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Morley's character was a food snob and in the film, two of his favorite chefs had been killed by the time of the line. So he sarcastically says at one point: "Don't tell me another cook has been murdered! Who is it this time, Aunt Jemima?"

It definitely is a bleak film. And Hayward is exceptional in it.

Well it seems that Robert Morley's line about Aunt Jemima in 1978's Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe was prescient.....

That's one brilliant movie. It might have been made in 2007, but it feels like a film made in the early 70s period when it is mostly set. It's a nigh on perfect film.

It's been a frequent schedule glitch recently where Until the End of the World shows up in the TCM Imports slot , even though its actually not airing.

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Yes, that's a good one to bring up. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was filmed while interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states. The Loving V. Virginia case changed that only two weeks after filming ended (and two days after Spencer Tracy died). So what was illegal in a big section of the country when they were filming was legal by the time it was released. The film was clearly meant to be a comforting yet probing look at what was a major lighting rod in the lower half of the country. It was made with the best intentions (even if the film is not as hard hitting as the 1964 independent film One Potato Two Potato).

Well thank you for recovering and creating the lists online in the first place!

Welcome back! You've been missed around here.

Full confession off topic.... when they brought up those murder hornets a few weeks ago, I honestly thought that it would unfortunately lead to a resurgence of interest in The Swarm......

I'm not quite certain. She had small roles in some other comedies in the early 90s, but given her Oscar nod for Raging Bull and her Soapdish performance, you would have thought that bigger things would have come calling. And it is bizarre that she was not on the poster given the prominance of her role, much larger than Teri Hatcher's.... but then again on the poster, Elisabeth Shue, another pivotal player in the film, was the only one of the main six performers to be listed under the film's title, kind of buried. And Shue was barely seen in the trailer as well.

"I get these letters. LOOK AT THESE! "Celeste Talbert is a menopausal hag, let's see more of Monthana Moorehead."" Sees worker looking at her incredulously. "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!?!" Resumes talking to Robert Downey Jr. "Maria Rendozi, Fort Lee, New Jersey. Fort Lee, that's your audience OK? That's the heartland."

I saw it again on Sunday. Bring it out a few times a year. And Moriarty would definitely be in contention for a Oscar nomination from me in 1991.

It's a terribly underrated year, and in my opinion, one of the last few super strong years. So many good scripts and performances in 1991. But then again movie critics nowadays place laurels around the startlingly hit and miss 1999 as a great year (in addition to not being a fan of a few of the praised films that year, I suffered through Big Daddy, Baby Geniuses, Inspector Gadget, The Deep End of the Ocean, and The Other Sister, films that would normally deep six any years claim to being the best of all time), so there is no accounting for taste. Yeah, the Cape Fear remake left me rather angry, its relentless sadism ultimately buries everything (including Nick Nolte's fine turn) under a morass of junk. Delirious just suffers from being in a good year. It made me laugh several times, its likable, and the cast is having fun, but its not an equal to Tootsie or 1991's other Soap spoof Soapdish, which is very funny.

I saw it on February 13, 2018 on a videotape from the library. I don't recall Duvall and Dern's scene (though it could have been there because I remember there was something going in between those two, and after checking IMDb's parents guide, it is part of the film), but I definitely recall the scene with the sex act between Laura Dern and Lukas Haas underneath the bedcovers. Made me deeply uncomfortable and it was definitely an immoral scene. And its really curious because much of the rest of the film seemed rather delicate and dainty, and then you have THAT. I do recall being impressed by Diane Ladd's performance in it, she was marvelous in it, and the Elmer Bernstein musical score and the honeyed cinematography. But as i said, that scene was something else and not in a good way. It's really curious how many scenes there were like that in the 80s and early 90s with underaged characters in raunchy scenes (Olivia D'Abo in Bolero or Christian Slater in The Name of the Rose, which you mentioned in the other thread) or where it was implied or partially shown that they were going off to the boudoir with older individuals (Annabeth Gish and William R Moses in Mystic Pizza, Navin Chowdhry and Twiggy in Madame Sousatzka, Emily Lloyd and John Terry in In Country, Chris O'Donnell and Joan Cusack in Men Don't Leave) I mean, I actually liked the four films I just mentioned, but it just felt like a sour note in all of them. That said also, Jessica Lange (as O'Donnell's mother) told off the Cusack character in Men Don't Leave about that relationship. You also had the horrifying rape flashback scene in The Prince of Tides (again, good movie, terrible scene) and all that queasiness in the Cape Fear remake. Regarding 1991, that's a year with a lot of cinematic memories for me. I'm sharing a ranked list of what I have seen (and Rambling Rose is pretty far down the pack) The first 50 I'd recommend, 51 (Rambling Rose) through 60 are marginal. 61 through 63 are definite no-nos from me. 1-25 26-45 46-63

Yes. I noticed that the timeslot for it actuially started at 12:02 last night, plus when you throw in a 4 minute intro, it cut the last four minutes of the film. I don't blame you for being angry.

I think I read where Goldsmith's chances were hurt a bit by his being dismayed about his score for the other 1979 sci-fi film he was involved with, Alien. While some of his new music ended up being used in the film, portions of it were reused from his score for 1962's Freud, and the whole end credits music was not his. Quite a bit that he wrote for that film got scrapped. Goldsmith made it known that if he was to be nominated in 1979, he wanted the notice to be for Star Trek. And some say that hurt him. It might not have helped either that Star Trek was only finished about a day before it was released.

I haven't seen Pete 'N Tillie, but I saw the other four, and while it's a tight match, I think I would have gone with Jeannie Berlin, who is the most charming and sympathetic presence in The Heartbreak Kid. And when she gets her heart broken, my heart broke for her as well. Wonderful work. Among unnominated work, I wish Madeline Kahn had been nominated for playing in What's Up Doc;Ida Lupino was wonderful in her limited time in Junior Bonner; Geraldine Page had a good one-scene role in JW Coop; Anna Massey was nicely understated in Frenzy; and Janet Leigh was deliciously brassy in One is a Lonely Number.

She really does have her high points in the film, and the film itself i found to be better than reputation, but its still a long haul of a film.

I haven't spoken to Lawrence recently, but he is fine. A few weeks ago I helped him with some questions about Letterboxd, the film logging website, and while he took a week off from both here and there (which really made me very concerned and worried for him), he has been logging films over there as recently as earlier today, so he's doing well. So far, in the last few weeks, of the films he has seen, he liked 1917 (2019) the most. Got a 9/10 from him.

Welcome!

Speedy, hope you don't mind but I shared the list of stars elsewhere so people will know who will be on this Summer.

And a big welcome back to one former TCM staple from the 70s, Foul Play. It is one of my favorite comedies, and this is only its third airing in the last 10 years.

Natalie Wood got a Golden Globe for it, the last acting prize she received. According to her daughter in that HBO documentary last month, she wasn't expecting to win.

Premieres: You and Me (1938) [Sylvia Sidney] Thirty Day Princess (1934) [Sylvia Sidney] The First Wives Club (1996) {Goldie Hawn] CrissCross (1992) [Goldie Hawn] Tap (1989) [Sammy Davis Jr.] Night Club Scandal (1937) [John Barrymore] The Devil's Playground (1937) [Dolores Del Rio] The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) [William Powell] Danger Route (1967) [Diana Dors] The Weak and the Wicked (1954) [Diana Dors] Loan Shark (1952) [George Raft] I'll Get You (1953) [George Raft] Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) [Anne Shirley] For Men Only (1951) [Paul Henreid]