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Jet · 06-29-2010, 06:29 PM

Triple Feature!

Ransom
Suddenly
Ths Desperate Hours!

cinderella · 06-29-2010, 07:12 PM

Jet, is this on today? I haven't checked the schedule?

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Originally Posted by Jet

Triple Feature!

Ransom
Suddenly
Ths Desperate Hours!

cinderella · 06-29-2010, 07:14 PM

Lord, I've so many films on both DVD & VHS, and don't know what to watch. TCM seems dismal these days...wonder who the hell is doing the programming!

Jet · 06-29-2010, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by cinderella

Jet, is this on today? I haven't checked the schedule?

no i just thought i'd mix them together

dark_crystal · 07-05-2010, 04:58 PM

Hi Carmin! i thought i might join the discussion over here if i can...unfortunately i am still limited to the films that my library owns on DVD and the three Jet mentioned above do not exist in the catalog.

and i can't even add them b/c we just cleaned out our materials budget! No collection development funds till OCTOBER! (the City Manager was freaking out that we still have so much cash this late in the fiscal cycle and implying we must not need it and that other departments [read- police] might deserve it more)

ButchEire · 07-05-2010, 05:14 PM

Best......Movie......Ever!

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Originally Posted by mxxi

just saw "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and loved it so much.

lipstixgal · 07-05-2010, 05:16 PM

Oh yeah the Ghost and Mrs. Muir I have seen the tv series too.

Jet · 07-05-2010, 05:38 PM

TCM REMINDER

Featured Actor for July
Gregory Peck

My personal favorites:

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Paradine Case
The Big Country
Gentleman's Agreement

dark_crystal · 07-05-2010, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jet

TCM REMINDER

Featured Actor for July
Gregory Peck

My personal favorites:

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Paradine Case
The Big Country
Gentleman's Agreement

Well i know i can get TKAM at least! The book is having a big anniversary this year...i will cross my fingers on the others! Thank you!

dark_crystal · 07-06-2010, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by dark_crystal

Well i know i can get TKAM at least! The book is having a big anniversary this year...i will cross my fingers on the others! Thank you!

i got Gentleman's Agreement! It looks really good! I have handwork i need to do tonight so it's a perfect evening to watch a movie.

dark_crystal · 07-06-2010, 08:54 AM

Oh! I also got The Thin Man. I have seen it once before years ago but all i remember is the martinis

always2late · 07-06-2010, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jet

TCM REMINDER

Featured Actor for July
Gregory Peck

My personal favorites:

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Paradine Case
The Big Country
Gentleman's Agreement

I LOVE The Paradine Case! And, of course, To Kill a Mockingbird....both were on last night

Jet · 07-06-2010, 06:42 PM

I watched Gregory Peck last night, I really enjoyed it.

One movie he did that does bother me is The Boys from Brazil. I'm sensitive to anything antisemtic or fascist especially Josef Mengele.

But Peck and Laurence Olivier (as Simon Weisenthal or from the foundation, I forget) deliver great performances. It's nice to see two giants in one movie.
It's just kind of weird to see Gregory Peck play a maniac.

See ya at the movies fellow classic cinema comrades.

dark_crystal · 07-07-2010, 12:10 PM

I loved Gentleman's Agreement!

My very very first thought was that I found the foley intrusive and noticed some repetition- same horn honk pattern on two different street scenes- but the lighting was amazing! Esp. when Phil visits Mr. Minify for the first time and you can see the shadow of a plant on the back wall...

I liked the foreshadowing re: her weakness of character conveyed in Kathy's cocktail-party semi-mocking, half-defensive self-analysis

I wonder if, the first two times we see Ma, she is wearing those jarring loud prints to confer a vitality that she will subsequently lose? And is that why the makeup artist allowed more face-shine when everyone else was in that gorgeous matte makeup b&w films always have? If so i am not sure it was successful...

The whole marriage talk seemed really sudden to me- i get that the mores of the time left no other avenue once you swapped spit with a 'nice girl,' but she was a divorcee. Maybe time was telescoped and i missed it.

I love the secretary but her reaction when she hears about the change in hiring policy so totally reminds me of how closeted queers will show hostility to out queers (this has happened to me).

And the off-hand revelation about said hiring policies- could have been the major conflict and i am not sure it shouldn't have been, i felt like the story bogged down for maybe just a moment after Dave showed up.

So shocking the way he grabbed Miss Wales's arm in their last scene together- TOTALLY could not do that now!

That final scene is just gorgeous, and once again i am struck by how the limitations of b&w really brought out production creativity, e.g. the checkered floor outside Kathy's apartment.

All in all a really gorgeous and touching movie! I'm glad i got to see it! thanks for the recommendation!

Jet · 07-07-2010, 02:27 PM

To be honest, I haven't seen Gentleman's Agreement for some time, but I do have it. So it's hard for me to comment on production. I do know that Elia Kazan won as best director. I'm guessing what you're seeing is Kazan's gritty realism, which was his signature such as On The Waterfront. and Streetcar Named Desire.

I'm more taken with its antisemetic theme in post-war and the lengths Philip Greene goes through to prove antisemitisim and bigotry in the United States. Highly-sensitive stuff after the liberation of the Nazi death camps just a couple of years earlier.

The woman who plays Greene's mother (I forget her name, I think its Anne Revere) was later black-balled in the MacArthy hearings on communism in 1952; it ruined her career. Kazan, on the other hand, was a witness and basically lost respect and freinds in Hollywood after snitching on them.

See ya at the movies.

dark_crystal · 07-07-2010, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Jet

To be honest, I haven't seen Gentleman's Agreement for some time, but I do have it. So it's hard for me to comment on production. I do know that Elia Kazan won as best director. I'm guessing what you're seeing is Kazan's gritty realism, which was his signature such as On The Waterfront. and Streetcar Named Desire.

I'm more taken with its antisemetic theme in post-war and the lengths Philip Greene goes through to prove antisemitisim and bigotry in the United States. Highly-sensitive stuff after the liberation of the Nazi death camps just a couple of years earlier.

The woman who plays Greene's mother (I forget her name, I think its Anne Revere) was later black-balled in the MacArthy hearings on communism in 1952; it ruined her career. Kazan, on the other hand, was a witness and basically lost respect and freinds in Hollywood after snitching on them.

See ya at the movies.

I remember when he got the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Oscar how half the audience wouldn't stand up!

always2late · 07-08-2010, 06:22 AM

Watching "Nora Prentiss" on TCM

Jet · 07-09-2010, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dark_crystal

I remember when he got the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Oscar how half the audience wouldn't stand up!

I remember that, too. But I'm turned off when actors use the awards as a venue for expressing their political views. I didn't like it when George C. Scott did it or when Marlon Brando did it by having an Native American pick up his Oscar with a political message. I don't think the awards are the time or place. Just my .02
I thought the Oscars this year were pretty good despite one uncomfortable moment when that woman (Best Documentary or something) started to rant on stage.

dark_crystal · 07-09-2010, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Jet

I remember that, too. But I'm turned off when actors use the awards as a venue for expressing their political views. I didn't like it when George C. Scott did it or when Marlon Brando did it by having an Native American pick up his Oscar with a political message. I don't think the awards are the time or place. Just my .02
I thought the Oscars this year were pretty good despite one uncomfortable moment when that woman (Best Documentary or something) started to rant on stage.

Yeah it's pretty cheap when they do that...but politicizing awards shows doesn't irk me near as much as actors and other celebrities discussing spirituality...Madonna and Kabbalah, Sting and Tantra, etc, etc...i don't like it b/c they are always so smug about it and it just seems so elitist- like, "well sure you had an epiphany! you have bazillions of dollars to pay the best teachers and make the ultimate pilgrimage and the luxury of immersing yourself completely- the average person has no hope of approaching that level of opportunity, so how bout you just don't mention it?"

dark_crystal · 07-12-2010, 05:05 PM

The Thin Man- what the heck was i doing when i originally saw this? i can't believe i said "all i remember is the martinis" (although i think i was only like nineteen).

I have an extremely extensive (and kinda expensive) education in aesthetics and criticsim, but the only technical notes i made were regarding the super-tight shots of MacCauley putting Wynant into a taxi and Nora being "walked" by Asta (obviously due to the physical limitations of the production and budget), and the evocative super-long shadow cast by Wynant as we walks away from Julia's apartment (the last time we see him alive)

Shortly after that Nick and Nora pretty much charmed the critic panties right off me and all my notes are of the "OMG five martinis!" and "Gilbert is so cute!" variety lol (love Gilbert "I have a mother fixation but it's slight" "can i see the body? i've never seen a dead body" plus the public library is his alibi! WIN)

LOVE the face Nick makes when Norah walks in on him comforting Dorothy and him shooting the Christmas tree from between his slippers

Oh wait there's one more technical note "no long shots ever lol"

i see from the literature that the film was shot in twelve days and that this was considered extravagant at the time. Really a remarkable achievement.

Are the sequels as good?

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dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,589 Times in 4,691 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Oh! I also got The Thin Man. I have seen it once before years ago but all i remember is the martinis

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	I watched Gregory Peck last night, I really enjoyed it. One movie he did that does bother me is *The Boys from Brazil*. I'm sensitive to anything antisemtic or fascist especially Josef Mengele. But Peck and Laurence Olivier (as Simon Weisenthal or from the foundation, I forget) deliver great performances. It's nice to see two giants in one movie. It's just kind of weird to see Gregory Peck play a maniac. See ya at the movies fellow classic cinema comrades.

07-07-2010, 12:10 PM	#394
dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,589 Times in 4,691 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I loved Gentleman's Agreement! My very very first thought was that I found the foley intrusive and noticed some repetition- same horn honk pattern on two different street scenes- but the lighting was amazing! Esp. when Phil visits Mr. Minify for the first time and you can see the shadow of a plant on the back wall... I liked the foreshadowing re: her weakness of character conveyed in Kathy's cocktail-party semi-mocking, half-defensive self-analysis I wonder if, the first two times we see Ma, she is wearing those jarring loud prints to confer a vitality that she will subsequently lose? And is that why the makeup artist allowed more face-shine when everyone else was in that gorgeous matte makeup b&w films always have? If so i am not sure it was successful... The whole marriage talk seemed really sudden to me- i get that the mores of the time left no other avenue once you swapped spit with a 'nice girl,' but she was a divorcee. Maybe time was telescoped and i missed it. I love the secretary but her reaction when she hears about the change in hiring policy so totally reminds me of how closeted queers will show hostility to out queers (this has happened to me). And the off-hand revelation about said hiring policies- could have been the major conflict and i am not sure it shouldn't have been, i felt like the story bogged down for maybe just a moment after Dave showed up. So shocking the way he grabbed Miss Wales's arm in their last scene together- TOTALLY could not do that now! That final scene is just gorgeous, and once again i am struck by how the limitations of b&w really brought out production creativity, e.g. the checkered floor outside Kathy's apartment. All in all a really gorgeous and touching movie! I'm glad i got to see it! thanks for the recommendation!

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	To be honest, I haven't seen Gentleman's Agreement for some time, but I do have it. So it's hard for me to comment on production. I do know that Elia Kazan won as best director. I'm guessing what you're seeing is Kazan's gritty realism, which was his signature such as On The Waterfront. and Streetcar Named Desire. I'm more taken with its antisemetic theme in post-war and the lengths Philip Greene goes through to prove antisemitisim and bigotry in the United States. Highly-sensitive stuff after the liberation of the Nazi death camps just a couple of years earlier. The woman who plays Greene's mother (I forget her name, I think its Anne Revere) was later black-balled in the MacArthy hearings on communism in 1952; it ruined her career. Kazan, on the other hand, was a witness and basically lost respect and freinds in Hollywood after snitching on them. See ya at the movies.

07-12-2010, 05:05 PM	#400
dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,589 Times in 4,691 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	The Thin Man- what the heck was i doing when i originally saw this? i can't believe i said "all i remember is the martinis" (although i think i was only like nineteen). I have an extremely extensive (and kinda expensive) education in aesthetics and criticsim, but the only technical notes i made were regarding the super-tight shots of MacCauley putting Wynant into a taxi and Nora being "walked" by Asta (obviously due to the physical limitations of the production and budget), and the evocative super-long shadow cast by Wynant as we walks away from Julia's apartment (the last time we see him alive) Shortly after that Nick and Nora pretty much charmed the critic panties right off me and all my notes are of the "OMG five martinis!" and "Gilbert is so cute!" variety lol (love Gilbert "I have a mother fixation but it's slight" "can i see the body? i've never seen a dead body" plus the public library is his alibi! WIN) LOVE the face Nick makes when Norah walks in on him comforting Dorothy and him shooting the Christmas tree from between his slippers Oh wait there's one more technical note "no long shots ever lol" i see from the literature that the film was shot in twelve days and that this was considered extravagant at the time. Really a remarkable achievement. Are the sequels as good?