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From: kmd@fico.uucp
Subject: Re: great voices
Reply-To: kmd@fico.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: The Fair, Isaac Companies, San Rafael, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 05:24:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.223658.29560@umbc3.umbc.edu> maher@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Michael Maher; ACS (GUEST)) writes:
>I have only followed this thread intermittently, but
>seem to notice a predominance of men's voices.  I certainly
>endorse Sir Ralph Richardson's name recently  entered, and
>would add Paul Scofield, whom I recently heard on stage in
>London.
>
>However, there is a certain well bred, almost musical voice
>one used to hear in movies, and I'm sure on stage in the 
>30's, which would be hard to imagine today.  Think of the
>voice of the good witch Gwendolyn?(That's GLENDA The Good Witch
Not Gwendilyn-Holy Louis B. Mayer!) Sorry to nit pick.........

>the wife of
 
iit
he chief psychiatrist in Harvey, which ran 
>recently on television.  Can anyone remember other such
>actresses.  Perfect diction and a gentle lilting tone.
>
>
>
>
From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: letterboxed VHS movies?
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:09:08 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Distribution: rec

In article <Btyqxp.F4n@well.sf.ca.us>, rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
writes:
|>
|>What movies are letterboxed on VHS? The only one I've seen around
|>is Manhattan.
|>-- 
|>Robert Chao
|>Oakland, California
      
   In the Uk...

    Alien
    Die Hard
    The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
    Star Wars
    The Empire Strikes Back
    Return of the Jedi
    Akira
    Wild at Heart
    several Godzilla films

   These are of course only those I know of for sure cause i've got/seen
them. There must be hundreds of others.

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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Ender's Game (was Re: Possible Foundation movie?)
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa  
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:38:48 GMT


Neither Macauley Culkin or that obnoxious (not that Mac ISN"T 
obnoxious!) kid from T2 would be chosen - Card has said that
if he doesn't agree with the choice of Ender, the movie won't 
be made (I guess he still owns the rights), and he has said
that an 8 year old MUST be used. 
-- 
gary cooper (not the dead one)   
         "We're losing oil pressure on the starboard engine"
    "On the plus side, all the pretty little lights on the instrument
                             panel are working"      - Wings
From: ecbjkokegei@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 7 Sep 92 10:14:22 GMT
Reply-To: bjkokege@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au

I thought the scene where the cops get out of the lift and see Hanibal Lector
has escaped in 'Silence of the Lambs' is the most beatiful shot of a crime
scene I have ever seen.

Brett
======================================================================
"Death IS a happy ending",Aki Kaurismaki
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email : bjkokege@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
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From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)

wwr@calmasd.prime.com writes...

>	Dark Crystal w/David Bowie & Jennifer Connely?  That Dark Crystal?  I
> think Dave & Jennifer will feel slightly insulted.

    No that's labyrinth. The Dark Crystal is the one about the Skekses
and the Mystics. no actors at all; only puppets.

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| Gary Bradley        |   "You receive a love letter from me and |
| ORACLE Corp, UK     |                  you're f*cked forever!" |
| Edinburgh, SCOTLAND |        - Frank Booth ("Blue Velvet")     |
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| "God damn the censor man"                                      |
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From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: great voices
Date: 12 Sep 92 23:05:55 GMT
Organization: Boston University

In article <BD.92Sep12110533@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>
>lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>>Sidney Poitier!
>
>My god, he's a handsome man!  (and I say that as a hetero male).

Moi aussi. And what's more, he seems ageless! I just saw him in "Sneakers"
and while Redford is showing some years, Poitier, except for being a
little stockier than 30 years ago, seems to have had Father Time pass him
by. I would guess he and Redford are about the same age, but he looks
about 30 years younger in the film.

                                 ---Al

-- 
Al B. Wesolowsky         abw@bucrsb.bu.edu      Chresmology
Boston University      arc9arn@buacca.bu.edu   (cheap rates)
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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Re: 007 Quiz-Answers...
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:36:46 GMT

hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
>dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee) writes:

>>3. Dr. No; From Russia With Love; Goldfinger; Thunderball; You Only Live
>>   Twice; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Diamonds Are Forever; Live and
>>   Let Die; The Man With the Golden Gun; The Spy Who Loved Me; Moonraker;
>>   For Your Eyes Only; Octopussy; A View To a Kill; The Living Daylights;
>>   Licence To Kill....  16 movies

>    Ever heard of "Never Say Never Again"? There are 17 Bond movies.

	Or 'Casino Royale', that makes 18.

	hook
From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Does anyone know the name of this Japanese movie?
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:32:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <18jqr6INN5so@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson) writes...
> 
>The movie was in Japanese with English subtitles, was fairly up-to-date
>and in color.  The storyline was about a young woman learning how to
>run a soup stand (which are evidently popular in Japan) from an old,
>wise man.  The situations were very modern, and some of the scenes
>were simply hilarious.  The only recent Japanese movie I've ever seen
>was Ran, so I was happy to see a more light-hearted Japanese film.

You are talking about one of my personal faves here.  This is Tampopo
(which means dandelion in Japenese), directed by the Woody Allen of
Japan, Uzo Itami.  I saw the movie in the theater here in LA 
when if was first released, and when it was over the entire audience
burst out of the theater in search of a bowl of ramen. Unfortunately,
at the time, there were no ramen places outside of Little Tokyo. 
Now there are lots around.

She (Tampopo) has several teachers, mainly a driver of a milk truck
and his pal (everything has something to do with orality in this movie,
that's the idea, and that's why the baby suckling a tit at the ending
titles).  But there are others, including a wise old gourmet tramp, 
the cook of a wealthy businessman, and others.  It is hilarious,
poignent, and off beat.  The irony, you see, is that in Japan ramen
stands and ramen itself are like fast, cheap food.  But this movie
elevates it to an art.  And the whole thing is accompanied by the
music of Liszt and Mahler.  It has been called the first noodle 
western (the milk truck driver has longhorns on his truck and sports
a stetson and boots).

It's a must see, and I also recommend _A Taxing Woman_, _A Taxing Woman
Returns_, and _The Funeral_ all by Itami.

Ron Nadel-sahn
From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander III.
Date: 11 Sep 92 06:44:19 GMT
Organization: Mostly Harmless...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Sep7.212442.18981@daimi.aau.dk> knude@daimi.aau.dk (Per Knudsgaard) writes:
[deleted stuff...]
> about HIGHLANDER III. I tumbled into the interview towards the end(ZAP), so if there 
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Somebody summed it up fairly well: "Highlander: There should have only been one."


-- 
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From: jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen)
Subject: What happened to rec.arts.cinema?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:36:46 GMT

Hiya,

  how come I can post an article to r.a.c but if I try to read the articles
of that group, nn simply says 'newsgroup is empty'.
I'd like to see r.a.c alive again.

Juha Pehkonen
jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: home alone (was re: m
Date: 14 Sep 92 09:17:14 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PN>There is a fairly explicit reference to Fritz Lang's "M", and a general
PN>similarity of plot to Sam Peckinpaw's "Straw Dogs", both of which are much
PN>respected movies.

     I missed the "M" reference (and I still can't seem to figure how you
     figured this out), but "Home Alone's" home-defense scenes seem more
     inspired by Warner Bros. cartoons than "Straw Dogs," complete with
     cartoonish violence and all.

     The cartoons did it better, IMHO.
---
  SLMR 2.1a  "Ho! Ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! THRUST!"
--
Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA
From: rcbi27@marshall.wvnet.edu (DBRUM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Cooley High (was whatever-happened-to
Date: 15 Sep 92 23:04:35 GMT
Organization: Marshall University

In article <5xwn#xk.royg@netcom.com>, royg@netcom.com (Roy H. Gordon) writes: 
> Cooley High (1975) - Described in Maltin as an "inner-city rip-off of
> 	American Graffiti (set in Chicago, 1964)".  I liked it.

By golly, I liked it too! I saw Cooley High while still in high school
and thought it very compelling. My video guide describes it in equally
derisive terms: "A series of comic strip incidents about inner city high
school life paraded under the doubtful label of 'authenticity.'..."

But doggone it, this is a good movie! It's got pith, it's got drama, it's
got humor...I guess it just isn't condescending and self-important
enough to impress the likes of Maltin and Scheuer.

--danny
-- 
	"Were his solid black square paintings really,
	as the artist claimed, simply neutral, abstract
	compositions devoid of external references and
	meanings?" ***********************************
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From: steiner@ninja.osf.org (Jennifer Steiner)
Subject: movie about Green Flash?
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: looking for film title
Originator: steiner@cherry.osf.org
Keywords: green flash
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:40:53 GMT

Hi, does anybody know what movie had the "green flash" effect
in it?  The green flash is the last bit of light you see as
the sun goes down over an unobstructed horizen (e.g., the ocean).
There is also some myth or superstition associated with seeing
it.  I remember hearing about a movie with a green flash in it
but have no idea what the title was.  Does anyone out there know?

Please send email, I don't read this newsgroup.

Thanks!

Jennifer Steiner
steiner@osf.org
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Dune, embarrassing?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 17:48:17 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: n

In article <1992Sep9.144813.27448@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon) writes:
>
>Can someone PLEASE tell me what those big whales floating around in space
>were?  Its been a while since I've read the book or seen the movie, but
>tha one aspect of the film kind of stuck with me.  Weree the whales in 
>Dune in any way related to that huge salami that came for all the whales
>in Star Trek IV?????
>
>What gives??

Ahem. If YOU had listened carefully to the entire movie (long version, 
that is), and had read all six of Herbert's Dune books, you would know 
that those "whales" as you call them are the space guild navigators whose
use of the spice has transformed them into non-human life forms. :-)

The basic idea in the books was that if you're travelling at or beyond 
light speed, normal ways of scanning space for debris, planets, stars, 
etc. aren't effective. Thus the space guild navigators use the spice 
to enhance their ability to see in to the future. This allows them to 
safely transport themselves and their ships across space and time. The 
movie sort of changed this around to present a more mystical appearance.
However, the idea is still the same - the "whales" actually live in a 
spice-enriched environment which is why they're transported in those
special tanks. This is also why the spice is so important - if there is 
no spice, there is no space travel, not to mention that the aristocracy
used the spice to elongate their lives.
-- 
John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.
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From: smith@panther.adelphi.edu (Jim Smith)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Adelphi University Swirbul Library
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:43:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.191648.16236@idacom.hp.com> kenl@idacom.hp.com (Ken Loo) writes:

>In article <1992Sep2.163259.27909@bradley.bradley.edu> gremlin@buhub.bradley.edu (Stephanie Udry) writes:
>>
>>i'd have to say the last star trek movie made me ill....but i couldn't walk out
>>because i wasn't the one who drove!  
>>

>Are you sure it was Star 6, or 5?  The Undiscovered Country IMO was one of
>the best movies of '91 and a perfect ending for the Star Trek films.  Not
>only did deal with a theme that MOST people can relate to, but it had some
>really good lines.

>"You're a great one for logic.  I'm a great one for venturing where angels
>fear to tread.  Reality is probably somewhere in the middle."
>                                -Captain Kirk

>- Ken Loo

Best/Worst quote from ST6:
"I'm a physician, not a bricklayer."  YEA!
"It took Nixon to go to China."  BOO!
From: cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Anyone seen Hellraiser III?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 19:48:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA/JSC

So....how was it? 
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From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director Cut
Reply-To: jreece@sousa.intel.com
Organization: Intel - Information Technologies
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:04:37 GMT


Well, I saw it this weekend.  My reactions:

   1>	It's absent the Chandler-esque narration.  I liked
        it better this way as it makes total immersion in this future
        world easier.  However, if I hadn't had prior knowledge from 
        seeing the narrated version I wouldn't have had a clue as to what 
        was going on, or more importantly, *why*.  

   2>   The ending of the  director's cut has the same tone, just not as 
        blatantly so as the original release.

   3>   There are a number of little, extra shots in many scenes.  Blink at
        the wrong time and you will miss them.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Reece			"Oop. Ack. Pfffthpt"	
Not an Intel spokesman 			- Bill the Cat 
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From: maxc1104@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Generic Account 1104)
Subject: Re: <None>
Followup-To: Barton Fink Defence 
Summary: I liked Fink too! 
Organization: SDSU Computing Services
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:06:34 GMT

  Hey, I liked _Barton Fink_ too. A lot, in fact. If there's one thing I 
can't stand, it's this continuous bass-ackwards snobbery toward art films
and foreign films that all those wankers weaned on American TV can't handle.
It's that sort of attitude that keeps the audience for alternative cinema 
low and forces us cinema junkies to watch helplessly as commercial BS like
_Housesitter_ and _Hook_ crawl up and down the Top 10 weekend-grosses charts
like slime creatures from another universe.
  It's hard to tell, really, just what sort of film _Fink_ is... however,
whatever it is, it's extremely creative and well-made. (Love that visual
link of the wallpaper paste and the pus from John Goodman's ear! The hotel's
falling apart, and so is he!)
  I will further rave about the fact that the production design is impeccable
for something that must have been done on a low budget. Also, John Turturro's
performance as the title character is nothing less than brilliant. (Check
his performance as the obnoxious Pino in Spike Lee's _Do the Right Thing_
for comparison; they're just not the same person. No way.) He, with the Coens'
hot and eager help, leads us on a odyssey of surrealism and 
moral/artistic bankruptcy. A small winner from two of the most talented 
filmmakers working today.

                                      Flying over your house,

                                      The Stainless Steel Moviegoer

                                      I'll show you the life of the mind!!!
  
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From: keivjam@elof.iit.edu (James Keivom)
Subject: ARE ANY MOVIES BEING SHOT IN CHICAGO?
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:02:09 GMT

jim
From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What are those Negroes doing with guns?
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:59:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep8.174900.27506@tandem.com> Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.043958.19709@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
>> 
>> In article <BD.92Sep6142331@fluent.UUCP>, bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>> >
>> >>In article <1992Sep5.183839.28257@cbnewse.cb.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
>> >
>> >>In the second place, the poster did not say socialists and democrats
>> >>are the same.
>> >
>> >I disagree again.  The post said "socialist/democrats" not
>> >socialists and/or democrats, and it's my belief that he meant to 
>> >equate the two, not list two separate entities.
>At this point the discussion has wandered far enough afield from the subject
>line that I can safely jump in, w/o risking emotionalism on my part. . .on the
>slash as an abbreviation for "or," this is probably not the poster's intent,
>as he doesn't say "socialists/democrats", he says "socialist/democrats." Quite
>a difference.

In the first place, note that saying "the poster said" is quite different
from saying "I think the poster meant".  One is a statement of fact and
the other is an assumption, which seems to be quite in vogue these days.

Secondly, whatever assumptions one cares to make to support one's
preconceived notions, positions or crusades, it is certainly more
correct to let the originator of said statement simply tell you
what they meant.  At that point, you can be either right or wrong
instead of merely a "good guesser".

Thirdly, unless this gets back to movies, this thread should probably
be sent to another group, enjoyable as it might be.

GMS
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:26888 alt.cult-movies:7509
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:57:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: jade.1992Sep4.205708.6164
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Sep3.151357.7515@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.132042.25726@fwi.uva.nl> dam@fwi.uva.nl (Joris van Dam) writes:
>
>> I also
>>wonder how the other Troma films are
>>
>>Sorority Bimbos at the Slime Bowl-a-Rama, Class of Nuke'm high.
>           ^^^^ 
>
>Sorority Babes in the Slime Bowl-a-Rama of Death was hilarious.  I saw
>it one night/early morning on USA Up All Night (or whatever they call
>it).  Very tongue in cheeck ("Monster in the Back Seat!  Gets 'em all
>the time!")
>
>Class of Nuke'm High took itself, IMHO, a tad too seriously.  Much
>less fun.

	The Toxic Avenger, however, was a winner all the way.

--
gharris@jade.tufts.edu          "She had ever chance for happiness, ever 
George W. Harris                chance in the world, and stomped ever one 
Dept. of Mathematics            of them chances down in the dirt like a 
Tufts University                bug."   _The Devil's Dream_
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From: frank@snooks.isri.unlv.edu (Frank Jenkins)
Subject: Re: Dune, embarrassing? - whales
Keywords: n
Reply-To: frank@snooks.isri.unlv.edu (Frank Jenkins)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:59:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.144813.27448@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon) writes:
) From: ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon)
) Subject: Re: Dune, embarrassing?
) Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 07:48:13 PDT
) 
) 
) Can someone PLEASE tell me what those big whales floating around in space
) were?  Its been a while since I've read the book or seen the movie, but
) tha one aspect of the film kind of stuck with me.  Weree the whales in 
) Dune in any way related to that huge salami that came for all the whales
) in Star Trek IV?????
) 
) What gives??
) 
) --Karen
) 

I have been wondering also. I think it had something to do with those huge, gross
creatures that appeared in a tank in one scene and intimidated the Jose Ferrer character, but I would appreciate someone clearing it up.

Frank
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