LornaHansonForbes
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12/3/21
two films have already aired, but look for them on TCM ON DEMAND- THE SILVER CORD (1933)- an RKO Precode which premiered on TCM recently- and MADAME SATAN (1930) an UTTERLY BONKERS C.B. DEMILLE PIC that i was just by chance reading a review of this morning.
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I can truly appreciate the effort here, but it's a little "YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE SHADOW OF THE UNCANNY VALLEY" for me...
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I REMEMBER ONE NIGHT ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO....
TCM somehow by accident ran a colorized print of THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S...
It was like being HIGH ON LSD AT AN EXTRA TACKY QUINCENERA.
I kinda dug it to be honest.
But mostly I'm a firm "no" on colorization.
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12 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
@LORNA: In regards to Ida Lupino Fast forward to 1975 when Ida appeared in "The Devil's Rain" and she looked 65 not 56/57. Must've been the cigarettes. Decades of smoking usually makes a person look older.
I think the gallons of booze might have played a part as well.
ps- THE DEVILS RAIN is a masterpiece compared to FOOD OF THE GODS.
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10 hours ago, King Rat said:
Lorna, for some reason the Kinsey scale goes from 1 to 6, and I believe that 6 is the gayest one.
SEE, THIS IS WHY I LOVE THIS SITE. Even when I don't mean to, I learn new things.
6 though? That seems so arbitrary for rankings. I kinda wonder if maybe ALFRED settled on a 1-5 scale, but then had an interview with a YOUNG RIP TAYLOR that made him designate an extra-special rating for certain individuals as he dusted all the glitter off his suit.
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1 hour ago, EricJ said:
Kathleen Turner singlehandedly caused a kid to go through puberty in one minute, in The Man With Two Brains (1983)...This, by comparison, is nothing.
I keep meaning to look this one up, I’ve *never* seen it. But I do recall hearing about it on the playground at school.
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12 minutes ago, AndreaDoria said:
I just followed the trail to Youtube for, "The Man I love." Thanks, you all, I wouldn't have wanted to miss it.
I like Ida Lupino in almost everything, but here she played a character who reminded me of her great role in "High Sierra," so I really liked it.
Nobody plays, "woman in love with man who loves someone else," like Ida.
everytime i watch IDA LUPINO in anything, I always remember that she was, in fact, very British- if I recall correctly, she lived in ENGLAND until she was 17 or 18 and came to America to audition for the ill-fated 1933 ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Her whole family were BRITISH STAGE ACTORS, and she's very convincingly American in her later parts, but the combination/hybrid of the accents is so distinct and unusual, sort of like a TRANSATLANTIC/BRITISH AUCTIONEER WHO'S LIVED IN BROOKLYN FOR A FEW MONTHS.
...also, I think there is a hint of exaggeration (deliberate and loving) in her interpretation of what an AMERICAN WOMAN of the time was like.
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4 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
No ads.
And I had a loud, obnoxious one for TACO BELL.
It's like RUSSIAN ROULETTE with ADS ON YOUTUBE these days.
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3 hours ago, filmnoirguy said:
The Community Theater in Schitt's Creek presented their own version of Cabaret. I watched it again last night. LOL
2 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:That's a wonderful show, and a stunning performance of "Maybe This Time".
APOLOGIES FOR ANY ADS THAT MAY PLAY FIRST.
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17 minutes ago, PhillyCinephile said:
Andrea Martin did a deliciously wicked impersonation of La Lavin on an episode of SCTV NETWORK 90.
I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF IT THIS MORNING!!!!!!!
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28 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Sorry, I don't want to watch it in case I see it someday! (LOL). Can't believe it's on Youtube!
Me either, ‘cause Honey, it is EXPLICIT (It might actually have more sex and nudity than any other Waters film)
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25 minutes ago, AndreaDoria said:
I thought the top picture was Judy Garland at first. How could I have missed how much they look alike?
I think it's mainly the hair
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8 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Thanks for that visual! LOL. For some reason I can never remember the title of that one. [DESPERATE LIVING]
It has a great opening scene, but it loses all focus and goes downhill fast and the SETS get OUTLANDISHLY CHEAP AND SMUTTY AND DARK, it's like a GRADE SCHOOL PLAY IN HELL...I kinda think maybe the lead actress (the black maid GRISELDA) quit because she exits the film so strangely 2/3 into it.
Here is part of the opening, FYI, the whole film is actually on youtube, but really, it's one i recommend only for YOU JOHN WATERS COMPLETISTS/ SICK F***S out there. (of which, I am both.)
UNBELIEVABLY NSFW BTW
EDIT- OMG, THIS CLIP IS LIKE WATCHING MYSELF
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15 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
Sometimes, the Oscar seems to be a curse. While some are able to keep top-flight careers after the win, others have careers that either taper off or go to pieces afterwards.
That reminds me...I have to go light a prayer candle for KIM BASINGER.
(I just hope she's well.)
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9 hours ago, Grumpytoad said:
Just watched Body Heat (1981). 24 year old self was stunned by Maddy Walker[KATHLEEN TURNER]'s beauty. My 65 year old self is still stunned.
I'm 43 and I have been a lifelong solid "5" on The Kinsey Scale (that's the really gay rating, right?) and I recently saw BODY HEAT for the first time and spent a weekend questioning my sexuality thanks to KATHLEEN TURNER'S breasts in this film.
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1 minute ago, CinemaInternational said:
She was very funny in 1978's The Cheap Detective spoofing Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, and while Brainstorm from 1983 was a rickety film overshadowed by Natalie Wood's death, Fletcher was very good in it as an ill-fated scientist who passes away from a heart attack halfway through. Her death scene was extremely chilling and effective.
I also enjoy her in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC, fault-riddled film that it is.
but MAN, she has been in some low rent DUDS, ie GRIZZLY II and MAMA DRACULA.-
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2 hours ago, King Rat said:
About this time Ron Leibman seemed poised for a big career--New York critics were enthusiastic about his theater work--but that didn't happen.
He did however escape being married to LINDA LAVIN to find such a real and lasting happiness with second wife JESSICA WALTER that it was said her recent surprise passing had a lot to do with his some 18 months earlier (it is said that she missed him terribly.)
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BIG THANKS TO KATIE G FOR ALERTING us to a copy of THE MAN I LOVE (1947) on u-yay ube-tay.
I watched it the other day, it's not a great print, but it's such an old-fashioned film that some scratches and hiss add some charm.
I like to think of this film as belonging to a WARNER BROS ANTHOLOGY SERIES entitled GIANT SHOULDER PAD THEATER.
the experience is not entirely unlike watching football (but more interesting). I half-expected a few scenes to end with IDA THROWING SOME BLOCKS AND TACKLES as the NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH starts on the soundtrack....
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10 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:
Last night we screened OLD AQUAINTANCE, the 1943 Warner Brothers film starring Bette Davis & Miriam Hopkins. I love the outrageousness of this movie and couldn't wait for the audience reactions (no one but staff was familiar with it)
It was our most "vocal" film of the season, with whoops, groans, laughter & applause all the way through, making this such fun to see with others. (YAY!) The writing was snappy & fun, taking it from a soaper melodrama to an enjoyable, if implausible romp. Warner Brothers films of the 40's were just gold-great writing, great acting, fabulous directing (can you IMAGINE wrangling these two?) & photography.
I am a huge Hopkins fan, as well as a Bette fan and loved seeing these two powerhouse actresses together. The climax when Hopkins' charactor calls Bette's charactor "a Jezebel" made me howl out loud!
I'm only sorry many who are relative newbies to classic film will have a poor impression of Hopkins from this, since she's not really as **** & crazy as her charactor and can be rather nuanced & charming in other performances.
THIS IS SUCH A STRANGE FILM FOR ME.
I am curious if anyone in the modern audience had issues with the way the script passes no judgment on THE COMPLETELY ABSENTEE FATHER (played by JAMES CRAIG if i rightly recall?) it BOTHERS ME SO MUCH that there is no tension caused by his COMPLETE ABANDONMENT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILD, both of whom deserved scenes where they each got to PUT HIM ON BLAST for taking a powder for the last decade and then tell him TO BUST OUT THE CHECKBOOK ASAP AND GET READY TO MAKE SOME BACK PAYMENTS FOR CHILD SUPPORT
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Maybe they hired THE RIDDLER to be the EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF THE GRAPHICS DEPT. ...?
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7 hours ago, King Rat said:
I hadn't seen the set Dave Karger used for the intro, with that ugly sofa. Was the color puke-green? Rancid chartreuse? The purple drapes didn't go with the sofa, either.
I'm not sure if TCM has a combination site/set design overseer, but someone, somewhere sent out an internal memo that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH CHARTREUSE...
To wit I say, THE HELL THERE ISN'T AND I WILL FIGHT YOU ON THAT ALL THE WAY TO THE GOD****ED SUPREME COURT IF I HAVE TO.
...and even CLARENCE THOMAS hates CHARTREUSE.
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14 hours ago, Hoganman1 said:
I just watched THE VERDICT on TCM -On Demand. It was great. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were as great as ever in their last film together. I'm not sure it qualifies as a noir since it takes place in the 1890s, but it have many elements of some of the classic film noirs. It kept me guessing as to "who dunnit" all the way. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it.
it's got a fun ending too.
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14 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes, I'd forgotten about that scene. Was she the black actress in that non Divine movie? (I never saw that one) I wonder how Waters managed to get a hold of a bus???
Yes, I can’t remember the name of the actress who plays the vigilante gospel singer in POLYESTER, but she sort of plays the lead in DESPERATE LIVING (1977?) Which is by far John Waters’ darkest most unbalanced film, I’ve seen it a couple of times and it’s very unsettling.
( And spoiler, after it seems like her character is going to be the lead, she actually dies about halfway through.)
Also she has a nude love scene with MINK STOLE That has burned itself into my brain.
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this is another fun scene in POLYESTER that doesn't contribute a thing to the overall plot.
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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(when you get right down to it, the only real difference between CECIL B DEMILLE and JOHN WATERS is that one had a much higher budget to work with.)