lzcutter
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*I Aim at the Stars* is also known as *Werner Von Braun*.
It was released in 1960 and stars Curd Jurgens as Von Braun. It was released by Columbia Pictures. Sony now owns the Columbia film library.
It has been on TCM, so keep an eye on the schedule. It may turn up again.
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Marlene Dietrich's grandson, J. Michael Riva, a well-respected and Oscar nominated Production Designer, has unexpectedly died at 63:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/j-michael-riva-dead-335296
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When in college I had the opportunity to meet Clint Eastwood (very charming), Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Jason Robards, LQ Jones (who I've run into many times since), John Cassavettes, Gena Rowlands, Big John Milius, Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Orson Welles, Marty Scorsese and others.
Some that I have met in the last couple of years include include Harry Carey, Jr, Robert Osborne, Curtis Hanson, William Wellman, Jr, Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Tim Considine, David Stollery, Richard Sherman, various classic Las Vegas performers and others.
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Peter,
Off the top of my head, I'm looking forward to Promethus, The Dark Knight Rises and Django Unchained.
Now, if I can just get home to see them at the Arclight.
And I'm sure there's a few others as well.
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Sandy,
Welcome to the forums! Since you're new here, I thought it might be worth pointing out that you can reply to the people who have responded in your other threads.
You can do that by clicking on the reply to this thread at the top of the page or by clicking on the balloon icon in the right hand corner of any post in that thread.
Hope that helps!
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> The Renaissance, because they quoted me a senior price of $220, but found out today that rates go up to about $700 once the festival dates are released
Sandy,
Where did you get the quote on the Renaissance being upwards of $700 a night during the festival? That's incredibly steep by any standards, especially for a single room.
The Hollywood Roosevelt, for the last three years, has had a partnership with the Festival. Room rates run, I think, about $250 a night. The hotel sold-out very quickly this year so you have to be ready to book and keep your eye on the announcements.
There are a number of moderate places to eat on the Blvd from In-N-Out Burger (actually on Sunset Blvd just a block down from the Roosevelt - http://www.in-n-out.com/) to Baja Fresh (across from the Roosevelt- http://www.bajafresh.com/) to Miceli's Italian restaurant (near the Egyptian- http://www.micelisrestaurant.com/).
There's also the Pig and Whistle (http://www.pignwhistlehollywood.com/) and a number of eateries in Hollywood and Highland, the mall complex that surrounds the Chinese theater. A look at the website for Hollywood and Highland probably has some details- http://www.hollywoodandhighland.com/.
There's a Johnny Rockets (hamburgers and shakes) at Hollywood and Highland as well as higher end fare.
Mel's Drive-In the old Max Factor building basically offers coffee shop food, http://www.melsdrive-in.com/
There's also storefront pizza places where you can get a pizza by the slice and a drink for not a lot of $.
There will be a complimentary pocket guide and a commemorative program guide as part of the Festival. The pocket guide is free, I'm not sure about the commemorative program.
For the last three years, the Festival has been held in April, if that helps.
As for tipping the maid, it depends on the quality of service you receive. Anywhere from a couple of dollars to $5 a day should be sufficient.
You can google airport shuttles los angeles or hollywood (http://tinyurl.com/7aw94ks) to see who offers shuttle service from LAX and Burbank. You can often get a price quote as well.
Check-in time for the Roosevelt is usually about 3 or 4 in the afternoon and check-out time is, I think, 10:00 am though you can ask for a later check-out time if you need to.
Hope that helps!
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> But as great as Lee Marvin could have been in the role, I just can't imagine anyone else as Pike Bishop........
Roy,
I totally agree with you and you know how much I love Lee Marvin!
But when it comes to Pike Bishop, there's only one- William Holden.
When it comes to world weariness in this film, Pike is matched only by Deke Thorton which considering that the two were best friends prior to their friendship fracturing (thank the lord that Sam's original cut survived in Europe all those years!) only makes it more poignant.
Depending on the mood I am in when watching the film, it's always a toss-up, which character is more heartbreaking, Pike or Deke.
More often than not, I chose Deke probably because of the idiots (no offense to Strother and LQ fans but Coffer and T.C. aren't the brightest crayons in the box) he's stuck with (and lord knows they would age anyone) versus the Bunch that Pike surrounds himself with.
And that final shot of Deke sitting in the dirt as the storm swirls around him, thinking about the choices he made and the path he took (I totally believe him when he tells his group:
"We're after men - and I wish to God I was with them. The next time you make a mistake, I'm going to ride off and let you die."
I sometimes wonder if Lee ever regretted the choice he made for money.
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Depending on where you are flying from, it might be cheaper (and closer to Hollywood) to fly into Burbank airport.
You might not need to rent car as shuttle services such as Super Shuttle service both LAX and Burbank. The down side is that you may have to wait your turn to get dropped off but it's definitely worth doing that instead of renting a car.
If you rent car, the hotel you stay at (such as the Roosevelt or the Renaissance) may charge you a daily fee for keeping your car.
Once you get to Hollywood for the Festival, you won't really need a car as parking in Hollywood can be pricey and most of the festival screenings are within walking distance.
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> I confess a great affection for De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise" (1974).
"Life at last! Salutations from the other side!"
Brian,
You are not alone in your affection for *Phantom*. I've been a big fan since I saw it on the big screen on its original release. I loved the homages to horror films as well as the homages to the various decades of rock and roll. (The Juicy Fruits, the Beach Bums and the Undeads were great!).
Beef, Philbin (another homage), Phoenix, Winslow and Swan, I can still recite dialog from the film and remember with fondness particular scenes.
Sissy Spacek was dating Jack Fisk at the time. He was the Production Designer on the film and she has a credit as a crew member. They married shortly after and have been married since.
I saw it a few years back on the Fox Movie Channel's Legacy series. Tom Rothman, the head of Fox and host of the Legacy series, is married to Jessica Harper who played Phoenix.
The film still held up for me almost forty years later.
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Roy,
My other favorite line of Strother's from the *Wild Bunch* :
"TC, it's THEM!!"
When I was at SC back in the late 1970s, we did a festival of Peckinpah films that culminated in a tribute to Sam on the final night.
LQ Jones, Jason Robards, David Warner and Mrs. Strother Martin joined Sam on stage following our screening of *The Ballad of Cable Hogue*.
Also in the audience that night, Sam's mentor, Don Siegel.
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Roy,
Two of my favorite Strother Martin lines:
"T.C. help me get his boots off!" *The Wild Bunch*
"Bingo!" *Butch Cassidy*
Can't think of a line of Strother's from *True Grit* !
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> (...in other words, the VAST majority of these little freakin' know-nothings about the world before they born and proud of that fact nowadays have WAY more options available to 'em than WE ever did back in the day, and so the idea of this happy little 1950s/60s "family unit enjoying the same things" is, once again, UNFORTUNATELY far behind us it seems)
Do you guys have kids or know people with kids?
I ask, because the parents I know, do spend time with their children watching television.
It may not be the wholesome fare that we watched but they do carve time out of their schedules to spend time together watching movies and television.
And one thing to consider, perhaps the producer of *Essentials, Jr* is a father who enjoys watching classic movies and sharing that love with his children.
And, maybe, just maybe, they enjoy the opportunity as well.
A love of classic films didn't end with our generation. Even in this technological age of advancement, kids and their parents can find some common ground the same way we did, watching classic films. Just because they don't have all the options we had (the afternoon movie, the evening movie, the nightly movie, the Million Dollar movie, etc), they do have TCM and they watch.
Doubt me? Come to a TCM Film Festival and hang out with the younger generation who are there because they love classic films.
Or better yet, listen to them in the Fan Retrospectives they do during the Festival for the channel or the interviews they do with Robert O or Ben M.
They often talk about watching classic films with a parent or both.
You might be surprised.
They all aren't the stereotypical ADD-addled no-nothings you guys seem to think they are.
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Rey,
Here's what I wrote about the film after seeing it a year ago February:
You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.'
MrCutter and I went to see *True Grit* this afternoon. It is a terrific movie. The Coen brothers have done a masterful job of telling the story this time from Mattie's point of view.
With a tip of the hat to *Night of the Hunter* (the music), *Jeremiah Johnson* (the mountain man/bear man/doctor), *To Kill a Mockingbird* (the narration told by the young girl now all grown up and looking back and one of the music cues) and *My Darling Clementine* (the introduction of LaBoeuf) this movie soars.
This west is not pretty, it's a hard life and the terrain matches that hard life.
'What are you doin' here?' Tom Chaney to Mattie Ross when the meet again.
Josh Brolin plays Tom Chaney as an outlaw who is also dumber than a bag of rocks and yet, incredibly menacing and he is really good in the role.
'I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man! ' Lucky Ned Pepper to Reuben Cogburn.
Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper is charming yet lethal.
'We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County.' Mattie Ross to LaBoeuf on their first meeting.
Matt Damon proves yet again what great range he has an actor. He has starred in many dfferent genres and now a western. Glen Campbell is forever banished in my mind as this character.
'It astonishes me that Mr. LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled, and nearly bitten his tongue off, and yet not only does he continue to talk but he spills the banks of English.' Reuben Cogburn to Mattie Ross.
Jeff Bridges grows into this role. He shows us a very different character than the one John Wayne created. This Cogburn is deadly serious about what he does for a living and deadly serious about staying alive. He won the Oscar last year for *Crazy Heart* and he stands a snow ball's chance of winning next Sunday but this is the role I wish he could have won the Oscar for. And I say that as a life-long John Wayne fan.
One of the things that struck me the hardest and the quickest, is that Bridges was determined to make this role his own and not try to out-Wayne our memories of the Duke. This Reuben Cogburn is a very different animal than the one etched forty years ago.
As his respect for Mattie's tenaciousness grows, Bridges' Cogburn begins to grow as he tries to become the man she needs him to be while not giving ground on the man he is (which is more a killer than a man with the necessary true grit to capture Tom Chaney).
It's a wonderful role for Bridges and it could have been played for laughs, for camp but by going back to the novel and the character that Portis first created, the Coen brothers and Bridges have created a character that can stand next to Wayne's characterization and not in the shadows.
'I do not care a thing about guns, if I did, I would have one that worked.' Mattie Ross to Lucky Ned Pepper.
Hallie Steinfeld is the true discovery of this film. Finally, the story has a worthy Mattie (no offense to Kim Darby fans) and Ms. Steinfeld gives it her all. We watch her grow and learn a thing or three about life and growing up. Her friendship with Reuben Cogburn feels absolutely genuine as does her uneasy friendship with LaBoeuf.
She is smart as a whip, lippy as can be and confident in her knowledge of the law. The adventure she has makes her the woman she becomes.
This being the Coen brothers, they tend to do send-ups when they take on a genre piece (ie *Brother, Where Art Thou*-which I love, *The Man Who Wasn't There* etc) but not this time. There is no send-up in this one, outside a few homages.
It is, in many ways, a classic modern western told in a no-nonsense way that fills the screen with harsh but beautiful terrain, never lets us forget that it was a harsh, often unforgiving country to try and make your mark in and with characters as memorable as any created by the old masters.
It's as elegiac and moving as the hymn that drives the score and possibly made more moving by our memories of what came before but capable of standing on its own and never in the shadows of the previous movie.
I know some folks feel movies shouldn't be remade but I'm not one of them. This is a terrific story and a wonderful movie that stands on its own.
Kudos to all involved.
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Joe,
I just realized that Johnny Weismuller isn't looking at Lupe!
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There are times that living in the City of Brake Lights can be aggravating but then you remember the reasons you won't live anywhere else:
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California, MrCutter and I love it.
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> Seriously? You want to discuss Deep Throat for TCM?
Chief,
Guess he's never heard of TV's Standard and Practices. TCM is not a premium channel. It's considered basic cable channel that does have to adhere to standards and practices like other non-premium channels.
If my memory serves me correctly, didn't they have to pull *Zabriskie Point* a few years ago because of the sexual content despite the fact it was to be shown in the late night hours?
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Fred,
I'm a big fan of the old movie ranches, especially the Iverson. I would love for TCM Original Productions to do a documentary on them.
I have a book on the Iverson and have started studying films, especially westerns, to see if I can learn about the various locations on the Iverson.
It's all housing developments now.
Years ago, when I when I lived in Hollywood, I was fascinated by the Bronson caves and the various movies and tv shows that had been shot there.
And Moab and Kanab, that's near John Ford country.
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Roy,
It has some great locations. Look like they filmed at the old Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, the Bronson caves above Hollywood and it looks like they went to Moab and/or Kanab, Utah for other locations.
Hi-yo, Silver, away!
Edited by: lzcutter because Canoga Park ain't Chatsworth
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Rey,
For the record there are many other threads from 2008 to just last month but I do I really need to list them all for infinite1?
I was hoping to make the point that this thread topic is as old as these message boards and I can not remember a year that has gone by that it hasn't been a staple of debate and, sometimes, rancor.
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Roy,
I certainly wasn't expecting to see Perry Lopez at the top of this film.
The minute I saw him I said, "Go home, Jake, I'm doin' you a favor."
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> After all, judging by the amount of posts it does appear that these type of threads are the most exciting.
They usually end up being the most decisive and before they run out of steam or get locked, usually degenerate into flaming and name calling.
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The subject is as old as these message boards. A quick search would have brought that up.
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=105493&tstart=0&messageID=7945172#7945172
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7884847
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8560695
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7772915
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7858089
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7879284
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6099721
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7783397
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Hey there, Roy!
I always knew you were a Lone Ranger fan!
Enjoy!
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I meant to reply to Marlonfan who was wondering if the film was meant to be a farce and who asked how Southerns responded to the film but I made the mistake of clicking on Fred's response in error.
My apologies to Dobbsy.
Lauren Bacall as SOTM September 2012
in General Discussions
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> But hasn't she been SOTM before?
LP,
She was SOTM in December 2000.