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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}Now if Garbo had signed with Warner Bros.......interesting thought!
It would be more interesting with the Wayan Bros.
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> {quote:title=cinecrazydc wrote:}{quote}I am big on anniversaries, whether there is a restoration or not. 1963 was a banner year for movies, and so I have the following recommendations:
> The Great Escape – with James Garner or David McCallum in attendance.
> Tom Jones – too much to hope for Albert Finney?
> *Lilies of the Field – Sidney Poitier*
> HUD – Ileana Douglas
> 8 ½ (Fellini groundbreaker about film making)
> The Cardinal (good performances by John Huston and Tom Tryon and a Golden Globe winner that year
> The Haunting – with Julie Harris doing double duty on East of Eden
> Disney tributes: Sword and the Stone, Son of Flubber
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> Bond film which seems to have become traditional at the TCM CFF: From Russia with Love
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Competely agree about Poitier and Lilies of the Field. Not only is it the 50th anniversary for the film, it was the film that won the Oscar for Poitier, the first time a black actor won an Oscar for Best Actor.
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Good choices, kingrat.
I met Diane Baker once, in a most unusual place, LOL. It was at the Blockbuster on Sunset near Fairfax while she was picking out something to watch. She was really friendly and easy to talk with.
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Two more titles from Olive on DVD and Blu on July 17th:
*High Noon 60th Anniversary*
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers*
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Garbo
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And another thing, why did johnbabe put it under "Hot Topics"? GG's been dead for many decades, there is nothing new about her coming out, etc, and this thread is old news. Maybe jb knew it would become a hot topic because of how sick we are of it.
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Hibi,
I did a count once and found that in a six month period, johnbabe had created (not just posted in, but actually created) more than 20 different threads about GG. In just six months!!! The TCM WebAdmin at the time told johnbabe to keep it to one thread. You can see how johnbabe listens. Sometimes, I feel he/she is a troll, doing this to annoy people. Right up there with the Osmond thread maker. (Not convinced the creator of that and johnbabe are not the same.)
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VCI has more J. Arthur Rank British films coming out on DVD on July 3rd...
First A Girl (1935) Jessie Matthews
Woman Hater (1948) Stewart Granger
The Naked Truth (1957) Peter Sellers
Lionsgate is starting to issue their MOD program, and one of the first titles is the British film Brighton Rock, a 1947 crime thriller starring Richard Attenborough, (This title is available on a region B-locked Blu-ray available in the UK.)
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Kyle,
I was thinking along the same lines, that there be selection of WWII films, but I was thinking along the lines of a salute to WWII cartoons (e.g., Herr Meets Hare, Daffy the Commando, and Russian Rhapsody), and maybe some films like Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, where Rathbone's Holmes goes up againt the Nazis.
A Hard Day's Night will have its 50th anniversary. And, yes, definitely, The Haunting.
The following would have been 100 years old in 2013, so a selection of films would be good:
Vivien Leigh
Sammy Cain
Burt Lancaster
Peter Cushing
Frances Farmer
Stewart Granger (Scaramouche, please!!)
Trevor Howard
Danny Kaye (The Court Jester!!!!)
Stanley Kramer
Alan Ladd (Shane...60th anniversary in 2013)
Red Skelton
Loretta Young
We had a nice selection of film noirs at the Festival, as well as films devoted to style. Maybe 2013 can be the Year of the Swashbuckler. Among the ones I would suggest (there are many more)...
The Mark of Zorro (Fairbanks) 1920
Don Q, Son of Zorro (Fairbanks in two roles) 1925
Don Juan (Barrymore) 1926 (this could be accompanied by a live orchestra, making it a real event!)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Flynn) 1938
The Mark of Zorro (Power) 1940
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Remaining weeks of July 1936
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I liked it, a nice little movie. And I've really grown to like Richard Dix. He can deliver a line with a quiet dignity.
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A Man to Remember is on now and I am glad I am DVRing it. This was a very important film in 1938, but it is completely forgotten today. In case anyone is just tuning into it now and wonders why there are foreign subtitles of this American movie, it is because, as mentioned in a title card before the movie, this is a copy from a Netherlands source and it is the only know copy still in existence. Early screen credit for Dalton Trumbo.
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Well said, sir.
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Yikes, almost forgot to write about...
Day 4
Woke up early and still felt a hankering to go to the Arclight Cinerama Dome to see How the West Was Won. After all, that isn't just a movie...seeing at the Dome is an event. But, as I knew it would be back with several other Cinerama films in Sept/Oct there, I decided once and for all that I was going to see A Trip to the Moon, And Other Trips Through Space, Time, and Color over at the Egyptian. Serge Bromberg, who was such a delight at the 3D showing on the third day, was hosting this special presentation, so that made it a good choice.
And it was. There were a number of rare shorts he introduced, including one from 1906, "A Trip Down Market Street," in which a camera was at the front of a streetcar in San Francisco and filmed the people and the buildings seen along the way to the Embarcadero (and people did like to show off for such an unusual device like a motion picture camera...likely the first time most had see one). It was very poignant short because, a few days after the filming, the city was hit with the deadly earthquake. Bromberg also presented footage taken after the earthquake. Very heartbreaking to see so many building that were now rubble. The highlight of the presenattion was the color restoration of "A Trip to the Moon." This treasure of the early days of cinema is a must-see for everyone who loves the movie, "Hugo."
My plan was to exit the Egyptian right after the show at 11:15 and dash over to "Trouble In Paradise" at the Chinese Multiplex, but the Moon showing ran longer than expected, and it made the Paradise showing a no-go. I wasn't too disappointed because it gave me a chance to have breakfast and to shop in the TCM souvenir shop. I also got a chance to talk with Robert Osborne for a minute in Club TCM after what I suspect was the morning breakfast with him. He remembered me from the time I had the great honor to be one of the 15 fan programmers three years earlier. I reminded him of the film I had picked ("Those Lips, Those Eyes") and he mentioned to me that star Frank Langella has a new book out. I hadn't known this and ordered it right away. Mr. O was just as great as he has always been. To those of you who have never had the chance to meet him yet, the Robert Osborne you see on TCM is really the way he is.
I also had a chance to run into several staff from TCM that I knew from the Fan Programmer time in Atlanta. They really are wonderful people, and I think they will all confess they have the best jobs in the world.
Went over to "Call Her Savage," a 1932 film with Clara Bow playing a young woman who might kiss you or attack you, depending on her ever-shifting personality moods.
A fun interview with Angie Dickenson at Grauman's Chinese started prior to a showing of Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo."
Then came the real hard decision of the day...choosing the final film of the Festival to see. The choices were Annie Hall at Grauman's Chinese, Black Sunday or Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House or Auntie Mame at the Multiplex, or The Thief of Bagdad with live orchestra at the Egyptian. Arggh, talk about a difficult choice! I was leaning towards Thief of Bagdad but I had the great pleasure of seeing it with a live orchestra several years back. Annie Hall? Mmm...no. Black Sunday? I have good memories of that film, an excellent thriller, but also of Marthe Keller saying, "Look what I bwought Michael all the way from Beiwut", so no. Auntie Mame? Tempting. But as time was running out, I flipped a coin between Thief and Mr. Blandings...and Blandings won. And I am very happy to report I laughed more at this showing than when I have seen it on TV! The audience loved it, too. I can't recall who introduced it but they mentioned that 73 copies of the house were built by the studio in various cities to promote the film. The actual house still exists in Malibu as a ranger station at the Malibu Creek State Park.
Okay, end of films. Time for the closing party at Club TCM. A lot of fond farewells, drinks, and nice memories. Fans of RO got their last chance to meet him and shake his hand...and was that line long! Photos taken during the Festival played on the huge screen. And I had the chance to make some new friends who I hope will be back next year.
I can hardly wait!!!!!
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from blu-ray.com:
Independent label Twilight Time, which has licensing rights to both Fox and Columbia titles in those studios' high definition assets catalogs, has announced their releases for July and August of this year. On July 10th, Twilight Time will release 1965's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and 1944's Cover Girl (with Rita Hayworth). On August 14th, the label will release 1960's High Time (directed by Blake Edwards, and including the Oscar nominated standard "The Second Time Around") as well as the 1963 film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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Fred, my article was in response to yours because I didn't want anyone thinking yours was in any way real. I went to the same fake headline creating website you did. But I was surprised that yours wasn't there after a few hours. I figured that maybe you just copied and pasted it, rather than linking it to a place like flickr.com, and that was why it vanished. I wasn't happy with its removal because then people didn't get the real joke of mine looking exactly like yours, showing you were just ranting again.
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Starting this Sunday and going through May 12th, Best Buy is going to have another of their "Upgrade & Save" events. What you do is bring in any DVD in good condition in its original case and they will give you a $5 coupon off the price of any Blu-ray title $9.99 and up (it will probably excuse music Blus like they did last time). You do not have to match the same title for the one you bring in on DVD. You can pick any Blu title. The maximum nummber of DVDs you can bring in at any one time is 5. So, you can do 5 one day, 5 the next, etc.
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From today through next Thursday, Frys has an $8.99 price on the following Blus:
Notorious
Spellbound
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Dressed to Kill (M.Caine)
Miller's Crossing
Raising Arizona
and the Jurassic Park Trilogy is $34.99
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> Filmlover, it WOULD amaze me if the people in these films WERE in their 50's. I'm willing to bet the rent that most of them are in their 70's! A lot of these movies are on average 45 years old! Ya gotta figure the cast members were probably pushing 30 but playing younger when they were made. Hell, I went to see them when I was an early teen( 13 and 14 ), and I'M 60!!
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Sepia, go back and check it again. You read it wrong.
I wrote:
"What may amaze some people *is that these films* are now almost 50 years old!!!!!"
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My Region Bs are mostly British films, many unavailable here. (I highly recommend getting a region free player.)
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Best night of the week!
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In several places about the apartment. Blus in one area (850+ and counting...divided into regular Blus and 3D Blus). Individual movie DVDs below them. Box sets of DVDs on different sets of shelves. TV DVDs on a different set of shelves. Region B films on a different, smaller shelving unit.
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I enjoy the Beach movies, especially tonight's with Avalon and Funicello and the Beach gang. What may amaze some people is that these films are now almost 50 years old!!!!!
And, unwittingly, it makes a nice tribute since Dick Clark died this week.
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johnbabe, why don't you say anything about why you create so many, many threads about GG even though you were told by the *TCMWebAdmin* not to? And here is the thread where the TCMWebAdmin said for you to stop.
{font:Calibri}http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8414855{font}
Maybe you need to see this again...this is from that thread you started called, of course, "Garbo":
{font:Calibri}johnbabe {font}
{font:Calibri}Registered: 03/18/07 {font}
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{font:Calibri}Posted: Jun 17, 2010 5:47 PM{font}
{font:Calibri}i would like to know, that as a new fan of GG, why her films are always the same on TCM and when they are shown, they are shown at 6 AM like Camille today...many of us out there are new to TCM because our cable companies did not have it on their lists (like Optimum on Long Island) they only have TCM in the last 2 years, i have had it for 5 years because i moved to Comcast area and they have TCM, some of the persons on the threads get rather touchy - i am glad that they have had the privilege of TCM for 17 years and maybe they are tired of the real classic films, but that doe not help the new audience...i happen to love TCM and i think that you are absolutely fascinating, but please keep the older classics upfront, and why is TCM ignoring Garbo's birthday on September 18th....thank you. {font}
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{font:Calibri}johnbabe,you are not a new fan of Garbo. You have been creating many threads about her since at least 2007. I haven't done a count for the years 2007-2009, but I did do a count for 2010 and this is the 28th thread you've created just this year regarding Garbo!!! WHY -- please tell us why! -- you can't just create 1 thread on GG and add to just that one, instead of creating several new GG threads each week???{font}
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{font:Calibri}Hello{font}
{font:Calibri}This thread is now being locked. We currently have multiple threads on Greta Garbo. While we appreciate your love for Greta Garbo, we need to cut back on the amount of threads on this topic.{font}
{font:Calibri}Thank you{font}Pete