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At least "KANE" lost to a magnificent pic in *Ford's *"HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY" (P.S. though *Ford always thought "Sergent York" deserved to sweep)
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the superb "Sullivan's Travels" is another many cite as a 1942 release?
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On 3/10/2018 at 3:16 AM, CinemaInternational said:
I know I'm going ahead, but here is 1941.
1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. The Lady Eve
4. Ball of Fire
5. High Sierra
6. How Green Was My Valley
7. Suspicion
8. The Devil and Miss Jones
9. 49th Parallel
10. The Great Lie
Runners-Up: The Little Foxes, A Woman's Face, When Ladies Meet, Blossoms in the Dust, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Dumbo, Penny Serenade, Meet John Doe, Love Crazy
I know this is old, but "KANE" truly is the greatest film I've ever seen! Not especially my personal favorite though
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On 3/1/2018 at 10:11 PM, Gershwin fan said:
My list of favorite films of 1940-
1.) His Girl Friday
2.) The Philadelphia Story
3.) The Great Dictator
4.) Tanya
5.) The Shop Around the Corner
6.) Foreign Correspondent
7.) Rebecca
8.) Go West
9.) Saps at Sea
10.) The Letter
How about "THE GRAPES OF WRATH?"
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4 stars for including "WAY OUT WEST!"
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On 1/26/2018 at 4:15 AM, Bogie56 said:
My Top Ten Films of 1937 (70 seen)
1. Grand Illusion
2. The Prisoner of Zenda
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. Captains Courageous
5. The Awful Truth
6. Stage Door
7. Dead End
8. The Life of Emile Zola
9. Lost Horizon
10. Knight Without Armour
Runner Ups:
Pepe Le Moko, The Emperor's Candlesticks, Tovarich, King Solomon's Mines, The Good Earth, Elephant Boy, The Late Mathias Pascal, Easy Living, The Edge of the World, The Hurricane, Topper, A Day at the Races, Heidi, Way Out West
The *Academy makes things confusing about "Snow White..." though by awarding it for '38
My own choice "CAPTAINS CURAGEOUS" & once again his peers snubbed Cary Grant for "The Awful Truth" of even a nod
Saw *"Zola" a couple times, but is slow & dated compared to some others now
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I can't remember it's shorts though as much as the all-time great animated features
Superb work by James Stewart
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To Princess of Tap, you also know Mongo he & I go way back to about 2000 & even compiled our own "Alternate Oscars"
But we lost touch for some reason?
He also lived down here in FL
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INCREDIBLE CLOSE UPS!!!
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& not even up for BP Oscar that year???
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& I saw before that *Kubrick pretty much shot a lot in a bowl of somekind
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The late Gene Siskel rarely would pick has A #1 all-time favorite film, but when pressed he called this his Desert Island choice
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this Asian spam seems to have grown, huh It's all over the place & seemed to have stopped for awhile
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3 hours ago, NickAndNora34 said:
Curious to see what other people think of this teaser. I'm excited, but hesitant. I was not a fan of Disney's recent Jungle Book remake, although I did enjoy Beauty and the Beast. I think this might be a sequel, not a remake, as the second book in the Mary Poppins series has a similar title (Mary Poppins Comes Back). I will say that I noticed a few Easter eggs.
We do split on remake-(or was it technically the 3rd?) reboot of "J. Book" I think it's marvelous!
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& yet another rehash???
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But this 2nd time around the duo were boring
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On 2/26/2018 at 4:04 PM, TopBilled said:
Yes, THE RACKET is another good one. It certainly qualifies as noir.
Saw this several times over many yrs & still a bit underrated with Robert Ryan in whats arguably among his top 3 best performances! Again inside RKO
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& have wished since 1994 they had the rights to *Disney's classics & Golden Age Era animated features
But strangely still can't even broadcast *"THE GODFATHER FLIX?"
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In all fairness to TCM, they simply run out of films to air as well
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5 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
I can't believe there isn't a thread somewhere on these here forums dedicated to the 2018 Oscars (now old news, almost 24 hours old.) I mean, there always is - such a thread. Oh, there are a couple of very specific topics related to the Oscars, but I couldn't find one that's just a general Oscar commentary thread.
Are we that jaded with the Academy Awards that nobody bothers talking about them here anymore? What would Robert Osborne have said ? (Speaking of whom, I saw he was included in the Oscar night Memorial Tribute.)
Well, I'll be the first (maybe not, maybe there's a thread somewhere that I missed. Anyway....)
I found the 90th Academy Awards ceremony to be slightly more boring than usual - I always think it's a bit boring, and yet I always watch it, and always want to discuss it afterwards. Go figure.
Frances McDormand sure livened things up a bit with her Best Actress acceptance speech. I like Frances, she's unique, and she's always interesting. I enjoyed the way she announced "I've got a few things to say". I also think it's interesting that she really doesn't bother much with trying to look glamourous. I'm not criticizing her for that - although even though she's not what you'd call a beautiful woman, she has an appeal, and attractiveness about her sometimes that probably comes from her energy. So she can look good, in a unique Frances McDormand kind of way. But last night I think she was deliberately playing down any attempt at glamour - I swear she wasn't wearing a speck of make-up.
However, I know there are a lot of people who would probably say to me, "How come every time we're talking about a famous woman we're discussing what she looks like?" And they'd have a point.
Something they did that I thought was just plain dumb was that trip to the movie theatre next door. First, there's no way that was spontaneous, I'm sure it was planned, right down to at what point in the movie the audience was watching the glittering Hollywood celebrities would come traipsing in, distributing candy and hot dogs and "thanking" the ordinary everyday movie goers for going to the movies. One of those things that might have seemed like a good idea at the time they thought of it (whoever did), but just came across, at least to me, as extremely contrived, condescending, and a waste of time, making the already too long Oscar ceremony 15 minutes longer.
Lots of other thoughts on Oscar night, 2018, but I'm interested in what others have to say. Shirley the Academy Awards aren't so passe and irrelevant to us movie-lovers here that we don't even bother with them anymore at all.
Said already with overnight Nielsen ratings to be the lowest in it's history of being aired on television-(debut was in 1953 honoring 1952 cinema)
A lot may have to do with alienating middle America ahead of time, thinking they were gonna' be lectured about pc &* this "Me Too Movement?"
Highest rated & I always believed it's the films up for the *Oscars that drew the audiences
1997 the year *"Titanic": ($670m. domestically) & swept a tremendous & record tieing (14 statuettes)
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51 minutes ago, jakeem said:
Jack was probably at a Lakers game with his daughter Louise.
There was an online rumor a couple yrs ago that he contracted Alzheimers?
Plus, he said he retired from film acting after the flat (**) 2010 release "How Do You Know"
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Surprisingly the politics were fairly low key as was the show But the actual winners to this longtime pundit were no surprise & I hit 7 out of the top 8 races on the $money$ & overall 19 for 24
"Get 0ut" taking Best 0. script was asinine though & most I know agree that the AMPAS has really lowered it's bar & it kinda' started for 2009, with 8 to 10 BP contenders & this prefferential ballot & now, pc
Plus no heavyweights like *Nicholson, *Hanks,etc
As 2 time winner *George Stevens-(l904-l975) said of his tremendous & 6 time winning 1951 classic "A PLACE IN THE SUN" "We Will really Know Just How Good This Picture Is In 20 Years" UNQUOTE
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Yet another cool thing she's done is buy her dad-(Anthony Silvio Ciccone_) (1931-) about 3 of the still-standing wine vineyards up in Michigan he personally still works-(it's website though makes nada a mention of her?)
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14 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I think it's a bit more than that. She knew how to make good songs. She had a winning formula. She found the best producers, the best cowriters, the best backup singers, the best musicians to go on tour with her-- then she launched her usual marketing blitzes, which was another level of getting the product out to the public. But most of those songs, in their craftsmanship, are quite good.
I do agree some of those same tunes could have been even better in the hands of another more skilled vocalist. She's a mostly mediocre singer. She imbues her performances with personality, because she knows if people focus on her personality they won't notice her lack of vocal skill.
The only time she pushed herself to improve her vocal range was when she did Evita, because she had something to prove. And Ray of Light, which won Grammys, was a continuation of that strong period. But then she got lazy again. Nobody will ever compare her vocals to other female contemporaries of her era, like Debbie Harry, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey or Cher who appeal to the same demographic. She's quite inferior as a singer compared to those gals.
Getting back to Madge's acting, I think she's effective when she's not the lead, when she has a good director guiding her, and when she is used more for comedy or camp. DICK TRACY and A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN are bolstered by her participation in them, and she should be remembered for those films as well as for EVITA.
Hey TopBilled, actually she really hates being called Madge, but her fans & such still call; her that?
Hugely split with Jakeem ^ you though BIG-TIME! in regard top her actual force as a singer
If you ever get the chance & a few extra minutes search for her pure vocals of the legendary number "Li Vie en Rose" of course originally done by Edith Piaf, but in 2015, Louise really hit some new & massive highnotes with it. Nothing like her early pop songs & vids at all As well as "Live to Tell" a song she was robbed of an *Oscar nod for from, the powerful 1986 fact based film "At Close Range" (***1/2-out of four) It's also her own personal favorite of all her numbers. She has won 7 Grammys to date
Ever have the opportunity to see her though in her mammoth epic concerts vs. the videos a 180% difference & I've never witnessed an entertainer put on a stage music show like her Best Example is the 1990 "Blonde Ambition Tour" STUNNING & SHE'S LIKE THE ENERGIZER BUNNY! & 2008's -(she was amazingly 50 here) "Sticky & Sweet Concert and Tour"
However as an actress, she still has one note, sadly. I'll never tell or mention though & her very first feature film is so awful words cannot do it justice 1979's no budget "A Certain Sacrifice" Her all-time heroines are both Marilyn & Dietrich. & unfortunately the only single image/photo of her with *SINATRA is when all celebrated his 80th birthday party in December of 1995 & man, he ;looks just awful!
Your Three Favorite Actresses of All Time
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Great again LawrenceA, overall for me is
Natalie Wood
Garbo
*Katharine Hepburn
& the greatest I've seen>
*Streep, Garbo, *Kate Hepburn
but the majority of critics usually vote for *Bergman