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7 hours ago, jakeem said:
"Hollywood and the Stars" was a David L. Wolper production. He also produced the syndicated "Biography" series of the 1960s that featured a pre-"60 Minutes" Mike Wallace as its narrator. I still remember the episode about Mark Twain and how it was framed by the arrivals of Halley's Comet at the beginning of his life and at the end.
JAKEEM, but where is the rest of it pal?
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7 hours ago, jakeem said:
There also was a change-of-pace episode about the filming of John Huston's "The Night of the Iguana." I saw it on YouTube a couple of years ago.
JAKEEM, but where is the rest of it buddy?
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On 3/21/2018 at 12:05 PM, TomJH said:
Hollywood and the Stars was a great documentary series, with Joseph Cotten as host. Unfortunately, it only lasted one season.
It had a particularly impressive musical score by Elmer Bernstein which seemed to capture the "magic" of the movies of the studio era, along with their larger-than-life stars.
ABSOLKUTEKLY TEMENDOUS PROGRAMMING & I LOVE JOE McDOKES
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ONE AGAIN, APPARENTLY FELLOW TCM-ITES HAVE NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE HERE???
Thought for certain several if not many would throw their cents in & on all-time comics & fav. comedic flix???
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WOW, surprised no takers on this one???
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First year I started reviewing newly released theatrical flix was for the grand movie year of (1982) & also tried my hand at predicting the Oscars, did lousy though at first)& (*-denotes Oscar winner)
AFI's (American Film Insitute-est 1967-)
1st place & by a landslide "Raging Bull" (l980)
2. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (l982)
3. "Blue Velvet" (l986)
4. "Hannah & Her Sisters" (l986)
5th place "Atlantic City" (l98l)
6. "Raiders of Lost ark" (l98l)
7. *"Platoon" (l986)-(went back three times!)
8. "0nce Upon a Time in America" (D/C/ only) (l984)
9. "Prizzi's Honor" (l985)
& 10th place "King of Comedy" (l983)
& Actor of the decade: *Jack Nicholson-(l937-) Actress: *Streep-=(l949-) & Filmmaker:*Scorsese
VS. my own candidates?
1st "R. Bull"
2nd "Blue Velvet"
3rd fav. *"Platoon"
4th "E.T."
5th "Atlantic City"
6. "Hannah & Her Sisters" & "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (l989)-(TIED)
7. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (l988)
8. "0nce Upon a Time in America" (D/C) ) (l984)
9. "Cinema, Paradiso" (l89-Italy)-(NOTE: AFI cannot vote for foreign language cinema)
& 10th fav 1980's "Shoah" (l985-France)
(1990's)-(AFI was busy with another "100yrs... special" & didn't participate)?
1st *"Schindler's List" (l993)
2. "GoodFellas" (l990)
3. "Saving Pvt Ryan" (l980)
4. *"Titanic" (l997)
5th place *"Unforgiven" (l992)
6. "Pulp Fiction" (l994)
7. "The Shawshank Redemption" (l994)
8. "The Remains of the Day" (l993)
9. "Leaving Las Vegas" (l995)
& 10th fav "Reservior Dogs" (l992)
(2000's):
1st favorite of this decade of 2002 "Gangs of New York"
2. *"Million Dollar Baby" (04)
3. "Cinderella Man" (05)
4. "King Kong" (2005 version)
5th "United: 93" (2006)
6. "KB2" (2004)
7. "Letter Home from Iwo Jima" (2006)
8. *"Gladiator" (2000_=)-(NOTE: USA voted this as the greatest BP winner ever)
9. "Almost Famous"(2000)
& 10th "Finding Nemo" (03)_
& 2010-
1st fav. *"The Artist" (2011)
2. "Gravity" (2003)
3. "La La Land" (2016)
4. Life Itself" (04)
5th to date"Inside/0ut" (2015).
& ???
PLEASE RUSH YOUR OWN CANDIDATES???
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Older topic, but wanted to give this famous genre or genre(s) some new blood!
What are tour all-time fav., film genre's?
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Leonard Maltin, Bogdanovich & a handful others
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PLEASE EXCUSE THE MISSLEADING HEADING ON "THE POSTING THIS IN A TCM POLL & THERE WERE NOT ANY TAKERS (except for 100% for "CITY LIGHTS" & oviously by a landslide by a landslide & TRIVIA: In AFI's 100 Laughs" "Some Like It Hot" was voted A #1) In it's2000 epic survey
DON"t KNOWE HOW TO REPLACE THE HEADING AS YET SO HERE GOES-(a companion pc to that one)
& PLACE VOTE!YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE'S IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY ON BOTH COMICS & FILMS???
THank You
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Longtime character player Lee Tracy-(l898-68) earned a s. actor shot
Got almost got blocked back around '34 shooting *Berry's 1934 bio"Viva Villa!" (****-stars) at M-G-pm) when Lee was sooo loaded again & actually **** on a below marching band)
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In short what are your fellow TCMN-0TITES all-time favs in both motion picture comedians & of course films? Nowe on thast lttle poll both *Chaplin & "City Lights" was a landslide! I'll start the ball roliing here>
Movie comics:
1st place *Charles Chaplin (l889-l977)-(though like Keaton doesn't make me augh, just watch in amazement)
2nbd Buster Keaton (l895-1966)
3rd The Marx Brothers-(l929-l949)
4th fav. "The Three Stooges" (l934-59)-(I know what your thinkin, too low-brow, but they just crap me up!)
5th W.C. Fields-(879-l946)-(as "Premiere" said decades ago you rarely hear of him thesedays?)
6th Stan Laurel and Laurel Hardy-(l890-l965_& Olllie (l892-l957)
& today *"The Woodman;Woody Allen) (l935-)
& my personal choices for the top ten fav. pictures:
1st pick "City Lights" (l931)-(though really a comedy-drama or sorts)
2. "Modern Times" (l936-UA)
3. "A Night at the 0pera" (l935-MGM)
4. "Duck Soup" (l933-Paramount-(TRIVIA) Groucho always rated this as their best though)
5th "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (l964-UK)
6. *"Annie Hall"
7th "Bringing Up Baby" (l938-RKO Radio)
8. "His Girl Friday" (l940-Columbia)
9. "It's a Gift" (l934-Paramount)
& 10th "Sullivan's Travels" (l942-Paramount)
& a ton more of course,. but WHAT ARE YOURS???
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Also given I've been a card-drying fan club members since 1985 I even rank Ralph & Norton BARELY ahead of Laurel & Olivier-(the latter being one of Gleason's heroes, plus Jack 0akie) above those dymamic duo's of the silver-screen
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I'm alwayts reminded of that famed number "SEND IN THE CLOWNS"
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Chris Tucker, Pauly Shore, Jack Black?????
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How could I 4-get "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" "The General" & "Seven Chances" PLUS, though a comedy-drama 1979's "Manhattan"
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(*-denotes an AMPAS winner)
My personal top ten all-time fav. movies-(aka dvd time capsule & not of course especially the best, just my favourites listed here)
1st place *The Godfather (l90l-80) Trilogy"-(non theatrical release from '92)
2nd "Kane" (believe the hype, but a very personal note to WR Hearst is involved & most have no idea what "Rosebud" really meant? Don't know how *0rson found out above this very pvt thing though?)
3rd 'Captains Courageous" (l937 M-G-M) (*Tracy's greatest role, though ultra close w/"Black Rock" & "Inherit the Wind" He wrote in his diary it was his fav though)
4th *"Casablanca" (l943-WBV's) (whats left to say??? Only that I once had a marvelous shot of him & Ingrid sitting on some stairs & he literally had block shoes on, due to barely hitting 5'8 & she was about 5'9 & 1/2))
5th fav. "Modern Times" (l936-UA) (barely vote for this over "CL" (l931) due to his beautiful music "SMILE")
& "Dumbo" (l941-Disney/RKO Radio. Almost all critics include at least 1 *Walt Disney animated feature, mostly "Pinocchio"(*Spielberg's #1)
& all-time fav. motion picture actors>
1 *Spencer Tracy (l900-l967)
2 *Frank Sinatra (l9l5-98)-(NOTE: Both above *Tracy & *The Chairman" my idols too!)
3. *James Cagney-(1899-l986)
4. Steve McQueen (l930-80)m (limited actor, but my childhood hero & "King of Movie Cool")
& 5th *Charles (Spencer) Chaplin-(l889-l977) (he truly deserved to be AFI';s 100yres...100 Stars":99 survey as 1st place?)
Actresses:
Natalie Wood-(l938-l98l) (very personal choice!)
2. Greta Garbo-(l905-90)
3. *Katharine Hepburn (l907-2003)
4. Winona Ryder (l97l-) (I know most will laugh, but there it is)
5th fav Michelle Pfeiffer (l958-)
& Barbara Stanwyck (l907-90) (not only a great overall actress, but one cool lady too!)
& Best-(favorite) Directors ever:
*1st place *John Ford-(l895-l973)-(all time *Oscar winning champ w/4 BD victories!)
2. Allred Hitchcock (l899-l980) (was give AFI Award, but no &Academy Award?)
3rd Howard hawks-(1896-l977)-(thesole filmmaker that coulkd handle evey film genre! )
4.Orson Welles (l9l5-85)
RHANK YU TO THE REST TCMITES, PLEASE JOIN IN
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THIS IS THE 5th TIME TONODAY THAT SOME RATHER SMALL I SUBMIITED WAS ONCE AGAIN BLOBED???
It was a reply on Robert Ryan in "Crossfire" is all, it it once again went uint some cyrberspace
This network & forums never, ever used to do this & the ongoing spam fairy from Asia either
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM
PLEASE RE SUBMNIUT MY SMALL POST UNDER THE RYAN THREAD
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Thought I alreready wrote this one too??? *Liza moved her beloved remains across the coast to where "The Mick" is-(though not close) about a yearback now, from her original; Brooklyn, NY part
Something I never fathomed is that Rooney chose the 62 acre cemetary "Hollywood, Forever" as opposed to most of his contomperaries in the mammonth "Forest Lawn" in GLENDALE, CALIF? *Tracy, *Gable, *Bogey & a tonnage of others???
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On 10/23/2002 at 10:17 PM, Guest McCracken, John said:
Was anyone as disappointed as I was to see tonight (Wed. Oct. 23), after a big buildup and lead-in, Gone With The Wind was shown in that infernal lopped-off TV format instead of, for heaven's sake, in letterbox full screen? Aak! I didn't watch it.
WHATS NOW BURNING BOOKS & now a town is picking on "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD???"
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6 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) - Entertaining fantasy adventure comedy from Sony/Columbia Pictures and director Jake Kasdan. Four high school students serving afterschool detention discover an old cartridge video game in the school's storage area. It's called "Jumanji" and when they play it, the game sucks them into the game world, where they each inhabit a different character: nerdy Spencer becomes Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), a musclebound action hero; football jock Fridge becomes diminutive sidekick Mouse (Kevin Hart); vacuous pretty girl Bethany becomes chubby middle-aged male scientist Prof. Oberon (Jack Black); and academically-driven Martha becomes Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan) a sexy martial artist. The quartet learn that they have to complete the game to return to the real world and their real bodies, but they each only have 3 lives in the game; die 3 times in the game, and they die for real. Also featuring Bobby Cannavale, Joe Jonas, Rhys Darby, Tim Matheson, and Colin Hanks.
I saw the original Jumanji movie back in 1995 and wasn't very impressed with it, so I had little interest in this expensive reboot. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up liking this one. The dichotomy of the characters in their real lives versus their in-game personas is funny and well exploited, and the conventions of video game storytelling and set-up are also lampooned with some wit. Johnson, Hart and Black are all performers who can be over the top, but the material calls for it here, and they all exceed, as does Gillan, especially during her hilariously awkward "seduction" scene. Even if some of the animal peril is blatantly more CGI cartoonery, it also fits with the videogame milieu. This strictly popcorn fare, but it isn't brainless, although it's a bit predictable. Still, it was much better than expected. (7/10)
Source: Sony Blu-ray.
No matter what "The Rock" touches seems to turn to $financial$ gold, huh
This almost sold $400m. in tickets domestically alone & reason studios shell out all that $Fogh$ is because action does even greater internationally
(P.S. though can you believe that slug Vin Diesel according the FORDES annually report was highest pd actor last year???
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
Downsizing (2017) - Satirical science fiction comedy-drama from Paramount Pictures and writer-director Alexander Payne. When Norwegian scientists develop a means to shrink living things down to miniature size, with the average human standing only 5 inches tall, the world sees it as great new opportunity. "Downsized" people use less resources, take up less space, and have a smaller impact on the environment. As an added bonus, their "full-size" bank accounts translate to vastly more wealth at smaller size, since less material is needed to build dream mansions or create fabulous jewelry. Within a decade, "downsized" towns are springing up around the world, and middle-class Nebraskans Paul (Matt Damon) and Audrey (Kristen Wiig) make the decision to join the "little people". However, when complications ensue, Paul finds his worldview shattered, and he's left looking for new direction in his life. Also featuring Hong Chau, Christoph Waltz, Udo Kier, Jason Sudeikis, Laura Dern, Neil Patrick Harris, Rolf Lassgard, James Van Der Beek, Niecy Nash, Margo Martindale, Don Lake, Pepe Serna, and Kerry Kinney.
Director Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska) has a knack for character and the human condition. This movie, easily his biggest budgeted effort due to the special effects involved, loses a little of that thanks to the film's ambitions and the overreaching scope of the story. Payne seems to making some points about the lengths people will go to in hopes of achieving the upper class dream of many Americans, with the big house and country club aesthetics. Payne also spends time on the danger of climate change, and the last section of the film takes this to apocalyptic levels. Whether he's exaggerating for effect, comic or otherwise, he doesn't make clear, but it's also possible that he's being sincere in his fears. Damon serves his purpose well, as he's called on mainly to be a blank slate, a rather empty man looking for meaning in the world. The stand-out performances are from Christoph Waltz as Damon's obnoxious neighbor, and especially Hong Chau as a one-legged Vietnamese former political dissident turned janitorial worker. She's phenomenal, and should have nabbed a supporting Oscar nomination. The movie was a flop with both critics and the box office, but I liked it, and continue to look forward to Payne's work. (7/10)
Source: Paramount Blu-ray.
Among the few I missed during past Oscar season
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59 minutes ago, spence said:
ATENTION TO SUPERVISOR ONLY! I tried once again to no abvail to just reply to another on his "CRISSDFIRE" post, but as usual it went into cyberspace WHY IS THIS HAPPENED MORE & MORE???
WELP< tcm did it once again on this very topic-(this would mark the 33rd time just trying to apply/reapply It was mainly about R. Ryan & roles he lost to for '47 *E. Gwenn, in "Miracle on 34th Street"-(though a leading pt), Widmark in "Kiss of Death" (Fox) & check out Ryan almost better in '68's "God's Little Acre" "Billy Budd" "Odds Against Tomorrow" & of course "The Iceman Cometh" I'd say same from the superb '55 "Black Rock" but think *Tracy through him off balance a lot, so natural,etc & as *Borgnine loves to talk about while watching the footage, *Spence was mainly talking to the ground & poor Robert didn't know what to do?
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2 minutes ago, spence said:
WELP, once again damn post went bye, bye All I tried to do with a but was add to your "CROSSFIRE" post???
The more well-made (***) but nowhere in same league *"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" won BP over it though
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2 hours ago, clarklk said:
I just saw "Crossfire" with Robert Young, Gloria Grahame, and Robert Mitchum, thanks to TCM on demand. It was on this past weekend on Noir Alley. I wasn't able to see it when it was on, but thankfully TCM is allowing it on demand for a while.
That was a really good movie. I love noir films, and this has to be one of the best. I had never heard of it before!
Robert Young was sure good as the detective on the trail, out to find the killer. Gloria Grahame and Robert Ryan were both nominated for Oscars for best supporting roles. And "Crossfire" was nominated for best picture. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend it, especially if you like noir.WELP, once again damn post went bye, bye All I tried to do with a but was add to your "CROSSFIRE" post???
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Tried oposting this in a poll, but no takers???
in General Discussions
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I was wondering if anyone would bite on this all-timer topic or not & I THANK YOU!
Dig this, my mum was adopted & her natural father's name was HARRY LANGDON
(TRIVIA: There was a guy that was even or about same era as *Chaplin, Max Linder whom ell of a train & died
Ever hear of him?)