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On 12/17/2019 at 11:22 AM, Hibi said:
Yes. An AWFUL year. I think Stanwyck and Gardner died in the same week!
They did. Barbara went on January 20th and Ava followed on January 25th.
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Lucy in the Sky with White Diamonds
The long lost film starring the Fab Four! John, Paul, George, and Ringo befriend Lucy (Lynn Redgrave), the greatest of all young female aviatrixes, and her sisters Lucinda (Rita Tushingham), Margaret (Judy Geeson), and Isadora (Olivia Hussey). Romance is in the air between Paul and Lucy, brought all the more to the fore by her perfume, White Diamonds, created by her personal friend Elizabeth Taylor (playing herself). The climax comes when all 8 of them jet out to a Hollywood party where The Beatles perform while Liz and Richard Burton dance a furious frug. Indeed, most of the cast starts doing the dance..... even Lucy's grandmother played by Dame Edith Evans.....
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Haphazardly. Literally, I was known in a group I was in once for how I zigzagged between time periods with no rhyme or reason. I generally go with whatever comes to mind when it comes to DVDs from the home collection, whatever is sent in the rental DVD packets, what's playing on TCM, what's available on HBO, Showtime, or some of the other cable channels, what's on Watch TCM or Amazon Prime, things like that. That said, anymore, I tend to skew a bit older. Over 460 of the 677 films I've seen for the first time this year predate 1970.
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4 hours ago, Peebs said:
I agree. I saw it a few weeks ago and was let down that it wasn't better. The mystery isn't as sharp or as clever as it should have been. While Ana De Armas was fine as Marta, the patriarch's nurse, I was surprised that she was the main focus of the movie. She's barely featured in the previews. It's certainly a movie one could wait to watch at home.
Haven't seen it yet, but it could be the reason De Armas wasn't much featured in the trailer is maybe because she's still rather new to the movie scene and only on the cusp of stardom? She was brilliant a few years back in Blade Runner 2049, but that film unfortunately wasn't the hit it deserved to be.
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I think deep down, TCM is one of the few channels anymore that has a loyal fan base, because their programming hasn't changed (Indeed aside from religious networks, HBO and other premium channels, the news and sports ones, and a smattering of specialty channels, most have changed dramatically since the 90s). True, some films do repeat too often (North by Northwest, anyone?) and sometimes I'm not interested in what's on, but I'm just one person, you know? But I think that sometimes, TCM is so personal to people that they only want what they like to air. Plus, with the way AMC turned out, there has been a fear that TCM will go the same way. Well, TCM has always been attached to a film library, something AMC never had. So I think, at least for now, it will be the way it has been for the last 25 years.
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47 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Did you read that recent article about her gaining her musical talent in the last few years after undergoing surgery? She had no real musical talent or ambition until having surgery, and doctors think something about her being anesthetized resulted in her waking up with strange new musical proclivities. It's a very strange story.
I had heard a rumbling about that, but hadn't read the full story. It's certainly an intriging one, and I for one hope she gets the nomination this year.
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Warner Archive Blu-Rays for January. The Cimarron pictured is the 1960 remake....
Come on WB, give us a DVD of Penelope as well. Please? Edit: Penelope is on DVD too as an exclusive on the TCM shop for a few weeks. Underwater is likewise an excluse at Critic's Choice Video. I'm pre-ordering a copy of Penelope right now. I've waited over 8 years for this and I'm not going to wait one more day!
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20 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
Song (15)
“Glasgow” from “Wild Rose”It will be interesting to note if this particular song receives a nomination. It was written by Oscar-winning actress Mary Steenburgen, a wonderful actress whose winning performance was bizarrely her only nomination. Almost 40 years on from Melvin and Howard, will this become her second nomination?
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7 hours ago, sagebrush said:
I gotta ask, CinemaInternational, not a Taylor Swift or Llloyd-Webber fan?
No, ts just that the look of the film is kind of creepy.i
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I don't knpow, with me that's something that happens every day, you just have to keep counting calories. Conmgratulations though on keeping it off for 75 years.
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4 minutes ago, Dargo said:
REALLY?! You mean even WITH the very alluring Shirley Booth IN IT?! Talk about a BABE!!!
(...well, I know somebody around here who apparently thinks so anyway)
I preferred Shirley MacLaine's look in that film......
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12 minutes ago, jakeem said:For the second consecutive year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has revealed several shortlists of semifinalists simultaneously.This time, 10 categories are involved: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Feature Film, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.The categories will be narrowed down by the appropriate Academy Award branches, and the finalists will be announced with all the other Oscar nominees on Monday, January 13, 2020.Documentary Feature 2019 (15)
- "Advocate"
- "American Factory"
- "The Apollo"
- "Apollo 11"
- "Aquarela"
- "The Biggest Little Farm"
- "The Cave"
- "The Edge of Democracy"
- "For Sama"
- "The Great Hack"
- "Honeyland"
- "Knock Down the House"
- "Maiden"
- "Midnight Family"
- "One Child Nation"
Here are the other category shortlists, Jakeem.
Documentary Short (10 left)
“After Maria”
“Fire in Paradise”
“Ghosts of Sugar Land”
“In the Absence”
“Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)”
“Life Overtakes Me”
“The Nightcrawlers”
“St. Louis Superman”
“Stay Close”
“Walk Run Cha-Cha”International Film/Foreign Film (10 left)
Czech Republic, “The Painted Bird”
Estonia, “Truth and Justice”
France, “Les Misérables”
Hungary, “Those Who Remained”
North Macedonia, “Honeyland”
Poland, “Corpus Christi”
Russia, “Beanpole”
Senegal, “Atlantics”
South Korea, “Parasite”
Spain, “Pain and Glory”Makeup and Hair (10)
“Bombshell”
“Dolemite Is My Name”
“Downton Abbey”
“Joker”
“Judy”
“Little Women”
“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
“1917”
“Once upon a Time…in Hollywood”
“Rocketman”Score (15)
“Avengers: Endgame”
“Bombshell”
“The Farewell”
“Ford v Ferrari”
“Frozen II”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“The King”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“Motherless Brooklyn”
“1917”
“Pain and Glory”
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
“Us”Song (15)
“Speechless” from “Aladdin”
“Letter To My Godfather” from “The Black Godfather”
“I’m Standing With You” from “Breakthrough”
“Da Bronx” from “The Bronx USA”
“Into The Unknown” from “Frozen II”
“Stand Up” from “Harriet”
“Catchy Song” from “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”
“Never Too Late” from “The Lion King”
“Spirit” from “The Lion King”
“Daily Battles” from “Motherless Brooklyn”
“A Glass of Soju” from “Parasite”
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman”
“High Above The Water” from “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from “Toy Story 4”
“Glasgow” from “Wild Rose”Animated Short (10)
“Dcera (Daughter)”
“Hair Love”
“He Can’t Live without Cosmos”
“Hors Piste”
“Kitbull”
“Memorable”
“Mind My Mind”
“The Physics of Sorrow”
“Sister”
“Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days”Live-Action Short (10)
“Brotherhood”
“The Christmas Gift”
“Little Hands”
“Miller & Son”
“Nefta Football Club”
“The Neighbors’ Window”
“Refugee”
“Saria”
“A Sister”
“Sometimes, I Think about Dying”Visual Effects (10)
“Alita: Battle Angel”
“Avengers: Endgame”
“Captain Marvel”“Cats” 😐🤢
“Gemini Man”
“The Irishman”
“The Lion King”
“1917”
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
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Sophia Loren -- Arabesque
Grace Kelly -- To Catch a Thief
Raquel Welch -- The Three Musketeers
Elke Sommer -- A Shot in the Dark
Natalie Wood -- Penelope
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1 minute ago, jakeem said:
And Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson on the same day -- May 16, 1990.
Oh, and Eve Arden too, that year, and three well-regarded directors Jacques Demy, Martin Ritt, and Michael Powell.
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Tonto in Harry and Tonto, but i assume that too is in the Parade piece.
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19 hours ago, jakeem said:
NOTHING could be as bad as losing Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds during the final days of 2016!
One year that was really bad for celebrity passings, although by next year, its 3 decades ago was 1990. As I just commented on YouTube, 1990 saw the passings of Ava Gardner, Paulette Goddard, Joan Bennett, Rex Harrison, Joel McCrea, Irene Dunne, Barbara Stanwyck, and Greta Garbo all in the same year.
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8 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I don’t think Valerie Harper was included. But I honestly cannot recall if she’s ever appeared in a movie.
She appeared in the 1979 film Chapter Two, with Marsha Mason and James Caan. Although she was not up for an Oscar, she managed a Golden Globe nomination for it.
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i do think there were two star vehicles that succeeded this year: Once upon a Time in Hollywood and Ford Vs Ferrari, and I've also noticed from film sites that people still follow the films of various stars. I would not say that the movie star is dead, but rather is still very much alive, especially if you throw rentals and streaming into the mix.
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5 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I hadn't seen him in that many things, but I was certainly aware of his talent. Moonstruck and Do the Right Thing certainly kicked off a certain level of stardom for him at a more advanced age than a lot of Hollywood actors. I'm pretty sure I liked him quite bit in Jakob's Ladder, though that was such a grim movie, I don't particularly care to watch it again. He had a nice small part as a strutting police captain whose world is suddenly upended in Once Upon a Time in America, which I believe is finally getting a TCM airing? And he was "Papa" in Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" video!
Another earlier part I remember him in was as James Caan's lawyer in Hide in Plain Sight in 1980, which was a pretty good film.
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The year claimed another memorable player.
I know him best from Moonstruck, but he was chilling as the husband in Purple Rose of Cairo, riviting in Do the Right Thing, amiable in The Cemetery Club, quite fine in City Hall outshing the other performances in it except for Pacino, and actually quite good in a rare leading part as the neurotic directed in the uneven but interesting 1993 film The Pickle.
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
I absolutely loved it, and gave it a 10/10, only my second 10/10 in this decade. In fact, this may be my favorite movie of the decade. Maybe it was the right movie at the right time for me, but I enjoyed it more than any movie that I've seen in a long time.
Oh, and in other potential-Oscar-movie news, I watched Hustlers today. I liked it more than I expected to. A 7/10 for me, and I can see why Jennifer Lopez may be nominated for it.
I gave it a 10 too. It's really one of Tarantino's two best films, and maybe his best of all (The other for me was Jackie Brown). Just so many wonderful little touches throughout. I hope it wins best Picture and I think it will. It would be the best winner in a long time.
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i really don't think there was a bad decade at that time, but I guess I'll go with the 60s, because although there were plenty of masterpieces being made, there were a few films that I saw from then that were so bad that I wished I never watched them.
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18 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
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What was the final grade on Hollywood for you? I rented it last night and watched it between yesterday and today. I was bowled over.
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On 12/10/2019 at 10:21 PM, TopBilled said:
Cheat Sheet:
221. ON BORROWED TIME (1939) with Beulah Bondi.
222. NORA PRENTISS (1947) with Kent Smith & Ann Sheridan.
223. THE BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND (1949) with Betty Grable.
224. DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1951) with Fredric March.
225. SUDDENLY (1954) with Nancy Gates, Sterling Hayden & Frank Sinatra.
226. PSYCHO (1960) with Janet Leigh.
227. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) with Tim Curry.
228. JAGGED EDGE (1985) with Glenn Close & Jeff Bridges.
229. ALADDIN (1992)
230. EVE'S BAYOU (1997) with Diahann Carroll.
Death of a Salesman is hard to find, and yes, its true, I never saw the most famous midnight film of them all
20 hours ago, TopBilled said:Cheat Sheet:
231. THE CIRCUS (1928) with Charlie Chaplin and friends.
232. MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938) with Robert Morley & Norma Shearer.
233. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) with Henry Fonda.
234. THREE SECRETS (1950) with Ruth Roman, Patricia Neal & Eleanor Parker.
235. PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (1960) with Doris Day & David Niven.
236. TRUE GRIT (1969) with Kim Darby & John Wayne.
237. DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978) with Brooke Adams & Richard Gere.
238. 9 TO 5 (1980) with Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda.
239. EVITA (1996) with Madonna.
240. CHOCOLAT (2000) with Juliette Binoche.
Some blind spots here. And Chocolot bogged down too quickly, I felt. I love The Circus. Evita is underrated, and is very much Madonna's finest hour.
11 hours ago, TopBilled said:Have you seen these classic films:
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The Shop Around the Corner. Wonderful film.
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Three Came Home? Haven't seen it yet.
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Is this The Manchurian Candidate? If it is, I've seen it.
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The Miracle Worker. Again, fine film.
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Might be a minority opinion here, but I love The Sound of music.
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Poseidon Adventure. Most tragic scene in the film right there.
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Beverly Hills Cop II or is it the first one here? I saw the first, not the second. I love the soundtrack on the first film, especially Neutron Dance and Stir It up.
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A Simple Plan. MacBeth in the upper Midwest. A chilly film, but sublime performances make it one of the standouts of 1998.
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I haven't seen any of Craig's Bond outings....
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I know him best from Moonstruck, but he was chilling as the husband in Purple Rose of Cairo, riviting in Do the Right Thing, amiable in The Cemetery Club, quite fine in City Hall outshing the other performances in it except for Pacino, and actually quite good in a rare leading part as the neurotic directed in the uneven but interesting 1993 film The Pickle.
TCM REMEMBERS 2019
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She only made a handful of films, but since two of them, The Ritz and The Girl Most likely, were on this year, they could have done a brief clip. Georgia Engel was also excluded, but her best regarded theatrical film, Taking Off, has not been on TV for years, and never on TCM. At least two TV-mostly actors were included.... but Valerie Harper was up for a Golden Globe for Chapter Two, and Luke Perry had a bit in this year's Best Picture frontrunner, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.