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Now it seems that only the name of the thread is lightened if you have seen all the posts.

perhaps because it was the first put up since the update?

The Genre Sub-forums are gone...... never mind they are still there.....and now they are gone again. Now I know how Ingrid felt in Gaslight...... 😏

Working out The Kinks?

Criterion Releases for September, October, and November

I'm left handed, but I was fully used to the old format, and preferred it.

That they would. They haven't had an 18 share since Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 2000.

It's definitely a new format.....

Silverman went to NBC in the late 70s and had a bad go of it. NBC had a promo campaign called "Proud as a peacock" to extol the network at the time that were close to being bankrupt However morale was low among NBC employees and a parody with these lyrics was recorded the same day as the other one, and was leaked to a radio station which infuriated Silverman.....

Yes, and the grand staircase too. They did an exceptional job with the replica.

9 to 5 is indeed a wonderful comedy. i've had a lot of enjoyment via that film. I am sharing what I have seen from 1980. And yes, I gave Xanadu a perfect score. It just hit me in the right way.

Saturn 3 definitely had one of the strangest title fonts ever seen for a film's title in the credits..... 1980 was an oddball year. I had seen another one from 1980 last week that was more entertaining than the one today. it was How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, a heist film with Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtain, Eddie Albert, Dabney Colman, Richard Benjamin, and Cathryn Damon. In spite of some very unnecessary nudity near the end (courtesy of Jane Curtin's body double) it was a spry comedy.

It's certainly much more entertaining than anything in Raise the Titanic! [well, the music was good in that film]

The film was made by a short lived company called AFD. It lost so much that along with several other 1980 disasters they did [Saturn 3 a sci-fi horror film with Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett as lovers vs a crazed Harvey Keitel and his robot; directed by Stanley Donen; Can't Stop the Music, a campy musical starring The Village People and Bruce (now Caitlin) Jenner directed by Nancy Walker; and a remake of The Jazz Singer with Neal Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, and Laurence Olivier], that the company folded up within two years of its founding. Oh well, at last they had The Muppet Movie, Inside Moves, and The Mirror Crack'd. those were good.

I bought the DVD of it (don't have a blu-ray player) but I agree, TCM is still using an old blurry print of it, which is really strange because the picture quality on the Warner Archive release is absolutely fantastic.

Raise the Titanic (1980) -- 2/10 🤢 Source:HBO A top contender for one of the dullest films I've ever seen. It's not offensive, but it is not entertaining, interesting, or exciting either. And a capable cast is left playing characters more wooden than cardboard. A typically wonderful score by John Barry, some striking cinematography, and an impressive sequence showing the ship rising from the deep [in 1980, it was still assumed that the boat was in one piece] is all that this film has. Otherwise its terminal boredom. What is most shocking is that this film cost $36 million dollars at the time [over $125 million today], more expensive than such ambitious contemporary films of the era as Apocalypse Now, Ragtime, Blade Runner, and The Right Stuff. And for what in the end? The world's first $36 million dollar sleeping pill.

Fair points. And admittedly Jackie Brown was extraordinarily well-cast with career bests from Pam Grier and Robert Forster, so that was tough to compete in. I do think its sad though for people to be judged only on offscreen habits. I've seen it too firsthand (people carping because of an actor's political beliefs) and it is so obnoxious. I judge actors only with the on-screen results. [Susan Sarandon I found is seemingly a sore subject even in some left-leaning circles, since for some reason some blame her for Democrat's presidential losses in 2000 and 2016 because both times she said she was voting for a third party candidate; its a shame because she's one of my favorite working actresses, and quite frankly it would be nice to talk about her more]

Darling Lili is actually my favorite film of 1970. it's criminally underappeciated.

For what it's worth even though I haven't been seeing as many episodes of series for the first time this past week or two as the ones before (although I ventured forth to take a first look at Miami Vice, Charlie's Angels, and Vega$), the TV experiment has still been a very rewarding one, getting deeper and deeper into several series. And I have several series on DVD on order: three series I have heard good things about plus were favorites of my parents when they first aired: Kate and Allie, Northern Exposure, and Evening Shade, plus one series I have wanted to see for a long time: Moonlighting. (I finally won an Ebay bidding war to get a copy of the first set!)

Ditto. I've seen a ton of Woody Allen films (41 of the films he directed) and a lot of Diane Keaton's (28 of her films), and in both of their cases, it doesn't really feel in either case that it is the best work they have done.

Speaking of which, if there aren't many actors I flat out dislike, there are some I have mixed feelings about. And this will be probably controversial, but I'm mixed over Robert De Niro. I thought he was exceptional in Taxi Driver and he really is underrated and effective in his nice guy roles (bang the Drum Slowly, The Last Tycoon, Falling in Love, Stanley and Iris, Mad Dog and Glory, A Bronx Tale, The Intern). But his performances in New York New York and Cape Fear threw the whole films off-balance, he was overshadowed by his co-stars in True Confessions, The Mission, The Untouchables, Awakenings, GoodFellas, Marvin's Room, Jackie Brown, Wag the Dog, The Score, and The Irishman, and too many of the films he has been in in the last 20 years are bizarre choices.

Incidentally, Father of the Bride (both 90s films) and Something's Gotta give (another one I think you are subliminally referring to here, since it too looks like a promo for Architectural Digest) were all written by Nancy Meyers, who always seems to want her films to have the plushest looking interiors. It was that way too in the Keaton-less films The Parent Trap, It's Complicated, and The Intern.

Reds has aired 16 times on TCM in the last 26 years. For a film that was up for 12 Oscars and was a major talking point at the time, that's not really too often. I saw it once, was a bit mixed on it. The one scene I remember most clearly was actually the scene where Maureen Stapleton's Emma Goldman realizes after getting to the USSR that the Soviet Communist "dream" was a lie.

I stayed up to a quarter to 6 in the morning last night to see all of The Fortune (1975). It was one of the rare Warren Beatty films I had not seen, and I was curious about it being one of those big budget, big name films that was all but buried. It was a strange film, and not quite a good one (a sleazy air and a meandering plot ended up moving it into the almost pile), but it was worth staying up for for a few reasons. First of all the film looked gorgeous, the lighting, the costumes, the sets, they really got across the feel of the 1920s, coupled with songs from the period. Jack Nicholson occasionally had that wild, lurid gleam in his eye, Beatty was low-key, Florence Stanley was fun briefly as a nosy landlady, but everyone paled next to the exceptional Stockard Channing. This was early in her career, yet she gave an incredibly, very funny performance, and she really helped to paper over the movie's flaws whenever she was on screen.