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Dargo wrote: March 21st, 2023, 2:35 pm
speedracer5 wrote: March 21st, 2023, 2:24 pm
Lol. I would just watch it for all the dancing! Though Saturday Night Fever is kind of depressing, so that is definitely a strike against it. I've seen The Adventures of Robin Hood in the theater before--though at the time of the first festival, I'm not sure that I'd seen 'Robin Hood' in the theater yet, so maybe I would have skipped Travolta dancing on the light-up floor in favor of Flynn as "The Tall Tinker" and splitting the arrow.
Can't way I've ever watched TAORH on the big screen, but after every time I've watched it on TCM over these many years (and this would be dozens of times) I never fail to feel that this movie exemplies the term "perfection".

(...it's just a wonderful film, and NOBODY was ever better cast in a movie role than your boy Errol was in this one)
I agree. 'Robin Hood' along with Singin in the Rain, Casablanca, and of course, The Long Long Trailer, are 100% perfect films. I'm not even a big adventure film/swashbuckler/period film type person, and I enjoy 'Robin Hood' immensely. No doubt though that is due to the charm of Flynn and the rest of the cast. I maintain that Errol is the #1 best Robin Hood, followed by the Disney Robin Hood, and then Cary Elwes from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."
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Dargo, TAORH is perfection!
speedracer, the first night of the very first festival was so exciting!

My experiences at that first festival begin on the 2nd page of this thread.

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I love Angie Dickinson's "western" attire in the photo of Dickinson and Ricky Nelson. It's that kind of getup that made the Wild West W-I-L-D !

I was going to ask the folks who've attended TCM Film Festivals, are films (as in celluloid) presented or are digital optical discs (DVDs and Blu-ray Discs) shown, but the author of UPDATE #4: My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the TCM Film Festival (2013) answered my question.

I was wondering if the DVDs/Blu-ray Discs of No Orchids for Miss Blandish and The Story of Temple Drake are going to be shown? If digital optical discs will be used, I also wondered how TCM could get away with charging admission when DVDs and Blu-ray discs are intended for only individual/personal and home use. But after brief investigation, I learned that DVDs and Blu-ray Discs can be used for public exhibitions only when "public performance rights" are included with a film or when a public performance license is obtained.
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EP Millstone wrote: March 21st, 2023, 5:52 pm
Several years ago, a local movie theatre converted to a "classic movies" venue and advertised gorgeous, pristine presentations. I went to a screening of the original Planet of the Apes and was miffed when the DVD menu briefly appeared onscreen (thanks to a slip-up by the projectionist). WTH?! I'm paying fifteen bucks admission to watch a DVD of a movie that I own on DVD?!
I guess I can gather the definition from the context, but I want to be certain. I'm not sure I've ever heard the expression. What kind of cheese?
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EP Millstone wrote: March 21st, 2023, 5:52 pm I love Angie Dickinson's "western" attire in the photo of Dickinson and Ricky Nelson. It's that kind of getup that made the Wild West W-I-L-D !

I was going to ask the folks who've attended TCM Film Festivals, are films (as in celluloid) presented or are digital optical discs (DVDs and Blu-ray Discs) shown, but the author of UPDATE #4: My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the TCM Film Festival (2013) answered my question.

I was wondering if the DVDs/Blu-ray Discs of No Orchids for Miss Blandish and The Story of Temple Drake are going to be shown? If digital optical discs will be used, I also wondered how TCM could get away with charging admission when DVDs and Blu-ray discs are intended for only individual/personal and home use. But after brief investigation, I learned that DVDs and Blu-ray Discs can be used for public exhibitions only when "public performance rights" are included with a film or when a public performance license is obtained.

TCMFF uses both film and digital, and which one gets used largely depends on the theaters they have at their disposal. Some of the theaters they use now have only digital projectors. They usually try to show a couple of nitrate films each year, but it requires special handling and equipment, and the only theater in the area that has (had?) that capability was the Egyptian. It's currently undergoing a complete renovation, so it's not available this year (or last). I'm not sure if they will retain the nitrate capability when they reopen. There's only a handful of theaters capable of handling nitrate film in the entire country.

You can't assume that they just pop in a DVD or consumer Blu-Ray disc. Digital cinema is typically encoded/formatted differently from home video.

My understanding of the public performance rights for media primarily intended for home use was that it gave an "out" for such media to be used in educational settings - schools, libraries, etc., and not in commercial theaters.
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Swithin wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:16 pm
EP Millstone wrote: March 21st, 2023, 5:52 pm
Several years ago, a local movie theatre converted to a "classic movies" venue and advertised gorgeous, pristine presentations. I went to a screening of the original Planet of the Apes and was miffed when the DVD menu briefly appeared onscreen (thanks to a slip-up by the projectionist). WTH?! I'm paying fifteen bucks admission to watch a DVD of a movie that I own on DVD?!

What does "cheesed off" mean? I guess I can gather the definition from the context, but I want to be certain. I'm not sure I've ever heard the expression. What kind of cheese?
Surprised you haven't run into this, being the Anglophile! It's chiefly a British expression. Seems to have arisen in the military (which is probably true of a lot of expressions regarding anger, frustration, etc.!)
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txfilmfan wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:25 pm
Swithin wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:16 pm
EP Millstone wrote: March 21st, 2023, 5:52 pm
Several years ago, a local movie theatre converted to a "classic movies" venue and advertised gorgeous, pristine presentations. I went to a screening of the original Planet of the Apes and was miffed when the DVD menu briefly appeared onscreen (thanks to a slip-up by the projectionist). WTH?! I'm paying fifteen bucks admission to watch a DVD of a movie that I own on DVD?!

I guess I can gather the definition from the context, but I want to be certain. I'm not sure I've ever heard the expression. What kind of cheese?
Surprised you haven't run into this, being the Anglophile! It's chiefly a British expression. Seems to have arisen in the military (which is probably true of a lot of expressions regarding anger, frustration, etc.!)
There are UK expressions that I haven't heard, until I've heard them. I remember staying with a friend many years ago. He was showing me how to use his computer. At a certain point in the instruction, he said "Bob's your uncle!" I had no idea what that meant, until he told me.

A source of confusion for me, since I do work in the New York and London, is when someone uses the word "table" at a meeting. In New York, to table something means to put it off until a later meeting; in London, it means to deal with it right now. Whenever I hear the phrase, I have to think, "Where am I?"
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Swithin wrote: March 21st, 2023, 7:10 pm
txfilmfan wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:25 pm
Swithin wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:16 pm

I guess I can gather the definition from the context, but I want to be certain. I'm not sure I've ever heard the expression. What kind of cheese?
Surprised you haven't run into this, being the Anglophile! It's chiefly a British expression. Seems to have arisen in the military (which is probably true of a lot of expressions regarding anger, frustration, etc.!)
There are UK expressions that I haven't heard, until I've heard them. I remember staying with a friend many years ago. He was showing me how to use his computer. At a certain point in the instruction, he said "Bob's your uncle!" I had no idea what that meant, until he told me.

A source of confusion for me, since I do work in the New York and London, is when someone uses the word "table" at a meeting. In New York, to table something means to put it off until a later meeting; in London, it means to deal with it right now. Whenever I hear the phrase, I have to think, "Where am I?"
Before I moved to London the first time, I bought a British English/American English dictionary and that was one of hundreds of examples of vocabulary differences. We were also warned about the "table" misunderstanding at work during a briefing session at home before we left.

I've heard "Bob's your uncle" many times but only on TV and in movies. I don't think I've heard anybody say it IRL.
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txfilmfan wrote: March 21st, 2023, 7:16 pm
Swithin wrote: March 21st, 2023, 7:10 pm
txfilmfan wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:25 pm

Surprised you haven't run into this, being the Anglophile! It's chiefly a British expression. Seems to have arisen in the military (which is probably true of a lot of expressions regarding anger, frustration, etc.!)
There are UK expressions that I haven't heard, until I've heard them. I remember staying with a friend many years ago. He was showing me how to use his computer. At a certain point in the instruction, he said "Bob's your uncle!" I had no idea what that meant, until he told me.

A source of confusion for me, since I do work in the New York and London, is when someone uses the word "table" at a meeting. In New York, to table something means to put it off until a later meeting; in London, it means to deal with it right now. Whenever I hear the phrase, I have to think, "Where am I?"
Before I moved to London the first time, I bought a British English/American English dictionary and "table" was one of hundreds of examples of vocabulary differences. We were also warned about the "table" misunderstanding at work during a briefing session at home before we left.

I've heard "Bob's your uncle" many times but only on TV and in movies. I don't think I've heard anybody say it IRL.
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Both The Story of Temple Drake and No Orchids for Miss Blandish screened in 35mm in 2010. The DVD for Orchids was available for purchase at the festival.
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Sue Sue Applegate wrote: March 21st, 2023, 7:56 pm Both The Story of Temple Drake and No Orchids for Miss Blandish screened in 35mm in 2010. The DVD for Orchids was available for purchase at the festival.
Well, in a manner of speaking here (and ironically, both literally AND figuratively here) and in an attempt to meld the latest two topics being discussed here, I just wanna say that I always get a big kick out of those British actors attempting but clearly failing to speak with any sort of a believable American accent in the movie 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish'.

(...we now return you to your regular programming)

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The schedule may drop today around 2/2:30 Central according to one report I've received...The schedule is having its final research tweaked.

Be ready for an update!
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I'm so excited! Can't wait to hear all about the Festival through you both! Please take LOTS of pictures!
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I will! I promise. And I actually have to as I have media credentials again this year, so I feel very privileged to report on some of the events.

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