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On 2/22/2018 at 3:15 PM, MCannady1 said:
I taped it one time. I remember seeing it on TV when I was 10 or 11 in the early 60s. It made quite an impact!
Eleanor Parker and all the others delivered a compelling performance.
1 debit on this topic though many times there is no indication/heading of exactly what release fans are writing about, WHY THOUGH?
3 time AMPAS contender & nice gal ELEANOR POWELL l9ll-
She was also an *Academy contender fo 1950's strong prison drama "Caged" but this time a woman's prison. This fine & vastly underrated actress also garnered *Oscar attention for the bully prison guard Joe Emerson, though "Caged" is now a bit dated, & the ce in *Tracy and *Hepburn's 1950 comedy "Adam's Rib" (M-G-M) & Parker seemed to choose her fair pretty good 1951's "Detective Story" (4 stars!) in which Emerson easilyjuhuuuuuuuuu.,, of the women's jail. Softly portrayed K. Douglas' wife in & many others during that superb decade I long called "The Eisenhower Years") *Wyler's early superb 1951 "D. Story" (Paramount) & (****-stars!) Plus another shot at a "Golden Boy" for 1955's "Interrupted Melody" MGM , plus I always still think when watching the big 20ic in 21960's very strong & often scary "Home from the Hill" (M-G-M) & (***1/2) In this
6 minutes 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. & narks the one & only shot at an Academy Award(s Actor) For R. Ryan, but victoir was *Edmud Gwenn in "Miracle on 34th Street" (Fox) always thought that a leading role too though? Plus, Widmark snagged his sole shot for Fox studios "Kiss Of Death"Ryan was almost as strong in more "0dss Against Tomorrow" "Iceman Cometh" "Billy Budd" Though not a strong in the superb 19855 "Black Rock" where *Tracy stole most of his sequences
6 minutes 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.the legendary poerfirer Robert Mitchum's adulturess & bear hunting husband but lppklr it up& nither were in the Golden Race that year for theeic!Mitchumk to the tribute hi+ own original
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On 3/17/2018 at 3:57 PM, jakeem said:
Box Office:
#BlackPanther
rules #TombRaider to claim fifth top weekendJAKEEM, do you have a compilation of some major realeses due this spring yet? Can't find anything of interest??? Plus aren't any sequels, remakes of comics?
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That's not all of it buddy! I see on the even local news thaters now wanted to feel even more "PC" 7 are banning it from even "Grand Movie Places" around this nation!!!
Incuding a monolithic one down here in "The TampaThatre"-(l926-) To be franks "THE ARE GUTTLESS TURDS" UNQUOTE
Whats next???
& I went to Hollywood 3 yrs to date & "Grauman's"-(according to my mom & pal) went side & said even "GRAUMAN"S couldn't hold a candle to the achitecture on "T. Theatre" & she said it can't even hold a candle to the liver livered one here in TAMPA" as id my friend & doesn't begin to hold a sample" down here!
AT LEAST IT DID GE TO GET THE SUCH CLASSICS THERE AS:
"CITIZEN KANE"-(thee absolute place to see this in)
"IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE""
"APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX" (2001)
"GUIESS WHGOI'S COMING TO DINNER" (l967)-(& typically after the showing some college geeks were gonna' have a discusstion, No known it was "PC" talk about how *Tracy's character was only intsead I GOT UP & RAN OUT!)
& "CHERI" (2009)_ (only went to see Michelle Pfeiffer, but but was so boring desprite her & only made $4m,,?)
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Almost forget my point the official contenders for 1956 were>
*"Around the World in 80 Days"-(swept 5)
"Giant"(only took home BD *Stevens, & in *AMPAS history the runner-up for BD means it was trhe runner-up for "THE BIGGIE")
"Ten Ten Commandments" (l956)-(TRIVIA: It's legendary parking of the The Red sequence *Oscar winning sequence) actually shot in Paramount Pictures parking lot)
& "The King & I" (swept 5 include *Brynner & my friend of almost 28yrs once told me he went toi his show & then "Zobra the Greek" also on stage
My personal All-Time Oscars for '56>-(my winners like the famed book, didn't even have to bee nommed)
Best Film:'"The Searchers" (l956)
Actor: Sir Laurence 0livier, "Richard III"
Actress: Katharine Hepburn in 'The Rainmaker"
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1 minute ago, spence said:
Do you know-(without looking it up first) the official 1956 contenders that year??? (among my first things I loved when falling in lone with the movies & it's history, & I;m noaying your cheating, but about 85% do in our era YOU MUST ALWAYS COMMIT TRIVIAS & SUCH TO THE BRAIN!) I'm just 53 at present but studied bnot only my books, then I thought I was cheating after awhile when I'd have to resort to looking starts up in my books, hAD TO COME FROM THE BRAIN PAL! That's another thing that literally pissis me off, I starting in 1982 & trying to outguess the *ACADEMY<> & of course still make some-screw-ups-(these recent awards I hit 20 for 24 correct) Where & how did folks get around 20 & ore ty around 7 for everything??? THANX
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On 3/15/2018 at 2:06 PM, filmnoirguy said:
Thanks for listing Giant as #2, I agree Elizabeth gave a great, but underrated, performance (she wasn't nominated). The first time I saw Giant in a movie theater, I really didn't get it. The second time I saw it in re-release in a theater, my reaction was: Wait, is this really the same movie? I was totally captivated. Today I own it on DVD and watch it about every 5 years. It's now one of my all time favorites. Cheers~~
Do you know-(without looking it up first) the official 1956 contenders that year??? (among my first things I loved when falling in lone with the movies & it's history, & I;m noaying your cheating, but about 85% do in our era YOU MUST ALWAYS COMMIT TRIVIAS & SUCH TO THE BRAIN!) I'm just 53 at present but studied bnot only my books, then I thoughtI was cheatint after awhilke when I'd have to resort to looking starts up in my books, hAD TIO COME FROM THE BRAIN PAL! That's another thing that literally pissuis me off, I starting in 1
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I'm positive for you *Taylor & to a lesser degree-(though not me of course, but still not in her acting range)
About 20yrs back Madonna was close to being cast as "Cleaopatra" then she either got into her multitude of other jazz,m & frankly, was already gettiting to klling her wonderful teeth, so the matter cast to *Oscar winner *Anjgeloie Jolie-l975 ( instead, since then nada has been heard though?
ANY UPDATES? & please fellow TCM_TIES, don't even begin to mention Myli Cryus!!!
Altghough I nixed on her at first, but Madonna wannada & truly gave her a boost BIG0-TIME-(poretending the were enemines & all) is LAD LA LA
(P.S. For those that caught Louise massive half-time 2011 SP extravanga, it was obviously hugh homahge to it)2nd highest SP Special under this youngster Katie Perry broke the record?
& one incredible pure singer-(even better then my goil) & even make her theatrical screen dubut nxt 0ct. Is Lasda GaGa! She & Louise pretented to have this nasty fight, over the floor of SNIL even, but Madonnahas a way thesedays up pumputing up new talent & certainly has with this only. Amazingly she 28 years her senior. Madonna has socks older then her! Clincher was when louise wrestled around the way where Ga Ga & about 20minutes & also in a fashion like passing the throne (AKLERT: now there is no love lose between her &*Elton Join!(long story)
RECAP: "Lada Gada (her Italian name is veeery long) & Brabley Cooper all set of whats will be the 6th "A Star Is Born" (I see 6th due to 1932's "What Price Glory?")
THANX
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As many have grown to know me since I have been on TCM forums since 2001. Most then know I worship Hollywoods Golden Age-(circa: 1925-through 1960/63) & always also go to new releases on top of it ajj. but have no desire to see that is currently noiw surging up into the all-time top ten $G.O.$ chams & leaders
Well, the current $B,.O.$ champs weeks after week if "The Black Panther"-(looking at that list it maybe even spilled into 7th or 7th when done)
WHO HAS SEEN THE PIC & HATE I SAY THIS AGAIN, ANIMATED, CART0ON ADVENTURE YET?-(please be honoist)
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It's been awhile now, but has any true moviegoers yet to go & see the (predicted) 2017 *Oscar sweeping, including the one category seems to be putting most credence in BEST FILM WINNER: *"THE SPAPE OF WATER?" (*Fox S.) ($75m.)Personally after it concluded I think it's a nice Sci-Fi/Fantasy-(TRIVIA: Thee sole genre to win Hollywoods highest honor to date by the way) It's a very nice & also incredibally bizarre land motion picture (barely ***1/2 for 4)
Though it's a film I don't care to ever visit again, just me I reckon, much, much preferring "THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSORUI"-(which I went back to, something I haven';t done in 3yrs
WAS CURIOUS & PLKEASE CHIME-IN
It won';t belong very wrhile though, already caught the tv dvd
d releasae
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Bud urfunately kind of a mess & muddle of a film (**) *Taylor's ultra close friend & little damagedto the max by that end was Monty Clift of whom was always meant forBrando's role instead & she & MNarkon did not getting like Callng him "Mister Mumbles;_)(reckon that's an improvement when *Francis Albert just called him "Mumbles" & *Brando only referred to *FS as "The Singer: during 1955's "Guys & Dolls"=(that was the 2nd staw in that fighting feud, wqith more to come)
Not among J. Huston's crowing achievements though
& given T. Williams there alwaty had to be a gay subtext involvement, just look at his motion pix for more
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On 3/17/2018 at 4:34 PM, cockermom2 said:
I know Waking Ned Devine is a 90's movie but very well made so I wonder why TCM never ever shows it on St. Patrick's day? After all, they showed Tarzan today of all things. So I just wonder if anyone else has thought the same thing.... It was a funny movie about a winning lottery ticket, set on location with spectacular views and genuine local townsfolk, plus excellent Irish music in the pub. But instead we got Tarzan? I dunno. SMH.
& it's nice little picture to (***-out of 4) I went to review it & mostly because it was already gitting Oscar buzz that yr even a scrip nod that year? Just a few of others "My Left Foot" "In the Name of the Father" "Once" "The Field" In America"-(ll by Jim Sheridan, except for "Once") "The Boxer"=-(shows goes to show you *D. Day close do it all)
"Shake Hands With the Devil"(l959-*Cagney again) "Gentleman Jim" & many more
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Though late, always love to get what I've long dubbed "MY ST. PATRICK'S DAY MOVE MARATHON" posted, though again premature
A #1 "The Quiet Man" (l952-Republic)-(*Ford's ultimate tribute to Irish & it's somewhat become what "It's A Woderful Life" has to Christmas) (*John "Pappy" Ford (Sean 0'Fenney)record Oscar 4th. But most don't know won even 2 more for his WW2 propanga flix) & of course wellknown for it's legendary fght scene with *"The Duke" vs. actual limey *Victor McLaglen-(66 then)
2nd favorite "Gangs of New York" (2002) (Not for all tastes. though based on facts the 1864 NYF Cvil war draft riots. *Scorsese realizes this entire world brilliantly & it tied 1977's "The Turning Point" as an AMPAS record for most nods with a win (0 for 11) each. Most stunningly is 3 times leading actor winner *D. Day-Lewis' utterly magnificent & stunning transformation-(AGAIN) into a stretch of William "Cutting" "Billy the Btcher" Cutting=-(though more fictional on Cutting, actually short dead in 1855)
3rd fav. of Irish day "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (l942-WB'S) (Whats to say about this legendary bio of George M Cohan, surperbly brought life by fellow "Mick" *James *Francis)( Cagney & ij a role he only got due to Astaire turning it down>ALWATYS *JHIM'S FAV ROLE & BY FAR TOO! Winning his sole Best actor statue
4th pick "The Informer" (l935-RKO Radio) (*Ford's very 1st t BD victory as Best Director, though in later yrs he grew less & less found of this still classic & took home 3 more statuettes vs. *"Mutiny on the Bounty" '35 MGM) that Oscar year, though *"Bounty" did won the biggie, but that's it. NY Film Critics went with *Ford's masterpiece & due to budget they mostly filmedthis on RKO darkned street to save $$$ (TRIVIA: *Ford reportedly keep*McLaglen loaded, not thinking he could play a drunken oaf)
5th "The Last Hurrah" (l958-Columbia) *"The Great: Tracy" actually got better reviews for this great Irish politico, vs his nommed & in my book epic all by himself work in "Old Man" it';s ever so close, huh. Hemingway was little help, at 1st getting loaded hith him & once he caught some dailies he ****ed all over the place saying such things as it's the work, lazy, fat actor" unquote Hemingway ideal actor had always been *Gary Cooper to begin with. Many know*Tracy's total hate for location, starting off both the cuba & Key West cost, welp, he'd had enough & he WB's fore *Zinnemann, brightin his pal Sturges & even demand to movie entire productionback to Hollywood & the largest s, stage on the backlot-(think it still is>) went back it on WarnerBros. tour, they were currently shooting "A Perfect Storm" (2000) inside. & in whats is crealy among "My Biggest Oscar Sins of Ommision" *Spence lost, but to *Niven in "Separate Tables?" (WHO HAS SEEN THE 1990 *A. QUEEN TV REHASH???)
& can't ever leave out whats is not only *John Ford's swan son not only to his cinematic career, but obviously his beloved Ireland 1987's slow,. yet wonderous valentine in "The Emerald Isle": "The Dead" His peers shoulda' been ashamed in leaving out-(except for it's writing only)( only 83min great, great picture. Very depressing filmthouygh so beware & it's ending seemed destined to be a classic & with the never won 1 single *Oscar Alex North's beautiful scoring, plus a wee bit of 0pera
(P.S. A nice site voted 1989';s bio/drama "My Left Foot" as A #1, though it's top 7 were limited to be taking oplace in Ireland)
T CERTAINLY AN iRISH TALE. & BASED ON FACT THE 1864 CIVIL WAR DRAFT RIOTSA.
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Though I;m not a fan, I certainly must respect Powell-(l9l2-12) & some jazz/fun for trivia fans E. Powell had the reciord formost taps per minute at 1,000! Not a rumor, but "Guinness World Records" awarded her that honor
KOOK IT UP SPORTS FANS
She another that choose e for in adavance her final resting place at the nearby-(to motel I always stat at & of course bordering Paramount Pictures & old RKO Radio, the latter only for now sadly)
"Hollywood, Forever, cem" I am appositive most had this story breeze by them yrs ago, when the rascist & anti semitic slumb lord owhn the 62 acre park, he delibertately let it run into almost condemning condition, she these 2 young millionairs burghht it & put tons of $fouggh$ inside & out, installiened touch computers for fans the may just wanted to see where Carl "A'falfa" Switzer, *H. McDaniel, Tyron Power, *Janet Gaynor, Flowrence Lawrence, *Paul Muni, *Peter Finch & of course Valentino is exactly located & then they even installad a movie screen outside & even out black when the broadcast classics with say Valtino, Fairbanks,etc As for the original slumlord & owner when he finally passed, he was interred with the jewish section of his beloved park!
THANK YOU
(P.S. A one time friend of strongly speculation that Glenn Ford-(l9l6-2006) would also chose "Hollywood, mem. Parlk" due to E. Powell?)
(P.S. & much to my surprise MICKEY "THE MICK" ROONEY-(l920-l924) & I;m by no means alone her, most of whats left of the little dynamo were certain he'd to to where his moistly ladies had their remains shipped when they went away eventually passing n themseveles like "The Nickj" thought would happened at any day. Welp, NOPE, he keeps them thinking & at first choice this 62 acers cem vs. where all his contemporaries>*Tracy, *Tracy, , *Bogey,.Ava, -(OOPS, *Sinatra's lady for life no matter what) Then only a number of weeks called one of the family body guards & another other totally of the wagon just occurred, her going own 73 yr old & *Oscar winner-(something Judy was ever have a top geth one of those horses for ya To you guys How pain in veery beginning, then it worth living,etc
THANS FOR REASDING & HOPE IS VIEWEVER SEEN OR GLANSEED AT THE SCREEN SOMETHING MAY RUB OFF ON YOU GUYS (WE PUST GOT OUR PAIN ON WEAY TO BE ION UP THER BASEBET
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My personal top 3 candidates are in this order>
A #1 Leonard Maltin-(l950-) he literally known more about classic cinema, silent era , Hollywood Golden Age & of course new releases & has sections on his online program about "Movie Collectibles" Movie Books" "*Uncle Walt'
salt's" the best memorabelia) he even has worn a "Mickey Watch" for decades, something around early ';90's I alsoi wanted & get at what was then called "The Disney Store": & dig this, in a regular lgr mall too!? Now, for me in just damn disgustingly humid down here I don't wear a writwatch. & one & I;m kinda' sorry you spporets-fans can not likely local anymore/ In short it was thee TCM Gangster Watch & Logo-(like Dick Tracy) & came in a can as wll
Some gal got the tcm gangster wat cor her approx. 10 to 15yrs ago & itr simply said out the ouside 'Bill Colle is Doing Timel
welp, I wanted a Bugs Bunny (WB;SA0 wristwatch as a collection, but sadly WB's is not in the league $money$ wise as the motnolith *DISNEY! Cal still be a couple Bugs watched via intenernet, but I;'m to put in frankly, not in A GOOD MOOID ANYNORE OLD FRIEND!#2. Peter Bogdanovich (l939) (my runner-up as a poss tcm programmer/host)
& 3rd ???? Soory sports fans getting tired & quickly
I had the 3rd one ion my mind just before I attempoted to wrote, then it wen NANANANA
Once again I was just about to finish this our dear moderator cut me off> Dick Cavett_(1935-) of whom grew up with our legendaryclassic stars & heroes & still loves the movies & recall his early to mid 1`970's show-(I taped all f them year about when they re aired them all>Mitchum, Hitch, *KATE, Groucho, manymothers So Richard would efinatell;y be in my top 3 CHOICES, though it seems wqe havesay no say anylonger>
& I KNOW I'M PREJUIDECED., but the network currently has an arrey of people that don't even shave yet & read theirlines all from & I know what they are doing, of course desperarely wanted to now be pc, among others
AGAIN, MIS RYDER(WinonaLaura Horowitz) she knows Hollywood history Plus, she has a "IN" she been to the GA station either c hosting & feeled in for Osbo an entire week one
Reckon' at going on age 47-(iroginally same brithdates) November 8, she all of a sudden???
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Just now, spence said:
Don't exactly what you mean in regard to GARBO?
But personally & many of her contempories agree she was easily amount motion picture history's top 5 at least (*k. Hepburn, *Jimmy Stewart, *Billy Wilder, F. Bartholmow, *Cukor, Maureen 0'Sulivan, Lubitsch, Clarence Brown & of course Gloria Swanson almost idolized her. Her sole weakness, except of "Ninthcka" (l939 MGM) was comedy though & I never truly consider a genuine all-time great performer that can't handle both, shouldn't be rated ijn the top 5 or so. & most already are aware about her 2nd attempt at screwball comedy in 1941 "Two-Faced Woman" (MGM) (***) not a bad picture as many always reported, but no "Ninotcha" But as I always recall *B., Wilder later said of Monroe, looking at the dailies of MM, he'd not seen that type of on screen voltage sine GARBO!
WOW, you say *Kate on screen KUDOS! *Tracy started out on the boards as they said to say, but attempted a huge flop return around 1948 in "The Rugged Path" & DESPISED IT & NEVER DID ANOTHER ON STAGE! "His *Kate" as he dubbed her loved the a stage far more then the camera Reporting our finest cinema actor immediately even got flop spread. Obviously what is overall-time greatest motion picture had grown terrified on going back on the boards. He always & highly preferred just filming in a studio after the 1930's His big break however was in 1930's The Last Mile" on stage, as Killer Mears, so much so the ultra hard to places *John "Pappy" ford went to watch *Spencer nightly for about a week & immediately contracted him to Fox Studios & film debut in *Ford's pretty well-made comedy prison drama "Up the River" (Fox) (barely ***-out of 4)
Then he got nada but gangster roles in Fox-(1935 Fox) i.e. "Quick Milions" (l931 a pic tcm never wants to air?
"20,000 Years at Sing" (l933-Warner Bros.) (***-good one) "Whipsaw" (l935-MGM) (***) (QUESTION TO ME TCM INTE PALLS<> I virtually know all about him, but why did the studio screw up sooo bad & not caster *Spencer in the1930-31 version of "The Last Mile?" Preston Foster took the lead instead & though he was quite older-(he always appeared a long oler due to Binge Drinking) The 2nd rehase in '59 starring Mickey Rooney as Killer Spears? IF YOU JNOW, PLEASE FILL ME IN???
& I THANK YOU
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On 3/13/2018 at 12:34 PM, jamesjazzguitar said:
What to you mean by 'seen'? I assumed on stage, but then you put in Garbo (but without an '*').
Anyhow I have seen Kate Hepburn on stage when I was just 18 and it was a treat. Really pushed me into overdrive as it relates to being interested in studio-era movies and actors. It was in L.A. and after the performance she came out and talked about how she viewed Hollywood and La La Land. She talked and talked and it was great. She said things like 'some may believe I don't like the place' but she was all full of love for the audience and what Hollywood had done for and with her. Unforgetable!
Don't exactly what you mean in regard to GARBO?
But personally & many of her contempories agree she was easily amount motion picture history's top 5 at least (*k. Hepburn, *Jimmy Stewart, *Billy Wilder, F. Bartholmow, *Cukor, Maureen 0'Sulivan, Lubitsch, Clarence Brown & of course Gloria Swanson almost idolized her. Her sole weakness, except of "Ninthcka" (l939 MGM) was comedy though & I never truly consider a genuine all-time great performer that can't handle both, shouldn't be rated ijn the top 5 or so. & most already are aware about her 2nd attempt at screwball comedy in 1941 "Two-Faced Woman" (MGM) (***) not a bad picture as many always reported, but no "Ninotcha" But as I always recall *B., Wilder later said of Monroe, looking at the dailies of MM, he'd not seen that type of on screen voltage sine GARBO!
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20 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes. Fine performances in that film And I was disappointed it was overlooked by Oscar that year.......
"The Doctor"
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On 3/9/2018 at 6:26 PM, EricJ said:
Of course, that was the early 90's when Broadway was suffering a drought, and a lot of those same "I'm not a pedophile, I'm not a pedophile!" first early 90's-Renaissance grownup Disney fans were using "Animated musicals are the New Broadway!" as their important "artistic" excuse for praising, quote-fingers, "kiddy" films.
Which is why we got, yes, Beauty & the Beast: the Broadway Musical a year or two later.
We got the BAF literally BECAUSE those same insecure grownups kept wanting to validate their love of the New Good Disney films, and pestered the Academy endlessly to make history repeat itself as many times in succession as they could. It didn't help that the next two films were Aladdin and Lion King.
(In fact, according to some insiders, one of the factors that created the separate category was Disney and the fans' own incessant nonstop attention-struck showboating over "We got a nomination, we got a nomination!" for ten years that pretty much soured the committee against the "commercial" popularity of animated films. If you think the category was created to Shut Them Up, you're not far off.)
Until 1999, of course, when Toy Story 2 opened, and a lot of grownups wanted to apologize for sniffling over Jessie's song, beginning a long nine-year quest to see a Pixar movie nominated for Best Picture. And when '00 also had Aardman fans jumping on the Disney train and insisting that "Chicken Run" be FYC'ed--and one year after Japanese-anime fans blitzed the Best Foreign Film committee once they heard that "Princess Mononoke" had made the cut--the Academy decided someone needed a nice Time-Out Corner.
I've always felt if a movie in any form though deserves to be in the biggest race, it should be
To date though only 2 more animated features have been up for BP "Up" & "Toy Story 3"
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Originally Ava's role in "Night of the Iguana" was meant for her
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9 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I'll admit that Elizabeth Taylor isn't my favorite actress, she seems very up and down for me. Sometimes she's good and other times, she's meh. I prefer her adult career over her child one, only because as a child, she seems too overly polite or something. Not sure how to describe what I'm trying to say, she seems fake. Though I do like National Velvet. I saw part of another one of her younger film roles where she sings and it was painful. I can't even remember what movie it was.
As a child of the 90s, before I really started getting into old films, I mostly knew Elizabeth Taylor from her "White Diamonds" commercials and her friendship with Michael Jackson. I also remember hearing about her marriage (and subsequent divorce) from husband #100 in the 1990s as well. Then for years, I kept hearing about how she was in bad health, and then all of a sudden, she would pop up on an award show looking fine. It was sad when she truly was in bad health, looked feeble and finally passed away.
Now that I've seen more of Liz's films, I'd say that my favorite performances of hers are:
1) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She's fantastic in this film and deserved to win the Oscar. I think this is one of her best performances.
2) Suddenly Last Summer. This film is a little weird, but I enjoy it, and I thought the whole cast: Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn and especially Elizabeth Taylor, did an excellent job with this story. Lobotomies were a timely topic in the discussion of treating mental health issues in the time that the story takes place. I believe by the time the 1959 film came out, lobotomies were on their way out. Doctors began to think, "hmm. Maybe removing part of someone's brain isn't a good idea after all."
3) A Place in the Sun. She had such great chemistry with Montgomery Clift and it shows in this film. I loved her as the rich socialite who steals Clift away from Shelley "Keep me away from the water" Winters who is carrying Clift's child.
4) National Velvet. Probably the only child-Elizabeth Taylor movie I like, but I thought she was great here and even Mickey Rooney didn't annoy me. Child-Elizabeth Taylor is probably the best part of Little Women (1949) as well.
5) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Even though I'm not a big fan of Burton (much like Laurence Olivier, I think he's better suited for the stage and not for the screen. Burton and Olivier are just too much). I really liked this movie, despite Sandy Dennis, and despite the fact that Burton and Taylor basically spend the whole film screaming at one another. And much like Dennis and husband George Segal, you want to look away, you want to leave, but can't. It's a trainwreck and morbid curiosity makes you want to see how it's going to end. My favorite part is when they go to to the bar and Liz forces Segal to dance with her.
Has anyone read Furious Love about Burton and Taylor? I picked up the book at a used book sale awhile back, but I haven't read it yet.
Ever see the remakes pf "Cat...?"
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Some cite "GIANT" as her best work, but I gotta' go with "Virginia Woolf?"
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So many heavyweight scores!!!
in 2006 AFI had another epic survey with *John Williams performed at The Hollywood Bowl & "Star Wars" (l977)was voted #1
the other top 9 out of 25 were> (*-denotes Oscar winner)
2nd *"GWTW" (l939) (Max Steiner)
3. *"Lawrence of Arabia" (l962) (*Maurice Jarre)
4. *"The Godfather"(l972) (Carmine Coppola & Nino Rota)
5. "Psycho" (l960) (Bernhard Herrmann)
6. "Laura" (l944) (David Raskin)
7. "Jaws" (l975) (*John Williams)
8. "Magnificent Seven" (l960) (Elmer Bernstein)
9. "Chinatown" (l974) (Jerry Goldsmith)
& 10th "High Noon" (l952) (*Dimitri Tiomkin)
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MARVELOUS & UNDERRATED TOPIC!
My personal all-time favorite score is *Ennio Morricone's 1969 western "Once Upon a Time in the West""
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On 3/1/2018 at 10:55 PM, LawrenceA said:
Classic film actresses:
- Myrna Loy
- Gene Tierney
- Bette Davis
Runner-Ups -
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Katharine Hepburn
- Olivia de Havilland
- Marlene Dietrich
Modern/still active:
- Meryl Streep
- Diane Keaton
- Cate Blanchett
Runner-Ups:
- Susan Sarandon
- Jane Fonda
- Sigourney Weaver
- Kate Winslet
- Rachel Weisz
- Scarlett Johansson
- Emma Stone
(TRIVIA: John Dillinger's favorite movie star was MYRNA LOY & he was coming out of her 1934 film "Manhattan Melodrama" when they got him
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