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3 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
a good film that blows itself before the end.
Well.
That must be something to see.
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Looks like a great time to not have TCM.
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I read his memoir a couple of years ago. I enjoyed the part about the time he got into a verbal altercation with Lauren Bacall on the set of Ready to Wear.
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50 minutes ago, skimpole said:
I will say 240 is the latest best picture nominee that I have not actually seen.
The latest best picture nominee I haven't seen is A Star is Born (2018). Before that it's The White Parade in 1934.
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38 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
So this film is a comedy? Yea, one very dark one!
Yeah, I agree putting this in the Comedy sub-forum seems odd, but it does illustrate why we need a Drama sub-forum, which I've requested in the past to no avail. What existing sub-forum would you put the movie in? Horror? Romance?!?
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2 minutes ago, jakeem said:
Top 10 Movies of 2019 compiled by the editors of RogerEbert.com:
10. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (France; directed by Celine Sciamma).
9. "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" (directed by Joe Talbot).
8. "The Souvenir" (directed by Joanna Hogg).
7. "Us" (directed by Jordan Peele).
6. "Uncut Gems" (directed by Benny and Josh Safdie).
5. "Marriage Storyadapted and directed by Barry Jenkins).
4. "First Reformed" (written and directed by Paul Schrader).
3. "Sorry to Bother You" (written and directed by Boots Riley).
2. "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen).
1. "Roma" (written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón).
https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-ten-best-films-of-2019
What's their reasoning behind their top three choices all being movies from 2018? First Reformed even premiered in 2017.
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The National Film Registry isn't necessarily about preserving the "best" films, since whether a movie is "great" or not is largely subjective. The Registry is more focused on landmark films. As was pointed out above, many of the films directed by women were the first such films made. Other films listed are also groundbreaking for whatever reason (She's Gotta Have It and Clerks are both considered major, influential independent films, Becky Sharp is the first full Technicolor feature, Zoot Suit is an important Latino film, etc.). Others on the list are just generally well regarded (Amadeus, Fog of War, Old Yeller, etc.)
I'm happy to see stuff like The Phenix City Story and The Last Waltz on the list.
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1. Amadeus (1984)
2. Becky Sharp (1935)
3. Before Stonewall (1984)
4. Body and Soul (1925)
5. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
6. Clerks (1994)
7. Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)
8. Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
9. Employees Entrance (1933)
10. Fog of War (2003)
11. Gaslight (1944)
12. George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
13. Girlfriends (1978)
14. I Am Somebody (1970)
15. Last Waltz, The (1978)
16. My Name Is Oona (1969)
17. A New Leaf (1971)
18. Old Yeller (1957)
19. The Phenix City Story (1955)
20. Platoon (1986)
21. Purple Rain (1984)
22. Real Women Have Curves (2002)
23. She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
24. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
25. Zoot Suit (1981)-
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1 minute ago, GGGGerald said:
- Foxy Brown
- Coffy
My kind of movie fan.
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5 minutes ago, Rudy's Girl said:
I don't know if many people would know this movie, but The Bride Came C.O.D. starring James Cagney and Bette Davis is a must-have. I had to order it from Critics' Choice Video. A very hard find.
I like that movie, as well.
According to MovieCollectorOH's database (http://www.moviecollectoroh.com/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm), The Bride Came C.O.D. has aired on TCM at least 41 times, so it's been seen by many of the channel's viewers.
It's also now easily available on Warner Archive DVD:
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2 minutes ago, GGGGerald said:
Stereotype or not, Peloton is going to sell a boatload of cycles this month. I'm sure they secretly are loving this added publicity. Who knows, they might have started it.
Or this could happen:
Peloton's nightmare before Christmas: $1.5 billion vanished from its market value in 3 days amid holiday ad backlash
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Just now, spence said:
You may find the link, but it was months ago on his HBO show
Unless you can provide a source, I'm going to assume you misunderstood what Maher said on his show, because his supporting the removal of a Gleason statue based on Ralph Kramden being "abusive" on The Honeymooners to too absurd to believe.
I tried Googling it, and found nothing.
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Nothing about Skidoo is either urgent or hilarious.
And I'm going to need to see a link to where Bill Maher is calling for Jackie Gleason's statue to be taken down, as that's the type of nonsense that he typically speaks out against.
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I watched a few more from the list since posting it.
The Hole in the Ground - 7/10
Ready or Not - 6/10
Fractured - 5/10
Rattlesnake - 5/10
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1 minute ago, Arsan404 said:
I don't recognize #212, #213, #214. I have seen the rest.
#214 is Tiger Bay (1959). Not sure about the other two.
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5 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I saw the Globe nominations on TV, and boy did they get through the big ones in a flash. 4 minutes. I really can't comment on most of the nominees yet, but I want to commend them on Emma Thompson's nomination. Her film had a lumpy script, but her performance was excellent (the one reason for watching it), so I am glad she was nominated.
Late Night was one of the year's biggest disappointments for me. A lot of good talent involved for such a mediocre movie. Thompson was good, as usual.
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5 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Robert Downey, Jr. was born in 1965, so I don't know how he could possibly verify what happened 11 years before that time other than what he may have heard alleged by his father or someone else in the industry. I must have read these allegations somewhere else as well. The actress in question was a pretty big name but now deceased. I probably wouldn't even remember the allegation if it wasn't brought up again here. Having no idea of its veracity, I will attempt to ignore.
The allegations were supposedly told to Downey by the deceased's daughter, an actress who co-starred in a film with Downey.
I'm still a Kirk Douglas fan, but I've come to expect this subject to be brought up every time he's mentioned here.
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Just now, NickAndNora34 said:
Happy Together (1997), City of God (2002), 3-Iron (2004), and The Girl who Leapt Through Time (2006)
An unusual line-up. I haven't seen The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, but I've seen the other three. City of God is probably the most easily-accessible. It's good, but I wasn't as blown away by it as many were at the time.
3-Iron is odd, and a bit slow. I liked it quite a bit, but it may be tough going for some. Happy Together is a good example of director Wong Kar-Wai's style, and features a good performance by my favorite Chinese actor, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, but I like some of the director's other films more (In the Mood for Love, Ashes of Time). Happy Together made a big stir at the time of its release due to the matter-of-fact handling of a gay relationship. Now it won't seem as "shocking", but in '97 it was still enough to cause a bit of controversy.
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4 minutes ago, NickAndNora34 said:
Woof. We're going on 4 foreign dramas in a row now.
Which four, if I may ask?
Have you seen these 10 classic films..?
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I haven't seen The Secret of Dr. Kildare (I've seen the first couple of the series, but that's it), Captain Lightfoot, or In Search of Gregory.