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Rusty, The winery is the old Inglenook winery, if I recall correctly. Coppola originally bought the back end of the winery and when he was flush with cash from Dracula and his lawsuit on Pinnochio he bought the front of the winery, which included the mansion. He has his Tucker on display as well as his collection of zoetropes and his Oscars. The wine is good but, unfortunately for FFC, there are better wineries in Napa.

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I find it interesting that Coppola thinks that DeNiro is not anything of value in latter years. Among other things, DeNiro had a bout with cancer a few years ago. He also started Tribeca Films and the Tribeca Film Festival. After 9/11, if I recall correctly he spent a good amount of time and money on helping NYC recover. I also find it ironic that Coppola is holding both DeNiro and Pacino to a higher standard than he holds himself. Coppola, it seems, has spent more time concentrating on his winery and his resort in Belize, than he has on making movies lately.

Only TWO movies??? They have so many of hers at their disposal. What a joke>> Hibi, TCM does not have many of her films at their disposal. As we learned almost two years ago, TCM does not own what used to be called the Turner Film Library any more. When Ted Turner did the merge with Time-Warner/AOL back at the turn of the century, the Turner Film Library was part of that merge. That library is now under the care of Warner Brothers. TCM has to rent all the films they show whether they are from WB or another studio. Film rentals and leases are contingent on many things including how often over the course of months or years a film can be aired. When a beloved actor or actress dies, TCM has to scramble to put together a Tribute afternoon or evening. The films available are based on the rental agreements that were made long before the actor or actress passed away and that can often dictate what films can be shown as a tribute. We all like to believe that all TCMProgrammr has to do is call down to the vault and say, "Get me a line-up of Deborah Kerr films for a tribute!" but that is not the reality. The reality is far more business like, I'm afraid.

The movies that I have listed are from three different movie studios, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia. I didn`t think that box sets are usually mixed, but this second Joan collection has selections from MGM and Warner Brothers.>> Cashette, Warner Brothers controls both the entire Warner Brothers film library as well as the pre-1986 MGM library. That is why boxed sets will contain both MGM and WB films. They also control the entire RKO film library. For reference (thanks CoffeeDan, where ever you are!) Sony controls the Columbia library. Paramount controls its silent library and its post -1949 library Universal controls its library as well as the pre-1949 talking Paramount library. Fox controls its own films plus the pre-1935 corporate elements Fox Film Corp and 20th Century Pictures. Message was edited by: lzcutter

Mongo, The boxed set has been garnering good reviews from many different media outlets. The EW reviewer chose not to put the film in its historic content but to review it through the prism of today's culture. The film helped revolutionize the movie industry and helped change forever the way that movies were made. Kudos to WBHV for going restoring this film and bringing out of the vaults for all to see. I, too, am looking forward to this evening's films on TCM!

Pam, Not sure about when the box set will be released but TCM is showing a number of Andy Hardy films on Nov. 23rd: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.jsp?startDate=11/23/2007&timezone=PST&cid=N

BKeaton, London After Midnight is one of the holy grails of Lost films. The original negative was destroyed in one of the big MGM vault fires in the mid-1960s. Rumors persist that a collector or a foreign archive has a print but to date, it remains, lost. A few years ago, the film was recreated using stills. It is definitely worth watching.

Strummer, I agree the whole thing sounds fishy. That's why I suggested the AMIA list serve. They would be able to determine if it is the hoax many of us suspect it is.

Strummer, I read the thread via your link and would echo the person who suggested contacting the AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) immediately. There are many knowlegeable people on their list serve who would be able to help answer the original posters questions.

Have you seen the recent Mary Pickford documentary produced for THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SERIES on PBS? I haven't, but I just learned that it has been released on DVD.>> Jeff, Yes, I have seen the PBS doc on Mary Pickford. I think it was over a year ago it was on. Either way, I really enjoyed it. I learned some stuff about Pickford that I hadn't known and it went into depth about her marriage to Doug, Sr (whom I adore) and how even after they divorced they still cared about each other. I would recommend it for your library. I think you won't be disappointed!

KS, The film you are looking for is "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" (1953) starring Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van and Bob Fosse. The characters were used later in the decade in a television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis that featured Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs and Dwayne Hickman as Dobie.

Bill, To make a word appear in bold type , : Put brackets around b at the beginning of the word and a bracket and back slash before the b and end bracekt at the end of the word or title. I tried to type it out properly but the software right now won't allow it to appear as I wrote it even with line breaks and such. And you are right about all the talk of buying a copy of what someone has recorded off the air. Studios, cable companies, networks etc all hate to know that people are doing it. It's one of the reasons that TCM has a new bug in the lower right hand screen of the movies it broadcasts. Message was edited by: lzcutter

What do people see in "A River Runs Through It"? Why was the film made? What's it about? Yes, I really would like a serious answer>> Fred, It's based on Norman Maclean's best selling book of the same name about his growing up in Montana. Craig Scheffer plays the young Norman in the film. "Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, "Norman, you like to write stories." And I said "Yes, I do." Then he said, "Someday, when you're ready you might tell our family story. Only then will you understand what happened and why." It's the story of family and no matter how much you may love someone you cannot save them from themselves. Jesse: "Why is it the people who need the most help... won't take it?" You cannot save someone.. Everyone wanted to save Paul (Brad Pitt), help him fight his demons, save him from his destructive ways. The only one who didn't was Paul himself and it was his self destructive tendencies that set the story in motion and color the action from that point on. Paul's actions will have a direct impact on everyone and they will carry that tragedy with them for the rest of their lives. "Either we do not know what part of ourselves to give, or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. So it is those who we live with and love and should know that elude us. But we can still reach out to them, we can love completely without complete understanding." His brother's death propelled Norman Maclean to become a better writer so that he could honor his father's wish to "tell the family story" and to finally come to understand his brother better. In addition, we are shaped by where we are raised, what we believe and what we hold dear. Any family that has a prodigal son can relate to what the Maclean's go through with Paul. You alluded to the fact that people like movies about a time and place that have passed into history and that holds true for this film. It is of a simpler time but the underlying themes are ones families still deal with today. Add the beautiful cinematography, acting, directing and script and it makes for powerful film. "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." Message was edited by: lzcutter

Wordmuse, Fields and West did many films for Paramount (and those films are now owned by Universal, I believe). It could be that TCM had a lease agreement to run them in the early days of the channel but Universal may have pulled them from the rental market in recent times for reasons known only to Universal. Both studios' films show up more often on AMC than TCM though TCMProgrammr has told us that they are working on a long-term Paramount agreement. Message was edited by: lzcutter

Yes, what I've seen of that HOLLYWOOD series is utterly wonderful but there have been a few discoveries since then. >> MissGulch, I am intriqued by your wording. I am thinking you are referring to lost films that have been found? As for Hollywood, we all owe Kevin Brownlow a great debt for having the foresight in the mid-1960s to start recording interviews with the surviving stars and crew members of the silent era. They were, too often, aging fast and had it not been for Brownlow, Gill and Shepard, their stories would have been lost to history. Instead, they were preserved, used in Hollywood and are still used today in documentaries. Could Ken Burns do a better job? It would be a different documentary but he would have to use the interview footage first collected by Kevin Brownlow because sadly, by the time that Hollywood premiered in the early 1980s, many of the interviewees had passed on. Thank you Kevin Brownlow, David Gill and David Shepard for saving the stories. Message was edited by: lzcutter

Question; who heard Kane say Rosebud--the nurse was out of the room , and he whispered it?>> The film crew. Someone on the crew called a reporter and leaked the old man's final word. Sorry. Couldn't resist. As you were.

What do people see in "A River Runs Through It"? Why was the film made?>> Fred, Are these questions that you are looking for serious answers to? Because I love this film and would be glad to give you my thoughts.

VF, I think that is a terrific idea! Having the host of Essentials interact with board members about the hows and whys of the choices would be a great addition to this board and definitely kick it up a major notch and give us all a chance to not only learn but be part of the conversation as well! I hope TCMProgrammr sees your post!

Bronxie, I think it is an overall site problem this weekend. A couple of folks have posted in various forums about having problems posting and viewing some of the media clips. Others have had a very hard time just accessing boards. A similar situation like this happened over the summer. Can't remember though what the WebAdmin said was the cause. But I remember it was very aggravating for everyone.

And and in some undertermined past month/year there was a Salute to Universal Horror films too - http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=82776>> Kyle, I think it was back in Oct. 1999 or 2000 they did the salute to Universal Horror Films and premiered the Kevin Brownlow documentary on the subject.

I guess this gives us an idea of how far violence in film has come (or not) when a list of the top 15 films does not include The Wild Bunch or Taxi Driver or any of Marty Scorsese's mob films. Perhaps we ought to watch that slippery slope more carefully.

Jeff, Sorry for misunderstanding your original question. -Blush- When TCM did the upgrade a few weeks ago, the links to PMs that you are looking for were lost. A thread or three were started in the Tech Forum and General Discussion addressing the issues and this was one of them. TCMWeb, I believe, responded saying they were working on a fix. Stay tuned.....

Don't know what happened to the link to the Private Messages? I can't seem to find it now?>> Jeff, Look up in the right corner, it will say Welcome gagman66 Underneath that it has wrench (looks more a carrot to me) and says Your Control Panel Underneath that, there is an envelope with (0) (or a number greater than 0 inside the parenthesis). That is the new link to your PMs. The number inside the parenthesis if greater than zero will be in bold. That's how many new PMs you have. Hope that helps!

Sandy, It gets weirder. Though Paramount originally released Midnight, I believe Universal now owns the film. Universal bought most of the early Paramount film library (except the silents) from the 1930s to the late 1940s. And Universal seems to be pretty terrible at letting TCM lease films as well.