filmlover
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June 17th-30th, 1936
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The Servant was on TCM on the 19th
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*Colossus of New York* (Blu) and *The Space Children* (DVD and Blu) June 19th from Olive Films.
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There are some very good shows on HBO: Luck, Game Change, Real Time With Bill Maher, Game of Thrones, Life's Too Short, but these are all original programming.
I agree when it comes to movies of recent years they show that there is very little worth watching. The following might explain why:
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To all who saw The Spanish Gardener, you might have noticed a nice chemistry between Bogarde and the boy, Jon Whiteley. The reason is they worked four years earlier in a wonderful film called Hunted (1952) (U.S. title The Stranger In Between). I saw Hunted recently and it's my favorite Bogarde performance. It's a touching movie and, at the same time, suspenseful.
Edited by: filmlover on Mar 28, 2012 2:01 PM
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This would have been his 81st birthday. TCM is showing the below during the day:
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The Amazon Deal of the Day is The Little Rascals Complete Collection for $26.49 (list price is $69.97). This is an 8-DVD set that includes 80 sound shorts and 3 silents (in the extras section).
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32", huh? Well, you could always press your face up against the screen.
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I am STUNNED you haven't heard good things about the Smilebox. (And, of course, you must take into consideration you have only seen still pictures of it, so that is no judge.) Yes, maybe you need a larger screen. Not sure what size TV you have.
DVD Talk said: "The "Curved Screen *Smilebox* Simulation" is a complete success."
Highdefdigest said: "Personally, I think the Smilebox is pretty compelling and am likely to default to that version in future viewings of this particular movie."
Neofilm: "The “Smilebox” version of the film, which simulates the screen’s curvature was first rate and along with the brilliant quality of the transfer, minus the vertical lines, and the crisp clear sound makes this a pleasure to watch."
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I don't think it has been mentioned here yet, but there is a strong possibility that *Dial M For Murder* is coming out on Blu-ray *in 3D* later in 2012. There is also a distinct possibility it is going to be a WarnerArchive release.
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On TCM tonight:
The Knack...And How To Get It
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krieger, though he was talking about a TV showing from the 90s, more recently (about two or so years ago), Warner Bros. did a beautiful job of removing the lines from the three projections for their Blu-ray release. You can still see a hint of it, but defnitely not as pronounced as they had once been. (And to those who don't have it, get the original Blu-ray version of the film in order to have the Smilebox version, which shows it in a curved screen format, simulating the Cinerama process very nicely. They came out later with just a regular single-disc flat edition. You don't want that one. you want this one: http://www.amazon.com/How-West-Blu-ray-Book-Packaging/dp/B0018O50VQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332780593&sr=8-1 )
By the way, the current issue of Cinema Retro, Vol. 8, Issue 22, which is still on the newsstand, has 32 pages on Cinerama films, including 10 pages on HTWWW, with a lot of great photos.
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Sepia, one diference between Shane and the Eastwood films, Shane himself seemed to come more from Heaven, and the Eastwood characters in the two films seemed to come from Hell with a vengeance.
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I believe TCM has had at least one segment with her between movies talking about films. It airs periodically, if I recall right.
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I've been fortunate to see quite a few classics on the big screen, mostly when I was younger (at university screenings, etc.), and again more recently with the TCM film festivals. Seeing it on TV and seeing it in the movie theatre are two entirely different things, to be sure. Of course, the main thing is the size, and the audio. But, much more importantly, the greatest difference is having an audience around you. I have seen Singin' in the Rain, for example, on TV and in a theatre, but when it played at the Festival at the Egyptian, it was like seeing it for the first time. I laughed out loud at gags I had heard so many times before, and the audience (including me) applauded after every number.
And, yes, as was mentioned earlier here, How the West Was Won was one of those you-have-to-see-it-at-the-Cinerama-Dome experiences. They have a huge number of speakers that surround you and I don't care how much you may be proud of your audio setup at home, it doesn't come anywhere near seeing the movie there.
Edited by: filmlover on Mar 26, 2012 12:42 PM to correct a typo.
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I just came across something interesting:
"It took nearly two years to film Shane. By the time the 1953 Oscar nomination season came up, Ladd had left Paramount for Warner Bros. In retaliation, Paramount decided not to campaign for a best actor nomination for Ladd."
from the book "Hollywood Picks the Classics"
The film did get noms for best picture, director, supporting actors de Wilde and Palance, and writing, and won for cinematography. But no nomination for Ladd, so this could well very well be true.
There was alo a romantic subplot that Callaway (Ben Johnson) had but that was cut from the film. I think we see a hint of that in which he and a a farmer girl look at each other, which could have partially led to his reforming.
> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} He's more of a symbol, an archetypal figure, a benevolent force acting on behalf of progress. If you want to take the film's imagery as indicative, he translates into a higher form of being. He comes into the movie from the horizon, and leaves it climbing into the mountains that have dominated the picture..
slaytonf, actually Shane comes down from the mountains at the beginning The horizon shot was after that. And he returns up the mountain again. Symbolically, of course, it could be taken he came down from Heaven and returned there.
(By the way, a number of shots in the trailer were alternatives to what was finally used in the film. If you look at the trailer on a large screen, when he is riding across the land at the beginning, a car can be seen driving by on a road way in the background.)
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George Peppard was a person disliked by many on different sets. His ego was monumental and even thought he was the star of Breakfast at Tiffany's during the making. The cast (including Hepburn) and crew found him very hard to deal with, and he almost got into a fistfight with Blake Edwards when Peppard wanted a scene completely restaged. Patricia Neal, who had done scenes with Peppard at the Actors Studio and adored him, said, "I was thrilled when I heard we going to be in it together, but it wasn't long until I saw that since I last saw him he had grown so cold and conceited." She also said about that reblocking that almost started a fight, "I got them to stop, but I think George got his way. I hated him from that moment on."
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Since we have now kinda settled this, let's end it with a smile:
(from Mad #10)
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> Are we living in parallel universes, or what?
Fred, sometimes, LOL, i think we are.
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Thanks for posting that. "Bye, Shane" can definitely be heard at 18 second mark.
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I've just listened to both the DVD and the VHS, and the music does indeed wipe out on both versions the "Goodbye, Shane" or "Bye, Shane," which I do remember hearing, either on TV or in a theater. Interestingly, the subtitles for the DVD does not have those two words. (And the VHS doesn't have subtitles.)(It's been so long that we have had DVD, that I forgot VHS doesn't have subtitles, unless it is a foreign film where the titles were part of the image..)
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fxreyman, I know you and I have had an off-board discussion about politics here, and we both agree how it is good to avoid it, but I think we will see more of it as we go through this very intense election year. More and more every day right now, politics is causing people to boil over, no longer a casual subject, like one might mention a TV show they watched last night. I've never seen the subject so intense in all my life as it is now. Much as we can try to keep the subject out, it will probably end up here like everywhere else. I know which side you are on, and you know how I feel (which is in the camp of agreeing with Rachel Maddow), and it would be good if we did not throw in a political opinion as a humorous comparison to something else, but until after November I don't believe we are going to be able to get everyone to totally divorce it from this board. We can try,all of us, to watch our comments, but we should not be totally shocked or outraged if it does end up getting mentioned from time to time.
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Thanks, musicalnovelty. Ofttimes, I've tried to use just "johnbabe" when possible, or he/she (which can get tiring), but sometimes would just fall into "he" and hope everyone would know it as a catch-all. But, regardless of gender, my feelings still stand on the matter: 99% of johnbabe's posts for years now are GG, GG day in, GG day out, and her devotion to GG has gone way over the edge to obsession. A look at johnbabe's posting history shows that.
I don't have a problem with anyone liking a star, we all do, but johnbabe has a one-track mind. For example: johnbabe gets upset with TCM when: 1. they don't have a birthday salute to her every year; 2. they don't have a special day each year devoted to when she died; 3. that she isn't given Star of the Month more often (she's already had it 2 or 3 times). And on and on. And, as already mentioned, johnbabe created three separate threads in three days about the showing of the movie, Inspiration. One thread, this one, in a panic they might not show it; the second thread (created the same day as the first) in a panic because she didn't get a reply from TCM; and the third relieved it was shown. Could that not have been done all in one thread?
p.s. -- to RowanMartin, re: your rolling eyes comment below re gender, I can only submit one you made..."You leave my buddy Johnbabe alone. So what if *he* loves Garbo." And you, too, have seen how touchy johnbabe is, responding to one of your posts the other day about "ridiculing" her topic.
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French distributors Gaumont have announced that they have secured funding to restore 270 films from their catalog during the next four years. The restorations will have a minimum quality of at least 2K. Amongst the films considered for restoration are such classics as Jean Renoir's Toni (1935), Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). There will also be films from 1960s to 1980s
This is wonderful news to those of us who want classic films to be preserved and restored.
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If you all remember, we had an annoucement here for The Grapes of Wrath to be on sale in early April, exclusive to Screen Archives Entertainment. Well, I guess that exclusive is only for two months because Amazon now has a listing for it at $20.99, coming out June 5th. So if you are willing to wait the two months, you can save bygetting it from Amazon for about $4 less plus not have to pay SAE's shipping charges.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PM218K