Sepiatone
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I do recall seeing the flick on TCM not too long ago.
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One guy stated it up there just fine.
"Classic is subjective."
"Classic doesn't necessarily only mean old, but in film can also refer to being groundbreaking, influential, or much revered. And the movies he(or she?) mentioned that they wouldn't consider classic do indeed qualify.
But I get the "social awareness" fatigue. Especially when it gets to the point of actually(and without statistical proof and it's source) trying to state HOW it made people react, think or feel about what they saw in a movie made(and first seen) 50-90 years ago. Or too, how WE, all these years later, SHOULD think and feel about it. Or worse yet, tries to cop to knowing the producer's true motive behind subject matter of a movie made 80 years ago. And IMHO, the "body image" twixt movie PSA is the most ridiculous thing so far.
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On 5/15/2021 at 2:01 PM, Dargo said:
I think you might be confused here a bit about which "Memphis Belle" film TCM will be showing, Sepia.
The 1944 William Wyler-directed documentary of the actual B-17 nicknamed "Memphis Belle" will be the one shown, I'm pretty sure.
(...this of course being unless I'm confused about the content of your post here)
No, you're correct. It WAS my mistake, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. And I'm DAMN sure interested to see that Wyler doc.if it's shown at a decent hour( for me anyway
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And I wouldn't complain if TCM showed THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE('56) once in a while. When a local TV station would show it( not for many years now) it was titled THE BRAVE AND THE DAMNED.
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So.... DIG 'EM OUT and get to watching!
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21 hours ago, EricJ said:
And given that we're supposed to know who the Italian mouse in the drapey striped pullover is, I was always under the impression that was supposed to be the "real" Topo Gigio, whom I was too young to remember from 50's Ed Sullivan? Or do I have my timelines off?
Sho' 'nuff. Topo Gigio first hit the Sullivan show in '63. He was a popular figure in Italy since his creation in '59. My Dad just loved him. Hell, we ALL did!
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Back in "the day" a product called "Liquid Glass" used to feature a small pic of this car on their containers.
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And this being Saturday morning, and Jim having posted it an hour ago, There's really NO "coincidence" now, is there?
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And Sunday we'll see the COMPLETE movie, not the one I'd see on Saturday matinees on TV with certain scenes deleted. I never saw the unedited movie until I was in my 30's.
And had to travel 40 miles to the U-M campus to do so.
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Did you think Jim was mentioning some OTHER broadcast of it?
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Seen it before. IMHO you'll probably only look up because you'll be rolling your eyes.
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In that "Horton hatches an egg" 'toon, that fish was drawn to resemble Lorre too.
And I always loved how Horton sings------
"Hut sut rawlson onna rillerah and a so on so on so forth!"
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On 5/19/2021 at 10:26 PM, Roy Cronin said:
"Precious" has several instances of Food Porn.
(Seriously, it's a wonderful film.)
"Food porn"? Cripes, that sounds like some kind of "dweebspeak" like" passive/aggressive".
So, what? They were peeling bananas or apples? Or WHAT??
I mean, I saw the movie too( and agree it's wonderful) but don't grasp your intent.
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43 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm
It looks like the schedule is in the process of being posted. It's pretty rough looking right now. They have the same two Elvis movies scheduled back-to-back. I imagine that that will be fixed. I notice in this new iteration of the schedule, all the themes are missing. Not sure if the feed has changed or what is going on. I am guessing that the Star of the Month is Elvis.
I know a lot of people are going to groan about Elvis being SOTM, but I for one am happy! His movies bring about a delightful amount of fluffiness (except for some of his earlier, more serious films like Jailhouse Rock and King Creole) that I find entertaining and sometimes is just what I need when I lack the mental brainpower for a more involved film. Plus, I like Elvis' music and he's easy on the eyes and sometimes that's all I want from a movie. I've been trying to see his films, so I'm happy that TCM is coming through with some of the titles I haven't seen yet.
As a guy, I couldn't care less about his ease on the eyes. But, many of the girls in his flicks are!
After all, that's mostly why me and my buddies went to see his movies.
And several were fun regardless.
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I wonder if DARG would have enjoyed it, or quip about it sounding like a traffic jam what with all that nasal "honking" going on?
And how soon before they turn the set into a living room design and Ben's ENTIRE FAMILY shows up?
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Richard Castellano as Clemenza in THE GODFATHER to Al Pacino's Michael Corleone after taking a test shot of the gun Clemenza fixed up for Michael to shoot Solllozzo with, says;
"I left it loud to scare off any pain in the a-ss bystanders"
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18 hours ago, Vidor said:
General Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove" is not a psychopath. He has had a mental breakdown and fallen victim to paranoid delusions, which is not the same thing.
I thought this was a "general discussion" on a TV channel's message board.
NOT a tutorial on psychiatry.
And I think trying to facilitate the destruction of two major nations and the possibility of the total destruction of the Earth IS kinda psychopathic, eh? I've known paranoids, and they mostly cowered somewhere isolated in fear of whatever. And were never prone to acts of violence or other evil.
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I'm gonna scare you ERIC. I too, still like '05 Peter Jackson remake. Not better than the original mind you, but still...
The only thing(IMHO) worth remembering in the '76 swill was any scene that had Jessica Lange wearing shorts.
And I mostly remember Rene Auberjonois from his time on the TV show BENSON( never really was a trekkie m'self)
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19 hours ago, Fausterlitz said:
Watched the opening scenes of Detour (1945) just now--when Tom Drake turned towards the camera (while playing the piano), my mind immediately flashed on Kurt Russell:
Really Fauster, Drake in that shot reminds me more of JOCK MAHONEY or maybe a bit of REX REASON, who I always thought resembles HOWARD DUFF pretty closely.
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17 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
midwestan, you make a great point. I agree about everyone you mention in your post who was primarily a singer or dancer (or both) but who also acted, and often acted really well.
My only quibble is with the last name on your list: James Cagney. Although it's known that Cagney wanted to be a "hoofer" or "song and dance man", and yes, he starred as such in Yankee Doodle Dandy, he was primarily an actor, and a great one at that. Most of his films are dramas of one kind or another (ok, mostly crime films), although he did explore comedy a bit (check out One Two Three, for instance). Anyway, Jimmy Cagney is for sure known, rightly, as first and foremost an actor, not a singer or dancer. And as an actor, he was one of the best of "Hollywood's Golden Age".
And that's high praise indeed for a guy who broke into show biz as a chorus girl.
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15 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
TCM programmer comes to work and starts shuffling through movies to fill space in the "Body Image" line up. . . . .Fat Girl is the title, and there's a fat girl in the movie, BINGO! In it goes.
They can also use the film for when they cover topics such as 'French Moms are Terrible Drivers', 'Cute Sisters Get Laid' and 'Arrêt de repose-plaie à la tête (Head Wound Rest Stop)'
Or to address the question raised by Richard Gere's paraphrased query in "Mr. Goodbar"----
"Do men make passes at girls with fat a-sses?" Originally, "do men make passes at girls who wear glasses?" with the answer of course being:
"It depends on their frames."
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3 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
For many, low self esteem is a learned behaviour, typically learned in childhood. Adulthood, maturity comes when realizing you are the only one in control of your own life. You have to realize all that was taught you about "not being as good/deserving" is what they think, not what YOU think. Once an individual takes responsibility for themselves, they can break that cycle of low self-esteem.
So yes blame is in order, but in the end it's your personal responsibility to grow up & out of it.
Thanks. And I'm tired of those parents who, back in the late '80's, through the '90's and still now who think they can BUY their children's self esteem. And those others who pound their children with so many "you're special's" and how great they are that the children don't really develop a sense of self esteem, but forge a higher level of self centeredness.
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On 5/17/2021 at 6:59 PM, TomJH said:
Either that or Dean might have squandered his early reputation to a degree with a series of self indulgent portrayals in an uneven collection of films. I'm thinking of Brando when I write that. How much more assured would Marlon be today of an even bigger reputation if he had had an early death after, say, The Wild One and On the Waterfront.
B-b-b-but then we wouldn't have had such GEMS as---
A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG and
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
On 5/17/2021 at 7:44 PM, TomJH said:Strange the quirks of fate. Who knows what would have happened to unknown young actor Brando if John Garfield had not turned down the role of Kowalski for the 1947 Broadway run of Streetcar.
I don't know about Garfield in that role. I don't think Blanche was supposed to be taller than Stanley.
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I first heard about his demise on the CBS evening news at 6:30pm. Later last night, I tuned into a rerun of the old Johnny Carson TONIGHT SHOW that AntennaTV broadcasts. My "info" button on my cable service's remote indicated Eddie Murphy and Ellen Degeneres were to be his guests. Thinking this might be the show on which she did her infamous "phone call to God" routine I tuned in. But instead, they showed oneof the shows on which Grodin appeared.
No big disappointment as I always enjoyed his appearances on the show.
I can't be sure of when I first became familiar with Grodin. I've never seen "The Heartbreak Kid"(either version) so I think I can narrow it down to CATCH-22. And only in reruns did I finally notice it was him who was the doctor who set MIA FARROW down for a nap in his air conditioned office in ROSEMARY'S BABY. I also liked him in MIDNIGHT RUN , THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, REAL LIFE and WOMAN IN RED.
And sorry NIP. Grodin wasn't overrated. And IMHO, NObody in their right mind would bother to watch that gosh-awful '76 remake of KING KONG, let alone remember specific scenes from that brainless muddle.
Rest In Peace Charles.
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And had to travel 40 miles to the U-M campus to do so.
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And just WHAT "agenda" would any of those be? I'm willing to bet (if they were) they weren't any of the "agendas" the TCM nabobs are trying to say they were(racism, sexism, etc.).
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