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From: sri007@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Freddie)
Subject: Re:  More Weird List
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:05:29 GMT



Weird films:

Children shouldn't play with dead things: features Alan Ormsby marrying
	a corpse called Orville! (Directed by Bob PORKY'S Clark.)

THE SAVAGE INTRUDER (Aka THE COMEBACK)
	1969 made, never released. Joe STINKY; STOOGE Besser appears as a 
	coach driver. It's about a maniac who invades a rich actress's
	house and has a great time killing the staff, taking acid, and
	having weird dreams. Available in the video in the UK.

ZOMBIE HOLOCAUSE/QUEEN OF THE CANNIBALS/DR BUTCHER MD

	Totally lunatic! Zombies, Cannibals and Mad Doctors. Only
	The Italians make them like this.

Lucio Fulci Films.

	Italian director who, during the eighties, made a series
	of zombie movies, most of which were banned or heavily
	cut in the UK. They are all quite weird, with ghostly
	priests, gates to hell, blind eyes, zombies in baths, etc.

	titles:
		CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (GATES OF HELL)
		THE BEYOND	(SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH)
		HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY

	Fulci also made ZOMBIE (Aka ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS.) which
	was released as ZOMBI 2 to cash in on Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD.
	This isn't really weird, but features an underwater zombie
	which attacks a shark.

DRIVE IN MASSACRE

	A maniac kills people in a drive in. Features beheadings,
	long scenes of dialogue and a guy who wears a funny hat.

DEATHTRAP

	Tobe Hooper's second film. About a lunatic who owns a hotel.
	Feeds his guests to his pet crocodile. Weird, with a strange
	soundtrack and a famous cast list. Mel Ferrer, Carolyn MORTICIA 
	Jones and Robert Englund.


I have many many many more weird films! Try checking out the horror section
in the video stores, or some of the stuff released on the bargin basement
labels. A lot is almost unwatchable, but there's the occasional gem!


















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From: maus@fid.morgan.com (Malcolm Austin)
Subject: Re: Name this file
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:34:23 GMT

In article <30452@castle.ed.ac.uk> marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn) writes:
<Can anybody out there name this film?
<All I can really remember of it is the text at the beginning:
<
<"Tie two birds together, 
< and though they have four wings, 
< they cannot fly"
<
<And
<
<"And a horse has no udder,
< And a cow does not whinney,
< And up is down,
< And sideways is straight ahead"
<
<Anybody got any ideas?

Yes.  These were the quotations at the beginning and end of Oliver
Stone's JFK.

-- 
=Malcolm Austin==w:(212)703-6134==h:(914)633-3966==maus@fid.morgan.com=====
      "Am I the only person who, when first seeing the commercial for
      LEPRECHAUN, was sure that it was going to end with a pink bunny
      carrying a drum?"
From: rhogan@phakt.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Lawrence or Pickford: the first Biograph Girl
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:03:18 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
in response to my ID of the original Biograph Girl:

>> Florence Lawrence, who gained lots of fame when Carl Laemmle hired her
>> away from Biograph and renamed her the "IMP Girl" after his Independent
>> Motion Picture Company.  He then built a massive publicity campaign
>> around her, which included accusations that Biograph and other members of
>> the Patents Trust spread rumors of her death.

>Florence Lawrence did not have the box-office of Mary Pickford, and
>she was called the "IMP Girl" *because* Pickford was called the
>"Biograph Girl."  Again:  Florence Lawrence, who gained lots of fame
>*WHEN* Carl Laemmle hired away from Biograph...  I think you would
>have a hard time representing anyone other than Pickford as the
>queen of American cinema from it's beginning to the arrival of that
>Swedish woman...

I'm sorry, my use of "when" indicated that she had *no* fame before
she became the IMP Girl, when I meant that the fame she had as a
Biograph Star was supplemented by her move to IMP.  I base my statement
that Lawrence was called the "Biograph Girl" on Doug Gomery's: MOVIE
HISTORY: A SUMMARY, page 38:

Independents were more aggressive in promoting possible stars.  For
example, Carl Laemmle hired away Florence Lawrence and renamed the
former "Biograph Girl" the "IMP Girl."

The implications of which that I drew upon were that Florence Lawrence
was identified as the "Biograph Girl" (rather than just being *a* "Bio
Girl"), that she had attained a certain star status as the "Biograph
Girl", and that she was big enough of a star that when Laemmle hired
her away, it was on the assumption that viewers would recognize her
from the Biograph films.

Ron
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From: scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon)
Subject: Movie Scripts?
Organization: John Leslie Consulting, Milford NH
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:00:30 GMT

Does anyone know an FTP site where I could get a hold of a movie script?
I'm looking in particular for the scene from "My Fair Lady" where Professor
Higgins sings about "I'll never let a woman in my life".  I'm sure someone
will let me know if this is copyright infringement or anything.  I hope 
not :).

-- 
"Man himself is so unlikely that if he did not          | Scot Salmon
 exist, his possibility would not be worth discussing." | scot@jlc.mv.com
                                    - Damon Knight      | 101010 222 52 2A...
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From: battlec@cs.rpi.edu (Clark Battle)
Subject: Backtrack music
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:55:04 GMT

Does anyone know who did the music for the movie Backtrack?  That sax player
was amazing!!! Has he/she made any recordings? please mail me.
From: carpente@lds.loral.com (Mike Carpenter 6825)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Where's the director?
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:17:19 GMT
Organization: Loral Data Systems

In article <y=h38bk@rpi.edu> kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim) writes:
>Spot these scenes:
>
>1. North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock appears in the opening 
>			sequence, trying to catch the bus.
>
>2. Apocalypse Now	Francis Coppola filming a war documentary.
>
>3. Raging Bull		Martin Scorsese asking Jake (Robert De Niro) 
>			to go on stage.

  Rain Man - Barry Levinson as the Psychiatrist determining if Raymond should
             stay with Tom Cruise's character.
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From: tmdbutch@cayley.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: T. Gilliam's Fisher King include Tom Waits?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:51:45 GMT

In article <C1GLHu.BA8@news.swip.net> bk@analytikerna.se writes:
>
>Is the crippled beggar in the wheelchair sitting in the train station
>played by Tom Waits? Alternatly, does anybody know what this role
>figure is called in the credits (Beggar in wheelchair, Beggar in Train
>station)?

Yep, it's Tom, and he's not in the credits (I have a copy of the
script).  Anybody know why not?  Contractual reasons, maybe?

Matthew Butcher
tmdbutch@descartes.uwaterloo.ca


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From: u0g78@keele.ac.uk (Martin Steed)
Subject: RE: Lara Flynn Boyle
Organization: Keele University, England
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:47:37 GMT

: >Just saw May Wine on HBO and she was in it... Does anybody know if she's 
: >been in anything else (tv or movie) ??  The 1993 Video Movie Guide says 
: >she's been in The Dark B______, Wayne's World (who'd she play?), and May
: >Wine...  Anybody know of anything else?
: 
:      TWIN PEAKS (the tv seris, not the movie where her role was
:      recast with Moira Kelly).  DEAD POETS SOCIETY (bit part).
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Here at the Film Soc, she has been in two films so far this term.

Mobsters - The Evil Empire
Waynes World

Martin.
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: French movies in 1992
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:55:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.141804.12287@eua.ericsson.se> euamgk@eua.ericsson.se writes:
>I notice that you have not included "The Lover".  Was it not a French production?
>How was the film received in France?

It was a French/British co-production, I believe.  There's a fuss concerning
the "French" status of this film (and several others) going on now.  The
group that hands out the Cesar awards (the awards for the best French films
of the year) recently changed their rules to exclude any film not shot in
the French language.  There was not great rejoicing, at least not among
some of France's more prominent filmmakers.  Several major films, including
"The Lover", were excluded from the Cesars for this reason.  After a certain
amount of controversy, the rules were revised so that only the award for
best film must go to a film made in the French language.  All other Cesar
awards can be given to films that are French productions by other standards,
but were not shot in French.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: mlevin@teal.csn.org (Marshall Levin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Lara Flynn Boyle
Date: 29 Jan 93 03:54:13 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons) writes:


>Just saw May Wine on HBO and she was in it... Does anybody know if she's 
>been in anything else (tv or movie) ??  The 1993 Video Movie Guide says 
>she's been in The Dark B______, Wayne's World (who'd she play?), and May
>Wine...  Anybody know of anything else?


Besides being a star of Twin Peaks, she appeared in The Dark Backward (with
Judd Nelson) and How I Got Into College.  I can't remember the names of any
others, but I am sure there are more.
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Reservoir Dogs notes (spoilers)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 18:38:28 GMT
Organization: Mr. Lazlo's Temple Of The Mighty Rude-Boy Skank
NNTP-Posting-Host: triton.unm.edu

I thought I saw a passenger (maybe a little kid?) pop up in the back seat
of the car Mr. Pink stole during his getaway, but nothing is ever mentioned
about it later.  Was I just seeing things?

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: jmstreck@carson.u.washington.edu (John Streck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: William Goldman, the screenwriter
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:47:15 GMT
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rchao@netcom.com (Robert Chao) writes:

>What screenplays has Goldman done since he wrote "Adventures In the Screen
>Trade"?

I believe he wrote "Year of the Comet," that Penelope Anne Miller/Tim
Daly/wine movie.

john streck
jmstreck@u.washington.edu
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Rumor: _American Psycho_
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:05:41 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:

>In article <1jn62rINN9cl@phakt.usc.edu>, rhogan@phakt.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)
>wrote:
>
>> It's bullshit--as far as I know, nobody's bought the rights
>> to the novel, and frankly, it's probably still too controversial
> to film right now--anyone who tried would find him or herself the
>> brunt of an attaack that would make the fooforah around LAST
>> TEMPTATIOn look like a picnic.
>
>True.  A better example would be "Basic Instinct."  Remember
>that the book got dropped by it's first publisher for much
>the same reason.  And the studios are probably wary of 
>New York "writers" by now, anyway...

Sounds like bs to me.  All the fuss and bother with
LAST TEMPTATION and BASIC INSTINCT are probably the 
only reason why they ade any money.

If the studio can guarantee a lot of publicity
just by filming a book, I am sure someone will
do it.

Free publicity is the best publicity.
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From: (Joseph D. Barrus)
Subject: The Firm (when is it released?)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:59:31 GMT


I have been out of town and I may have missed this if it had been stated
already.  I had noticed some discussion on this movie.  I am in the middle
of reading it and it is a very good book.  I am looking forward to the
movie.  I had heard that Tom Cruise will star as Mitch.  Who else will
be in it and when will it be released.

JDB



From: bartb@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Bart Bobbitt)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 21:08:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Review:  ALIVE
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

I read the book and saw the original movie; both very good.  I'm anxious
to see the film and find out if there's any mention of the locked hotel
a couple of miles away from the crash site that had lots of food inside.

BB


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From: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges)
Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 01:05:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.202447.24318@maths.tcd.ie> pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney) writes:
>egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges) writes:
>
>>I sense in your .sig a sexist attempt to restrict car owners to those
>>who learn about the physical properties of gasoline from their daddies.
>
>...and aren't _you_ being the sexist pig in the first place by
>assuming that only 'daddies' know about the properties of gasoline?
>I have seen the occasional women driving a car.

I don't, of course. make that assumption.  But in our society it is
undeniable that access to technology is DIFFERENT for men and women,
and it isn't sexist to point out that simple fact.  Guys tend to avoid
RTFM (reading the fucking manual) and to dismiss statements of the
obvious when they do RTFM.  
>
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From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: Leeper Screws the Pooch on CHAPLIN
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:31:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <1993Jan21.001549.1050@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>In article <mattm-190193163940@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
>>Pickford deserves the title "First Movie Star" - she was the
>>first "Biograph Girl" audiences began to identify with repeatedly,
>
>I'd have to check my sources to be sure, but I believe this is not correct.
>Alas, I cannot remember the name of the actress who this honor belongs to
>(it was definitely an actress, not an actor), but it wasn't Pickford.  The

According to an essay in Cinemania, "American Mutoscope and
Biograph Company," the Biograph Girl was Florence Lawrence,
aka "The Imp Girl." She was born in 1886 and died in 1938.
She worked for D.W. Griffith at Biograph until 1910 when she
was lured away by Carl Laemmle of the Independent Mortion
Picture Company of America, thus the sobriquet "the IMP
girl". Her biography in Cinemania says: "Thanks to one of
Laemmle's canny publicity stunts, involving a newspaper
story claiming that Lawrence was dead, she became the first
film star whose real name was known to the public." Although
her career was effectively over by the mid-20s, she remained
on the MGM payroll through the 30s.

[deletion]

>
>I've seen a couple of Pickford's films.  They're not nearly as outdated and
>old-fashioned as they are made out to be.  Of course, since they're made
>out to be about as outdated and old-fashioned as can be, that leaves them
>lots of space to store corsets and buggywhips, and they use up a fair chunk 
>of it.  The point of just about all of Pickford's films was to get the 
>audience to weep at the plight of the poor, but pure, little girl who bore up 
>under adversity, and people back then had much more tolerance for this sort of 
>thing than they do today.  Still, when she really worked at it, Pickford
>was a pretty good actress.

Again from Cinemania: "In all fairness to Pickford, she
played here heroines with idealism and spunk, with subtle
suggestions of the nymphet. While other actors used the
Delsartan "French School of pantomime," Mary's expressions
were restrained, her gestures small and drawn-out, and
therefore more expressive. She moved only when movement was
called for, and her stillness drew audience attention."

Mabel Normand once said to an interviewer who asked about
hobbies: "Say anything you like, but don't say I like to
work. That sounds too much like Mary Pickford, that prissy
bitch."

Sam Goldwyin said: "It took longer to make one of Mary's
contracts than it did to make one of Mary's pictures."

D.W. Griffith said: "She never stopped listening and
learning."

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
From: ggranger@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Greg Granger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: THE FIRM (Who's in it?)
Keywords: FIRM
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 12:57:43 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

amo@cbnews.cb.att.com (arlene.m.osborne) writes:

- I am in the middle of reading THE FIRM and am interested
- in knowing the cast of the movie.  So far, I've heard it's:
- 
- Mitch McDear :  Tom Cruise
- Ollie Lambert:  Hal Holbrook
- Tamy Hemphill:  Holly Hunter
- Avery:          Gene Hackman
- Wayne Torrence: Ed Harris
- 
- Any know any others?


I have read THE FIRM as well, and thought it was an excellent book.  Wait 
until you get to the climax of the book (sorry, no spoilers!).  You won't 
want to put the book down.  I can hardly wait to see this movie when it 
comes out.

I am also reading A TIME TO KILL presently, and have THE PELICAN BRIEF on
hold at my public library.  He is supposed to have a new book coming out 
this Spring.

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From: 910252m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dwayne MacKinnon)
Subject: eric stoltz
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:58:40 GMT

Here's a doozy of a cameo for you.

       Stoltz played the host of the party at the start of the movie. He is
nearly unrecognizable. I consider myself a Stoltz fan, but I DID NOT EVEN HAVE
A CLUE!!! The only reason I found out he was in the movie is because I love
Nancy Wilson's song "All For Love" so I watched the entire credits one time.

DMK

--
"Reality is a very strange place."

Dwayne Mac Kinnon,
910252m@dragon.acadiau.ca, Acadia University, N.S., Canada.
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From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
Subject: The Beyond - Wierd? (was Re:  More Weird List)
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:32:35 GMT

>
>Lucio Fulci Films.
>
>	Italian director who, during the eighties, made a series
>	of zombie movies, most of which were banned or heavily
>	cut in the UK. They are all quite weird, with ghostly
>	priests, gates to hell, blind eyes, zombies in baths, etc.

Please tell me, what's _weird_ about a strange priest, a gate to hell, a 
dead guy in a bath tub, or beeing blind? 

I've met a lot of strange priests, I've seen a lot of blind people. I've 
never encountered a gate to hell, but I don't classify them as weird. And 
how many people haven't died in a bathtub?

>	titles:
>		THE BEYOND	(SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH)

First of all (of course ignoring the fact that zombies themselves are weird. 
However, if we didn't disregard this, the weird list would be humongous 
(sp?))

"The Beyond" is _NOT_ weird. Creepy, yes, but weird, noooo. With no doubt, 
Fulci's masterpiece. I features the most excellent filming and zombie-shots 
I have ever seen. Probably the only zombie/horror film that really had me 
scared. I don't recall any other movies using the same tecnique (sp? - 
again) of zombie-portraying: 

close-up: frightened girl,
distant	zombies,
close-up: frightened girl,
zombies - closing in,
dog barking,
close_up .....

And so on. Note that the you couldn't see the zombies moving, they just 
stood still, but getting closer and closer for each shot. That was a really 
effective little trick that really had me going.
Of course, all good films have a bad spot, I hated the ending. Suddenly, the 
coolest zombies in the world was _MOVING_! AAAYYYEEEEE!!!! That really 
screwed up the whole film (IMHO, of course).
Kinda liked the axe part, tho.....

Now, have you ever seen "From Beyond"? There's a weird one..... :)

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From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Who from Poltergeist is now dead?
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:41:00 GMT
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Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>#I remember Heather O'Rourke (the little They're Here girl) died a few years
>#ago (she was only 12).  Some illness.  The other daughter, Dominique Donne
>#(daughter of a famous novelist) was stranged by her boyfriend before that.
>#The Indian guy, Will Sampson (the guy from Cuckoo's Nest) also is dead.  And
>#I think there's one more, but I forgot who.

>The old guy that played the preacher in part II.

He was at death's door while the movie was being filmed.  That
cadaverous look wasn't all makeup.
                                                                                      
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From: maher@umbc.edu (Dr. Michael Maher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Peter's Friends stereotyping
Date: 23 Jan 1993 13:22:43 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
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Afraid I found the film rather tiresome, though I did enjoy the
Bertie Wooster actor (can't think of his name.  He is capable of 
far better work).

However, I was struck by the stereotyping of characters in this
British film, and am surprised no one else has mentioned it.  In
A Fish Called Wanda, the stereotyping of Klein and Jamie Curtis
as American types was fun.  In "Friends", there is a meaner touch
in the character of the American tv star, who is bollemic(sp), a diet 
and exercise fadist, obsessed with appearance, and possibly Jewish.
The black woman is a strumpet, and her working class companion a 
boorish simpleton.  This leaves only the upper class and yuppie
characters, both male, as sane sympathetic characters.

Amazing they can get away with such stuff.
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