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From: rgg@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (Rupert G. Goldie)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Greta Scacchi (sp?) - Any fans out there?
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:25:15 GMT
Organization: Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute

ST402420@brownvm.brown.edu writes:

>She was born in Milan, Italy in 1960 and has been on screen since 1981. She
>now lives in England.

>Sammy Samos.

I saw an interview with her on the Movie Show on SBS here in Melbourne
this Wednesday. They said she was born in Italy, spent her teenage years
in Australia, and is currently living in Australia. I believe she is 
currently acting in a play in Sydney. 

-Rupert

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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Re: Fried Green Tomatoes
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:34:27 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Jul28.160351.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> haapamak@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
>
>
>
>        Hi!
>
>        Who wrote the original novel that Fried Green
>        Tomatoes is based on ??

Fannie Flagg. The original title is "Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop
Cafe".


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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Subject: Re: don't look now
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:49:04 GMT


Julie Irwin (irwin@horton.colorado.edu) writes:

>Had anyone seen "Don't look now" with Donald Sutherland
>and Julie Christie?? It's one of those movies that sticks with
>you-- I'm still trying to figure it out.  I liked it, but feel the
>need to talk about it in case I missed something.
                                       
>Any "Don't Look Now" experts out there?       

Having seen the film only one-and-a-half times, I would not even
begin to consider myself an "expert" on the film. But what the heck,
I'm posting anyway (ha ha!). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but
it seems that I heard a discussion once about the director's use
of the color red (the girl's raincoat). Apparently, in every
frame of every scene of the film you can find that same red
color (something about the director trying to remind us
subconsciously of the girl's presence). Again, I may have the
whole thing backwards, but I'm sure somebody who reads these 
posts knows for sure.

Also, the love scene between Christie and Sutherland (in
uncensored version, of course) is one of the more famous sex 
scenes in cinematic history. When Steven Spielberg was once
asked why he hadn't really included a big love scene in one
of his movies, he basically said he didn't like sex scenes
in the movies, with the exception of _Don't Look Now_.


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: clint eastwood movie
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:54:16 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

F0>   Does anyone know when the western with Clint Eastwood will be
F0>playing?

     The movie is "Unforgiven," and it is set to premiere on August 7.
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From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: BatMan Returns really shocked me
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:12:00 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)


   Well after a desperate wait I finally got to see Batman Returns last
weekend. I liked the first film and am a big Batman fan, so was
naturally enthusiastic to get to see the sequel. Did it live up to its
successor? Did it hell!! To all the "Wayne's World" fans I may have
surprised by saying how much I hated that movie, I take it all back. I
have seen the worse film of the year by farther - and it's Batman
Returns!! Tim Burton is a wonderful art director, but he is a ROTTEN director.
   Finally Tim Burton has proven he no longer knows how to tell a story
using cinema as medium (I had always suspected this after the totally
forgettable - apart from Vince Price - Edward Scissorhands). I mean some
people have said Batman returns had no plot...I say this turkey had NO
NARRATIVE!! It was so disjointly related that it really annoyed and
bored me. I mean the loose ends - count'em. The wondering where the hell
we are now in the storyline and why people are acting the way the do
(Christopher Walken's character seemed to totally change every 5 minutes
or so. Why were the Gotham city public address scenes always attended by
the same 50 or so people and AT NIGHT!!?? Even public gatherings in some
remote Scottish villages I have visited have had a better turnout than
that! God I could go on..and on..but I won't. Only Danny DeVito was
worth watching: Pfiffffeifier and Keaton were predicatable bores. The
only unexpected event in this film was that Selina falling out a window
turned her into a martial arts expert: that I did not expect!! BUT it
was ludicrous anyway. Plah!
   
   And don't anyone dare say that this film is based on comics and so
these fantasy elements are acceptable. No way. I read a lot of comics
and no self-respecting comic would present its audience with this tripe.

   All I can say is I now fell pity for Richard Rauser who got heavily
flamed for his "Top 10 Things to do During Batman Returns" posting. I
agree with your original post 100% Richard. Reading your top 10 was 200%
more entertaining than Batman Returns. Geez Highlander 2 and the
Lawnmower Man look superb compared to this film!! I urge anyone who
hasn't seen it not to. Don't let the bastards away with it! The money
spent on this could have been divided by 10 and resulted in 10
infinately better films in the hands of half-decent directors. A bloody shame!

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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Subject: Re: Need Clockwork Orange Info
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 21:38:19 GMT


Markus Stumptner (mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at) writes:

>From article <1992Jul22.164904.6835@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, by
cb366@cleveland.Fr:
>> Yikes, did he/it/she/whatever have a sex change operation?!?!?!
>> Walter Carlos. Geeeeeesh!!!! Egaad!!!! Oooooooh!
                                                                              
>What're you going to do, now?  Burn all his/her albums?  Only touch     
>them with rubber gloves? Have them exorcised?  Sheesh. 

Nope, it just struck me as humorous. Okay?  :)

Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Favorite musicals - Man of La Mancha
Date: 29 Jul 1992 06:06:28 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Glenn Host writes:
>
>My favorite musical of all is "Man of La Mancha"
>I am someone without any records or CD's and I
>have a tape of MoLM which I listen to and it is the only
>tape I have!
>
>Too bad that the Film version was so poor (or so I heard
>I haven't seen it yet).

Ah, the key words.  You haven't seen it yet...

>  You would think that some
>company would produce a good version of it - it is a play
>which needs very little in terms of scenery or props;
>costumes are nneded but not a vast number and there have
>been a number of good productions of professional theatre,
>both stage and dinner, playing it for a number of years.

A movie is different from a stage show.  On the stage, MolM does not
need much to stir the imagination.  I think people watching the movie
would expect to be taken into the countryside of Quixote's La Mancha
instead of listening to Cervantes just tell the story.

I really liked the movie.  Although it takes some getting used to
hearing Aldonza as an alto (and an alto voice coming out of Sophia
Loren, no less), everything else seemed fine to me.  Peter O'Toole's
acting was impeccable.  The rest of the movie was average, nothing can
match up to the imagination, but it was a good adaptation.

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From: pfleury@ddsw1.mcs.com (Patrick J. Fleury)
Subject: Re: Goriest Film Ever Made
Followup-To: I spit on your grave 
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:18:37 GMT
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In article <1992Jul23.160242.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
>In article <2509@nlsun1.oracle.nl>, gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley) writes:
>> In article <92197.141008MSTBH@CUNYVM.BITNET>, MSTBH@CUNYVM.BITNET (Mike
>> S.) writes:
>> |>
>> |>   I remember, a few years back, Siskel and Ebert rated horror films
>> |>   on their TV show.  They voted "I Spit on Your Grave" as the most
>> |>   gory film ever made.  I saw it after that and agree that it is
>> |>   pretty gross.
>>      
 [Lotsa stuff deleted.]
>========
>I believe Siskle and Ebert said it was the WORST movie ever made, not the
>goriest. In terms of bad acting, horrorific message, gratuitous everything...
>The director also made a move called "The Sadist" which I've seen at my local
>video store. The box proudly proclaims "by the director of I spit on your
>grave!"
>
I never saw this but I remember the premier of this thing.  It took place
at a drive-in in Rhode Island!!!  (Well, at least I remember the drive-in
proclaiming it as being the world premiere! )  

The other incident I remember about this is the way the exhibitors advertised
it.  They included a phone number in the ad and invited people to call.
It was a local call and I did.  The recording I got consisted of a female
reading an ad in a very deep and portentous voice.  The recording began
"I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE!!!!"  	(Picture italics and bold face setting this
off.)

Anyway, a friend of mine, being of the same humorous bent, called up the line
and heard the call.  He called it up again and said "Hey, grandma, it's
for you."  He then handed it over to his grandmother - over eighty, a tough
old French Canadian lady speaking heavily accented English.

She heard "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE!!"  She jerked the phone away from
her ear and screamed into the receiver "I SHIT ON YOURS!!!"

Just another bit of silliness from Li'l Rhody.

--Pat F.
From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Audience Comments During Movies
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:44:24 GMT
Organization: Gallaudet University

In article <1410085@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM>, bartb@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Bart Bobbitt) writes:
> Over the years, I've heard a lot of funny comments from folks in movie
> audiences about what's happening on the screen.  Maybe readers might respond
> with their own funny stories.  Here's the best one I've heard......
> 
> The Hunt For Red October was showing and the scene was aboard the SSBN Dallas;
> the US sub following Red October.  In the scene was the CO, part of the
> crew; in the command center with the attack console all lit up with lots of
> lights, controls and sonar screens.  Attached to one of the consoles, with
> standard household hardware, was a roll of toilet paper.  A person sitting
> behind me, in the theater, said: "Goodness, do the sailors go to the
> bathroom while they operate their equipment?  Look at that roll of toilet
> paper!"
> 
> Well, having spent some US Navy time operating similar equipment in control 
> of weapons, toilet paper is an excellent soft and relative scratch-free
> material to wipe off grease pencil marks put on screens.  That's been a
> standard operating procedure for dozens of years.  I though the comment was
> funny, but I chose not to explain the use of the toilet paper to the
> amused viewer at the time.  I would imagine a lot of other folks who saw
> the toilet paper (often called enlisted men's tissue in the USN) may have
> had similar thoughts.  But I also thought whoever had the idea of putting
> it there in the first place wanted the props to be accurate down to the
> last detail; and that it was.
> 
> 
=====
I can't believe that we would actually want to encourage people to come out
with their inane remarks during a movie.  I'm watching Woody Allen and the guy
next to me think he's funnier.  People seem not to be able to distinguish
between watching a video at home or watching it in a theater. They babble on
through the whole movie and here we are encouraging it? Please...

rlwilliams
From: ms0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Michiyo Shinoda)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: anyone know...
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:29:00 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Just curious...

Does anyone know what actor Michael Biehn (did I spell that right?)'s been
up to lately?

may
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From: antoniou@buitc.bu.edu (George Antoniou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: TERMINATOR II
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:09:06 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: antoniou@buitc.bu.edu

Watching this flick again...  

In the end when the Liquid-Metal-Terminator (LMT), the Terminator,  the chip,
and the arm were melted...  and they said all is destroyed....  SURPRISE!!!

Remember when the LMT shoved the Terminator's left arm into the huge sprocket
thing....  the Terminator had to ripe his arm off to break free...
well... well...  guess what they forgot to melt...  the Terminators riped
left arm...

So... T3 should be coming out soon...  hahaha...  You see the arm will still
be in the present... meaning the 'same' future will still evolve (the nuclear
holocaust)...  T3 should settle that problem... don't you think.....

giorgios [antoniou@buitc.bu.edu]

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From: andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek)
Subject: Re: Europa (ZENTROPA) and European vs American Films
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:26:52 GMT

In article <15a4clINNek8@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu  
(Peter D. Merholz) writes:
> 
> The artistic quality of them at first excited me, then frustrated me, 
> and finally angered me. Why? Because there really was very little of 
> substance by way of story, and the images only held interest for about 
> 45 minutes. Then I got antsy for a plot, which really didn't emerge. 
> 
> Why is it that European films seem so image oriented, while American 
> films are so plot-based (however formulaic that plot may be). 

I thought there was plenty of plot, but agree that the film had a static  
quality that's sort of typical of the "Foreign Art Films" chosen to make  
the circuit in the States. I think that the European films we see in art  
theaters will be image oriented because they are selected as much for that  
reason as any other to be shown here. There are lots od European  
equivalents to our typical cops&robbers fare, but nobody bothers to show  
them here.

This is becoming the same thread as "re: American Cinema".

AK

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From: bartb@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Bart Bobbitt)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:06:31 GMT
Subject: Audience Comments During Movies
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

Over the years, I've heard a lot of funny comments from folks in movie
audiences about what's happening on the screen.  Maybe readers might respond
with their own funny stories.  Here's the best one I've heard......

The Hunt For Red October was showing and the scene was aboard the SSBN Dallas;
the US sub following Red October.  In the scene was the CO, part of the
crew; in the command center with the attack console all lit up with lots of
lights, controls and sonar screens.  Attached to one of the consoles, with
standard household hardware, was a roll of toilet paper.  A person sitting
behind me, in the theater, said: "Goodness, do the sailors go to the
bathroom while they operate their equipment?  Look at that roll of toilet
paper!"

Well, having spent some US Navy time operating similar equipment in control 
of weapons, toilet paper is an excellent soft and relative scratch-free
material to wipe off grease pencil marks put on screens.  That's been a
standard operating procedure for dozens of years.  I though the comment was
funny, but I chose not to explain the use of the toilet paper to the
amused viewer at the time.  I would imagine a lot of other folks who saw
the toilet paper (often called enlisted men's tissue in the USN) may have
had similar thoughts.  But I also thought whoever had the idea of putting
it there in the first place wanted the props to be accurate down to the
last detail; and that it was.


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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: TERMINATOR II
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:13:50 GMT

ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:

>Any results from that evening?  Ohmigod, and just how far could he have
>gotten in one evening?  Sure, he could have done a *some*, but the project
>is far from over just because the team leader is dead.

How about this for T3?

1997. SkyNet installed and running -- towards self-awareness.
Flash! Whop! Some future soldiers appearing trying to destroy it.
Flash! Whop! Some Terminators appearing trying to stop them.

Fancy the rest. Should be interesting.
Of course in order to make a T4 possible after a happy ending some of
the Terminators have to survive. Until T7 at least.


May the Cool be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Carole Bouquet
Date: 23 Jul 92 02:27:10 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center


Bouquet, Carole
   1979   "Buffet Froid"
   1981   "For Your Eyes Only"  (Melina Havelock)
   1986   "Double Messieurs/Double Gentlemen"  (Helene)
   1986   "Le Mal d'aimer"  (Eleomore)
   1989   "New York Stories"  (Princess Saroya)
   1989   "Trop Belle Pour Toi/Too Beautiful For You"
                         (Florence Bartheleny)
   1989   "Bunker Palace Hotel"  (Clara)
 
 
Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: scorsese & hitchcock
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:32:32 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

HI>This having been said, I'm afraid I can't completely agree with your assessme
HI>of "Hitchcock's style" - Hitch might on occasion have favoured long takes and
HI>"careful pans" (the apotheosis of which was "Rope") but he was also as capabl
HI>of rapidly edited sequences as anyone in history - remember that certain scen
HI>in "Psycho" - not also the rape in "Frenzy" and the increased pace toward the
HI>end of "Vertigo"...

     One of the Master's most famous sequences is the crop duster attack
     in "North By Northwest."  Much has been said about the way Hitchcock
     filmed this sequence: the shots remained the same length throughout
     the entire sequence, and the editing pace did not increase.

     Of course Hitch used rapid editing in certain moments such as the
     Shower Scene in "Psycho," but most of the time he preferred longer
     takes.  I like the way he filmed "Rear Window," for instance.

     (We can keep on pointing out Hitchcock moments until we're blue in
     the face, and it probably won't get us anywhere...)
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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: graham greene
Date: 25 Jul 92 09:55:25 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

KY>I've been watching old movies lately, and have noticed that several good ones
KY>have the name Graham Greene in the credits.  For instance:  he wrote the
KY>screenplay for THE THIRD MAN, MINISTRY OF FEAR and THIS GUN FOR HIRE are
KY>based on novels of his, etc.  Could someone give me some information on him--
KY>he seems worth looking into.

     Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion is certainly THE reference book to
     have if you want to find a name from the Golden Era of Hollywood.
     Here's what it has to say about Graham Greene:

     "Greene, Graham (1904- ).  Distinguished British novelist who has
     provided material for many interesting films.

     "Stamboul Trail (Orient Express) 34.  This Gun For Hire 42.  The
     Ministry Of Fear 43.  Confidential Agent 45.  The Man Within 46.
     Brighton Rock 47.  The Fugitive 48.  [A John Ford movie that had
     nothing to do with the TV series, if I remember right.]  The
     Fallen Idol 48.  The Third Man 49.  The Heart Of The Matter 53.
     The Stranger's Hand 54.  The End Of The Affair 55.  The Quiet
     American 58.  Our Man In Havana 59.  The Comedians 67.  Travels
     With My Aunt 73, etc."

     Note #1: The numbers indicate the year the movies were made.
     34 = 1934, 42 = 1942, etc.

     Note #2: The "etc." at the end means Greene wrote other movies
     as well, but they were largely unmemorable and Halliwell apparently
     didn't think they were worth mentioning.

     Note #3: The latest edition of Halliwell's companion, the ninth,
     was published in 1988.  Graham Greene may have died since then,
     but I don't know.  (The Companion should not be confused with
     Halliwell's Film Guide.  That's an entirely different book
     altogether.)
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From: hammond@css.itd.umich.edu (Steve Hammond)
Subject: Re: What happened to quote results?
Organization: U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:00:27 GMT

In article <oeR3U2S00XciM=PMMS@andrew.cmu.edu> "H. Scott Matthews" <hm0i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Has anybody seen the answers / results to steve hammond's last movie
>quote quiz?  I think repsonses were due around the 14th, but I havent
>seen anything since...
>
>steve?
>anybody?
>
>thanks
>scott
>

ok, I am a bum and havent gotten around to it.  It sure is nice to know 
that someone cares tho.


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