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From: mgq@inel.gov (Michael G McKellar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:49:57 GMT
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho

In article <1hq0obINN3r1@network.ucsd.edu> ivy@chem.ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg) writes:
>In article <1h4obgINN2vp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
>>
>>rlwilliams writes:
>>
>>>Here here! someone willing to come out and say that if
>>>you've seen one Streep movie, you've seen them all.
>>>There's more to acting than accents and I think she puts the
>>>same emotion in every script. I think great actors are
>>>completely different in each movie. You find yourself
>>>wondering if it was indeed the same person. I always
>>>know I'm watching Streep and I feel like I'm watching
>>>someone act.
>>
>>Well, I agree that acting is much more than mastering a
>>foreign dialect, but nevertheless I certainly feel
>>that Meryl Streep is completely different in nearly
>>every role she takes on. It certainly amazes me that
>>the actress who potrayed Karen Silkwood is the same
>>one who was in _A Cry in the Dark_, and that the woman
>>I saw in _Postcards from the Edge_ was the same
>>as in Albert Brooks' _Defending Your Life_.
>>
>>Just MHO, of course.
>>
>>Mark B. Bendiksen
>
>I think Meryl's comedies have definitely been lacking,
>but I thought she was excellent in Silkwood and The
>French Lieutenant's Woman.  These were both very good
>films.  By the way, who was her lover in FLW?  I didn't
>pay attention at the time but now that I remember back
>it seems like it was Jeremy Irons.
>
>ivy
>
>

You are right it was Jeremy Irons.  I enjoy his films.

Mike McKellar (mgq@inel.gov)
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From: jlenarci@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Lenarcic)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Looking for "Space Camp" CD...
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:15:40 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.



Can anyone recommend any reliable mail-order companies from where
I can purchase the Japanese CD pressing of the "Space Camp"
soundtrack? (I've tried STAR in Philly and they didn't have it.)
Many thanks.


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		John Lenarcic

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From: mirsip@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Ivan Popstefanija)
Subject: W. Huston in 'Coming to America'?  
Organization: University of Massachusets, Amherst
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:27:39 GMT

Hi, everybody,

 Yesterday I was watching 'Coming to America' for 5-6 time and I notice
Whitney Huston in the move, for a split second. Dose anyone now if she
indeed had a cameo appearance in this move... This is a scene at the
party at the McDawell's (?sp) house ...

 Ivan P.
  

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From: mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes)
Subject: Re: Emma Thompson film
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:47:53 GMT

In article <12060079@hpmwgde.sr.hp.com> pamm@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Pam Milligan) wr
ites:
>
>
>
>
>
>wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood) writes:
>
>rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su) writes:
>
>
>>   Now that LA and NY film critic circles and National Film board
>>   has come up with their selection of the best.  Emma Thompson was
>>   one item of agreement for all three as best actress.  One ponders
>>   the meaning...
>
>>>         She was unbelievably excellent in the film.
>                                             ^^^ ^^^^
>
>      What Emma Thompson film?
>                     HOWARDS END !!!!!!!


>      Thanks,
>      Pam Milligan  
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From: $garyf@SASB.BYU.EDU (Gary B. Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: Citizen Kane question
Organization: Brigham Young University


>But there are many other brilliant scenes and reasons for viewing this film. 
>The key to the mystery and even the revelation of ROSEBUD as the sled is 
>secondary to the content of the film overall.

I have heard from a couple of people that the sled was added in only after 
several people complained that Rosebud was never explained.  So, it was in 
fact secondary to satisfy people's curiousity.  

Gary
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From: eandersn@mach1.wlu.ca (Niels Ejvind Andersen)
Subject: Re: WARNING: a few good men : BAD PRINT
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Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:59:39 GMT

Danny Vanderryn (dvanderr@oracle.com) wrote:
: just a warning:  i went to see AFGM last night.  all reviews aside, we
: were incredibly annoyed by the fact that the sound and picture were
: out of synch.  we obviously weren't the only ones who noticed, since
: there was laughter at some of the more obvious points.
: 
: afterwards, i went and complained to the manager.  he apologized, and
: told me that they have been having a lot of problems with this movie.
: he has heard of similar problems at other theaters.  apparently, they
: have had engineers check their projection facilities to the point of
: counting frames, but nothing has worked.  i think he said that they
: have contacted the studio.  but he did say that he thought it unlikely
: that the studio (castle rock/columbia, i think) would recall all their
: prints and reprint at this point.

Danny, I hope the manager offered you free tickets to see the movie again
when the sync problems have been corrected.

This will not come as any great surprise, but not all prints have the
sync problem.  I went to see AFGM last night as well, in Guelph, ON,
(that's in Canada) and I did not notice any problems.  Now, I wasn't aware
of the sync problem beforehand, but I am quite certain that I would notice
even minor sync problems.  Something else I hate is when the projectionist
can't quite get the picture in focus!

Now, about the movie itself:  This is an excellent movie, and I highly
recommend it.  Once the sync problems have been corrected, go see it!
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From: danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:04:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Pe
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, CCSY Messaging Centre, UK.
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/ hpopd:rec.arts.movies / danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink) / 12:01 pm  Dec 21, 1992 /



Has Kenneth Branagh's 'Peter's Friends' been released in the
States yet? If so, was it well received? I'm just curious as
I saw it here in dear old Blighty last night, (and liked it)
and found myself wondering how those who would probably only
know 'our' Ken from 'Dead Again' (if not, please excuse my
presumption) re-acted to it.



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REALITY USED TO BE A FRIEND OF FISH : HEDGEHOG IRRELEVENT
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From: simpson@bnr.ca (Scott Simpson)
Subject: Re: The Player (was Re: Academy Awards)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:05:31 GMT

In article <1i5dvtINN5vk@shelley.u.washington.edu> twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
>In article <1993Jan2.200530.13182@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk 
>(Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>>
>>Having seen 103 movies (video not counted) in 1992 I think that I qualify
>>as a "movie buff" (or on my way to be one), and I really can't see what
>>is so great about The Player. It was funny, entertaining, a bit predictable
>>but overall well made. Good professional work, but great? No.
>>
>A hilarious delight in and appreciation of THE PLAYER depends to 
>a large extent on one's sense of movies as a separate art form, 
>with its own history, and a profoundly satirical and even cynical 
>understanding of exactly how deeply Americans have been affected in 
>many aspects of both their public and their private lives. 
>
>A *bit predictable*??  If there was anything predictable in THE PLAYER 
>it came from its way of playing games with our knowledge of older and 
>classic movies. 

Having seen as many movies as Jesper, I must agree with Barbara-- almost the 
whole point (and entertainment value) of "The Player" was how much it took digs
at traditional Hollywood formula movies and their stars.  From seeing stars of 
"old Hollywood" quarrantined to a corner of the room at a swanky party to the
innumerable cameos of high-falutin' stars, "The Player" presents to us just how
*some* of the system works.  Heck, one of my favourite snippets of the movie 
(and there are numerous snippets) is in the final scene, when Tim Robbins is 
kissing Greta Scacchi, holding his hand on her (obviously) pregnant tummy in 
the usual "They Live Happily Ever-After" (TM) moment, as a taunting "na na na 
na naaaaa na" chorus sounds over the scene.  Altman is almost insulting us for 
accepting such a happy ending.  I loved it.

Anyway, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and Jesper just didn't find
"The Player" one of his hundred best.  No problem.  Just as long as he rates
it higher than "Shining Through"...  ;-)

Anyway, just thought I'd add my thoughts on the subject (like anyone cares)...


Later,
Scott
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From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:51:53 GMT

aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:

>>: Video Station. The people who work there love film and are very, very
>>: knowledgable about it.
>
>So, they don't stock P&S VHS?

	I doubt that the employees of Video Station have final say over
what their store stocks for rental.

	Not to mention that they would have to ignore rougly 95% of the
(non-academy ratio) films that have been released to VHS.

				Just a couple of quick thoughts,

				-Cal
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From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:45:46 GMT
Organization: HMS

In article <mattm-301292191224@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
>
>Malcom X, on the other hand grossed forty million.  Halve that for
>return to the studio.  Subtract another ten for promotional 
>expenses.  The movie's twenty million in the hole.  And while
>Dracula is a story that will sell overseas, do Europeans and
>Japanese really care to sit for 3 and a half hours on the life of
>a radical American black activist?  I doubt it.
 
Very good point. However,IF X does very well with the Academy nominations
and scores well at the Golden Globes the domestic box-office take 
will definetly get a major pre-Oscar boost. Of course,that's a big IF
since there's so much outstanding competetion this season with
Chaplin and Lorenzo's Oil still in the wings and Scent of a Woman still
in a limitted release.

Regards,

-Mark
From: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu  (Anne Jessop)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
Date: 3 Jan 1993 01:32:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Originator: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan2.170246.16610@cbnewse.cb.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
>
>Lastly, I expect Spike Lee will be claiming racism as the reason
>for poor box-office showing as part of his usual antics, but frankly,
>I don't think he's got nearly as much to worry about as he would have
>in those pre-video years.


Actually, he already has made some insinuations, if not outright
accusations, along these lines.  I'm not dure of the exact date, but in
the _SF Chronicle_ I think the week or so before Christmas, there was a
story about X's declining ticket sales, which said that what was actually
happening was that the ticket computers were screwing up, so you could go
plonk down your $7 (or $3.50) for X and get a ticket stub for some other
flick.  Since the ticket computers are used to compile the lists of who's
seeing what (and therefore top ten lists, gross sales, etc), X's place was
supposedly far lower than it should have been (and probably HA2 and Aladdin
and the Amazing Ducks were way higher than _they_ should have been.)
This happened in I think only the Northeast but maybe elsewhere.  And
Spike remarked in this article that he thought there were racial/racist
reasons for this, so that it would _look_ like X was doing poorly and
would thus get yanked off screens sooner.  
Sorry for the fuzziness of details, but that's an accurate gist of the
article.

annie


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From: ruthless@panix.com (Ruth Ditucci)
Subject: Lorenzo's Oil
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:07:29 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

This movie will do orphan diseases a lot of good.  Susan played a believable
grieving mother.  Why in hell Nolte didn't work with a speech coach and
correct that lousy accent - I don't know.  It was so distracting, I missed
much of his dialogue, which was overpowered by his awful italian accent.
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Critics Awards (so far)
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:51:17 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Dec21.165132.3037@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.164740.2851@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mgrimes@magnus.acs
> .ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:
>>Here is a list of Critics Awards (so far) for films of 1992:
>>
>>LA Film Critics:
>>
>>Best Picture: The Unforgiven
>>Best Director: CLint Eastwood  The Unforgiven
>>Best Actor:  Clint Eastwood    The Unforgiven
>>Best Actress:  Emma Thompson   Howards End
>>Best Supp Actor:  Gene Hackman  The Unforgiven
>>Best Supp Actress : Judy Davis   Husbands and Wives
>>
>>New York Film Critics Circle:
>>
>>Best Picture: The Player
>>Best Director:  Robert Altman   The Player
>>Best Actor:  Denzel Washington   Malcolm X
>>Best Actress: Emma Thompson   Howards End
>>Best Supp. Actor:  Gene Hackman   The Unforgiven
>>Best Supp. Actress: Miranda Richardson   The Crying Game, Damage, Enchanted
>>April  ( recogniton of her work in all 3 films)
>>
>>National Board of Review:
>>
>>Best Picture: Howards End
>>Best Director: James Ivory   Howards End
>>Best Actor: Jack Lemmon   Glengarry Glen Ross
>>Best Actress:  Emma Thompson   Howards End
>>Best Supp Actor:  Jack Nicholson   Howards End   !!I meant A FEw Good Men!
>>Best Supp Actress:  Judy Davis    Husbands and Wives

Doesn't the National Board of Review list their "top 10" of the year?  Could
some kind person please post it?

Richard.
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From: clueless@bradley.edu (Mark Kristie)
Subject: Re: The Culkinator!
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:36:46 GMT
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Ed McCreary (mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec18.231045.18521@rigel.econ.uga.edu> hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
: >In article <1992Dec18.162113.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
: >>
: >>Deja vu, eh Wayne?
: >>
: >   Roasted Culkin for Christmas anyone?  Mmmm.

: Weeeeeeelllllll doggy, them's good eatin'.

Geeeeevveee heeeemm  to alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork und weeeeel preeteend
heeee's a cheekee....  boom boom boom!!

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From: edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)
Subject: French movie title sought
Date: 02 Jan 93 08:15:10 GMT
Organization: Strategy Division, Microsoft Corp.

About 12 years ago I saw a French movie (subtitled to English)
about a woman whose boxer husband was killed by a mugger at a
subway. She became obsessed with this killer, who ended up
seeking refuge at her prostitute friend's home. They fall in
love, and she helps him escape the police.

There was alot of litter in the movie -- visually complex.

Any clues as to the title or any other information about this
movie would be appreciated!


--
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Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.
From: tom@cithara.login.qc.ca (Tom Parkinson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Millers Crossing
Date: 28 Dec 92 09:45:40 GMT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

PR>The Coen Brothers next film has started shooting.  It's "The Hudsucker
  >Proxy", a film about intrigue in the business world.  Paul Newman is
  >in it, in a role that Jack Nicholson apparently considered seriously.

Interesting....I think the Coen Bros. are among the few innovative
filmmakers in the U.S. today and always look forward to a new release.
Unfortunately, their films tend to do very little at the box office,
probably because their subtle humour falls on the deaf ears of the
"Hasta la vista" crowd.  Oh well..
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From: lape@cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Italian movie - Title please...
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:39:05 GMT
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	What is the name of the movie (Italian) that came about around the
same time as "The Cook, the Theif,..." in the US?  The only scene I
remember (I did not see the movie) is a woman in a bath tub while a toy
submarine goes between her legs.


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From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
Subject: Reservoir Dogs (spoilers)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:35:00 GMT


Some questions--

Why did Keitel's character protect the undercover cop so much, like at
the very end?? Did he just like him?

I read in Film Threat magazine that the title does not mean anything.
Does anyone know if the title might mean something?

The actor who played the undercover cop is Tim Roth, who was also in
The Hit and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. My question is, is he
English or American? IF English, his US accent is not noticeable.

What were the names of the driver (played by Quentin) and the older guy
who also got killed?

Where was this film filmed?
-- 
Robert Chao
Oakland, California
From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:37:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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rlwilliams writes:

>Here here! someone willing to come out and say that if
>you've seen one Streep movie, you've seen them all.
>There's more to acting than accents and I think she puts the
>same emotion in every script. I think great actors are
>completely different in each movie. You find yourself
>wondering if it was indeed the same person. I always
>know I'm watching Streep and I feel like I'm watching
>someone act.

Well, I agree that acting is much more than mastering a
foreign dialect, but nevertheless I certainly feel
that Meryl Streep is completely different in nearly
every role she takes on. It certainly amazes me that
the actress who potrayed Karen Silkwood is the same
one who was in _A Cry in the Dark_, and that the woman
I saw in _Postcards from the Edge_ was the same
as in Albert Brooks' _Defending Your Life_.

Just MHO, of course.

Mark B. Bendiksen
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From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Holiday Overload:  Forever Young, Muppets, Leap of Faith. Patriot Games
Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:06:35 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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Starting Saturday, I engaged in an orgy of new movie viewing with my family.

Forever Young:  A must for Mel or Jamie fans.  Nicely photographed, somewhat
illogical but very sweet movie about a man who is frozen for 50 years and  
attempts to rebuild his life when he finally awakes.  Some lovely scenes  
between Mel and Elijiah Wood.  There is a genuinely stupid
chase scene at the end of the film, but the movie is otherwise worthwhile.
I think this may be a little better than Late for Dinner because the characters  
in Late for Dinner didn't engage me in quite the same way.  However, Late for  
Dinner didn't have the required chase scene, which I thought was great.

A Muppets Christmas Carol:  A completely delightlful adaptation of the  
traditional Dickens tale.  Michael Caine makes a great Scrooge, and Kermit is a  
perfect Bob Cratchit.  Very funny, cute songs and it may be more fun for the  
adults in the audience than for the kids.

Leap of Faith:  This movie is about 90% sharp and completely falls into  
maudalin cliche at the end.  Liam Neesen's mysterious accent is unintentionally
funny throughout.  Steve Martin gives a fine performance and the movie provides  
interesting insights into how "faith healing" works.

Patriot Games:  This movie is about 95% sharp and falls apart a little during
the climax.  I wish I'd seen it on the big screen.  Harrison Ford & Anne Archer
give GREAT performances.  

For contrast, we also rented Scrooged on Saturday night, which I enjoyed
more the second time around.

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