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4 hours ago, skimpole said:
54th Academy Awards (1981)
-------Most recent ceremony where all four acting winners are deceased.
-------Largest gap between acting nominations (41 years for Henry Fonda)
-------Fonda becomes oldest Best Actor winner
-------Katharine Hepburn wins a record fourth acting oscar
56th Academy Awards (1983)
-------Linda Hunt becomes the only acting winner to play a character of the opposite sex
57th Academy Awards (1984)
-------Peggy Ashcroft becomes the oldest Supporting Actress winner
-------Haing S. Ngor joins Harold Russell as the only non-professional actors to win oscars.
good post
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On 4/8/2020 at 9:25 PM, Rudy's Girl said:
Great movie and fantastic soundtrack. It was the music that first drew me into the movie.
The longest one I ever attended at 4hrs 14 minutes
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16 hours ago, cinecrazydc said:
Tremendous & unnominated score here Did win Best Sound & made 42m
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Don't recall it's overall list but AFI had 100yrs...100 LAUGHS ack around 2000 & SOME LIKE IT HOT topped it's survey
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On 4/3/2020 at 11:46 AM, Det Jim McLeod said:
- 2010's - Zero Charisma (2013)
- 2000's - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- 1990's - What About Bob (1991)
- 1980's - Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (1983)
- 1970's - The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1975)
- 1960's - Lover Come Back (1961)
- 1950's - Pillow Talk (1959)
- 1940's - Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
- 1930's - Duck Soup (1933)
- 1920's - The Gold Rush (1925)
pretty good breakdown, but how about overall?
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& many may not agree-(like your input either way though please) JACKIE (Ralph Kramden) GLEASON & -ART (Ed Norton) CARNEY from tv's THE HONEYMOONERS must rank for me even over STAN & OLLIE-(by the way Gleason's idol) as the greatest comedic duo
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Even THE BOWERY BOYS are better than the current crop of movie comics?
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Not to forget most often JERRY LEWIS
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We had CHAPLIN, KEATON, LLOYD, THE MARX BROTHERS, W.C. FIELDS, STAN & OLLIE, THE THREE STOOGES, A & C who do we have nowadays???
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Out and 0ut comedy to me is the king genre!
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It's been said now fr decades to shoot the famous sequence of Mr. Powell in the distance on horseback they used a midget to make him look further away somehow
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3 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
And that was based on a novel by Jack Schaefer. I had read that in high school before I ever saw the movie. I can't recall too many details but the book is narrated by the little boy (he is called Bobby instead of Joey like in the movie). When I was reading the book I thought more of a dark haired character for Shane, I was kind of surprised when I saw the blond Alan Ladd in the movie.
Ironically though Ladd was fine in one of the great westerns, always pictured him in that legendary role
Notice how they had to keep Ladd & Palance far apart, he was 5'5 to 5'6 at best & at that time Palance said he was about 6'4
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I'm reading a book about John Huston, Art and Courage and based on what Huston says about the filming and how Mitchum was treated, I find that hard to believe.
Huston appeared to view the film as one of his middle-of-the-pack films. I would really like to know what Mitchum said to Osborne, since when it comes to topics like this his more likely response would be "I don't care".
How did the author say he was treated though?
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Heard it wasn't really over though, how about you? Great scoring by Badalamenti & was obviously the offspring of his BLUE VELVET
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4 hours ago, Sukhov said:
A Twin Peaks marathon
A superb choice, but the original or the sequel from a couple yrs ago?
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Just now, spence said:
Lost to THE GODFATHER, PART II due to the first one maybe was deemed not to qualify because pts were used in an older Italian film
Listed this list sev times, but new people are always on here of course & only listed AFI's top ten vs the overall 25 in it's 06 special poll & concert by J. Williams at The Hollywood Bowl & Chinatown rated 9th
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2 hours ago, cinecrazydc said:
This soundtrack really SENDS ME !! Ever since the first time I heard it, I have been captivated by Jerry Goldsmith's magic score - and Uan Rasey's magic horn !!
Lost to THE GODFATHER, PART II due to the first one maybe was deemed not to qualify because pts were used in an older Italian film
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
I've always regarded Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter, a rather challenging film to categorize, as a dark fairy tale. But, great as it is as a film, I've always thought its final twenty minutes something of a disappointment, with the Mother Goose character taking over the narrative as the Big Bad Wolf gradually disappears. In doing so, the film loses the tremendous tension that had earlier distinguished it. A film that I had loved until the final two reels turns strangely unsatisfying for me.
I read the Davis Grubb novel years ago but can't recall if this was the ending of the novel, as well, or if it was something that originated with the 1955 film. I hope any remake comes up with a better ending.
When pressed by Osborne Mitchum liked HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLYSON best of his 97 flix Who recalls on Robert's special show towards his ending on tcm, when he showed clips of Pvt. screenings-(Mickey Rooney actually scared him!) & on the first interview, think with Jane Russell? Mitchum as he said stonewalled him on it? Seeing it a couple times I think at first Mitchum just didn't like him
For his fans his several pts interview from about l97l with Dick cavett are easy to find online!
Notice somebody keeps filling his glass throughout
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11 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Wednesday April 8, 2020
Harry Belafonte in the 1950s
CARMEN JONES with Dorothy Dandridge
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW with Robert Ryan
THE WORLD THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL with Inger Stevens
BRIGHT ROAD with Dorothy Dandridge
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW is still vastly underrated (***1/2-out of 4)
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But did you think the Psycho remake was good though?
I went to it & think it just awful (*) it barely hit $21m.
I see your pt though about it
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2 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The Psycho remake is the only 'true' "remake" I know of since it was done to be as close to the original as possible. So in this specific case that film should have never been made (and I was going to cite that film in my reply because it is always mentioned when one criticizes "remakes", and I find that point irrelevant since it is the exception to my point about adaptations, which again I do NOT define as "remakes").
Anyhow, I see we are still have a vastly different perspective on this topic since you posted this: "I have a feeling that the film will be hurt by the fact it will undoubtedly be done in color,,,,,"
You still wish to compare a new adaptation to a prior one when my perspective, as stated above was: I recommend one compare each (film) to the source material (instead of comparing films).
Note that my perspective comes from that of a jazz musician, where the entire concept of 'remake' doesn't exist. E.g. Cole Porter has written a song (original source material). A group of musicians record the song. Another group does, etc... Just because someone recorded that song FIRST, doesn't make subsequent versions "remakes", just new \ additional adaptations, where each should be judged as stand-alone works of art.
Richly deserved to be an Oscar contender just about everywhere for '55, but was probably just too strange for mainstream voters
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A question, who in the... would play the role effectively For me the world's finest living actor D. Day-Lewis comes to mind first, if he'd do it anyway?
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Don't think he qualifies as a true villian, but a monster instead I rarely get the chills /scared or the creeps at a movie, but NOSFERATU is the nastiest looking Also see Willem Dafoe's 2000 Oscar nommed turn in SHADOW OF A VAMPIRE
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1 hour ago, Yoda1978 said:
13 The Joker---- Batman 1989
Some people said this Joker is just Jack Nickolson and that may be but Jack is little bit mad. So really his Joker works out great for me really. Jack just makes the character a whole lot of fun to watch.
maybe his exact per isn't greater then Ledger's but I prefer JACK'S
Typical again of current cinema just read where they want to do a NIGHT OF THE HUNTER rehash
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so asinine the entire thing, most ridiculously is it's so constant! Starts with the writers then vs now, those people were simply more well read individuals, where today they are just either copying whats been done or also thinking about the $B.O.$