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February 25th, 2024, 10:48 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Coming up on TCM...
Replies: 84
Views: 11244

Re: Coming up on TCM...

I'm excited about all the excellent foreign films to be shown on Tuesday.
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February 24th, 2024, 9:35 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), College student (Wendell Burton) meets manipulative, clingy stalker (Liza Minnelli) on a bus back to college. You can tell from my one-sentence synopsis that I didn't much like this film, largely because the Minnelli character sets off red flags and alarm bells almost fro...
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February 24th, 2024, 9:19 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: 2024 TCM Film Festival
Replies: 6
Views: 1833

Re: 2024 TCM Film Festival

It doesn't look like I'll be attending the 2024 Film Festival. "Waaaaaaaaaaah!" {breaks into Lucille Ball imitation} Last year my mom and my aunt surprised my cousin and me by treating us all to the festival and a stay in Hollywood and Santa Monica. We all had a great time. I hope to atte...
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February 23rd, 2024, 1:42 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2136
Views: 105734

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

...The Peck-Bergman romance in the second one is pretty corny, so I was more into the murder mystery aspect of the movie, which is moderately interesting. The funniest part was the head shrinkers trying to pass of their psychoanalysis as science. I wonder if five psychoanalysts were told he same dr...
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February 21st, 2024, 1:11 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

I'm so glad you enjoyed Serial and found it as funny as I did. It captures, and skewers, the hippie-dippyness of the times very well.
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February 20th, 2024, 11:40 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: 2024 TCM Film Festival
Replies: 6
Views: 1833

Re: 2024 TCM Film Festival

The balcony at the Egyptian was a series of lawsuits waiting to happen. Poorly lit stairs going up, then some of the stairs in the poorly lit balcony were half-steps. It was scary to watch people try to maneuver up or down this in the near dark.
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February 19th, 2024, 6:22 pm
Forum: Musicals
Topic: Wicked (movie version)
Replies: 23
Views: 2110

Re: Wicked (movie version)

The idea for the talking goat may come from L. Frank Baum's Rinkitink in Oz , which also has a talking goat. The co-educational college is also authentically Baumian. Professor Wogglebug (a magnified bug), introduced in The Land of Oz , subsequently founded a college where the students could take pi...
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February 16th, 2024, 11:27 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Replies: 2136
Views: 105734

Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

:smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: :smiley_heartbounce: Happy Day After Valentine's Day to all the dear people on this thread. It's less depressi...
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February 15th, 2024, 2:20 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

An aside re Pollock : An article in The Guardian had Russell Crowe, Julia Roberts, and Benicio del Toro as odds-on favorites (Julia at 1-9) to win the Oscars for 2000, and they did. Marcia Gay Harden was only the fourth choice at 6-1. Kate Hudson was the even-money favorite, with Judi Dench and Fran...
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February 14th, 2024, 5:37 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

Speaking of Kate Mulgrew, when I first saw her on Ryan's Hope I was sure she was going to be a big star. She left the show when her contract was up and went in search of other things. Many years passed before she got the lead in Star Trek: Voyager. Replacing Kate Mulgrew in what was effectively the ...
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February 12th, 2024, 6:57 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

you wanna hear something wild? I actually LIKED that scene a lot- for various reasons 1. THE BRICKWORK on THAT FIREPLACE they were fighting in front of was really unique and 2. THE DAUGHTER yelling at her Mother "I AM NOTHING LIKE YOU, MAMA"- meanwhile they are BOTH dressed HEAD TO TOE in...
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February 12th, 2024, 11:08 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

Lorna, thank you for posting the screenshot from Cane River . That lush scenery was one of the reasons I wanted to keep watching. If you're watching in small bunches, you might want to fast forward through the scene near the end where Maria is arguing with her mother. It's hilarious, though, that th...
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February 11th, 2024, 1:26 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: I Just Watched...
Replies: 2774
Views: 151884

Re: I Just Watched...

Perhaps it was appropriate for TCM to show Pollock (2000) in the Best Supporting Actress Winners category, because Marcia Gay Harden's performance as the painter Lee Krasner is the heart and soul of the film. Is "perfect" too strong a word? Here's a good example of the actor playing the ac...
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February 10th, 2024, 2:42 pm
Forum: Film Noir and Crime
Topic: Blue Lamp/Dixon Of Dock Green
Replies: 11
Views: 5187

Re: Blue Lamp/Dixon Of Dock Green

Surprisingly, the BBC did a poor job of preserving its treasures. There's a website that lists what is or isn't available. There was a great version of Dostoevsky's The Possessed , which I loved, and a much-admired version of Dostoevsky's The Idiot which never made it to the States, much to my chagr...
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February 10th, 2024, 2:34 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Foreign film poll
Replies: 55
Views: 52233

Re: Foreign film poll

It seems that France is runaway winner. I must wonder if that is due to French Art Films being heavily exported to America for several decades. I have often wondered what the relative standing of various directors would be if, say, the films of Andrzej Wajda and Satyajit Ray had been more widely av...