NipkowDisc
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well, it's not like I will be missing out on tcm's ever changing coffer of movies.
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my cable system put the kibosh on it today.
moved it to a non-basic package.
this is tcm's fault!
they shoulda put Hot Spell on for me.
I hope they're satisfied.
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is the movie gonna show how scared sheetless comey was to even be in the same room with trump?
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2 hours ago, nakano said:
Jack Warner to Hal Wallis on Paul Muni about Pasteur :Who would want to see a movie about a chemist?” or the New York office “Who'd want to see a picture about pasteurized milk? And after the release Warner said:Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars.".
I always watch it and consider it a great biopic. they made the story compelling with the ignorance that muni's heroic Pasteur had to combat.
an excellent film so jack warner can just turn
in his grave.
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duke and roy rogers.
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22 hours ago, GGGGerald said:
Actors like John Wayne have the distinct advantage of being in movies from the beginning of sound all through the golden era. He could be the "first" to do many things others can only copy.
Not really a fair comparison.
duke was in a few silents too.
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Duke and marguerite churchill in the big trail.
she's holding a chicken.
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paul muni was a very great actor. watched the valiant last nite and I wish he woulda admitted to his sister who he was and the actress who played her was hot.
if he wasn't her brother than what was his reason for hiding his identity? at the closing shot of his mother in her wheelchair comforted with the thought her son died a doughboy hero I thought the picture of muni in his WWI uniform was unintentionally funny with that grin.
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1. a pristine digitally mastered print of THIS ISLAND EARTH
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2. Akira Kurasawa's Throne of Blood...colorized
"trees can't move you fools!"
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right! in America we call him Godzilla.
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12 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/samuel-l-jackson-martin-scorseses-marvel-1203360546/
Samuel L. Jackson Responds to Martin Scorsese’s Marvel Comments
Samuel L. Jackson has responded to Martin Scorsese’s comments that Marvel films aren’t real cinema.
“I mean that’s like saying Bugs Bunny ain’t funny. Films are films. Everybody doesn’t like his stuff either,” Jackson told Variety‘s Angelique Jackson at the grand opening of Tyler Perry’s new studio in Atlanta, Ga. “Everybody’s got an opinion, so I mean it’s okay. Ain’t going to stop nobody from making movies.”
Jackson’s comments were in response to an interview Scorsese gave Empire magazine, in which “The Irishman” filmmaker likened the superhero films to theme parks.
“I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” Scorsese said. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
Earlier on the carpet, Jackson praised Perry, the evening’s man of the hour, calling him both “a real one” and “a real anomaly.”
“Everybody has dreams about things they want to do and what they hope to accomplish. Tyler has been one of those visionaries that taps into his visions and makes them happen,” Jackson said. “And that’s amazing. Everybody doesn’t have that acumen.”
The Marvel actor also shared his surprise that his Nick Fury alter ego hasn’t made an appearance in the “Black Panther” futuristic city of Wakanda; although he hopes that changes soon.
“How did Nick Fury not end up in Wakanda?,” Jackson said. “I’m sure he’s been there, at least to the club.”
how did nick fury become a negro when for decades he was white???
and he smoked cigars too.
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Japanese culture has long had a militaristic martial foundation. I once heard somebody on the radio say that WWII Japanese military leaders approached war as an abstract concept. it's like they expect everyone to understand that brutalities are a part of war like the bataan death march or corregidor.
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14 hours ago, slaytonf said:
I've talked about how I admire this movie for the themes it explores, the somber mood it creates, and the tragic ending with its joyless victory (http://forums.tcm.com/topic/127760-sympathy-for-the-monster/). One thing I was oblivious to was the effect of this movie on Japanese audiences. Needless to say, it must have been stunning, touching a very raw and unhealed nerve in the common psyche. A large destructive force, radioactive, that lays waste to cities, destroys and maims people. Ben Mankiewicz in his comments called the monster a metaphor for the atomic age, but I'm sure audiences saw something else in addition. The association of the monster with the United States and it's defeat of Japan with nuclear weapons would be inescapable. No nation enjoys the sharp sting of defeat. It is akin to death, and desperate measures are resorted to for coping with the assault on self-worth. The Viet Nam War is still problematic with us, and it didn't involve any devastation to our country or government. Imagine the psychic wound the Japanese felt, a people and culture even more proud, if possible, than we are. Perhaps there was morbid fascination with a subject matter that hewed so closely to painful matters. But perhaps there was also a certain therapeutic effect, allowing people, if only metaphorically to achieve some sense of control over their world by defeating the monster, and doing it with a weapon of fearsome power that they willingly give up.
and yet having fought and killed each other in a great war has brought us closer in spirit to the great Japanese people. no longer enemies but now friends and allies and comrades in arms.
so often those we have fought later become our brothers.
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On 7/8/2019 at 6:31 AM, TomJH said:
The title of your thread would have worked better (spelling wise) if you had used this actor for your illustration, Nip.
Alexander Knox?
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they constantly work on minimizing superman. in my comic book days superman was so powerful he could move the earth so him getting competition from Batman or the Hulk even is laughable.
today's comic book schtootzes dedicate themselves to erasing all past established canon.
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15 hours ago, hamradio said:
From the trailer I've seen, can't personally connect this version of the Joker with Batman.
Wonder is he laughing now that Batman has teamed up with the others to form the Justice League?
Seen "Wonder Woman" (2017) for the first time last week, wasn't bad. Since she killed a god (Ares) should she be called Super Woman?
(Lynda Carter is now so lame.)
didn't know the political correctists have now made the flash a woman. notice how they hafta put the militant female superhero WW right out in front?
does she even know that she's standing with others?
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17 hours ago, EricJ said:
IOW, the same roster as on the big Criterion Blu-ray mega-set at the end of the month. (They still do the half-price sale in November, right?
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It's nice to see that Criterion and TCM still have the same mutual non-aggression treaty they had back during the happier days of Filmstruck.
I remember seeing two other Godzilla movies as a Kid. Godzilla vs. The Thing which genius ben says was an alternate title for mothra vs Godzilla and Godzilla vs. the sea monster.
anybody please clarify.
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last nite I hadda watch mothra vs. Godzilla in Japanese with English subtitles. when I was a kid these movies were shown on local independent stations and they had English dubbing as well as English titles.
question, are both Gigantis and Gojira Godzilla???
any movie network I run would be showing good ole English dubbed prints like when we were kids.
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11 hours ago, hamradio said:
Is there an English dubbed version of "Godzilla Raids Again"?
yeah, I've watched it.
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I'm looking forward to Mothra vs. Godzilla. nobody could get him quite so exasperated as mothra.
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the real mary poppins!
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to me she will always be the sweet nurse Julia that I and my siblings watched on NBC when we were kids.
whatta nice lady.
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jack palance spoke Lithuanian.
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On 7/30/2019 at 7:33 PM, Swithin said:
I SO disagree with you. I think this is one of the great films, a brilliant, carefully made conflation of horror and sci-fi. Favorite scenes: Barbara Shelley shouting "Oh God," when she sees the creature, tipping us off that the thing is her god; and that amazing possession scene with Duncan Lamont in the church.
It would be interesting to see on a double bill with The Blood on Satan's Claw. Both films feature the idea of the devil as some sort of pre-Christian horned thing, often a goat, but in Quatermass and the Pit, a sort of Martian grasshopper. In both cases, the demonization of an earlier entity.
Duncan Lamont in the possession scene.
he looks like he needs some sea water.
in his grave.
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I'm not getting it either. doan know whether it has been dropped or what.
I'm down here in snookiland.