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I know what you mean. That's what made the passings of people like Shirley Temple, Doris Day, Maureen O'Hara, Lauren Bacall, mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, all the more painful. There really are very few left who started under the studio system which ended in the mid-1950s (and admittedly I'm a bit astonished that Kirk Douglas and Olivia De Havilland, but especially Kirk) are still with us. Aside from them, who else? These, I guess, but it's not a very long list in the grand scheme of things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_actors_from_the_Golden_Age_of_Hollywood

i remember that TCM really went back and edited that one year (2013) because Peter O'Toole, Joan Fontaine, and Eleanor Parker all passed away within a week in December. I remember either thinking or heard somebody say something about Eleanor Parker's passing. She passed away mere days after NBC did a much-watched but much panned Live production of The Sound of Music, and it caused either me or somebody else to think, did the remake do her in?

Well, fortunately that period is over. I didn't see most of those deaths since coming, although I had this horrible sinking feeling that Debbie Reynolds would be broken after Carrie Fisher's passing. And she died only a day later.

Look. Back in 2012, I thought that title belonged to me. Looked up Murder on the Orient Express in a book? Sidney Lumet dies. Think about buying Champagne for Caesar at the DVD store? Celeste Holm passes on. Look at the case for The Cheap Detective? Goodbye, Peter Falk. Hum some bars of a score by Marvin Hamlish? He checks out.

Saw #41, #42, #43, #46, #47, #49, and #50.

I saw both. As listed on the first page. Loved Inside Out. Spider-Man had a good story, good vocal performances, but it looked ugly to me.

Maybe its decalasse to quote oneself, but this neglected film is leaving Amazon Prime at the end of the month and heading once more into complete obscurity. Its a dark film emotionally, but I recommend it highly if you have the chance to see it.

Disney hasn't been able to create a film on its level since......

Should have won that Oscar for Bonnie and Clyde..... RIP

Her death scene made my cry. Best, most tragic scene in the film. And she did by far give the best performance in the film.

Once Upon a Miracle (19670. Super quirky Eurpoean fairy tale with Sophia Loren as a Cinderella type and Omar Sharif as the prince. Film keeps getting eccetric with flying monks, witches, and leaping nuns. Also despite the alternate title, Cinderella Italian Style, it takes a lot of liberties with the fairy tale. Dolores Del Rio shows up, still glamourous as Sharif's mother. Still fun though.

And she was really good there too. That whole lineup that year was top-notch.... even though it seems surprising in retrospect that only one person was nominated from The Big Chill.

Here's hoping that Alfre Woodard gets Oscar nominated this year.

6/10. Have a DVd of Portrait in Black, but haven't seen it yet. Other three yet to see: The Brotherhood, Hitler's Madman, and Audrey Rose.

I don't usually complain about repeats, but I saw all the films that TCM had on yesterday and today before....

Of course though, I'm als oreminded of something i saw on TV recently. The series Inside the Actor's Studio is back on the channel Ovation, and I watched the one with Alfre Woodard, an actress I have admired for years. Anyway, at one point in the interview, she said that her husband wrote several screenplays for her to star in as important women, bringing up one in particular about Sojourner Truth. Nobody bit on the idea at the time.

In terms of performances.... 1 Now Voyager2 A Stolen life3 All This and Heaven Too4 The Great Lie5 Mr Skeffington6 The Letter7 The Corn is Green8 The Sisters9 Of Human Bondage10 All About Eve

I was kind of surprised when I saw this one on the list. Aside from film festivals, its only been in release for 2 weeks! It comes to Netflix December 6th.

This is the most ridiculous thing I read since somebody put up the trivia "fact" (yeah, right) on IMDb that Whoopi Goldberg was considered for one of the leads in Single White Female.

I saw both. The Seagull is one where I didn't like it as much as you, but its definitely better than the IMDb rating. Annette is definitely the standout, and I also recommend you see, if you haven't already, her marvelous work in 20th Century Women, a lovely, warm drama set in 1979. 45 Years on the other hand, now that's a keeper. I've seen over 300 films from the decade (I know, maybe should have watched more), but that's comfortably in the top 10 of the decade for me. An extraordinary film with career best work from Charlotte Rampling. When the videostore in town was getting rid of their copy and put it up for sale, I bought it because I could not turn that film down (especially for only $1.50).

Let's see, from the bottom up, I saw.... The Immigrant Creed Carol Hell or High Water Paddington 2 Zero Dark Thirty Mudbound 12 Years a Slave Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Eighth Grade Inside Out Inception La La Land Her Amour Paterson Arrival Moonrise Kingdom Green Room Elle Whiplash Get Out Roma Winter's Bone Phoenix Two Days, One Night The Wolf of Wall Street The Grand Budapest Hotel Inside Llewyn Davis Boyhood Manchester by the Sea Lady Bird Phantom Thread Frances Ha The Florida Project Moonlight the Tree of Life A Separation The Social Network The Master Mad Max: Fury Road And that makes 41, and I'm sorry to say it but over half of those films left me underwhelmed and a few I downright hated. That even goes for some in the top 10, although I will say the top pick, Mad Max: Fury Road is a thrilling film and one of the best action films in years, probably since Die Hard. What so many in the list smack though of, is really being heavyhanded. So many message movies that make Stanley Kramer look like a light and airy director, instead of the mostly serious one he was. What makes them so afraid of just having a good time at the movies, or to just sit down to a nice intimate drama analyzing human relationships? Why does it feel like most of the time with many of these, you're being hit over the head repeatedly with the message that you understood well enough the first time, thank you very much. I bolded the ones that I hated, and italicized the ones that didn't match expectations going in.

All right! This is more like it! 9 out of 10! Only one missing is The Night Walker.....

Not to mention that the revelation about the Kate Mulgrew character at the end comes a bit out of left field because you expected nothing else to be heard on that level. that said though the film has one great line from Anne Ramsey after the attemt to off her by blowing a trumpet into her ear while she was sleeping. "Louis Armstrong was trying to kill me!"

Not so good on this round. 4 of them: of Human Bondage, I Remember Mama, 12 Angry Men, and Throw Momma from the Train. I saw the latter half of The Black Stallion on TCM a few years ago, but have yet to see the front half of it.

In an example of curious timing, News just broke that Netflix is making a miniseries involving a younger JJ Gittes and who should be writing it but Robert Towne himself. So we're getting more of Chinatown, just right after Evan's passing.....