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From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What do you call YOUR remote?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:54:21 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In article <8059@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Schnepp) writes:
>The TV Guide has an article this week about "zapping".
>In other words, channel scanning. 
>At our house we call our remote "the clicker".  Hand
>me "the clicker" is lots quicker than saying, "hand
>me the remote control", don't you think??   Hah!

But, "Give me the remote" has the same number of syllables as
"...clicker"  Control, what control?

In college, it was "God/Godbox".  Frequently heard:  "Where's God?"

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From: jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dracula
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:00:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: alexandr.jjonsson.90
Distribution: usa
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah

In article <170bqhINNoj9@network.ucsd.edu> mmaxwell@ucsd.edu writes:

>In article <1992Aug20.083139.26499@sdcrsi.cray.com> kathyli@sdcrsi.cray.com
>(the Rev. Mom) writes:
>(snip)
>>to talk about the movie.  I missed the first ten minutes or so of
>>the presentation, but the basic gist is that Coppola was really
>>trying for a faithful adaptation of the book, down to the cowboy
>>from Texas who's one of Lucy(?)'s suitors.  

>The "Cowboy" is played by Bill Cambell (of "Rocketeer").

>(sinp)

>>be absolutely sure.  I *think* Cary Elwes name is mentioned, and
>>whoever it is playing Renfield got such a big cheer I can't
>>figure out who it is.  <sigh>.

>Renfield played by Tom Waits (musician/actor known best in roles
>from "Down by Law" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord".)

Here's the cast list as far as I can remember:

Anthony Hopkins: Dr. Van Helsing
Keanu Reeves: Jonathan Harker (Why, why, why, why?)
Winona Ryder: Mina Harker
Cary Elwes: Dr. Seward
Bill Campbell: Quincey Morris (The Texan)
Gary Oldman: Dracula aka Vlad Dracula 
Tom Waits: Renfield

There are two characters I don't know who's playing: 

Lord Holmwood, and Lucy Westenra (who's being played by a newcomer)


Jeff Jonsson
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From: steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff)
Subject: Re: Manon of the Spring (was something really stupid)
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:55:00 GMT

gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley) writes:
:    Am I right in thinking this film is the same as "Manon des Sources",
: the sequel to "Jean
: de Florette"? Is this an American thing? To refer and I suppose release
: foreign films with the titles translated into English?

Yes it is the sequel. In Oz, it was released with the French Title. Maybe
in the US things have to be repackaged to gain acceptance. I hear that
the (pretty good) Oz film 'The Year My Voice Broke' will be re-shot in
the US, with US actors! ...I think that's going TOO far. Why do
our movies have such poor acceptance overseas?

Steve Malikoff.
steven@syacus.acus.oz.au
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unforgivable  ***SPOILERS***
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:33:09 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Aug15.165114.11851@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <11800@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>>The sheriff's decision to simply require financial compensation to Slim for 
>>damaging Slim's "merchandise," rather than actually punish the cowboys for a 
>>horribly serious crime (mayhem), is clearly a comment on today's America, 
>>where rape is treated less seriously than such victimless crimes as drug abuse,
>>gun ownership, prostitution, and gambling.
>
>I think you sre projecting here. It is far more likely that the Sheriff
>behaves that way because it is the sort of behavior that an 1880s person
>like Little Bill would probably do. Clint Eastwood is not the sort of person
>to put your message in his films.

	What makes you think that?  If you look back on some of the earlier
films that Eastwood has directed (Tightrope, Sudden Impact) you will find that
they tend to have strong feminist themes, and at least one film reviewer has
called Eastwood a `major feminist filmmaker.'  I think perhaps it is you who
are confusing the characters he portrays with the actor who portrays them.

>Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
> kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
>  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
--
"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like
prunes than rhubarb does."              -Groucho Marx 

gharris@jade.tufts.edu          George Harris, Tufts Univ. Dept. of Mathematics
From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: AFTER HOURS (was HEAD-less)
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:49:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Aug19.134908.24762
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


>AFTER HOURS is one of my all-time faves, and IMHO that
>performance defines Teri Garr.  She hasn't been that lovably
>wacky before nor since.
                                                  
>Anyone else think that was an outstanding film?  Catherine
>Whats-her-name from SCTV was wicked as the Mr. Softee
>vigilante!

Please note spoilers for _After Hours_ below:

Also one of my favorite black comedies. Other directors 
should take notes from Scorsese's use of such an outstanding
ensemble cast. Griffin Dunne's performance was so hilariously
on-the-mark that I laugh more each time I see the film.
Especially towards the end as he tells his tragic tale to
the would-be homosexual lover [brilliant!]

As you mentioned, Catherine O'Hara displays a quirky
strangeness as the Mr. Softee driver. The scene where she
screws up Dunne while he's trying to remember a phone
number from directory assistance is a cinema classic IMHO.

John Heard also shines as kindly bartender in the bar with
few customers. ("What if I get a rush right now?")
Roseanne Arquette puts a spin on her usual semi-psychotic
character who has a few secrets of her own, and her
roommate is played wonderfully (by....name, please?). In
fact, the only casting that didn't work for me was, ironically,
Cheech and Chong. They had a couple of funny lines, but
in my opinion they were actors in the wrong movie, IMHO.

Scorsese expertly balances the surreal with reality, nightmare
with comedy, and the end result is hilarious. So many
great moments, it's hard to pick just one, but I especially
enjoyed the point towards the end where Dunne's character
witnesses a murder through a window and say dryly:
"I'll probably get blamed for that." Great stuff.


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: ** ULTIMATE CLASSIC MOVIE BABES ** Who?
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:46:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug16.164615.14796
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <713984254@danube.cs.duke.edu> 
malhotra@duke.cs.duke.edu (Manish Malhotra) writes:

>>   Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio  (The Abyss -  White Sands - Robin Hood)

Nice tits.  Is she notable for anything else?

>>   Andie MacDowell (Green Card - Sex, lies and videotape)

Not even that much.

>>   Isabelle Adjani (Subway)

Indeed.

MM:
>No one has mentioned "Nastassja Kinski" so far. 
>Very pretty and talented as well (Tess, Cat People, The Tenant).  

That was Adjani in _The Tenant_.

What about the ultimate classic movie babe in _Ju Dou_?

>Manish

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Nous donnons la mort, nous saurons la subir."
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: cole@concert.net (Derrick C. Cole)
Subject: Want a movie poster
Organization: MCNC Data Operations
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:38:45 GMT

Greetings!

Hope this is politically correct to do this!

I'm looking for a "Beauty and the Beast" movie poster in brand-new condition.
Having never bought one, I really don't know where to look, save for a movie
theater.  Can any one on the net help?

Thanks!
Derrick Cole

-- 
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and had been stuck in a story as brain-damaged as that of Aliens 3, I would
have attacked everything in sight too...  oh the humanity!
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From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
	<1992Aug12.205145.26099@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
	<1992Aug12.221819.1371@news.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:59:40 GMT

egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

   >How about war movies about earlier times?

   Something with Napoleon?  The silent one.

IMHO, the best war movie I've seen about the Napoleonic wars is
"Waterloo", with Christopher Plummer as Wellington.  It's kind of slow
and draggy in places, but the battle scenes are some of the best that
have ever been filmed -- there's an big cavalry charge streaming
around dozens of infantry squares, etc.  There are some other movies
about the period that work better as complete films (e.g., "War and
Peace" with Audrey Hepburn) but "Waterloo" is the one that really
leaves a lasting impression.

-Sandra
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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Subject: Re: Movies starring Claude Rains Wanted.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:33:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.105657.110@engage.pko.dec.com>, boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place) writes...

> 
>Plenty. Off the top of my head, there's:
>
>...[Layer of Boyajian's memory removed]
>
>And I haven't even scratched the surface.

8^>
From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: fault in BACK to the FUTURE II
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:58:58 GMT
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation

In article <SYNTH.92Aug19120352@deepthought.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:
>
>rcoadh@potoroo.co.rmit.oz.AU (Alexander Doktorovich) writes:
>
>Alexander> When Marty and Doc are in the future, the old Biff steals the
>Alexander> DMC, goes to the past, gives the Sports Almanac to himself and
>Alexander> arrives back.  Now, if old and younger Biffs were succesful in
>Alexander> altering the future, as we saw when Marty and Doc arrived back
>Alexander> to 1985, then how did the old Biff arrive back into the
>Alexander> _unchanged_ future?
>

Then there is the case of Marty's Girlfriend.  They leave her sleeping on a 
porch when they go into the past and change history.  They then return to the 
new future and retreive her.  Hmmmmm...

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From: lester@soldev.tti.com (jim)
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
Summary: his new film
Keywords: This is *BIG* in NYC, and it's only just begun
Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:29:37 GMT

In article <19AUG199208033624@portal.lasc.lockheed.com> le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025)) writes:
>There is nothing certain about anything to do with morals.  AND lets not 
>dilute and degrade this topic with moral masturbating, please!
>Ron >8^\
Oh, c'mon...just this once?
I like Woody's films.
His next film should be out in a month or so.
The working title is "Honey, I F**ked the Kids!"


No offense, Woodster.  I heard this today & just had to pass it on.
Jim Lester  (an employee)               Citicorp slash TTI
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: REBECCA
Summary: That's why I said it
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:59:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.203539.9414@ncar.ucar.edu>, rehak@breeze.rap.ucar.edu (Nancy Rehak) writes:
> In article <23610@oasys.dt.navy.mil> dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee) writes:
> >In rec.arts.movies, colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
> >>In article <15131@suns4.crosfield.co.uk>, pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin) wri
> >>tes:
> >.> In article <161fdiINN9da@agate.berkeley.edu> samlee@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sam Lee
> >.) writes:
> >.> [stuff about REBECCA being a good film deleted]
> >
> >.> Yes, it was a good film wasn't it?
> >
> >.> Thing is I can't remember who played the title role:-)
>                                              ^^^^^
> >
> >.> Ideas anyone?    (  :-) :-) )
> >
> >
> >>I always suspected that it was really Vivien Leigh.  I mean, back
> >>there in the back of everyone's brain - especially Olivier's.
> >
> >
> >"Rebecca" won an Oscar for best picture.. Joan Fontaine was the lead actress.
>                                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Yes, Joan Fontaine was the lead actress in Rebecca.  However, she did not play
> the title role - Rebecca.  Rebecca was the first Mrs. de Winter.  Joan Fontaine
> played the second Mrs. de Winter.  The question was sarcastic :-) :-) :-) as
> Rebecca is dead before the movie starts and never appears in the movie.
> 
> Nancy Rehak
> 
> 

That's why I mentioned Vivien Leigh.  I mean here's Olivier walking
around with the memory of his dead wife who everyone thought was
Ms. perfect and she was really ... well you know.  Sounds like
Vivian Leigh to me.  He never would talk about her they said.

BTW anyone else mad about them cleaning it up?

marc colten

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: smith@panther.adelphi.edu (Jim Smith)
Subject: Re: Movies starring Claude Rains Wanted.
Organization: Adelphi University Swirbul Library
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:15:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.004130.42718@watson.ibm.com> yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:


>One of my favorite actor is Claude Rains and I'd like to see if there is
>any movies that he was in that I missed.
> 
>I've seen him in 
>  "Caesar and Cleopatra"
>  "Casablanca"
>  "Robin Hood" 
>  "The Phantom of the Opera"
>  "The Invisible Man"

> Did I miss any?

> Ralph Yozzo

"Notorous" (1946)
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: cliffhanger
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:54:36 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PR>It's a very expensive production.

     So what else is new for Carolco?  They shelled out $3 million for
     the screenplay to "Basic Instinct," and while that movie turned
     into a blockbuster, it was still a VERY big risk they were taking.

     I've often wondered how much CONTROL the execs have over at that
     company, where they can make some of the biggest hits of the last
     few years ("T2," "Total Recall," "Basic Instinct"), and STILL be
     struggling on the edge of bankruptcy.
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From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Subject: Re: Wayne's World Music Change
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:10:48 GMT

(Lazlo Nibble) writes:

>In the case of _Wayne's World_ and "Stairway", I doubt the producers even
>imagined that they'd *need* to arrange for permission to use four stinking
>musical notes.


Notes???!!!!! We don' need no steenking notes!!!!!


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From: garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Re: Why I Like Colorization
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:47:41 GMT

In article <902@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>I find that
>colorization brings out the details of the scene much better so it is less
>of a strain on the eye to see. 

You must be kidding. I wish I had a nickel for every colorized movie I've seen
where the background was "painted" all one color, completely washing away any
borders or definition that were there. Hair is another place where all 
subtlety and accuracy are lost; it usually looks like the actors have brown
plastic hardhats on. Not only that, colors often bleed across borders into
surrounding parts of the image. Also, many times the colors aren't even
steady or constant-- the shade or even hue of an area in the image willl
often fluctuate.

Granted, colorization technology seems to have improved over the years. But I
have yet to see a film whose colorized counterpart has improved clarity or
detail. Can you give some examples?

>I get tired of low light scenes ... [rest deleted]

If the light is low, it's probably because it was intended to be that way
to contribute to the atmosphere of the movie. If it really bothers you, just
turn up the brightness on your TV.   :)
-- 
Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Bruce Lee's son?
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:38:46 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School

In <twong.05z8@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca> twong@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:

>Now this could be interesting... Brandon Lee (which I assume is son of Bruce
>Lee) is staring in his own movie due out soon.. The trailers look interesting
>if you're into these type of movies. 
> 
>I wonder if he's as gifted(?) as his father.. charisma and physique-wise..

Go out and rent "Showdown in Little Tokyo" and judge for yourself.

-Geoff
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa  
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:22:41 GMT

In <1992Aug7.231003.4704@cs.brown.edu> ST402420@brownvm.brown.edu writes:

>A fine selection, I thought, especially #1. The only ones I can't say I agree
>with are #s 7 and 9; do you think there's room for `The Battleship Potemkin'
>and `Bridge over the River Kwai'?

Thanks.  When you're only putting ten on the list, though, it's quite
hard to come up with the "definative" greatest.  _Bridge.._ is 
definately a contender - but I haven't seen Potemkin.

I've gotten some very good suggestions over email, and while I was gonna
archive and post the list, my .sig should explain why I'm not.

So long net!  I'll do my damnedest to get back on elsewhere..... 
-- 
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	Don't bother flaming or writing, I just quit my job and will only
be here for another day or two.  Sure - what the hell - I speak for the
corporation for open systems - sue me!
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Subject: Re: What do you call YOUR remote?
From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:16:56 GMT
Distribution: world, rec, usa, na
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <5483@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> smorris@tweedledum.ucsb.edu (Stephen Morris) writes:
>We called it the "Wand of Power"
>
> ... I use the past tense because we are now
>"100% television free", a condition I highly recomend.

I tend to agree with you - but unfortunately I like hiring films.

One simple solution - I don't have an aerial anymore... :-)
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From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unforgiven (Was Re: Unforgivable)  ***SPOILERS***
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:49:39 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

In article <TOMW.92Aug17175801@orac.esd.sgi.com> tomw@esd.sgi.com writes:
>In article <Bt5Kzo.1Js@news.udel.edu>, bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
>
>> And of course, in the end, he gets the girl (the film amazed over the fact
>> that a girl could fall for a cold-hearted mercilous killer like William
>> Munny), proving conclusively that he was, in the end, the good guy, even if
>> we did have our little doubts for a while there...
>
>Gee, you obviously didn't see the same film I did.  Just exactly what
>girl did he get?  I clearly remember him riding out of town alone.
>


I thought the voice-over at the end was referring to his dead wife
again, not some other woman.
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From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Do the Aliens come from EARTH?
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation

In article <rabjab.12.0@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
>
>What if the Ripley's Company discovered evidence of an intelligent species
>in deep space?  If the intelligent aliens represented a threat of any
>kind or unwanted competition for resources, wouldn't the Company try
>to get rid of them?
>
>I think a good case can be made that long before the crew of the Nostrono
>made contact with the derelict ship on LV-426, the Company developed
>the Alien species and infected another civilization's home planet.
>The immense derelict ship was probably a cargo vessal preparing to
>mine the rich coal of the planet where it was found, but
>had become infected before landing.
>
>The Company, patiently allowed the Alien infection to follow its course,
>and watched the whole thing from a distance, hiding even the fact of
>the existence of another race of sentient life forms.  After the
>extermination was complete,  the company would go in and "bury" the
>mess.
>

Can't be.  If the Company genetically engineered the Aliens, they would have 
no need to smuggle one back to earth for testing/study.  They should not have 
destroyed all "copies" of the Aliens and blueprints after setting them loose.

-- 
Bill Bochnik			| It's hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott
Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.