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From: lipp@sierra.com (Damon Lipparelli)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Spielberg
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:35:22 GMT
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Jake Vaughan (vaughanj@sage.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
: Jurrasic Park.  I really can't say that I understand this opinion.
: Did everyoneforget about "Jaws" or "Poltergeist"?  If people are worried

: Jake Vaughan

Actually, _Poltergeist_ was made by Tobe Hooper (of _The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre_ fame).  I believe Spielberg produced _Poltergeist_.

-lipp

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Enough is Enough (was Re: Top Five Movies of All Time)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:14:12 GMT

In article <kaxiras.724462968@cs.wisc.edu> kaxiras@falcons.cs.wisc.edu (Stefanos Kaxiras) writes:
>I agree with Pentti. Americans are very ignorant regarding
>foreign cinema. 

A slightly less general statement is in order here.  I know of several
Americans who post to the net whose knowledge of film, including foreign
cinema, probably rivals or exceeds yours.  I wouldn't mind pitting Martin 
Scorsese, an American, against literally anyone else in the world, in terms of
overall film knowledge.

>Most masterpieces do not come from USA.

While I agree that most Americans know little about non-American
cinema, it's at least arguable that most film masterpieces *do*,
in fact, come from the U.S.  America has a uniquely rich film
tradition (based in part on being on the right end of a 70 talent drain
from most of the rest of the world, it's true), rivalled only possibly by 
France.  But it's close, at best, and great film lists that contain only 
American films, particularly those that contain only American films of 
the last ten years, betray either ignorance about film or a rather limited 
set of criteria for what constitutes greatness.

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Spielberg
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:51:12 GMT

In article <Bz9Mtv.9pr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>vaughanj@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jake Vaughan) writes:
>
>>As I have been reading the net I have seen a lot of negative opinion towards
>>Steven Spielberg.  People have been saying that he might not do justice to 
>>Jurrasic Park.  I really can't say that I understand this opinion.  Did everyoneforget about "Jaws" or "Poltergeist"?  
>
>However, it depends on which Spielberg is directing:
>the Good Spielberg, who directed "Close Encounters" and "Jaws," or the
>Evil Spielberg, who gave us "*batteries not included."

Spielberg has shown himself to be a much better director than producer.
"Poltergeist" is the only film he's produced and not directed that I liked.
(There are recurrent rumors that he took over this production from Tobe
Hooper, but I have no inside information on that, one way or another.)
"*batteries not included" was one of the films he produced but did not
direct, and was pretty tedious, in a Spielberg clone way.  But it doesn't
tell us much about what he'll do with "Jurassic Park".

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

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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Top 10 movies of all time
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 07:42:32 EST

spandian@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vaisnavi) writes:

> My choice of top 10 movies of all time ( not ordered ) :
> ______________________________________
> 
> 
> (10) The living daylights ( Timothy Dalton )
> 
> _____________________________________________________________
>  Your comments are welcome..
> _____________________________________________________________


This is a favourite of mine too.  Timothy Dalton is sooooooo good and 
it's the best script, plot and characterization of any Bond film - 
perhaps of any spy movie.

Namaste,
Elizabeth

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From: wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William Shakespeare)
Subject: Re: What is Molly Ringwald doing
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:21:53 GMT
Keywords: molly ringwald

Oops, right, it was Ryder in _Night on Earth_.

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From: deck@inland.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Has anyone seen this film?
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:58:54 CST
Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN

	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.
		Jim Deck
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From: peer@ccrma.stanford.edu (Peer Landa)
Subject: Re: _Toys_, the trailer
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 00:51:47 GMT

Peter Reiher) writes:
[..] advertisements for the film, with no footage from "Toys".  Anyone who has

Frank Wang writes:
What?  clips _not_ from the movie?  You mean I can watch the preview with no  
danger of lessening the fun when I see it for real? 
(example of the opposite:  BATMAN.  I'm still pissed)


Also, Heroes. I'm pissed off on almost ALL previews.

-- peer
From: rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Which Peter Coyote movie is this?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 03:15:48 GMT
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In article <1992Dec17.172119@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
> I saw a Peter Coyote movie several years ago and can't remember 
> which one it is.  He's somehow connect to the art world and has
> a fight with his wife in an art gallery.  I think he's having 
> troubles adjusting to married life.  There's a menage-a-trois
> scene with him, his buddy, and Carol Wayne. (Sorry, I don't
> have the DEAD list to cross-reference with.)


	Heartbreakers.  An almost unknown but excellent film.  Coyote plays
	a painter with major league ego and inability to sell his painting.
	I don't believe that its a case of him not adjusting to the married	
	life as it is his girlfriend left him for another man...

	
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From: jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander 3? Ye Gods, NO!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 00:02:07 -0600
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
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In article <Bz399o.Jr2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> you write:
>In article <1992Dec10.180334.23895@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>>In article <Bz1AtB.61@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell) writes:

[...]

>"Filmed" in Argentina doesn't mean it wasn't "made" by Hollywood.
>
>Hollywood deserves all the blame we can heap on them. I'd rather see
>a lot of low budget movies that may or may not be good as apposed to
>seeing one mega-budget piece of garbage.

I disagree that this film was "made" by Hollywood.

What Highlander II was is cousin to the standard big-budget
films, but conceived, funded, produced, and finally created by
Europeans.  (Although Russell Mulcahy is Australian, I believe.)
I agree that it's Hollywood's fault that these KIND OF MOVIES get
made, but this one is a result of greed by everyone involved to
cash in on the Highlander phenomenon.

The scary thing, from what I've read in Variety, is the film has
actually made everyone involved alot of money.  Despite the fact
the film is considered a "bomb" in North America, the low
negative cost (advertising, costs of prints, etc.) actually made the
distributor (I forget which company) lots of money.

I will say one thing for the film, I saw the European (well,
Japanese, but i think they were the same) version on laserdisc,
and after seeing it again on cable, the American edit of the film
is much tighter, and the end result is a bit better.  (there was
nowhere to go but up though.)

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From: csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best?  Favorite? (was: Top Five Movies of All Time)
Date: 10 Dec 92 13:38:30 GMT
Reply-To: csroc@dime.UUCP (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

The best 5 movies of alltime:
The Deerhunter
Raging Bull
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Shogun
The African Queen
Sargeant York

My favorite five of all time:
The Road Warrior
The Maltese Falcon
Pride Of The Yankees
Rich man Poor Man
The Sting
Tootsie

The 5bestmade of all time:
Roots
One Flew Over teh Cookoos nest
The shining
High Noon 
Rainman
The Exorcist
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Favourite movies
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:34:41 EST


I *knew* I'd forget an important movie on my "favourites" list and I did. 
Probably my favourite movie of all time.  

Delete anything you like from the previous list I sent and add:

WITNESS with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGills

How could I miss it?

Namaste,
Elizabeth
From: marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Top Five Movies of All Time
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:39:02 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Ok, In no particular order here are my top five films ever:

Star Wars
Brazil
The Princess Bride
Rear Window
Edward Scissorhands

	Mark

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From: rrb2x@Virginia.EDU (Richard Ramiaz Banks)
Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:31:13 GMT

	Concerning your Die Hard II complaints: you can eject
from any aircraft--except a helicopter--while it is still on
the ground; they did try to reroute the airplanes during the
movie.  The ones with the most fuel were sent elsewhere,
whereas those with little fuel flew in a circular pattern.


	Rikilla the Hun
From: crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Spielberg
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:35:41 GMT
Organization: The Armory, Santa Cruz

In article <Bz9Mtv.9pr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>vaughanj@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jake Vaughan) writes:
>
>>	Personally, Spielberg is one of my favorite directors (if you could not
>>tell).  Yes, he's had his box office busts, maybe a bit too many, but I think
>>that Jurrasic Park will change a lot of opinions about him.
>
>I certainly hope so.  However, it depends on which Spielberg is directing:
>the Good Spielberg, who directed "Close Encounters" and "Jaws," or the
>Evil Spielberg, who gave us "*batteries not included."
>
>
>                               --Steve Stelter
>                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

	If my memory serves me correctly, the Evil Spielberg didn't actually
direct *batteries not included. He merely produced, or co-produced, it.
I think it might have been Frank Marshall who actually directed.

	I think Spielberg's going to make a JURASSIC PARK that will be
entertaining and pretty to look at, but (sadly) I don't think he's going to
inject with even a fraction of the suspense or energy he put into JAWS. It's
probably goig to end up a big-big-film about kids and dinosaurs, in that
order. :)

	--The Elder Dan
	"Okay, bomb. Arm yourself."
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From: young@elec.uq.oz.au (Steven Young)
Subject: Stories on the possibilities of genetic eng.(was Re: Jurassic Park)
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:35:46 GMT

dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung) writes:
>huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>sch@oasis.icl.co.uk (Simon Hamner) writes:
[. stuff on extracting DNA from blood found in fossils and the trailer to
Jurassic Park (movie).]

>True.  Although the scientist most famous for this technique says that
>the book/movie take some great liberties with the practical end of 
>turning this DNA into a zygote.

>Interestingly, his work is featured prominently in the book (though
>fictionalized) and the actual laboratory where the experiments with bees
>took place was filmed for the _JP_ movie.

Anyone know of any other books on some of the implications and possibilities
of genetic engineering.

I recently read the book `Honk if you are Jesus' by Peter Goldsworthy
and it seems to have similar plot ideas to `Jurassic Park' (except
I haven't read JP).  `Honk if you are Jesus' just blew me away.  As
I read it I kept saying to myself, "Surely, that's not what's going
to happen."  You can probably guess what the book is about but I won't
spoil it.  Peter Goldsworthy is an Australian author, lives in Adelaide,
South Australia, is a medical doctor who is writing full time now.
The book was published in Australia this year (1992).
Don't know about overseas publication.  It certainly didn't get the
fanfare release that `Jurassic Park' got.

STeven.
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From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
Subject: Re: most underated actress/actor
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:23:34 GMT


I would vote for John Tuturro.
I rented Do the Right Thing and Barton Fink
back-to-back (not intentionally) and I was very impressed
by his perfomances in both movies.
I think he was also in Miller's Crossing.
Can anyone think of any other notable roles he's had?

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:51:33 -0500 
From: Saul Markowitz <sm6t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Movie Question

Hi!  Has anyone heard anything about the new movie entitled "Lorenzo's
Oil" with Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte? I'm very excited about this
movie because there is a senior drama student from Carnegie Mellon
University named Maduka Steady who has a lead role in the movie.

I've seen commercials and posters, but have no idea when it will be
released. Also, has anyone seen a sneak preview?

Thanks in advance.

Saul Markowitz
Pittsburgh, PA
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From: gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie)
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:33:21 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: usa

>In article <1992Dec8.225347.9055@cs.wayne.edu>, faa@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Felicitas A. Atabong) writes:
>Has anyone out there seen a movie or movies that they thought were
>really good, but they just couldn't see  more than once, either
>because it was too scary or too sad?? "Born on the Fourth of July," did
>it for me. During the movie I thought my friend and I were the only ones
>crying throughout, but when we left the theater, I noticed that we had
>all been at a funeral. I thought the movie was well done, but I couldn't
>see it again even if I was paid to. I know it won't have the very same
>effect on me the second time around, but it will be close.
>
>Feli.

My wife puts 3 movies in that category:

Au Revoir Les Enfants
The Color Purple
Aliens


Liked all 3, but the first two were too sad and the third was too 
intense.


-Greg


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From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Amy Irving - actress or singer?
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:03:31 GMT
Organization: Chevron

In article <1992Dec10.191641.4072@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec10.070209.16573@news.Hawaii.Edu> teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima) writes:
|>>Jessica Rabbit was voiced by KATHLEEN TURNER from War of the Roses
|>>(with Michael Douglas), NOT Amy Irving.
|> 
|> But Amy Irving *did* do the singing, not Kathleen Turner.  I don't
|> know of any recordings she has out.  The only other movie I can think of
|> off hand is _Crossing Delancy_.

 FYI, from the r.a.m. actress list:

 Irving, Amy            American Tale: Fievel Goes West, An (voice)
                        Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV)
                        Carrie (1976)
                        Competition, The
                        Crossing Delancey
                        Fury, The (1978)
                        Heartbreak House
                        Honeysuckle Rose
                        I'm a Fool
                        James Dean (TV)
                        James Michener's Dynasty (TV)
                        Micki + Maude
                        Panache (TV)
                        Rumpelstiltskin (1987)
                        Show of Force, A
                        Voices (1979)
                        Who Framed Roger Rabbit (voice)
                        Yentl (S:AAN)
                        "Far Pavillions, The" (mini)
                        "Once an Eagle" (mini)
   
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From: sterbenc@ivhs.mot.com (Joe Sterbenc)
Subject: Re: What is Molly Ringwald doing
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:04:33 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies

In article <Bz9KEt.8L8@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, anderson@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Chris Anderson) wrote:
> Is Molly Ringwald currently working on any film or television projects?
> Is she still alive?
> 
> Please be constructive.

Project? Dunno.
Alive? Yes.
She is apparently in the company of Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz at present.

Good taste, I say.
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From: kaminl@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: Age of Innocence
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:57:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.203455.16198@scott.skidmore.edu> dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter) writes:
>
>
>Does anyone know when the "Age of Innnocence" is due to be released?

I've read that its release was being delayed until Xmas '93 to maximize its
chances of winning oscars. I guess they are concerned about competition
from HOWARDS END, A FEW GOOD MEN etc...

Don't know if any of this is true, though. Maybe it sucks, and they're
still trying to work it into shape. I doubt that's the case, tho.
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From: barrus@cod.nosc.mil
Subject: Re: Freeze-Frame Scenes
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:05:47 GMT


In article <19512.2b2c972a@levels.unisa.edu.au>  writes:
>In article <sf9eOUa00YUoFTaGEg@andrew.cmu.edu>, Michael Matessa <mm4b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> I'm looking for favorite freeze-frame scenes - for example,
>> in Return of the Jedi when Darth throws the Emperor into
>> the energy shaft, you can see mechanical parts of his
>> skeleton when he is electrified.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any others?
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Matessa
>> mm4b@andrew.cmu.edu  
>
>In Terminator.
>
>When Arnie has just completed repair work on his eye in his hotel room.
>He puts on a pair of sunglasses and for 1 frame of the shot we get to see
>what sunglasses the Terminator wears ... Gargoyles ...
>
>Next...
>
>-- 
>| yajcc@lv.levels.unisa.edu.au		 What do you mean, 'No not really!'


Some of you more adventuresome and, of course, technically able, may wish to
capture some of these pictures and post them to a binary.pictures group and 
let us know here that you have done it.  I know that I sure would like to
have some of these.
From: treinen@dfki.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Hal Roach
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:45:00 +0100
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Distribution: world
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In article <1992Dec18.133635.20603@spdc.ti.com>, mack@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Caren Mack) writes:
|>      Well I was all fired-up to write him, but a friend of mine told me he 
|> died several months ago, but I didn't hear anything about that.
|> 
|>      1. Is Hal Roach still alive?

Unfortunately, your friend is right. HR died in a biblical age of, I think, 100
years. In February 1992, he still did attend the Berlin Film Festival for a
celebration of his work.

Ralf.

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From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Help find THIEVES HIGHWAY
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:06:43 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

I'm trying to find the movie THIEVES HIGHWAY on either film or video
(preferably the latter). If you have any information, please e-mail me.

--Peter M.

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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Good 1st time, not second
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:47:46 GMT

rrb2x@Virginia.EDU (Richard Ramiaz Banks) writes:

>	Did anyone think that "Robinhood: prince of thieves"
>sucked or was it just me?  How can you take a movie seriously
>if killing people is a joke?  Anyways, Kevin Costners English
>accent was great!  It was so thick that I could see right
>through it.

>	Rikilla the Hun is ruler of northern China.

It was not just you, mon ami.  Fans of Robin of Sherwood found it 
particularly dreadful, as the film stole LOADS from RoS (The
most obvious being Nasir..no wait Nazeem... I mean Azeem the
Saracen) and then did it all BADLY.

However, on a better note, I think I have finally heard a
fake English accent even worse than Kev's.

Keanu in Bram Stoker's Drakula.  He even made Winona Ryder sound good.....

LJC
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