goldensilents
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Hope this guy is as good as James then. Looking forward to see what he does with such a romantic picture. Please, no atonal, modern "music"!
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She was pretty, but rather non-descript. Nothing about her stood out. If you showed me a vintage still photo of her I wouldn't immediately recognize her and say, "Hey! that's Joan Peers!"
Now when Harlow took a vintage photo, you KNEW it was Harlow. Or Joan Crawford. Or Bette Davis. Or Barbara Stanwyck. Or Kay Francis. Etc.
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They show two versions of Greed, the two hour and the four hour reconstruction, from time to time.
Napol?on they've never shown. There are probably rights issues with the film and / or score.
Btw, WHAT is going on with this message board? For days now I can only post one post and then the board freezes and I can't post a second post -- unless I close my browser and re-open (and sometimes not even then).
They've got programming issues on this board they are not addressing.
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I thought I saw James pop in here and talk about writing a score for The White Sister. Maybe my memory is faulty.
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Meanwhile we have the premiere of The White Sister tomorrow, which is something people can look forward to, esp. those who haven't seen it.
The same fellow who did the score for Beau Brummel and did such a great job is doing this score so I hope it's every bit as lush and romantic for The White Sister.
Just remember, the film is over 2 hours, so adjust your DVD recorders appropriately. If you just choose SP mode the film will be cut off.
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I moved up to the 2 at a time option and I'm glad I did; now my daughter can get her anime films and I can get my silents and my classic Japanese cinema.
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How did Charlie Brown get in here?
If that's all I get as a response I suppose I did my job right. lol!
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It's excellent. A classic. I'm not sure TCM has ever aired it but in the 1994 100 Years of Cinema special that they often air between movies they include a tiny clip from the film.
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No, but that's besides the point. That's a childish way of looking at the world: I want it, therefore it should be mine. I know some five year olds who think the same way.
Do you break in and enter a store because you see something you want in their window that's their property? Do you think it automatically should belong to you just because you desire it?
Bootleggers don't have a legal right to sell films that do not belong to them. People who buy from bootleggers are also breaking the law and can be charged along with the bootleggers they buy from. You're opening yourself up to legal risk dealing with these people, who are also taking advantage of you and giving you poor quality illegal rip offs for a price.
The MPAA, like the RIAA, are suing people right now who thought they could get away with piracy. I don't want anyone here to be next.
There are thousands of films on legal DVD to watch and enjoy, films that the studios worked really hard on to get out to the public, films that only a few years ago were only available on crummy bootlegs. When you concentrate only on non-released films on bootleg you're missing out on great films that are legally available in great prints right now.
It comes down to the law and it comes down to a person's character, or lack of it. Do they obey the law or do they flout it and say they don't care? I happen to care.
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In a perfect world there would be no war at all.
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It was a good movie. I prefer The Volga Boatman however. Bill and Elinor lit up the screen together in that one.
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You can buy The Parson's Widow on legit DVD off Amazon if you missed it on TCM. Or put it in your Netflix queue -- they have it.
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Actually the people who are truly being ripped off are the people paying 20, 30, 40 dollars per disc for illegal bootlegs and getting lousy copies with poor visuals and sound quality, and putting themselves at the risk of lawsuit to boot. It's far better to wait and have your first experience of a film be a nice one, a legal print with great sound quality. There have been many films put out by the DVD companies lately that were once only available as terrible looking bootlegs. There have been many films only available as crummy bootlegs before that are finally aired on TCM in good prints.
At some point people who buy bootlegs eventually realize they are being suckered by people who don't obey the law and who don't care about the quality of the films they illegally sell. They realize they are being taken advantage of by people who have no morals and no conscience.
I don't like the extended copyright laws myself, like Sonny Bono, but they are what they are and believe me, the government takes copyright infringement seriously these days. There is a risk that people who buy from the bootleggers might be sued along with the bootleggers once they are caught and prosecuted, just like the RIAA sues the people who are illegally downloading MP3s. It could cost you several thousands of dollars to hire an attorney to defend yourself.
This fellow is very stupid because he leaves that PayPal button up on his site. Even though he later added it's not functional just the fact that he leaves it up is a giveaway he was getting money illegally from people coming into his site. The government just has to get access to his PayPal records and if the people who were his customers are on the list, with names and addresses, the purchasers could be in deep legal doo doo.
Nothing is worth a lawsuit. They can take you for everything you've made in your entire life. Read the FBI Warnings sometime at the start of most DVDs.
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I don't think they've aired it on TCM America since 2003 or 2004, but I've seen it on TCM Canada's schedule while TCM America plays some other silent they've played a million times. Go figure.
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My favorite Garbo films after Ninotchka are two silents she made with Nils Asther: Wild Orchids and The Single Standard. I thought she had great chemistry with Nils, even better than she had with Gilbert on screen. Nils seem to be dominant over Greta on screen, whereas Greta was dominant over Gilbert on screen, and from my feminine perspective I consider the male dominant romance to be far sexier than when the woman is the dominant partner on screen.
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I sympathize. I suppose you could stretch the term "classic" to apply to some 1960's films because enough time has gone by to examine whether or not a film is universally accepted as a work of genius, like To Kill A Mockingbird, but generally when I think of the words *classic film* I tend to think of films from the 1920's through the 1940's first.
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As a matter of interest, this domain name is available for purchase.
There used to be a site here but it went under.
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>>even the trees were wounded and still standing
Potent visual imagery. I vaguely remember a news story from Europe, about two or three years ago now, where veterans were uniting to try and save a forest of trees that had given them shelter in WW 2. I think it was in France. They were going to bulldoze the forest and put up a housing development.
Ugh.
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Well hopefully he's basically just abandoned the site. He was challenged by people high up in the industry on *alt.movies.silent* a few years back and then he slithered away under the rock he came from.
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>and few people see it.
Sort of like: if a bird sings a song in a forest, but there's no one around to listen, did it really sing?
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Or Rex Ingram's *Mare Nostrum* (another silent which hasn't aired on TCM in several years).
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Intellectual property owners might care. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes if he's tracked down legally for bootlegging. Neither would I want to be on his customer list if the FBI came in and raided his computer and checked his PayPal account for past sales and profit amounts, etc. People who bought from him could also very well receive a knock on their door some day from the government. The way both parties think on this issue today is to equate copyright infringement with terrorism! I've seen the language in their documents.
I would tread very carefully in dealing with this guy. He has been confronted several times in the past on other silent movie boards, including my own.
If someone broke into your house and stole something that belonged to you would you find that "fascinating"? Or would you want the book thrown at him?
In fact I'm not sure who is in charge of security for the boards on TCM but if it was my board I would remove this entire thread so as not to give him any more free publicity.
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TCM has played Pilgrimage a few times.
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I think that's Pola's best film performance. AMC showed it back in the day, which is the print that has made the rounds for years, but it should be possible for TCM to resurrect it if AMC played it back in the 1990's (before they became a useless station).
please show these two movies
in Silent
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I didn't even have TCM in 2000 or 2001. Didn't get it until 2003.
TCM would have to set aside a huge chunk of time then for an epic and forgo playing yet another crappy 1973 non-classic. Guess I won't hold my breath.