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From: jmccorm@maths.tcd.ie (james mc cormack)
Subject: New Kevin Costner film
Summary: Kevin Costner as Michael Collins?
Keywords: Michael Collins
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:49:34 GMT

Last summer KC was in Ireland to do research on a film about Michael Collins.
One of the leaders in the Irish war of Independence. Has any-one heard about
this in America???
  Personally I think it would be a terrible film although probably a success
I dread to think of Costners Irish accent and the film would have to be an
action-adventure to be successful. 
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From: brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u)
Subject: Re: Things that make you go duh
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:58:48 GMT

In article <C1FEnE.2nC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mlperkin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mildred l perkins) writes:
>Don't you hate it when you watch a movie and a really good BAD joke
>flies past you?  For instance, in Silence of the Lambs when Lector uses
>the Tacitus quote, "In all things, simplicity" (or something like that),
>I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't get the pun until my second viewing.
>Or more recently in Toys the joke about how Patrick's mother really died
>as opposed to his father's version.

You thought that "simplicity" pun was terrible. What about Lecter
sketching "the Duomo, seen from the Belvedere"? 
-- 
Ken Breadner	(brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca)	Wilfrid Laurier University
lunatic		(the BREADbox...) 	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
Disclaimer: my opinions are warped. Nobody shares them.
From: FA.TJM@forsythe.stanford.edu (Thom McKean)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Diane Keaton's _Heaven_
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:25:55 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
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I would like to recommend highly a wonderful film by Diane Keaton
called "Heaven."

I don't think I have the literary skills to adequately review this
film; suffice it to say that anyone interested in film as a medium
and how filmic techniques can manipulate the viewer should, I think,
find this film fascinating.

The film is a documentary using archival footage spliced with
contemporary interviews of individuals, based on the idea of heaven
and its surrounding concepts.  Questions asked include:  "Are you
afraid to die?  Is there sex in heaven?"  (No one famous is
interviewed, excluding Don King).  Keaton and her crew have created
quite a stylized atmosphere which suits the subject perfectly.

The film was released in theaters in 1985 or so, and can be found in
the "Biography" section  of Blockbuster (go figure).  I recommend
finding it elsewhere, because Blockbuster is run by corporate
assholes who care for nothing but profits.  But then again, so
is Hollywood...)

Can anyone recommend any other films even remotely close to the feel
of "Heaven?"  I'd like to know...

Thom
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From: cew2w@Virginia.EDU ("Chris Wrike")
Subject: Re: What's a AA rating?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:17:57 GMT

hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com  writes:
> In article <1jnba3INNglm@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
> |> What is a rating of AA for movies?  What does AA stand for?


	The MPAA does not copyright any rating of AA.  AA
probably stands for something like "All Ages" or "All Audances(?)".
You may have seen a movie marked "AA" in a home video guide or
in some sort of TV listing.
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Well know film, well know actor (to be)
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:15:38 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <8574@lib.tmc.edu> garretso@girch301.med.uth.tmc.edu (Leon Garretson) writes:
>
>	Well it's not a film but I caught an episode of "Leave It To Beaver"
>	where the kid in the front row at school looked VERY familiar. Credits
>	at the ended listed Timmy Matheson. Hasn't changed a bit.
>
>	Leon

How about a very young Kurt Russell as Lt. Gerards son in 'The Fugitive'?

Bob
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From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
Subject: Cal's Capsule Reviews
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:02:04 GMT


This post is a set of capsule ratings for some of the most recent
films that I have seen. Opinions are strictly my own, of course.

Don't be suprised if you see the ratings move slightly up or down
from post to post. My opinions are not set in stone.

New movie for this post: Alive.

This is what the silly little asterisks mean:

*****	Wow!
****	Don't Miss!
***	See it if you can.
**	Worth a matinee price.
*	Wait for the rental.
<none>	Yuck!

Alive				Drama			***
A rugby team struggles to survie a plane crash in the Andes.

Alladin				Animated Musical	****1/2
Disney's latest classic. Find a kid (if you need an excuse) and go!

Becoming Collette		Drama			1/2
Senseless tale about a young girl's transformation into a woman.

The Crying Game			Drama			****1/2
IRA terrorists capture a British soldier and plot perversity ensues.

A Few Good Men			Drama			***1/2
Brash Navy lawyer is tested in his courtroom defense of two Marines.

Glengarry Glen Ross		Drama			***1/2
Powerhouse performances in a tale of moral squalor among salesmen.

The Last of the Mohicans	Action Drama		****
Sweeping epic of two lovers caught up in the French and Indian War.

The Lover			Drama			****1/2
Gorgeous tale of two lovers' tawdry fling in Vietnam, circa 1930's.

Malcom X			Drama			****
Spike Lee's moving autobiography of the seminal civil rights leader.

Unforgiven			Western			*****
The gritty, touching tale of a washed-up gunslinger's last ride.
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From: spencer@der.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Society for Promotion of Entropy in the Universe (SPEU)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:29 GMT

In article <BD.93Jan20133213@bd.UUCP>, bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>fontana@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
>
>>(The booth door is always RIGHT NEXT to two big swinging doors that are
>>unmistakably the entrance to the auditorium!)
>>
>>Then later on, I'll be out in the hall doing usher stuff, and some
>>patrons will walk up to the booth door and start tugging on it,
>>completely missing the swinging doors right beside it.
>
>How can you say with a straight face that the entrance dorrs
>are unmistakable when it's clear that patron after patron
>are mistaking them?

I hate to break this to you, but there *ARE* an incredible number of
stupid people in the world.  I have had people stand in front of a
marquee (with large easy-to-read numbers) and ask me what time the next
showing was.

Besides those people, there are also the people who think that
"Everything applies to everyone else except me/us."  We put up crowd
control ropes to block off access to the auditorium AND close the doors
while we're cleaning our theaters.  Once, while we were cleaning, with
about 10-20 people waiting outside, someone walked in.  We politely
explained that we weren't finished cleaning yet and if they would wait
behind the ropes we'd be happy to let them in when we were done.  They
said "Oh, sorry" and went back out.  5 seconds later, repeat, with
different couple.  And again.  At least 5 different groups of people,
all of whom were already waiting when we started, walked in while we
were still cleaning.  You'd think they would notice when the first few
people went in, then came back out.  You'd think that those people would
tell them that we were still cleaning.

Another manifestation of this is people who deliberately walk around (or
worse, step right over) the crowd control ropes.

None of this really bothers me or the staff, because all we have to do
is explain one more time that we aren't ready yet.  It ought to piss off
other patrons, because for some reason this particular patron or group
of patrons thinks that he/she/they are for some reason exempt from
whatever is holding back everyone else.

-----
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It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.  [Lloyd Kaufman, producer
of _Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator_.]

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From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons)
Subject: Lara Flynn Boyle
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:54:18 GMT
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Just saw May Wine on HBO and she was in it... Does anybody know if she's 
been in anything else (tv or movie) ??  The 1993 Video Movie Guide says 
she's been in The Dark B______, Wayne's World (who'd she play?), and May
Wine...  Anybody know of anything else?

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From: amc01@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Guido Menschingg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TARKOVSKI; TRAGICALLY IGNORED
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:44:35 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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In article <1993Jan20.155822.10438@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>, jwimp@mcs.drexel.edu (Jet Wimp) writes:
|> 
|>      The film Solaris is being discussed in a thread on this group.  A
|> perceptive letter by Jan Bielawski describes Tarkovski's approach to
|> filming the material from Lem's book, and makes other observations about
|> Tarkovski's view of cinema.
|>      Tarkovski continues to be tragically ignored.  His film The
|> Sacrifice appeared in Philadelphia.  From the comments that Siskell and
|> Ebert made about the film--- favorable, of course--- including the nature
|> of its strange, deeply troubling subject matter, I knew I had better see
|> the film and see it quickly.  I got to the theater the second night, and
|> was one of six persons in the audience.  Three days later the film had
|> left.
|>      This film is one of the great accomplishments of world cinema ; it
|> makes my list of the top ten, in fact.  And it is eminently a theater
|> film, as opposed to a film that can be appreciated by watching it on
|> video tape.  It's a shame that no one saw it.
|>      Another private pet peeve of mine: I think viodetape is one of  our
|> civilization's great current swindles.  It allows people to think they
|> have seen a film when they really haven't seen it.  In fact, watching a
|> film on videotape is like eating an ice cream cone with a cold.  Poeple
|> truly interested in film should get involved in film societies that show
|> films where they belong: on a movie screen.

	I agree with your points concerning videotapes; still, it's better to
eat an ice cream cone with a cold than to starve, IMHO.

	I don't agree on Tarkovski. In Germany, his movies are liked well enough
by the intellectual elite to be shown in some small theaters again and
again. Of course that's good.
Unfortunately, I hated "The Sacrifice". I think it's all that's bad
with intellectual movies. It just dwells on and on in its pessimistic
view, using sombre, glum, pathos-filled images, which are
 - as I am ready to admit - visually brilliant.
Still, there's nothing that makes me want to see such a movie - it's like
masochism.

	On the other hand there are directors like Woody Allen who manage
to talk about life and death, just like Tarkovski, but mostly with a
smile on their face.
I'm not saying Tarkovski's movies are bad or irrelevant. He just takes things
too seriously for my personal taste.

Take care,
Sebastian
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From: shkelnik@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Leslie Shkolnik)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:50:00 GMT
Subject: Help: What Was It Called?
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

Does anyone know the name of the following movie?  I think it was from England,
although I'm not sure.  The movie was in English though.  It was about some
natural constant getting changed, I think through an experiment, and everyone
who was in the process of dying at the time are the only ones left?  Something
like that.  As you can tell, I don't remember all that much except that it was
an interesting movie.

Thanks for any help you can give me.


Leslie
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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Rising Sun
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:09:32 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <00966F32.9EC42120@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 9072falkk@vms.csd.mu.edu 
(Kathy Falk) writes:

> I swore I saw a trailer for this film with Sean Connery playing the role
> of Conner.  Any news on a release date for this one?  Any word on other 
> members of the cast?

No release date as of yet, but Connery is starring.

Also in the cast: Wesley Snipes and Tia Carrere

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From: rlc2h@Virginia.EDU ("Rob Cook")
Subject: Re: Movies you just GOTTA see more than once
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:00:52 GMT

has anyone seen the movie "SLACKER"
a must see about 3 times to truly get it
someone stole my copy, so if it was you return it!
From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Comments on TOYS... informal
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:36:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
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In a previous article, lon@edsi.plexus.COM (Lon Ponschock) says:

>
>'Went to see TOYS yesterday afternoon.
>
>The plot is fairly simple and well documented in other
>sources.  This information will *not* prepare you for


     I highly suggest reading the book " The Great Reckoning "
     by Davidson & Rees-Mogg before seeing " Toys ".  It 
     add some dimension.

>lon
>-- 
>   Question Recently
>   Posed to the Net:'Kukla, Fran & Ollie' which one is which?
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>   lon@edsi.plexus.com
>

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From: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges)
Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:59:01 GMT

In article <1ji1q5INNb6t@lynx.unm.edu> lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges) writes:
>
>Its use shows a pattern of listening to Gary Clail's song about Silkwood's
>murder and the destructive politics of the nuclear power industry.  Where,
>exactly, is the "joke"?

If it walks like a duck...it reads like a joke and therefore the
creator of the id is to a (small) degree responsible for its effect
on the reader, even if his intentions were neutral.

And (hopefully for the last time) I am less concerned with these bits of
trivia than with a Big Picture in which some people are safe targets
(Bosnians and per accidens Silkwood among them) and other people
(Kuwaitis and Coppola) aren't.
From: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu  (Anne Jessop)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Now-famous actors in roles before they were...
Date: 26 Jan 1993 04:52:57 GMT
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Originator: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu



Sorry for the clumsy title there; I can't recall what the title of this
thread was ...
But: I saw Peter Falk the other night in _The Great Race_, wherein Tony
Curtis plays a Tom Slick-type race car driver in an around the world car
race against some evil guy who tries out lots of tricks to win (they all
fail and he loses).  Falk played the evil guy's (sorry that's so vague; I
was falling asleep by the time we watched this) stupid henchman.  Tony
Curtis was still young (thirtysomething) when this movie came out, so Falk
must've been too, maybe younger.

Annie
From: rcosby@bcm.tmc.edu (Randy C. Cosby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Yet Another Movie Title Wanted
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:05:26 GMT
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Summary: Re: Yet Another Movie Title Wanted

In article <16B5BDD35.M15841@mwvm.mitre.org>, M15841@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
> Please help me identify this movie.
>  
> It starred Whoopie Goldberg and Sam Elliot.  She played a cop; he played a
> private security guard for a drug kingpin she was trying to capture.  They fell
> for each other.  Lots of shooting in a mall at the end.
>  
> Thanks in advance!!
>  
> Mary Brick

Mary,

I think it was something strange...the name of the cocaine or heroin
someone was marketing.... "Kiss Me Deadly" or something like that...

sorry I cannot by more specific...

Coz



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From: alanj@ibmpcug.co.uk (Alan Jay)
Subject: Re: Dolby SR-D
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:16:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.122835.15770@aber.ac.uk> jwp@aber.ac.uk (J W Perkins) writes:
>
>The three cinemas in Britain earmarked for upgrading are all in Leicester
>Square (surprise, surprise!) - the Odeon, Odeon West End and Empire.
>
>                                                         Jeremy Perkins

The Empire has already been upgraded (The Bodyguard was
shown in SR-D) what was surprising was that they really
didn't push it.  A pitty because the sound was great.

ALan


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From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison, 2001 and LSD
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:22:58 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:

> sbrock@csn.org (Steve Brock) wrote:
> [ about HARLAN ELLISON'S WATCHING ]
> > Most memorable of his opinions in this section are in his reviews of [...]
> > "2001: A Space Odyssey" (he calls it "Kubrick's Folly" and tells viewers
> > to watch it "stoned on acid").
> 
> I wonder if he actually tried that.  Like, I imagine, rather a lot of
> viewers at the time it came out, I did.  Didn't work.  The nearest I ever
> got to being *bored* on an acid trip.  It all seemed rather mechanical and
> trite (and now I'm rather inclined to say that proves drugs can lead to
> true insights).
> 
	Actually, Ellison's attitude towards drugs is strictly hands-off. He
rarely drinks (nothing stronger than wine, I suppose), smokes only a tobacco
pipe, and has never used marijuana or acid.

	Actually, I wasn't sure what to make of Ellison's review of 2001.
It's one of my favorites-- yeah, I think it's the finest SF film ever made--
but Ellison's initial review was pretty scornful. However, wen he refers to
the film in later columns, it's as a kind of totem, a film that nobody could
ever really touch. My guess is that Ellison may have revised his opinion on
the film since his initial review. This isn';t to knock Ellison; a _lot_ of
critics revised their opinions about 2001, as a read through Jerome Agels'
MKaing of 2001 will testify.


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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:05:27 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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In article <1993Jan25.153150.29246@aber.ac.uk> jwp@aber.ac.uk (J W  
Perkins) writes:
> In article <1jiihhINNci4@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>  
fontana@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
> >-- 
> > "IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR..."  |  Mark A. Fontana
> >        ...you should get out more often!  |  Computer and Info.  
Science
> >     Projectionist, AMC Dublin Village 14  |  THE Ohio State  
University
> 
> Sorry - to amend my mistake: I recall this from way down the end  
credits
> of NAKED GUN or NAKED GUN 2.1/2 which I watched to the very end. 
> 

Actually, I don't think it was in the film itself. This line
was in the trailer for Naked Gun 2 1/2.



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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: buscemi = god
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:03:37 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <1993Jan26.193551.8024@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:

>Anyway, Buscemi is a fine actor. No one has mentioned PARTING GLANCES, one of 
>his first films. He should have had a supporting actor nomination for the 
>Oscars, IMHO.

>  Parting GLances can be found in most video stores.  Has anyone else seen this
>film?

Yes, yes, yes!  I've got a copy of this on tape, and his performance was
simply _MARVELOUS_.  His performance was included in an article here in
Atlanta, written at the beginning on 1987, on "Superior Performances which
_WILL_ be ignored by the Academy for films released in 1986".

Buscemi was great, the film was brilliant, and I highly recommend it to
anyone interested in "slice of life" cinema.  For those of you who know
nothing of PARTING GLANCES, it covers a lot of the same ground as
LONGTIME COMPANION.

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From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Now-famous actors in roles before they were...
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:23:02 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1993Jan26.161137.9885@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, aziminia@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Amir) writes:
> 
> The so called "evil guy" in _The Great Race_ was Jack Lemmon......
> 
> -Amir
> 
He sure was, but he was also a condsiderable star when he played the role,
having won a Oscar a full ten years earlier!

Richard.