Sukhov
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9 hours ago, luisdonado said:
I remember when AMC was like TCM showing classic movies. It's a matter of fact, they were first, but failed to gauge the market. At the time, around 1986, I remember falling in love with the channel and watched a lot of it. I was only 13 years old. I've always loved old movies and things from the past from a young age. When AMC all of a sudden changed their format a few years later, I was very disappointed. But then TCM came around and I've been watching TCM ever since. I am currently waiting for TCM to stream a standalone app so that I don't have to pay for so many channels I don't need just to get TCM bundled with it. On another note, I noticed years ago that TCM in Europe and in Latin America do not show classic old movies like TCM USA. They are more like AMC turned into after changing formats to newer movies. I am 46 years old now, I come from a generation where no one knew this young of a crowd existed for this market back in the 80s. Now we see that this newer generation is watching old movies, too. I hope we can keep this up because these movies are very enjoyable.
Up until about 4 or 5 years ago they would sporadically air some B&W films like Public Enemy but now they don't even do that.
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Joe E. Brown with Buster Keaton
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6 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Tuesday February 20, 2018
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick on FilmStruck
WHISKY GALORE! with Basil Radford
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT with Alec Guinness
MANDY with Jack Hawkins
THE MAGGIE with Paul Douglas
THE LADYKILLERS with Alec Guinness
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS with Burt Lancaster
Yay, some of the best Ealing comedies on there!
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M - A City Seeks a Murderer
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Moe Howard as Moe Hailstone in I'll Never Hail Again
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Comrade Bastya from the Hungarian movie A Tanu (parody of dictator/ secret police commandant Gábor Péter)
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Die 3-Groschen Oper
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
There's a real possibility that this movie won't get made at all. Due to the current #MeToo climate, and the recent Uma Thurman statements about Tarantino's past dangerous behavior, added to the proposed movie's ballooning budget (said to be close to $100 million), and no small amount of public sentiment against a Manson movie, the studio is said to be having second thoughts on the whole production.
DiCaprio would not be playing Manson, by the way. What's known about the script is that it's not really about Manson/Tate, but rather set in L.A. during that time period, with the script following a number of characters, some or all of whom will interact at some point with Manson and/or Tate. The main characters are said to be a formerly popular TV star and his stunt double best friend, and their struggle to break into movies and out of their TV shadow before they get too old. Tarantino is said to be courting Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Margot Robbie for roles. None of the mentioned actors will be playing Manson, whose character will be relatively minor in the story.
This reeks of Manson being included at all just for the controversy.
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39 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I think the whole topic about votes for lost films is an interesting one. Does this mean the IMDb should disallow someone from voting for a film because it's non-existent?
The IMDb was launched in October 1990 (over 27 years ago). It's possible that some of the votes for the non-existent films were from actors, directors or crew still living in the 90s that worked on those lost silent films. So technically a film does not have to be around today for it to have been seen by some of the voters.
I think it's just people guessing or voting on how culturally important the lost film is. Arirang has a 7.6 on IMDB despite being lost during the Japanese occupation. It's probably people voting based on word of mouth or cultural importance.
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Christmas in Connecticut
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They Fought for Their Country
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Next: Tokyo
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Nicht Schummeln, Liebling
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45 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I am sorry that Polanski has had such a hard life. However, a lot of people have had horrible stuff happen to them in their lives and don't molest children.
Nobody told him to drug and sleep with a 13 year old so he only has himself to blame for his name and reputation being ruined.
I am glad that his victim was able to forgive and move on, but that doesn't mean the law should especially since Polanski fled instead of facing the music.
I heard the old 'but the judge screwed him in the sentencing' bit. But as I understand it judges do have the right to reject plea bargains. Maybe he believed that the bargain was too lenient towards Polanski, and frankly I agree.
Brilliant filmmaker that Polanski may be, neither his celebrity status nor his tragic past should have been used as a shield to protect him from the law.
I'm not saying what he did was justified or okay. I was just saying I don't think they should prosecute or be so cruel against him after all this time. If even his rape victim thinks people are too hard on him then I think that says something.
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2 hours ago, Fedya said:
Elia Kazan was approaching 90 when he got his honorary Oscar, and look at how people treated him. But that's different because we're supposed to celebrate communist mass murderers apparently.
Kazan never "celebrated mass murderers" as far as I know. Supporting an economic model isn't the same as celebrating murder. Stalinism, Socialism With a Human Face, and German Democratic Socialism were all extremely different things. By your logic all Capitalism must be Mussolini, Hitler, Ian Smith and the unjust wars undertaken by Truman, LBJ, Bush and just about all the US presidents and UK Prime Ministers in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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Hot Summer (1968)
No Cheating, Darling (1973)
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The Pink Panther
Next: fun in a submarine
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Jailhouse Rock
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9 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Actually I do quite enjoy Kubrick's THE SHINING, always have since I was a kid. It's definitely not the most faithful adaptation of a novel, but that has never stopped me from enjoying the film as a whole, likewise with Universal's DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN.
I actually don't go into watching a film that is based on a book expecting it to be all literal word-to-word, scene-for-scene from it. There are going to be changes, for better or for worse, and it's different for everyone who views these changes. Some may love them, others can loathe them (King has made no secret of his intense dislike for the way the 1980 THE SHINING film).
For me, I always try to separate the book and the movie it's based on because I expect there to be some changes to the story. Not saying there haven't been times I wish a certain scene or plot twist from the book didn't make it into the movie, but I just go try to go along for the ride.
I always thought it odd how King strongly disliked Kubrick's the Shining but loved some of the adaptations of more "questionable" quality.
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Great Expectations
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Vast is my Motherland from Circus
Next: song with choreography by Busby Berkeley
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53 minutes ago, Fedya said:
Hell, there are still people defending child-rapist Roman Polanski.
The guy's reaching 90 and has really suffered enough and had his name tarnished. What more do you want? Even the girl he raped thinks he doesn't deserve so much hate.
Little Caesar vs. The Public Enemy vs. Scarface (1932)
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I agree with Scarface too. Rico is the best villain of those three films. I like the "X" symbolism as well.