I can't create a Ten Best list for 2003 since I didn't like much of anything this year. (The best time I had at the movies was watching CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL...
Last night we watched, for the hundredth time probably, the perfect Xmas and New Year movie, "Remember the Night". I won't revive the "who's the real auteur?"...
Joe, there's an Oswald thread back in the early archives of a_film_by: Fred and I are both Oswald Unconditionalists. Be sure to see A Kiss Before Dying, which...
... It is indeed quite lovely. And it brings up the whole subject of Christmas movies. Justgot through reading gavin lambert's marvelous bio of Natalie Wood,so...
Just caught the last hour of KCC, was sorry to miss the bank robber scenes as described by Mike Grost. Will look for this engaging movie again. Mike, Are you...
Anyone (Fred?) have any notions about how a SIRK "Tea and Sympathy" would differ from Minnelli's? Also: where did this notion of von Sternberg wanting to do a...
If the "auteur' issue references writer / director credits, it messed me up. I have my tivo set to record Preston Sturges as a director and it picks up the...
If the "auteur' issue references writer / director credits, it messed me up. I have my tivo set to record Preston Sturges as a director and it picks up the...
Peter Toungette contributed this list (post 5502, I think!). Here it is again: Note TONIGHT (middle of the night) is the Fritz Lang double bill! Mike Grost ...
Let's take another collective stab. Sure we don't know what films were sho= wn in the class, but they were pre-1970's, and probably of the ilk Manny Farber...
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... As I recall I saw RIO BRAVO at the Terminal Theater in Upper Darby, but as I'm fond of recounting, the News somehow came up with a 35mm print of CEILING...
... And farther up Market Street was the Mastbaum (the biggest; long gone now) where I got Fess Parker's autograph at the premiere of Davy Crocket. And a ways...
... That was in the early 1960s. ... Prior to my time in Philly, I was in Cleveland from 1958 to 1960, where a theater manager and projectionist were...
... Thanks for the tip, Bill. I did do a subject search for Oswald here this morning, just to make sure that I wasn't repeating material from months gone by....
The Sci-Fi channel has been airing a Twilight Zone marathon all day. I've been sampling some of it and have been surprised at some of the names I've seen ...
... unknown ... But ... Sordid movie-going experiences from the past are fascinating. My first viewing of RIO BRAVO was much different. It was in a first- run...
The last time we discussed Oswald on a_film_by (it was in the very first few weeks after our group's formation, I believe), I seem to remember that most of the...
Elizabeth, All of those Manny Farber questions were taken from an exam dealing with modernist and avant-garde cinema: Straub/Huillet, Snow, Gehr, Resnais,...
All this nostalgia... In Lansing we had the Michigan Theater. It was a whole mini-movie palace, inside a downtown arcade, complete with balcony and a beautiful...
... first few ... that most of ... Now that ... discussion, I ... German language ... Tavernier, who wrote most of our brief "Oswald" entry in "50 ans..." saw...
Thanks for furthering my cinema education...more to see and learn. All didactic contributions appreciated But you must say, I gave the quiz an honest shot...
I haven't seen the Twilight Zone for decades. And unfortunately have never seen the episodes directed by Jacques Tourneur or Mitchell Leisen. Stuart Rosenberg...
... Well, that's the only one I've seen of the German films (it was released as "Brainwashed" in the U.S.) and I love it. I'm sorry to hear that Tavernier ...
When seen years ago, both "80 Steps to Jonah" and "Bunny O'Hare" seemed like good movies, among the later Oswalds. "Jonah" is involving, and has beautiful ...
It's sometimes (but not always) easier to find the older posts on Google than with the Yahoo Groups search. Anyway, for the record, the balance of the Farber...
... No, I'm sure Byron talked about freedom and Minnelli, unless my brain is completely fried. I don't think it is: I'm one of those people who wasn't really...
