LornaHansonForbes
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I had been told by multiple people that WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (the book) was not good, so I was completely refreshed by how funny and touching it was.
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48 minutes ago, Swithin said:
How could anyone hate Howard's End?
are for Maurice, A Room with a View, and A Passage to India (not necessarily in that order) over Howard's End, but I am quite fond of the latter. I also like Where Angels Fear to Tread, but that's in a minor league, in terms of the Forster films. I'm sorry that my favorite Forster novel (and his favorite) has never been filmed: The Longest Journey.
I could see someone getting very angry and/or let down by THE END of HOWARD'S END (not the house, the end of the film.) I understand why it ends the way it does, but I could see some feeling as if MORE RESOLUTION or DRAMATICS were needed (those people are mostly NOT BRITISH.)
edit- for the record, I do like the film, but the first time I saw it, I may have uttered "is that it?!" out loud in my local cineplex ca. May, 1993.
I also understand anyone who finds HELENA BONHAM CARTER's performance or character to be polarizing or unlikeable- I have SUCH hard time watching the scenes where they- with the best of intentions- ruin the life of poor Mr. Bast.
It's not a film for everyone, and I get that.
MAURICE is one of my FAVORITE NOVELS OF ALL TIME; I was stunned by how engrossed I was in A PASSAGE TO INDIA, I really like A ROOM WITH A VIEW and- honestly- I absolutely adored WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD- In fact, I found part of the genesis for a screenplay I wrote a couple years back from it. it might actually be my second favorite behind MAURICE.
I have not yet read THE LONGEST JOURNEY.
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**also to note in re: HOWARDS END, I was an OSCAR JUNKIE at the time and didn't get the chance to see the film until after OSCAR NIGHT...and for some reason, THE CLIP THEY CHOSE to air for HOWARD'S END during the CEREMONY was of THE FALLING BOOKSHELF "CLIMAX"- which pretty much blew the ending for me at least. And I imagine some others.
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I forgot to mention that some days ago I rewatched
HOWARD'SHOWARDS END (1992) on TUBI [Lord, what someone reading sentence that 30 years ago would think...)
That it is one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMS OF THE 1990s is, for me, beyond debate...but EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT IS...
if some of you LOVE IT, I understand. If some of you HATE it, I understand. For me, I saw it in the spring of 1992, and besides instilling me with a lifelong passion for GARDENING, I have to say, I think now as I think then: it is a little on the tepid side.
And don't get me wrong, I get what it's all about, (Alfie), I really do...but as someone who later on in life took a real liking to THE WORKS OF EM FORSTER, I don't think this film is as good or as dynamic as it could be...and it doesn't lack for fine performances. I went in DETERMINED to dislike VANESSA REDGRAVE, but I can't, she gives such a warm performance without being fey; and ANTHONY HOPKINS excels in the opposite direction- ice cold and blocking his face with a hand when being overcome with long-repressed emotion at the end.
While I disagree with people who say 1991 was a crummy year for movies, I actually DO think 1992 was a crummy year for films [and women's roles], and as much as I LOVE EMMA THOMPSON AND AM THRILLED SHE WON AN ACTING OSCAR FOR SOMETHING...I just don't get it for this.
I'm sorry. I don't. She's charming, she's likeable, the technique is fine and on point, but it's not an Oscar part...crying scene in front of the mirror aside, it's not.
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I am sure it will shock ABSOLUTELY NONE OF YOU that I ABSOLUTELY LIVED FOR FAYE DUNAWAY IN "SUPERGIRL" from the moment I saw it at age 7 to the present day.
110% TEAM SELENA and not just because HELEN SLATER is SUCH a DRIP.
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14 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I seem to recall reading that Smantha Fox had breast reduction surgery a number of years ago.
I wish I could remember some of the headlines the British tabloids used at the time.
“A NATION IN MOURNING: POP VIX DOES EIGHTY-SIX ON BRISTOL BITS!!!
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(I’m just really hoping 2022 is the year using chains to frame the crotch finally becomes THE UNIVERSAL FASHION MOVEMENT that it deserves to be.)
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Just now, CinemaInternational said:
Well, those babies were once insured for £1,000,000 apiece!
AND WORTH EVERY PENCE!
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4 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
I saw "Playing for Time" when it debuted in 1980. ... I have a VHS tape somewhere.
$50 says so does MR. GORMAN....
(probably three, in fact)
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i swear to God, any of you who are feeling New Year's malaise or struggling with depression, PLEASE WATCH THE ABOVE VIDEO.
Those chains on the crotch get me giggling EVERY TIME.
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(#2- for reference)
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Coming in 2022:
SIR DAME EDNA
LADY SAMANTHA FOX
BARONESS DOT COTTON
and LULU, VISCOUNTESS OF THE EXCHEQUER
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Its a shame that we don’t live in a world where
“SIR KEN RUSSELL’S “THE DEVILS” starring DAME VANESSA REDGRAVE”
could’ve blazed across marquees at one time…
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17 minutes ago, jakeem said:
…be interesting to see if Glenda Jackson -- another politically conscious actress who reportedly declined the honor in the past -- follows suit.
I have a feeling that particular reply would go something rather like this:
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She’s still alive tho right?
I can’t take any more shocks today…-
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I watched a four-part documentary on our old friend INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY that was UNFORTUNATELY TITLED THE KEN AND BARBIE KILLERS. It's intelligently told and well-crafted enough that i SUSPECT the producers or at least the director lobbied HARD for it to be called something else, because that title is just A "NO" on many levels.
it is the story of CANADIAN SERIAL KILLER PAUL BERNARDO and his girlfriend CARLA HOMOLKA, which is a tale I have seen told before in truncated one hour episodes of other ID series, and IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE THAT HAS STUCK IN MY MIND, this really filled in a lot of blanks left by those other docs, getting DEEP in to just HOW BADLY the WHOLE CASE was handled by almost everyone involved in the Canadian Criminal Justice System....
In the end, I kinda got the impression that THE KIDS IN THE HALL actually went easy on THE CANADIAN COPS as opposed to embellishing on their quaint (and utter) stupidity.
Also, I have to add, that as an AMERICAN, it was kind of refreshing in an odd way to see the many CANADIAN witnesses/family members/friends/ and other figures were PROFOUNDLY DECENT PEOPLE to their cores; people who were shocked by such UTTER DEPRAVITY happening in their country...the kind of people who say "H.E. Double Hockey Sticks" upon stubbing their toes in the morning were wrapping their minds around the kind of **** we Americans see on the way to the Wal-Mart about four times out of ten, and it was, in a hard way to explain, incredibly endearing and touching.
i recommend it.
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On 12/28/2021 at 4:02 PM, CinemaInternational said:
Winter People (1989) -- 4/10 Source:TCM
Entirely oddball, Winter People never hits the mark. The film ultimately seems so incredibly odd and unconvincing that it never succeeds in holding interest. Its set in rural North Carolina in the 30s, but the film treats the characters as such unsophisticated hicks that it feels like its set far earlier, even in spite of the presence of cars. Its supposed to be a romance between Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis, with a bit of Hatfield/McCoy goings on in the background. It never gels, and we're left with moments like Russell prancing around in a bear hide. Both Russell and McGillis try their best; they are far superior to the material. Another saving grace is that it is beautifully photographed. But most has to be chalked up as a most bizarre misfire.this is wild.
i have been away in the MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA for the past few days and i got back and opened my TCM and boom, I saw this.
I'm about 1/2thru it and I'm liking it more than you thus far.
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16 hours ago, EricJ said:
Well, that's just it: Yar's Revenge is remembered as probably the BEST game on the Atari, but even that couldn't sponge the writing off the wall for the company (and its management) by '83.
(And on that note)
The 2014 documentary I watched about finding all the ET cartridges in the New Mexico dump took a *very long* aside to make the developer of the ET game feel a little bit better about himself. They actually brought on the guy who created “Yars revenge” To claim that it was a far worse game than “ET”ever was…. Even though anyone with a computer can just go to YouTube and see both games played through on every level and tell for themselves that this is not true.
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4 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
So we've gone from the remake of WEST SIDE STORY to mask-wearing. Interesting. 🙃
For me, a thread never gets *really interesting* until we’re talking about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the original post.
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9 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
I live in Texas. Attitudes are very different here.
I’m guessing not Austin then….
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Also I have to admit, while I can appreciate a contrarian point of view, the impassioned defenses that “ET the extra terrestrial” was not in fact a bad video game kind of boggle my mind.
I mean, “yars revenge” might’ve been really bad, but I’ve seen The gameplay on ET and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
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12 hours ago, EricJ said:
Actually, as covered in the documentary Atari: Game Over (2014), state higher-ups in Nevada finally allowed the urban-legendary landfill to be dug up and the mystery solved, and gamers across the country came to witness history:
While there were a good percentage of "E.T.", the dump was for Atari's unsold cartridges in general, as they were liquidating their stock for financial difficulties the next year, and there were just as many Yar's Revenge to be found as E.T.
...Another myth busted, as we reject the Internet's reality and substitute our own. 😑
I actually watched that documentary on Tubi.
It was a bit mind-boggling that that many people cared that much about proving something SO ESOTERIC when, you know, the truth is still presumably out there about aliens, JFK, the cure for cancer, who canceled “Battlestar Galactica” etc. etc.
I mean it was nice to see people Get that excited about anything, but personally I kind of felt like save it for when they find the shroud of Turin or the ark of the covenant or the Russian Hooker peepee tape.
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5 hours ago, King Rat said:
Has anyone else seen Diary of a Seduction, a TV movie where's Rita's best friend Susan Flannery (no, not THAT kind of best friend!) is seduced by Rita's son, played by . . . would you believe Jameson Parker? Jameson Parker is lovely and languid, but Rita is not exactly ethnically correct as the mother of this blond babe.
I did not….what year did it come out? sounds trashy as hell
Will look on YouTube
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9 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Thanks, You've given me another very good reason to dislike that filthy man (MARLON BRANDO)
And what a mess he made out of being a parent.
What a mess he made out of everything really. I remember quite a few years ago TCM made an original documentary about Brando and they got all of these various actors to rhapsodize about him and talk about his “unusual” behavior, which they found charming but which any reasonable person would find completely disgusting.
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I Just Watched...
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Oh my God, you’re right!
all these years and I have had no idea!!!
Thank you.