Vautrin
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1 hour ago, TheCid said:
The only thing I know about Baudelaire is that he is in a comic comment in The Wheeler Dealers.
Charley's really getting whacked, movie-wise. I presume that they were using actual translations
from Baudelaire, but who knows. There is a dark, somewhat purple prose or rather poetry side
to his work, but that is hardly the only thing in his poetry. There was an hilarious episode of
the 1960s version of Dragnet where some high school kid reads Baudelaire and other French poets
of that time and takes them too literally and goes out and commits crimes. Of course we learn
that Sgt. Friday knows quite a bit about Baudelaire, though Gannon seems clueless.
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The great French poet Charles Baudelaire playing second fiddle to a bunch of dull
English Johnnies. Tres triste.
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I think there was a little competition between Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman as to who
could look more uninterested and bored.
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6 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Yeah, I wouldn't mind TCM Underground on Fridays at midnight, TCM Imports Saturdays at midnight, and Silent Sundays having a double feature on Sundays instead of the usual one, or one + a short. Move the Saturday Noir showing to 10:00 PM ET.
As of now, the Saturday late nights, after the Noir, seem to be a mixed bag of usually newer films from the 70s, 80s or 90s. I'd like to see those spread out around the schedule.
Sounds good to me. Of course one could always record the ones that start very late,
but that's just another hassle.
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I don't really care that much about the hosts, but I wish they would move TCM Imports
from its time slot after Silent Sundays to a more reasonable hour, maybe midnight on
Friday or another week day.
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22 hours ago, arpirose said:
Are they going to play John Ford's THE INFORMER 1935,which was about the Irish rebellion of 1922 that eventually brought forth Irish Independence. The Informer is a great Ford film (that made Ford's reputation as a serious director) that is virtually forgotten.
Partial Irish independence
. Nothing wrong with Irish themed films, as long as no one is
forced to eat corned beef and cabbage.
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7 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Did you feel you wasted 79 minutes? Here's a short review someone posted on the IMDb, and no, it was not me:
The knight in the shining armor scenes are the greatest! I couldn't stop laughing. What a great piece of comedy. Fantastic!
79 minutes isn't that much time for a movie, so I didn't mind watching it. To me it's an
average entry in the crazy wife upsets hubby's life but everything works out fine in the
end plot. It has some nice comedy scenes but nothing that had me howling with laughter.
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5 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Wow, Bloom was an unlikely sex object but still boiler room material.
I found her very sexy in Medium Cool as the small town mom who moved to the
crazy big city. A understated and quiet sexy, but still sexy.
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Yeah, that guy really didn't like the Chili Peppers. Of course these things are
subjective and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but GFY.
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6 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Agreed.
Times may change but intrinsically people often don't.Yes they may change a bit, but most of the old Adam and Eve are
still here.
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I finally got around to watching Are Husbands Necessary? Yeah this move was not
necessary. It has it moments, but it's just another average addition to the quirky
wife and reasonable hubby plot, with nothing much to add to it. It's no surprise
that it's an indirect ancestor to I Love Lucy.
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I remember Verna Bloom best from Medium Cool, which also starred Marianna Hill.
A few years later they were both in High Plains Drifter. Two very sexy dames.
Marianna is still with us.
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All things considered, I will stick with poteen.
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1 hour ago, GordonCole said:
Glad to see a fan of Bierce is also a movie fan. I do wonder what he would have to say if he was alive now coming up with definitions about people on the internet, movie fan posters and let's not even go into politics. A sage wit he was, and still relevant at least to a selected audience. Thanx.
I can't claim to be a big fan of Bierce as I haven't read much of his fiction, but I have
enjoyed The Devil's Dictionary for many years. And much of DD can be applied to
today's scene with minor changes in terminology. Not all of the definitions hit home
but a large number do and tellingly so.
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One of my favorite Bierce definitions is Egotist, n. A person of low taste,
more interested in himself than in me.
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If you can't make Casablanca into a noir your Bob Mitchum decoder ring should
be confiscated.
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Whatever one wants to call it, a fairly entertaining movie, if not exactly a tightly
plotted one. I get a kick out of mini-Mengele with his German accent and shades.
The close-ups of him trying to get the shutdown juice into poor Bob's arm was like
a b&w version of similar ones in some Warhol flicks. And Bob topless looks like he
should have spent a little more time at the gym and less knocking back brews.
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Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.
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The scene where an imaginary spider pops up in the mind of a character in
Ingmar Bergman flicks. I like Bergman, but chill on the spiders dude.
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Slaveholders are rightfully offended at the inclusion of TR on Mount Rushmore.
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
I guess since they paid for the paintings they may as well get good use out of them.
Probably. I'm hoping that after that episode of Burke's Law was filmed, Gene
Barry asked the producers to get rid of that ugly piece of crap...Burke's law.
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2 hours ago, timberic said:
Siren is great as well.
I think Siren is one of the better know RM albums to Americans, though that is not
the reason it's my favorite. As you likely know, Roxy Music never did very well in
the U.S. as compared to the U.K.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Funny.
Yeah, that was the last place I expected to see that painting. A total surprise.
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6 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
I saw the portrait one of Joan Bennett sitting on an office desk in another film not to long ago. 😎
They did tend to recycle sets and various props and at least the Joan Bennett portrait
doesn't make you want to close your eyes on seeing it. Sorry Eddie, stick to your
day (acting) job.
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. Nothing wrong with Irish themed films, as long as no one is
Noir Alley
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Yes, Harmonie du Soir is the title of a Baudelaire poem. I'm guessing that this is
Douglas' translation of that poem, perhaps a rather free translation. And funny
that the Hardwicke's character's last name is Wilde. Next time let them pick on
Verlaine.