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13 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
And of course Sluizer remade Spoorloos as the Vanishing in 1993.
I was just going to mention those films by Sluizer.
Boy, talk about no comparison between the two. The original is incredible and scared the life out of me. The remake with Jeff Bridges is so horrid, I could hardly watch it. I blame not Sluizer or Bridges but the powers that be who probably thought the original was too dark. The original is a classic though with outstanding performances by a cast not very familiar to American audiences, but it is worth reading all the subtitles just to enjoy it.-
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They should have made the film bio when Bernadette Peters was a bit younger. I always thought she looked a lot like Mary.
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John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in Ford's "The Searchers".
I have a friend who doesn't like him in the movie, because she says John Wayne is just too big to look at on the big screen, but he fills this role amply I feel. -
On 9/22/2018 at 9:28 PM, yanceycravat said:
I spoke to a 23 year old guy today who never heard of Buster Keaton. When I made the natural comparison to Charlie Chaplin, he said, "Who?". He was quite serious. I was simultaneously shocked and depressed.
I would have continued explaining but I sensed a complete lack of interest in something that happened before he was born.
Kids!
Well, let's see...figure out that Chaplin films were prevalent in the early years of the last century and reached a peak in silents in the 1920's, even though of course he was still famous in the 1930's and beyond. That means his heyday was around 91 years ago just to make the years a sort of mid-range.
Then figure out that this is around 68 years before this 23 year old guy was born.
Now ask yourself, if you were born in let's say, 1970, if you would be cognizant of a famous entertainer whose heyday was in 1902.
Sure, I actually agree with you that one must be living in a cave to not have ever heard of Chaplin, but some people are just oblivious to anything not more recent to their times possibly? -
13 hours ago, NickAndNora34 said:
I have to admit I am trying not to be too doubtful of Lily James as Eve... I only know her from Disney's live-action Cinderella (2015) and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018), so I have no idea if she has the acting chops to do the role justice. I guess we'll see?
Re: Gillian Anderson: I think she's a fabulous actress, and only wish I could be able to see her in this role. Although, just imagine Cate Blanchett doing this role as originally planned. I would cancel everything and immediately book a flight to London to see her if that were the case.
Oh, yeah...Cate Blanchett would be perfection!
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17 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I've seen it a ton of times before and watched it last night mainly because I haven't seen
it in years. Loretta's character is too hysterical to take seriously. She always seems to
be on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The main story of Eddie unmasking Welles as
a Nazi is fairly interesting and done with some nice touches, but it's rather predictable.
What I most enjoy about the movie is the small town setting and especially the character
of Potter, the owner of the general store. Hey let's open up that little man's suitcase, shall
we? I just need a witness. Thanks. And when he puts on his eye shade during an especailly
tough game of checkers. Hilarious. One minor point is how the heck did the little Nazi guy
manage to knock out Eddie with just one lucky swing of that gym equipment. Hmmm.
It's funny, Vautrin I've seen that film many times, always enjoy it but only saw the bit in this latest showing where Loretta is dealing with the lady at the house, who drops down as if she is having a heart attack, preventing Loretta from going to the tower. I think I am prejudiced against Loretta, since her hysterics did start making me laugh. I always think she is gorgeous in films, but I'm not the biggest fan of her acting. But all in all, the film is a good one and Welles is always interesting as is Eddie G. so it is still worthy watching.
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27 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
In PENNY PRINCESS (1952) Dirk Bogarde visits a country called Lampidorra and tastes some made-up food called "schneese." Sounds like fun to me!
I love Dirk Bogarde and would follow him anywhere. Thanks, TB!
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On 9/22/2018 at 8:15 AM, Fedya said:
How about the Martian dancers in Just Imagine (1930)?
That scene looks incredible! I want to visit there too...
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On 9/22/2018 at 3:25 AM, Wayne said:
Santa Rosita Beach State Park
Is there still some treasure left from the mad, mad, mad, mad world hunt???
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On 9/22/2018 at 1:00 AM, Dargo said:
So Hoganman, you wouldn't at least attempt to strike up a conversation with Yvonne at the bar?
You remember Yvonne, don't ya?! Yeah, THAT'S right. The good lookin' French dame who yells...
...after everyone, except of course Strasser's men, sings a rousing chorus of La Marseillaise.
(...well, I would've anyway)
I hadn't gotten to your post when I wrote my post to Hoganman with pretty much the same sentiments, Dargo.
Of course mine did not include Yvonne, as yours did . Why am I not surprised? -
On 9/21/2018 at 7:40 PM, Hoganman1 said:
I would love to put on a 40s style suit and tie and walk in to Rick's American Cafe. I would have either Carl or Sasha serve me a cocktail. I would light a cigarette, sit back, and listen to Sam play his piano. Maybe Rick would come over and join me. Maybe Captain Renault would ask me to join him at the roulette wheel. Maybe Ilsa Lund would come in and ask Sam to play "As Time Goes By". That would be a perfect evening for me.
Pretty perfect fantasy, Hoganman!
I do expect you to lead a rousing version of La Marseillaise if Major Strasser comes in though... -
On 9/21/2018 at 6:32 PM, Midge said:
I would like to live in any of those 1930's Art Deco nightclubs, wear a slinky evening gown and be whirled around the dance floor by Fred Astaire in white tie and tails.
Well, a wish shared by many I would guess.
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On 9/21/2018 at 6:11 PM, cigarjoe said:
I hope there's no ticky-tacky little boxes there for people to live in?
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On 9/20/2018 at 11:42 PM, hamradio said:
That looks like Star Trek meets Forbidden Planet.
Interesting you say that since I think the costumes were based on ones from the FP movie.
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On 9/20/2018 at 11:38 PM, Dargo said:
Okay, now while the following may seem as "kinky" as the Nipster's apparent constant wish to have an encounter with a 50ft tall woman, I'll now say that I'd LOVE to visit the planet Venus.
No, NOT the real planet of Venus, but the imaginary Venus envisioned in that 1958 camp classic Queen of Outer Space !
I mean what's NOT to like here, RIGHT?! I'd be surrounded by a bunch of really hot young women dressed in those sexy, short and form-fitting Mid-Century style gowns and watchin' 'em prancin' around in those high-heels!
(...Yep, and MAYBE even gettin' into a little fun "wrestling" action with 'em like lucky Dave Willock is doin' here!)
That's what I like about you, Dargo! While the rest of us wallow in B-movie classics, or shop worn movies with ancient cliches, you stay true to form of only liking the most sophisticated fare known to man and it must be written by someone with a fine pedigree like Ben Hecht, newspaperman extraordinaire and script writer beyond comparison!
I know that you are just saying it is the pulchritude of the Venusian women in this flick that held your interest, as you don't want us to think you are an elitist egghead who only liked the film really because of the Hecht connection and his brilliance in the Hollywood pantheon of writers.
Bravo!
P.S. I own the dvd, if you'd ever like to borrow it?-
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On 9/20/2018 at 9:30 PM, Emily Emerac said:
I'd like to be a weekend guest at one of the posh homes featured in movies of the 30s and 40s. The ones with large rooms packed with gorgeous and tasteful furniture. I'd especially like to spend time in one that had a breakfast nook, window seats, a well-stocked library, and a spacious patio. There should be a formal dining room, a game room, and perhaps an exercise room. Of course there would be a lovely garden, and staff to wait on me. There might be a stable, a kennel, and a pool with a little fountain or waterfall. And the weather would be perfect all the time, the company witty and beautiful, and the candy dishes always full.
I would say that this is a fabulous wish, Emily. Just remember though, most homes like that in movies, with all those amenities end up having a murder victim lying dead in the library, with a few bullet holes in the area above their cravats! Don't put any of the really expensive Persian rugs in that room, just in case.
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On 9/20/2018 at 9:20 PM, NipkowDisc said:
Tony's Bar & Grill
One of the greatest scenes in movies ever filmed!!!!
Thanks, Nip and by the way I also think Yvette Vickers deserved some kind of award too for her role in this classic. -
On 9/20/2018 at 8:31 PM, Fedya said:
I'd go to Manderlay, but you can never go back.
Don't ask the second Mrs. DeWinter her first name though, because she won't tell it to anyone!
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On 9/20/2018 at 7:17 PM, sagebrush said:
I'd like to visit Bedford Falls (of It's A Wonderful Life.) It looks like a quaint little town and the folks (except Potter and his posse) are friendly and genuine.
And you would get to see Bert and Ernie too! And Violet before she became a prostitute...
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On 9/22/2018 at 7:29 PM, Vautrin said:
If I remember it correctly, there is a Baker Street, but not a 221B Baker Street. The Holmes-Watson
apartment in the Universal Holmes' series is pretty cozy with shelves full of books. Must be especially
comfy on a rainy afternoon. I always get a kick out of how quiet most apartments are in the movies.
No loud music, no arguments heard through thin walls, nobody heavy footing it on the ceiling. Sure.
Yes, while in London I decided to make a visit to Baker Street, hoping to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Hudson, or Moriarity or at least Mycroft Holmes leaving the abode, but alas no such luck and no such exact address. Trying to assuage my sadness I then went on the trek to find the Olde Curiosity Shop, which though only called that after the novel, still was thought to be an inspiration for the antique shop. They say that when Dickens wrote Little Nell's death scene, he cried, since he often did not know in advance his characters' fates. Personally though, Little Nell was a bit too saccharine for my taste. After giving up on seeing Holmes' home, I thought the next best thing was to visit the home of Samuel Johnson, since there was that one Basil Rathbone movie, where they hid the bank plates there in his library. Didn't see Boswell though, so it was a bust.
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23 hours ago, TopBilled said:
CG,
Who is the source for this? I'm curious to know more about the author you are quoting. Did this come from wiki, or from somewhere else?
Obviously I don't agree with the first line which I put in bold.
Hey, TB!
I have no idea where I got that write-up, but shall try to refind it.
It was not that I totally believe the article's validity, but it seemed to express my original belief that the one big difference between the "Man-Child" persona versus the "Woman-Child" one is that the term is used much more pejoratively in the male version. For example, one might say the character played by Yvette Mimieux in "Light in the Piazza" was a Woman-Child but she would still be seen as a much more appealing person than a character like some played by Jerry Lewis or Adam Sandler. I think women are allowed to be childlike and it is acceptable, much more than when the qualities are in a male. Just my take though, and I did think characters you mentioned like Baby Snooks actually are on the same strata as a Jim Carrey or other Man-Child in their motifs.
Will try to find the original article I ripped it off from...-
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On 9/20/2018 at 6:32 PM, Dargo said:
Why of course...FREEDONIA!!!
Always seemed like a pretty nice place to visit.
(...well, whenever there's not all that strife with its neighboring country of Sylvania, anyway)
Also didn't you once say your grandfather made his fortune by starting the largest manufacturing plant in the world for Freon, in Freedonia?
I guess that money he made wasn't imaginary, now was it, Dargo?
Sylvania is nice, but Transylvania is where they have all the cross dressing trees I've heard. -
On 9/23/2018 at 2:40 AM, misswonderly3 said:
Damn, you beat me to it ! I was thinking, "how come nobody's mentioned Ryan's Daughter ? I'll be the first !"
Oh well. Makes me wonder if not many people have seen it. I agree, the role of the gentle, quiet, passive middle-aged teacher who almost reluctantly marries the beautiful much younger Sarah Miles is very "unlike" what we usually associate with Robert Mitchum.
Although, hold on...his character is quiet and passive. And when he realizes his SPOILER wife is having a passionate affair with a war-ravaged English soldier, he's also kind of resigned to it.
"Quiet" "Passive" "Resigned" - hey, I never thought of it that way before, but actually, Mitch clearly was able to discover aspects of his typical screen character in the role of Charles Shaughnessy.
I was always interested in seeing Ryan's Daughter, but for some reason, the film is rarely screened and it's hard to find. I was delighted when TCM finally aired it a couple of years or so ago. I'd always wanted to see it because:
a) It was one of those films I'd always heard about, even when it first came out (when I was quite young, I hasten to add)
b) It's set in the time of the Irish Easter uprising, when tensions between the Irish and the English were very high. I find Ireland fascinating anyway, and that particular part of its history extremely sad and interesting ( have you seen Odd Man Out? )
c) It stars Robert Mitchum - - playing an Irish man !
I'm honored that we are so aligned in appreciating this movie.
Loved reading your reasons why, and I totally concur, Miss Wonderly. The typical Mitchum persona was seemingly hidden in this portrayal and it was quite touching.-
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
LOL
Yeeeeaaaah, suuuuuure.
Alrighty then. And so, while I know it's never polite to ask a person the following, but...
GEEEZ, exactly how old ARE you, madam???
(...or considering the topic at hand, should I have addressed you as "LAAAAY-DEEEE" here???)
If I said I was older than Hermione Gingold, would that mean our engagement is off???
Now that would make me around one-hundred and twenty-two years old and being an ageist and still youthful, you'd probably rather date two women of only sixty-one years of age, wouldn't you, you cad!-
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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So funny!
By the way, following that film they are showing Malick's "Badlands". Anyone who really enjoys noirish women should enjoy seeing the fictionalized story of serial killer, Charles Starkweather and his teen girlfriend, Caril Fugate. Though Charlie was convicted and executed for wanting to look like James Dean while also killing eleven people, his 14-year old girlfriend, basically got off with only serving 17 years, even though some think she was the trigger happy exponent. In the mid-1970's she was released from prison, changed her name and went on to live a normal life, though some say her perfect record at the prison only showed one thing in her twisted personality. That she would follow anyone or anything and had no mind of her own, so if she later hooked up with the BTK fellow, she would have also gone on a killing spree with him, just not in the Badlands. The movie stars Spacek and Sheen and the score is fantastic with selections from Carl Orff and Eric Satie amongst others.