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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Diane, a 1955 historical drama about King Henry II of France - played by an impossibly young Roger Moore - and the intrigue between his wife Catherine de Medici (Marisa Pavan) and mistress Diane de Poitiers (Lana Turner). A big budget M-G-M production exemplary of the anti-TV approach of the...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Movie locations
Sites about Vertigo filming locations in SF are a cottage industry. I couldn't find the one I'd seen a few years ago, but a quick Google produced: http://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/12/vertigo-1958.html...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Movie locations
OP, regarding "The Music Box"... there's an amazing wealth of info about the filming locations of silent comedies (etc.) at https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Braeden could be sympathetic too: he was the titular scientist in the WAY-ahead-of-its-time, computers-take-over film Colossus: The Forbin Project in 1970. In time, you will come to love me... Catching up... Still watching The Orville. Still a terrible disappointment. Still watching The...- Doctor Strange
- Post #15,246
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir...in Color?
An outstanding site I stumbled onto a while back about the Columbia Ranch, with loads of detail about its history and the films and TV shows shot there: http://www.columbiaranch.net/map.html- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Okay, I watched it on demand last night... and I'm still beyond underwhelmed. Way beyond. Thanks for pointing out the day change, I'll probably DVR it since I am hooked on the Ken Burns Vietnam doc...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Did it run ANYWHERE on Sunday or was it just a local NYC disruption? If it didn't run at all, I'm curious to see if they rerun this episode next week, because if they're expecting everyone who would've seen it in The Simpsons timeslot to watch it on demand, that's not gonna happen. I mean, it...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I watched the first episode of Ken Burns' massive Vietnam doc series on PBS. Not surprisingly, it was very well done. It pulled me in, even though I had no intention of watching it. I'd planned to watch the second episode of The Orville to see if it's still worthless, but the ball game ran...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Well said, sir! I felt very similarly. As (very) uneven and (overly) familiar as most aspects of this film are, I give it credit for having a vision and working very hard to realize it. I always prefer to see something overly creative vs. the pedestrian, even when the creativity is too much...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,960
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir...in Color?
As I always point out about b/w photography and films: because it reduces what we usually see to just light and dark (and highlights compositional form), these forms are already VERY stylized by their very nature in a way that color photography isn't. That is, a b/w image is ALREADY quite...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's my favorite Bogart film.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
La La Land on HBO last night. I didn't out and out hate it as I feared I would, but I found plenty of cringeworthy and unoriginal (as in ripped off from older/better films) things in it. However, it displays a lot of excellent craft, and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling have enormous charm, and...- Doctor Strange
- Post #23,954
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir...in Color?
There were still quite a few b/w films made into the mid-sixties... and then, very quickly after they ended, Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon had critics thrilled to see b/w return. And FF, re Youngblood Hawke, I don't know how much of a prestige production it really was: it...- Doctor Strange
- Post #52
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir...in Color?
Edward is correct: the exodus of Jewish creatives from Germany to Hollywood when Hitler came to power is one of the major reasons for what we consider the film noir look and its doomed fatalist approach. The influence first appeared in the Universal horror films of the early thirties: Edward's...- Doctor Strange
- Post #49
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I gave up drinking soda regularly decades ago, but I always keep a few 7-ounce glass bottles of Coke in the fridge. Every couple of months, it's a special treat. I like that it's close to the classic original bottle size, and it's so much better-tasting from glass than cans or plastic bottles...- Doctor Strange
- Post #5,141
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Autumnal Thoughts........
We had some odd, prematurely cool weather - nights in the forties, days only in the sixties - back around the end of August and first week of September. But it warmed back up, and the last few days here have been the remnants of Hurricane Irma: seventies/low eighties, very humid with heavy fog...- Doctor Strange
- Post #2,911
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Film Noir...in Color?
Oh, and I've stayed out of this discussion so far, but I side with the folks who think there have been more recent color films that carry on the noir tradition pretty well. Chinatown, Body Heat, Prizzi's Honor, Road To Perdition, Goodfellas, L.A. Confidential, etc., are all worthy descendants...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir...in Color?
Correction... the nineties Batman: The Animated Series was not set in the forties or fifties. It was set in an "alternate" present - with VHS tapes, TVs, computers - that still included boxy suits and fedoras, police blimps, tommy guns, night clubs, and big old cars. (The recent five-minute...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Werner Herzog's documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the cave in France with the 32,000-year-old cave paintings. Very interesting, and the paintings themselves - photographed with much brighter lighting than the torchlight and firelight of our ancestors - are remarkable, coming to us...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I tried the pilot for The Deuce on HBO. Gave up at 50 minutes. Very well acted and produced... but it's not for me. I remember when Times Square was that sleazy, and I have no fake nostalgia about it, nor much interest in its denizens. Oh, and the pilot of The Orville on Fox. Really...- Doctor Strange
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