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It's been part of the cable package here for the last three years. They repeat clasics a lot, but there have been many Fox films that I've been able to see for the first time because of it. Plus occasionally they drop in a new title to savor. A Clifton Webb comedy is coming up in about two weeks that hasn't been on in the last three years.
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2 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I'm glad there still is a Fox Movie Channel. I've never actually had it as part of my cable package, so I've never seen it. I recall the guy who won Best Sound Editing for Ford v Ferrari thanking some Fox people before glumly stating this would probably be the last Fox movie ever. I do recall seeing ads for the new Call of the Wild that were still running with the Fox logo at the beginning even after Disney announced they were eliminating the Fox branding, and I wondered if the film would just carry a "20th Century" logo when released. Well, I didn't know that every movie theater was going to close, so I never saw Call of the Wild. I'm not even entirely sure it was theatrically released. So, I still don't know the answer to that question.
The last film to go out with the Fox name on it was the horror film Underwater starring Kristen Stewart in January. It grossed $17 million.
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7 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Part 7-2010-2019
1. 2010 -Amy Adams and Melissa Leo The Fighter
2, 2011- Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer The Help
3, 2017-Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell Three Billboards Outside Of Ebbing Missouri
4. 2018-Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss The Favourite
5. 2019-Al Pacino and Joe Pesci The Irishman
i didn't see The Favorite.
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15 hours ago, yanceycravat said:
Every once in a while the credit ...And Introducing - is something of a misnomer. The actor in question has already been in films but the powers want to make it seem like they've discovered a new talent.
Case in point... Peter O'Toole - who had already been in several films.
Can you name others?
Also Hayley Mills had already had a critical hit with Tiger Bay before being given the introducing credit on Pollyanna.
Then there was also the sarcastic use of it on 2001's Ocean's Eleven remake where Julia Roberts got it at the height of her stardom.
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5 hours ago, hamradio said:
This reminds me of that little delayed joke moment in 1988's Scrooged, when Robert Mitchum suggests adding things to programs that would draw the eyes of pets to TV screens, and late in the film it shows Mitchum's cats perched right next to the screen when there is a closeup of some mice.
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Another introducing credit I recall: Christopher Walken on The Anderson Tapes (1971)
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15 hours ago, yanceycravat said:
Every once in a while the credit ...And Introducing - is something of a misnomer. The actor in question has already been in films but the powers want to make it seem like they've discovered a new talent.
Case in point... Peter O'Toole - who had already been in several films.
Can you name others?
Yes, just saw one last night. Isabella Rossellini was given an introducing credit for White Nights in 1985, but she had had a small role as a nun with a few lines in Vincente Minnelli's final film A Matter or Time (which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman) 9 years earlier.
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7 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Part 6- 2000-2009
1. 2000 Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand Almost Famous
2. 2001 Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith Gosford Park
3. 2002 Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta Jones Chicago
4. 2006 Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi Babel
5. 2008 Amy Adams and Viola Davis Doubt
6. 2009 Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick Up In The Air
It was a close call on Doubt. Adams had the bigger role and was very impressive, but Davis nails her scene so well that even Meryl Streep seems dumbstruck. McDormand is a delight in Almost Famous, Maggie Smith gets the best moments in a wonderful film, Latifah gives a nicely sassy performance, barraza is heartbreaking, and I simply remember Kendrick more from the film.....
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6 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
i just went and did a GOOGLE search for the original 2002-3 EW review of GOSFORD PARK and they have replaced it with a 2020 review that gives at an A-
BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT "F."
I went to check that after you said about the F originally, and that really is the most confounding thing over there, because that A- piece could not possibly have been written this year because Owen Glieberman who wrote it (and was one of EW's two critics in 2001) was let go by the magazine around 2013 or 2014 and now works at Variety as one of their chief two critics. And as far as I know nobody would continue to write for a magazine that dumped them after almost 25 years of employment. It's a real enigma. Now I do know for certain one film that Glieberman gave an F to in the early 2000s that was very controversial: O Brother Where Art Thou. That said, I didn't much care for that film either, although the cinematography was really nice.
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The 1991 film Frankie and Johnny really is a very charming film......
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I started The Bell Jar not too long ago.....
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The one link that could be made from Candy to TCM is Only the Lonely.... its technically a variation on Marty, you have Maureen O'Hara (excellent) as his mother in her final film, and Anthony Quinn on hand as well. Plus music by Maurice Jarre. Now if that turned up on TCM some day, that would be nice.
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7 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Part 5-1982-1994
1. 1982 Teri Garr and Jessica Lange Tootsie
2. 1983-John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson Terms Of Endearment
3. 1985-Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey The Color Purple
4. 1986 Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe Platoon
5. 1988 Joan Cusack and Sigourney Weaver Working Girl
6. 1991 Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley Bugsy
7. 1994 Jennifer Tilly and Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway
I hesitated for a while on Terms on Endearment, because lithgow's role was super small, but he had some of the best lines in the film. I ultimately went with Nicholson, who was very good and more cenral to the film at large. The others were all pretty much easy calls: Lange is low key and lovely in Tootsie, Margaret Avery was a dynamo in The Color Purple, Joan Cusack stole all of Working Girl with just seven minutes of screentime, Harvey Keitel simply had a lot more to work with in Bugsy than Kingsley (who was barely in it as I recall)
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Joan of Arc (1999) - Canadian miniseries retelling of the French historical legend and tragedy. The large unusual cast includes 16-year-old Leelee Sobieski as Joan, Neil Patrick Harris as the Dauphin, Peter O'Toole as lead antagonistic cleric, Olympia Dukakis, Robert Loggia, Powers Boothe, Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Strauss, Maury Chaykin, Maximilian Schell, and Shirley MacLaine. The production values are strong, but the cast is distracting in a French-set period piece. I was pleased to see O'Toole's role was much bigger than I expected. 6/10
I remember seeing that when it first aired. I can't remember too much, but remember being impressed by Bisset's performance as Joan's mother. it was up for a lot of Emmys (Miniseries, Sobieski, Bisset, Dukakis, Directing), but only ended up with one : Peter O'Toole. He might have never won an Oscar in competition, but the Emmys made sure he didn't go home empty handed.
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Smashing Time (1967) Source: DVD
This is such a surreal, crazy film! It's a mixture of the some of the most shocking late 60s sets on film (enough to leave your teeth on edge), homages to silent comedy (Laurel and Hardy especially), slapstick, satire, in-jokes, social critique, music, camp, and, yes, early feminism. Its really hard to try to compare this film to much else, but it has some similarities to the famous Czech film Daisies, and part of the ending, while slapstick and without bloody deaths, has some similarities to the freakish endings of Phantom of the Paradise and Carrie made in the next decade. Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave make a fine comedy team, with Redgrave as the amiably flighty ditz brimming over with enthusiasm and Tushingham as the sensible if occasionally bumbling friend (who at one point successfully saves her friend from the threat of drunken date rape Home Alone style).. And yet under all the manic comedy including slapstick and pie fights and spray paint battles, its a surprisingly perceptive film, looking critically at the ways of the social class system, the way women are treated by caddish men, and the way pop culture first uses and then abuses young talent. The joyful point about this film is that, although they may not seem like it at times, these two friends are troopers and survivors, and the end shows them ultimately victorious. That's like having your cake and eating it too. Well worth a look.
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8 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Part 4-1973-1980
1. 1973-Madeline Khan and Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon
2. 1974-Robert DeNiro, Michael V Gazzo and Lee Strasberg The Godfather Part II
3. 1975- Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin Nashville
4. 1976-Burgess Meredith and Burt Young Rocky
5. 1977- Jason Robards and Maximilian Schell Julia
6. 1979- Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep Kramer Vs Kramer
7. 1980 Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton Ordinary People
The closest call here was the Nashville duo, because they are both exceptional. Easiest call was the one for Rocky.....
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Three more movies seen.
My Blue Heaven, a Fox musical, from 1950 is kind of a more upbeat musical version of Penny Serenade. Its not as tragic, has much more comedy, and is definitely more tuneful. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey continue a winning screen partnership well, and the film itself is charming.
The other two films both followed the racing circuit, and shall it be said much more successfully than 1990's Days of Thunder which I saw this week as well....
Grand Prix from 1966 is the classic era example, a smooth, cautionary tale set against the background of many European Formula 1 races. Characterization is quite sketchy (Frankenheimer's later film The gypsy moths was more fleshed out in this regard), but the charm of the cast helps put over the non-racing scenes (especially high marks must go to Eva Marie Saint, Brian Bedford, and Jessica Walter), and the racing scenes are strikingly good, especially the first one at Monte Carlo. The film makes vivid use of split screen effects too.
The new example is Ford v Ferrari, a big hit last year, and deservingly so. Although it has a sting in its tail, much like Grand Prix had, the film is as cool, tart, and refreshing as blackberry jam. Matt Damon is top billed, but this is really Christian Bale's film. His flashy performance complete with his natural accent, has the same cocky charm as a youthful Sean Connery, and he electrifies the film. It's long (152 minutes) and I really don't think people really swore quite this much in the early 60s, but this is very, very appealing, smart, well-paced, technically gleaming. This is grand old fashioned entertainment and the best film made to date on the topic of auto racing. A knockout.
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I'll go with LonesomePolecat. Mildred Natwick seals the deal.
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Knives Out (2019)
If only this film moved at a breezier pace, this could have been something very special. Ana De Armas is a charming lead and Daniel Craig's take on a Foghorn Leghorn/Colonel Sanders voice is distinctly amusing. Jaime Lee Curtis and Toni Collette are great fun as suspects, while its always a pleasure to see Christopher Plummer (whose role as the victim is a bit larger than I thought it would be). The script is also perceptive on the subject of modern social dysfunction so glaringly portrayed by this very wealthy and mixed-up family. And yet, at 130 minutes it feels distinctly overextended, and yet there is not as much examination of the suspects as I would have hoped. Maybe I was destined to be a little bit underwhelmed; my expectations were sky high, salivating at the prospect of a modern day equivalent of the 70s Agatha Christie films. This isn't like those, but it is not a complete wash. There is enough about it (plus a nice Murder She Wrote reference and a nod in the direction of Travels with My Aunt) that makes for a nice timefiller.
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9 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Ugh, I had been waiting on the request list for this over a month before the library closed.
I was just at the video store in town (open for who knows how much longer thanks to virus lockdown) and another man there (who was talking first about it ) and I broke the news of the real fate of Sharon Tate to the clerk.
Meanwhile, I picked up Knives Out and Ford Vs. Ferrari.....
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On 3/17/2020 at 6:12 PM, EricJ said:
Was never a fan of BTILC (endless Precious Quirkiness from WD Richter, where coherent plot explanation is just too unhip), but there's more good popcorn from 1986--It wasn't '82 or '84, and nowhere near '81, but there's still plenty of hidden gold:
- Back to School
- Running Scared
- The Golden Child
- Ruthless People
- Gung Ho
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- F/X
- House (not the Japanese one)
- The Boy Who Could Fly
- The Manhattan Project
- Clockwise
- Solarbabies (just as representative decade symbol, and far less insufferable on that basis than Spacecamp)
It wasn't all JUST Howard the Duck, Labyrinth and Ferris Bueller, you know.
I love Peggy Sue Got married. Such a lovely film, and very underrated today. Kathleen Turner was touching, and it was such a moving film. (Also loved seeing Barbara Harris and Maureen O'Sullivan again). And I'll always remember Bette Midler's K-Mart line from Ruthless People......
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7 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Part 3- 1961-1972
1. 1961 Jackie Gleason and George C Scott The Hustler
2. 1963 Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans and Joyce Redman Tom Jones
3, 1965 Joyce Redman and Maggie Smith Othello
4. 1967 Gene Hackman and Michael J Pollard Bonnie And Clyde
5. 1970 Helen Hayes and Maureen Stapleton Airport
6. 1971 Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson The Last Picture Show
Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show
7. 1972 James Caan, Robert Duvall and Al Pacino The Godfather
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6 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Well, some say Eleanor Parker was deserving in CAGED.
My theory about this is that these were conservative times (the McCarthy witch hunts were underway). You could not win for being a villain.
Parker becomes a villain at the end of CAGED, Baxter's a villain in ALL ABOUT EVE, Swanson is certainly playing a sordid and debauched character. So using this criteria, it means the only morally acceptable wins in this category for 1950 were Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE and Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY. Since Baxter and Davis basically cancel each other out, that pushes Holliday forward.
It had nothing to do with acting talent or versatility. It had to do with the kind of role that was being rewarded/awarded.
This is why Loretta Young's performance of a more virtuous character in THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER won over Rosalind Russell's depraved character in MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA. And why James Cagney's Cody Jarrett wasn't even in the running for WHITE HEAT.
You have a point. The best actress category is famously prone for having heroic characters win the prize. Only three have won for being flat-out villains: Lousie Fletcher in 1975, Kathy Bates in 1990, and Charlize Theron in 2003.
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She makes any film a better film with her presence.
Meanwhile, I picked up Knives Out and Ford Vs. Ferrari.....
Fox Movie Channel venn diagram.
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Don't really watch the modern side, though that's how I saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Across the Universe. For a while they were running the lovely 2013 film About Time, but not anymore.