HoldenIsHere
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Kim Novak who was a very beautiful lady and starred in some big pictures. But she was a bit stiff and I'm not sure how good an actress she actually was.
I do have a soft spot spot for THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE, which is good campy fun.
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Crash (1996) and Crash (2004)
I detested both films. I was unable to become involved with Cronenberg's fascination for people wanting to have sex with car crash victims and their mutilated body parts. Puuuuleeease as Roger Rabbit would say.
Yes, the subject matter of Cronenberg's's film was a major turn-off.
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On the theory that one film clip can be worth 1,000 words....
Great clip!
Who dubbed Rita Hayworth's singing for this song?
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I'm just pointing out that it's Sally Field, not Fields.
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This is a fan-created "trailer" for AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS that I discovered.
The trailer has the feel of a mainstrean Hollywood trailer, but the creator of it has done a wonderful job of portraying the heart of Louis Malle's film.
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The Valachi Fly Papers?
Former Mafioso, now FBI informant, Joe Valachi enters a witness relocation program which all goes wrong. After donning the disguise of a common house fly, Valachi discovers that the change is permanent.
With CGI this could work.
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James Mason on director William Wellman:
He was a tough little bastard but i liked him.....he shot real bullets and stuff.
"Wild Bill" Wellman: one of my favorite directors
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Calling all Dietrich biographies!
Last year I read Steven Bach's Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend but didn't find it very engaging. Sure it was full of lots of information about Dietrich's life but it was a bit of a slog to get through.
But it did leave me with an appreciation of Dietrich's drive to succeed in this very competitive business and of her tremendous work ethic.
Has anyone else read any of the other Dietrich biographies?
I love Marlene Dietrich but perhaps her life was not as facinating as her work.
I always presumed that her life was exciting since her screen persona is so electrifying.
I haven't read any biographies of her.
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Charlton Heston and Buck Henry ARE Chuck and Buck
CHUCK AND BUCK was an odd movie indeed.
It would be difficult keeping Heston out of the loop on that one as he was on BEN-HUR.
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I would very much like to see a German film from 1933 titled, Viktor and Viktoria.
Reinhold Schunzel directed it and it co-stars Anton Walbrook in the James Garner part.
According to an imdb review, long before it was remade as Victor/Victoria by Blake Edwards it was also remade in Britain by Gaumont in 1935 as First a Girl with Jesse Matthews. Victor Saville was the director.
It might be interesting to see all 3 on TCM one evening.
I agree that would be a great evening on TCM.
I was diasppointed that I missed FIRST A GIRL when it last aired on TCM.
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I thought she was also great in Petulia (1968) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
And in Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) for that matter.
Shirley Knight received Oscar nominations for her work in DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (which I hope TCM airs soon) and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH bur re-located to New York to focus on stage work and study.
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Probably most of the films about Vietnam Nam are very raw and graphic not that family friendly for daytime showings. Maybe things like Platoon or Apocalypse Now are expensive. Could be many reasons that have nothing to do with the outcome of the war.
Has COMING HOME ever aired on TCM?
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Let's go back a little further in history:
Joan Leslie: Um, who was Joan Leslie?
The name sounds familar, but no image comes to mind.
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Really?
When someone tells me an extreme opinion like that, it always stokes my interest.
Yeah, usually that is the case, but in this instance I'm afraid of having those images burned into my mind.
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I just watched What's Up Doc? starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
It's been on the DVR for awhile now.
The movie opens with a fantastic rendition of Cole Porter's "You're the Top" sung by Barbra Streisand and then proceeds to tell the story of four identical plaid overnight bags that get mixed up: one bag contains rocks belonging to professor Ryan O'Neal (the "doc" of the title), one bag contains Barbra Streisand's clothes and underwear, one bag contains top secret documents and one bag contains a wealthy woman's jewels.
The woman with the bag of jewels is WHAT'S UP, DOC is played by Mabel Albertson, who played Darrin's mother on BEWITCHED.
The scene where she discovers her jewels have been stolen and she runs screaming "Robbers! Robbers!" into the hotel lobby really cracks me up.
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But, remember, no one puts Sally in a turban.
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I'm watching this movie right now. I love this movie, it never gets old.
Rita Hayworth is so gorgeous in this film. While she's pretty in color films, she's a knockout in black and white. Glenn Ford doesn't seem to have many fans on this board, but I think he and Hayworth make a great pair in this film. Columbia and audiences must have liked them together too because they made many films together, but this one is their best, imo.
I agree with you about GILDA.
It is a great movie that never gets old.
I'm not a Glenn Ford fan, but I do like him in GILDA. I also like him in DEAR HEART.
Probably liking Glenn Ford in those movie has more to do with liking Rita Hayworth and Geraldine Page, but if Ford was a bad actor it would not be possible to like him in these movies if though I like the work of his co-stars.
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By "he" do you mean you?
What is the term for refering to oneself in the third person?
Shirley Knight's character in THE RAIN PEOPLE does that often.
I've corrected my post.
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Well, so far today, I haven't watched anything.
But, I DID watch the last hour or so of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW on MOVIES last night.
Really liked this movie for a long time. Among one of my all-time favorites. Sure kick started and recharged several careers, didn't it?
I just loved the LOOK of it. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought it WAS filmed in '52 or thereabouts. Kudos to the cinematographer!
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is a favorite movie of mine as well.
I mentioned it another thread as an example of a film in which black-and-white cinematography was chosen althoiugh color cinematography was the standard at the time the movie was made.
Peter Bogdanovich and his cast and crew created something very beautiful and real.
Here's an an amazing example:
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I think Deitrich did not get an Oscar nomination because her role totters on the brink of being supporting. She has three huge scenes but is- to some degree- in the background for the rest of the movie, and this is back when major, established stars would sooner have eaten dirt then take a supporting nomination (my how times have changed.)
the five women nominated for Best Actress in 1957 were all major presences in their films and were onscreen for at least 90% of the duration (with the possible exception of Lana Turner in PEYTON PLACE.)
I was thinking of Marlene Dietrich as being in the Best Supporing Actress category for her role in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. I didn't realize that it would be taken as an insult for her to be in that category then.
Times have indeed changed.
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I wish they could include some directors like Lumet in the Summer Under the Stars. Some of them were stars in their own right.
I would love to see Alfred Hitchcock honored as a star director.
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I thought about THE RAIN PEOPLE when I saw Shirley Kinght in JUGGERNAUT.
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I'm posting the trailer for AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.
Even the trailer is so powerful.
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I always thought the Professor was kind of hunky. Plus, he was the only one who had his own hut--no roommate.
Why did the Professor get his own hut?
Why the men of old Hollywood are sexier than today's men...
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Maybe the title should be the men of olf Hollywood were sexier.