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LawrenceA
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I'm known for being almost pathologically specific about how I watch movies - waiting until I had many films available (via streaming, recordings off of TV, or on home video in various formats), and then watching them in year order, oldest to newest, with each year's entries in alphabetical order. I've done that for the past several years, with 5 or 6 "passes" through the movie years. I finished my latest such year-by-year watching about a month ago.
Now I'm really trying to be less rigid about it, watching stuff from various years. I no longer have TCM, so I'm not recording stuff off of there anymore, and one of the biggest online sources recently became unavailable. I still have YouTube, Archive.org, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and The Criterion Channel at my disposal, as well as my large VHS/DVD/Blu-ray collection. I'm hoping to keep my movie watching more in line with what Speedracer mentioned - smaller, specific marathons of films by a certain actor or director, or a certain genre - mixed with CinemaInternational's anything-goes style of watching. I want to try and watch as much of the stuff on The Criterion Channel as possible sooner rather than later, in case the service ends or I want to cancel it.
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32 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Over 460 of the 677 films I've seen for the first time this year predate 1970.
Funny you should mention how many movies you've seen this year, as I realized the other day that I could use IMDb to see how many movies I'd seen this year, too, since it lists what date a person rated a movie, and I always rate a movie right after watching it. That being said, there were some movies that I'd seen in previous years that I discovered I'd forgotten to rate, and a couple that I changed the rating for, so I still can't say an exact number. But, even if I subtract 25 or so rated movies as being re-rated or late rated, I've still managed to see over 1600 movies in 2019!
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Just now, Fedya said:
281 looks like Jamaica Inn
That looks like Norma Shearer, and she wasn't in Jamaica Inn. It's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934).
#287 - Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (1974)
#288 - Working Girl (1988)?
#289 - Falling Down (1992)
#290 - The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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26 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
It will be interesting to note if this particular song receives a nomination. It was written by Oscar-winning actress Mary Steenburgen, a wonderful actress whose winning performance was bizarrely her only nomination. Almost 40 years on from Melvin and Howard, will this become her second nomination?
Did you read that recent article about her gaining her musical talent in the last few years after undergoing surgery? She had no real musical talent or ambition until having surgery, and doctors think something about her being anesthetized resulted in her waking up with strange new musical proclivities. It's a very strange story.
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I decided to look over a list of MST3K episodes to see how many I haven't seen. There are 28, and all are available on You Tube, so I've decided to watch them. So far today I've watched Jungle Goddess (1948), King Dinosaur (1955), and Time of the Apes (1987). Bad movies, funny episodes.
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2 hours ago, TomJH said:
I have no doubt that most of the negative posts about TCM from first time posters are just TROLLING.
But they seem to always get a response from posters here, time after time. What I don't get are the regular TCM posters who continue to feed the troll. These threads should die a quick death but they almost never do because of the constant feedback. In that respect, if a person wants to troll, this is the place to go because there are so many posters (that sounds nicer than saps) here who continuously accommodate them.
I'll remember this the next time you respond to a certain troll in the Off-Topics...
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3 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
For the most part though the things people say and do on here have become irrelevant to me.
The feeling's mutual, especially in regards to your need to repeatedly inform us how little you care.
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1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I have always wanted to see this one, mostly because of Tura Satana. She was so dangerously sexy in Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, I was always hoping to see her in something else. Does she have a significant role in Astro Zombies?
Yes, she's in it quite a bit. I believe it's her biggest role other than Faster Pussycat.
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This was the first list in a while where I've seen all ten.
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I finished out my day's movie-watching with The Astro-Zombies (1968). I watched the KL Blu-ray, featuring a beautiful picture restoration. They also included a Riff-Traxx audio track for added amusement. Two thumbs up, directly into my eyes!
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1 minute ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
It would be great if Eddie feature Nightfall, a late in the cycle, 1957, noir. Get-TV used to show this a lot (and now ME-TV does),
ME-TV doesn't show movies other than on Svengoolie. Maybe you meant This TV? They show a lot of Columbia movies.
I have Nightfall on a Columbia Noir DVD set with Human Desire, The Brothers Rico, City of Fear, and Pushover.
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1 minute ago, HoldenIsHere said:
HOT SPELL has never been released on DVD. Maybe Nip has mentioned he has the movie on VHS.
I believe that he's mentioned a few times that he ripped it off the net and burned it to disc.
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I continued my cinema classics marathon with The Creeping Terror (1964), Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), and the MST3K version of Red Zone Cuba/Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966). I'm still alive....I think.
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March Criterion Titles Announced
Bamboozled (2000) March 17
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Ellen Kuras and approved by director Spike Lee, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Lee
- New conversation between Lee and film programmer and critic Ashley Clark
- New interviews with choreographer and actor Savion Glover, actor Tommy Davidson, and costume designer Ruth E. Carter
- On Blackface and the Minstrel Show, a new interview program featuring film and media scholar Racquel Gates
- The Making of “Bamboozled” (2001), a documentary featuring members of the cast and crew
- Deleted scenes, music videos for the Mau Maus’ “Blak Iz Blak” and Gerald Levert’s “Dream with No Love,” and alternate parody commercials created for the film
- Poster gallery and trailer
- PLUS: An essay by Clark
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) March 24
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration by Twentieth Century Fox, the Academy Film Archive, and The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott
The Prince of Tides (1991) March 31
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Barbra Streisand, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring Streisand, recorded in 1991 and updated in 2019
- Making-of featurette from 1991
- Excerpt from a 2018 interview with Streisand, conducted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on El Rey Network’s The Director’s Chair
- Audition and rehearsal footage
- Deleted scenes and alternate takes
- Costume and makeup tests
- Alternate end credits with vocal performance by Streisand
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Gag reel
- Production-stills gallery and other archival materials
- Interview with author Pat Conroy from a 1992 episode of Cinema Showcase with Jim Whaley
- Interview with Streisand from a 1992 episode of the British television show Aspel & Company with Michael Aspel
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by film historian Bruce Eder
Show Boat (1936) March 31
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 1989 featuring American-musical historian Miles Kreuger
- New interview with James Whale biographer James Curtis
- Recognizing Race in “Show Boat,” a new interview program featuring professor and author Shana L. Redmond
- Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979), an Academy Award–winning short documentary by Saul J. Turell, newly restored
- Two performances from the sound prologue of the 1929 film version of Show Boat, plus twenty minutes of silent excerpts from the film, with audio commentary by Kreuger
- Two radio adaptations of Show Boat, featuring stage and screen cast members Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, and Charles Winninger; actor Orson Welles; and novelist Edna Ferber
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
Plus a Blu-ray upgrade for:
Salesman (1969) March 10
SPECIAL FEATURES
- DVD: High-definition digital transfer, with restored picture and sound
- Blu-ray: New, restored 4K digital transfer, undertaken by the Academy Film Archive, The Film Foundation, and the George Lucas Family Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2001 featuring directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
- Television interview from 1968 with directors David and Albert Maysles, conducted by critic Jack Kroll
- New appreciation of the film by actor Bill Hader (Blu-ray only)
- “Globesman,” a 2016 episode of the television series Documentary Now! that parodies the film, starring Hader and Fred Armisen (Blu-ray only)
- Audio excerpt from a 2000 episode of NPR’s Weekend Edition profiling James Baker, one of the salesmen featured in the film
- Behind-the-scenes photographs (DVD only)
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Chaiken on the Blu-ray
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) March 24
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinema
- Audio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov
- Hurricane Kalatozov, a documentary from 2009 on the Georgian director’s complex relationship with the Soviet government
- Segment from a 2008 program about the film’s cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei Batalov
- Interview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film’s French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
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7 minutes ago, MicKChow said:
Sorry, I'm a newbie confused about what forum to put this movie in! Would like to properly categorize this movie so that I can talk to someone about shedding some light on Martha and George's son!
You got more responses in the other thread you started on the same subject:
https://forums.tcm.com/topic/262081-whos-afraid-of-virginia-wolf/?tab=comments#comment-2110538
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I watched The Brain That Wouldn't Die again this morning. It was my first viewing of the Scream Factory Blu-ray. It looks terrific. The audio commentary is pretty dull, though.
Then I watched the recently-released Film Detective Blu-ray of Eegah!, and it looks fantastic. Every copy of this that I've ever seen looked awful, but they did a commendable job cleaning up the picture and audio. There's also an interview with Arch Hall Jr. included.
Both movies also included the MST3K versions as a bonus.
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The Hallelujah Trail was a comedy. I'm not a fan of it, but some people are, I'm sure.
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Just now, speedracer5 said:
The beefcake thread was a couple years ago now. It started with an old article I found online stating that Errol Flynn had won the 1940-something (I can't remember the specific year) readers' choice for "Best Male Body" or something like that.
I remember that thread. There was one person who kept posting pictures that were a bit too revealing (I recall a couple of nude-from-behind pics). The mods deleted them several times, and then one day the thread was gone. I figured they got tired of deleting the pictures.
You should start the thread again. Maybe use the same format as this, and pick 5 guys and ask which of their films featured their best looks. Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Burt Lancaster, Eugene Pallette, S.Z. Sakall, Elisha Cook, Arnold Stang, all sorts of beefcake.
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Is this what you wanted to see?
Oddly enough, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title, too.
That's a good walking movie, if you like movies about two people walking a lot.
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52 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Arnold was just a cameo in that, and I couldn't sit through too much of it m'self.
Sepiatone
He also directed it.
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3 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
It's just weird that people are finding this (all things considered) tiny little niche thread, not something one stumbles upon by accident, and must have some vague idea that dozens of people have already commented on this, yet they're not saying, "Hey, it happened to me too!" but rather talking as if they're the first person it ever happened to.
Well, I do know that at least one of the recent newbie posters is a real fruitcake.
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6 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
What is happening in the universe that new people are saying this is happening to them for the first time ever today when people started posting about it four months ago? Different parts of the country? Or is this trolling?
I'm not sure, but I do know for a fact that Comcast slowly rolled out the transition in different parts of the country. People were posting about it for a while before it happened to me.
I've read that this roll-out strategy, rather than doing it all at once around the country, was an attempt to mitigate the vocal opposition to it. A relative few people complaining each week versus every customer in the country complaining at once. I'm not sure how well that worked out, but I notice Comcast did not reverse their decision about TCM, as was rumored when this price increase started.
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"I didn't know I was doing film noir; I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!" - Marie Windsor, from the booklet included with the Criterion release of The Killing (1956).
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8 minutes ago, UMO1982 said:
Gee and I thought I had started this thread..... interesting
JakeHolman had started another Aiello obit thread earlier than yours, and the mods seem to have combined them. Usually they combine the newer thread into the older thread, but here they seem to have combined the older one into yours.
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I got tired of changing the avatars so often. Plus I haven't been spending as much time here. I liked the young and dapper Chaney pic, and figured I'd leave it for the month. However, if I see some other pic I like a lot before January 1st, I still may change it up again.