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From: jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Siskel & Eberts Top 10 of 1992
Date: 1 Jan 1993 03:46:12 -0600
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Inevitably, this is going to have to be re-posted several times, so
here's the first one.  :)


SISKEL & EBERT'S LIST OF THE 10 BEST FILMS OF 1992
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	Gene Siskel			Roger Ebert
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10.	UNDER SIEGE			BAD LIEUTENANT
 9.	MISSISSIPPI MASALA		UNFORGIVEN
 8.	WAYNE'S WORLD			THE PLAYER
 7.	DAMAGE				THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND
 6.	THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND	DAMAGE
 5.	MALCOLM X			THE CRYING GAME
 4.	THE CRYING GAME			FLIRTING
 3.	HOWARD'S END			HOWARD'S END
 2.	THE PLAYER			ONE FALSE MOVE
 1.	ONE FALSE MOVE			MALCOLM X	


The big surprise in my books is One False Move, which IMHO, was a
was a decent film, but I didn't find it as such an achievement as
they did.  Granted, I did see it on video rather than in the
theatre.  A film which I thought would make it was Reservoir Dogs,
but it didn't even get a mention.  Of course, I wish I could have
seen such films as The Crying Game, Damage, and Bad Lieutenant,
but I live in an area where only the majors get any kind of
play...  Sniff.

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From: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental)  "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:38:56 GMT
Reply-To: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brandeis University

>While renting another video this weekend I saw a preview for "Brain Donors"
>
which is now available on video.  It is a Zucker Bros. film(the Airplane! guys)
>and was wondering if it was any good.  The preview looked like it would be
>a dumb movie but I have liked about every other movie they've produced.

I haven't seen it, but the critics say it's an homage to the classic Marx 
Bros. comedy A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.  Said it was bad.  Real bad. Awful.
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Citizen Kane question *SPOILERS*
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:39:08 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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  <1h957mINNi7@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>

Argh... hard to believe anyone could watch Citizen Kane from
beginning to end and not understand what was going on, but hey,
I've heard worse :)


**SPOILER**






















The premise of Citizen Kane is a news reporter trying to find out
why "Rosebud" was the last word uttered by Charles Foster Kane on
his deathbed. Though a series of incredibly inventive flashbacks,
flashforwards, and even a few flashsideways, he interviews any
number of people who were pivotal in Kane's life. None of them know
what "Rosebud" means although they all have their own interesting
(and different) stories about him. 

[much time passes and perhaps the greatest American film ever made
passes before your eyes on the screen....]

In the end, the reporter gives up: "I'll guess we'll never know what
Rosebud is" or something like that. He and his comrades depart from
Kane's Xanadu estate as workmen are tossing "non-valuable" items
into a fire. (Kane was a collector and owned literally thousands of
famous paintings, statues, antiques, etc.). A child's sled, assumed
to be of no value, is tossed into the fire. The camera zooms in and
we see the flowerly-painted word "Rosebud" being burned off the surface
of the sled. Major irony time here, kids. 

At the end of his life, after he had done it all and seen it all and
been 'round the world, and built up a fortune like no one had ever
seen; after he'd fought the newspaper wars, and influenced world
leaders and almost could have been President himself had it not been
for the scandal of being caught "in a love nest with 'singer' ",
after all of his highs and lows, the only thing that mattered to 
Kane, on his deathbed, was Rosebud, his childhood sled. 

So the film's core plot is about a reporter trying to find out what
Rosebud was. And he never does. But we do. Lather, rinse, repeat.

And for those of you who have never seen it, by all means go rent
it and see it. Watch it from beginning to end. It's totally
wonderful. When you see many inventive trick camera shots 
remember that Kane was made in 1939 when Orson Welles was 29 years
old. No computers. No Video tricks. Absolutely movie-making magic.

Harv
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From: dht@controls.ccd.harris.com (Danh Tran)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Organization: Harris Controls and Composition
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:28:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.005238.20089@en.ecn.purdue.edu> syd@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis P Hilgenberg) writes:
>st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>>Stop what you're doing, right now, and go out to the Blockbuster near you
>>and rent [four named movies].  		      ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>No, don't go there!
>

The only reason that I rent movies at BB is because of its foreign selection.
At least it is better than other stores.  Other than that, $3.00/movie/2nights
is overprice, IMO.  I usually go to Phar-Mor.  Cheap price.  
$0.89+tax/movie/2 nights or $1.99+tax/3 movies/2 nights.  Why pay 3 bucks for
a rented movie while you can get the same one at Phar-Mor for just $0.89. 

Danh Tran


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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental)  "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:17:39 GMT

In article <1h4ja8INNbdg@eagle.natinst.com> darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:
>While renting another video this weekend I saw a preview for "Brain Donors"
>which is now available on video.  It is a Zucker Bros. film(the Airplane! guys)
>and was wondering if it was any good.  The preview looked like it would be 
>a dumb movie but I have liked about every other movie they've produced. 

"Brain Donors" is essentially a remake of "A Night at the Opera", with
some slight adjustments to the Marx Brothers' personas and a wee bit of
updating.  John Turturro does a fairly brilliant reinvention of Groucho
Marx without doing a Groucho impersonation.  The other two comedians are
less effective.

I personally liked this film a lot.  I'm in the minority, however.  One
can argue that the world really didn't need a remake of "A Night At the
Opera", but did the world really need a spoof of airplane disaster movies,
either?  There's a certain boldness to the idea, and, while it doesn't
work all the time, it's a decent attempt to reinvigorate a style of comedy
that just doesn't exist any more.  Many other people, on the other hand,
feel it's just a bad idea executed with none of the energy and elan of
the original.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

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From: alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy)
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:24:32 GMT

In <1992Dec24.001108.5971@bradley.bradley.edu> dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:

>cms@sei.cmu.edu (Christine Stanley) writes:

> I felt the same way about "The Fisher King".

Someone else out there in netland agrees with me?!?!?!?
:-)

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From: treinen@dfki.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: rec.arts.movies Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 29 Dec 1992 10:27:42 +0100
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In article <1hp4ieINNd5@eagle.dfki.uni-sb.de>, treinen@dfki.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec25.162732.27132@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (evelyn.c.leeper) writes:
|> |> Archive-name: movies-faq
|> |> 
|> |> 7) What is the earliest *numbered* sequel?
|> 
|> Well, there is an earlier one: "Die Nibelungen" by Fritz Lang (Two Parts:
|> "Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Rache" (engl.: Kriemhildes Revenge). The two parts
|> together cover roughly the medivial german "Nibelungen Tale". 

What I forgot to say: "The Nibelungen" was made in the mid twenties. 1925, I
think.

Ralf.
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From: shiu@globey.cs.wisc.edu (Shiu K. Wong)
Subject: Re: want info on THE LOVER actress
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:17:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.185244.19482@midway.uchicago.edu> cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott) writes:

>	 Actually, her name is Jane March and I beleive that she is eighteen. 
>Otherwise, the movie could have been classified as child pornography and
>would almost certainly have been given an NC-17 or X rating.

	 Jane March is only SEVENTEEN.  She used to live in Britain and
	 ever since her success in "Lover", she was harassed by a lot of
	 people in Britain.  Now she is living in France.
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From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:05:01 GMT

lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
: 
: I shudder to think what's going to happen to the music selection once
: Blockbuster's prigs give it a going-over.  
: 

It'll be sanitized!
-- 

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QUAD Systems
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From: d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Natalie Wood
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:54:34 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Egyirba High (ehigh@news.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:

: When I was about 12 or so (could be younger, could be older), I saw a movie
: starring Natalie Wood called Penelope.  Natalie played a woman who was
: being treated by her psychiatrist because she was a kleptomaniac.
: I simply loved this movie!  Since television shows everything else in the
: way of old movies,
: I've looked for this movie but haven't been able to see it.  Does
: anyone know if its on video?  Does anyone even remember this movie?
: -- 

From the guide of movies on TV and VIDEO 1993-1994:    

Penelope (1966) , two star out of four (rating they gave)

Starring : Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk (Colombo).

Silly, occasionally entertaining comedy in which Wood plays a zany young
woman who befuddles even her psychiatrist when she holds up her husband's
bank.

(Directed by Arthur Hiller, 97 minutes).

Not available on video.
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From: danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:31:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Francais movies -- a recommendation
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, CCSY Messaging Centre, UK.
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A few EXCELLENT ones:

"Tenue De Soiree" (sp?) : REALLY funny. Bizarre Menage-a-trois.
"Jean De Florette" & "Manon Des Sources" : Must see these two
                 together as Manon begins where Jean left off.
"Betty Blue" : Visually stunning, supremely sexy, and 
             sometimes shocking.

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From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: HERMAN (Norwegian)
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:17:23 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

HERMAN is a Norwegian film directed by Erik Gustavson,
written by Lars Saabye Christensen from his own novel. It
stars Anders Danielson Lie, Frank Robert, Elisabeth Sand.
Unrated. In Norwegian, with English subtitles.

HERMAN is that unlikeliest of films, a fresh coming-of-age
story. It is about an 11-year-old Oslo schoolboy, Herman
(Anders Danielson Lie), who is a rather withdrawn, runty kid,
bullied at school and misunderstood at home. He lives
in a vivid fantasy world that includes a Norwegian-speaking
Zorro and walking into traffic whilst pretending to be
blind. His only friends are his ailing grandfather and a
beer-soaked neighbor who was once a gardener to the king and
who has pretty vivid fantasy life himself until it turns
into a first-class case of the DTs. Herman's already
fragile world really unravels when his barber discovers a
bald patch on the child's head, the first symptoms of
alopecia areata, an incurable cosmetic disorder that will
cause him to loose all his hair in time.

It is Herman's progressive reactions to his malady and his
growing baldness that mark his growth and maturity. His
alopecia is, on one level, merely a symbol of the agonies
and changes that we all go through moving from childhood to
adulthood. But like all good symbols, this one is vividly
specific, as Herman moves through anger (at his fate and at
his parents who are at something of a loss to know how to
handle things), onto various strategies, disguises, and
other forms of denial and withdrawal, and ultimately landing
on his feet in a charming act of acceptance.

Herman as played by Lie believably, ingratiatingly, and
often comically. His performance is likable, light-hearted,
and completely natural. He manages to make the unusual point
that even a child in a stable, functional, loving family can
still have a childhood marked by pain and insecurity, that
growing up is hellish for all of us. Herman performs the
more accustomed role, too, of deflating adult pretenses and
evasions, of finding the truth amidst the lies.

This is a totally charming film and I recommend it highly.
It's current run in Seattle (Metro Cinemas) is its U.S.
premiere. It's being distributed by RKO Pictures. If it
comes to your area, do yourself the favor of going.


-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: movies you loved, but
Date: 22 Dec 92 07:06:14 EST
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Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

AR>the bottom.  My boyfriend and I argued about that one for weeks, especially
AR>when they sacrificed the cow - I said that scene was real.  They filmed in
AR>the Phillipines, with no SPCA to forbid actually chopping up an animal
AR>that way, so I was (and still am) convinced that the sacrifice was real.

It WAS real, though it wasn't done especially for the movie.  The
local religious customs of that area of the Philipines included a
ceremony with the sacrifice of a cow (water buffalo?  Well, some kind
of bovine), and Coppola caught the ceremony on film to add spice to
his movie.  It wasn't staged just for the movie, though; Francis just
happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The credits of APOCALYPSE NOW note this fact.
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From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Liam Neeson???
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:02:36 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

dtschett@saims.skidmor asks:

>> #What else has this actor [Liam Neeson] done previous to "Leap of Faith"?
>> 
>> Darkman
>> The Good Mother
>He was in Excalibur
>
High Spirits
Suspect
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From: fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
Subject: Re: the crying game (big spoiler!)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: rec
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:44:17 GMT

eliot gelwan <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com> writes:


>MSIs Jaye Davidson (Dil in the movie) male or female?  The promo
>MSmaterial available in the theatre was (I assume) deliberatelyRITCHIE
>
>She's a woman. Most definitely. I speak from personal experience.

Trust the net to turn up an expert resource ;-).

So the surprise shot (which I don't think showed a face)
was done with a male stand-in, we'd be led to believe?

Frank
frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
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From: lsmith@myria.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: Has anyone seen this film?
Organization: Movie Squids of the Poor
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:41:49 GMT

In article <adobrien.724934419@unix1.tcd.ie> adobrien@unix1.tcd.ie (Austin O'Brien) writes:
>In <1992Dec17.075854.2543@inland.com> deck@inland.com writes:
>
>
>>	Has anyone seen a new film starring Anthony Hopkins entitled,"The
>>Efficiency Expert"?  Siskel and Ebert raved about it and claimed it was a
>>'90's version of the popular British comedies of the '50's (MAke Mine Mink,
>>I'm All Right, Jack,etc). It involved Hopkins as the title character who comes
>>to "straighten out" an Austrailian toy factory.  This film hasn't shown up in
>>the Chicago area as yet and I was curious about it.

Odd, I thought both Gene and Roger were based in Chicago.

>I believe the film is entitled 'Spotswood'.
>
>(But may be I'm thinking of a different Hopkins picture)

Same movie, different title. Some marketing person probably didn't like
Spotswood.

The movie blew into Minneapolis-St Paul for maybe a week or two. The
Siskel and Ebert review didn't get aired until maybe a month after the movie
left town. 

Sounds like it would have been worth seeing. I'll have to look for it on 
video.

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From: Don Lee <DL10@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Citizen Kane question
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In article <1992Dec23.003118.23186@cs.uow.edu.au> David Ian Raymond,
davidr@cs.uow.edu.au writes:
>Hi,
>  I watched Citizen Kane yesterday. I was a bit let down by the ending but
>I suspect that I didn't catch the significance of it all.
>  What was the thing that they threw in the fire at the end with Rosebud
>written on it and what was its significance? I was led to believe that the
>whole mystery would be revealed in the last few moments, so I think this must
>have been a key to the mystery. Could someone please explain it all to me?

It was the sled he used to play with as a child.

Don Lee (DL10@cornell.edu)
From: d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Citizen Kane question
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:19:11 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Ian Raymond (davidr@cs.uow.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi,
:   I watched Citizen Kane yesterday. I was a bit let down by the ending but
: I suspect that I didn't catch the significance of it all.
:   What was the thing that they threw in the fire at the end with Rosebud
: written on it and what was its significance? I was led to believe that the
: whole mystery would be revealed in the last few moments, so I think this must
: have been a key to the mystery. Could someone please explain it all to me?

I think ( it has been years since I watched it ) that it was one of the 
ends of a childs crib. I don't remember though if he lost a child
during his life. Hmm probably. I must see it again to be sure.
You have seen it so you'll know.

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From: lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner)
Subject: Re: Q on A Few Good Men: Poison???
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:46:14 GMT

In article <Bzr4oE.CnH@ecf.toronto.edu> funga@ecf.toronto.edu (FUNG Alexander Yok-Wai) writes:
* Spoiler ? *
 

>Not meaning to speak for Richard, but I think his point was: How could
>the U.S. Government lawyer (Kevin Bacon) argue that the two marines had
>poisoned the rag, resulting in (what'shisface's) death? I didn't even think
>of this during the film, but it would have made a good defense to argue the
>implausibility of the marines having knowledge of poisons. Of course,
>that turned out not to be necessary anyways.. :)

Implausibility can not possibly be a defense.  Any lawyer even trying that
one in court would be chucked out on his ear.  And the poison business does
trouble me.  We, the omniscient viewing audience, know that death was the
result of a heart condition.  But as far as the court was concerned, death
WAS caused by poison administered with the rag stuffed into the victim's 
mouth.  The only expert called to the stand to testify on this subject left
no impression of any other possibility.

Therefore, the victim WAS poisoned.  Since the Colonel only admitted to
ordering a code red, not a murder, the two marines are still guilty of 
murder. 

>All in all, a good film.

I still have to agree with that assessment, as long as you check your brain
at the door, and go with the flow. 

					- Chuck 

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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Sick and tired of cries of sexism (was Re: 9 1/2 Weeks)
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 09:22:43 EST

bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:

> No offense to gilbert, or even to tara lou, but I'm real tired
> of hearing this crap about sexist ads when in fact the 
> objectification of men is just as prevalent as the objectification 
> of women.

That isn't the point, not that it isn't a good point to make.

The point being made is that the advertisers expect their viewers to be 
men, and they speak to men as consumers, and ignore women as audience.

Namaste,
Elizabeth
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Costner's accent in PofT (was Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress
Date: 30 Dec 1992 03:15:21 GMT
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In article <1992Dec28.162413.4104@psych.toronto.edu> gswan@psych.toronto.edu (George Swan) writes:
*Excuse me, have you ever heard someone read aloud Geoffrey Chaucer's
*"Canterbury Tales" in the original.  They are almost incomprehensible
*because English has evolved so much from the twelth Century.  I believe
*the "Canterbury Tales" were written within a hundred years or so of the
*reign of King John.  If the actors had used 12th century english, the
*film would have had to be sub-titled in contemporary english.