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If it had been done as an Ealing comedy, there would be a good opportunity for a close-up of the "this Bridge was completed by British Unit ____" sign as the Colonel blows up the bridge he worked so hard to build.

Thanks for clarifying. From Toosey's page- Behind the backs of the Japanese, Toosey did everything possible to delay and sabotage the construction without endangering his men. Refusal to work would have meant instant execution. Termites were collected in large numbers to eat the wooden structures and the concrete was badly mixed. Toosey also helped organise a daring escape, at considerable cost to himself. (In the film the fictional colonel forbids escapes.) The two escaping officers had been given a month's rations and Toosey concealed their escape for 48 hours. After a month the two escapees were recaptured and bayoneted. Toosey was punished for concealing the escape. I wish they had included this in the film. It's an example of the real person being more heroic than portrayed in the film. I felt his desire to build the bridge was half his own pride and sticking it to them and also half to genuinely help his soldiers not perish (like the massive death toll seen at the beginning of the film). By the end of the film, this line is blurred.

In Bridge on the River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson is shown as a bit of a traitor for helping the Japanese Col. Saito and even mutters "what have I done?" at the end of the film but I don't really think he was a traitor. He only did what he was instructed to by building the bridge and was even told the train would help take ill prisoners to hospitals where they could be cared for. He followed the rules of the Geneva Convention and did what he had to help his own men. If anything, the headquarters at the beginning who told him to just surrender were to blame for him even getting captured. Was he justified with building the bridge or should he have sabotaged it like some of his men had wanted? Also, I must say this was another great performance from Sir Alec Guinness. Probably my favorite alongside his Ealing Comedy performances.

It was probably to give the eyes a more pronounced look so the facial expression would turn up clearly on the antiquated cameras.

Welcome back, DB. It's good to see you're okay.

I'm in his generation and I can't stand that movie.

Connery is also my favorite. Moore's films were definitely cartoonish with the gadgets getting more zanier and improbable (boats transforming into on-land vehicles out of nowhere) and with midget sidekicks and overweight red neck tourists. All his films are enjoyable though.

I wouldn't even really consider Montalban as non-caucasian because he was pure Spaniard/ European descent.

Francois Truffaut also got a month of his movies played on Friday nights, a while ago. I still think a foreign SOTM would be different because it is a different series and also takes up much more of primetime. I wouldn't be opposed to such a thing, I just think it would cause an outrage and is just not likely to happen.

I like foreign films too but I think the majority of the TCM audience probably would not care for that. We would get a million "Why are there subtitled movies" threads popping up here. That said, I would still like to see more Ruan Lingyu on TCM and hope they would at least give her a SUTS.

I agree with what you mean and think that is why many of the newer cartoons fail but also keep in mind that this was just a one minute sample of what the shorts will be like.

Wow, this one was boring. It had some nice shots but the droning narration did not help things. Also more than a few times, the noise on the street made the narration hard to understand. This film seems like a very personal film from Akerman and not knowing her mother or family, it just left me cold. It's hard to care about the letters read when you don't personally know any of those people. That said, the cinematography is itself quite exquisite. It's amazing that she managed to make this at age 27. I feel this would have been a better film if she had gotten rid of the narration and just used a Philip Glass score for the soundtrack like Koyaanisqatsi.

Considering how controversial the subject of gun violence is in society today, I would not be surprised if they don't include guns in the new shorts but keep in mind the official merchandise associated with the series does include the characters with their guns.

Here is the director's IMDB page. It might be up here. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2173701/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Another clip from the short Wet Cement taken at a French animation festival. The smooch at the end reminds me of the 40s Daffy.

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Fellini Satyricon (one of the revelers in the dinner scene has an extremely poor quality wig) Next: a shootout

My favorites are from the same era as well. I especially enjoy the ones with Marvin in them. I hope this new series captures the feels of the 40s and 50s toons as well. I think the clip released looks decent enough.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2019/06/12/the-looney-tunes-are-back-watch-the-new-bugs-bunny-cartoon/#312af64a18de Bugs Bunny avoids the axe chop by Elmer Fudd in a new cartoon. WARNER BROS. ANIMATION Get ready for anvils, axes and wascally wabbits galore. The Looney Tunes crew is officially back, and on Wednesday their first video in a new series rolled out at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where earlier this week Disney made headlines by confirming a Chip 'N Dale reboot for its new streaming platform. Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) had announced the new 'toons were cominglast month, but Wednesday marked the first time any footage had been released. The new series will feature all the old favorites from the Looney Tunes heyday, including Bugs Bunny, who stars in the first short, naturally. He's pursued by Elmer Fudd in "Dynamite Dance," which continues the WBA long-running obsession with dynamite and features clever, always violent interplay between the rabbit and the hunter set to a classical music background. David Gemmill directed the short, which bowed in front of a standing room-only crowd at Annecy. This first short is basically to whet everyone's appetite for the main event, which is 1,000 minutes of Looney Tunes action that will debut across digital, mobile and broadcast platforms. They're slated for release later this year. All the classic characters will be in them, such as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester and more. Warner Bros. produced the original series of Looney Tunes cartoons from 1940 to 1969. Bugs Bunny, the shorts' trademark character, bowed in 1940and will celebrate his 80th birthday next year. He was originally voiced by Mel Blanc. -I like that this one is closer in animation style to the original 1940s shorts. Very nice

This one brought a tear to my eye when I first saw it-

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278 Film director and cultural icon Franco Zeffirelli dies aged 96, Italian media reports The Florence native directed stars including Elizabeth Taylor in the 1967 film Taming of the Shrew and Dame Judi Dench on stage in Romeo and Juliet. Italian media said Zeffirelli died after a long illness which had grown worse in recent months.

1. Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany 2. Before the Fall, Dennis Gansel, Germany 3. Sternenberg, Christoph Schaub, Switzerland 4. House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, China 5. The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson, USA 6. 2046, Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong 7. Moolaadé, Ousmane Sembène, Senegal From the foreign editions- Brides, Pantelis Voulgaris, Greek edition

In season 3, Albert even says something like "I didn't watch season 2" after being asked a question about Annie.