rec.arts.movies.past-films Google Group

Re: Most repeated movie by various TV stations?

2009-11-24T06:33:22Z

Its got a lot of chestnuts to catch up with.

Re: Ben-Hur premiere 50 years ago

2009-11-24T04:53:06Z

The Tom and Jerry short Timid Tabby
climaxes with a gag designed for a wide screen.

Re: Ben-Hur premiere 50 years ago

2009-11-24T04:36:19Z

Give me the 1925 version accompanied by crashing
cymbals and blaring horns.
Give me the headgear during the chariot races
(Ramon Navarro with modest covering. Francis
X. Bushman with wings)
Give me the occasional body part shown of
Our Lord Savior.
Give me leprosy healed with a trick of light.
Give me nubile maidens parading in Technicolor.

Re: TROUBLE IN PARADISE

2009-11-24T04:12:36Z

I didn't really like "The Shop Around The Corner" and liked "Trouble
In Paradise" more than you did. So there you go.
William
[link]

Re: Yankee Doodle Dandy

2009-11-24T04:02:47Z

Cagney had a sense of humor. He might have told that story to Paar or
Carson but he was just having whoever it was on. Actors are notorious
for telling lies about their past, usually deliberately. Just look at
the movies where Cagney danced, pre Yankee Doodle Dandy. He danced
nothing like Cohan.

Re: Favorite Movie about a President

2009-11-24T03:54:24Z

Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net> wrote in
Secret Honor (1984) is a no-budget tour de force by actor Philip Baker Hall
and director Robert Altman, adapted from a (longer) one-man play. The
premise is that sometime in the late 1970s Nixon is cassette-taping an
addendum to his memoirs, and as the evening progresses he gets drunker, the

Re: "Day of Wrath" (1943) -> Killer Great Film!

2009-11-24T02:20:04Z

I'll be very interested in your essay after I see the movie.
Usually, seeing a movie cold works best for me. Just
discovering the atmosphere is a good thing. I don't always
rave about the movies you rave about, but it's a good bet to give
them a try.
I still haven't gotten around to seeing 'Mauvaise Graine' yet,

Re: Polanski lawyer submits new bail offer

2009-11-24T01:57:06Z

then he's free : but let's make it fair, catch him and get a giant
cheese wheel... he's 76 , she's about 250 (lbs.)...great reality tv.

Re: Movies that will make you gay

2009-11-24T01:47:53Z

"It's Always Fair Weather" is a gay favorite?
Are any of the following gay favorites?
"Teahouse of the August Moon"?
"Henry V" (Olivier)?
"Kwaidan"?
"Vertigo"?
"Sansho the Bailiff"?
____
It is not exactly that we learn from each other, for no one can
really learn anything except in and by himself; it seems better to

Re: Come on Djoker take the trash out

2009-11-24T01:37:57Z

Wrong group.
What are you drinking/smoking today, Tito?

Re: Movies that will make you gay

2009-11-24T01:19:17Z

On Nov 23, 7:26 pm, "Gregory Morrow" <gregorymor...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
No, it was a list of movies that will *make* you gay. The above is a
list of movies you'll like once you *are* gay.

Re: Yankee Doodle Dandy

2009-11-24T01:05:17Z

God how I love a good nonsensical rant by a complete idiot...

Re: Polanski lawyer submits new bail offer

2009-11-24T00:48:57Z

Hunh? She doesn't care.

Re: Movies that will make you gay

2009-11-24T00:26:56Z

TT wrote:
No _Funny Face_, no _Breakfast At Tiffany's_, no _It's Always Fair Weather_,
no _Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf_, no _The Bad Seed_, no _I Want To
Live!_, no _I'll Cry Tomorrow_...NO _Female Trouble_...!!!???

Re: Movies that will make you gay

2009-11-24T00:02:41Z

In article <3e967a46e8f329a61cbada8e87934 ...@msgid.frell.theremailer.ne t>,
No film could make me gay, but Flawless with P.S. Hoffman made me nauseous.