NipkowDisc
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Variety has a piece on the early reactions to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-force-awakens-reviews-premiere-reactions-1201661338
unconvincing. the people saying they liked it are for the most part bleeping celebs.
I shall wait for the reaction of normal regular filmgoers.
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I'd like to see Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die with mike connors, terry-thomas and dorothy provine (who does an excellent british accent) and mission stardust with lang jeffries as Perry Rhodan. ain't italian but that essy persson is one hot extraterrestrial babe.
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The force may have awakened but I just went back to sleep after seeing the teaser!
people will wind up rooting for kylo ren.
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directed by j.j. abrams, the guy who paramount decided to let finish off what was left of star trek?
no thanks.
only thing I might glean from it is the new music by the always incomparable John Williams.
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charade? is that the one with walter matthau as the killer and he falls through the floor at the end?
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but it's an impossibility for them to get a hold of hot spell?
is Charade on permanent standby like NBNW or GWTW?
I'd like to see a cgi recreation of the decor of the twentieth century limited.
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The East Side Kids pictures were produced by Sam Katzman and were incredibly cheap. When you compare the Katzman (Banner Films) unit films with the Lindsley Parsons films produced by Monogram, it's like night and day. The Katzman films had careless photography, lousy miking and a total lack of editing pace. A few of the East Side Kids films managed to rise above their terrible production values because they had interesting scenarios - 'NEATH BROOKLYN BRIDGE was one; MR. WISE GUY was another.
Years ago, WPIX used to run the East Side Kids films and someone put reels 3 and 5 of CLANCY STREET BOYS out of order and they ran it that way several times. Nobody knew the difference!
In 1946, Gorcey's agent Jan Grippo and Monogram's Linsdley Parsons took over the series and rechristened the name and the characters. THE BOWERY BOYS films are, in my opinion, leagues ahead of the East Side Kids pictures.
TCM also runs the Warners Dead End Kids features. The one series that has been missing in action for decades is Universal's Dead End Kids / Little Tough Guys films. While none of these are classics (LITTLE TOUGH GUY is a very, very good film and Universal's first in the series), they are all fast-paced with typically high Universal production values. One of the rarest of these is CODE OF THE STREETS, which only features the Little Tough Guys (Frankie Thomas, Harris Berger, Hally - later Hal E. - Chester) and Harry Carey. Paul Fix has a wonderful monologue in this film as a small-time hood who realizes he's been on the wrong road. It would be nice if Universal would excavate these films from their dust bin.
I like the one where a mad scientist transfers sach's mind into the body of a neanderthal.. it's hilarious.
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but it's an impossibility for them to get a hold of hot spell?
is Charade on permanent standby like NBNW or GWTW?
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What kind of squash are you interested in exactly?
the kind that eddie haskell prefered to june cleaver's roast beef.
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It's either a bunched up gathering of hair on the back of the head, or a bread roll in which you place a hamburger patty or a frankfurter. However.....
I THINK Nip meant ot say "BUNS"
But also, knowing Nip from this board, I wouldn't be surprised if "bun" was the way HE spells "bone".
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I meant posterior....
what's a bum? a hobo or tramp.
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I will admit to a sentimental attraction to the Coppola winey. My wife and I went there the first month or so it opened. The wine tasting was free (it is now around $20) and they let us taste a lot of the wine and tour the place. So it was a very romantic experience. We had one of those portable foldout benches for two and walked to a hillside and had our lunch.
So when we were watching TCM and that wine promo was on and I asked if she remembered the place. She just gave me a wink. So yea, even if that place served pineapple juice we will always have that memory.
does the tcm classic cruise onboard cuisine include squash?
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so like I was sayin'...
vino is more important to tcm than the rare and unseen like hot spell and the uk version of william cameron menzies' invaders from mars...with added scenes shot with arthur franz, helena carter and jimmy hunt for it's uk release.
as these great self-professed devotees of cinema, that's what tcm oughta be concerned with and not vino for their hoy-faloy classic cruise passengers.
slackers!
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Did anyone watch The Mole People (1956) last night? I don't think I had ever seen it. Shades of The Time Machine and Journey to the Center of the Earth, though made a few years before either of those great films.
Some annoying bits: the fact that a couple of the characters went a bit crazy and would run at the slightest sign of danger. And that how two of them -- Lafarge and Adad -- met their demises. I thought it was unnecessary to kill off Adad at the end.
Interesting that, in The Mole People, the ugly Morlock-type creatures were actually the slaves; and the Eloi/human-type were villains.
But all in all, an enjoyable, interesting film. And Svengoolie had some particularly clever shtick.
I first saw the mole people when I was a kid on our black & white living room TV set (on a saturday afternoon) and loved it. doan forget, we space cadet types spent all our non-school formative years staring at the idiot box. that's why we're space cadets.
how can you not love that nostalgic 1950s opening by the beloved Dr. Frank Baxter who along with richard carlson gave us those wonderful scholastic bell systems science films like hemo the magnificent and the unchained goddess.
I'll take frank baxter over walt disney any day.
svengoolie may not think much of Dr. Baxter but he's a putz anyway.
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hey, maybe they're not happy with tcm's programming either.
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I think its a rinsing out of the inside of your bum.
you mean bun.
"he was very clean." -hawkeye, mash ep, 'sticky wicket'
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Whaddya mean?
He IS an enigma!
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is that anything like a captain midnight decoder ring?
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the man to play Donald Trump is simple...
ALEC BALDWIN
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Oh yeah, I suppose there's a legitimate correlative quality which can be drawn between Donald Trump and the character of Howard Roark, and played by the great Gary Cooper here, alright.
Yep, both seem to espouse sophomoric and simpleminded little bromides for all the complex problems in the world.
But then again in Coop's defense, he was only mouthing the words of the sophomoric Ms. Rand in that lame movie, and so ya can't really blame him for that.
(...but at this time and try as I might to think of one, I just don't seem to be able to muster any kind of defense for Mr. Trump's constant sophomoric utterances)
why should stopping and destroying psychopaths be complicated.
just blow 'em up.
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He blows up and destroys a building. Sounds more like a terrorist to me. Trump wouldn't let him enter the country.
courtland was unoccupied.
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the individual thinks for himself subordinating himself to no man.
bit by bit, but he moves the world.
so many elsworth toohey's here against colorization and donald trump.
we are not impressed.
donald trump has done the american grassroots' bidding.
and what is that, shipmates?....
to preach the truth!....in the face of falsehood!!!
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the individual thinks for himself subordinating himself to no man.
bit by bit, but he moves the world.
so many elsworth toohey's here against colorization and donald trump.
we are not impressed.
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It
It, The Terror From Beyond Wall Street.
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Yruo era ecolwem!
you are welcome. I got it!
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I often feel like Gauguin felt reading post by this user.
there's...there's not one of us that doesn't need attachments. because when you think about it. so much of life is wasted.
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you mispelled prerogative.
I use to make that mistake.