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8 hours ago, jakeem said:
Why do the Oscars keep shutting women out of Best Director? This one Academy rule helps explain itQuoteGreta Gerwig’s Little Women, Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy, Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim, Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, to name just a few, consistently ranked among the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.
Three of these would most likely not even have been seen by most Academy members.....
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Not that any of this relates to Madea or Cats, but if I was to state the worst movies i ever saw, I would pick the following 10. Please note that for the most part I try to avoid films I think I'll dislike, but Baby Geniuses (seen when i was super young and naive) was so bad I still remember the stench 20 years on.
- August Rush
- Baby Geniuses
- Bless the Beasts and Children
- Crash (2005) [Best Picture or not, I hated it]
- Desire Under the Elms
- Easy A
- The Florida Project
- In Like Flint
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
- Two Loves
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1 minute ago, Hibi said:
GAG. Then she'll rise from the dead.........
First reaction to the ghastly prospect of a zombie Madea haranguing her soon to be victims with bad jokes before moving in for the kill.....
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3 minutes ago, Hibi said:
ROFL!!! Love the 4 year old virgin. What do you expect???
Exactly. At 4 years old, everyone is that way. They were just 36 shy of a full load....
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4 minutes ago, Hibi said:
How many Madea movies have there been already?? Must be around a dozen or more. GET A JOB!!! There should be a law passed.
10, plus an animated film and a cameo in another. I see that the chararcter, supposedly sworn off on the big screen is appearing in a final stage play called Madea's Farewell. If this little farewell tour continues for much longer, it is going to take up more time than Cher's famously endless farewell tour.
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12 minutes ago, Hibi said:
What a horrible combo.
Rambo and Madea, coming soon to empty theatres everywhere!
Roger Ebert's famous quote about Madea....
QuoteGrandma Madea, who is built along the lines of a linebacker, is a tall, lantern-jawed, smooth-skinned, balloon-breasted gargoyle with a bad wig, who likes to wave a loaded gun and shoot test rounds into the ceiling. This person is not remotely plausible; her dialogue is so offensively vulgar that it's impossible to believe that the intelligent, sweet, soft-spoken Helen doesn't seem to notice. Madea at one point invades Charles' mansion, tells his mistress she is a ho (which is correct) and destroys all the furniture in his living room with a chainsaw she is able to find and employ within seconds. What's with this bizarre grandmother? She's like Moms Mabley at a church social. Did nobody realize that Grandma Madea comes from Planet X, would seem loud at the Johnson Family Picnic, is playing by different rules than anyone else in the cast, and fatally sabotages Kimberly Elise's valiant attempt to create a character we can care about?
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Bad theatre marquees: the sequel.
Annie, underneath that red wig, was full of evil....
More detail than I needed to know....
I'll still keep my Garlic close by.
Sarcasm.
Heavy on the movie references huh.
i have no words for how bad this one is.
Bad typo.
Final line seems accurate on the ears
That attic is busy.....
the perils of poster arrangement.....
X-rated robots?
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5 minutes ago, Hibi said:
So many of these films I've never heard of (probably for the best) Which films had the most nominations? Seems like Cats and Rambo!
Cats had 10 mentions, Rambo and Madea had 8. Godzilla had 6.
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1 minute ago, speedracer5 said:
So I guess that makes Eddie Murphy's version the definitive telling of the Doctor Doolittle story?
i guess. Doesn't seem like a very high bar, when the most acclaimed version of the story has a Metacritc score of 46, but there you have it. (Rex's has a 34, the new Robert Downey Jr version has a 28).
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Universal has pulled off the impossible. Fresh from the Cats debacle, they pick themselves up, go about their way, and enter 2020 with their first release of the new decade, Dolittle, and it has a lower critical score than Cats! (and for the record, an even lower critical score than the lambasted 1967 Rex Harrison version of the same story)
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2 hours ago, hamradio said:
They have been zapped for now.....
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1 minute ago, speedracer5 said:
Not to segue the conversation into a discussion about women's bosoms, but typically women in the classic era aren't very buxom. The only two that immediately come to mind (aside from Russell) are Janet Leigh and Bette Davis. But I think Russell has them both beat... by a cup at least.
I'm still reminded by that scene in 2004's The Aviator where Howard Hughes appears before the Production Code office regarding Russell's buxomness in The Outlaw by showing them enlarged pictured of low cut numbers on actresses in films passed without a hitch. I have a feeling that if the actresses in question were still alive when the movie was made, they would not have been happy campers.
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Boys night Out also shows the rarely seen, but quite enchanting comic chops of Kim Novak. She really shines in it.
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Also little sidenote about two of the premieres:
Report to the Commissioner was the film debut for Richard Gere.
Texasville, though hardly a critical or financial success, was the sequel to The Last Picture Show with most of the original cast returning. Quiet musing: sequels to movies based on Larry McMurtry books don't seem to go over well. The Evening Star, critically mauled in late 1996 (and despite that, Marion Ross was [deservedly] up for a Golden Globe for it), was the sequel to Terms of Endearment.
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Just now, Hibi said:
Wasn't this advertised as Joan Russell in 3-D???
I know The French line was in 3d, that i know, because many were outraged at that. I'm not certain on Underwater, and it is indeed on the schedule, so HD print ahoy!
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4 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Is that a similar experience to The Deep? 😉
Not certain, but maybe likely judging from the blu-ray cover , which seems to really emphasize that certain something about Jane......
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Premieres:
Fingers (1978)
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Cover me Babe (1978)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Cry of the City (1948)
Black Mama White Mama (1972)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
The man Who Never Was (1956)
Saint Jack (1979)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the land of Demons (1973)
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Texasville (1990)
Fireworks (1997)
youth of the Beast (1963)
Foxfire (1955)
Across 110th Street (1972)
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35 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Not a great choice (considering how many other stars are still waiting for their first try), but better than Joe E. Brown! Feel like TCM's programming has been going downhill for some time now. I hardly watch the station (outside of Noir Alley and special programming) anymore.
I wonder if Jane Russell was picked just so they could show off the new HD print of Underwater......
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On 12/5/2019 at 1:10 AM, cmovieviewer said:
If you want to play the TCM 31 Days of Oscar 360 Degrees trivia game, the question is: “who is the wrap-around artist?” (an artist who appears in both the first and the last movie scheduled).
The answer this time appears to be…
Albert Finney, who appears in both The Entertainer (1960) (the first movie scheduled) and Tom Jones (1963) (the last movie scheduled).
I will leave it to others to identify all the connecting artists for the other films. 😊
OK, lets see.... will take a few days.
Feb. 1
Lawrence Oliver (Entertainer to Wuthering Heights)
Flora Robson (heights to Caesar and Cleopatra)
Leo Genn (Caesar to Quo Vadis)
Peter Ustinov (Vadis to Billy Budd)
Terrence Stamp (Budd to Far from the Madding Crowd)
Julie Christie (Crowd to Doctor Zhivago)
Omar Sharif (Zhivago to Funny Girl)
Barbra Streisand (Funny to Way We Were)
Robert Redford (Way to The Candidate)
Feb 2
Melvyn Douglas (Candidate to Ninotchka)
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23 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Adding more nominees in any category is likely to increase diversity and thus it is logical for those that believe diversity is the #1 goal to make such a demand.
For an individual, being nominated does have a lot of economic value: One is more likely to get future gigs, as well as more pay, per gig. Thus I understand why there are concerns about lack of nominations for non-white-males.
I guess the only way to reduce the complaining about lack of diversity is to increase the number of nominations. BUT my guess is that activist would still complain; E.g. if there were 10 nominees for best-director, and only 2 were women, would women activist groups still complain that there wasn't enough women selected and thus the system is still rigged?
The expanded nominations might have produced a directing nod for Gerwig (who was likely in 7th place), but if it was a field of 10, she would have been the only female nominee. Likewise, even if the acting categories were expanded to 10 this year, you'd likely only see 4 additional Black acting nominees (if that). Eddie Murphy in Dolomite is My name, Alfre Woodard in Clemency, Lupita nyongo in Us, and Jaime Foxx in Just Mercy. But two of those films (Clemency and Just Mercy, both of which came out late in December) were widely reported as not being seen by many Academy members because of the deadline for voting as they were not considered important enough to take the time to view. I kind of the dread the controversies coming with the nods every year.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
April 2020 Criterion Titles Announced
Destry Rides Again (1939) April 14
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith
- New interview with Donald Dewey, author of James Stewart: A Biography
- New video essay featuring excerpts from a 1973 oral-history interview with director George Marshall, conducted by the American Film Institute
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1945, featuring actors James Stewart and Joan Blondell
- PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
The Cremator (1969) April 21
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- High-definition digital transfer of The Junk Shop, director Juraj Herz’s 1965 debut short film
- Short documentary from 2011 featuring Herz visiting filming locations and recalling the production of The Cremator
- New interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova about the style of the film
- Documentary from 2017 about composer Zdeněk Liška featuring Herz, filmmakers Jan Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers, and others
- Interview with actor Rudolf Hrušínský from 1993
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Jonathan Owen
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) April 28
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Anderson, filmmaker Roman Coppola, and actor Jeff Goldblum
- Selected-scene storyboard animatics
- The Making of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” a new documentary about the film
- New interviews with the cast and crew
- Video essays from 2015 and 2020 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz and film scholar David Bordwell
- Behind-the-scenes, special-effects, and test footage
- Trailer
- PLUS: Two pieces by critic Richard Brody and (with the Blu-ray) a double-sided poster and other ephemera
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) April 28
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital master, approved by director Miranda July, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New documentary about July’s artistic beginnings and the development of her debut feature
- Open to the World, a new documentary by July about the 2017 interfaith charity shop and participatory artwork she created in collaboration with Artangel
- July Interviews July: Deauville, 2005, a discovery from July’s archives, newly edited
- Six scenes from the 2003 Sundance Directors Lab, where July workshopped the film, with commentary by July
- The Amateurist (1998) and Nest of Tens (2000), short films by July
- Several films from July’s Joanie 4 Jackie project, and a documentary about the program
- Trailer
- PLUS: Essays by artist and scholar Sara Magenheimer and novelist Lauren Groff
Plus a Blu-ray upgrade for:
Army of Shadows (1969) April 7
SPECIAL FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate 2.0 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2006 featuring film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
- Interviews from 2007 with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot
- On-set footage and excerpts from archival interviews with director Jean-Pierre Melville, cast members, author Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters
- Jean-Pierre Melville et “L’armée des ombres” (2005), a short program on the director and his film
- Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines during the final days of the German occupation of France
- Restoration demonstration by Lhomme
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin, along with (for the Blu-ray) a piece by historian Robert O. Paxton and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville
I think we all knew that Budapest would be coming for a long time (since Criterion handles all of Anderson's films), but its still nice to see as its one of the best modern films.
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1 minute ago, Hibi said:
Yes, I thought Devil was well done. Very depressing particularly due to Hoffman's death.
Also the last real hurrah for Albert Finney, who's explosively good in it.
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
SIDNEY LUMET beguiles me somewhat- he did three films back-to-back-to-back in the 1970's (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, DOG DAY AFTERNOON AND NETWORK, that are- in my opinion- pretty much without fault, just three perfect movies boom-boom-boom.
But after that, everything is downhill...although THE VERDICT is supposed to be good.
Running on Empty was a beautiful film from him in the 80s, and I'm also partial to the wistful Garbo talks and the somewhat genre-mislabled The morning After as well, but Family Business, Q & A, and A Stranger Among Us? That's three films in a row that kept getting worse with every successive one. I caught up with his last, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead in December, and that's a pretty good crime story as Greek tragedy, if you can get past that horrific opening sex scene between Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei.
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Had no idea that Davies was a write-in candidate for the lovely Peg O' My Heart. She was so good in that film.
RIP 20th Century Fox
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This more than makes me sad. It makes me livid and angry. It's a horrible, sad day in Hollywood history when the name of a motion picture pioneer around for over 100 years is wiped from all memory.