samsnick Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Any series of movies on a given day dedicated to the talent of Gary Cooper that excludes "Highnoon" is a joke ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 They've run it so many times in the past that it's earned a day off. It's not as if it has always been forsaken, just on this, his honored day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsnick Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 Don't think "ay" is a word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 *High Noon* is pretty good, eh? Or "ay"? I think "ay" ( or "eh", either way, it's pronounced like the first letter of the alphabet) sounds better than the American "huh". But "huh" is slowly infiltrating its way into Canada. More Americanization of our country, ay, darkblue? To the original poster: Sometimes TCM can't get the rights to air a certain film at a certain time. I agree that *High Noon* is one of Coop's most famous, but we'll just have to settle for some of his other movies today. Things aren't always the way we want them, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 It will only be a joke if TCM show the remake. Maybe an idea for April 1st. :^0 http://www.amazon.com/High-Noon-Tom-Skerritt/dp/B00005BIFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Do you remember Hah! Noon in MAD magazine? Better by far than Cooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 > {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}Do you remember Hah! Noon in MAD magazine? > > Better by far than Cooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 > {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}*High Noon* is pretty good, eh? Or "ay"? Oy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Still waiting for *Peter Ibbetson*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I'd never heard of *Peter Ibbetson*, so I looked him up. I was kind of thinking maybe he was a person, real or fictional, given to terminating his sentences with "ay" or "eh" or "oy". ( Maybe even "huh", which seems to be running a distant third here.) Anyway, I found this to be interesting: *Peter Ibbetson* is a film in which Gary Cooper plays a controversial architect. So what, ay? But leave us not forget another more famous - or infamous -movie of Coop's, *The Fountainhead*, in which he plays a controversial architect. Apparently Gary Cooper was good at playing the strong silent architectural type, eh? ( And he probably was a Type A .) No "huh's" allowed on this thread. I have decreed this. Make it so,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 *Peter Ibbetson* has been called (by at least two French critics for what it's worth) one of the great surrealist films. Based on a book by George Du Maurier, it's about a love affair that is so consuming, it transcends space. The only example of a similar situation on film that I know of is the relationship between Aragorn and Arwen in Lord of the Rings. (I wonder if Tolkien was influenced by Du Maurier.) In addition to Gary Cooper in the eponymous role, it has the loveliest of all actresses, Ann Harding. With a great cast, and directed by one of Hollywood's giants: Henry Hathaway. http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5523026f5883401157133ca89970b-pi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover2 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I have fallen asleep, not once, but twice, trying to keep myself engaged watching Peter Ibbetson. It is about a love affair that transcends time, but it was so sad and rather weak without passion. She visits him finally to die with him after being apart all their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 The pacing of *Peter Ibbetson* has been called "glacial." Nevertheless it is a great film. If it put you to sleep, and you want an even longer nap, I suggest another masterpiece of surrealism, *Celine and Julie Go Boating*, which was revived at the Film Forum in NYC a few months ago. Nearly four hours of bliss (or sleep for some)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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