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Talk about great timing. I was in Amoeba over the weekend and picked up the German release of One-Eyed Jacks ("...Noche Hange Ich Nicht") for $5.99. The American release also works from this German print and German is the default audio. There are two simple ways to get to English audio.
1. on the main menu of the Blu, click on SETUP and it will give you the choice of German or English. Make sure ENGLISH is in red, not white, and click on it. That will switch it to English.
2. the other way to do it is to simply use the button on his remote that says "AUDIO". It will switch it to English.
This Blu, though, has a pretty bad video. So if he is disenchanted, tell him this is a small company that issued it because it is in the public domain, and not indicative of regular Blus.
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*Flim Flam Man*
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> {quote:title=MontyC wrote:}{quote}A woman in her 40's is much sexier than a woman in her 20's. As far as I'm concerned anyway.
I agree completely. Here are two completely ordinary, average women in their forties,and maybe it is just me, but I thnk they are attractive and sexy:
Just two ordinary women.
(CD turns 40 in August. JL is already in her mid-40s.)
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I'm afraid so. Just like Sam Beckett, when my time is done somewhere, I am plucked out and deposited into another time. I suspect even this 1926 time shift is very temporary and when The Artist excitement dies down in about a week, the time waves will sort themselves out and I will be sent on my way again.
By the way, a couple of guys named Tony and Doug here just asked me to look them up in 1968 if I ever get there. And to deliver a very curious message..."Don't do it!"
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All the enthusiasm from people about the winning of "The Artist" in 2012, as well as the radio waves ablaze that a silent movie has won, has sent shock waves back through time, dropping me here in *1926.* I just looked at a newspaper and it says today is October 1st.
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*The Villain*
*The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!*
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Ben-Hur Ultimate Collector's Edition. You have your choice of the DVD set for $22.49 or the Blu-ray set for $28.99.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> *The Artist* didn't steamroll the way it was supposed to.
But being that it won the major awards, it will be the only film that people will remember.
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> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote}
> It's 11:36 EST. The Artist just won best picture.
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> Meryl Streep finally won her third Acadamy Award.
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> I've been up almost 18 hours.
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> The show came in at 3 hours and 38 minutes.
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Are you thinking it started at 8 EST?
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I just saw what Sacha Baron Cohen did earlier on the red carpet.
With all the tensions in the world because of the Koran burning, pretending to dump Kim Jong-Il's ashes is not a message America wants to send. Cohen is an idiot, who I hope doesn't work again for awhile.
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I'll try to see The Artist tomorrow, but I am disappointed Hugo didn't get Marty an Oscar and Best Picture. Both films dealt with silent movies.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}
> I think Viola Davis will have many more chances.I agree.
But as for Best Picture, either they have to return it back to 5 films, or if they are going to have 9 or 10 films nominated, likewise nominate all the directors. It makes it seem silly, otherwise. Did those other films direct themselves? Without a matching director, it is easy to guess what films won't win Best Picture because usually Best Director and Best Picture awards go together.
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If you plan to be here the night before or a few nights before, make sure you get a ticket ahead of time to see Cirque du Soleil at the Kodak Theater (only half a block from the Roosevelt). The show, Iris, is a salute to the early days of cinema.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}Just because the Cirque uses the bankrupted named theater the rest of the year is no reason to make us endure this.
Are you joking???!!! The Cirque salute was brilliant!
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I am now waiting for the actual program to start and not watching any more of the red carpet until then. The few times I have switched there, it has been the same thing. I can't stand one more, "Who are you wearing tonight?"
Well, got just enough time to make Fettuchini Alfredo for the show. LOL, far better than popcorn.
Update: Yay, two Oscars for Hugo right off the bat (my favorite film of the year).
Edited by: filmlover on Feb 26, 2012 8:47 PM
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The Citizen Kane Ultimate Collectors Edition is Amazon's Blu-ray Deal of the Week at $28.99.
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*The Party*
*Dear Brigitte*
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Wow, that's incredible, getting to E.C. in their heyday. So much envy I have for you. And you got to meet Wally Wood! When I was in my early teens, he was my favorite artist at the time.
And, yes, those titles are coming up.
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Feb. 25th, 1955
I feel -- YES! -- I am being pulled away from 1955 --
I am being being sent further back in time!!!
What year will I land in?!
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Frank Frazetta's humor movie poster may have been more stylish. Al Hirschfeld's wonderfully characterish. But nobody produced a more-detailed and fun movie poster than Jack Davis, who is best known for his MAD work.
*Bananas*
MORE TOMORROW!
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Miklos Rozsa
Jerry Goldsmith
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...it was the giant caterpillars...which were actually James Whitmore's eyebrows.
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Hmmm, this is an interesting exercise. I bet I get them all wrong (except for Feiffer)
1) - *The Searchers* - Regis Philbin
2) - *My Fair Lady -* Debra Winger
3) - *Fat City* - Spike Lee
4) - *Rififi -* Anthony Bourdain
5) - *Golddiggers Of 1933 -* Jules Feiffer
6) - *Somebody Up There Likes Me -* Ellen Barkin
7) - *Ace In The Hole* - Jim Leher
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Wed., Feb. 23rd, 1955
Cirque du Soleil at the Kodak - see during your time here
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Thanks for explaining that in more detail, Kyle.
Most of the show deals with, as I mentoned, the earliest days of cinema, but there is (or was, when I saw it) a fun salute bit to film noir.
And I would go again just to see all those aerialists that everyone got to see part of last night.
As far as seating, that is a tough call. I was center orchestra, not too far from the stage, but at times there is so much going on the stage at one time that you don't know where to look. You need to be further back or higher up to take it all in, possible in one of the balconies.. HOWEVER, there is one major advantage to sitting in the orchestra seats...when they fly above you on straps or when the trapeze artists appear, you are awestruck as you look straight up at them above you.