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On 9/14/2019 at 8:23 PM, Fedya said:
Chaka Khan doesn't feel for any of us, either.
I wonder if she feels for the woman on Jeopardy earlier this year who mixed up Chaka Zulu and Chaka Kahn, and thus stated that Chaka Kahn was an African warrior leader......
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THEY'RE HERE! (Again)
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Buena Vista Social Club is currently under contract to TCM's sister channel HBO, so that might be the reason why it disappeared.
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11 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I have never even heard of either one!
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(once the 60's start, there are some holes in my viewing/title familiarity)
The Beguiled was actually made twice, once in 1971 like Eric mentioned, with Clint, Geraldine Page, and Elizabeth Hartman, directed by Don Siegel, and again in 2017 with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Kirsten Dunst, directed by Sophia Coppola. It's not only evil in a girl school, but drenched in lustful passions (all the women that are of age long for the only man in the area), with a heaping helping of Southern gothic. The 1971 version plays it hot and heavy brimming over with hysteria; the 2017 version plays it cool and cerebral, with quiet malice.
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Agnes Moorehead in Dark Passage was very abrupt
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On 9/5/2020 at 10:42 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
eta- THE COSTUME DESIGN CATEGOR in 1979 was pretty weak though- (BIRDS OF A FEATHER is aka LA CAGE AUX FOLLES)
Best Costume Design
Agatha and The Europeans actually did have nice costumes, but neither film really went anywhere at the box office, so..... I'm pretty positive that it got the award due to the outfits with all the veins and arteries near the end.
I just pulled up the Technical Oscar lineups I trascribed here a few months back to see what was next in line after those 5
COSTUME DESIGN
QuoteAgatha
All That Jazz
The Black Hole [Disney's first PG . Costumes looked like standard sci-fi space suits]
Butch and Sundance: The Early Years
La Cage aux Folles
The Europeans
Hair [Hippie-Chic part I]
The Rose [Hippie-Chic Part II]
Star Trek: The Motion Picture [More typical space suits, but a good movie]
Sunburn [AKA the film that time forgot. Mystery-comedy with truly bizarre cast {Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Keenan Wynn, William Daniels, John Hillerman, Jack Kruschen, Alejandro Ray, Seymour Cassel, Eleanor Parker, and Joan Collins} has not been seen at all since a small scale video release in 1980]
On 9/5/2020 at 11:28 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:also also, was surprised to read on imdb that LANGE has only appeared in TWO BEST PICTURE NOMINEES, ALL THAT JAZZ and TOOTSIE.
it is a bit surprisng ,especially since she was up for acting 6 times. But then again Denzel Washington is now up to 8 acting nominations, and he too has only been in two best Picture nominees: A Soldier's Story and Fences,
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I only saw a little snippit and it seemed a bit clinical. How about just embrace appreciation of film and female directors without sounding distanced. (Plus, Tank Girl was a weird pick to highlight. United Artists had such little faith in it in 1995 that they didn't even screen it in an advance for movie critics, a scarlet letter of shame for a major studio film at the time)
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5 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I watched Star 80 last year (or the year before? whenever Carroll Baker was SUTS). It was a very interesting film. Knowing the story of Dorothy Stratten I knew what would ultimately happen to her. But man, that was a difficult film to watch. It definitely wouldn't be something I'd want to watch again and again.
I have a bio about Bob Fosse at home, and not only was Star 80 a deeply disturbing film to watch, but the filming of it seemed to be traumatic for all parties involved. Fosse sounded as though he was terrified and traumatized during much of the filming, and Eric Roberts was a wreck for weeks after playing Dorothy's killer in the film. Plus much of the crew reportedly felt emotionally drained.
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6 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
I started a separate topic. Tried to watch documentary on TCM but thought it was boring and awful. I still don't know why All That Jazz still shows up in my newspaper listing.
I think that All That Jazz is still on for tonight. The cable listings on the TV at home still has it listed, and there is only one other film that could possibly fill that gap on the schedule here
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When I saw it once, a few years back, I remember thinking very highly of the film (Roy Scheider was never better, and Ann Reinking, who essentially lived her part in this film in real life, is deeply touching and moving), but there were two scenes that i wish weren't there. The first was the "Air-otica" scene in which a dark musical number turns into an o*r*g*y* onstage. That scene seemed to go on forever and it left me very uncomfortable. The other of course was the open heart surgery scene. I remember seeing a comment on the old IMDb boards years ago, and one of the people commenting saw the film in 1980 on its original release, and they said there were a lot of walkouts on the surgery scene.
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1 minute ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, but Louise Beavers' part in THIS flick sure wouldn't have been as large IF there were no Spam to parody at the time, right?!
True. And that was the most memorable line in the film (for me at least)
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I know it's definitely an opinion that will not find many supporters, but even though Big was truly charming, I preferred Penny Marshall's directorial debut Jumpin' Jack Flash. That was an incredibly troubled production, but you would not guess from how well she made in work on screen. And Whoopi Goldberg was really allowed to play both to her comic strengths and to more dramatic effect in quieter scenes.
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I guess it should not be a surprise that canned chicken existed in the 30s. After all that was the decade that gave birth to that famous/infamous mystery meat SPAM.
it's simply amazing to me that Hormel wanted people to think that people with maids would want to eat Spam. Can you really imagine Nelson Rockerfeller getting a hankering for a plate of mystery meat?
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
Whats happened to the film? It's not listed on tonight's schedule. Was it pulled?
3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:DAMMIT.
**** PARAMOUNT WITH A RUSTY RAKE!
This was the first film on TCM that I was looking forward to in a long, long, long time.
Just like I mentioned in the All That Jazz thread, there seems to be a glitch with TCM's online schedule when it comes to premieres. Same thing happened with Vibes in July and Ramona in August and they both ended up airing. Plus the Women Make Film schedule shows that it is still on.....
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I believe that it is still on the schedule. there has been a glitch at some points recently with the online schedule and TCM Premieres; both Vibes (1988) in July and Ramona (1928) in August both disappeared from the online schedule after being announced, but both ended up airing on TCM as originally planned.
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1 minute ago, Hibi said:
I don't remember her even being in that....
She played a client of George Segal's divorce lawyer. In her first scene she explains her predicament, another shows her briefly in a bar, then she comes back to say that she reconciled with her husband, than in the final one she says her husband left her again. it's a very small part.
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
A few weeks back The Economist featured Olivia de Havilland on their Obiturary last-page: The ingenue who roared.
Discussing her years at Warner Brothers it said:
WB had one great dramatic actress, Bette Davis, and two ingenues, one blonde and one brunette. She was the brunette.
So show was WB's blonde ingenue? I assume Alexis Smith, since the other "major" actresses WB had under contract, while Olivia was under contract, were Ida Lupino and Ann Sheridan. Stanwyck would make films for the studio but she wasn't under a fixed term 7 year contract (the type Olivia ended up suing over).
Anita Louise maybe? (At least in the 30s) Jane Wyman was a blonde in her early films, but she was merely supporting in most of her early films. I guess you could also go with Joan Blondell, even though WB mostly put her in comedies, not dramas.
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I noted at least one film that is playing for Shelley Winters is one where she is barely in it. (1983's disappointing Blume in Love). She only has about 4 and a half minutes of screentime spread over 4 points in the film.
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I saw it via the DVD a few months ago. It's pretty strong, and very well acted by March and Sidney it's definitely a drama, so even though the main theme is alcoholism during the time of prohibition (March is the tipsy one), there aren't quite as many risque scenes as many pre-codes; the main one comes late in the film after their marriage has curdled and they briefly try dating others. Cary Grant briefly appears as Sidney's date at a drunken party.
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I guess they figured they had to make that $200 million they expended on the film back in some way.....
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No search function anymore......
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There are some. Some of the kids films I grew up with, plus some others I saw when I was young, but I don't think it is an extremely big percentage.
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I just had my first experiences with the show this weekend. I'd honestly say I've been curious about it for a long time, ever since I saw one of the DVD sets advertised in a store ad 14 years ago. Plus I have been a big fan of Remington Steele for years. So after several failed attempts, I finally won an Ebay auction for the first set. The pilot's energy flagged a bit whenever it strayed away from Cybill and Bruce, but it was in many other ways delightful, and the second episode was fantastic. I feel like this has all the makings of becoming one of my favorite TV shows. There are only two drawbacks: the sets are very expensive to buy (out-of-print), and I'm really depressed that there are only 65 full-fledged episodes and a clip show.At least I can enjoy what there is, but I wish there had been more.
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One thing I did think though about the Female Director series though is that I feel we will soon be seeing a different type of complaint, from viewers offended about content, because Lovely and Amazing, which airs in about 11 days, features an extended full-frontal nude scene that was much discussed at the time of the film's release.
All That Jazz
Actor Kevin Dobson (1943-2020)
in General Discussions
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Plus she also had a memorable recurring guest part on the TV series Ally McBeal in the 90s. She really enlivens any film she's in.