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8 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I only have 7...
- The Irishman
- Midsommar
- Marriage Story
- The Farewell
- Dolemite Is My Name
- The Report
- Booksmart
I've also rated two documentaries with an 8/10, Rolling Thunder Revue and American Factory.
What films do you have yet to see, of the big ones? Me, I'm looking forward to Once upon a time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Little Women, Richard Jewell, Judy, Blinded by the Light, Ford Vs Ferrari, Knives Out, Frozen II, The Two Popes, The Report, A Hidden Life, 1917, The Good Liar, Motherless Brooklyn, Just Mercy, Clemency, and Jojo Rabbit
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6 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
BUT YOU CAN ONLY USE IT FOR EMPTY BOXES WRAPPED AS DECORATIVE PRESENTS that you put out year after year
Joan would WANT THAT, I think.
One thing she wouln't want to see happen would to see the wrap be used for boxes of wire hangers.
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Still have only seen 9....
Ranked....
1 The Farewell
2 Toy Story 4
3 Yesterday
4 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
5 Downton Abbey
6 After the Wedding
7 Dumbo
8 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
9 Late Night
I'm very pleased by the first 6. 7 is better than expected. 8 doesn't stick in the memory too much, but it was good and has emotional parts. 9 has a wonderful Emma Thompson performance to buoy it.
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7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
So, this doesn't really have anything necessarily to do with this thread, but I feel the need to share just because.
I went to CARRABA'S last night for my office Christmas party and I was telling my coworker to watch out for the Pesto because IT CAN GIVE YOU WEIRD DREAMS, meanwhile I ate about two and a half ounces of it.
And then went home and went to bed and had a dream THAT FAYE DUNAWAY AND I DECIDED TO MOVE IN TOGETHER AND BECOME PLATONIC ROOMMATES in NEW YORK CITY. And she was dressed like her character at the end of SUPERGIRL and also SO NICE! I kept going around to everyone and trying to explain how she was in reality quite pleasant and frankly misunderstood and no one believed me.
Bottom line- watch out for the PESTO at Carabbas, or anywhere really.
On a tangent note, I just saw this on Facebook and had to share: Joan Crawford head Christmas wrap.....
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I don't have much, but I'll give what I have. And aside from a handful of episodes (which I loved), I haven't seen much of I Love Lucy. Need to rectify that.... And St. Elsewhere, I want to see more of, early episodes were stunning.
1960s
The Carol Burnett Show
1970s
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Muppet Show
Columbo
Ellery Queen Mysteries
Lou Grant
The Waltons
The Rockford Files
Dallas
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1980s
Murder She Wrote
The Golden Girls
Poirot
Remington Steele
Murphy Brown
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Falcon Crest
Road to Avonlea
The Wonder Years
Designing Women
Spencer: For Hire
Matlock
1990s
Frasier
2010s
Feud
Downton Abbey
Call the midwife
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19 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
The National Film Registry isn't necessarily about preserving the "best" films, since whether a movie is "great" or not is largely subjective. The Registry is more focused on landmark films. As was pointed out above, many of the films directed by women were the first such films made. Other films listed are also groundbreaking for whatever reason (She's Gotta Have It and Clerks are both considered major, influential independent films, Becky Sharp is the first full Technicolor feature, Zoot Suit is an important Latino film, etc.). Others on the list are just generally well regarded (Amadeus, Fog of War, Old Yeller, etc.)
I'm happy to see stuff like The Phenix City Story and The Last Waltz on the list.
In that regard (of films being groundbreaking and preserving cultural heritages), I'm still surprised that we have had two big Asian-themed films two years in a row at the box office (Crazy Rich Asians and The Farewell) and yet the Joy Luck Club is AWOL. I keep expecting to see it listed one of these days.
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5 minutes ago, UMO1982 said:
"Seven of the selections are directed by women — Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 drama “Boys Don’t Cry”; the 1984 documentary “Before Stonewall,” directed by Greta Schiller; Claudia Weill’s 1978 “Girlfriends”; Gunvor Nelson’s 1969 avant-garde film “My Name is Oona”; Madeline Anderson’s 1970 “I Am Somebody,” considered the first documentary on civil rights directed by a woman of color; “A New Leaf,” which in 1971 made Elaine May the first woman to write, direct and star in a major American studio feature; and the 2002 indie “Real Women Have Curves,” directed by Patricia Cardoso and starring America Ferrera."
So some mediocre film directed by a woman is more worthy of inclusion than a great film directed by a man. Who knew?
The only silent feature is a black film.
Only 2 feature films from the 1930s.
A New Leaf is far from being mediocre......
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Billy Wilder
Ernst Lubitsch
Francois Truffaut
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There are two big ones for me:
John BarryElmer Bernstein
After that, there are a raft of other notables:
Alexandre Desplat
Jerry Goldsmith
Maurice Jarre
Michel Legrand
Henry Mancini
Thomas Newman
Rachel Portman
Miklos Rozsa
Max Steiner
Herbert Strothart
Franz Waxman
John Williams
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Gut feeling. The Irishman seems like the traditional decoy of the last few years, early winner that seems to have it in the bag until the big night. I think Once upon a Time at hollywood is going to win. It's been hitting a lot of the little guilds so far, and its already a big hit.
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21 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Nice detective work everyone!
Cheat Sheet:
211. ALICE ADAMS (1935) with Katharine Hepburn.
212. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (1944) with Gene Kelly & Deanna Durbin.
213. RIVER LADY (1948) with Yvonne De Carlo & Rod Cameron.
214. TIGER BAY (1959) with Hayley Mills.
215. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965) with Orson Welles.
216. A PATCH OF BLUE (1965) with Elizabeth Hartman & Sidney Poitier.
217. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974) with Goldie Hawn.
218. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) with Willem Dafoe.
219. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999) with Haley Joel Osment.
220. CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) with Michelle Yeoh.
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Saw three films today. One glorious silent classic, Orphans of the Storm, one cozy version of a Christmas Carol (1938), told at a nice, fast clip with very little excess fat on it, and one modern film for the oddity pile, Across the Universe, a flamboyant Beatles homage which has its moments, and then some really weird ones too.
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6 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Late Night was one of the year's biggest disappointments for me. A lot of good talent involved for such a mediocre movie. Thompson was good, as usual.
It definitely could have been better, but I did think that Thompson gave a textbook example of being better than the film surrounding it. If only the script didn't keep repeating itself every few minutes.....
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I saw the Globe nominations on TV, and boy did they get through the big ones in a flash. 4 minutes. I really can't comment on most of the nominees yet, but I want to commend them on Emma Thompson's nomination. Her film had a lumpy script, but her performance was excellent (the one reason for watching it), so I am glad she was nominated.
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23 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Yes, when I saw her name in the credits I had to rack my brain to figure out which cast member was her. I thought for a second she might have been Mrs. Rogers, but I believe she played the editor, right?
Yes, she was the editor. Mrs. Rogers was played by Maryann Plunkett, an actress who won a Tony Award in the 80s for Me and My Girl.
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44 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
(I should pick The Great Gatsby since that would leave one guessing).
That's true. i was remembering him in the 1974 version, and then I remembered he was in the 1949 version as well.
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On 12/2/2019 at 9:11 PM, TopBilled said:
Cheat Sheet:
141. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) with Vivien Leigh & Hattie McDaniel.
142. THE CHEATERS (1945) with Joseph Schildkraut, Eugene Pallette & Billie Burke.
143. THE SEA OF GRASS (1947) with Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn.
144. THE MOB (1951) with Broderick Crawford.
145. INTERLUDE (1957) with June Allyson & Rossano Brazzi.
146. THE GRADUATE (1967) with Katharine Ross & Dustin Hoffman.
147. SOUNDER (1972) with Cicely Tyson.
148. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986) with Matthew Broderick.
149. GHOST (1990) with Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze.
150. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002) with Nia Vardalos.
On 12/3/2019 at 10:32 PM, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
151. BOMBSHELL (1933) with Jean Harlow.
152. THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939) with Shirley Temple.
153. THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945) with John Wayne & Robert Montgomery.
154. THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952) with Julie Harris.
155. THE BIG KNIFE (1955) with Ida Lupino & Jack Palance.
156. THE KENTUCKIAN (1955) with Burt Lancaster.
157. SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964) with Kim Stanley.
158. A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY (1966) with Jason Robards & Joanne Woodward.
159. THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) with Mia Farrow & Robert Redford.
160. MR. MOM (1983) with Michael Keaton. (portions of it on cable years ago)
On 12/4/2019 at 8:05 PM, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
161. NOTHING SACRED (1937) with Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly & Fredric March.
162. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) with Cecil Kellaway, John Garfield & Lana Turner.
163. I'VE ALWAYS LOVED YOU (1946) with Philip Dorn & Catherine McLeod.
164. ANASTASIA (1956) with Helen Hayes & Ingrid Bergman.
165. JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957) with Elvis Presley.
166. THE LOVE BUG (1968) with Buddy Hackett, Dean Jones & Herbie.
167. THE LION IN WINTER (1968) with Katharine Hepburn & Peter O'Toole.
168. BROTHER JOHN (1971) with Will Geer & Sidney Poitier.
169. A CRY IN THE DARK (1988) with Sam Neill & Meryl Streep.
170. TITANIC (1997) with Leonardo Di Caprio & Kate Winslet.
On 12/5/2019 at 8:46 PM, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
171. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934) with Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon.
172. SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946) with James Baskett & Bobby Driscoll.
173. OUT OF THE PAST (1947) with Jane Greer & Robert Mitchum.
174. SEPTEMBER AFFAIR (1950) with Joseph Cotten & Joan Fontaine.
175. BRANDED (1950) with Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford & Alan Ladd.
176. RED BALL EXPRESS (1952) with Sidney Poitier.
177. THE SANDPIPER (1965) with Elizabeth Taylor. (portions on TCM.)
178. ANNIE HALL (1977) with Woody Allen & Diane Keaton.
179. STAR WARS (1977) with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher & Harrison Ford.
180. BATMAN (1989) with Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson.
On 12/7/2019 at 8:54 AM, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
181. LES MISERABLES (1935) with Fredric March.
182. THE WESTERNER (1940) with Walter Brennan.
183. PRINCESS O'ROURKE (1943) with Olivia de Havilland & Robert Cummings.
184. CINDERELLA (1950)
185. EAST OF EDEN (1955) with Julie Harris & James Dean.
186. SPARTACUS (1960) with Kirk Douglas.
187. CAPRICE (1965) with Doris Day.
188. ROCKY (1976) with Sylvester Stallone & Talia Shire.
189. SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) with Molly Ringwald.
190. HAMLET (1990) with Glenn Close & Mel Gibson.
On 12/7/2019 at 12:25 PM, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
191. THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (1939) with Bette Davis.
192. LURED (1947) with George Sanders, Lucille Ball & Cedric Hardwicke.
193. LET'S LIVE A LITTLE (1948) with Robert Cummings & Hedy Lamarr.
194. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (1950) with Clifton Webb & Myrna Loy.
195. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958) with Burl Ives, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman.
196. POSSE FROM HELL (1961) with Audie Murphy.
197. STAR! (1968) with Julie Andrews.
198. METEOR (1979) with Natalie Wood.
199. STIR CRAZY (1980) with Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder.
200. AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997) with Helen Hunt & Jack Nicholson.
14 minutes ago, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
201. GRAND HOTEL (1932) with Greta Garbo & John Barrymore.
202. THE YEARLING (1946) with Claude Jarman and friend.
203. GILDA (1946) with Rita Hayworth.
204. SOMETHING FOR THE BIRDS (1952) with Patricia Neal & Edmund Gwenn.
205. THE BIRDS (1962) with Tippi Hedren.
206. THE CHASE (1966) with Marlon Brando, Robert Redford & Miriam Hopkins.
207. THE GETAWAY (1972) with Ali MacGraw & Steve McQueen.
208. SUPERMAN (1978) with Christopher Reeve.
209. ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980) with Mary Tyler Moore & Donald Sutherland.
210. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) with Tom Hanks, Matt Damon & Tom Sizemore.
Missed the last week, so I bolded all the ones I saw here. Some favorites are here....
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RIP. Another talented one gone. Was impressed recently by his supporting work in the 1972 film Images with Susannah York.
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The win I was happiest about was Mary Kay Place. Nice to see her get some love again.
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Oh, yes, its a glorious achingly lovely film. It's perfectly wonderful.
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LA Film Critics winners:
Picture: Parasite
Director: Bong Joon-Ho/Parasite
Actor: Antonio Banderas/Pain and Glory
Actress: Mary Kay Place/Diane
Supporting Actor: Song Kang-Ho/Parasite
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez/Hustlers
Screenplay: Marriage Story
Cinematography: Atlantics/Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Editing: Apollo 11
Production Design: Once upon a Time in Hollywood
Score; I Lost My Body
Animated Film: I Lost My Body
Documentary: American FactoryCareer Achievement: Elaine May
Experimental Film/Video Award: The Givernay Document
I'm super happy over Mary Kay Place. She's been wonderful for decades.
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William Bendix: The Blue Dahlia
Elisha Cook Jr: The Maltese Falcon
Howard da Silva: 1776
Ruth Gordon : Harold and Maude
Beulah Bondi: Make Way for Tomorrow
Gladys George: Lullaby of Broadway
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I did see the movie and quite liked it. It's definitely a bit different than most might expect hearing about it for the first time. Hanks was good, actually all the performances were good... and for me at least, it was nice to see Christine Lahti again however briefly.
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On 12/6/2019 at 9:43 PM, sewhite2000 said:
Boy, he was fantastic in Norma Rae. Absolutely deserving of an Oscar nomination for that film. Sorry to say I didn't really know him from anything else. Although I occasionally watched Friends, I guess I didn't see any of the episodes he was in. It's possible I heard his voice in Archer, but I don't remember. I really wasn't aware of the breadth of his career. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, I agree, he was wonderful in Norma Rae, in a turn worth of an Oscar nomination.
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No, I haven't. I just saw it topped Sight and Sound's list, but it had barely been on my radar. Oh yes, I also want to see the documentary about Pauline Kael that comes out on Christmas day.