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From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Does anyone know the name of this Japanese movie?
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:04:18 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <18jqr6INN5so@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson) writes:
>
>I while ago I saw an interesting and amusing movie on Bravo, the cable
>network channel.  I'd like to know the name of the movie, because for
>some reason I couldn't find out the name before.
>
>The movie was in Japanese with English subtitles, was fairly up-to-date
>and in color.  The storyline was about a young woman learning how to
>run a soup stand (which are evidently popular in Japan) from an old,
>wise man.  The situations were very modern, and some of the scenes
>were simply hilarious.  The only recent Japanese movie I've ever seen
>was Ran, so I was happy to see a more light-hearted Japanese film.

	Tampopo.  An excellent film, about the most important things in
the world: sex, death, food, and movies.  By the same director are The 
Funeral and A Taxing Woman and the sequel to A Taxing Woman (the title of 
which I can't remember).  The Funeral is a little iffy, but Tampopo and 
A Taxing Woman are both excellent, fairly light-hearted films.

>Brian Mathewson   bbm@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu
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From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Subject: Re: ry cooder
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:20:41 GMT

In article <188@isis.CSS.GOV>, ralph@isis.CSS.GOV (Ralph Webber) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep14.100859.29362@nuscc.nus.sg>, med50003@nusunix2.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN) writes:
>>|> The reference however in the earlier series of posts about this movie
>>|> which detailed ralph macchio dueling the devil for the soul of an old
>>|> blues musician did strike a bell though. I have seen this movie and I
>>|> good guitar work (Joe Satriani played the devil's champion). The fun
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I thought that was Steve Vai, unless my memory is going.
> 
> -- 
> <   Ralph Webber            ralph@osiris.css.gov   >
> <   ENSCO, Inc.                                    >
======
I thought the music really came out of ry cooder's guitar...
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Movie(s)
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:50:10 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <R51uqB4w165w@jybox.jyu.fi>, otto@jybox.jyu.fi 
(Otto J. Makela) writes:
> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
 
>> Oh, I almost forgot another most embarrassing film: "Penn & Teller Get
>> Killed."   Go ahead, defend this movie if you can.  Make my day.
 
> I always thought these guys were the ones who do a (IMHO rather good)
> magic show.  What gives ?  What is the movie about ?

Yup, same Penn and Teller.  The have a very morbid sence of humor.  Obviously
it didn't apeal to Steve, but I thought it was hysterical.  So if you've 
seen any of their bizarre form of "magic", and enjoyed it, there's a good 
chance that you'll love this movie.  I did.

Sorry Steve, I don't need and/or want to defend this film.  It's not worth
arguing over...everyone's tastes are differnent.

But I would think that anyone who enjoys some of the more obscure and twisted
humor of Monty Python, would love _Penn & Teller Get Killed_.

Greg Bole                               "Are you coming?  Yeah, well see the 
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu             train moves, not the platform."
                                       John Lovitz in _A Leauge of Their Own_
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From: teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima)
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut (SPOILERS)
Keywords: blade runner ridley scott director cut film
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:38:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.100616.5632@wam.umd.edu> dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge) writes:
>
>Overall I liked it. It definitely has a different "feel" to it without
>the voiceovers. It reminded me of "Light Sleeper" a bit. The idea
>that Deckard is a replicant is much stronger in this version. I really
>liked the ending this way -- keeps the mood of the film consistent.

Definitely agreed on the change in feel. It's less of a "cop" movie
now, more SF feel. 

My husband also spoke of Deckard as a replicant--he thinks he read
this in the original book. Can anyone verify this? If this is true,
why isn't this made a bit more clearly in the movie? Some "clues" he
told me included the unicorn dream sequence with the folded unicorn
origami tie-in at the end (the guy knew about Deckard's "memory"?),
and how Deckard's old black and white family photos of his mother (?) 
looked a lot like Rachel, and how she asks him if he's ever taken the
test himself.

Any comments?

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From: zuidema@pine.gvsu.edu (Calvin Zuidema)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Pet Semetary 2
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:35:35 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University

In article <1992Sep9.074813.21210@wam.umd.edu> dododge@wam.umd.edu (David  
O. Dodge) writes:
> In article <1992Sep8.133608.12651@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>  
bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Bart-Man) writes:
> >
> >  Wasn't the bully that got killed by the motorcycle the same kid that  
played 
> >Furlong's red-headed, long haired friend in the beginnig of T2?
> 
> Don't think so. The red-haired kid in T2 was Danny Cooksey (used to be
> on "Diff'rent Strokes") but I didn't recognize the kid in "Pet Sematary  
II".

The bully in "Pet Sematary II" was in "BIG" with Tom Hanks, also 
"Lady in White."

		C.Z.

> 
>                                              -Dave  
Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
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From: geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel)
Subject: An annoying thing about Blade Runner
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:57:09 GMT


Now don't get me wrong, I think that Blade Runner is one of the
best science fiction movies ever made...however, there is this one
annoying point brought up on a panel at the World Science Fiction
convention this past Labor Day weekend that sort of bothers me.

The movie is a story of this cop who has to kill these replicants
who are all going to die in a week anyway.  Decker could have just
sat in a Dunkin Donuts for a week until the replicant's life span
ran out.  (Then, I suppose, we wouldn't have much of a movie, would we?).

Think about it.


                             -- jogle
                                geigel@seas.gwu.edu




-- 

                            -- jogle
                               geigel@seas.gwu.edu
From: jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Name this movie...
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:11:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-28864]: thor

In article <1992Sep10.213404.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
>In article <BuE107.AE6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>> Can anyone identify this movie:
>>
>> I think Ralph Machio (spelling? -- the Karate Kid guy) is in it.  What little
>> of the plot I know... This guy is hiding from someone (maybe the law?).  He
>> hides out at a high school, where he stays at night.  He befriends a janitor
>> (who I think is a black musican -- maybe).  I seem to remember a scene of
>> the guy rollerscating down the halls and tearing down posters of himself.
>>
>> I know it's very sketchy, but it was a long time ago, and I came in half-way
>> through the movie and didn't watch a lot.  I do remember one thing very
>> clearly, and that is the song "Crying" by Roy Orbison is played during the
>> movie and I think even one of the characters whistles it.
>>
>> Anyway, if anyone can match the above mess with a movie, could you send me
>> a title and a summary of the movie for me?  Thanks a bunch.
>>
>> Geoff

>I'm pretty sure this is Crossroads...
>
I don't think so, because I have seen the scene described above, and
I have never seen Crossroads...

Misti
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From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:06:47 GMT

In article <1320@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.154002.17548@cbnewse.cb.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug29.172106.153869@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>>>hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner) writes:
>>>>Which movie has the least women in its cast?
>>
>>Now, Year of Living Dangerously had Helen Hunt in it, who is pretty
>>darn small.
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^
>                                     Linda Hunt
>
>Helen Hunt is a sweet young blond thing who is Matthew Broderick's
>latest sweety.
>.
>.
>.
>.
>
>

Yah, but THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY also has SIgourney Weaver in it, possibly the tallest actress around, so that balances out the "shortcomings" of Hunt.
					-Stefan
From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What are those Negroes doing with guns?
Summary: What kind of complaint is this?
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:00:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <67564@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7994a@prism.gatech.EDU (ORMOND,SEAN PATRICK) writes:
; In article <1992Sep2.233422.14312@cci632.cci.com> agc@cci632.cci.com (Anupama Chathampally - co-op) writes:
; >In article <1992Sep2.113813.744@calmasd.prime.com> wwr@calmasd.prime.com writes:
; >>
; >>	While I'm at it :> (snicker dastardly), I have no empathy for Native
; >>Americans, or the inner city urban problems.
; >>	[Politically Incorrect Comments deleted for your protection]
; >
; >The Indians did sign treaties for their land only to have the U.S. break them 
; >and push the Indians further west until there was no where left to go. Check out
; >some history books. 
; 
; 	I believe the original poster was describing the current trend in
; the media of placing a major guilt trip on the heads of modern-day white
; males for the actions that led to the settlement (or destruction, if you
; buy their stories) of this country.  Guess what?  We didn't have a damn
; thing to do with it and couldn't care less!  Maybe I should just pack my
; bags and go back to Ireland and we'll call it even!
; 
; Check out some bumper stickers...SHIT HAPPENS!
; 
; Sean
; 
; 
; -- 
; Sean P. Ormond
; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
; uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt7994a
; Internet: gt7994a@prism.gatech.edu


Wait a minute.  Now, there have been some movies made recently which
purport to show the realities of the past.  Just as there have been books
written on these subjects.  Now some white men are gonna whine because
these facts that are being presented are making them feel guilty?  Hey, if
you don't think you deserve to feel guilty because of the actions taken by
our ancestors, then go right ahead and don't.  But don't suggest that these
films have somehow gone "too far."  Are we getting too close to the truth
that it bothers some people?  Well, that's a good sign I would say...

On the other hand, if you are questioning the accuracy of the films, well
that's another matter.

Ben.

-- 
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bew@brahms.udel.edu

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From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
Subject: Re: movie about Green Flash?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 12:51:41 GMT
Reply-To: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
Keywords: green flash

In article <1992Sep11.164053.15760@osf.org>, steiner@ninja.osf.org
(Jennifer Steiner) writes:
|> Hi, does anybody know what movie had the "green flash" effect
|> in it?  The green flash is the last bit of light you see as
|> the sun goes down over an unobstructed horizen (e.g., the ocean).
|> There is also some myth or superstition associated with seeing
|> it.  I remember hearing about a movie with a green flash in it
|> but have no idea what the title was.  Does anyone out there know?

Its called "A Flash of Green" and stars Ed Harris and Blair Brown.
I saw it a long time ago, and don't remember much, but I do remember
thinking it was a pretty good movie.  Something about land developers
wanting to build and local townspeople wanting to stop them (I think)

Joel Stave
stave@apollo.hp.com
From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: McCauley Culkin Roast:  was Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked
Date: 5 Sep 92 01:51:58 GMT
Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens


  Weren't we going to have a get down Culkin roast a few months ago?

In article <elambert.715635320@qualcom> elambert@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Eber Lambert) writes:
>
>Macauley Culkin (?) is also one of the WORST child actors elevated to star
>status. Its unbelievable.
>  
   A cartoon I can only attribute to someone in the New Yorker:

	 Separated at birth:  McCauley Culkin and Edvard Munch's 
				   "The Scream".

    Wayne
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From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 5 Sep 92 04:54:30 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Sep5.013622.3819@ee.ubc.ca> rsemenof@ee.ubc.ca (SEMENOFF ROBERT) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.180743.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>>In article <sbarnhar-040992151951@morril6t-10.micro.umn.edu>,
>>sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu (Dr. Barnhart) writes:
>
>>I'm so sick of being called a simp and a pretentious idiot because my friends
>>and I enjoyed Barton Fink/Naked Lunch/Wild At Heart/Prospero's Books/etc.
>
>What about making rec.arts.movies into two newsgroups ?
>(Has this been discussed before?)
>
>My killfile for this newsgroup is HUGE, and I still pick up
>a high volume from threads on blockbusters and other junky movies.
>Obviously there's a continuous range of tastes, but there seems
>to be a distinct division between the 'art' films goers and
>the Hollywood movie fans.
>
I've always thought that there should be a rec.arts.that.movie.that.just.-
came.out.that.everyone.wants.to.discuss.to.death. :)

Maybe rec.arts.movies and rec.movies?  rec.movies and rec.movies.art?
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From: arkhive@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Ailsa Jenkins)
Subject: King Arthur legends (was <None>)
Distribution: world
Organization: QLA - Quantum Leap Anonymous
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:57:21 +0000

You could do worse than to read "The Once & Future King" by T H White. "The
book of Merlyn" is also now available; published posthumously. 

Mary Stewart has written 4 books, in sequence, "The Crystal Cave", "The Hollow
Hills", "The Last Enchantment", "The Wicked Day" published in the UK by Hodder &
Stoughton.

There's also Wace & Layamon's "Arthurian Chronicles" and Chretien de Troyes
"Arthurian Romances", both 12th century. Published by Dent in the UK and
Dutton in the US.
____________________________________________________________________
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From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Curt Tsui)
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:09:52 GMT

I'd have to say Dances With Wolves for this one.  I just didn't
see what everyone raved about.  Sure the photgraphy and music
were gorgeous, but the movie was little more than a star
vehicle for Kevin Costner under a flimsy guise of humanitarian
issues.  What a waste of time and film.
--
                               - Curt Tsui -
      			     curt@Virginia.EDU
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: REALLLLLLY bad embarassing movies
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:39:08 GMT

In article <18nr8aINNpid@network.ucsd.edu> ivy@chem.ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg) writes:
>I can't believe noone has mentioned "Pink Flamingos"
>Talk about revolting! 

This film played at the Biograph in Washington, DC, for many months.  After
its final showing, the projectionist carefully packed each reel back in the
cans, picked them all up, and then hurled them down the stairs.  I was
impressed by his restraint.

-- Herb Huston
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: robocop
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:23:47 GMT
Organization: Exile Government of Bramming

eric.walker@channel1.com (eric walker) writes:

>     Yesterday, however, I realized just how much this movie is a satire
>on corporate politics.  Underneath the comic-book action and the blood
>and guts, the movie actually makes a statement about you and me, and the
>way giant mega-corporations try to control our lives.

Show me just one movie from the last 20 years that shows a megacorporation
in a positive light. The company in Robocop is a cliche, just like the
one in Alien(s)(^3).
-- 
No News is Bad News
From: simon@research.canon.oz.au (Simon Walmsley)
Subject: Sky Pirates and Walker
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:03:49 GMT


Most embarressing movie? Without a doubt it would be:

	"Sky Pirates"

billed as "The ark has been raided, the stone has been romanced... now let
the real adventure begin". As an indication of how naieve the producer was,
he called the cinema that I attended during the session I attended, and asked
how many people there were - this being the first weekend after it had started.
He was told there were about 30 people in the audience, and he asked "Is this
usual for the first weekend of a major blockbuster movie?" What a dingbat.

Apart from the producer being a total loser, the script was pathetic too, not
to mention the set design being completely inappropriate. It's so appallingly
bad, the only reason we stayed in the cinema was thinking "It can only get
better" - but it didn't!

The other film that my friends would chose would be: "Walker" (starring Ed
Harris) - I actually enjoyed this film, with its very clever method of slagging
US continual interference in Central America. My friends all hated it.
Any other opinions?

Simon.

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From: steveh@devildog.att.com (Steve Hendershott)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: To all who have seen Blade Runner: The Director's Cut
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:36:44 GMT
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)

Will this cut be available on video tape for those who can't see it
in the theatre?

S. Hendershott

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From: ctuel@zeus.calpoly.edu (Cliff Tuel)
Subject: Single White Female review wanted
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:01:59 GMT

I know I read some when they were posted, but they've all expired.
Please E-MAIL; don't post.  Thanks!


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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 13:51:37 EDT
From: Nicholas C. Hester <IA80024@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: 'Arthur' King of the Badly Dubbed Britons (was Re: Most Embarassin
 <1992Sep3.132549.21389@news.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE> <1992Sep3.155858.5666@riacs.edu>
 <1992Sep10.103025.29243@sun.pcl.ac.uk>

In article <1992Sep10.103025.29243@sun.pcl.ac.uk>, chrisc@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Chris
Chamberlain) says:
>
>><Talking about "Excalibur" got me to thinking about the actor who portrayed
>><Arthur. I can't recall seeing him in *anything* after that film came out.
>
>>The great Shakespearian actor Nicol Williamson, famous for his stage
>>version of Hamlet, among others. Great actor, but has a reputation for
>
>I think there's a bit of confusion here, Nicol Williamson played Merlin and
>I believe he made a few black and white films in the 50's and 60's, although
>he does do mostly stage work. Nigel Terry played Arthur and he did seem to
>disappear after Excalibur, although he was in Derek Jarmans Edward II

Nigel Terry is playing the father in the new ABC series "Covington Cross."
It's set in medieval England, where the family must constantly fight all
the Nasty Evil Lords.  Of course the family are Good Wise Lords.

It's fluff, with 20th century customs in 12th century England.

___

   Nicholas Hester                  "I'm a virgin...I'm just not good at it."
ia80024@Maine.bitnet                                 -Ramada, "Hot Shots!"
ia80024@Maine.maine.edu
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: trivia: potemkin quot
Date: 13 Sep 92 12:48:21 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PN>I have been for some years been accumulating a list a movies which quote or
PN>pastiche (part of) the very famous "Odessa steps" sequence from Eisenstein's
PN>I have this feeling that I used to know of another one, but have forgotten.

     Woody Allen spoofed the Odessa Steps in "Bananas," sending a baby
     carriage down a flight of stairs.  Where ELSE would he have gotten it
     from?
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