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31		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 16, 2003 1:26 am
	... starring ... I hadn't a clue about the existence of these - thanks for the information. The only other "unknown" Preminger (though it isn't really; I just...
32		Jaime N. Christley j_christley	Jun 16, 2003 10:19 am
	From today's TV schedule: due to the unfortunate and recent passing of Gregory Peck, Turner Classic Movies has cancelled Hawks' (relatively) rare THE CROWD...
33		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 16, 2003 1:55 pm
	... I've never seen THE YEARLING. But I like PORK CHOP HILL. I've been waiting for many years for the auteurist community, what's left of it, to reevaluate...
34		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 16, 2003 2:01 pm
	... One of the aspects of auteurism that I always liked was its emphasis on seeing a lot of films. The ethos of auteurism was basically that you should see...
35		jess_l_amortell	Jun 16, 2003 3:00 pm
	... I guess there hasn't been much, but I saw the memorable BALL OF FIRE in the Film Forum's comedy series last year, and there were a few others in the...
36		Fred Camper fredcamper	Jun 16, 2003 3:38 pm
	Dan: "So it sounds as if the impact of Sarris' FILM CULTURE guide in 1963 was pretty much immediate..." Pretty much. I know when I bought it it was a "back...
37		Gabe Klinger gcklinger	Jun 16, 2003 6:37 pm
	Hawks titles that are available through repertory channels are few these days. I once struggled to find a non-archival 16mm of SCARFACE (finally found it)....
38		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 16, 2003 7:42 pm
	... I believe "The Big Sky" played as part of a Jim Jarmusch retrospective at the Wexner Center in 2001 (the film is one of Jarmusch's favorites.) ...
39		markp43081	Jun 16, 2003 7:52 pm
	THE ROAD TO GLORY (1936) played at the Wexner Center in Columbus last year. It was part of the Guy Maddin retrospective and was paired with ARCHANGEL at the...
40		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 16, 2003 9:28 pm
	I hope that some of you were able to catch the King Vidor mini-"marathon" that TCM aired late last night. They kicked it off with "The Crowd," followed by ...
41		Jaime N. Christley j_christley	Jun 16, 2003 9:59 pm
	... but I ... On the Mobius board, last October, someone says that's one of Scorsese's major restoration projects: "A blurb in Daily Variety about 3 years ago...
42		Jaime N. Christley j_christley	Jun 16, 2003 10:03 pm
	... "marathon" ... Crowd," followed by ... since it was ... kind of ... (I hope Fred doesn't get irritated with all this talk of classic films being shown on...
43		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 16, 2003 10:09 pm
	... Yeah. I found it interesting, but there was something pointed about the subject matter that felt a little artificial to me. Vidor is an excellent...
44		pwf2006@... pafileri	Jun 16, 2003 10:48 pm
	... politique. I ... auteur ... Wollen's piece "Who the Hell Is Howard Hawks?" has some worthwhile information regarding this, though still too vague to count...
45		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 17, 2003 2:02 am
	... I hope Bill doesn't mind that I say this is Bill Krohn. Bill, why don'tchya introduce yourself to our little auteurist collective? :) Peter ...
46		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 17, 2003 3:01 am
	... I really like that one a lot too. In the Schickel documentary, Vidor (who I found to be an extremely thoughtful and eloquent speaker here) commented that ...
47		jess_l_amortell	Jun 17, 2003 4:25 am
	... All this might seem to suggest that Sarris had never seen or heard of Hawks. In fact Sarris explains, a bit ambiguously, after the sentences quoted by...
48		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 17, 2003 5:21 am
	... In "Who the Devil Made It," Bogdanovich talks about how, while Sarris wrote and signed the Film Culture issue alone, "Archer's input was understood." He ...
49		Patrick Ciccone pwciccone	Jun 17, 2003 1:34 pm
	will appear at the NYC Alliance Francaise screening of Saint Joan on June 24th, according to their programmer. PWC...
50		hotlove666	Jun 17, 2003 3:29 pm
	Two quick points of information - UCLA has restored the director's cut* of BIG SKY. It can alo be seen (in what I assume is not as good a print) on Cahiers du...
51		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 17, 2003 4:39 pm
	... My favorite Vidor is actually the little-known THE WEDDING NIGHT, a very nice drama from around the same time as OUR DAILY BREAD. The latter film...
52		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 17, 2003 4:47 pm
	... Hawks used to like to tell the story of how the distributors insisted on the cuts so they could squeeze in an extra show per day, and that the cuts killed...
53		markp43081	Jun 17, 2003 5:48 pm
	I've been catching up on late Hitchcock recently and watched FAMILY PLOT for the first time. While perusing Truffaut's seminal book about the master, I...
54		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 18, 2003 3:57 am
	I recently had the chance to view Mulligan's "Clara's Heart" again. I know it's one of Fred's favorite pictures - and that Mulligan has something of a ...
55		ptonguette@... peter_tonguette	Jun 18, 2003 4:26 am
	... Has anyone ever determined the veracity of Hawks' claims that Universal cut somewhere around 30 minutes out of "Man's Favorite Sport" after test ...
56		Patrick Ciccone pwciccone	Jun 18, 2003 4:34 am
	So I first saw this around five years ago on TCM then last year at the Action Christine theater in Paris--in both cases, I believe the runtime was 2h20 ...
57		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 18, 2003 5:09 am
	... McCarthy did the research and found that 25 minutes were cut from the film in two stages. (Hawks apparently claimed that as much as 40 minutes had been...
58		Fred Camper fredcamper	Jun 18, 2003 5:15 am
	Sorry, guys, I've been too busy arguing with the Philistines over at CM (joke, joke) to post the more interesting things here, but I intend to trot out my own...
59		Dan Sallitt sallitt1	Jun 18, 2003 5:16 am
	... The long cut is 138 minutes, the short one 122. - Dan...
60		hotlove666	Jun 18, 2003 7:13 am
	The East Coast premiere of this recently recovered* Ukrainian operetta co-directed by Ulmer and Vasily Avramenko (the first of Ulmer's ethnic films) was as...

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