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The RED Shoes

Marion Ross was in Young Guns of Texas with Barbara Mansell

Binnie Barnes Next: Krishna Pandit Bhanji

Imelda Staunton Next: H.F.

Pola Negri (The Eyes of the Mummy and Carmen)

Herman Bing (The Merry Widow and Bluebeard's Eighth Wife)

Marlene Dietrich (Ninotchka and Angel)

THE FRENCH CONNECTION THE 400 BLOWS (though it does continue the protagonist's story in two more films) NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN A SERIOUS MAN

I don't dislike Eddie Muller or deny that he's the Noir Czar. It's just a DUMB promo and made me laugh and comment.

I caught up with the Sopranos and binged-watched it after it ceased airing, and trust me, that ending @!#$%^!! So unsatisfying after all that murder and mayhem. The Sopranos sat in a deli for God's sake..

I was just about to include some of the titles in the previous poster's list but they beat me to it. So I'll add: THE WHITE RIBBON (directed by Michael Haneke) NORTH BY NORTHWEST MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Yes, he talks about it enough...

Make sure to check out Jenny Pacanowski, an Army combat medic who picked "Casablanca" for her movie choice. Her story of being suicidally depressed after service in Iraq and healing herself, in part, by watching TCM is inspirational and fascinating. Tune in just for the intro/outro if you've seen the film too many times. She talks about her preference for "tragic love stories" during her battle with extreme PTSD and how she learned it was ok to cry by watching movies such as this because we all "belong to a culture that views crying as a weakness". "It's not that, it's a release and it took me six long years alone in my house to learn that," watching TCM the whole time. (I paraphrase slightly.) She's got the fire and energy and passion of someone who has overcome extreme passages in her life and come out the other side. She's cool and now leads writers' workshops for vets throughout the Northeast.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/arts/liz-smith-dead.html Her NY Times obit is worth a read. She's compared to Walter Winchell and Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper for her celebrity, Hollywood interviews and "gossip".

Believe me, I've Googled Eddie and know his credentials. But to see him worming his way along with these femme fatales and giving them the oogle-eye is quite something else.

Is it "This Property is Condemned"?

Christmas in Connecticut Next: Easter Parade

Has anyone seen the new Noir Alley promo featuring the women of noir? It's pretty ridiculous..the dialogue is made up with some woman speaking in "tough tones" about being "Possessed" and saying things such as "Some are still trying to figure me out. So I'll tell you what I am. I'm no good, Baby. You've got to believe that." "I smoke. I drink. I do anything to get what I want. They can't fix me cause I don't need fixing." Danger makes me come alive and I will go chasing that feeling again and again. And I won't regret a single thing." Then there's pictures of Barbara Stanwyck, Claire Trevor, Peggy Cummins, Ida Lupino and more...interspersed with pics of Eddie Muller. GIVE ME A BREAK. When did he become a movie star? or a woman? or the object of anyone's fancy? And then Eddie says: "A woman like that can only be found on Noir Alley." It's all just too much, trying too hard, sexist as heck...and just badly written. Find a new copywriter E.M. and don't insert yourself so much into classic noir. You're on this side of the screen with the rest of us...watching, OK?

Four for Texas (Anita Ekberg and Dean Martin) Next: La Strada

Ethel Barrymore Next: I.G.

My husband's from Puerto Rico and talk about push-back. It's 20 years we've been together this year and unless he and his family talk REEEEAAL SLOOOOW, I can't participate in a Spanish conversation..so I get it! Buena Suerte or Buona Fortuna..and thank god for Google Translate some days...

Thanks for clearing that up. I was speaking about the director's cut as my favorite. But I watch Italian movies without subtitles (if I can find them) coz I speak Italian. So I was in Italy the first time I saw Cinema Paradiso and saw the 155-minute "original" in Italian...it gets confusing doesn't it?

I'm looking forward to Wonderstruck, based on the novel by Brian Selznick that tells the story of two kids in two different time periods. The older one filmed in black and white, the modern story in color. I haven't read the book, just seen the previews, but it's directed by one of my favorites, Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, I'm Not There and Velvet Goldmine).

Check out the Hercule Poirot 'stache...Go for it Kenneth Branagh!

"A dingo ate mah bay-bee," or something to that effect in an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark (1988) with Meryl Streep.