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Why stop at actors?

"Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, give me a story with a Happy Birthday."

Pantera, Malou

Samraat - In this Bollywood film, a cast of odd characters meet up to find the ship Samraat and get the gold aboard it. The former captain had been running an illicit scheme and the daughter hires two men to find the ship. Of course the men realize the ship has gold and each wants to find the gold for their own ends and they are willing to work together for it. This one tries way too hard to be funny but the jokes just fall flat to me. I'm also not a fan of the lame, musical interludes. This one is worth a 4/10.

Wolmi Island - This Korean war film is laughably bad propaganda. It shows the defense force of an island fighting against the US and its allies during the Korean war. Of course the Koreans are depicted as valiant heroes who inflicted a whopping 13 ship casualty on the enemy. This is only really interesting if you want to see what their cinema is like but even then I would recommend other, better made films. This one is terrible.

Goldfinger Next: Hungary

Bohemian Rhapsody won at the Golden Globes. Bleh...

Pirates of Penzance Next: South Africa

Ogata, Hedeto - played by Akira Takarada in "Godzilla"

This one was released in two parts, each two hours long, so it may be only one part.

No, it was goof. Sorry, it was very late at night. I'll take care of it.

From the foreign editions- Arpa Colla, Nicos Perakis, Greek edition

My top FF films of 1982 1. Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, West Germany 2. Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, USA 3. Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 4. La Traviata, Franco Zeffirelli, Italy 5. Veronika Voss, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 6. Passion, Jean-Luc Godard, France 7. Wolmi Island, Gyong-sun Cho, North Korea 8. The Return of Martin Guerre, Daniel Vigne, France 9. Samraat, Mohan Segal, India

Gounod's beautiful "Sanctus, Dominus" used at the end of Herzog's Nosferatu.

I get the dislike of Elvis' movies but Elvis: That's the Way It Is will always be my favorite of his films.

Interesting interview with actor Michael Horse from a few years back, I found. In the interview, he discusses his work in Twin Peaks, the Cowboy and the Frenchman, North of 60, and various Hollywood westerns he worked in. It's pretty interesting.

They Were Actors Next: west coast of the US

The Passion of Joan of Arc Next: a Kaiju film

On in the very early morning tonight 11/4 at 5:30 AM is the Sword and Sandal film The Slave I'm not sure if this one has been on TCM before but if it has, it must have been a long time ago.

I hate the family pictures like Life With Father where it's just a family sitting around being gooey-gooey and lovey to one another. It makes me want to vomit.

To the Stars By Hard Ways - A team of scientists find a clone in a deserted space station in this Soviet sci fi film. She is brought back to live with a family and learns she has odd powers. Gradually she comes to learn some unnerving things about her past. Yelena Metyolkina is very good as the robot in this though she did not go on to star in very many films. This film is worth a look.

Could the board game be the Game of Life - a 2007 film starring Tom Arnold? Doesn't look like the kind of thing I would pick for Criterion but it does fit. There are also several films called Monopoly but none of them seem particularly important enough that Criterion would release them.

1919 - Broken Blossoms 1929 - Pandora's Box 1939 - Gone With the Wind 1949 - Cossacks of the Kuban 1959 - North by Northwest 1969 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1979 - Stalker 1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1999 - Audition 2009 - District 9

I mentioned them in another thread but Carnival Night and Carnival Night 2, Fifty Years Later are set at New Year's.

Winter Light is one of my favorite Bergman films. I like that the ending can be interpreted as either pro-atheism or pro-religion depending on how you look at it.