traceyk65
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> > Surprised nobody's brought GILLIGAN'S ISLAND to the big screen. Should we thank our lucky stars?
YES.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> > Having seen *Badlands* a few times now, it occurs to me that the Coen Bros. were almost satirizing it in *Raising Arizona*, especially with Nick Cage's v/o narration.
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> Interesting you should say that. I recently received a boxed set of Coen Brothers movies, and am on a bit of a personal Coen Brothers revival. I've also been motivated to dig out a book I have on the Coens, which I must confess I'd never read; do you ever do that, buy a book on impulse ("Hey, this looks interesting..and it's on sale !" ) and then leave it to languish on a shelf, filling you with remorse and guilt every time you glance at its reproachful cover ?
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> Anyway, I'm finally reading that book, and it is reminding me that there are many Coen Brothers movies I have seen only once, and that a long time ago. *Raising Arizona* is one of the above; I've mostly forgotten its details. I'll have to remedy that soon.
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> Sorry, slight digression from thread topic. Carry on, everyone.
I didn;t even know there was a boxed set of the Coens! Cool--something else for my Wish list this year...which films are in it (if you don;t mind digressing a bit more?)
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> Another film I watched on TCM was THE BAD SEED. I had never seen this one before. The performances are excellent.
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> It's a little too stagey, and some of the dialogue about psychoanalysis is rather heavy-handed. There are some holes in the plot. And a few scenes should definitely be trimmed to avoid dragging. But I think with polishing, this could be a successful remake.
Didn;t someone remake it w/ Macauley Culkin in the 90's? The Good Son or something like that?
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Undercurrent 1946 w/ Katharine Hepburn (woman marries a man who turns out to be a psycho)
Undercurrent 1999 Lorenzo Lamas (guy needs money, seduces someones wife for pay...well definitely NOT the same plot line)
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To paraphrase Joseph Breen:
"We advise strong guard over all pictures which feature...Natalie Portman."
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Sounds like the chairs' original owner might have been related to my grandma. After she died, we kept finding money taped to bed frames, sewn into curtain linings, etc, etc. I just hope we found it all...
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> Gloria Swanson as a silent screen movie queen, living in the past. Also has Erich Von Stroheim as a former moviemaker, Cecil B. DeMille as a still active moviemaker, Hedda Hopper as a Hollywood gossip columnist, and assorted "waxworks" from silent films: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nillson, etc. . . SUNSET BLVD. of course.
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> Edited by: Arturo on Jan 25, 2011 7:04 PM
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> Edited by: Arturo on Jan 25, 2011 7:05 PM
Except I don't think Gloria Swanson was much like Norma Desmond--definitely NOT living in the past.
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 26, 2011 7:42 PM
for TYPOS. I have to learn to type better.
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Just some additions:
For singer bios add:
Sing Sinner Sing (1933) supposed to be about singer Libby Holman(which was remade as Reckless w/ Harlow a few years later)
To Vampires add:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Lost Boys
And as a correction (becasue I am just that **** about my favorite books
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> *BALLET*
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> - ON YOUR TOES
> - I WAS AN ADVENTURESS
> - DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
> - FANTASIA
> - THE RED SHOES
> - THE STORY OF THREE LOVES
> - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
> - LIMELIGHT
> - THE TURNING POINT
> - FAME
> - WHITE NIGHTS
> - NUTCRACKER: THE MOTION PICTURE
> - BILLY ELLIOT
> - BLACK SWAN
> - TUTUMUCH
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I loved Billy Elliot! Such a good movie!
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*Birthdays today:*
*Paul Newman*
*Joan Leslie is 86 today:*
Dancing with Fred Astaire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tx1trIfZbI&feature=related
*Buddy Pictures:*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
The Sting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lY92P-bSl0&feature=related
Some Like It Hot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xRJcUmt6Io&feature=related
Thelma and Louise:
Hope/Crosby Road Pictures:
Nuns on the Run:
The Odd Couple:
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > *Birthdays today:*
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> > *Ernest Borgnine is 94 today:*
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> > Clip from Marty:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzdA6XzmSA
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> > Johnny Guitar:
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> > The Dirty Dozen:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weydVs3t2Y
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> > The Wild Bunch:
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> > Ernie?s finest performance--Mermaid Man! (kidding!):
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYY8QWYERs
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> So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings".
He's an actor. He mostly did/does character-type roles--played a lot of cowboy/outlaws and rough and tough army types. He won an Oscar in the 50's for the film Marty, playing a man who finds love late in life, after he's pretty much given up ever finding Ms Right. Most recently he's been the voice of Mermaid Man on the kid's cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. (BTW the voice of Barnacle Boy is Tim Conway, best known from his work on the Carol Burnett Show in the 70's and 80's)
Here's his IMDB page:
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Attack of the Giant Things!
Night of the Lepus
Tarantula
It Came From beneath the Sea
Beginning of the End
Killer Shrews
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Its a TV movie, but Hepburn was mostly playing Hepburn in This Can't Be Love. She plays a spunky, out-spoken aging movie star reunited with an old flame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOq59PsFYk
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 25, 2011 4:40 PM
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Bette Davis in THE STAR
I think she was under the impression that she was playing Joan Crawford...LOL
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> No, I've seen Beyond The Forest on TCM several times. But it's been quite awhile. I wonder when this "right's issue" came to pass?
No idea. But I'd love to see it. I haven;t been able to find it on DVD or VHS for a reasonable price even.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks, Kinokima, that makes sense. I guess if I'd looked a little more carefully at the structure of tracey's post, I would have seen what she meant. (sorry, tracey, baby
)No prblem. I should be more clear--I tend to write a little bit stream-of-consciously (is that even a word?) at times and if you aren't in my head (which I don't recommend) at the time, it can be a little confusing.
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> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> I assume (and I am sorry if I am wrong too) that she means Holiday, Alice Adams, and Stage Doors or the hits while Mary of Scotland, Morning Glory, and The Little Minister are the misses.
Yes.
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*It?s my birthday and I?ll play what I want to?*
Bette Davis:
Una Merkell (LOVE the song):
Hepburn and Grant:
Myrna Loy and William Powell:
Silver Screen Kisses:
Bad Girls:
Classic Hollywood Men:
Film Noir:
Classic movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4l4mF605ig&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzIoqdJgeAY
Screwball Comedy:
Disney Villains:
Dance Dance!
Dietrich (didja really think I?d leave her out?):
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*Birthdays today:*
*Ernest Borgnine is 94 today:*
Clip from Marty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzdA6XzmSA
Johnny Guitar:
The Dirty Dozen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weydVs3t2Y
The Wild Bunch:
Ernie?s finest performance--Mermaid Man! (kidding!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYY8QWYERs
*Ann Todd:*
The Paradine Case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZAnr7_dsJ8&feature=related
The Passionate Friends w/Claude Rains:
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RE: the Dietrich-WB piece a couple of "days" ago...I wonder if she ever did have a deal with Warner? Her daughter doesn't mention it in her bio and it's not in anything else I've read before. I wonder if it was a planted piece to stir up interest. Her career wasn;t doing too well at at that point--she'd been living on money from who-knows-where (I've read everything from a secret (from other Paramount stars) clause that gave her a share of the profits from her films to some sort of Communist plot) and trvelling around Europe and back and forth to America for most of 1938. She was in America for the first half of 1939, though.
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> This is just about Kate's best work, though I am a fan, and like her in LION IN WINTER as well.
She's also very good in The African Queen, Summertime, Long Day's Journey into Night and surprisingly, Song of Love. I like most of Kate's films, though her 1930's stuff is pretty hit or miss (Alice Adams Holiday or Stage Door vs Mary of Scotland, Morning Glory or (good god) The Little Minister for example)
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> I don't think we should start using the phrase 'modern classic' in a negative sense. That is what I am detecting. It would be awfully sad if a GONE WITH THE WIND type film came along today and people refused to give it its due just because it was not made during the studio era. That's ridiculous. A classic film is a classic film, regardless of era.
Oh, well said!
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> > {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> > Another question to ask: let's say the original film in a franchise is a classic, like RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, does that necessarily mean that all its sequels are classics, too? Probably not. If we look at the ROCKY series, we can see that several of the follow-ups performed very well at the box office (or else they would not have continued making them), but most of the sequels lack the magic of the original, which was a best picture Oscar winner.
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> It appears that you are very loose with the term "CLASSIC". Of course you are entitled to your OPINION, but an OPINION does not make it a FACT. RAIDERS was a fun action picture, but not a CLASSIC, far from it.
It's as much a classic as, say, The Adventures of Robin Hood or Gunga Din. In fact, it's very similar in style and content, except that Gunga Din doesn't have a spunky leading lady...
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Errol Flynn as John Barrymore in Too Much Too Soon wasn't too far off the mark...
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 23, 2011 1:11 PM
) Tolkien referred to his world as Middle Earth...
Classic TV shows that might make good movies
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> Sometimes it does not work. "The Brady Bunch Movie" is a good example. Its simply *not the same.*
But you have to admit that writing an entire movie (A Very Brady Sequel) about that pseudo-Chinese horse was very funny. Good grief, can you imagine how many times the writers had to watch those TV episodes before someone went, "OMG! The freaking horse! It's in every episode! Let's use that!"