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- May 23rd, 2024, 9:51 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Screen Presence
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1955
Re: Screen Presence
Great idea for a thread. Who do you look at in a scene? Who can carry a film? John Wayne certainly can. I am not the world's biggest fan of Tom Cruise, but he has screen presence and can carry a film. His ability to alternate commercial films with more artistically ambitious projects has created an ...
- May 22nd, 2024, 11:02 am
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
- Replies: 635
- Views: 334358
Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
Did anyone else see Donkey Skin ( Peau d'ane ) (1970), shown last night as part of TCM's Art of Artifice series? It was an excellent choice, and a film I had never seen. Alicia Malone's introduction told us what we needed to know about the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. She has a lovely French acce...
- May 21st, 2024, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
Speaking of the 1970s: consider the difference between Blow-Up (1966) and The Conversation (1974), which borrows liberally from the plot of Blow-Up , only with sound instead of photography. When Antonioni seems like the fun guy in the room, you know something is seriously out of whack. Swinging Lond...
- May 20th, 2024, 12:02 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
Yes, Alma is back as a Spanish name, pronounced "Ahlma." The name from the past was "you can call me Al-ma." What movie character was named Alma? I seem to remember one. MISS PATRICIA NEAL in HUD played a character named ALMA- for which she won THE ACADEMY AWARD I have read that...
- May 20th, 2024, 9:34 am
- Forum: Noir Alley
- Topic: Noir Alley
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 127502
Re: Noir Alley
No one watched Police Van? I liked it (up to a point). Had a lot of style. I gave up trying to follow the plot after a half hr.in and decided just to be entertained. Too many characters and I couldn't keep them all straight. But I was never bored. Some really good sequences. Of course, the plot was...
- May 19th, 2024, 10:16 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
At the risk of sounding like Jimmy Carter, there was a "malaise" that settled in over films in the second half of the '70s. This is not to say that there weren't some excellent titles that were still released in these years. What is true though is though that there were a convergence of e...
- May 18th, 2024, 8:19 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
- May 18th, 2024, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
- Replies: 290
- Views: 41206
Re: Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project
Favorites from 1940 : Rebecca The Letter The Grapes of Wrath His Girl Friday Remember the Night The Great McGinty The Great Dictator The Philadelphia Story The Ghost Breakers The Mortal Storm Gaslight Waterloo Bridge City for Conquest Foreign Correspondent The Long Voyage Home The Bank Dick My Litt...
- May 18th, 2024, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: Wicked (movie version)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9287
Re: Wicked (movie version)
L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books. Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote 20, the illustrator John R. Neill wrote three (not very good), Jack Snow wrote two, and there was one by Eloise McGraw and her daughter. The dream stuff was invented by MGM. Yuck. Oz is real; in The Emerald City of Oz , Uncle Henry and Aunt...
- May 18th, 2024, 11:59 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
1.Alma is Spanish for “soul.” 2. I want for”Duane” to crack the MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES TOP TEN so bad. I'm also cheering for "Duane" or "Dwayne." As you know, in the South this can be pronounced "DEE-wayne," no matter how it's spelled. He probably has a brother Darius...
- May 17th, 2024, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
Yes, Alma is back as a Spanish name, pronounced "Ahlma." The name from the past was "you can call me Al-ma."
- May 17th, 2024, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
ALSO JUST THROWING THIS OUT THERE, BUT I was born in 1978 and- I don't know if it's a coincidence or not- but I have not seen HARDLY ANY FILMS FROM THAT YEAR- and the ones I have seen (JAWS 2, GREASE- numerous times and not by choice, SUPERMAN and HALLOWEEN) are almost outliers. i don't think there...
- May 16th, 2024, 10:15 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3482
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
All in all, this is the best list from AFT I've ever seen. Sure, it's not mine, but it's not heavily weighted toward recent films, and it includes some essential films.
- May 16th, 2024, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
Jeanette Basinger, for one, has discussed how difficult it is for actresses in their later careers to play ordinary women. Instead, they play Exaggerated Women. She notes that even Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, less exaggerated than, say, the later Bette Davis performances, tend to be cast as actre...
- May 16th, 2024, 12:49 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3907
- Views: 244207
Re: I Just Watched...
I love the term "coattail nomination" and will use it regularly from now on. There are even coattail winners, like Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur . It's easier to nominate a Penelope Milford in a top film than a superior performance in a less-seen film. Uh-oh: not a fan of An...