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Amazing to think about all the changes she saw first hand in Hollywood since her youth. Side note, she was married to director Richard L. Bare who died in 2015 at the age of 101. Bare directed 7 Twilight Zone episodes including To Serve Man
Last year we lost Marsha Hunt at 104 (1917-2022) before that Norman Lloyd at 106 (1919-2021) & Olivia de Havilland at 104 (1916-2020)
Norman Lear is 101, Glynis Johns just turned 100 last Thursday, Mel Brooks is 97.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centenarians_(actors,_filmmakers_and_entertainers)
Glad to see PTA doing on-screen commentary at TCM. I love it when directors are interviewed there.
I’ve seen 3 of the 5. The 2 I haven’t seen are the British ones, Night Ambush and Victim. Will set my calendar for all.
Pulp Fiction
'Short-fingered vulgarian" still makes me giddy. Thanks for the memories. I remember reading that 7 years ago.
"Puddin' fingers" is another one that recently gave me a chuckle.
The clueless philistine Ted Turner from a 1986 Los Angeles Times article.
“The last time I checked, I owned the films that we’re in the process of colorizing,” said Ted Turner. “I can do whatever I want with them, and if they’re going to be shown on television, they’re going to be in color.”
“All I’m trying to do is protect my investment in MGM,” said Turner, who earlier this year paid more than $1.2 billion for the studio’s 3,650-title library of movies. He has announced plans to color such seminal black-and-white films as “Casablanca,” “The Maltese Falcon” and the John Garfield-Lana Turner “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
“I’m really shocked at the fuss,” he said. “I personally don’t think it makes that much difference in the end. I think editing these movies makes a hell of a lot more difference in how they look, especially when they’re chopped up by 20 or more minutes in order to fit into the time slots. Why aren’t people making a fuss about that?”
“Besides,” he said, “I like things in color. We see in color. Why didn’t they (the protesting film makers) make ‘The Sting’ in black- and-white if they’re so concerned about historical authenticity? I don’t see their point.”
In 1988, Jimmy Stewart made a plea in Congressional hearings, along with Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, film director Martin Scorsese, and many others, against Ted Turner's decision to 'colorize' classic black-and-white films, including It's a Wonderful Life. Stewart stated, "the coloring of black-and-white films is wrong. It's morally and artistically wrong and these profiteers should leave our film industry alone."
Everyone hated the idea so much that Congressional Hearings were held in 1987-88 which led to the National Film Preservation Act of 1988 which gave the principal Director or Screenwriter the right to prevent any "material alteration" of their films.
This was all before he married Jane Fonda. I'd like to think she ultimately had an influence on his taste.
All this meshugaas has me pining for TCM's halcyon days of Robert Osborne.
French Connection has one of the greatest car chase scenes in film history. Popeye Doyle was a great bad ass cop with serious anger issues.
Starring Steve Brodie, Audrey Long and pre-good-guy Raymond Burr.
Directed by Anthony Mann
Watch Burr chillingly slice a piece of turkey while he roughs up a pair of elderly country folk.
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir directed by Orson Welles (uncredited) and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
Although it initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years, and many critics have praised its set designs and camerawork.
Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne on Peacock.
"...makes Eraserhead seem like 'Ernest Saves Christmas'."
--Critic's Choice, Time Magazine
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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If you have cable or satellite TV you can catch Eddie Muller's Noir Alley presentation of the 1949 film Impact tonight at midnight Eastern and again at 10am Sunday.
Eddie provides an Intro/Outro to each of these weekly films. Sometimes Eddie is much more entertaining than the films themselves although the film tonight is a pretty good one.
Worth it just to see location shots of 1949 San Francisco & Sausalito.
I saw Man with a Movie Camera when TCM showed it a few months ago. Very interesting considering how he would lug a large wind-up camera around and film everything that he found interesting then use creative ways to edit it all together. To me, it didn't look like a propaganda film at all, altho perhaps to those who lived in the USSR during that time may have seen more in it than modern Western people do today.
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The goal in our new community is to have fun discussing the directors, cast, cinematography, script, themes, etc of this genre.
Here are a few links for discovering the best films of the genre (if you're inclined to call it that) Note: some of these also include Neo-Noir
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-noir/the-best-noirs-of-all-time
https://mubi.com/lists/bfi-screen-guides-100-film-noirs
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-100-best-film-noirs-of-all-time/
https://filmnoir.art.blog/essential-films-noir/
Would love to see discussion of classic Noir which would also be inclusive of Neo-Noir.