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Tuesday, Aug.15th, 1939
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Marlene Dietrich
Mario Lanza
Liberace
possibly Dennis Morgan
Greer Garson
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Monday, Aug. 14, 1939
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Ann Rutherford
Linda Darnell
Robert Alda
William Eythe
Greer Garson
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That's not what I was referring to. I didn't mean they were not acting like actors in a 1930s movie. If you see the film, you will see that I am talking about how every inch of 1960s being surrounds their persona. And I am not talking about sensibilities of the 1960s, either, And neither was I saying it looked like a 1930s movie. What I said was that it was a movie set in the 1930s, but amidst all the trappings of the era (clothes, cars, sets, hairstyles, etc.) the three stars stood out by looking like they were from the 1960s, hence my referral to McQueen looking like he stepped out of Bullitt (no, no need to correct that to say Bullitt came three years later) and Ann-Margret from Viva Las Vegas.
In "The Sting," Redford and Newman looked like they were part of the era the movie set up. McQueen, Ann-Margret, and Tuesday Weld did not.
Now, would it not have been easier to just ask in one line what I meant instead of going off on one of your aren't-I-so-clever-wth-my-headers, long-winded attempts to "educate" us all?
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The latter is probably correct. Besides, the subjectmatter would have been taboo with audiences and the studio at the time. LOL, what would they do, make a musical with Betty Hutton? "It's Porno, he said!"
"We get into an intimate situation
And then begins this character's conversation
He says, porno, he says
Every time we kiss
He says, porno, he says
At a time like this
He says, porno, he says
Is that the language of love"
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Jef, just found them through Google.com images.
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Sunday, Aug. 13, 1939
Regular articles and ads return tomorrow. In the meantime, gere is a special article from 1 1939 movie magazine. The article analyzes stars' signatures.
Large pictures follow the below two pages so save your eyes
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Jeanne Crain
Rock Hudson
Kate
Jean-Peirra Aumont
Janet Blair
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At 6 pm Pacific/9 pm ET, Amazon is going to have a Gold Box Lightning Deal on a Stephen Sondheim 6-disc set. The only one that matches that description the 6-DVD "Stephen Sondheim Collection", which contains stage videos of
1. Into the Woods
2. Sunday in the Park with George, with commentary by composer Stephen Sondheim, writer James Lapine, and actors Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters
3. Follies in Concert
4. Passion, with commentary by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie, and Ira Weitzman
5. Sweeney Todd in Concert
6. A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Don't know what the price will be, but this is a good set to get.
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I always thought the bad guy met his just ends in 1940 films, but...
Obviously escaping the police at the end of The Maltese Falcon, Wilmer did go on to other things...
he hid out behind a hotel desk in I Wake Up Screaming, and
took a job as a waiter in Ball of Fire, then
obviously survived being poisoned in The Big Sleep
so in the 1950s he could move to a place that looked like an Old West town until he found himself up against Jack Wilson, someone more nuts than he, and was finally killed.
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I hadn't seen the film in many, many years but last night I was watching it on home video. I like it and all but there is something that is very jarring to watch throughout the film.
It's well-directed and has a good script, but I can't figure out what happened with the casting.
It's a terrific film for casting from the past and then-present day (Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway)...but therein lies the dilemma.
It starts out with McQueen in what looks to be 1960s clothes, but after several minutes you realize this is supposed to be the 1930s. The same holds true for the three leads of McQueen, Ann-Margret, and Weld. They look and act like modern day. For his clothes, you can't help but think he wore the same in Bullitt. Ann-Margret looks like she came off the set of Viva Las Vegas. And Tuesday Weld's clothes are simple, but more modern than they are 1930s.
And they act like 1960s characters.
That is the weird thing about the film. It could well have been set in present day and it would have worked just as well. But it was set in the 1930s, and the other actors are dressed perfectly for that era. The sets are perfect for the 1930s. Autos, etc. All correct. But then onto the scene come the three stars and you wonder if they are time travellers.
I'm not saying McQueen didn't fit the title role. He did. His persona is perfect for the Kid. But he just didn't look anything but Steve McQueen, 1960s.
Edward G. Robinson, right clothing for the period, people in b.g. correct, too:
But then McQueen?
And two 1960s ladies shopping, Tuesday Weld and Ann-Margret:
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lz, I think part of the problem will be in lost sales during the current time while Sony tries to replicate some.
"Sony said it was 'working very closely with our customers and based on their release schedules, 1.5million discs are in the process of being remanufactured at both our manufacturing sites in the UK and Austria.'?
1.5 million out of 25 million and it looks like they are focussing on new items to come out in order to meet release schedules.
This would likely mean that catalog items are a low priority item, though they do bring in money. More than likely, I would expect, Sony will offer the smaller companies a cash offer from the insurance, which I am sure some would go for because it would otherwise take a long time, if ever, to have sold the original stock to the public.
Eureka/Masters of Cinema stated recently:
"Sony have an awesome disaster recovery plan in place (they handle our replication and distribution) and we're hoping things will be all sorted soon.
I urge everyone to head to Amazon if you want to order product, as they hold stock for all labels. The labels affected are so widespread I can't list them all, but it's a LOT of stock that's gone up in smoke.
This is going to affect a lot of labels (including Sony pictures themselves), so DVDs/BDs are going to be pretty thin on the ground for a while!"
Among the companies were:
- Arrow Films
- Artifical Eye
- The BFI
- Crabtree Films
- Cine-Asia
- Dogwoof Films
- Exposure Cinema
- Eureka and Masters of Cinema
- Kaleidoscope Films
- Left Films
- Metrodome Films
- Peccadillo Pictures
- Revolver Entertainment
- Showbox Home Entertainment
- Terracotta
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Jean Renoir's *The Rules of the Game* (1939) is coming to Blu-ray, date unknown, and a revised DVD. Criterion sent out their newsletter yesterday and it reads:
We will soon be announcing revised Blu-ray and DVD editions of Jean Renoir's masterpiece [The Rules of the Game|http://thecriterioncollection.createsend2.com/t/r/l/tyijkjy/vklxjtj/y/|http://thecriterioncollection.createsend2.com/t/r/l/tyijkjy/vklxjtj/y/] as part of our November lineup—we are replacing one supplement and creating new packaging.
Our original DVD edition will then be officially out of print. However, at this time we are offering it at a 65% discount from the suggested retail price at [|http://thecriterioncollection.createsend2.com/t/r/l/tyijkjy/vklxjtj/j/|http://thecriterioncollection.createsend2.com/t/r/l/tyijkjy/vklxjtj/j/] (Use the promotion code *REGLE *at checkout.) We have a limited supply. We will fulfill orders as soon as we can.
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Saturday, August 12, 2011
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Brian Donlevy
Don de Fore
Barbara Stanwyck
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gagman, you can still get from Amazon UK while they have it
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Lucky this didn't happen with "Buck Rogers." lzcutter would have gone crazy with worry about Buddy. ; )
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By the way, I am almost at the end of these. Another couple of days is all that's left.
Hope you have enjoyed seeing them.
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Haven't seen anyone mentioning this with regards to the riots. 25 million DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs were destroyed:
from rollingstone.com
A Sony distribution warehouse in North London was [destroyed in a fire|http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/uk-sony-fire-uk-idUKTRE7780O420110809] early this morning following the third straight night of riots in the United Kingdom. According to a representative of Sony, the blaze will have a direct impact on deliveries of CDs and DVDs throughout the region, as this was the only facility storing their products in the country.
The fire will have a [major impact on independent labels|http://pitchfork.com/news/43474-sonypias-warehouse-burns-in-uk-riots/] in particular as the warehouse stored the entire inventory of PIAS UK, the primary distribution hub for over 150 labels including Beggars Group, Sub Pop, Rough Trade, Domino, 4AD, the Secretly Canadian group, Mute, Ninja Tune, Soul Jazz, Kompakt, Thrill Jockey and Drag City. According to early reports, all of the inventory in the building is assumed to be lost.
from bleedingcool.com
The stockpile of several small and independent DVD and Blu-ray labels appears to have been burned down by the mobs of looting and rioting crooks in London.
Amongst the DVD labels who had their stock on the premises are Dogwoof Films, Pecadillo Pictures, Terracotta, and Guerilla. At the moment, there’s some confusion on Twitter as to how extensive the damage is, but it would seem that these small labels have been hit severely.
UPDATE: And we can sadly add Arrow Films, one of Bleeding Cool’s favourite distributors to the list. They held all of their stock in this centre.
SECOND UPDATE: And Metrodome, Revolver and Kaleidoscope. They too lost stock as a result of this arson.
THIRD UPDATE: And now Network are revealed to have lost stock too. Terrible, terrible, terrible.
*FOURTH UPDATE: All Warp DVD stock and BFI DVD and Blu-ray stock was also in the warehouse.*
This could be a real disaster for film lovers and even film makers, not to mention the various business people trying to survive in an increasingly difficult DVD marketplace.
The same distribution centre is used by a staggering number of independent record labels who will face at least the same hardship as the DVD and Blu-ray distributors.
While businesses, livelihoods and countless discs may have fallen foul of the fire, we should at least be thankful that nobody was actually hurt in this particular incident.
In a followup from screendaily.com
(Sony) has released a statement saying it is working closely with film distributors to mitigate the loss suffered as a result of the fire at its Enfield Warehouse on monday night; the warehouse housed 25 million discs at the time of the fire.Sony has revealed that it working to mitigate the loss suffered by a number of film distributors when their stock was destroyed in a fire at its Enfield warehouse on monday night.
The company has also confirmed that the warehouse had 25m discs in it at the time of the fire and that it served 60 different customers including Sony Pictures, 2entertain, Pias, and Disney Games.
Sony said it was “working very closely with our customers and based on their release schedules, 1.5million discs are in the process of being remanufactured at both our manufacturing sites in the UK and Austria.”
Addressing the shortfall between the number of discs being remanufactured and the number that were stored in the factory a Sony spokesperson said: “For some of our clients we are not the sole manufacturer, we store their discs for distribution so their other manufacturer’s would also be in the process of remanufacturing the discs.”
“In addition, we are extending our direct to retail distribution from our UK manufacturing site to reduce shipment delays - discs which are currently in our inventory have already been shipped today and the first of the remanufactured discs from the stock affected by the fire will be delivered tomorrow.”
Sony said it was now looking into alternative site options and that it had “received a number of offers of support from Sony affiliate companies, local distribution centres and other companies from within the industry.
Film distributors to lose their stock in the fire at the warehouse included Dogwoof, Artificial Eye, Metrodome and the BFI. (The latter is the British Film Institute.)
Update: Eureka/Masters of Cinema also had stock there,
Edited by: filmlover on Aug 11, 2011 9:53 AM
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Fri., August 11th, 1939
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These five are from 1942 (just thought you'd like to know):
Edited by: filmlover on Aug 11, 2011 9:17 AM
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Michael, welcome! Glad you are here.
I don't see it mentioned in this thread yet but I think a lot of us would like to know where you stand on two subjects?
1. One member having multiple screennames at the same time. Those of us who have been members in good standing for years here have had a few trolls (may I say that?) who create multiple names and then like to start fights, even with themselves, just to start firefights. We have seen the board go up in flames several occasions when one of these multi-name trolls goes nuclear. Many good people have left the boards because of this.
2. When someone is kicked off the boards by the admin/moderator, some will deliberately come right back under a new name (sometimes a name so close to the original that we know they are flaunting it, as to say "You'll never get rid of me). Other boards will ban a user and keep him banned.
What are your views?
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The_Destroyer, is this you back in a new name?
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