film lover 293
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REBECCA DE MORNAY
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
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Sunday, August 21st; Bette Davis day. All times E.S.T.:
7:30 a.m. "It's Love I'm After" (1937)--Davis and Co. are very funny in this screwball comedy.
9:15 a.m. "The Letter" (1940)--Director William Wyler and Davis were ingenious in making The Code's restrictions enhance instead of destroy the film. If/when TCM airs the 1929 version with Jeanne Eagels, watch that one too. Both actresses earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
10:15 p.m. "The Little Foxes" (1941)--A second to Bogie56's recommendation.
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BROOKS, RICHARD
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Janet0312--The error is Warrens'. The boardinghouse owner, Mrs. Crockett, is played by Edith Evanson. Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea) plays Mrs. Barley, a resident of the boardinghouse.
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THE SCARLET LETTER
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XAVIER, NELSON
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LOUIS JOURDAN
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Sat., Nov. 20th. Bogart Day--All times E.S.T.
10:00 a.m.--"Across the Pacific" (1942)--comedy/spy/war/thriller--John Huston directed Bogart, Mary Astor. and Sydney Greenstreet--good fun.
12:00 p.m. "Passage to Marseille" (1944)--Good Bogart film.
12:00 a.m. "Dead Reckoning" (1947)--The only Bogart film scheduled I haven't seen.
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"The North Star" (1943)--Starring Anne Baxter, Walter Huston, and Farley Granger.
First, thanks to TomJH for his mention of a good print in the "TNS, Awful Print" thread. The download on YouTube he specified was in excellent shape, not too faded to watch like the print TCM showed or the print I found on archivedotorg (to be fair, there are multiple prints on archive, and I didn't check Every one). There are some abrupt, awkward cuts, but other than that, download is in Good shape (TNS was nominated for six Oscars--Best Editing was Not among those six).
The movie is a stagy propaganda piece that paints life in 1941 rural Ukraine as idyllic--until the Nazis invade. The film is about the Resistance to the Nazis.
There is a good script, but most of the actors stand and make speeches--Huston and Baxter avoid this pitfall (Baxter does make one speech direct to the camera). Ann Harding, in a supporting role, has some lovely silent moments. But TNS is the sort of film you know what will happen to the characters by their dialogue. When one character says to another "He's not the sort of man who kills", you know that the speaker is Doomed and will be killed by the person he is talking about. When another character is told "You don't belong in this era" you know they are Doomed.
Film has an very good score by Aaron Copland, and has good special effects.
Film is an effective WW II morale booster and picture of its' time. Since I saw a Good copy, 2.5/4.
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TomJH--Thanks for steering me to a good print of TNS. The current address of the YT is"vidiotlol2000". I had to type in "The North Star", and the first result was a YouTube print they wanted me to pay to see. I scrolled down and the download you specified was there.
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"All I Owe Ioway"--from "State Fair" (1945)
Next--a song Carmen Miranda sang.
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TikiSoo--there are four films with Flynn coming in Sept.: don't know if you've seem them or not.
Sept. 10th "The Master of Ballantrae" (1953)--One of Flynn's last swashbucklers.
Sept. 17th "Footsteps in the Dark" (1941)--Mystery-comedy with Flynn--silly but watchable.
Sept. 20th "Northern Pursuit" (1943)--WW II actioner I haven't seen.
Sept. 24th "Gentleman Jim" (1942)--Another Flynn I haven't seen.
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X-MEN (2000)
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POSTAL INSPECTOR
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"Shoeless Joe from Hannibal MO--from "Damn Yankees" (1958)
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QUO VADIS
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(2)--1966's "The Night of the Grizzly"?
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This is a Good schedule--Some new ones I haven't seen, some I haven't seen in Way too long, and some old favorites.
Nov. 1st--"Storm Warning" (1951)--Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagen are excellent in this melodrama about the Klan--a real sleeper.
Nov. 2nd--Burt Lancaster day--not a stinker in the lot--"Brute Force" (1947) is a must see--"South Sea Woman" (1953) is maybe the least known.
Nov. 14th--"Exit Smiling" (1926)--Bea Lillie comedy. "The Show of Shows" (1929)--Warner Bros. early talkie studio revue--Frank Fay as host gets on my nerves, but there is an early appearance by Myrna Loy in the song "Li-Po-Li". "On Approval" (1944)--Sound "drawing room" British comedy, again with Bea Lillie. "Laughing Sinners" (1931)--One of the first teamings of Gable and Crawford.
Nov. 21st-- "The Great Morgan" (1946)--Frank Morgan directs a musical. Film is made up of outtakes and clips from MGM musicals. Was never released in U.S. A must see for me. The rest of the day is Eleanor Powell musicals.
Nov. 23rd--Marx Bros. day. At night, "The Sea Around Us" (1952)--won Oscar for Best Documentary.
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"At Long Last Love" (1975)--Starring Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, and Duilio del Prete.
I first saw this Peter Bogdanovich salute to 1930's musicals and Cole Porter in 1978 or '79, as a late night/early morning movie on television--the version that was released in theaters to almost universal critical wrath. The version I just saw was longer, had more music, less talk and flowed better (the original was choppily edited), the order of songs was rearranged and three songs/ takes of songs had been edited out.
The missing songs are "It Ain't Etiquette" which was performed by Cybill Shepherd and Eileen Brennan (this one is on YouTube as a clip from ALLL); the version of "Tomorrow" where del Prete was Completely unintelligible (the version I saw was OK--barely); and Shepherd's version of "You're The Top" where she danced herself behind a curtain and had to beat her way back to the camera's view (the replacement version had her just singing). Strengths of the version I just saw:
Madeline Kahn--She's the best singer in the movie, and has the most songs. Whether singing or talking, she redeems her parts of an unfunny script, and her versions of "Find Me A Primitive Man" and "At Long Last Love" are classic.
Cybill Shepherd--She has a sweet, untrained voice (she has major trouble staying on key), but overall, she's a plus to the movie.
Eileen Brennan--as Shepherd's maid, she plays her role like it's a Pre-Code--she gets laughs out of thin air, and makes the most of the songs she's given. Her takeoffs on Theda Bara and Pola Negri are very funny.
Laszlo Kovacs' cinematography is gorgeous and evokes certain movies and the 1930's as a romantic vision; it's a shame he wasn't even nominated for Best Cinematography.
Strengths and Weaknesses. Reynolds is no singer, and he knows it. He manages to talk-sing his way through his songs. He relies on charm to get him through the movie, and gets by.
Choreography--It looks like an afterthought throughout the film. In some instances it's charming--in others, it just looks strange.
del Prete--He does have a voice, but he also has a thick accent. Problematic.
Main Weakness--The script. Film credit says screenplay "based on the songs of Cole Porter". There is a Huge gap between the wittiness of Porters' songs and the scripts' idea of wit. After the reedit, film is rarely actually painful, mainly because there are now more songs than script.
After the re-editing job, ALLL has gone from a disaster to a film that's a pleasure to watch and listen to; there's never more than 5-7 minutes of talk between songs. The re-edited ALLL--2.5/4.
Found on archivedotorg.
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