Sukhov
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20 minutes ago, miki said:
The part of Maria should be trained by a somewhat older, more operatically trained soprano, not by a young kid whose vocal cords aren't yet completely mature and developed, and who thereby risks doing a good deal of damage to her vocal cords because of that.
I'm not against a remake in theory but I do agree with you that the score should stay as close to the original operetta-like orchestral score as possible. One of Bernstein's major gripes with On the Town from 1949 was that they changed the whole thing on him and added pop music into it.
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Sunday, April 14th at 12 PM - Laurel and Hardy in Them Thar Hills
In this short film, two men accidentally get high on moonshine when they go to the mountains for a rest cure.
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The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Next: Bertolt Brecht
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Gentleman Jim
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Jacques Tati's films. My favorite is Jour de Fete followed by Mon Oncle.
The best gags in this one are mainly lifted from School for Postmen though. I especially like Tati getting stuck by holding on to the church bell's rope and then passing it on to the woman entering the church and also Tati's bicycle getting caught on the rising gate.
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14 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I'm glad to have it confirmed. Really dig those Biblical-sounding town names. Stuff of legend!
Imagine how it would be living in a town like that today, knowing it was where the Ringo Kid was headed...
It's really far south too. I always imagine it as being set in Utah because all of the Monument Valley shots.
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17 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
He hasn't called you yet? Well the call is coming. He told me that he was going to hire you to be in charge of PR for the movie since you love the source material so much!
Ha! James, you reminded me of in the Thin Man when the annoying Wynant son is pestering the detectives about seeing a dead body and irritated, they reply "Don't worry. Don't call us. WE'LL CALL YOU!" and then they roll their eyes at him.
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42 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Who's Phil Hartman?
You may remember him from such nature films as Earwigs: Eww! and Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory.
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6 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I'm actually glad to see they're actually doing decent stuff like 'Oklahoma!' and 'Kiss Me Kate'. But this propensity of Broadway to serve merely as an extension of Disney and Marvel blockbusters is atrocious.
Rodgers and Hammerstein are always entertaining. Though one that I would like to see them revive is Weill's Street Scene. Weill and Marc Blitzstein are my favorite from the golden era of Broadway. It's a shame they don't play their works more often.
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23 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Alan Bates in 'King of Hearts' has some belly-laughs in it. Wonderfully absurdist, surrealist yarn overall, I'm always grinning throughout. Young Genvieve Bujold stars in it as well (as a ballerina).
I love that one too.
Man: "What do the Scots wear under their kilts?"
other man: "Ewww. Nothing."
woman: "Oh, you mean everything!"
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Waiting Women
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3 hours ago, noah80 said:
That's some really generic sounding, romantic era mush.
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Queen Christina
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30 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I can only assume he is some contemporary media darling. Palsy-du-jour. Only hope he accidentally bumps into me someday, so that I can turn a completely and sincerely blank stare at him when he expects me to recognize him. I really would love that, The schlep probably has an undergraduate degree in 'communications'. Gag.
Yeah, I couldn't give any less of a **** about him either. Many times, I just do not care for the guest programmer or whoever they have to host. Those intros are only four minutes anyway so I don't really care.
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14 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
In this regard I believe it would have been wiser for TCM to select a journalist that wasn't associated with any of the polarizing networks (CNN, Fox, MSNBC); e.g. Judy Woodruff?
They should get Jimmy Dore to host.
Darkblue would love that.
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Yeah, or Manos: the Hands of Fate or Teenagers From Outer Space.
Another so bad it's good film I love is Violent Sh1t. Just thinking of the name "Karl, the Butcher Sh1tter" makes me laugh.
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I am big fan of Monty Python also. But my favorite of their movies is "The Meaning Of Life". It has many of their most hilarious sketches and well as some great comedy songs. I like "Holy Grail" and "Life Of Brian" but while it has many very funny scenes, there are some draggy moments as well in between the hilarity.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you. Meaning of Life is my favorite. "I've decided to sell you all for medical experiments!"
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My top FF films of 1995
1. Antonia’s Line, Marleen Gorris, the Netherlands
2. La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz, France
3. Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, Takao Okawara, Japan
4. Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, Shusuke Kaneko, Japan
5. Little Sister, Robert Jan Westdijk, The Netherlands
6. Common Plight, Yassamin Maleknasr, Iran
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La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz, French edition
Antonia’s Line, Marleen Gorris, Dutch edition
Little Sister, Robert Jan Westdijk, Dutch edition
Eggs, Bent Hamer, Norwegian edition
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I quite enjoy them but I don't deny the Frank Schoebel musicals which were popular in the DDR are very kitschy and poorly made. I'm certain many would groan and consider them the worst musicals.
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On 4/1/2019 at 5:33 PM, Kay said:
Seems I recall pretty much all the characters in that film sing their dialogue... except for this one scene where there's a moving man taking boxes out of her shop and just barks a gruff "Pardon, ma'am!" at her, or something like that. It made me LOL because he seemed to the only person in the movie that wasn't, uh, drinking the local water.
I'm inclined to go easy on that film because I think it was pretty ambitious of them to do the whole film that way, but after a while you can feel the monotonous melodies slowly churn your brain into omelette batter... and you think maybe they should have tried it as a short first.
Les Miserables is also almost entirely sung with only a few bits of spoken dialogue (don't remember which ones at the moment). I enjoyed that one much more than Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Umbrellas is too kitschy and that theme is just so melodramatic.
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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13 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Thanks for explaining. So in this case we have a film director censoring himself, revising part of his earlier work. Maybe not because he felt it was too immoral, but because he was afraid others would think it was too immoral and their protests would cut into the film's ongoing profits.
Imagine if all directors could do this. We'd never have a final version of anything.
The edited one is also the one usually shown on other TV channels.
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Nation and Destiny - This rather well shot series was an attempt by the North to depict the outside world to its audience. Use of modern music and culture appear in this series (a giant poster to "Streets of Fire" is used for the street scenes set in South Korea). Films 5 to 8 deal with the composer Isang Yun who made his fame in West Germany after the war by composing many operas and concertos. He visited the North and was kidnapped by South Korea's version of the FBI and tortured after returning to West Berlin. Among the people who signed for his release were Igor Stravinsky, Otto Klemperer and György Ligeti. The depiction of his kidnapping is very cartoonish here with Isang Yun dangling over a vat of acid! Other depictions of the South include a bar filled with hippies that plays Beatles music and a street scene involving a massive 30 car pile up. This one was up on YouTube with English subs.
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Why do some classic movie fans bash newer films?
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Those films he did with MGM have to be some of the worst not only of his career but of the film industry in general.