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Yeah, I really don't think it's all thay clever. The transition from silent to soubd movies scenes were okay but I really don't think it's one of the greatest films ever like many say. Just didn't click with me.

Enter the Dragon

I thought all those "Macht Deutschland Vom Marxismus Frei" signs were a gag and he was secretly Socialist.

He should also checj out the holiday classic The 50 Foot Woman is Coming to Town. She sees you when you're sleeping and knows if you've been naughty or nice.

I can't stand this movie or the showtunes esque music in it.

I've seen the Desert Song before. Subpar film version of the operetta with a WWII era message forced in. The music is nice but not a particularly good movie

From the foreign editions Bye Bye Brasil, Carlos Diegues, Brazilian edition

My favorite foreign languahe films of 1979.. 1. Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR 2. The Tin Drum, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany 3. The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, USSR 4. Nosferatu, Werner Herzog, West Germany 5. Zombi, Lucio Fulci, Italy 6. The Crippled Masters, Chi Lo, Taiwan 7. Dirty Ho, Lao Kar Leung, Taiwan 8. Serviced with a Smile, Jean Claude Roy, France 9. Love on the Run, Francois Truffaut, France

Tonight 12/10 at 9 PM are two Laurel and Hardy shorts -Helpmates and Towed in a Hole. They haven't been on TCM in a while so you may not want to miss them.

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I've always considered "pretty" as more for children and young women and "beautiful" for women with actual sex appeal.

Well said! (This is where a picture of Brigitte Bardot or Sheryl Lee would go if I was on my computer)

The entire series is up on YouTube without subtitles but I followed along with my books on the series and various websites that had the film summaries. Like most propaganda films it is not difficult to follow. The acting and dialogue are very "obvious" with what they are trying to communicate (for example when it shows pictures of the main character in Japanese uniform under the sun and he is speaking in a sad voice he is reflecting on his forced service in the Pacific during the Japanese occupation, when it shows a montage of US soldiers and he is speaking in a hushed voice he is angry at the US). The books I have did help a lot with understanding it though. I have Jenkins autobiography from when he returned to the US and some other books on NK film.

Unsung Heroes -this is a film series from North Korea that is very heavily influenced by James Bond and espionage films (which were a favorite of Kim Jong Il). The first two movies revolve around a Korean journalist working in Europe who returns to South Korea to see American soldiers stationed in his country. He is asked by a North Korean agent to spy for the DPRK and he gets involved in the world of espionage. This movie is set around the Korean War but the foreign cars used are all 1970s American and British cars. The audience probably wouldn't know the difference though. Shots of England seem to stand in for the outside world too. The best scene is in the second movie where the US soldiers make a Korean woman in a car and one with a gun face off in a deadly opstical course in a scene reminiscent of the Connery Bond films. Interesting films worth a look.

Come to think of it I have seen Heroes of the East too. That's an entertaining one. "This is eight point style." "It looks like little girl dancing."

From Hitler Goes Kaput- Parodying a similar scene in Seventeen Moments of Spring.

From the foreign editions- The Year of the Hare, Risto Jarva, Finnish edition French Fried Vacation, Patrice Leconte, French edition I ilikia tis thalassas, Takis Papayannidis, Greek edition

1. Unsung Heroes: Behind Enemy Lines Again, Ko Hak-lim, Ryu Ho-son, North Korea 2. Unsung Heroes: Behind Enemy Lines, Ko Hak-lim, Ryu Ho-son, North Korea 3. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Ermano Olmi, Italy 4. La Cage Aux Folles, Edouard Molinaro, France 5. Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 6. The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians, Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, Romania 7. Kung Fu Arts, Kuang Hui & Hsi-Chieh Lai & Ju-Shou Li, Taiwan 8. Helga, She Wolf of Spilberg, Alain Payet, France 9. Five Deadly Venoms, Chang Cheh, Hong Kong 10. Crippled Avengers, Chang Cheh, Hong Kong 11. the woman who sings, aleksnadr orlov, Russia 12. heroes of the east, chia-liang lu, Hong Kong 13 Killer of Snake, Fox of Shaolin, Wah Man, Taiwan/ Hong Kong Sorry for being late. My computer is broken and can't immediately be fixed so I had to do this at the public library near some very noisy ladies!

Saps at Sea

At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own is about a train robbery. Good film.

Did they originally have to list as guests or did the moderators just delete their account after a while?

Yeah, I think we can assume that some very "culturally relevant" metoo scenes are going to wind up in this one. Call it a hunch.

Ollie Dee played by Oliver Hardy in Babes in Toyland

A Midsummer Night's Dream