Sukhov
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12 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Does leasing something like STAR WARS limit the amount of other premieres they have in July and August? One big ticket item from Fox like STAR WARS might cost the same as four or five less expensive titles from Paramount.
Yeah, doesn't look like too many premieres for July. I imagine Star Wars was very expensive.
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15 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
If the class is on Science Fiction films, and they aren't showing Blade Runner, then they've failed already.
They should show Tarkovsky's Stalker again if they're focusing on Sci Fi. I love that one.
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11 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
At least they didn't reschedule THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE again.
Yeah, or Mac and Me!
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July 30th is a premiere of Star Wars.
I wonder how much that cost...
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Before Giulietta Masina starred in Nights of Cabiria and Fellini's other masterpieces, she was in Without Pity. This film deals with racism against Black GIs in post-Mussolini Italy. She plays the friend of the main lead and is very good in it. It has appeared on TCM a few times.
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And the Ship Sails On....
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South Pacific
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52 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Has anyone around here ever chatted about best music in a western? Best theme song, score, etc?
I like this one. Sounds like it was discarded from an old soap commercial.
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2 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
I'm bumping up my post since it was on the previous page. Curious to read some of the responses, hope some of you will respond.
My favorite sitcom is probably Citizen Smith.
The antics of the "Tooting Popular Front" always make me laugh.
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Kvinnors väntan
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2 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Colbert who?
Claudette Colbert
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16 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Ah, THAT'S right! That's what I saw Dave appear on after his stint on The Late Show was done. On Kimmel's show, not on Colbert's show. Thanks, jakeem.
Isn't it rather interesting that Carson never did, and Letterman never has visited their old programs, but instead have only appeared on their competitive network's late night programs? Carson once on Letterman's CBS show, and now Dave on Kimmel's ABC show.
(...I know Carson wanted Letterman to succeed him and was never a fan of Leno's, but does Letterman feel the same way about Colbert?)
I wouldn't blame him for that. Colbert isn't very funny and is way too political imo.
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Anna Christie (Garbo and her father are Scandinavians)
Next: kitchen fire
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The Hands of Orlac
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The German version is okay but the woman (Viertel) delivers her lines in a really garbled, deep voice and I didn't like that. Also all the characters in that film are so rude and hard to like or feel for.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Well, I doubt you've seen her lost silent film from MGM. I think only one reel exists. The Great Lady or something similar. They found a reel in Russia maybe 20 years or so ago.Unsure why this particular film went lost....
Yeah, the Divine Woman. I only saw the 9 minute fragment that turns up on TCM from time to time.
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On 3/26/2019 at 9:37 AM, DougieB said:
Are there any films in particular (like one or two only, please) which could get me out of my Garbo rut?
Tomorrow night is Flesh and the Devil - my favorite Garbo film of all time. It's a shame that John Gilbert never made it to sound because I think he was a great actor too. I hope they use the same score as last time as I thought it suited the film well. I just noticed that I've seen all her silent films except for the really early Scandinavian ones. She was in only a few films but so many ones that I consider superb.
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13 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
This is the very reason why I didn't enjoy Todd Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002). It was too self-conscious, trying to emulate (imitate?) Douglas Sirk's ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955). It didn't seem real to me. That he wanted to reference the earlier film, and had used a contrived plot also set in suburbia to accomplish this. But it seemed like a hollow exercise. It affected me when I re-watched ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. I had to shrug off Haynes' falseness connected with it, so I could revisit Sirk's film on its own terms separate from the immature homage that Haynes had put on the screen.
La La Land is another one that comes to mind. It took superficial elements from golden age musicals but was just a wreck. It also annoys me that they put the Cinemascope symbol in the opening titles but just shot it like a modern film.
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6 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Another awkward instance I was apprised of in detail recently: the lurid case of 'Iron Eyes Cody' in those Forestry Service / DOI anti-littering PSAs. Although 'Iron Eyes' adopted the Native American lifestyle thanks to his movie career --and although he didn't like to admit it--his family was from Sicily. He was an Italian American.
The smoke-and-mirrors sham world of Hollywood simply doesn't always lend itself so easily to social analysis.
Yeah, back then most of the native roles were played by Italians or East Euros. It's always funny going through the cast list and finding decisively non-native surnames attached to the role.
How much things have changed.
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4 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
The larger question behind all such topics (as this one) is maybe this: is there anything about the entire Golden Age of Hollywood which is politically-correct by today's standards? Isn't the whole thing 'wrong'?
Yeah, some of these films haven't exactly "aged well."
I still enjoy them though!
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My favorite Giallo film is Un Tranquillo Posto di Campagna. Such an eerie and beautiful film.
Also an extremely underrated score by Ennio Morricone.
I really hope TCM schedules this one again.
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Autumn Sonata
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26 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
That's another weird thing: I love Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I think Larry David is hilarious. So I really don't know why I can't click with Seinfeld, beyond not liking Jerry very much, and really not liking Jason Alexander. However, I've adored Julia Louis-Dreyfus since back in her Saturday Night Live days, and have liked her in everything since. And Kramer is Kramer. Despite the later troubles, I've always liked Michael Richards.
It's really a bit loud. The characters are always shouting and yelling. It gets to be a bit obnoxious at times. That is just my opinion though.
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I wonder how much that cost...
The Battleship Potemkin 1925?
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My favorite title card from the film is from the anti-racism scene where the racist guy with a stupid expression on his face blurts out "Let's destroy the Jews!" right as they're talking about working together and leaving racism in the past. The scene is just so over the top and cartoony and the guy's expression is so stupid, it makes me laugh every time I see it.