filmlover
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I think they don't list the 20% off sale info on the website because they don't want EVERYBODY saving money. They probably figure if they just announce it to a few, it will not be that big a drop in income.
But you can go ahead and use any of the codes that are here when you get to the checkout area.
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Frank, yes, I was at the Los Feliz branch tonight and they had several of the Ford at Fox big box sets. It says on the sign they are $179, but they also note if you have the coupon, you get $60 off right then and there.
Edgecliff, yes, you pay a membership fee each year. I think it is about $50, but it may vary. It may seem high at first but in the long run, it is definitely worth it. I have saved so much buying things there. I don't know if it is still a policy but they used to require you to be invited to join. They may be more lax on that now, but you do need to be a member to buy from them, even online.
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Good rumors are cirulating about six James Bond films being released by the end of this year on Blu-ray: Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, and Die Another Day.
They will be released in France on November 5th by Fox (the distribution arm for MGM there), which could mean a concurrent release in the States. The other 14 could be released on Blu at the time of the release in theaters of the newest Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
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I was at Costco this afternoon and noticed some excellent bargains:
The Fox Studio Collection 4 DVD set of All About Eve, Gentlemen's Agreement, How Green Was My Valley, and Sunrise...only $12.99! Heck, its worth that just to get Sunrise.
John Wayne Legendary Heroes Collection $19.99 (almost bought this today through dd.com at a buck or two more; glad I held off)
Michael Shayne Mysteries $12.99
John Wayne Century Collection $56.99
Screen Legends Collections: James Stewart, John Wayne, and Cary Grant...$14.99 each
Gary Cooper Signature Collection $19.99
James Cagney Signature Collection $19.99
Gary Cooper Signature Collection $19.99
Frank Sinatra: the Early Years and the Golden Years box sets...$26.99 each
Dirty Harry Ultimate Collection box set $49.99
plus some two packs of DVDs for $12.99: War Wagon/Rooster Cogburn, Destry Rides Again/Far Country, Plainsman/Spoilers, and a few others.
And, of course, if you have the coupon booklet they sent out free, the gigantic Ford at Fox set is $119 (same price for the complete James Bond box set).
I also found a bargain at the last place I would pick for bargain hunting: Best Buy. They had a rack of "Father's Day" type movies, marked at $8.99. Nothing amazing, except for one item on the rack that wasn't advertised in the flyer at that price: the new 2-DVD edition of The Big Trail. I had to verify that but the cashier scanned it and it was indeed $8.99, instead of the usual $14.99.
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I noticed that a few prices I had been watching went up about a buck, but I still bought two things so far: The Rat Pack Ultimate Edition and the John Wayne Icon Collection. There are some others but I haven't decided what yet.
edgecliffe, keep an eye out at Costco for the Chan sets because I am sure they will show up there again cheap. They have the two Moto sets for $15.99 each.
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I have this in the Classic Film DVD Reviews section in the Genre Forums section of the TCM Board, but thought it important enough to add to the General Discussion board because so many of us buy DVDs and a lot of us here get excited about (and go broke on) the deepdiscount.com 20% off sale, which is only held twice a year. Their normal low prices are often on a par or lower than Amazon already, so when they offer the extra 20% off all DVDs (including box sets), it makes incredible shopping. Well, today is the start of the new sale, and runs from today until June 22.
(So, for example, say you want the Criterion title, "Ace in the Hole." Normal street price: $39.95. Their regular discount price: $25.39. With the sale, that would then be approximately $20.31.)
You will need to insert a discount code to get the 20% off the total of your order after you have everything in your cart. Remember, you can do several orders from now until the 22nd, but you can only use one code per order and then that code becomes invalid for you.
Here are codes I have comes across so far:
DDAF
DVDTALK
USATODAY
GAMER
You can only use it on currently released titles, not future releases. (However, remember, that if there is something that you want coming out on June 17th, for example, then order it from the 17th to the 22nd.) There is no minimum order. Free shipping, no taxes. YAY!
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I just an email saying the deepdiscount.com 20% off of their regular low prices starts today (the 5th), not tomorrow.
You will need to insert a discount code to get the 20% off the total after you have everything in your cart. Remember, you can do several orders from now until the 22nd, but you can only use one code per order and then that code becomes invalid.
Here are codes I have comes across so far:
DDAF
DVDTALK
USATODAY
GAMER
You can only use it on currently released titles, not future releases. (However, remember, that if there is something that you want coming out on June 17th, for example, then order it form the 17th to the 22nd. There is no minimum order. Free shipping, no taxes.es out on June 17th, for example, then order it on the 17th.
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Well, I guess I am the first to vote. I've looked the schedule and am impressed on different points in each. It was close but I have to cast my vote for *lzcutter*. It was the Cusp of Sound section, along with those great early Westerns, women, and the Hearts and Mind documentary, that clinched it for me.
Congratulations to all for doing a schedule. I know how hard it is to do the Challenges, but it is worth it.
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I was a seat filler for the Academy Awards show one year in the early 1990s. While waiting in the lobby with other seat fillers, I was looking around at the stars present, trying to make a mental note of everyone I saw. But that was quickly knocked out of my head when I saw Sophia Loren. On her way into the auditorium, she passed right by me. I was awestruck. She was still more beautiful than any modern star there. And who else was in the lobby at the same time to make it all complete for me as far as star worshipping? Gregory Peck. You just don't get much better than those two.
As seat fillers, we were not allowed to talk to anyone there unless they spoke to us first. I never got a chance to talk to either of them, but I know if the opportunity had been there to talk to Sophia Loren, I would have not known a single thing to say. I would have just been stammered.
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I was just looking at deepdiscount and they have the same Warner Bros. box set sale on (or at least some of them) and while their price is about a dollar more for something like the John Ford Film Collection ($26.80 at dd; $25.49 at Amazon), the sale on the Warner's titles goes until the 15th. And the dd 20% off sale starts on the 6th, so you can get the Ford set (and others) at 20% off the sale price, so that brings the Ford set down to approximately $21.44. Just for waiting a few more days.
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from latimes.com
*Turner Classic Movies series honors Sophia Loren*
'They did a wonderful job (choosing films),' says the Oscar-winning actress. The channel will show 23 of her best.
By Susan King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 4, 2008
The thing about Clark Gable, said Sophia Loren from her home in Geneva, Switzerland, was his watch. The sex symbol whose film career has spanned nearly six decades worked with the Hollywood icon in the lighthearted 1960 comedy "It Started in Naples."
"He was always looking at the watch when it came to 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon," she said by phone. "Even if we were in the middle of a scene at 5, I could hear the alarm going off and he would leave the set."
"We were flabbergasted. What?" she added. "But he had it in his contract."
"It Started in Naples" is just one of the 23 Loren movies screening Wednesdays this month on Turner Classic Movies. "Naples" screens this evening along with 1954's "Too Bad She's Bad," the classic 1963 comedy "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" and the 1961 comedy "The Millionairess."
Other Loren films featured are her Oscar-winning turn in 1961's "Two Women," the 1958 melodrama "The Key," the 1964 epic "The Fall of the Roman Empire" and 1957's melodrama "Boy on a Dolphin."
"They did a wonderful job [choosing films]," says the actress, who will be 74 in September. "They are showing films that I did when I was 18 and the impact in America with 'The Pride and the Passion' and the Oscar and so on and on."
In fact, she's still working and is set to star as ****'s ( Daniel Day-Lewis) mother in Rob Marshall's production of the musical "Nine," which is based on Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning classic "8 1/2 ."
"I just want to work in things that really give me emotions," she said. "I think for me as an Italian to be in a musical is the dream of my life. Now I am going to be part of this, which I think is absolutely marvelous. I can't wait to start."
Despite her long career and her Italian background, Loren surprisingly never worked with Fellini.
"Sometimes in movies, it's very difficult to find a story that is good for the director and the actress," Loren said. "I always admired his style, his intelligence. He was also very funny, a great man."
The Italian director with whom Loren is most closely associated is Vittorio De Sica, who guided her to an Oscar in "Two Women."
"He was my father in the profession," said Loren. "He really taught me everything because I started with him in [1954's] 'The Gold of Naples' and I worked with him, I think, 20 years. Marcello [Mastroianni] and I did about 14 films with him."
In De Sica, she found the right person at the right time, she said.
"We came from the same city, Naples. We understood each other with a look and a gesture. I was like a member of the family. He could make me do anything he wanted. He knew my character. It was just like we were one person."
Ironically, Loren wasn't supposed to play the mother in "Two Women," a harrowing drama about a widowed shopkeeper and her religious teenage daughter who flee Rome after an Allied bombing raid.
De Sica and Loren's husband, producer Carlo Ponti, wanted Loren to play the daughter and the Oscar-winning powerhouse Anna Magnani to play the mother. But Magnani refused.
"She said, 'We have two strong characters, and we are going to eat each other up on the screen,' " Loren said. " 'If Sophia is in the film, I am not going to be the mother.' De Sica was very upset. But she left De Sica with this phrase: 'Why don't you let Sophia play the mother?' "
The director liked Magnani's suggestion. "He wrote me a telegram," she recalled. "I was in Paris. He said, 'You are going to play the mother and your daughter is going to be 14 years old. I thought I was going to die. I was 25 years old."
The film's most haunting sequence -- the aftermath of the two women's rape by soldiers -- was shot in just one take. "De Sica said 'Take. Print.' I said, 'No. Let's do it again.' He said, 'No. If something goes wrong with the negative we will do it again. But it's beautiful.' "
Loren, now a grandmother, has a full life with her grandchildren and her sons Carlo and Edoardo. "I always feel like I am a kid. I want to discover things. I am very curious."
But Loren confesses she's still in deep mourning over the death of her husband early last year. "I met him when I was 15 years old. Can you imagine? A lifetime. When I was with him, I had always in front of me not a person but the entire world."
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-loren4-2008jun04,0,1975499.story
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You're welcome, Frank.
Here are some other good items from the other Amazon sales on right now:
The Original Nancy Drew Movie Mystery Collection $12.49 (down from $24.98)
Superman - the 1948 & 1950 Theatrical Serials Collection $16.99 (down from $39.98)
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Amazon has just started a good sale on a lot of DVDs, including LOTS of classic box sets at great prices. Examples:
Rooney & Garland Collection $27.49 (was $59.92)
Tennessee Williams Collection $27.49 (was $68.98)
John Ford Film Collection $25.49 (was $59.98)
Some sets are 60% off.
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Somebody at Universal was just saying on the news that the vault where they store the negatives was right next to the building on fire, but even then that there are duplicates of those negatives elsewhere.
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The fireman just a minute ago said there is a fire buring away at a "video vault". I really hope it isn't the film vault as you guys have mentioned. This is horrible any way we look at it. He mentioned the Back to the Future square is gone, as well as other locations.
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Tinted lobby cards have been around since the silents. For example:
I don't think that they were done to fool the public into thinking the movie was in color, since back then the films (with exceptions) had no color sequences other than a one-color tinting of a scene (e.g, nighttime). Even during the Thirtires, Forties, and onwards, lobby cards had color, but it was easy to tell when a fillm was to be in color because the poster and lobby cards would boldly proclaim something like "In Technicolor!"
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I think it is an excellent schedule. And I think that any of those who have been complaining there are too many recent films in the past schedules will have to give that worn-out cry a rest. Lots of 1930s here, etc. I am not a big Kay Francis fan but having a month to her means a lot of early Warner Bros. films, and that's good by me.
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Exactly right.
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Quick trivia question I learned from the booklet in the box set:
Who was the first Amos Burke? He played him in a 1961 episode of a different TV series.
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It was an Aaron Spelling production (man, he had a good record of producing hits).
It's interesting watching the credits in this initial box set to see that Harlan Ellison wrote two episodes.
VCI is also going to be producing a box set of the complete "Honey West" series. I am looking forward to that one. HW was introduced in an episode in the second season of "Burke's Law."
I didn't like when "Burke's Law" transitioned in the third season to "Amos Burke, Secret Agent."
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film fatale, post a review of it in the Adventure ot the Fantasy threads here. I am sure people would like to know more about it. I will be doing so, too (as soon as the damned DVDplanet.com order arrives!).
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Again, Celluloid, we don't need all the fluff part of the announcement here. Basically, the title, the release date, any special features, the things we need to know to make a decision about buying it. We don't need Tim Burton's film history nor a synopsis of the film.
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When I was a kid (so many decades ago), I used to watch the TV murder mystery, "Burke's Law" and always enjoyed it. Over this last weekend, I saw all of the first 16 episodes of the series on the new VCI box set release and was stunned by how many film stars appeared on it (it was sort of the "Murder, She Wrote" of its day with regards to actors appearing on the show).
In the first week alone, there was William Bendix, Rod Cameron, Bruce CAbot, Sir Cedric Hardwick, and Zasu Pitts. It's true that they all had bit parts, appearing as possible suspects in a murder mystery, but they were all fun to watch. I mean look at the third week with Mary Astor, Lizabeth Scott, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Chill Wills, all in one episode.
Other stars who appeared in the first sixteen shows were Elizabeth Montgomery, Charlie Ruggles, Ed Begley, Terry-Thomas, Rita Moreno, Joan Blondell, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith, Sammy Davis, Jr., Diana Dors, John Ireland, Carolyn Jones, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Laraine Day, RHonda Fleming, Anne Francis, Celeste Holm, Annette Funicello, Joan Caulfield, Gloria Swanson, Edward Everett Horton, June Allyson, Jack Haley, Agnes Moorehead, Yvonne DeCarlo, Broderick Crawford, and Hoagy Carmichael (I got a special kick out of the fact that he sings a song in the show and it was one he did in "To Have and Have Not"). Oops, and I forgot to mention that Gene Barry was the star. (One inside joke had him do a double-take at a gravemarker that read, "HE CALLED BAT MASTERSON A LIAR".)
I found I enjoy the show as much as I did back then.
Special Sales of Classic Titles on DVD & Blu-ray
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*?Hi Frank, it's nice to see you too! I believe you were the very first person to welcome me to these boards.?*
*?Your comments are very kind! That is fun we have such similar viewing interests.?*
*?Thanks. I'm always attracted to those who enjoy DVD audio commentaries. It's actually a smaller group of people than I first realized.?*
*?I printed your list of recommendations and it's sitting next to the TV with my "viewing ideas" list.?*
*?That's very flattering. Thank you.?*
Come on, people, get a room! LOL!
Seriously, though, this is a conversation going back and forth, and should be done using the Private Messages feature. The upcoming news is getting lost in the posts.
As far as the commentary tracks for Thief of Bagdad, one track is Coppola and Scorsese (though it sounds like they were at two different sessions, just spliced together). The other track is a very detailed history of the production by Bruce Eder, I think it was, truly the one to listen to for details. I am still going through it.