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  1. I saw the western El Dorado this afternoon (which was enjoyable, and it was nice to see Robert Mitchum again), but I'm still a bit discombobulated from seeing Phantom of the Paradise (1974) just before bed last night. Bad idea. Very bad idea. I had trouble getting to sleep after that one's crazy, disturbing finale. The film's very effective and well handled both directorially and acting wise, but it freaked me out. Memo to myself: No more De Palma films before bedtime.

  2. But in usual times with TCM, usually if I can't say a film live, I do try to catch up with it on Watch TCM. I've caught up with many films that way. I also have it programmed that the first channel that comes on the TV when it is turned on is TCM.

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  3. 3 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:

     

     

    Yes, yes and yes. (haha the burlap looking robes in TLIW)

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    So it was one of the five runners up in the category. Made the shortlist at least.....

    COSTUME DESIGN
    FUNNY GIRL, Irene Sharaff and Howard Shoup
    GREAT CATHERINE, Margaret Furse
    THE LION IN WINTER, Margaret Furse
    OLIVER!, Phyllis Dalton
    THE ONE AND ONLY, GENUINE, ORIGINAL FAMILY BAND, Bill Thomas
    PLANET OF THE APES, Morton Haack
    ROMEO AND JULIET, Danilo Donati
    THE SEA GULL, Tony Walton
    STAR!, Donald Brooks
    WAR AND PEACE, Mikhail Chikovani, V. Vavra and Nadezhda Buzina

  4. On 2/29/2020 at 4:17 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:

    this thread had fallen way down on page 2, so i don't feel guilty about this.

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    ABOVE, a sampling of some of THE OSCAR NOMINATED COSTUMES FROM THE SWARM (1978), MR. CAINE in wide-lapel sporting jacket by ELEGANZA. GIANT BEE in headpiece and body suit by GIVENCHY por BEES.

    I found this on another site before, but this was the original costume shortlist of 10 the year The Swarm was Done. the ones that were nominated are in bold. The Cheap Detective, Movie Movie, and The Green Room were three other 1978 releases that had good costumes.

    COSTUME DESIGN
    AUTUMN SONATA, Inger Pehrsson
    THE BIG FIX, Edith Head
    CARAVANS, Renie Conley
    DAYS OF HEAVEN, Patricia Norris
    DEATH ON THE NILE, Anthony Powell (this film Won)
    GOIN SOUTH, William Ware Theiss
    GREASE, Albert Wolsky
    HOUSE CALLS, Burton Miller
    THE SWARM, Paul Zastupnevich
    THE WIZ, Tony Walton

  5. On 2/27/2020 at 8:53 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:

    I miss the trashy and/or under-the-radar OUTRAGEOUS or little-known stuff, although the scheduling for UNDERGROUND had been disappointing before February.

    I'm still a bit disappointed that Making Mr Right wasn't on Demand after it aired on Underground in December. I saw the first 15 minutes or so of it, and it had that certain pop to it.

  6. On 2/29/2020 at 4:17 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:

    this thread had fallen way down on page 2, so i don't feel guilty about this.

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    ABOVE, a sampling of some of THE OSCAR NOMINATED COSTUMES FROM THE SWARM (1978), MR. CAINE in wide-lapel sporting jacket by ELEGANZA. GIANT BEE in headpiece and body suit by GIVENCHY por BEES.

    I saw that was on TCM yesterday. I didn't really watch it, but I poked in for just a few minutes and saw Olivia De Havilland seeing the fatalities on the school playground. It turned up in the On Demand section on the TV so I was curious and watched the hosted intro. I never thought about it until Dave Karger mentioned it, but this actually was Olivia's return to her old stomping grounds for the first time in 35 years. Incidentally it was released the same year Jack Warner died.

  7. On 2/23/2020 at 10:12 PM, TomJH said:

    Well, knowing that is certainly a relief.  Speaking of which . . .

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    I just saw that film for the first time this past week......

  8. On 2/22/2020 at 9:30 PM, TopBilled said:

    I'm hearing Hey Jude in the back of my mind as I read your post.

    Don't let me down. Take a sad song and turn it around......

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  9. On 2/15/2020 at 10:10 PM, speedracer5 said:

    Exactly.  These women love these men SO MUCH and they "won't be ignored." 

    I put Single White Female on hold at the library.  I've never seen it before.

    Leave Her to Heaven would be another of this class, the grandmother of them all. Single White Female I should say is seriously twisted. As in demented, deeply disturbing and sleazy. Well acted but never again for me. I do like the Chrissie Hynde vocal over the end credits. Did I mention the stilletto murder weapon?

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  10. I found this here for the 2015 nominations when just making a simple search for references to one film, and I admit that these are very, very funny. even if I actually am a fan of a few of the movies parodied here) but the one reference to the now jail-bound Weinstein (and I don't feel I need to say anything more about that scandal; it speaks for itself) really made me think again as I have for the last few days about what is to be done with the topic of films that were made at the two companies he headed. We all know that many were promoted mercilessly at the Academy Awards, and that some of these films were very good, others not so much.  I think most of us have liked some of the films made at the studios, and there is no denying that a few are a major part of recent pop culture history. But how exactly can they be separated from all that has come to light since? Harvey was listed as an "executive producer" on close to 300 films, so that now looms large in the credits of many films. So do we ignore the films, work around the things in the backgroud, what exactly?

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  11. On 2/27/2020 at 2:40 AM, skimpole said:

    Fifth Academy Awards (1931-1932) Trivia

    -----Grand Hotel is the only best picture winner to be only nominated for best picture. 

    -----Interestingly, two films not nominated for best picture will get more nominations than the winner.  This was also happen for the awards for 1952 and 2006.

    -----This is the last year no movie won more than two awards

    Sixth Academy Awards (1932-1933)

    -----Last time no movie gets more than four nominations.  No movie not nominated for best picture got more than one nomination.

    Which films were the two in 1931-1932

  12. 11 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    DO WHAT NOW? I have never HEARD of THAT ONE!

    A Flea in Her Ear was an awkwardly titled farce with lots of slamming doors and breakneck pacing. Kind of like a manic spin on a bedroom farce, in other works kind of suggestive but mostly innocent. The movie isn't an all-timer but the costumes are handsome and the cast (Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Rachel Roberts) seems to be having fun.

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  13. Just now, LornaHansonForbes said:

    GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS. 
    I was just thinking of it the other day. I really wish the COSTUME NOMINEE DANCE PARTY had become a long-standing tradition with the Academy. Would have been really interesting to have seen a bunch of dancers in nominated designs from THE SWARM try and do DISCO MOVES as a bunch of killer bees swarm around them.

    At the time I had even shared it on my Facebook page, because I found it to be a laugh riot.  It would have been fun to see it coninue in a way. I am now picturing Driving Miss Daisy and the moonwalk.... Fun times.

  14. Took a trip into what would usually be TCM Underground land with Crazy Mama (1975), a Roger Corman production that was a training ground for the future Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme. It's a zesty, rough-hewn crime saga, sometimes amusing, sometimes shocking, othertimes even wistful, but at all times has a definite air of 50s overload, which lends it an offbeat charm and a kitchy quality as well. The print on Amazon prime is grainy and pan and scan, but don't let that stop you from watching for the strong work from Cloris  Leachman and Ann Sothern. The film itself can really surprise you from the way it goes from comedy to violence, as some of that violence toward the end is truly shocking, and expectant of the shocking mood swings of Something Wild 11 years later. It's definitely not the type of film I usually watch, but i enjoyed this change of pace.

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  15. 5 hours ago, LawrenceA said:

    At one time, "Polack" was censored, but with a different spelling.

    Test: Pollack ****

    The name P-o-l-l-o-c-k is censored. 😲

    I found out that was still the case when I made up a schedule for the programming challenge. Kept cutting out the name of a director because of his last name. There is another name too that used to set it off, the star of Say Anything....: **** (I-o-n-e) Skye. [Old autocensor habits die hard)

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