Sukhov
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8 hours ago, slaytonf said:
TCM has shown this a few times.
Yeah and they also have shown Riefenstahl films a few times over 20 years ago and the 40s Munchausen a few times. I doubt they'll reshow them anytime soon. I also doubt they'll ever show Uncle Kruger.
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5 hours ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
The way TCM keeps teasing silent film fans with Lilac Time (1928)?
Don't forget the Patent Leather Kid. This one has been on the schedule before but I don't think it has ever been shown.
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Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, Chatterbox, Blonde Ambition, Last 0rgy of the Gestapo...
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34 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
This is an asinine decision, and it disrespects all of the other people who worked on the film. Don't give Singer an award,
Is there even any actual evidence against him though? Denying him a reward because of unsubstantiated allegations isn't much better.
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Just a heads up. The entire schedule is up right now. Hey, the Saga of Gosta Berling is scheduled. Larry, that's in the Swedish edition of 1001 Movies, just so you know.
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14 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
The faces I can detect are these:
- Laurel and Hardy
- WC Fields
- Boris Karloff as Frankenstein?
- Bela Lugosi as Dracula (really difficult to see, but you can just barely spot the fangs)
- George Raft?
- Baby Snooks (?) Little Orphan Annie? or some other female? Babs Stanwyck?
- Leo Gorsey?
Bottom left of Oliver Hardy looks like Fu Manchu.
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16 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Where Do We Go From Here? (1945) - 6/10
This is a bizarre, absurdist, Technicolor musical comedy fantasy with Fred MacMurray as a guy who can't get drafted into the military. He accidentally frees a genie from a bottle, but when Fred wishes to get drafted, the genie instead sends him back in time to the Revolutionary War, then to Columbus discovering the Americas, then to the New Amsterdam era of NYC. Featuring songs from Ira Gershwin & Kurt Weill. I watched it for Anthony Quinn, who plays a slick Indian chief who "sells" Manhattan to Fred. This is weird and silly, yet pleasantly amusing and off-beat, and it's only 78 minutes long.
The operatic aria "Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria" is my favorite part of the film. I wish more of Weill's works had been adapted to film. "Happy End" is set in 20s gangster Chicago and would have made a good classic Hollywood "some Like It Hot" style film.
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Taming of the Shrew
Next: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Next: tanks
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Tomorrow 1/24 at 6 AM is New Moon
I don't think I've seen this early 30s version of this Romberg operetta before.
Also at 12 PM is Naughty Marietta - good movie and one of my favorite Herbert operettas.
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Great Expectations
Next: gangster film
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Rebel Without a Cause
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Rebel Without a Cause
Next: Kaiju film
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I've seen like half of them. I think Green Book will win Best Picture. Roma would win if it were in English though.
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My top 10 of 2018-
1. Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2. Decision: Liquidation
3. The Other Side of the Wind
4. Stan & Ollie
5. Green Book
6. Dressage
7. BlacKkKlansman
8. Operation Red Sea
9. Halloween
10. Roma
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Caligula's Slaves/ 0rgies of Caligula - Another knock off of the 79 Caligula film with political intrigue, sword fights and a lot of nudity. In the court of Caligula, conspirators plan to overthrow him by hiring one of his lovers to kill him. Of course, he finds out and a power struggle ensues between them. Not as good as the original film but this is a pretty fun sword and sandal flick and a good way to kill a couple hours.
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22 hours ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, well, I DID take the time to read all that, Stephan...YOU MOOSE KILLER, YOU!!!
(...poor wittle moose)
LOL
I liked the story with the Canadian soldiers.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Set in ILLINOIS, this OBVIOUSLY SHOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA (????) movie features all sorts of native vegetation (live oaks with resurrection fern on the branches, cast iron plant, sago palms, and in a an homage the original- a ton of palm trees visible in exterior shots)
As someone from the Midwest, it always annoyed me that palm trees were in every shot. They couldn't have just set the film in California? It's clearly not Illinois. lol
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Flag of Iron - This martial arts film is from the same director as the Five Deadly Venoms. The leader of a martial arts clan is killed by a mysterious assassin and the next leader (Chow Feng) is about to be arrested. Brother Lo takes his spot as the guilty one and goes on the run. Instead of being helped with money and supplies the clan sends assassins to kill him. He learns that Chow Feng was behind the assassination and is leading the clan into "immoral" dealings. He fights off various assassins and goes to the clan to fight Chow Feng and bring justice t the dead Master. Like his earlier Five Deadly Venoms, the assassins are disguised as seemingly mundane people (a butcher, blind man, etc.) A light-hearted, comedic moment comes when the butcher assassin says "Well it is either this or kill pigs."
The comedy is blended well into the action scenes. The Kung Fu was also very well choreographed and I liked the sword fights. This is a very entertaining film worth a view.
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3 hours ago, Fedya said:
I always thought it was "Too long; didn't read".
Edit: I see other people beat me to the punch.
I think the "too lazy" part was supposed to be a bit of a jab.
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6 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Wuthering Heights is an interesting case. I can recall when I was young hearing about the much-vaunted 1939, "The Greatest Year in Movie History". The familiar litany of titles would be mentioned: Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gunga Din, etc. And Wuthering Heights was usually included, too.
However, in the past few decades, it seems that Wuthering Heights is mentioned less and less, and I often see people post on here an antipathy for it. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there something about the film that isn't aging well? I saw it once, probably 25+ years ago, and liked it, but I confess to recalling very little from it now.
The 39 film is my favorite screen version of the Bronte novel. That haunting ending of the lovers in the snow stays with me. Very beautiful.
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6 is Ronald Fraser
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