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Matt, Wear wrap around sunglasses. Indoors, as well as outdoors. And facial hair...a several days growth should suffice. You want "low profile"...right? Rusty

songbird2, "Cinema Paradiso" is one of the better movies I have watched this year (and I've watched a lot of movies this year...maybe, two hundred movies). I posted a message on this forum shortly after the broadcast on TCM. Nothing I write is worth repeating, so I won't look for my message to copy and paste. Note that my "Cinema Paradiso" is the shorter, non-director's cut version. One of the things I really liked about the movie was Tornatore (the director) presenting the passing of time by the "goings on" in the town square in front of the theater. Very clever technique. At the time I posted my review of "Cinema Paradiso", Matt suggested the Tornatore movie--"A Pure Formality". I found a VHS, bought the thing and watched the movie. A pretty good movie, distinct style...the one really good element of the movie is Roman Polanski's performance as the detective. Matt...I can do better than "over night" the plans. When you are in a receptive state of mind, I will send via the collective unconscious. Rusty Message was edited by: jarhfive

Matt, Are you okay? Look four messages back in this thread. What started our thread tangent was the word "sidetracked". You wrote sidetracked. I merely wrote a dumb anecdote because you wrote "sidetracked". If you wish to use me as the focus of your delusions...fine. I have engineered a really top-notch foil lined hat. I will send you plans. Rusty

Matt, I popped over to youtube.com to look at the Wizard Of Oz-Pink Floyd thing and was side-tracked by several goofy young'uns videos. Some were entertaining. Never got back to WOO-PF. Thank you for the link to the "ahhhhhh the Frenchhh Champagne" video. I wonder if he fell out of the chair on the fourth take... Rusty Message was edited by: jarhfive

I agree with Ipcress. I rented the Nelson Eddy-Claude Rains version in May of this year. I was surprised at how bored I got watching the movie. I was prepared to turn the thing off about 20 minutes before it finished. The movie and the DVD presentation of the movie looked excellent...beautiful color. One other good thing regarding the DVD was the "extra" feature--history of all filmed "Phantom Of The Operas". The DVD supplementary material was worthwhile...the DVD feature was not. The silent "Phantom Of The Opera" is the best version, but the Hammer studio's "Phantom Of The Opera" is also excellent. Herbert Lom is terrific in the Hammer version. Rusty

A lot of films within the film "Cinema Paradiso", particulary the reel of spliced "take-outs" viewed at the end of the movie. And, isn't the end of "Cinema Paradiso" one of the better endings of any movie? I have no idea the names of any of the movies presented within "Cinema Paradiso", maybe a contributor knows? Probably, a "Cinema Paradiso Movie List" list posted on the internet. Rusty

Sam Fuller's "Shock Corridor" on the theater marquee in Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss". "Bride of Frankenstein" in "Weird Science". Stretching the topic: "The Bandwagon" starring Fred Astaire, features a theater poster for the play "Every Night At Seven". "Every Night At Seven" was the title of the play within the Fred Astaire movie "Royal Wedding". Rusty

Watch the movies? Who the heck has time to watch the recordings? I spend my time categorizing the DVDs I've recorded: "Let's see...okay...I will sort by the first letter of the first word of the title. Should I include 'the' as a first word? Yes...no, that would be too many in the 'T' section. Okay...should I include 'A' as a first word? No...yes, not a whole lot of movies starting with 'A' as a word. Okay...what about 'I'? No...yes...maybe? No..." And so on. It may not sound like it, but I really enjoy the challenge. Rusty

dolores, TIVO is rapidly becoming obsolete. I bought a Toshiba hard disk drive/ DVD burner a few months ago. No hooking up to the invasive and dumb TIVO service. The HDD/DVD recorder uses the equally as dumb, but not invasive, TV Guide service (it acquires information through my cable). I don't know how well it works for satellite service. And the TV Guide thing works, well...it has been working (reliably) for the past month. I love my Toshiba HDD/DVD recorder almost as much as my DeWalt angle grinder. I have recorded 300 movies since, uh...March of this year (I counted them a couple of days ago). With the HDD thing, you can record to the hard drive and edit/delete what you don't want and record the edited material to DVD. Edit what? Oh, you know...like that guy in the suit...stands in that fabulously decorated room and tells us stuff between movies. Or, that guy in the flannel...stands in the junk pile and tells us stuff between movies. Even edits out annoying corporate splash screens (added to the beginning of movies)...leaving only the pristine original movie opening. Or, National Weather Service interruptions. Even commercials...if you have a lot of time to edit stuff. Yesterday, I watched the AMC broadcast of the "300 Spartans"...skipping through the commercials. After a couple of months of use, the biggest problem becomes categorizing all the DVDs created. I recommend...check out the Toshiba gizmo. Rusty

Ayres, And if you think I remembered all that "Hard To Handle" plot without taking another look at the DVD, well... While I am writing about the subject...the reviews on IMDB? The movie reviews with all sorts of details about characters, plots, etcetera? What do those IMDB reviewers do...write the movie review while they are watching the movie? Take notes? Does anybody have that good of a memory? Rusty

GarboManiac, I was planning on posting some smart **** message like, "how can this Hedy Lamarr topic remain 'bumped' to the top of this forum?!" Well, I saw your photo of Hedy and Tracy and Taylor and that other guy. I want to see more photos like that...keep bumping! Rusty

Ipcress, I looked up your Red Rocks-Wizard Of Oz-Pink Floyd reference (internet search). That event sounds interesting...did you go? Was it interesting? By the way, Red Rocks amphitheatre is the best damn concert venue in the world! Of course, only my opinion. Regarding the question of "who discovers these things?" (Wizard Of Oz and Pink Floyd synchonization). When I experience something weird and complicated (card tricks, jokes, etc.), I figure the author is a resident of the hoosegow. However, the case of the Wizard Of Oz and Pink Floyd...I don't know. Would Wizard Of Oz be shown in prison? When I was a teen and it was in the days of three network and (maybe) one or two independent television stations, my friends and I would tune to a not used channel. We would put on some music, watch the raster noise and "groove". A little ethnogenic substance helped. Note that this was also at a time before some engineers decided a blue screen was more attractive than "snow". Oh yes, better a blue screen than watching (merely) the ghost of the birth of our damn universe! Engineers...sheesh. Rusty

Ayres, Do you mean "make love"? Cagney and Dodd (seductress) are having breakfast together when interrupted by Brian (girlfriend) and Donnelly (mother of girlfriend). Later in the movie Donnelly tells Cagney, "you should have left your hotel door closed". Donnelly says that after Cagney "hems and haws" about the relationship between him and Dodd. So, yes...enough evidence for a "one night stand" between Cagney and Dodd. Rusty

dolores, Okay...sure..."I Married A Doctor" was really a bad movie. Watching me put the recording of "I Married A Doctor" in the player, my wife warned, "don't do that...that movie is crap." Did I listen to her? No. And it was crap...and a waste of time. However, have you seen Pat O'Brien in "I Sell Anything"? It is the best fast talking movie ever. Well, except for Lee Tracy in "Turn Back The Clock" and Lee Tracy in "The Half Naked Truth" and Lee Tracy in... Adolph Menjou moustache? Hmm... Rusty

moirafinnie, Another interesting question. My timeline: 1915-1941 Glamour. 1941-1945 Glam-grit, actually war movies. 1945-1960 Gritty. Rusty

Oh, yes...the topic. Cagney, or Bogart? Both favorites of mine. However, it would have been great if Warner Brothers had added Bogart to the Cagney-Pat O'Brien duo. All fast talkers, a Bogart-Cagney-O'Brien triumvirate would have been a hoot. Rusty

Did everybody get to see the recent TCM broadcast of Cagney in "Hard To Handle" (1933)? I watched a recording of the movie last night. My God, Cagney and his co-star (Ruth Donnelly) are funny in that movie. They had me laughing out loud. GarboManiac... George Brent? Looking at the TCM schedule, it looks like a mini-George Brent-athon starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, Saturday, July 29th. All of us Brent-aphiles rejoice at the thought of this upcoming glimpse (way too rare, if you ask me) of this most under-rated of Warner Brothers contract players!! Now. If I was able to sport a Brent moustache and look dashing...all would be right in my world. Rusty Message was edited by: jarhfive

Thanks to all contributor's suggestions regarding, "how do I convince my wife to watch a war movie?" My wife and I had a talk about war movies. Here is an example of, "you can live with someone for a long time and think you know them, but..." Two magic words. Well, magic words for my wife--"Mark" and "Hamill". I mentioned Mark Hamill and her immediate (and far too eager) reply, "put that sucker at the top of the list". The movie, not Mark Hamill. You know, the only thing (other than "Star Wars") I know about Mark Hamill, is a review of Hamill in the movie "Slipstream" (1989). Something like, "...he (Mark Hamill) is looking more and more like an old Richard Basehart." Sort of a nasty comment about Mark Hamill, but worth repeating. Rusty

Ayres, Your drive-in theater remembrance is sort of like, "what would John Malkovich see if John Malkovich was looking through the eyes of John Malkovich?" The producers of "Being John Malkovich" got the answer to the question correct--"a whole lot of John Malkovichs." I finally remember a movie theater experience worth a short message. I was a child. Every Saturday morning the local dairy had a "Watts-Hardy free movie". Bring an empty Watts-Hardy milk carton and be under sixteen years of age and get in free. The theater was always packed with children. The ambience of the packed theater was similar to one of those Warner Brothers--"gangster in the slammer in the mess hall" scenes. You know, all the inmates are gathered to eat...one gets **** off and bangs his cup...all the other inmates join in and food starts flying. Well, Saturday morning Watts-Hardy movie was exactly like the "big house" riot scene. Including, the theater manager (warden) would walk out onto the stage in front of the screen and say, "I won't start the movie until everyone in this theater gets back in their seats and stops talking and throwing candy!!" Every patron complies. The movie starts. A few minutes pass. Something flys through the air. Two things fly through the air. Several things fly through the air. The movie stops. The lights come on. The manager is back on stage. The warning. The lights go out. The movie starts. And so on. Oh, what great memories. I thought of one other "most memorable moment". Someone mentioned the beginning of "Star Wars" as a very memorable experience. I agree. I would like to add...the first time everyone at the showing of "Star Wars" heard glorious Dolby stereo. How do I know it was the first time the audience had heard Dolby stereo? All thirty of us in the theater gasped at the wall shaking rumble as the space ship appeared at the top of the screen. An audience of thirty people? Well, it was the second showing...of the first day...of the first run...of "Star Wars". Rusty

lzcutter, Thank you for the recommendation regarding "The Big Red One". I am going to place the movie in my Netflix queue. I have a favor to ask. What approach should I take to get my wife to watch a war movie? She hates war movies. I mean, she would not even consider renting that Spielberg thing. If you don't mind, I would like to (again) mention the DVD extras included with "Pickup On South Street". One DVD extra has several pictures of Sam Fuller's WWII diary. Close-up pictures, so it is easy to decipher the pages. Based on his diary drawings and text...what an interesting fellow. Talented artist and impressive author. Now. If I could find a copy of Fuller's "The Baron of Arizona".... Rusty

I watched "The Naked Kiss" (1964) a couple of days ago. No...not a "reality check" via the kid who, "needs muscles transplanted to his hips". I rented Sam Fuller's "Pickup On South Street" a few weeks back and was very impressed by the movie and the man (interview with Sam Fuller...extra DVD material). What happened to Sam Fuller? "Pickup On South Street"...downhill slide to "The Naked Kiss" in a mere, what...eleven years? And don't get me started reviewing "Shock Corridor". Egad...what happened to Sam Fuller? Drink, dope, dames...da IRS? Eegah. Rusty

ken123, I have not watched "All My Sons", so my Robinson database is incomplete. Of the Edward G. Robinson (my favorite actor...by the way) films I have watched, two favorites: "The Stranger". A perfect performance. "Key Largo". Teamed with the heaviest of heavy weight performers, who dominates every one of his scenes? Why, Mr. Robinson...that's who. Oh, S***! I forgot "The Sea Wolf". Make that three favorites. Rusty

ImagesInfilm, I just sent Herzog's "Strozek" back to Netflix. The movie was okay, I really liked the actress Eva Mattes (she was the lead actress--"Eva"). "Strozek" is a bunch of distinct vignettes strung together with a loose narrative. I like a movie to have a story, so I was not impressed with the structure of "Strozek". I liked Eva Mattes. Another problem with the movie was casting non-professional actors in the movie. Using amateurs for speaking roles sometimes works (I guess), but not in "Strozek". Did I mention I liked the actress Eva Mattes? One strange thing about "Strozek" was mentioned as part of the supplementary DVD material. The DVD has some pretty good extra stuff. A lot of "Strozek" was filmed in Plainfield, Wisconsin...home of the psycho Ed Gein. Before "Strozek" was conceived, Herzog and the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris hatched a plan to dig up the grave of Ed Gein's mother (located in Plainfield)...on the sly. Herzog showed up at the agreed upon time and place, Mr. Morris did not. The reason why they wanted to dig up Gein's mother's grave is not made very clear, but you can read about the incident if you rent, or buy, the DVD. Strange story and strange people (Morris and Herzog). Rusty Message was edited by: jarhfive

hankchristen, Watching Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Ordet" is a singular movie experience. I recommend: Get the DVD of "Ordet" and place in player. Remove all distractions for the 108 minute run time. Watch the movie from start to finish. Give the movie a chance--the pace of the movie is very slow, particularly compared to most movies made today. I have thought a lot about Dreyer's technique (creating "Ordet"), but I have not come to any conclusion why watching "Ordet" is unlike any other movie experience. I watched "Ordet" about two years ago...I know I will never forget how I felt during and after watching the movie. Rusty

HollywoodForties, I can't write a review of "On Dangerous Ground" that approaches the quality of some of the messages already contributed. The content of my contribution is--"if you like 'On Dangerous Ground', you might like watching..." All the movies I reference I have watched the last three months...1946 to 1960 was a great time for moody crime films. Well, we all know that... The success of "On Dangerous Ground" is no accident. Some of the major "players" were creating some really good stuff, years 1946 to mid-1950s. A.I. Bezzerides (adapted from his novel and he wrote the screenplay). I recently watched another Bezzerides penned movie--"Thieves' Highway". Highly recommended. Nicholas Ray (director). Late 1940s and early 1950s was his peak directorial years. "In A Lonely Place" (1950) is a top notch psychological thriller. However, it has very little connection with the terrific novel of the same title. "They Live By Night" (1948) is a worthy Nicholas Ray effort. Broadcast on TCM occasionally. Ida Lupino (director). Is Ida Lupino the most under-rated director of the early 1950s? She directed a film called "The Hitch-Hicker" (1953) that is one of my favorites of the 1950s and is an accomplished bit of story telling. Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan (lead performers). Lupino and Ryan were paired in another film around the time "On Dangerous Ground" was released--"Beware, My Lovely" (1952). They do work well together...don't they? "Beware, My Lovely" was recently broadcast on TCM and worth a view. Bernard Herrmann (music). "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951) and "The Ghost And Mrs. Muir" (1947) are outstanding Herrmann scores of the late 1940s and early 1950s. A footnote: I recently watched "The Ghost And Mrs. Muir" and I was delighted by the Bernard Herrmann score. One scene in particular remains in my thoughts as sooo good...well, perfect. The scene is early in the film...Mrs. Muir is riding in a vehicle with the real estate man, the road is on a bluff overlooking the ocean. She is about to see the haunted house. Herrmann's music, using only stringed instruments, manages to convey anticipation and mystery. I don't know how he (Herrmann) was able to score such a complex mix of emotions and clearly present them to the audience. What a wonderful moment. What a wonderful bit of music. Wow. One element of "On Dangerous Ground" that is (somewhat) unusual for the time and the crime genre is moving the action from the seedy streets of some city to the wintry landscape outside the city. I "see" some of "On Dangerous Ground" re-hashed in the more recent crime movie--"Fargo". Am I wrong? Rusty