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January 14th, 2024, 12:28 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: February 2024 Schedule Posted, 31 Days of Oscar
Replies: 47
Views: 4774

Re: February 2024 Schedule Posted, 31 Days of Oscar

Though I found FAR FROM HEAVEN enjoyable, it does always look like a facsimile. "Tastes just like . . . " usually doesn't taste like the original. The Elvis impersonator clearly isn't Elvis.

I'm pleased that SUNDAYS AND CYBELE will be shown.
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January 14th, 2024, 12:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Theater
Replies: 66
Views: 5514

Re: Theater

The Duchess of Malfi reads so well, but I've never been fortunate enough to see a production. Did not know that Eleanor Bron did serious roles like that. Have always thought of her as a comic actress. Bron has had quite a classical career on stage. She played that Duchess in 1985. A few years later...
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January 13th, 2024, 11:48 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Theater
Replies: 66
Views: 5514

Re: Theater

The Duchess of Malfi reads so well, but I've never been fortunate enough to see a production. Did not know that Eleanor Bron did serious roles like that. Have always thought of her as a comic actress.
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January 13th, 2024, 11:43 pm
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2229
Views: 109802

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

Remember the Carvel birthday cakes? With that whale? Who gets the titles of these submarine films mixed up -- UP PERISCOPE, RUN SILENT RUN DEEP and DESTINATION TOKYO? Bronxie, I always get RUN SILENT RUN DEEP mixed up with THE DEEP SIX and THE ENEMY BELOW. I know I've seen the first two, but can't ...
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January 13th, 2024, 12:52 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1129
Views: 76547

Re: Noir Alley

I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES unfortunately still has the cute doggie and the clubfoot Velma subplot from HIGH SIERRA, but gets rid of the African-American stereotype in favor of a Hispanic stereotype. I wish Lee Marvin and Earle Holliman had a little more screen time.
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January 11th, 2024, 12:37 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: It Was a Very Good Year
Replies: 25
Views: 1712

Re: It Was a Very Good Year

1962 is one of my favorite years for film, and the last great year of the studio era. Some other additions to that year: Europe gave us JULES AND JIM, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, L'ECLISSE, and MAFIOSO. It's the year (unfortunately the only year) Blake Edwards looks like a great director, with both DAY...
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January 11th, 2024, 12:56 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: It Was a Very Good Year
Replies: 25
Views: 1712

Re: It Was a Very Good Year

Allhallowsday wrote: January 11th, 2024, 12:20 am ^1980? Don't forget ALTERED STATES ...or CRUISIN' and of course THE APPLE... :roll: ;)
Or CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC! Which stopped the careers of most of the people involved in it. Even a good year has its turkeys.
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January 10th, 2024, 11:35 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: It Was a Very Good Year
Replies: 25
Views: 1712

It Was a Very Good Year

I thought it might be fun to start a topic that anyone can use to post a list or discuss a particular year in film. I'll start with 1980. Seeing CROSSING DELANCEY (1988) again reminded me of another Amy Irving film, THE COMPETITION (1980), which made me take a look at what films were released that y...
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January 9th, 2024, 11:45 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

In a way, CROSSING DELANCEY makes a nice follow-on to AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, which in its last half hour is the 1970s fantasy version. The wife gets out of her marriage, meets an artist (so much more fun than a stuffy old lawyer) and she Finds Herself and is Free and Fulfilled and presumably lives happ...
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January 9th, 2024, 11:45 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

In a way, CROSSING DELANCEY makes a nice follow-on to AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, which in its last half hour is the 1970s fantasy version. The wife gets out of her marriage, meets an artist (so much more fun than a stuffy old lawyer) and she Finds Herself and is Free and Fulfilled and presumably lives happ...
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January 9th, 2024, 1:48 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

I am personally obsessed with pickles and believe they are not only delicious and satisfying, but good for one's health. So of course I am in love with Peter Riegert as Sam. In the latest TCM showing of CROSSING DELANCEY, Ben M says in his outro that when Peter Riegert and Amy Irving appeared at la...
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January 9th, 2024, 1:21 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

Swithin, I have fond memories of Paula Laurence playing a small role on Dark Shadows as a medium who is killed by the evil Quentin (I think). In collected theater reviews I've read praise of her work as Virgilia in CORIOLANUS (a small voice of reason in a play that needs it), and then her work is mu...
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January 7th, 2024, 7:35 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

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January 7th, 2024, 7:34 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2876
Views: 155827

Re: I Just Watched...

Clouzot's LE CORBEAU is indeed a good film, and to me it improved on a second viewing. The Nazis approved it because they thought it showed how awful the French people were. The French saw it as a film about France under the Occupation. Truffaut thought it captured the feeling of life under the Nazi...
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January 7th, 2024, 12:36 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1129
Views: 76547

Re: Noir Alley

I liked that too. However, as PICKUP went on, the pace seemed to drag. Without giving the plot away, there was a lot of heavy foreplay but no main event. The ending didn't work for me. Beverly Michaels certainly catches the spirit of the trashy, trampy femme fatale. Notice how crazy this era was abo...