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33 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Okay thanks for clarifying. I haven't seen it.
You should. Despite some suggestive dialogue and moments, its very close in mood and tone to a drawing room comedy of the 30s or in literary terms, like a cross between Jane Austen and PG Wodehouse. Its witty and sharp.
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Just now, jakeem said:
She dies in the Bond film, too.
True. Ironically she lives in The Assassination Bureau.
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2 hours ago, jakeem said:
The annual end-of-the-year memoriams (December 29-30) appear to be dedicated to:
Dame Diana Rigg ("Evil Under the Sun")
Isn't that kind of an awkward pick, at least based on what happens to her in the film?
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Finished up my Summer TV Project having sampled 140 shows, arranged chronologically below. Some of them were wonderful, some very good, a few middling, some not so great. They came from TV schedules, streaming websites, DVDs. But they were all tackled. Here they are.....
Father Knows Best 1954 NBCAlfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 CBS/NBCPerry Mason 1957 CBSLeave It to Beaver 1957 ABC/CBSThe Donna Reed Show 1958 ABCBonanza 1959 NBCThe Andy Griffith Show 1960 CBSThe Flintstones 1960 ABCThe Dick Van Dyke Show 1961 CBSThe Saint 1961 NBCHazel 1961 NBC/CBSThe Lucy Show 1962 CBSThe Jetsons 1962 ABCThe Fugitive 1963 ABCThe Patty Duke Show 1963 ABCPetticoat Junction 1963 CBSBewitched 1964 ABCGomer Pyle U.S.M.C. 1964 CBSGidget 1965 ABCGreen Acres 1965 CBSI Dream of Jeannie 1965 NBCThe Big Valley 1965 ABCHogan's Heroes 1965 CBSThat Girl 1966 ABCMission Impossible 1966 CBSThe Mothers-In-Law 1967 NBCThe Flying Nun 1967 ABCRowan and Martin's Laugh-In 1968 NBCHawaii Five-O 1968 CBSAdam 12 1968 NBCThe Doris Day Show 1968 CBSThe Odd Couple 1970 ABCMcMillan and Wife 1971 NBCUpstairs Downstairs 1971 ITVThe Streets of San Francisco 1972 ABCThe Bob Newhart Show 1972 CBSM*A*S*H 1972 CBSPolice Story 1973 NBCHappy Days 1974 ABCGood Times 1974 CBSBarney Miller 1975 ABCOne Day at a Time 1975 CBSAlice 1976 CBSCharlie's Angels 1976 ABCRich Man Poor Man 1976 ABCThree's Company 1977 ABCThe Love Boat 1977 ABCTaxi 1978 ABC/NBCVega$ 1978 ABCHolocaust 1978 NBCAll Creatures Great and Small 1978 BBCThe Facts of Life 1979 NBCHart to Hart 1979 ABCBackstairs at the White House 1979 NBCKnots Landing 1979 CBSIt's a Living 1980 ABC/SyndicationDynasty 1981 ABCHill Street Blues 1981 NBCCheers 1982 NBCCagney and Lacey 1982 CBSFamily Ties 1982 NBCNewhart 1982 CBSFame 1982 NBC/SyndicationHotel 1983 ABCThe Thorn Birds 1983 ABCOh Madeline 1983 ABCMiami Vice 1984 NBCKate and Allie 1984 CBSMacGyver 1985 ABCGrowing Pains 1985 ABCMoonlighting 1985 ABCL.A. Law 1986 NBCPerfect Strangers 1986 ABCthirtysomething 1987 ABCFull House 1987 ABCFrank's Place 1987 CBSA Year in the Life 1987 NBCA Different World 1987 NBCBeauty and the Beast 1987 CBSRoseanne 1988 ABCDear John 1988 NBCFamily Matters 1989 ABC/CBSThe Simpsons 1989 FOXDoogie Houser MD 1989 ABCCoach 1989 ABCTwin Peaks 1990 ABCBeverly Hills 90210 1990 FOXThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 1990 NBCEvening Shade 1990 CBSNorthern Exposure 1990 CBSGabriel's Fire 1990 ABCSisters 1991 NBCHome Improvement 1991 ABCStep by Step 1991 ABC/CBSHomefront 1991 ABCBrooklyn Bridge 1991 CBSI'll Fly Away 1991 NBCMartin 1992 FOXThe Larry Sanders Show 1992 HBOMelrose Place 1992 FOXLiving Single 1993 FOXThe X-Files 1993 FOXNYPD Blue 1993 ABCDr. Quinn Medicine Woman 1993 CBSFriends 1994 NBCMy So-Called Life 1994 ABCNewsRadio 1995 NBCCybill 1995 CBSEverybody Loves Raymond 1996 CBSRelativity 1996 ABCThe Practice 1997 ABCAlly McBeal 1997 FOXDharma and Greg 1997 ABCThe West Wing 1999 NBCOnce and Again 1999 ABCGilmore Girls 2000 WB/CWMalcolm in the Middle 2000 FOXGirlfriends 2000 UPN/CWAlias 2001 ABCMy Wife and Kids 2001 ABCSix Feet Under 2001 HBOGeorge Lopez 2002 ABCBoston Legal 2004 ABCHouse 2004 FOXDesperate Housewives 2004 ABCThe Office 2005 NBCBrothers and Sisters 2006 ABCPushing Daisies 2007 ABCDirty Sexy Money 2007 ABCThe Middle 2009 ABCModern Family 2009 ABCNew Girl 2011 FOXblack-ish 2014 ABCFresh Off the Boat 2014 ABCHow to Get Away with Murder 2014 ABCSchitt's Creek 2015 CBC/PopThis is Us 2016 NBCThe Good Doctor 2017 ABCBig Little Lies 2017 HBOa million little things 2018 ABC -
On 9/19/2020 at 10:30 AM, midwestan said:
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"Lost in America" was another first-time watch for me. Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty are a young married couple in Los Angeles who are on a successful upward track in their careers when everything falls apart for them. Brooks, thinking he's in line for a plum promotion at his advertising agency, is crushed when he finds out he's being transferred to New York, where he does not want to go. One thing leads to another, and he insults his boss which causes him to be fired! He talks his wife into quitting her job, and they buy a Winnebago so they can head out on a journey to discover the beauty and diversity that is America. Feeling good with about $150,000 on them from the sale of their home, they head first to Las Vegas so they can renew their wedding vows. Good intentions go to pot when Hagerty goes to a nearby casino in the middle of the night and loses EVERYTHING on the roulette wheel. This sets off Brooks on a tirade that is on the verge of causing the couple to call it quits on each other. They finally reconcile and settle temporarily in a small Arizona town where they take menial jobs to try and earn some extra money. Ultimately, they decide to carry on Eastward to New York. Brooks is re-hired by his old firm with a substantial cut in pay, while Hagerty gets a job in a department store. I don't know what to make of this movie. Hagerty is great in it. Brooks has his moments, but I just don't find a lot of his shtick to be funny at all (and I felt this way when I saw a few of his pieces aired in the early days of Saturday Night Live). I suppose I'll go with a 7 out of 10, but it's a 'soft' 7!
Brooks is an acquired taste, but I found Lost in America to be very witty and well handled (not to mention kudos for casting the wonderful Julie Hagerty). i have a feeling that two of the films he did in the 90s might be popular here: The Muse, with a delightfully quirky performance from Sharon Stone and many Hollywood in-jokes, and especially Mother, with its wonderful central performance from Debbie Reynolds.
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On 10/3/2019 at 4:17 PM, 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.
Well, its official. the DVD of Diary of a Mad Housewife is due on December 15th.
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35 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
Fri., 9-18 for TCM Underground....
(times ET)
2:00 AM
Wild at Heart ( 1990)
The mother of a young woman hires a gunman to track down her daughter and her daughter's male companion.
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Lisa Ann Cabasa , Morgan Sheppard , Koko Taylor .
BW- 125 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
".....The movie is lurid melodrama, soap opera, exploitation, put-on and self-satire. It deals in several scenes of particularly offensive violence, and tries to excuse them by juvenile humor: It's all a joke, you see, and so if the violence offends you, you didn't get the joke....
If (Lynch) he ever goes ahead and makes a film about what's really on his mind, instead of hiding behind sophomoric humor and the cop-out of "parody," he may realize the early promise of his "Eraserhead." But he likes the box office prizes that go along with his pop satires, so he makes dishonest movies like this one...."
4:15 AM
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992)
serves as a prequel and sequel to the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), created by Mark Frost and Lynch, who were also executive producers. The film revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee)
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Sheryl Lee , Ray Wise , Kyle Maclachlan .
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
"......... the film was met with two extremes, one side being overall positive, while the other side being the exact opposite......."
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks:_Fire_Walk_with_Me
I've seen both before. TCM is going into some pretty gory and fast currents tonight.
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On 9/15/2020 at 10:20 PM, txfilmfan said:
I don't think that's official. There's a whole group of people out there who recreate/reimagine TV and movie studio logos and network "bumpers/IDs". There's lots of YT videos on this topic.
The reason I think this is the case is that the title of the video is "Recreation based on Tenet variant"
In the YT video description the poster stated:
I pulled an all nighter and a morning working on this and while it's not perfect, it's probably the closest to the real thing at the moment until WB does a home release of one of these films with the new logo.
DISCLAIMER: This was made out of pure passion for graphic design and the cinematic experience and I did this as a personal study in my graphic design and film journey. While the recreation of this logo is my own work, elements of the official WB 2019 logo were used and the official design of the WB 2020 logo are trademarks belonging to Warner Bros. Entertainment and were designed by Pentagram.
it looks pretty much identical to the one that appeared on the new movie Tenet (somebody had a videocamera at a screening of it and captured the logo on YouTube), but on that particular film its tinted blood-red.
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The movie studios have over the years employed many different types of logos to differentiate themselves from their competitors and also to jazz up their traditional look. Warner Bros. just unveiled another look to their shield logo, even though it looks a bit cheap, it is a new chapter for them.
So, with that in mind, lets think of other classic logos the studios have had over the years, shall we?
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5 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
These are just films guaranteed to put you to sleep.
Raise the Titanic is just leaping up ready to be booked for this.....
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7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
a lot of scenes in this movie are too dark- literally and figuratively- for some reason a lot of the scenes are very underlit...and (spoiler- except not really, i think you should know this upfront going in) there is a truly disgusting scene where ROBERT MORLEY is fed his pet poodles in homage to the scene from TITUS ANDRONICUS and I came quite close to BARFING. (it really does go to far, even for the 70's)
i have some secondhand film reference books from the early 80s that give detailed synopses of films. I've had them since I was about 10 or 11 (I was a bit of a child prodigy when it came to film research, although I'm past the point to be called that now). And I clearly recall reading about Theatre of Blood and about that scene with Robert Morley and I felt sick to my stomach.
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2 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:
It's a shame how their 21st century formula seems to be to make a film with little meaningful dialogue and lots of visual spectacle so it will appeal to a global audience. They end up spending 300M making a mediocre movie by American standards and yet they rake in over a billion dollars globally. People will always watch and study the animated classics and shorts made when Walt was alive. The stuff they have done in the last ten years is forgettable but profitable garbage.
Admittedly, three of their animated films were some of the better ones they had done in a long time, but the live action remakes of animated films were, on the whole, truly dispiriting. The Beauty and the Beast remake had me sinking in my seat. They aren't films that are built to last.
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On 8/11/2020 at 11:16 AM, txfilmfan said:
True. It was a relatively small company until the Eisner era.
Absolutely. Its growth only really started in 1985 or 1986. First they branched into TV shows (even if The golden Girls and Home Improvement were two of their only hits until the 2000s) and non-family films (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Color of Money, and Ruthless People were their first three Rs), then they started publishing books in the early 90s, followed up by swallowing up Miramax in 1993 and ABC (and A& E, History Channel, ESPN, Lifetime) in 1996 (that was when it was finalized), then a break, and then they dumped the adult movie business in the 2000s, grabbed Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009, and Lucasfilm in 2012, before getting 20th Century Fox (with the streaming service Hulu and other TV channels attached) last year.
They seemingly have a habit at looking for big bucks and neglecting anything that doesn't make as much as they want (They even considered dumping ABC, their chief prize of the 90s, a few years ago!), but earlier in the year they had one of the biggest corporate losses ever recorded.
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I'm late on this but its kind of expected. Even before the Disney takover, Fox occasionally branded their TV shows as only 20th Television, not as 20th Century Fox Television, and I'd seen the abbreviated name on countless Fox films on TCM and FXM.
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I subscribe to HBO, so yes the channel costs money. But if you are a cable subscriber to the channel you get HBO Max for free.
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1. The Sound of Music
2 I Want to Live!
3 So Big
4 The Set-Up
5 The Day the Earth Stood Still
6 Star Trek: The motion Picture
7 The Sand pebbles
8 Executive Suite
9 The Haunting
10 Star!
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This one hurts. I have to admit the first time I saw her was in The Great Muppet Caper, a childhood favorite of mine; and needless to say she was exceptional in it with her classy and witty performance (including breaking the fourth wall a few times). She was heartbreaking in the Bond film, memorable in The Hospital, catty fun in Evil Under the Sun, and good in the 2006 version of The Painted Veil. She also had two good TV movies: as a nun in In This House of Brede and in a supporting part as another classy lady of fashion in Mrs Arris Goes to Paris (which starred Angela Lansbury).
I see where her final TV guest appearance will be postumous: the small role of the mother superior who sens a group of nuns off to India with terrible results in a miniseries adaptation of Black Narcissus which is due to air on FX.
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58 minutes ago, Hibi said:
I may wind up buying The Avengers set for the holidays. Years ago they used to show the reruns, but I havent seen it on tv in many years on any station.
The only episodes of that show that are still in print on DVD (AKA still for sale and not at scalper's prices) are the ones with Diana in them.
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8 minutes ago, Hibi said:
This is SO ridiculous. Have they lost their minds??? Will picture nominations be cancelled if they dont follow the rules after the votes come in? Or will pictures be declared ineligible before voting begins? Sorry, you can't vote for this film! The Academy has become a laughingstock. It's no wonder few people watch the show anymore.
Probably the latter, be deemed ineligible before voting begins.
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As i commented elsewhere, this would have negated the Best Picture nomination of 6 of the 9 contenders last year (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 1917, The Irishman, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, and Ford Vs Ferrari) alone. So, it will be interesting to see how this all pans out.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Not sure. Did you notice the "oldest" film was from 1999?
And there are five (count 'em 5!) Harry Potter flicks on the list.
Not really surprising. Even when most 2020 releases are hardly A list films, they still get the most motion in the open market.
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Goodwill Hunting, or Pardon Me, But You Are an Extreme Cheapskate
The saga of seven steely women (Joan Crawford, Marie Windsor, Mercedes McCambridge, Ida Lupino, Joan Bennett, Signe Hasso, and Gloria Grahame) as they claw their way through thrift stores after hearing Liberace comment on TV that he found a Tiffany necklace on sale at Goodwill for $3. All of them are suddenly hit with the desire to hit those bargain racks, and their greed knows no bounds as they refuse to even pay full price on becoming 50 cent frocks. In the end, Windsor wins the war by finding an original Monet painting worth a million bucks [ on sale for $5.95], securing it just seconds before it falls into the hands of an out-of-towner (Shelley Winters), while Crawford waits at the ceckout counter complaining about the wire hangers and asking if she could buy this second hand evening gown for 5 cents.
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Six Feet of Separation
A new drama with the social distancing as a backdrop. Will Smith plays a con man who tries to manipulate Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland over for money, but it doesn't pass muster in today's wired, distant world, not only can he not get close enouth to them to con them, but they use IMDb to realize that Sidney Poitier had no sons, and being a discerning couple, they would not be caught dead starring in Tom Hooper's version of Cats. He leaves to try to go con Paris Hilton and Tor Johnson instead.
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Have no idea, but Raise the Titanic has to be one of the most sleep inducing.
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Unfortunately (thanks to the title), this was the last film I saw of Kirk Douglas's before he died.....
it does have a bit of a TV feel to it.....