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Cinema Paradiso (Italy) (l989) is my personal favorite one

Are you planning to see it?

Finally was able to see all of THE UNINVITED (***1/2out of four( & bio blood & guts either like todays horror films I know I sound like some old man, but it's the truth you know it) A rarely ever got scared at a Only about 10, my favorite thriller isn't really scary NIGHT OF THE HUNTER & THE SUPERB PREMIERE MAGZINE CHOSE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN AS BEST EVER Jaws scared me more then any picture

To Top, as I wrote before to you, this is perhaps easily among the top if not thee top running topic pal (P.S. did you happen to watch an of the Oscars) Can you believe I've yet to see SW 9 Hope to March 1st, never been one of those Star wars fanatics, I like them ok, especially Empire Strikes Back=-(ironically it made the least of them all too)

He as very strong in this very sad & heavy wartime drama, but always felt-(alt Oscars again) though he outright deserved Best Actor for his brilliant comedic role in Capra's ARSENIC AND OLD LACE-(that town sq is still intact at WB;s too) He was u for this instead Billy Wilder was correct the Academy had a prejudice against out and out comedies, comedy dramas they loved

not singin in the rain, but still must rank among hollywoods top ten musicals people told Kelly it was risky ending with that long ballet, obviously worked with huge box office numbers and 6 academy awards

still have not had the chance to see it new York film critics went for this though

when the s. actor Oscar was awarded a 2nd time to anthony quinn for lust for life, co-nominees mickey rooney up for bold and the brave nudged Robert stack up for this one and told him we was robbed unquote

Think this is part, well, pts of it are of basic cable, it covers a slew of other cable channels TCM is just one of them & it rotates almost daily Movies that have somewhat recently aired on this network then go to Demand & it's doozy of a list & as I said it rotates so if you miss a movie on TCM you can catch it as many times as you like on TCM Demand In the last few weeks I saw & often rewatced That's Entertainment, The Great Race, White Heat, Blackboard Jungle, Adam's Rib, Singin In the Rain, Robin & the 7 Hoods, Marty, Bonnie and Clyde, The Third Man, The Harder they Fall, Westworld, Thunder Below, To Be or Not to Be, Magnificent 7 , Lawrence of Arabia, Mean Streets, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Apartment, The China Syndrome, Bonnie and Clyde, an American in Paris, Network & a ton more! Please reply even if you don't get this station & I thank you

Raise any hands if you though, or even if you dis't think 05's boxing bio CINDERELLA MAN by Ron Howard-(got to hang out with him & a few members of the cast during filming during the god awful august heat of COCOON about 8hrs one day It was-(or some of it) was actually shot right next door to my apt complex in st. pete,fl Even walked him to his limo at the end of this day. And typical of people ruining things, went the next day with a pal o'mine & everything was ok again then came in a family or 2 in their beach clothes, s the chucke'd the lot and all had to leave! Did get Ron's autograoh n the fmr day, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, M. Stapleton, Guttenberg, Tahnee welch-(so tiny compared to her famous mom) Anyway, I've seen C. MAN many times since going to it that year & still find it perfecto anyone agree & only garnered airy 3 Oscar shots<P, Giamatti, Make-Up & Art-Direction? And it grossed $62m Not that it's RAGING BULL, but something was off in my own opinion again in the nominating system of the Academy that year> matter or fact the media kept asking Crowe about the Oscars at it's release THANX

As I sad your 100 right in HEATHERS being a '89m a fun story about Slater as JD in it, since he did such a dead on NICHOLSON for the terrific flick, he was with a girl one night & told he he knew JACK & went even further to impress her by calling NICHOLSON up at his MULHOLLAND DR mansion-(still lives there by the way) Well, JACK actually picked up the phone & slater went into his own JACK impersonation from HEATHERS & all he recalls is JACK cracking up on the other end

THE MICK could do anything!

Personally prefer KING'S ROW though to PEYTON PLACE myself Think the latter went 0 fir 10 that yr come Oscar time And most say Reagan came closest to getting an Oscar nod for KR

Ouspenska died a horrific death burning to death, same as Linda Darnell & Butterfly McQueen

What did toy think of the l994 Beatty-Bening remake of LOVE AFFAIR & with KATE HEPBURN in her very last role at age 87 in that role?)

Many of these all-Americana l950's type flix are why DAVID LYNCH made the l986 masterpiece BLUE VELVET My rational is he grew up on these movies & wanted to show them-(notice ow '50's both BV & Twin Peaks appear) & then by his own admission wanted to show the seamy underbelly of the towns With BV he created one of the movies all-time greatest villians in Dennis Hopper's maniacal Frank Booth & then it carried on with his villians (TRIVIA: Woody Allen attempted to withdraw his own HANNAH AND HER SISTERS from the Oscars because e thought BV was superior, but the academy doesn't do that type of thing)

you can see the resemblence

you were a gp guest programmer, there is an entire page that shows all of them on here somewhere & I logged them all in my files-(which still come first over the net ever since I fell in love with the movies in 1979 at barely age 15) Donald Trump was even one I believe around 07 & chose GWTW, African Queen & Kane If Mr. 0sborne had just 4 to select that probably be> A Place in the Sun, Singin In the Rain, Sunset Blvd & ??? I used to think I knew the 4th, but forget it right now I do recall when he had Stanley Donen on he told him right off the 7 of his pictures were in his top ten of all-time & his favorite actor ever was>William Holden & Actress>Gene Tierney You'd think it woulda been either Bette Davis or the true lady at almost l03 & he spoke to her he spoke to every Sunday from Paris where she still resides>Olivia De Havilland though? Also among his favs is strange for him but a marvelous comedy Spinal Tap *& he loved Libeled Lady My own dream Guest Programmer top 4 are>Kane-(only because for some reason the network still doesn't have the rights to The Godfather, I & II?), Captains Courageous-(barely over Bad Day at Black Rock), Some Came Running & Inside Daisy Clover-(though Natalie's own fav & best was Splendor in the grass) we pt ways in regard to Karger though, I've long read him in EW magazine & he was among main reasons it went down hill. I've almost begged for yrs to hire either Leonard Maltin or P. Bogdanovich, both walking and talking cinematic libraries THANK YOU

& won B & W Cinematography gold

thanks for the reality check Iknew it the very night, but it still seems many are in denial

to JAMES STEWART FAN??? By the way are you also one of these types that violently attack trump supporters? & by the way I voted not for Trump on that note but last time & last time only for Sanders

the Oscars & I know this fir a fact (JAMES SEWART FAN???) are scrambling to even try have a next year now after a 23 share

what are you a liberal & or millennial, why don't you tell that to the ACADEMY not me Ten I reckon' TCM is rascist & stuck in the past then according to you & should only broadcast the type of stuff you enjoy vs Hollywoods golden age, huh What do you d turn off the channel of tv everytime a JOHN WAYNE, MITCHUM, K. HEPBURN, CAGNEY, TRACY, GARBO, A, HEPBURN, STEVE McQUEEN, NEWMAN COME ON EACH & EVERYDAY PAL You should try & join the Academy to try & help them figure a way out of this massive mess I didn't create it & obviously am not alone

& JAKEEM, forgot to ask you also, after the TOP GUN 2 question, have you seen SW 9 & if so what did you personally think? Knew it wouldn't win 1 Oscar, none of the newer branch has, not even Lucas' other trilogy starting in '99 I've yet to catch it, March 1st I hope, not a huge SW fanatic, I like them, like Star Trek more though, but stopped going to them when capt. kirk died in Generations (l994)

have you seen the trailer yet for TOP GUN 2 & whats your opinion & do you think it will be a hit as well?