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[b]Million Dollar Baby[/b]. Back in the day, I saw it once by myself. Then a friend was getting together a group to see it and have dinner afterward. I was hesitating; said I'd like to go, and it's a great movie, but wasn't sure I could put myself through all that a second time.
I decided to go, taking all those punches again. At the end, when the house lights came up, my friend looked over at me, exhausted, and asked "How could you go through this twice?"
[quote] Dutch 80s classics are B-horror movies De Lift and Amsterdamned and raunchy comedy Flodder.[/quote]
I saw "De Lift" back in the day, and enjoyed it. Another from that era I thought well done was "Gebroken Spiegels."
I came to appreciate actor Derek de Lint and the films he made, beginning with "Bastille."
[b]Endora[/b], Samantha's mother on [i]Bewitched[/i].
Paul Scofield
[quote]I just watched the original trailer and I agree with you it does not capture the essence of the movie
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXsu5XArEUw[/url][/quote]
I agree that the original trailer does a poor job of conveying what is most interesting about the film. This modern approach does an admirable job, I think, of illustrating the premise and sampling the drama:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDcVycz0OHM[/url]
Growing up in the sixties, most of the songs on this album became my favorite Christmas songs:
[url]http://goodstonechristmas.com/goodyear-lps/the-great-songs-of-christmas-volume-5/[/url]
Some of the tracks are available on YouTube, such as:
Maurice Chevalier's "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" -- [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7c1aT0Oe18[/url]
Dinah Shore's "The Twelve Days of Christmas" -- [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b5LSpJ1wUc[/url]
A few others:
Ella Fitzgerald's "O Come All Ye Faithful" -- [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYcaXIwPaY[/url] [But I really prefer the latin version, "Adeste Fideles"]
Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sing We Now of Christmas" -- [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUD30QfYMLI[/url]
And a spanish carol from the renaissance, "Riu, riu chiu", recorded by many groups, such as [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ntpw4PJ0QM[/url]
[quote]A very skilled actor can pull off eating while acting. I remember that on All in the Family, the Bunkers and the Stivics actually ate during those family dinner scenes.[/quote]
That's another good example, along with the one I had posted earlier of the BBC production with Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield. :o) It's all in the timing.
I vote for the previously-mentioned "Dancer in the Dark." And just about any other film from director Lars von Trier, including "Breaking the Waves."
Some dark, depressing movies with unhappy endings, though they have some lighter moments here and there:
The Fly (original and remake)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
The Exorcist
Million Dollar Baby
Rosemary's Baby
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Magnificent Ambersons
14 Hours
Citizen Kane
The Godfather Part III
Caged
Carmen (any version of this tale)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Lolita
The Heiress
Closer
Eyes Wide Shut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Blue Jasmine
Dark, depressing movies that brighten a bit at the end:
After Words
Dolores Claiborne
Flight
Secrets and Lies
Match Point
Sigh. . .I'm too deflated to go on.
;o)
[b]Shoe Boat[/b]
A traveling salesman plies his trade up and down the Mississippi River. Pumps a specialty.
[quote]Actors typically do not eat in "eating scenes." There's a certain timing in them saying their lines, that would be disturbed if they all had a mouth full of food[/quote]
Indeed. The best example I've seen is Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield in the dinner scene of a BBC production of Noel Coward's "Song At Twilight." They eat a three-course meal of caviar, steak, salad, and creme brulee. The timing of these two old pros is impeccable.
If anyone cares to have a look:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G40GLZqd2SM[/url]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-bM2xvRG4[/url]
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Cria Cuervos
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Exorcist
1776
Fiddler on the Roof
All the President's Men
Murder on the Orient Express
Heaven Can Wait
Sleuth
Superman
Tommy
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
All That Jazz
An Unmarried Woman
La grande bouffe
Deliverance
Coming Home
MASH
Daisy,
If you look through the filmographies of stars who are in their 50s-60s-70s now, you should find a lot of good films they made in the 1980s. For example:
Susan Sarandon -- Bull Durham, The Witches of Eastwick, The Hunger
Robert De Niro -- Brazil, Once Upon a Time in America, Raging Bull
Catherine De Neuve -- Scene of the Crime (Le lieu du crime), The Last Metro (Le dernier métro)
Al Pacino -- Sea of Love, Scarface
Diane Keaton -- Baby Boom, Reds
Tom Cruise -- Risky Business, Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July
Meryl Streep -- Out of Africa, Sophie's Choice, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Michael J. Fox -- the Back to the Future trilogy, Bright Lights, Big City, The Secret of My Success
Julie Andrews -- That's Life!, Victor/Victoria
[b]Me and Orson Welles[/b]. I saw it in a theater, sat close to the screen, and felt like I had stepped right back into 1937.
The character of Nancy Ashford is listed third in the Cast section:
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047203/reference[/url]
Very true, TexasJack. I'm an IT person myself, help desk staff. :o)
Aha! Someone has fixed this. The display of the username has been replaced with a small icon. I suppose the display of longer usernames was bumping down the display of the search field.
Thanks for the quick fix!! :o)
I would choose [b]Nancy Ashford[/b] from the 1954 remake of "Magnificent Obsession".
Strong. Smart. Passionate. Loyal. Beautiful.
Yes, this is happening to me too; started noticing it a couple of days ago.
The search field is normally located on the upper black bar, between the MC logo and the Contribute link, but lately it has been located underneath the black bar, blocking the link back to the forum that normally displays there.
I've reproduced the issue from two browsers on my Mac -- Firefox and Chrome, but only when I am logged in. When I am logged out, the search field is positioned normally:
Logged in, bad position of search bar:
[url]https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2878/34364999965_1524b68835_o.jpg[/url]
Logged out, good position of search bar:
[url]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4181/34365000285_17d0d8614a_o.jpg[/url]
Granted I use ad blockers in my browsers, but even with it disabled for this page, the search bar is still mispositioned, but it covers the ad instead of the link back to the forum:
[url]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4181/34364999755_8a5991743f_o.jpg[/url]
This is definitely a problem for me, as I cannot link back from the discussion to the originating forum, unless I were to keep my ad blocker disabled for this site. But even then the ads would be covered by the search field.
[b]Edit to add:[/b]
[quote] I wonder if the same thing is happening to people with shorter usernames.[/quote]
I do have a long username -- which may be why the issue does not present when I am logged out.
"The Miracle Worker" (Annie helping Helen)
"The Exorcist" (Karras and Merrin trying to help the possessed child)
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (the ghost is the helper)
"Captains Courageous" (Manuel helps the child who fell overboard)
"A Star is Born" (Norman helps Esther with her career)
I don't understand the controversy either. Just watched the commerical, didn't recognize any of the players, and don't know who is this 'Kendall Jenner' person. In my generation the only 'Jenner' was Bruce, who I understand is not 'Bruce' any longer
The music sounded fine to me, no tone-deafness.
The message seemed rather vague to me. I didn't understand if it was a protest (about what?) or a street festival. And I didn't recognize that the man at the end who received the can of Pepsi was a cop; he didn't seem to be in a police uniform.
In summary, I'd say the whole thing went over my head. Generation gap, indeed -- I'm on the other side of it now, and glad to be where I am. ;o)