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And it goes without saying that the Prussian director is Eric Von Stroheim. So, I won't say it.

> {quote:title=allthumbs wrote:}{quote} > so, who is supposed to be playing whom? and is it just momentary or a vague film long bio of someone? or a combination of incidents from a variety of actual people that are woven together to make a character in this particular movie? > I think it is just a fictional story of Hollywood, populated by people who resemble real ones, but the real ones were not connected in an real incident like this.

Think "cheap."

Harry (Walter Pidgeon) could be any studio head, but mostly Harry Cohn. And I would equate the English director (Leo G. Carroll) with the woman right behind him as Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville.

Obviously, Georgia (Lana Turner) is Diana Barrymore.

Sigh, another thread about this. Maybe you can find an old 4:3 TVand just watch the SD version. 'Course you will probably never want to see any movies after 1953 because widescreen will be so small on it. Or if you like your HDTV but hate the bars on the left and right, duplicate the theater experience...add a towel rack above your screen and slide the towels left and right to suit yourself.

> {quote:title=diana.g1990 wrote:}{quote} > Hey Everyone! > > > > I'm a huge fan of the Oscars and since August 2010 I have been trying to watch every film the Academy Awards have ever nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. (Yes, all 503 of them!) As of this moment I have 92 films left to watch. > > > > But more importantly I thought it would be really interesting to generate a discussion here where everyone could rank the nine films currently nominated for the Best Picture Oscar (or rank just the films they have seen). The nine of course being: > > > > AMOUR > ARGO > BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD > DJANGO UNCHAINED > LES MISERABLES > LIFE OF PI > LINCOLN > SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK > ZERO DARK THIRTY > > > > So simply order these films in your preference from #1 to 9. And of course feel free to add any comments you'd like when ranking these films. Hope to generate some great discussion on these current films! > > > > I'll be back to rank these films on a later date only because I still want to watch Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild first. > > > > *Don't forget to watch this year's Oscars live on Sunday, February 24, 2013 Still need to see AMOUR and BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD 1. ARGO 2. LINCOLN 3. ZERO DARK THIRTY 4. DJANGO UNCHAINED 5. LES MISERABLES 6. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK 7. LIFE OF PI diana, don't be too put off by some who will not even acknowledge that movies are still being made. I am older but still go to movies. Personally, I think that those who won't watch a current movie are as poor off as the younger audience member who won't see a film that is more than ten years old. Both are missing out...but with younger audiences, they have a natural resistance to anything older. In the case of older people who just refuse to see anything after a certain year, I think they are living in a bubble. I wonder if they ever leave their home or room. and keep the wall clock unplugged. Nostalgia is wonderful, but we still have a wonderful world to live in.

The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in May. On May 7th, the studio will release Jean-Luc Godard's *Band of Outsiders* (1964). On My 14th, it will release Delmer Daves' *Jubal* (1956) and *3:10 to Yuma* (1957). A week later, it will release Haskell Wexler's *Medium Cool* (1969). And on May 28th, it will release Mike Leigh's *Life is Sweet* (1990). Special features: *Band of Outsiders:* * New digital master of Gaumont's recent high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * Visual glossary of references and wordplay found in Band of Outsiders * Exclusive interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and actor Anna Karina * Excerpts from a 1964 interview with director Jean-Luc Godard, including rare behind-the-scenes footage from the film * Filmmaker Agnès Varda's 1961 silent comedy Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, starring Godard and Karina and featuring other members of the Band of Outsiders cast * Godard's original theatrical trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, Godard's character descriptions for the film's 1964 press book, and an interview with the director from the same year *Jubal:* A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones *3:10 to Yuma* Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and Glenn Ford's son and biographer, Peter Ford PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones *Medium Cool* New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Haskell Wexler, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, actor Marianna Hill, and editor Paul Golding, the other featuring historian Paul Cronin * New interview with Wexler * Look Out Haskell, It's Real!, a fifty-five-minute documentary about the making of Medium Cool, produced by Cronin and featuring interviews with Wexler, Golding, actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster, Chicago historian Studs Terkel, and others * Excerpts from Sooner or Later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship, who plays the adolescent Harold in the film * Original theatrical trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard *Life Is Sweet* New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh * Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London * More! * PLUS: A booket featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt

Olive Films have revealed the first five titles of their April slate of Blu-ray releases: City That Never Sleeps (1953) War of the Wildcats (1943) Champion (1949) Copacabana (1947) The Fighting Seabees (1944).

On right now.

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With today being RKO Day on TCM, here's a photo-comic story of a forgotten 1939 RKO film

John Derek's advice on "How To Behave On The First Date"

Missed running this the other day And a small part of the MAD satire:

I have just started watching the Blu of The Jazz Singer and I am surprised by the amount of restoration that has been done. I have the DVD set that came out a few years ago, and they touted THAT as "Painstakingly Restored and Remastered." But look at these sample differences I took pictures of and notice how abundant the vertical lines are in the DVD (what they called "painstakingly restored"): (The top is the DVD and the bottom is the Blu-ray) Closer photo of both: Another scene:

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I saw an ad today that the Hollywood Museum (located a block from the Roosevelt) is showing a Loretta Young exhibit that will be on during the festival. Here's a link: http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com/loretta-young-hollywood-legend

I don't normally post someone else's reviews here, but I wanted to pass this along. They are giving the Fairbanks' Thief of Bagdad Blu-ray from Cohen Media a really excellent rating: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Thief-of-Bagdad-Blu-ray/58234/#Review

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}Maybe, maybe not. I thought the film was was a bit too reticent, but then it was 72 (I think)...... Hibi, I just realized something weird (about me)...for some reason when you wrote "72", one movie came immediately to my mind... Travels With My Aunt There were better films...but for some reason (and I don't know why)...just reading "72" made it immediately come to mind.

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