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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The aria in Room with a View????
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:35:06 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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In article <HELGEB.92Dec15123448@admin.uio.no> helgeb@admin.uio.no (Helge J. Bj|rnhaug) writes:
}In article <asale.724360587@sfu.ca> asale@fraser.sfu.ca (Antonina Sale) writes:
}
} Hi, maybe someone can help me with this question, it's driving me INSANE!!!!!
} WHAT is the name of the operatic piece (aria, I think) featured in _A Room
} With a View_???????? It's been in a lot of movies, it's a woman singing, and
} it sticks in my head because of it's expressive style that emphasizes emotion 
} over trilly formal stuff. I'm dying to find out what it's called and what 
} opera it's from... PLEASE HELP!!!
}
}O Mio Bambino Cara - or something like that. Composed by either Puccini or
}Rossini, i think.

"O mio babbino cara" is a soprano aria from _Gianni Schicchi_ by Puccini.
The title of the aria means "O, my beloved daddy."  It can be found on the
_Portrait of Kiri Te Kanawa_ recording from CBS.  A few years ago it was used
to advertise a sparkling wine.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: jxl@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Xilin Jia)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best foreign films, by country
Date: 13 Dec 92 02:31:43 GMT
Organization: Project NORTHSTAR, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

What about some Rassian movies?
From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Help find G.W. Pabst's THE LAST 10 DAYS
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:10:20 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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I'm trying to find THE LAST 10 DAYS on either film or video, preferable the
latter. Please e-mail me any pertinent information. Thanks.

--Peter M.

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From: trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis)
Subject: Re: Aladdin soundtrack
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:53:45 GMT

In article <BzEzsK.FnL@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> holthaus@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (CJ Holthaus) writes:
>Does anyone know if the Aladdin soundtrack has Robin Williams dialogue
>when he is freed from the lamp?
>Or any comment on the soundtrack would be useful. I thoroughly enjoyed 
>Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast soundtracks. 

Aladdin soundtrack:

1)	Arabian Nights (song at beginning)
2)	Legend of the Lamp (R.W. as lamp salesman)
3)	One Jump Ahead (Aladdin)
4)	Street Urchins (instrumental)
5)	One Jump Ahead reprise
6)	Friend Like Me (R.W.)
7)	To Be Free (inst.)
8)	Prince Ali (R.W. - parade song)
9)	A Whole New World
10)	Jafar's Hour (inst.)
11)	Prince Ali (Jafar version)
12) - 20) instrumentals
21)	Whole New World (professional version - Peabo Bryson & Regina Bell)

It's very good.  I like all of the songs, and the instrumentals are pleasant
background music.

- Mike Lewis
trump@leland.stanford.edu

P.S.  For those of you who care, my story about the Toys premiere is shortly
forthcoming (last final in 5 hours...shouldn't I be studying?)
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Watchmen
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:47:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <490yVB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca>, panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes...
>jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car) writes:
> 
>> Gilliam was at least slated to work on it at some point.  I saw an interview
>> with Gilliam after he released Baron Munchausen and he was wearing a
>> bloody-smiley-face pin on his shirt.

     I actually met Gilliam at a Creation show I was working as a dealer
     at in New York City a couple of years ago, just after the release
     of MUNCHAUSEN (brilliant film, that).  He was wearing the Comedian's
     pin with blood spot, and he did say he intended to direct it for
     Warner Brothers (the project had recently been moved to Warners
     from its original home, Fox; and Warners makes more sense for a
     DC adaption at any rate).  He was, at that time, completely 
     rewriting Sam Hamm's script, to such an extent that he and his
     writing partner (forgot that name) were bascially doing an 
     adaption of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons masterpiece themselves.


>....This sounds promising.  But I last heard the rumour that Gilliam was 
>working on it a couple of years ago.... long enough for it to be possible 
>that the project was shelved.

>I can only hope they're working on it....

     It has since been put into turnaround.  In my opinion, it's
     impossible to do justice to this story on film.  Sam Hamm's
     script, which cut all references to the first generation of
     heroes (the 40s WW II heroes) to focus instead on the "contemporary"
     group outlawed under the Keane Act, and that group's resurgence
     due to a "mask killer" nailing them one at a time in their
     real identities, never captures the themes or the feel of
     the original work.  He also reworked the ending beyond
     recognition.

     Gilliam came to the same conclusion: WATCHMEN cannot be done.
     Warners came to the same conclusion: WATCHMEN cannot be done.
     So, for once, thank god, they're NOT going to do it.

>Namaste,
>Elizabeth

     "The Cult of the Dead Jew!!  The Cult of the Dead Jew!!"
      -A Retrospective on Christianity, by TOM (CHICKEN).
       (Scott Gorcey, V075Q5FR@UBVMSB.CC.BUFFALO.EDU))
From: mig@csulb.edu (Mig Gomez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Daniel Day Lewis, Anyone?
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:36:00 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

In article <1992Dec17.140744.14898@mlb.semi.harris.com> cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie Slasor) writes:
>In article <168BEE736.ARL00SJB@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU> ARL00SJB@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU writes:
>>Just wondering if there's anyone else who was *very* entranced with DDL
>>in _Last of the Mohicans_, as my best friend and I were when we saw it?
>>I immediately went out and bought _My Left Foot_, which was *nothing*
>>like _LOTM_, but in which I saw why it was that Daniel got his Oscar.
>>And I *loved* that great piece that Libby Whatshername did on Daniel
>>in _Premier_ magazine (it was either the last one or the one before).
>>VERY funny!
>> 
>>--Jean
>
>YES!  Shortly after seeing _LOTM_ (for the 2nd time, I think) I rented
>_MLF_ and _A Room With A View_ and found that he was a totally different
>person in each of the 3 movies.  He even looked different and I doubt
>I would have recognized him if I didn't already know he was there.  I am
>very impressed with what a true actor (as opposed to a "movie star") can
>do.
>
>Is it true he's the son of a former British Poet Laureate?
>

   Yes. Cecil Day- Lewis, if my memory serves me right. Someone
   please correct me if I'm wrong.

   You might want to catch him in "Unbearable Lightness of Being"
   which I thought was a very absorbing film (although a bit long
   - almost three hours). 

>-- 
>====================================================================
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>Phone:    (407) 724-7607	     |	P.O. Box 883, MS #62B-022
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields)
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:32:27 GMT

"Resevoir Dogs" - loved it but if I ever see it again it's going to be a
long long long time.

Joan
From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: The Crying Game question
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: Dil 
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:02:00 GMT
Distribution: na 



Recently, I went to see an absolutely incredible film called "The 
Crying Game" and I am having a dispute with a co-worker regarding
the actor who played the role of Dil.






POSSIBLE MAJOR SPOILERS *********












I thought that a man played the role of Dil, but my co-worker insists
that the part was played by a woman pretending to be a man for the
role.  The name given in the credits could feasibly belong to a
man or woman so we cannot determine who is correct from that
information. 

Does anyone know which of us is correct?  Was the role of Dil
played by an ACTOR or an ACTRESS?

Any info is greatly appreciated . . .

Kris
kris@fs2.assist.uci.edu



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From: duelge@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jason Duelge)
Subject: Re: Roger & Me Sequel?
Reply-To: duelge@schaefer.UUCP (Jason Duelge)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 00:08:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.194822.3175@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson) writes:
>I recently made the mistake of telling someone I know that
>there's a sequel to the documentary film "Roger & Me," which
>details a filmmaker's efforts to get an audience with Roger
>(Smith?) the GM top executive, so as to discuss the closing of
>the Flint, Michigan plant. Does such a sequel exist? I seem to
>remember reviews of it. What's it called, when was it released,
>etc.? 
>
>Any help appreciated. E-mail and I will summarize.
>
>Steve
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>Why these nightmares? Why this sky?            Steve Tilson
>This long road. This empty room.               sdt8s@virginia.edu
>========================================================================

There is.  It is called 'Pets or Meat - Return to Flint' (or something
like that).
There is an interesting scene with the 'rabbit' lady.  In fact, if you
liked the first movie, there are interesting scenes with all the
'main characters' of the first movie.  Great fun, but only about 30 minutes.

Jason
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From: clayson@xenomorph.Eng.Sun.COM (Mathew Clayson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.fandom,rec.arts.sf.marketplace,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Source for Blade Runner Prop?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:28:56 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
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In article 1yv@brunel.ac.uk, Paul.Williams@brunel.ac.uk (Paul M Williams) writes:
> Chanel Summers (summers@usc.edu) wrote:
> : Does anyone know of a source that sells replicas of Harrison Ford's gun from
> : Blade Runner?
> 
> What are the two red LEDs on Fords gun for??????


There's a company in SanFrancisco called SF^2 or SFsquare that carries nice copies
that are much more accuarate then the model from Japan. Also try the HERO CLUB in
SanFrancisco I think they carry it also. The model mentioned above just like the
original was made from a Austrian riffle made by SIG, the SSG. This bolt action
fiffle has a rotory clip that slids into the bottom of the reciver. The gun also
has two triggers, you can pull one, or both for a smother pull. They took the reciever
from the stock, removed the barrel, added a pistol grip, then thay gutted the clip
and added a battery and two LEDs to each side of the clip.

I was falsely accussed of selling a copy of the origanel gun to these guys. They
obtained a copy from someone else and aduplicating it themselves. They are nice
props and very accurate, but they do cost some.
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Top Five Movies of All Time
Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:08:22 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <78567@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge  
Diaz) writes:
> In article <4318@novavax.UUCP> knightn@novavax.UUCP (Nova Knight  
Newspaper) writes:
> 
> >	Give me a break! Four of the top five films of ALL time were
> >	produced in the last ten years!?!
> 
> While I disagree with his top 5 picks, I have to ask.  Can a movie  
NOT be
> an all time top five if it's not at least 15 years old?  Are  
today's movies
> simply not good enough?  Give the rest of us a break.

That's not what the previous poster said. There's nothing wrong
with picking some recent films on the best of all time list.
But if someones list has 4 of the 5 best movies of all time
being movies from the last 10 years (and 2 of the 5 from the
last 6 months) then this list seems suspicious, at the very least.
--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: jwp@aber.ac.uk (J W Perkins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Any information from abroad on these CD Soundtracks?
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:24:27 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

I have managed to buy CDs of most of my favourite film soundtracks I had
on LP. Just a few have never appeared in the U.K., and I say that as
someone who regularly checks up in the large record shops and in
the catalogues. It would be interesting to know if they have been
issued anywhere at all.

The soundtracks concerned are:
     Bugsy Malone
     Hello, Dolly
     Oh! What a Lovely War
     Tommy (Tina Turner et al)

Any information welcome; use email if you don't feel the reply is of wide
interest.

                                                         Jeremy Perkins
From: jrc2k@Virginia.EDU ("Roxie Conley")
Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:42:16 GMT

Harv@cup.portal.com  writes:
> 
> >> I watched DieHard 2(again) over the weekend and there are a couple of things
> >> that I have to mention.
   [stuff deleted]
> >...in the original Die Hard,
> >Bruce Willis' tank top is sometimes white and sometimes black.
   [stuff deleted]
>
> It's an "undershirt" not a "tank top" :-) and watch the film

     Oh, pardon me :)

> again. It doesn't really flip from white to black, as in a film
> with bad continuity.. it starts out white and as he gets hot
> and sweaty and shot at and crawls around/under/thru the
> building it gets dirtier and darker and darker and dirtier so
> it LOOKS like it's black but really it's just damn filthy.

    I would be willing to believe this except that I did watch
it again last night and it definitely changes to a black
shirt.  Which would still be okay, it's almost passable as a
VERY filthy white shirt, except that it changes back to a dirty
and bloodstained but clearly used-to-be-white shirt in the
scene where Alan R. convinces BW that he (Alan) is just some 
poor schmuck who works in the building.  Then after that it's 
black again.

> 
> Of all the things one might find to complain about (bad plot
> logic, bad continuity) in the DH films, Willis' shirt in DH-1
> wouldn't be one that I'd choose. 
> 
> Regards, Harv

    Well, maybe not, I guess it depends on your viewpoint, but
IMHO the shirt being worn by Our Intrepid Hero is a pretty
visual thing.
    I still love the movie though.

Regards, Rox
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jrc2k@Virginia.EDU
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From: woodm@vax1.bham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.postmodern,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Peter Greenaway, The Postmodern Canon
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:28:58 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk

In article <1992Dec10.145704.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk>, woodm@vax1.bham.ac.uk writes:

 
>> But is it PostModern?
>> 
>> Should we be talking about Batman?

What isn't?

Why is metatextuality as used in John Fowles Art, and in Wayne's World trash?
I think we know the answer.

'Architect' is for me Greenaway's least satisfying movie
Precisely since it is the most satisfying
or least disturbing.
Irony. Subversion. Oh yes-these are the fruits of love (kyd).

Isn't Batman too trapped in Hollywood production values?
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From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: Amy Irving - actress or singer?
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 19:16:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.070209.16573@news.Hawaii.Edu> teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima) writes:
>In article <ByoKE6.FHy@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt) writes:
>>{ I originally posted this to rec.music.bluenote 'cause I assumed that
>>  Amy Irving was a blues/jazz/soul singer - now I'm told she is
>>  ex-wife of Steven Spielberg }
>>
>>The film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was on the TV here last weekend.
>>Jessica Rabbit's singing vocals were dubbed by Amy Irving (from memory)
>>who sounds pretty good but I can't find out anything about her. I know
>>the soundtrack is available - is it any good and does it just have the 
>>one song "Why Don't You Do Right" by Amy? Has she recorded anything else?
>
>Jessica Rabbit was voiced by KATHLEEN TURNER from War of the Roses
>(with Michael Douglas), NOT Amy Irving.
>

But Amy Irving *did* do the singing, not Kathleen Turner.  I don't
know of any recordings she has out.  The only other movie I can think of
off hand is _Crossing Delancy_.

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From: jdt@ulysses.att.com (Jonathan D. Trudel[ftd])
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:57:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: jdt@ulysses.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

In article <1992Dec11.183321.12005@microsoft.com>, gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
|> >In article <1992Dec8.225347.9055@cs.wayne.edu>, faa@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Felicitas A. Atabong) writes:
|> >Has anyone out there seen a movie or movies that they thought were
|> >really good, but they just couldn't see  more than once...?


Angel Heart.  That movie gives me the chills....

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From: spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robyn Spady)
Subject: Re: Top Ten
Organization: Boeing
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:52:05 GMT

jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>>       ------------------------
>>       1) The Jerk
>>       2) The Man with Two Brains
>>       3) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
>>       4) The Lonely Guy
>>       5) The Blues Brothers
>>       6) Uncle Buck
>>       7) Grand Canyon
>>       8) L.A. Story
>>       9) Leap of Faith
>>      10) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
>> 
>> ( As you can see, I'm a Steve Martin Fan, but there were some  
>bombs: i.e.
>>   Parenthood and Roxanne!)
>
>Gack, choke, gasp....  Roxanne a bomb.  It's probably Martin's 
>best film.  It is beautifully done, literate, well-acted, and
>funny.  Parenthood, while not up to Roxanne, is also pretty 
>good.
>
Here, Here!!!!


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From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Subject: Re: Roger Ebert's top 10 list (was Re: Movie Top 10 by...)
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:45:44 GMT

> Roger Ebert's Ten Greatest Films of All Time (1992)
> (in alphabetical order)
> 
> Casablanca
> Citizen Kane
> Floating Weeds
> Gates of Heaven
> La Dolce Vita
> Notorious
> Raging Bull
> The Third Man
> 28 Up
> 2001: A Space Odyssey
==============
I have seen or at least heard of all of these except "Floating Weeds." Can 
anyone tell me about this one?

rlwilliams@gallua.bitnet
From: patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Help find "M", The 1950's American Version
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:09:51 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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Pete Merholz of Berkeley writes:

>> I'm looking for "M", the American version, on film or video, preferably the
>> latter. Please e-mail any pertinent information. Thanks.

Ralf of Saarbruecken, Germany, replies:

>If anyone should know something about this (I dont), please post, such that we
>learn the names of the shameless people daring to remake "M".

The much underrated and seldom seen remake of Fritz Lang's brilliant film
"M" was made by Joseph Losey. It was one of the last films he made in the
United States before being blacklisted for his left-wing views, as shown
in films like "The Boy with the Green Hair" and "The Dividing Line". (I
believe producer Dore Schary tampered with "The Boy..." prior to its
release to dilute Losey's message of understanding and brotherhood, both
dangerous concepts in post-war America.)

Losey's version of "M" is certainly not as good as the German original,
yet it's still a powerful film and deserves to be better known. 
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From: beach@dali.rutgers.edu (David Beach)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Millers Crossing
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:27:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

> If you have two dollars, rent it.  Not just a gangster movie.

	I'd also like to mention Barton Fink and Blood Simple (as long as
we're on the topic of the Coen brothers).  Barton Fink is one of my favorite
films of all time, though it is kind of odd and probably not for everyone.
Any comments about Barton Fink (interpretations, opinions, etc.) are
welcome.
						Dave