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LawrenceA
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Years where the Best Picture Oscar winner matches my personal choice for best movie of the year:
- 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1934 - It Happened One Night
- 1942 - Casablanca* (this won for 1943, but I include it with the year it was released. Mrs Miniver won the 1942 Best Picture Oscar, and is my #2 choice for the year)
- 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
- 1972 - The Godfather
- 1974 - The Godfather Part II
- 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 - Unforgiven
- 1993 - Schindler's List
- 2004 - Million Dollar Baby
- 2007 - No Country for Old Men
- 2013 - 12 Years a Slave
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5 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I really don't like any of the other BEST PICTURE winners of the 1950's at all...
Not even All About Eve? Or On the Waterfront? Or The Bridge on the River Kwai?
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45 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I don't know what these two are, but I've seen the others.
8 minutes ago, TopBilled said:62. DARK COMMAND (1940) with Marjorie Main & Walter Pidgeon.
63. MAISIE WAS A LADY (1941) with Ann Sothern.
I've seen Dark Command, but I've never watched any of the Maisie movies.
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
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I don't know what these two are, but I've seen the others.
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1 minute ago, Dargo said:
LOL
No, but close Lawrence. And I don't have a sister named "Margo Argo" either.
The "D" in my nom de plume around here is my first initial tacked onto the front of my actual surname.
(...Dwight being my given name)
Dwight Argo is a cool name. You could be a gunslinger, or a secret agent.
Or even a European superhero!
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Anyone who likes 60's Mondo movies should enjoy these, available on the Severin website on Black Friday (Nov. 29):
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
Synopsis: The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield is the notorious final feature of the Hollywood star, a mondo-style celebration of all things Mansfield in which Jayne turns a European vacation into a Skin-Goddess Spectacle! See Jayne visit a nudist colony on the Isle of Levant! Go with Jayne to a gay bar where she quickly gets confused! Join Jayne at various Parisian strip clubs, then watch as she takes a private lesson at Pierre's striptease school! Marvel with Jayne at the wonders of "All-Girl Topless Band," an underground Transvestite Beauty Contest, and Jayne's own unabashed nude scenes from the rarely seen skinflick Promises, Promises! All of which is capped off with shocking photos of Jayne's fatal car crash before hubby Mickey Hargity (Bloody Pit Of Horror) takes us on a final tour of Jayne's Pink Palace! Wow, wow, and double wow. Breathtakingly berserk, this is definitely must-see, must-have, must-Mansfield!
Special Features and Technical Specs:- NEWLY REMASTERED FROM A 35MM PRINT
- Bonus movie: Wild, Weird, Wonderful Italians (1963),newly remastered from a 35mm print from The Something Weird Vaults
- The Devil & Jayne - Interview with Anton LaVey Biographer Blanche Barton
- Trailer
Mondo Balordo
Synopsis: In Mondo Balordo, narrator Boris Karloff demonstrates that "nothing invented by the human mind can be as macabre, grotesque, and thrilling as the behavior of people in so-called real life," and we witness a global freak show encompassing transvestites, lesbians, Japanese bondage, the "reincarnation of Rudolph Valentino," and 27-inch-tall zoot suit-clad Franz Drago singing "I Ain't Got No Body"!
Special Features and Technical Specs:- NEWLY REMASTERED IN 4K
- Bonus movie: The Orientals (1960), newly remastered from a 35mm print from The Something Weird Vaults
- Trailer
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5 minutes ago, Dargo said:
OH, and one more thing I recall at the time. And that being that I thought it was pretty cool that Jason named his ship the very same name as my family's surname.
Your name is Dargo Argo?!?
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This is a bit ahead in the schedule, but does anyone know what's being shown on November 29th in the late-night TCM Underground slot? Looking at the TCM Underground thread, I had posted that The Pyramid (1976) was scheduled, as well as a "???" which would have meant the schedule was blank in that spot when first posted.
However, I just perused the schedule, and The Pyramid is no longer listed. They have Marty coming on at 12:15AM ET, and then the schedule jumps to 4:00AM ET, with a short (Changing from 1971) followed by something called Drug Stories from 2019. Marty is only 94 minutes, so even if they pad with commentary and interstitials, it still wouldn't run more than an hour and 45 minutes, meaning something will be on 2:00 AM.
EDIT: It appears that The Pyramid still shows up on the weekly schedule, just not the daily one. And I can't find anything about Drug Stories on IMDb.
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The OP stated that they were trying to avoid any films with graphic (gruesome) violence, and/or salty language (notice their mention of an edited version of Patton), and I'm assuming other more mature subject matter (nudity, sexual situations beyond the most chaste).
The film list was intended for use as a curriculum supplement for home-schooling children on WWII.
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Since the last catch-up, I've seen these foreign films:
Leon Morin, Priest, Jean-Pierre Melville, France (1961) 7/10
I really liked Emmanuelle Riva as a young French woman during the Nazi occupation who begins to explore her spirituality, with help from new local priest Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Le Doulos, Jean-Pierre Melville, France (1962) 7/10
Good crime drama with Serge Reggiani and Jean-Paul Belmondo as professional crooks working together on a new heist, only maybe they're not.
Le Petit Soldat, Jean-Luc Godard, France (1963) 5/10
More Godard pretension and dated socio-political posturing as Michel Subor and Anna Karina find romance despite their clashing ideals.
The Merchant of Four Seasons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany (1973) 5/10
More of Fassbinder's clumsy, stilted characterizations highlight this melodrama about a drunken fruit vendor and his battles with his wife.
Parade, Jacques Tati, France (1974) 5/10
Originally made for French television, this is a filmed circus performance, as well as a few short comedic sketches. Tati was reportedly near financial ruin at the time, and made this to pay the bills.
Where Is the Friend's House?, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran (1987) 6/10
An elementary school student goes in search of his friend's house to return a book and keep the kid out of trouble. The snapshot of Iranian life is unusual for those unfamiliar with Iranian cinema, but I found the move frequently dull.
Solo con Tu Pareja, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico (1991) 5/10
Cuaron's feature directing debut was this 90's sex comedy about a promiscuous young man (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who thinks he has contracted HIV. I wasn't impressed, but this isn't really my genre of choice.
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9 hours ago, SansFin said:
The Dresden Files (2007–2008)Elementary (2012–2019)
Haven (2010–2015)
Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004–2009)Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Red Dwarf (1988-2017)
Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)I didn't have any of those above among my top tens, but I liked them all nonetheless, and watched the entire series of each.
I'm still working on watching Doctor Who. I've recently watched Spearhead from Space and Death to the Daleks, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, and The Ark in Space and The Sontaran Experiment with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). I have a dozen or more other individual-serial discs, as well as the boxsets of the newer seasons, which I'll watch when I get to those years (I'm watching things in chronological order).
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1 minute ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
#53 - The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a 1947 American drama film directed by Albert Lewin.[1]
Then I've seen that one, too.
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I haven't seen The Parent Trap, and I'm not quite sure what #53 is, but it looks familiar.
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2010's
- Game of Thrones
- Fargo
- Hannibal
- The Good Wife
- Stranger Things
- The Expanse
- Eastbound & Down
- Bates Motel
- Bosch
- True Detective
2000's
- Lost
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- Firefly
- Rome
- The Sopranos
- Supernatural
- Medium
- Eureka
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
- Da Ali G Show
1990's
- The X-Files
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- ER
- Twin Peaks
- The Larry Sanders Show
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Law & Order
- The State
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
1980's
- St. Elsewhere
- Hill Street Blues
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Late Night with David Letterman
- SCTV
- Black Adder
- Saturday Night Live
- Cheers
- Miami Vice
- The Kids in the Hall
1970's
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Saturday Night Live
- The Rockford Files
- Columbo
- Taxi
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Night Gallery
- Barney Miller
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Bob Newhart Show
1960's
- The Twilight Zone
- Star Trek
- The Outer Limits
- The Avengers
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Fugitive
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- Laugh-In
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1950's
- Playhouse 90
- Perry Mason
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Have Gun - Will Travel
- The Untouchables
- Wagon Train
- Leave It to Beaver
- I Love Lucy
- The Naked City
- You Bet Your Life
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3 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
- The Good Wife
- Game of Thrones
- Stranger Things
- Hannibal
- The Good Fight
- Fargo
- Documentary Now!
- The Expanse
- Fringe
- Westworld
- Eastbound & Down
These above are the only ones I watched a substantial amount of. I liked them all. My personal top ten of the decade:
- Game of Thrones
- Fargo
- Hannibal
- The Good Wife
- Stranger Things
- The Expanse
- Eastbound & Down
- Bates Motel
- Bosch
- True Detective
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I mentioned this elsewhere, and thought I'd share it here:
100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s
- Breaking Bad
- Mad Men
- The Americans
- Planet Earth (Blue Planet II, Planet Earth II)
- Fleabag
- Adventure Time
- The Good Place
- Atlanta
- Parks and Recreation
- The Great British Baking Show
- 30 Rock
- Barry
- Rectify
- The Good Wife
- American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson
- Game of Thrones
- The Crown
- Bob's Burgers
- Justified
- Stranger Things
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Chernobyl
- Better Call Saul
- Catastrophe
- When They See Us
- My Mad Fat Diary
- Hannibal
- Key & Peele
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Twin Peaks: The Return
- Succession
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
- BoJack Horseman
- Veep
- Legends of Tomorrow
- Downton Abbey
- The Night Manager
- The Good Fight
- Mozart in the Jungle
- Review
- Counterpart
- Man Seeking Woman
- The Leftovers
- Community
- Penny Dreaful
- Boardwalk Empire
- Broad City
- Gravity Falls
- Happy Valley
- Killing Eve
- Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Looking
- Fargo
- Russian Doll
- Treme
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Sherlock
- Orphan Black
- Rick and Morty
- American Vandal
- Downward Dog
- Jane the Virgin
- Terriers
- In the Flesh
- Doctor Who
- GLOW
- Documentary Now!
- Big Mouth
- Outlander
- black-ish
- Speechless
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Queen Sugar
- Happy Endings
- Master of None
- Detroiters
- Steven Universe
- Black Mirror
- Better Things
- One Day at a Time
- The Expanse
- Fringe
- The Assassination of Gianni Versace
- The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Westworld
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Orange Is the New Black
- The Knick
- Portlandia
- Nathan for You
- Pose
- The Bold Type
- Schitt's Creek
- Grey's Anatomy
- Eastbound & Down
- Fresh Off the Boat
- Silicon Valley
- Parenthood
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-tv-shows-2010s.html
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27 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
That even goes for praised films. i remember seeing a discussion one day that I was in a very bad mood last year over who they thought would take Best Actor at the Oscars in February (everyone was still in denial over Bohemian Rhapsody). The options were Christian Bale in Vice and Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born. I typed peevedly "Who cares? Nobody will be talking about either film by this time next year". And its true. It's a feeling of throwaway entertainment anymore.
I think a lot of that is the glut of options available. There are more films, TV shows, music and games at people's fingertips than ever before. There are not enough hours in a day to enjoy them all. Much the same way cable TV fragmented the TV viewership, streaming, and the availability of hundreds of thousands of hours of shows and movies, guarantees that there won't be as much attention paid to any one thing as there used to be. You know how many movies I watch (too many!), and yet there were still over a quarter of the movies listed on that 100 best of the decade thread that I haven't seen. Same goes for best TV of the decade (I think I watched two of the top ten shows listed, if that).
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2 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I think you're right, sorry as I am to say that. It's hard, even in film themed communities to try to muster up enthusiasm for films not currently "in the moment". The internet has become a double edged sword, it certainly brings people together, but most sites are no help in looking for the past, what with the newest and hottest movie news up front. The worst moment was a few days ago when I was on a movie page, and there was a 19 year old film fan, who said not only could some of his classmates recognize the names of classic film stars, they had never heard of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, released only this July!
The internet/social media has fostered this "hype build-up leading to opening-weekend, then forget it" mentality that seems to have overtaken most current filmgoers. The material being released doesn't do a lot to foster long-term discussion either.
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17 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
In many ways classic television is like classic film, it too appeals to a niche audience.
Yes, retro TV seems to be more prevalent than retro movies. I've read that MeTV has risen in ratings to be among the top ten channels on occasion. I'm not sure what TCM's viewer numbers are (that's been a contentious subject for a long time, and especially recently given Comcast's comments regarding TCM's very low viewership numbers), but other retro stations similar to MeTV have gone almost exclusively to retro TV rather than sticking to older films that they started out predominantly showing.
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5 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I know what you mean. That's what made the passings of people like Shirley Temple, Doris Day, Maureen O'Hara, Lauren Bacall, mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, all the more painful. There really are very few left who started under the studio system which ended in the mid-1950s (and admittedly I'm a bit astonished that Kirk Douglas and Olivia De Havilland, but especially Kirk) are still with us. Aside from them, who else? These, I guess, but it's not a very long list in the grand scheme of things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_actors_from_the_Golden_Age_of_Hollywood
I think about that, and the changing nature of classic film viewership. When TCM began, and when AMC was in its classic-film mode, many of the performers and filmmakers were still alive. However, more importantly I think, many people who had seen those films in the theaters during their initial release (1930's and 1940's, or even earlier) were still around. As the population ages and dies off, the viewership of those films changes from nostalgia and reminiscence into historical curiosity and film appreciation, which brings a different, much smaller, group of viewers. I think there will always be classic film fans, but their numbers will continue to shrink in the ever-more-crowded entertainment landscape of the future.
End of BS spiel.
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Just now, TopBilled said:
Nice of you to do that for others.
Any reason why you didn't include HITLER'S MADMAN (1943); THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946); THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959); and SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)...?
Hangmen Also Die covers the same story as Hitler's Madman.
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No A Bridge Too Far and Operation Market Garden?
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Here's the list, for those who don't like to click links:Classic World War 2 Films in Chronological Order
Prewar Young Winston Winston Churchill childhood, young adulthood years 1933 The Mortal Storm Impact on German family when Hitler becomes Chancellor 1937 (and on) Inn of the Sixth Happiness Missionary Gladys Aylward leads 100 orphans to safety in China from invading Japanese 1939 Sep Mrs. Miniver England declares war on Germany, homefront Nov 15 - Dec 13 Battle of River Plate 1st major naval conflict of WW2 1940 May 26 to Jun 4 Dunkirk Dunkirk Evacuation The Way Ahead Conscripted civilians trained and replace Dunkirk casualties Sum 1940 Spitfire (First of the Few) Set in 1940 tells of Spitfire designers in 1930s Jun – Sep 17 Battle of Britain Bombing of England by Germany Reach for the Sky Douglas Bader – RAF pilot & commander Sep 5 – Jan 1941 The One that Got Away Downed German pilot escapes from Canadian prison camp 1941 Mar 27 Sink the Bismarck Story of stopping the great German ship - Bismarck Apr – Nov The Desert Rats Siege of Tobruk Apr 41 – Jul 42 Flying Tigers US pilots volunteer for Chinese airforce May 1940-Nov 22 1941 Under Ten Flags German ship sinks 22 merchant ships Dec Casablanca Nazi occupation North Africa Dec Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor They Were Expendable Use of PT boats shortly after Pearl Harbor 1942 Jan – Apr Bataan Battle of Bataan 1940-45 The Colditz Story Most escapes from POW camp during WW2 Early Destination Tokyo Reconnaissance for Doolittle Feb – Apr 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Doolittle Raid The Cruel Sea Battle of the Atlantic (Uboats – from Fall 1939 through 1945) The Enemy Below Uboat/US Subs Action in the North Atlantic US Merchant Marine & U boats Counter-Attack (1945) Russians build underwater bridges Jan – Jun The Malta Story Battle of Malta The Eternal Sea (Amazon) Rear Adm. John Hoskins loses leg and fights to stay on aircraft carrier Mar Attack on the Iron Coast St. Nazaire Raid Fighting Seabees Naval Construction Battalions Jun 4-7 Midway Battle of Midway Jun Hangmen Also Die Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich #2 SS mastermind – very much a fictional version Oct Edge of Darkness Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation (fictional story but shows about the resistance) After Jun 42 bef 43 Sahara Allied soldiers protect a well from a group of Axis soldiers Nov 10 Sea of Sand On the eve of Battle of El Alamein, patrol to destroy fuel dump Island on Bird Street Boy survives in Polish ghetto, Robinson Crusoe style 1943 1942-1943 Bridge on the River Kwai based on Burma railway built by Japanese from Jun 42 through Dec 1943 Jan Twelve O’ Clock High 1st bombing of Germany 1943 Command Decision bombing Germany at night The Gallant Hours Admiral Halsey leading up to and victory of Guadalcanal Feb Guadalcanal Diary Battle of Guadacanal Mainly Mid 1943 Patton – edited version Battle of El Guetta & Allied Invasion of Sicily (normal version has a lot of bad language) May 16-17 The Dam Busters Operation Chastise Jul – Aug 1943 To Hell & Back Audie Murphy, most decorated WW2 veteran – Allied Invasion of Sicily Before Jul The Man Who Never Was Operation Mincemeat – used dead man to confuse Germany of Allied Invasion Aug 7 Story of GI Joe War Correspondent Ernie Pyle during the Invasion of Siciliy The Counterfeit Traitor Erik Erikson – swedish oil executive who becomes a spy for the Allies Sep 15 Guns of Navarone Battle of Leros 43-45 Above Us the Waves British X-class (midget) submarines Dec The Devil’s Brigade 1st Special Service Force (Devil’s Brigade) first mission Italian Campaign Aug 1943 – 1944 Operation Crossbow Development of VI and V2 Rockets 1943-1944 Five Fingers Elyesa Bazna – spy 1944 formed early 1944 Merrill’s Marauders Unit formed for Burma campaign 1940-44 Password is Courage Sgt Maj. Charles Coward – multiple escapes Mar 24 & 25 The Great Escape True escape story of POWs May I Was Monty’s Double Operation Copperhead 13 Rue Madeline Training Spies for invasion of France 36 Hours Germans try to trick American Major into telling about Allied invasion Jun Ike Planning of Normandy Invasion Jun Longest Day Normandy Invasion Jun 1944 Carve Her Name with Pride True story of SOE agent Violette Szabo and her execution +Jul 20, 1944 The Desert Fox Story of Rommel and the assassination attempt on Hitler on Jul 20, 1944 Oct Hell is for Heroes Siegfried Line Dec Stalag 17 Life in POW camp Dec – Feb Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge Late 1944 Decision Before Dawn Postwar Germany right before the war ends 1945 Jan Miracle of the White Stallions Evacation of the Lipizzaner horses from Vienna by the US Army Feb – Mar Sands of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Beginning or the End Development of Atomic Bomb Above and Beyond Bombing Japan Postwar Best Years of Our Lives Soldiers adjusting to postwar life Foreign Affair Real footage of bombed out Germany/postwar life Judgment at Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials -
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8 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I know. Maybe I should stick to discussing persons who have already passed. I'm the Grim Reaper of the keyboard.
I hope you called someone to check on Estelle Parsons!
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Paths of Glory is my #3 choice for best movie of 1957, behind Kwai and 12 Angry Men.