CinemaInternational
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BTW. Kind of approriate at the moment with this that the top three threads say "Hot! Hot! Hot!" Now to complete the picture all that's needed is some Pointer Sisters music.
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Just now, Hibi said:
YES, that's right! Briefly. I'd forgotten about that! LOL.
Seems to have really tickled the Commenters at YouTube given the comment box below..... well that and a lot of people wanting to kill the Richard Benjamin and Frank Langella characters (who, if Youtube had a similar thread, seem to be near-unanimous top choices for the pitchfork treatment)
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4 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
TCM Underground
- The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
This has a pretty starry cast for underground: Broderick Crawford, Dan Dailey, Michael Parks, Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm, John Marley, Howard De Silva, Rip Torn, Ronee Blakeley, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Cassidy, June Havoc....
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Just now, Hibi said:
STILL think Ingrid Bergman should've won that year........
Absolutely. Personal ranking of the nominees: Bergman, Clayburgh, Fonda, Burstyn, Page. i would have liked a Liv Ullmann nomination for that film as well. Geraldine Chaplin was riveting in Remember My Name. Fonda was just as good in Comes a horseman. And that year was strong for good female comic performances: Goldie Hawn in Foul Play, Jacqueline Bisset in Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, Glenda Jackson in House Calls
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Just now, TopBilled said:
Why do you think they would be sheepish?
TCM certainly shows plenty of pre-codes which were suggestive, but from today's vantage point were not very explicit. But, most films from the late 60s onward that do feature such more risque scenes are usually shown late at night with only the rare exception like Hair or Reflections of a Golden Eye, both of which have played in afternoons past. Given that 8 PM films on the East Coast are at 5 PM on the West, it might prove a bit inopportune, because, though unlikely, the FCC might argue that young children might somehow be "exposed" (heh) to inappropriate material and thus veto an idea. TCM rarely has full nights of TV-MA material.
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Just now, Hibi said:
Want to bet Night Porter gets pulled? I'm still waiting on The Damned (that got pulled and never rescheduled)...
I'll go out on a limb and say Night porter stays on due to it being a Criterion title. Filmstruck might not have lasted, but ever since it was founded and even after it closed, TCM and Criterion have been as thick as thieves in the TCM Imports slots.
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Just now, Gershwin fan said:
This classic 1920s cartoon of the silver screen could be shown as a short in between movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eveready_Harton_in_Buried_Treasure
I've heard of that. When I first heard about it, I couldn't believe what I was reading. Must have been only on the adult-only circuit.
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I kind of think TCM would be sheepish around the subject. They don't often show straight-up sex films, the occasional abnormality like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls or Myra Breckinridge aside. After all i think the recent airing of Coming Home had to have been edited. Had to have been thanks to the TV-14 rating. Of course though, that was the same day that Hair aired at 3:45 PM
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Seems like a spotlight throughout the month on the 1920s......
And TCM really doesn't want people to sleep on the last Sunday of the Month. The infamous The Night Porter (about a masochistic relationship between a Nazi prison guard and one of his former inmates) is followed by Come and See (a Russian war film considered to be an exceptional but also extremely emotionally distressing film). Whatever they are, they will never be advertised with the phrases "Fun!" or "A Barrel of Laughs!"
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
I recall Diary of a Mad Housewife being one of the last Oscar-nominated performances that I tracked down to watch. I think it was on YouTube several years ago when I finally saw it.
Sounds like we watched the same print......
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Just now, Hibi said:
That's just ridiculous! No Isadora either? I remember a lot of those titles, I only saw a smattering of them. I remember there being scenes of semi-nudity, but you didnt see a whole lot. I remember one scene in particular with Langella where you could see he (if you looked quickly enough) was wearing a jockstrap! LOL.
Universal is run by idiots!
When Universal signed a deal with Kino Lorber not too long ago, I was practically moistening my lips waiting for releases of some AWOL titles, but most of them were Blu-Ray upgrades of films already on DVD. I think the only newcomers to DVD were The Midnight Man and The Black Windmill.
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Just now, UMO1982 said:
One of my favorite Glenda Jackson films is the little-seen Stevie. She plays Brit poet Stevie Smith, a mousy little thing who lives were her spinster aunt (Mona Washbourne). Her voice is addictive. Wonderful film, detailing the mental decline of a woman who's maybe missed out on a life.
She won the New York Film Critics Circle Prize as best Actress for it. Albeit in 1981. It wasn't released until then here despite being a Brit release of 1978.
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Just now, Hibi said:
Although there was some nudity in Housewife, I only remember a brief topless scene Snodgress had and it was not in a sexual context. She was taking off her pajamas or something like that. I don't think the film has ever had a TCM showing (Universal again) and not sure it had a network showing either. It's too bad. It was a Frank and Eleanor Perry film based on the novel.
You mean it's never been issued on DVD???? INSANE.
No DVD. never. If I remember correctly there were at least three or four scenes of nudity in the film including one that wasn't as raunchy as originally intended (at that point of his life, Frank Langella was not interested in baring it all).
Some other AWOL universal titles of the period: Rosie!, Isadora, What's So Bad About Feeling So Good, House of Cards, Angel in My Pocket, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Red Sky at Morning (region-free DVD from Australia was just issued though), The Public Eye, Limbo, Taking Off, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Last Movie, Three into Two Won't Go, Play It As It lays, Two People, The lost Man, I Love My Wife, The Hired Hand
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On 10/2/2019 at 11:59 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I've never seen DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE (something I maybe have in common with most of the voters of the time!)
mad Housewife was a hit, but like many Universal titles of the early 70s, it is missing in action [and another unavailable 1970 title Puzzle of a Downfall Child features Faye Dunaway at her best in an astonishing performance]. There was once a very grungy pan-and-scan version of it on YouTube (that's how I saw it; regret it in a way because now I always use official streaming services and don't do the grey market stuff).
i remember it was a provocative film with much nudity; despite the praise Carrie received, that might have been her undoing. Glenda had (from what I have heard) a similarly provocative part, but it was also wrapped up in the prestige notation of classic literary adaptation. Somebody pointed out once that the Oscars seemingly get a bit squeamish with risque female roles in Leading actress. Only Jackson, Jane Fonda (Coming home), Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, and Natalie Portman had large numbers of raunchy scenes.
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Just now, Hibi said:
That wouldn't have taken long........
It didn't. All 14 seconds of it. Details are fuzzy but during the cameo, she was constantly talking, and the beginning of it she tossed her head upward so it looked like she was seeing the world disdainfully through her nostrils.
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There is possible danger here. Let's not forget about the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado and that too was a dark film from a DC comic book source.
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If we're talking about the times Glenda won the Oscar and her competition, if I could I'd like to rank the ones I have seen (and sorry, Glenda, but i didn't see Women in Love)
1970
1. Snodgress
2. Miles
3. Alexander (more supporting really)
4. McGraw
1973
1. Mason
2. Woodward
3. Streisand
4. Burstyn
5. Jackson (more the film than her performance really)I'd place her at #2 (out of all 5 seen) in 1971 for Sunday Bloody Sunday.
And she was great in two films with Walter Matthau: House Calls and Hopscotch (supporting there, but fun). A 1980s title of hers, Turtle Diary, with Ben Kingsley, is well worth catching as a low-key charmer but it was never issued on DVD.
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4 hours ago, Hibi said:
Too funny!
They showed Ellen's whole nominated performance on the NBC Nightly News at the time.....
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On 10/2/2019 at 11:04 AM, Roy Cronin said:
JUST REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO CAROL LYNLEY.
Is this like the episode of The Golden Girls where Rose told off a crabby neighbor (played by Nan Martin) and the woman died right there on the spot?
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4 minutes ago, BagelOnAPlateOfOnionRolls said:
I'm excited to see Julie Andrews as a guest programmer discussing her own movies!
If only TCM could air Mary Poppins!
ABC (and Freeform, formerly ABC Family) have exclusive airing rights to her two most famous films. If only....
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That's life is the one in the gap, I think.....
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Two for the Swingset
Robert Mitchum and Shirley Maclaine star in a film version of that fascinating Broadway play of a couple permanently attached to a swingset after some joker played by Frank Sinata put superglue all over the cords and the seats. Mitchum and MacLaine then spend the rest of their time trying to talk existentially about life and their romance and trying to figure out if a mutual friend can keep bringing them hand-fed meals.
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I saw Hoffa. Excellent film, sorely underrated. The sweep to some of the scenes in that movie could rival epics from the 70s.
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And frankly, I really like Zellweger. David Thornton, a famous film historian, once wrote that she was a modern day equivalent to Jean Arthur, and i feel that there is merit to that statement. She has the same innate likability.
Diahann Carroll Has Died
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She was exceptional in her Oscar noimnated performance in Claudine, and she also shone in two underrated titles Paris Blues and Eve's Bayou (which was added to the Library of Congress's film preservation list just this past year)