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Subject: Most Extreme Aspect Ratio?
From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:31:08 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Howdy, folks!

	At a New Year's party last night, some of us were discussing
the aspect ratios of various films, and the following question came
up: Which U.S. theatrical release holds the record for the most
extreme aspect ratio?

	Three popular guesses:

	-1) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
	-2) SPARTACUS
	-3) THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

	2001 was the most popular, but nobody could rember the
exact aspect ratio. We know that SPARTACUS is up there at 2.6:1,
and so is THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.

	So if anybody knows, do tell.

					Thanks,

					-Cal
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From: tom@cithara.login.qc.ca (Tom Parkinson)
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Subject: Re: Black Holes of Cinema
Date: 28 Dec 92 09:45:37 GMT
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 >> YES!  MELANIE GRIFFITH AND DON JOHNSON! LIZA MINNELLI! MICKEY ROURKE!
 >> AWFUL! DAVID KEITH!

W>I'm not going to spend a lot of time defending Don Johnson or Melanie Griffit
 >but I must admit that I like Mickey Rourke, in fact, I think he is an
 >under-rated actor.  I mean he was great in Diner, Body Heat, and Rumblefish.
 >OK, sure I know he's left normal movies for his own personal brand of soft co
 >porno (Wild Orchid) but I still think he was great in those movies and others
 >I can't think of.  (He also boxes!)

Check out White Sands (also with Willem Dafoe).  Excellent.
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From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  )
Subject: Re: Siskel & Eberts Top 10 of 1992
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:06:04 GMT

>>They both gave it a C+, so it's no wonder they didn't mention it.
>
>Was this in their newspaper review?  We don't get that here..
>(Actually, we got it for a few months a few years back, when one
>paper dumped their local reviewer.)
>
>C+?  That's pretty ludicrious IMO..

The C+ rating probably comes from Entertainment Weekly, who had a list
of fifty notable movies of 1992 and the letter ratings that each critic
gave them.  Both Siskel and Ebert gave Reservoir Dogs gave it the C+.
Actually, they were the ones who disliked it the most in this survey.
The next lowest ranking was a B from the reviewer in the Atlanta Journal
and Con.  Everybody else gave it at least an A-.

I'd like to say if they were right or not, but our local theatre has not
showed it here. Nor have they shown Malcom X or any other
semi-conroversal movies. Wimps the whole lot of them.

Finally as a preview, you can probably expect to see the following
movies on the worst of the year broadcast: Encino Man, Raising Cain,
1492, Shining Through, Passanger 57, Far and Away, Basic Instinct, Alien
3 and possibly (shock) Unforgiven. Siskel gave it a C+ and Ebert a B-. I
guess they can't be right all the time.

-Craig

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From: csroc@cvbnet.prime.com (cvbnet)
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Subject: Re: Most Underrated Actor/Actress
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:07:48 GMT

From article <1992Dec18.191035.74101@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, by jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH):
>> I am intersted in seeing who people think are the most underrated actor and
>> actress currently working today...
> 
> Underrated: Danny Glover, Andie McDowell
>             (Honorable mention: Leslie Nielsen, Sheryl Lee)
I think Danny Glover is almost universally
acclaimed as one of the best of today so I don't think he
can be called underrated

> 
> Overrated:  Johnny Depp, Melanie Griffith


Can't agree about Melanie.
She's my favorite offbeat actress
since Judy Holliday


> 
> Special mention for the complete offensiveness of Emilio Estevez and Madonna.
I think their complete
offensiveness says something for ability.
Most people cannot project(of course their not in
league with Jack Nicholsen yet) this extreme
feeling that you want to kick and beat them. 
except maybe Madonna's ex Sean Penn.
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From: rivers@mdnite.enet.dec.com (Dr. Midnight)
Subject: Re: REVIEW: SHAKES THE CLOWN
Keywords: Shakes the Clown,Bobcat Goldthwait
Reply-To: rivers@mdnite.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:54:37 GMT




A minor nit.  The original poster states that Shakes is Bob Goldthwait's acting
debut.  He's been in several other films (A few Police Academy's, Scrooged, 
Burglar, Hot to Trot, etc.).  


--
Kim 

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From: m13079@mwunix (Mary Anne Walters)
Subject: Re: Where is Tippi Hedren?
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:50:52 GMT

>>whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>>>I am interested to know if anyone knows whatever happened to Tippi Hedren who
>>>appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie.
>>[...]
>>>I haven't seen anything that she's been in recently although every
>>>where I look I see her daughter, Melanie Griffith, but I can't stand her.
>>
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I can't verify this info at this time, but I swear I read *someplace* that 
Tippi had a ranch out in California and was very active in the animal
conservation/endanged species preservation movement.  I think it was in
People magazine (in the dentist's office -- who knows how long ago that
issue was published?) where I saw it.  It also seems she doesn't do
movies anymore - except as a favor to her daughter, I guess.  Working with    
Hitchcock and his habit of pressuring all his icy blonds to accept his advances
may have turned her off movies totally.  

Anyway, I'll be glad to look for the issue next time I'm at the dentist :-)  

Mary Anne
 
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From: jjamison@bellahs.com (John Jamison RD AC)
Subject: Re: anybody else remember this film?
Organization: Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:33:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.154206.14430@dde.dk> pck@dde.dk (Peter Roboz Kristensen) writes:
>dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
>
>>I've been scratching my brain over this one, can't find a listing in the
>>usual sources, and no one else seems to remember it.
>>  
>>Back in about 1965 I saw a movie whose premise was the Israeli war of
>>indepnednce against the British and Arabs.  The key point was it followed
>>some illegal immigrants arriving hidden in shipping cartons.
>
>Films covering the subject is "Exodus", but
>
>>I'm -pretty sure- one actress was Sophia Loren, but none of the references
>
>I don't think Sophia Loren was in it.
>
>>Sorry I can't recall much more....  ANy hints greatly appreciated.
>>  
>Me neither at the moment.
>

Paul Newman was also in it. 
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:39:56 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team

mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:

> I just discovered that BB has merged with a major music store here in
> houston and yep, you guessed it, these stores will no long carry movies.
> Of course, they just happen to carry movies I usually can't find at BB
> and rent them for $ 0.49 a night. 
>
> Is this happening all over? 

Blockbuster bought a couple of major music chains a few weeks ago,
including Sound Warehouse (which is probably the one you mention in
Houston).  I suspect they're doing this as a buffer against pay-per-view.
PPV is hitting video stores pretty hard in some markets, especially
lots-of-new-releases-but-no-weird-stuff stores like Blockbuster.

I hadn't heard that they were shutting down the video sections of those
stores, though it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.  Up to now,
the local Sound Warehouse has had a pretty decent selection of stuff
you're not likely to find at Blockbuster, and as you say, they rent it for
a lot cheaper.  

I shudder to think what's going to happen to the music selection once
Blockbuster's prigs give it a going-over.  

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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: oliver stone's the bi
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:52:07 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

WHT>The Christ was unconditionally loving, compassionate
WHT>and fair, but he held no illusions about one's behavior and the
WHT>the consequences it engendered.  He`d insist on moral behavior.

Besides, any attempt to portray Christ as anything less than an
impossibly perfect, God-like being who Knows All and Judges All would
cause huge protests of outrage from the fundamentalist sect.  Remember
the protests when THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST was made.

One of my favorite quotes re: Bible movies comes from Martin Scorsese:

"...the teaching at Catholic schools placed such an emphasis on the
divine side that if Jesus walked into a room, you'd know he was God
because He glowed in the dark."
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From: anderson@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Re: Liam Neeson???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:06:17 GMT

In <1992Dec22.141915.27610@scott.skidmore.edu> dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu 
(donna tschetter) writes:



>What else has this actor done previous to "Leap of Faith"?

=-=-=-=
I believe he was in the BBC(?) production "The Irish R.M.", but I may
be wrong.  His name is familiar from some British television series.

He was in the last Woody Allen film--"Husbands and Wives".
From: danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:35:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Emma Thompson film
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, CCSY Messaging Centre, UK.
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"Howards End" is the film all the critics have been
raving about Emma Thomson's performance in. See her
in "Peter's Friends" as well; she's excellent.

Dan

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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Huh? was Re: Underrated Actor: Alan Rickman
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:30:54 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <SYNTH.92Dec31104735@deepthought.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:


>He was also fun in THE JANUARY MAN (Kevin Kline, Mary Mastrantonio)
>even though he had a very backseat role, and was in top form in the
>Academy-Award-winning QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER (Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo).
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please elaborate -- "Academy-Award-winning" as in the Oscar(tm) from AMPAS,
the British Academy, or what?

I was unaware _Quigley Down Under_ won any Oscars(tm)...

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From: dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter)
Subject: Liam Neeson???
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:19:15 GMT



What else has this actor done previous to "Leap of Faith"?

Please post any information regarding previous movies he appeared in.

Thank you.
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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Accents
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:30:32 GMT

> > Face it, the accents actors use in films follow conventions, and
> > represent compromises.  In many films of World War II, rather than
> > having the German characters speak German, they have them speak English
> > with a German accent. ...

I remember a while back watching part of a British-made war movie from
1941 or so, in which the enemy characters -- I think they may have been
Italians rather than Germans -- spoke English with the same *British*
accent as the British characters.  I found it massively confusing!

> On a side note, remember how "Hunt for Red October" started out with
> subtitles under the Russians speaking Russian? I thought at the time that
> it would have been a really neat effect if all the Russian scenes had been
> filmed in Russian and subtitled for the entire movie. ... I was almost
> disappointed when they switched to English.

I too was delighted with the use of actual Russian dialogue here --
I particularly liked hearing Sean Connery speak it -- Speak it! Yes! Oh!
-- errr, sorry, wrong movie...  As I was saying, while it added a nice
touch of realism, for those of us who don't actually understand the
language, the use of subtitles does put distance between the audience
and the characters, and this can detract from the power of a scene.
This is particularly true when they are used on an extended basis, and,
I think, particularly when the story is one of suspense or drama.

(This doesn't mean that I advocate the use of dubbing rather than
subtitles for films that were actually made in a foreign language.
Dubbing *also* causes a distancing effect.)

Accordingly, I was even more delighted when they switched to English
after a few minutes.  I took it that the moviemakers were saying:
"We've reminded you that all this dialogue is really in Russian.  But
to help bring you closer into the scene, we will now magically teach
you that language, and so you won't notice any difference from your own
language any more."  (Or if you prefer: "Here is your babel fish.")

I've seen this technique used in exactly one other movie: "Judgement
at Nuremberg" (1963), where the foreign language was German.  I thought
it worked very well in both films.
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Sick and tired of cries of sexism (was Re: 9 1/2 Weeks)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:59:06 GMT

In article <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
>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
>
Point taken.  And I'm curious as to whether you're just making this
statement or implying that you'd like to be included in a different way
in beer commercials, and that (as a pervious poster has said) men 
should make it clear to Mad. Ave. that they'd like to be included in
dishwashing liquid commercials.  It might be an attack on sexism,
but I wonder how much sexism is unavoidable as a result of what differing
preferences the sexes have that cannot be stamped out by conditioning.

On to another newsgroup?  (BTW, the rec.org.mensa group is fairly general
in topics for anyone that finds themselves in threads like this that
veer away from movies in particular.)

GMS
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From: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran)
Subject: Re: Francais movies
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:09:33 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando, Fl


Some good French movies that I have seen are:

* Red Kiss (Rouge Baiser)
* My Mother's Castle (Le Cha^teau de ma me`re)
* La Femme Nikita
* Chocolat
 
 ....

N.Tran
From: sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle)
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Subject: Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:23:59 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

Hello all:

I found a documentary on Idi Amin Dada (once dictator of Uganda), and
all I can say is that it was a big riot!  You must see this....  It's
surrealistically funny....  It really made me think about the nature of 
power and the absurdities of this world....  The documentary was
directed by Barbet Schroeder (of *Reversal of Fortune* and *Barfly*),
and it came out in 1974....  Check it out, it's worth it....

Ahmed
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From: mitch@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Mitch Veenstra)
Subject: Aspect Ratio
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:28:33 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

I have been thinking and looking more recently for a book on movies.
The catch is, I'd like the title listing to include the film aspect ratio.
There are many films that have been made in Accademy ratio that is so close
to the standard size of a typical tv set that they will probably never be
released in letterbox.  But there are many others that are otherwise shot.

If anybody knows of a book title, publisher, price, is it in print, that fills
the bill, I'd be greatly appreciative if you'd let me know.
From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Lengthy Extremes
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:47:19 GMT
Organization: HMS

It's seems like the moviegoers get more entertainment for their dollar
this Holiday season :-)

Film                                Running Time(in minutes)
------------------------------------------------------------
Malcolm X                               201
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Scent of a Woman                        150
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Chaplin                                 142
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Hoffa                                   140
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Lorenzo's Oil                           140
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A Few Good Men                          138
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Passion Fish                            136
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Dracula                                 130
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The BodyGuard                           130
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Toys                                    122
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Used People                             116
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The Crying Game                         114
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Leap of Faith                           108
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Forever Young                           105
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The Distinguished Gentleman             105
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Tresspass                               101
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Home Alone 2                             96
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Alladin                                  90
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The Muppet X-Mas Carol                   80
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-Mark
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
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Subject: Re: TOYS
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:17:19 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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In-reply-to: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 21 Dec 92 14:43:27 GMT

jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
|> Williams played the quietly manic son of a recently-dead toy  
|manufacturer whose  
|> inheritence is passed on to his uncle.  Joan Cusack played his  
|sister and Robin  
|> Wright played the woman he gets interested in.  I don't remember  
|the name of  
|> the actors who played the uncle or Cousin Patrick.  I think the  
|actor who  
|> played Patrick was acting in his first movie, and he played his  
|role so  
|> straight that he provided a perfect foil for Williams and Cusack.
|> 

|Patrick was brilliant. As you say, he was the perfect foil for
|Williams.  

Was this LL Cool J?  I recall that he was going to play Williams'
character's cousin.
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From: dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter)
Subject: Theater Posters...!
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:44:17 GMT



Movie Poster Collection for sale.  E-mail for list.

Some titles still available:

Last of the Mohicans
Prelude to a Kiss
Candyman
My Cousin Vinny

many, many more!
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