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From: miriam@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Miriam Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Help this person win a prize; was Re: A few questions....help!
Date: 1 Oct 1992 16:34:05 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.gps.caltech.edu

Someone is pulling the wool over somebody's eyes here; either Chris Silva is
doing it to the net, or Chris's professor is doing it to him/her. (I know
which one I think it is:-> )

In article <1992Sep30.075754.16016@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-lc@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Chris Silva) writes:
>I have a few movie questions I need some help finding answers to.  If
>anybody knows the answers to these questions, it would be much appreciated
>if you could e-mail them to me.  I will post a summary of responses to
>this newsgroup in about a week.  Thanks.
>
>   [6 questions deleted, there are 6 more in a later posting] 
>
>Any answers would be appreciated.  These questions are from a list
>given by one of my film professors.  It is not for credit, so don't
>worry about helping me get an unfair advantage over others, I am
>                                                            ^^^^
>just curious.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think not.  All the questions asked appear in a current magazine called
Pulse, put out by Tower Records/Video.  The first prize is a $5000 home
theatre system.

>Please mail all replies/comments/question/flames to:
>
>c60a-lc@danube.berkeley.edu
>
Sorry, I think the rest of this group should see what's going on.  Getting
competition answers this way may not be against netiquette, but at least be
honest about it.
>Thanks in advance.
>Chris Silva
>
Let us know how the home theatre system is...

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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: danny elfman
Date: 1 Oct 92 09:32:17 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

AB>Elfman has done a whole bunch of soundtracks, including:

     [lotsa neat stuff deleted]

AB>Death Becomes Her (*)
AB>(*) - actually, the theme song from "Tales" is the same as the song
AB>featured in "Death Becomes Her". Although I haven't seen the movie, the
AB>music is played in every trailer I have seen.

     The actual musical score for "Death Becomes Her" was written by Alan
     Silvestri, who has scored all of Robert Zemeckis' movies since "Back
     To The Future."  (Maybe "Romancing The Stone" too, but I haven't
     checked.)  Silvestri seems to be showing a lack of originality,
     though, as the soundtracks for his movies all sound like either
     "The Abyss" or "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."  I saw "Predator 2" on
     cable, and I knew that it was a Silvestri score immediately.
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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: Man in the Moon
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:57:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.133937.18107@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k084118@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Pamela S. Rivers) writes:
>
>The other day I went to the video store and rented a movie called man in the
>moon.  It was a very low publicized movie, in my area anyway, and it wound up
>being one of the best movies I've seen in a really long time.  Anybody else
>see this movie?  If not I highly recommend it.
>

Agreed...100%.       


Gerald
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From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
Subject: Altman and Ragtime
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:52:15 GMT


I heard that Altman was going to direct Ragtime but something happened and
they gave it to Milos Forman.
So what happened?
-- 
Robert Chao
Oakland, California
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Subject: Re: Your Favorite Cameo Appearance in a Film
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 12:08:51 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:

> In article <cchapman.174.717698840@matd.gatech.edu> cchapman@matd.gatech.edu 
> >In article <BvAMC2.DvC@cs.columbia.edu> d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang) 
> >>
> >>Frank Oz as a cop in "Trading Places" and a test proctor in "Top Secret".
> >                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >I think that was "Spies Like Us", not "Top Secret".
> >
> 
> Try the "Blues Brothers."  He's the one who gives Joliet Jake back his
> stuff (including "one prophylactic, soiled") when he is paroled at the 
> beginning of the film.

Although "Spies Like Us" did have a cameo of Bob Hope "playing through".


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From: rocco@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Kurt)
Subject: Re: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:08:01 GMT


	I helped work on the movie and of the running jokes was
	that the indians used were a rare tribe called Soloflex.
From: ncchang@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: About Timothy Dalton?
Date: 26 Sep 92 04:16:17 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University


 I would like to have some more information about Timothy Dalton.
 Does he play any other BBC series except Jane Eyre?

 Thank you!

 Ningchih Chang  
 My address: Nchang@sunrise.acs.syr.edu
From: jhouge@craysea.cray.com (Jennifer Houge)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: My Own Private Idaho
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:56:09 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc. - Americas West

In article <BvBn2J.Dqv@agora.rain.com> hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.220831.11369@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>>m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor) writes:
>>
>>>Well, I think I went through my own private hell watching this movie,
>>>and I'm wondering if anyone out there has any more clue about this 
>>>movie than I do ...
>>

>
>There were a few bizarre touches to the film - The house falling, the sex
>scenes, the dreams...  It was all a little confusing, but I've heard it is a
>lot better a second time.
>
>	-Casey
>	>

Does anyone know what this movie was about?
I sat through the whole thing without one clue.
And the ending was even confusing, I thought at
least I would finally understand at the end.
Wrong.
Please post if you know what this movie meant.

Still confused, still wondering.


Thanks.

Jennifer
From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Your Favorite Cameo Appearance in a Film
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 02:06:38 EDT
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

> BTW, etymology of 'cameo role' anyone?

Oxford English Dictionary:
	ca'meo n. (pl. ~s).  Small piece of relief-carving in stone
	(onyx, agate, etc.) usu. with colour-layers utilized to give
	background; relief design of similar form; short literary sketch
	or acted scene. [ME, f. OF camahieu etc. & med. L cammaeus]

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From: rbruce@robocomp.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Rob Bruce)
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 05:30:08 GMT

I'm sure I will get burnt to crisp on this, but I couldn't hold it
any longer. "Terms of Endearment". There, I said it. Anybody else
feel that this was an ad for Unisom? Speak up, I'm gonna need the support.

-- 


Rob Bruce

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From: howard@kore.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Howard Silby)
Subject: Re: A room with a view
Organization: Institute of Statistics and Operations Research, VUW, Wellington, NZ
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:06:38 GMT

In article <1amc9aINNgue@aludra.usc.edu> wdao@aludra.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes:
>
>what kind of movie is it ? 
>artsy ? sex ? action ? gore ? 
>(I heard a lot of good things about it)
>
>				walt


It's not exactly a highly erotic ultra violent gore-fest.

There is one brief scene of violence so horrific it causes a young
lady to faint. There is some rather untoward scenes where afore-
mentioned madam is kissed. Later on some gentlemen bathe together
and romp around in the English countryside bereft of clothing.

As for the artsy attribute. It has brilliant acting and superb
cinematography. Don't know if this helps classify it as artsy. 

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From: cwalsh@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Craig Walsh)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant
Organization: Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:13:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.092807.5893@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> tperreau@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (The Mad Scot) writes:
>
 [Stuff deleted]
>	A Ridley Scott-directed Blade Runner sequel may be
>	in the works...[some stuff deleted]...The restored
>	edition, incidentally, eliminates most of the hard-
>	boiled voiceovers, cuts the ultra-violence added to
>	the previous video version, eliminates the studio's
>	tagged-on happy ending, and utilizes the Unicorn
>	dream sequence which reveals that Rick Dechard (sic)
>	is, indeed, a replicant.
>
A few years ago I heard a rumour. That is all this is so don't bother
replying to this because I am writing everything I know. Anyway 
the rumour was that Front 242 would be doing the sound track for BRII.
This was from a man in a record shop, so no weight should really be 
given to it. Still if it is true you heard it here.

Craig Walsh.
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From: s1070422@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (BATMAN (D.Binding))
Subject: Re: Danny Elfman
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:14:48 GMT

hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:

>gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin) writes:

>>I just caught "Nightbreed" recently, and was pleasantly surprised to
>>find a soundtrack by Danny Elfman. (probably the best thing about the
>>movie). Other than Darkman, Dick Tracy, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice,
>>and the two Batmans, are there any more movies with Elfman's soundtrack that
>>I missed?

>Quite a few; I'm sure that someone else has already listed them. "Pee
>Wee's Big Adventure" and "Wisdom" are a couple more for starters...

>MCA Records in the US and Australia has a CD available by Danny called
>"Music From A Darkened Theatre" or similar; it has excerpts from almost
>all his soundtrack work on it.

I also noticed he did the music for The Simpsons, anyway does anyone know if
they put out a CD for Batman Returns. I am a HUGE!! Batman fan and loved
Elfmans music in both movies. Did he put out a movie soundtrack like he did
for the first Batman movie?

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From: paslll@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (Paul  Sabourin)
Subject: Re: Your favorite obscure actors!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:29:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep19.010626.9583@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>  
braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:

(lots of stuff about Vincent Schiavelli deleted)

I have long held the belief that Vincent Schiavelli has been in *everything*.  
(To name a few: He makes a brief appearance as a Union sergeant in Keaton's  
"The General," I saw his face pop up during the Odessa Steps sequence, and I  
believe that it is *his* hands doing the eyeball slicing in "Un Chien  
Andalou").
(sarcasm off)

It was once said (I don't remember by whom) that it is virtually impossible to  
find a movie made during the 1980s that didn't have an appearance by either  
Michael Caine, Ned Beatty, or Steve Guttenberg.  Unfortunately, every one that  
didn't have one of the above had Mr. Schiavelli in it! 

BTW, isn't he married to Allyce Beasley (sp?) of "Moonlighting" semi-fame?

Come to think of it, I think I saw Vincent Schiavelli on the grassy knoll...

Paul.
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: REVIEW: INNOCENT BLOOD
Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:43:04 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01553
Keywords: author=Fagan

				INNOCENT BLOOD
		       A film review by Sean Eric Fagan
			Copyright 1992 Sean Eric Fagan

     INNOCENT BLOOD started out poorly, in my opinion, with the leading
lady parading around her apartment in the nude (usually an inauspicious
beginning for a movie.)

     But it ended up being better than I originally thought it was going
to be (from the advertisements), and better than the beginning lead me
to believe it was going to be.

     Oh, it has lots of faults.  There are some inconsistencies in it,
which really annoy me (a couple of them could have been fixed by simply
removing a couple of scenes that didn't add much to the movie at all),
but there were not enough to make me decide I didn't like the film.  The
other really cheesey thing about it was the glowing eyes; the
commercials which had those made me think it was going to be a *really*
stupid movie.

     Well, it wasn't.  It wasn't a *great* movie, but I did manage to
enjoy it.  It could easily have been better, if, for example, the lead's
conflicts with her needs and her ethics had been dealt with more.  And
the ending leaves a lot unsaid (there are going to me *lots* of problems
about a week after the movie's ending, but isn't that always the case?
8-)).

     But I still liked it.  Definitely recommended for a matinee
showing.  Call it a +2 on a -5 to +5 scale.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan
sef@kithrup.COM
From: rsnappy%polaris.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Roger Snappy Rubio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: SNEAKERS
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01544
Keywords: author=Rubio
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:12:12 GMT
Reply-To: rsnappy%polaris.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Roger Snappy Rubio)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


				    SNEAKERS
		       A film review by Roger Snappy Rubio
			Copyright 1992 Roger Snappy Rubio

Starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell,
         River Phoenix, and David Strathairn
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson

     This movie was a pure treat.  It reminded me a lot of WARGAMES with
Matthew Broderick.  It's got a lot of humor and a lot of government
bashing.  Everything a movie-goer could want.  And its also got a lot of
gadgets.

     SNEAKERS is the story of two computer hackers who in the late 60's
set out to take on the world from behind their CRT's.  The only problem
is that one of them gets arrested, and through a stroke of luck, the
other gets away.  This other, played by Robert Redford, later gets
involved with a group of very talented people, all from different
vocations and all possessing some sort of secret.  Their job is to break
into people's places so that the people who had their place broken into
know how to prevent others from breaking in.  They are "hired" by the
National Security Agency to obtain an ultimate code-breaker, only to
find that the people that hired them are not from the NSA, and the rest
is secret.

     This movie is a very good execution of the now popular "ensemble
movie."  All the actors are believable in their roles, and there is
plenty of humor going around.  There is also plenty of talent (as far as
the characters are concerned), which is always a big draw at the box
office.  You can have humor, but you must also have professionalism and
realism.  The American audience demands it, and SNEAKERS delivers.  I
thought it was a wonderful movie because I love gadgets, especially ones
that can tell your stress level or ones that can decode any encryption.
But never fear to the average movie-goer; this movie is *not* loaded
down with a lot of techno-mumbo-jumbo.  It's basically a high-stakes
romp, and it is a good crowd pleaser.  After all, it scored very high in
test screenings!

     So if gadgetry, conspiracy, and humor are your game, check out
SNEAKERS.  If you don't, you may never know what the government is up
to....

     	THE SNAPMAN
     	rsnappy@hydra.unm.edu
     	(Roger Rubio)
From: rsnappy%polaris.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Roger Snappy Rubio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01543
Keywords: author=Rubio
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:11:44 GMT
Reply-To: rsnappy%polaris.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Roger Snappy Rubio)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


				HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
		       A film review by Roger Snappy Rubio
			Copyright 1992 Roger Snappy Rubio

Starring Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Caan, Pat Morita
Directed by Andrew Bergman

     All in all, a pretty solid piece of comic celluloid.  HONEYMOON IN
VEGAS is the latest flick from the man who brought you THE FRESHMAN.  In
this movie, Bergman throws in one bride, two grooms, and the outrageous
claim of "34 Flying Elvises."  Bergman is known for putting his main
characters into interesting predicaments that are not altogether
implausible.  He does not fail in this movie.

     Nicholas Cage plays the part of a private detective who abruptly
decides to get married to Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays a
schoolteacher.  They decide to get married and have their honeymoon in
Las Vegas.  While they are there, a professional gambler played by James
Caan, spots her and immediately set his sights on her.  Through a couple
of clever swings, Caan gets Cage to owe him a large sum of money, of
which cage doesn't have.  So Caan conveniently suggests that he borrow
his fiancee' for the weekend, and then the fun begins.

     When I say this is a solid piece of celluloid, I mean it is solid.
It is formulaic without really being formulaic.  That's what makes it
good.  It's got a couple of classic lines and some pretty outrageous
predicaments, but the best part about them is that they are all
believable.  Cage does wonderfully as a man who didn't know what he had
until he lost it.  I found both Parker and Caan to be ideally suited for
their roles, because they are not the most high-key of all actors and/or
actresses, and they do not have the most exciting roles in this movie.
But that's not putting them down; they did a fine job.

     If you want to see more of this kind of movie, check out THE
FRESHMAN if you haven't already seen it.  I believe HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
should have come earlier in the year.  It would have been more noticed
and more appreciated.  It a good flick, and worth at least a matinee
price at the box office.

     	THE SNAPMAN
     	rsnappy@hydra.unm.edu
     	(Roger Rubio)
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From: bjr@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Bernie Rauscher)
Subject: REVIEW: SINGLES
Reply-To: bjr@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Bernie Rauscher)
Organization: University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:17:40 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01562
Keywords: author=Rauscher

				    SINGLES
		       A film review by Bernie Rauscher
			Copyright 1992 Bernie Rauscher

     I saw the move SINGLES last week, and I liked it ... as
entertainment.  I though the cosmetic surgery CAD (Computer Aided
Design) station was a blast.  I really liked the main characters keeping
their word on the "water date."  I thought the rock club scenes really
hit home with it being *impossible* to have a discussion, and the
characters being just a little bit out of it in the sea of obviously
just a tad over 21 crowd.

     All that aside, though, I thought the group of characters were an
interesting mix, --that wasn't exploited at all.  In Chicago, the
waitress-and-musician crowd and the suit-and-tie crowd are like oil and
water.  It's the same in Washington D.C. and New York.  Yet, both
groups come from very similar middle class backgrounds (to myopicly
focus on the class depicted in the movie).  Some of the rift is a simple
matter of money, i.e., Fonda's and Dillon's characters shouldn't have
been living in the "nice" part of town.  But, part of the rift is a
matter of choice and what people want out of life.  Given that the
characters were deciding what they were going to do with their lives, it
would it would have been interesting to see what went into those
choices.

     Also, given that they'd been living with these choices for a few
years, they could have explored the pros and cons of each.  The working
characters should have obviously had less free time and more constraints
on their lifestyle than their "non-working" friends.  The "non-working"
friends should have been obviously poorer in very real ways (like not
having their own roommate-less upscale apartments).

     The working characters had the life style one would expect, which
is the usual payback for a "professional" job.  But, Dillon was
talentless and Fonda was adrift.  This is not usually the case.  It
would have been better to have given either Fonda or Dillon some real
(though not necessarily marketable) talent.

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From: pete@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Peter Alexander Merel)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Organization: AOTC - CSSC
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:05:55 GMT

Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu (Richard A. Swift) writes:

>In article <1992Oct4.222338.27290@news.nd.edu> Richard A. Swift,
>Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu writes:
>>>>>And where do you get they idea they are able to erase memories?  
>>>> I don't know they can. I don't know they can't. The point is, on the
>>>> evidence, neither you nor I know they can't.

Ah, conclusive proof that Richard A. Swift is a replicant :-)

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