB craze, which even led the Cadillac division of GM offer CB radios as an option. Built into the DASH! In a variant way, it still survives. Like HERE, where we all use "handles" (Sepiatone, Fred C. Dobbs, etc.), and use specific lingo( lol, rotfl, IMO, etc.). Back in those days, I had more "good buddies" who never traveled further south than Toledo Ohio "drawlin'" into their mics than you'd EVER hear in Alabama!
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That would be my guess, too. Even the biggest dummy nephew working at TCM would know showing Part 2 first is a dumb idea.
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