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LawrenceA
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Here is the nation-of-origin breakdown for 2019:
- France - 16 films
- Japan - 15 films
- Italy - 7 films
- Germany - 5 films
- Sweden - 5 films
- Australia - 4 films
- China/Hong Kong - 4 films
- United Kingdom - 4 films
- Czechoslovakia - 3 films
- Denmark - 2 films
- Senegal - 2 films
- Spain - 2 films
- Iran - 1 film
- Philippines - 1 film
- Portugal - 1 film
- Thailand - 1 film
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Updated through December. That's the full year, and I enjoyed compiling them for everyone's ease of reference. I won't be doing this next year, so anyone so inclined, please feel free to do so.
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Updated through December. That's a full year of TCM Underground madness, and I enjoyed compiling them all for future reference. I won't be doing this for next year's offerings, so anyone else interested in doing so please feel free to undertake it.
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Everyone be sure to place their orders for the long-awaited Blu-ray release of 1979's classic Skatetown, U.S.A., available September 24th at all fine retailers. Featuring Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Patrick Swayze, and "Horshack" from Welcome Back, Kotter. Written by the guy who played the killer in the first Halloween and later directed The Last Starfighter.
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17 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Eeh! Halloween is just an old pagan ritual that should have no place in a Christian country like ours!
That argument has been made many times over the years in my town. Some years you don't hear it much, but in others there are editorials submitted to the local paper, or people pleading during city council/county commissioners/school board meetings calling for a ban on treat-or-treating and any "unholy" Halloween displays. It's during those years that I get motivated enough to decorate my house with hanging skeletons, skulls in the windows, and other "unholy" Halloween displays.
One thing that's taken off in popularity here is "trunk-or-treating", where kids are taken to the parking lot of a school, business, or church, and people hand out candy kept in the trunk of their vehicle. It's supposed to be safer and more reassuring to the parents, and the ones held in church parking lots are usually followed by a special Halloween church service to ward off evil spirits. The year is 2019.
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3 hours ago, spence said:
your correct and he's entirely missing as you said, very strange, huh
If so, that means J. Phoenix in The Joker may well win Best actor
It's still too early to say, but I've also heard good things about Antonio Banderas in Pain & Glory. There's been praise as well for Adam Driver in Marriage Story, and both Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins for The Two Popes.
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17 minutes ago, TheVFM said:
I just joined and see people only views and no replies. This is a forum for old movie buffs to interact as well as people who loves movies. Let's start talking instead of lurking. You go on a soap opera boards and people are chatting all the time. TCM should be the same. I would love to meet a person who loves and appreciate the old movie era. Been a buff for decades and very knowledgeable. Let's start talking.
You originally posted this in the Announcements section, which doesn't allow responses. The film discussions happen in the other message board sections, such as General Discussions, which is where this has been moved to.
Welcome to the boards.
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2 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
well, I think it really got going in the 80s when everything had to have a liberal touchy-feely slant to it.
Yeah, like in Robocop. Or Top Gun. Or Rambo: First Blood Part II. Or Red Dawn. Or Predator. They all touched me in the feels.
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1 hour ago, EricJ said:
It was SILLY. In a good way. 😁 You can't have a sitcom with John Lithgow, Kirstie Alley and French Stewart and not be silly.
Kirstie Alley wasn't in 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Jane Curtin was in 3rd Rock from the Sun. Jane Curtin was also in Kate & Allie, which may remind one of Kirstie Alley, I guess.
Kristen Johnston was in 3rd Rock from the Sun. Kristen and Kirstie are similar names, I guess.
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2 minutes ago, GGGGerald said:
Then you wouldn't have the best song. Some artists have the ability to capture a moment longer than a year. Robeta Flack wouldn't have been able to win song of the year back to back for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in 1973 and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" in 1974.
Yeah, that would have been just terrible if both of those songs hadn't won.
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Of all of the major entertainment awards (Emmys, Oscars, Tonys, Grammys), the Emmys have the worst reputation, and partially for the fact that they seem to get stuck into a rut, awarding the same actor over and over again, while consistently failing to recognize the more innovative performances and programs. They don't always get it wrong, but they play it too safe too often.
Personally, the Grammys mean even less to me (not that any of them are actually important parts of my life), but I don't care for nor follow pop music, while the Tonys mean absolutely nothing to me, as I'll never see anything that they mention.
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8 minutes ago, cinemaspeak59 said:
It (2017) A winning formula that blends horror and coming-of-age story, with echoes of Stand by Me, also based on a Stephen King book. The Losers Club, as they call themselves, must fend off town bullies and the murderous supernatural clown, Pennywise, played with evil glee by Bill Skarsgård, in the scariest clown makeup & costume I've seen. Skillfully directed by Andy Muschietti, with a brilliant opening sequence. Everyone should be lucky to have friends as good as the Losers Club.
I wasn't expecting much from that, and was very pleasantly surprised. Excellent direction by Muschietti, and great performances by the kids (especially Sophie Lillis as the troubled Beverly, and Finn Wolfhard as the wisecracking Richie). I liked the differences in the depiction of Pennywise, well played here by Bill Skarsgard. I'm a big fan of Tim Curry in general, and thought his Pennywise was the best thing about the 1990 TV mini-series version, so I was very dubious about anyone else playing the part. But Muschietti and the screenwriters made a smart move by playing up Pennywise's otherworldly nature, with the twitches and subtle physical oddities, establishing the clown as just an ill-fitting mask for something unknowable and utterly alien.
Very much looking forward to part two this week.
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5 minutes ago, spence said:
Just caught this late last night on goldderby.com & he was completely missing for ultra early Best Actor poss leaders, *Tom hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?
& of all places-(see the trailer he's in every sequence) for a s. actor race leader instead
WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ON THIS PLEASE?
I really have no idea, spence, as I haven't seen the film, nor has anyone else, as far as I know. However, based on the synopsis, the film appears to focus on a journalist played by Matthew Rhys, and how his life is changed while writing a profile on Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks).
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How about Rowan Atkinson?
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2 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
think about how much pennyworth will make? let's all wait for Gordon.
They already made those.
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Not really.
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It's the horrifying tale of a hideous monster going on a rampage. There's also a caveman in it.
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4 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I'm uncertain how I've been watching TCM for 19 years and on this website for 11, and I've never heard of this. If you're not being sarcastic (I'm holding out some possibility you are - I don't want to be the only person who didn't pick up on it!), could you elaborate a bit? Is this something different from Backlot?
Yeah, it's different. It came out a short while before TCM Backlot. Basically TCM Insider ended up being people signing up to do market research for free. There were no perks. If you search back far enough there were a few threads about it. Several of us signed up when it was introduced, including me, but most of us dropped it when we realized that it was just market research surveys.
Eventually TCM Backlot came around, and I didn't hear about TCM Insider again. I wasn't aware that it was still around.
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4 minutes ago, Gershwin fan said:
I think the holiday's popularity is just dying out.
Apparently not in TheCid's neck of the woods.
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I just watched Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976).
Cop #1: "I think we're dealing with a haint."
Cop #2: "What in the hell is a haint?"
Cop #1: "It's like a cross between the abominable snowman and Willy the werewolf."
The ball's in your court, TCM. You're missing out on a gem here.
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Yeah, what's with these people feeling compelled to comment on a message board? Buncha freaks.
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3 minutes ago, TheCid said:
Between 600 and 1,000 trick or treaters - honestly. It has sort of become a community event for our street to be "featured."
I live in the perfect neighborhood for trick or treaters - residential, slow to no traffic, well-lit, friendly people, several law enforcement live here, etc. Last year I had 1 trick or treater, the year before none. The most in the 16 years I've lived at this address was maybe 7 or 8.
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5 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
So one quick holiday movie on Christmas Eve? And let me guess, you'd pick something like A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938) to fit into that hour-and-a-half slot, since it's only 69 minutes long. Yeah?
Are there any shorter ones?
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TCM Imports - 2019
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Updated through December, so there's the full year of TCM Imports. I won't be continuing this next year, so anyone so inclined to take over, feel free to undertake it.