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From: dbl@osf.org (David B. Lewis)
Subject: The Panama Deception, held over at Coolidge Corner
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:14:04 GMT

The excellent documentary "The Panama Deception" has been held over
for another week at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline. It's very
effective; the producers are on-hand for evening shows to discuss the
film and its producer, the Empowerment Project.

Information from the flier follows:
"The Panama Deception" explores the untold story of the 1989 U.S. invasion
of Panama, revealing former strongman Gen. Manual Noriega's longstanding
relationship with the CIA, the DEA, and George Bush, documenting the
shocking events of the assault and its aftermath, uncovering the true
motivation for the invasion, and explaing how and why the mainstream media
collaborated with the US government to censor information and deceive the
American public.

The Coolidge Corner is at 734-2501.

-- 
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From: barb@ufycorp.Unify.Com (Barbara Kane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: movies with labelled chapters
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:16:44 GMT
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization

In article <Bv905y.9t3@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>
>Let's make a list of movies with "chapters" in them. That is, the film
>is broken into segments, each with its own title, but this does not

>2001
>If....
>Stranger Than Paradise
>Mystery Train

A Room with a View

Barbara Kane                                             Unify Corporation
* He befriended a lump of wood and took it everywhere with him.  He used *
* to throw dogs for it to fetch and could never understand why it didn't *
* retreive them.      - Jeremy Pascall                                   *
From: ecbjkokegei@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re : "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Date: 25 Sep 92 04:34:31 GMT
Reply-To: bjkokege@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au

> On CNN this morning (9/23), they had a short bit stating that 
> "Stranger In A Strange Land" will indeed be filmed and that Tom
> Hanks (!) has been selected to play Michael Valentine Smith.

Who's going to play Jubal then? Sean Connery?

Brett
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From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: The Player (Was Re: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (review))
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:54:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.1992Sep30.185410.25403
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
>THE PLAYER was better (and IMHO one of the best of the year, too).

Why do people like this film so much? I saw it, and I thought it was ok, but
I didn't think it was anything particularly special. The acting was good, but
the story was just the typical "Hollywood" story that has been done so many
times already. Why are you seeing in it that I missed?

Michael


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 kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty
From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Prosepero's Books on Video???????????
Summary: yes, soon
Date: 25 Sep 92 18:42:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

In article <1992Sep23.194359.3360@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, gmclain@lonestar.utsa.edu (Glenn A. Mclain) writes:
> Anyone know if Greenway's "Prospero's Books" is due for video release anytime
> soon.  I missed it when it played in town.
> 
> Glenn...........
Yeah, supposedly in October. There's a catch: It'll be expensive (about
$100) at least for the 1st six months, or so Sun Coast Video tells me.

-------- eric@npri.com ---------- or ---------- ...uunet!uupsi!npri6!eric -----
                  "A prisoner's meekness is a prison's pride."                  
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From: hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: THX - "The Audience Is Listening"
Date: 5 Oct 92 02:46:17 GMT
Organization: werple public-access UNIX, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.apana.org.au

dcalwell@trl.oz.au (David Calwell) writes:

>I actually saw my first THX movie the other day and was dissapointed.
>When is saw the THX logo i thught, good decent sound. I wa expecting the "
>The audience is Listening" intro to be a sort of "demo" (as has been 
>indicated in these posts) so was actually expecting decent sound. 
>Well it sucked, totally useless. I thought that to use THX to cinema had to 
>apply to some standards or use certain equipment. Is it dependant upon the 
>movie being shown (Basic Instinct), but the intro should be independant of 
>that.
>Is position critical, we were near the front, the inside end of the side row?
>Anyway i just remember being dissapointed.
>Any clues.

It all depends on the quality of the print being shown; I saw Basic Instinct
when it came out and the sound from the 35mm print was pretty substandard
even then. Basically (pun intended!) though, a 35mm print isn't going to
be anywhere near as impressive as either 70mm or Dolby SR (we're still
waiting for SR-D in this country, everyone else!). There's nothing wrong
the cinema sound, most likely; you just scored a film that isn't the 
pinnacle of film sound to begin with. Go see the 70mm print of Lethal 3
and compare... :-)



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From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: Last of the Mohicans--Panavision credit
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:51:52 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.3 PL6]

Jeffry L. Johnson (ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:

> Just to add confusion regarding Panavision credits:  _Last of the
> Mohicans_ 35mm release prints are anamorphic (aspect ratio of 2.40)
> Panavision credit is:  Cameras and Lenses by Panavision.  The question is:
> was LotM photographed with spherical or anamorphic lenses?

If the prints are anamorphic but the credit is spherical, the process is
probably Super35 (full 1.37:1 silent aperture, composed for 2.4:1 extraction).

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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel)
Subject: Re: Name this Movie, win Gold Ingots
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 17:42:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.221704.2540@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes...
>In article <1992Oct5.184034.11714@tandem.com> Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) writes:
>>Okay, I had to get you to read it somehow:
>>
>>It's been eating at me all weekend, and I'm sure many of you know the feeling.
>>So, sorry for pestering you BUT: can anyone name the highly-forgettable movie
>>about a yuppie couple that gets into cocaine, then one of them decides to start
> 
>Was James Woods in it?  I remember it having something to do with an
>alternate name for a "high".  Something like "The <noun describing a high>".
>The Fix?  The...  Damn.
> 
The Boost?

Ron
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From: mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:23:51 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <5968@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner) writes:
>From article <1992Sep25.210848.405@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, by mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell):
>> Why then does the police chief tell Gant that "he could learn a lot from
>> this guy" if all he does is plod along?
>
>Because it takes a lot of experience to plod along well, and Deckard
>is fairly good at plodding up close to his prey.  His weakness is in
>finishing them off.
>
>>  Most importantly WHY is Gant
>> following him around?  I certianly don't think it is to learn anything
>> from Dekkard.  If anything there is a sense of animosity or at least
>> tension between the two.
>
>I'd say it is the classic tension between those who thrive in the
>system and those who do the dirty work on the fringes.  Obviously
>neither Gaff nor the captain want to do the hunting, so they recalled
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You've cited a perfect justification for the police to "purchase"
a replicant to do the job.  Why risk human life?
Why does it have to be a human who realizes the value of life and
questions what he does?  Couldn't a replicant go through the same
thought processes?

>Deckard.  But since he had to be "persuaded", they don't trust him
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't buy it.  The suspicion of Dekard has a deeper feel to it
than the "persuasion" argument, at least to me.  It just doesn't
ring true.  Would a cop today have a shadow if he had to be
persuaded to do a detail he didn't like?  Would a brother cop stand
by and let Leon squeeze Dekard's gray-matter all over the pavement? or
Pris? or Roy?  If he is a machine, on the other hand, you replace him 
with another machine and keep hunting.

>completely.  As for Gaff, if they are of similar rank, a bit of
>rivalry is natural, with Gaff the guy who prefers sitting in his
>office, but now has to look after Deckard as opposed to Deckard, who
>has been forced back into the system with Gaff, who thrives within it,
>to watch over him.  At least, that's how I always saw it.

 I had the same feeling originally, but after reading the mind games
that P.K. Dick is noted for, I began to question it.  The more I looked,
the bigger the question became (with no answer, mind you).
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From: sfleck@cyclops.UWaterloo.ca (S. W. Fleck)
Subject: Re: SNEAKERS question
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution:  na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:54:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.140228.14465@macc.wisc.edu> dly@vms.macc.wisc.edu  
writes:
> 
> What does SNEAKERS stand for?  I didn't catch any reference to it
> during the movie.  I've even tried to make other words out of the
> letters, but I'm stumped.  Any one know?
>

Right near the beginning of the movie, Robert Redford returns to his group  
after the "bank job".  I believe he refers to the job as a "sneak" as in  
"..how did the bank sneak go?.." (I can't remember the quote).
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:52:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.073531.27410@cs.ucla.edu> coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman) writes:
>You might think this pretty strange, but I always visualized the actor that
>played Latka on Taxi as Smith when I was reading the book.  If you recall,
>Latka had a very innocent character, but he had an alternate personality, Vic
>Ferrari, who was quite the opposite.  Those characters wouldn't be quite right
>for Smith, but those two types of characters are what I imagine when I read
>the book.

Andy Kaufmann.  Of HeartBeeps.
>
>Of course, he's dead now.

Then he probably wouldn't be very good.

GMS
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
Subject: Re: Die Hard VHS
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: na
Date: 28 Sep 1992 09:44 EST  

In article <19qhqdINN5vb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes...
> 
>Reading the Die Hard III threads reminded me of a question.
> 
>Has anyone who has viewed the original _Die Hard_ on VHS
>noticed that bad color quality? I saw the film twice on the
>silver screen and don't remember the colors being as washed
>out as they are on the VHS release.
> 
>I wish they'd re-release it on VHS with better color and
>in letterbox.....just dreaming....
> 
You're asking too much of the Very Humiliating System.... 

Greg
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From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: THX - "The Audience Is Listening"
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:47:00 GMT

In article <dcalwell.1.0@trl.oz.au> dcalwell@trl.oz.au (David Calwell) writes:
>I actually saw my first THX movie the other day and was dissapointed.

VIRGIN!!!   Well... I guess not any longer :)

THX provides wide dynamic range and low distortion.  The intro
does have both... you should have heard either the orchestral
bolt followed by the the softer sounds with no static, noise,
resonance, or other distortion.  Same way with the monolith
THX which gradually builds and ends more sharply.

Once the movie starts, though, there is no telling what trash
may have gotten into the sound tracks... hey, don't you guys
have to dup a new language on for down there?  Throw some
shrimp on the barbie and other such phrases? :)


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From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron Higgins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: THX Dubbing Theatres
Date: 27 Sep 92 23:28:10 GMT
Reply-To: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Organization: Lightning Systems, Inc.

A question floated into my mailbox about THX Dubbing Theatres.  The
question was, what are they?

Well, I don't claim to be an expert, (pretty far from it in fact), but I'd
hazard a guess that a Dubbing Theatre is where post production audio work
is done for film prints.

If anyone else can shed some light on the subject, feel free.
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Date: 30 Sep 1992 21:52:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Juhana Kouhia writes (in response to my post):

>Actually, your reply indicates that you're not ready for
>Real Life discussions -- grow up, I would like to say.
>People here does not want articles like you wrote above.

What makes you think I'm not ready for Real Life discussions?
And you do not speak for everyone here. You may not
want articles like the one I posted, but other people may
find my comment humorous, or at worst innocuous.

>Instead of flaming me back, you could tell us what it was
>what made you to suggest the crossposting to alt.soapbox group.

My point was that I felt the author of the post had gone off
on an unnecessary tangent (and rather strange) by comparing
the replicants in _Blade Runner_ to the homosexuals of
today. Perhaps I didn't make my point clear, but I figured
readers such as yourself would have a sense of humour to
figure out for themselves what I was commenting on.
My mistake. Next time I'll just enclose my one-line            
jokes in big "SARCASM ALERT" boxes with a full two-page
explanation of my exact intended meaning for people such
as yourself.

Lighten up!


Mark B. Bendiksen
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From: k084118@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Pamela S. Rivers)
Subject: Man in the Moon
Organization: Kalamazoo College
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:39:37 GMT


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.


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                                |   my intimate details.
				|  Someone who'll understand me, and give me
				|  support."  -Somebody by depeche mode

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From: rcbi27@marshall.wvnet.edu (DBRUM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: My Own Private Idaho
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:27:05 GMT
Organization: Marshall University

In article <1992Sep29.105609.10219@walter.cray.com>, jhouge@craysea.cray.com (Jennifer Houge) writes:
> 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 around...
 
> 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.

My own personal interpretation is that the movie was about being cynical--
not cynical in the creative sense though, but cynical to the audience. I
think it was just a puff job, a plastic thingie made to earn money. I 
already posted a few weeks ago about how I thought the stagey dialogue
jangled, and the momentum of the various scenes developed into zilch, and
the characterizations, intriguing at first, ended up being meaningless,
etc., etc., so I won't go on about those things any further. :-)  But with the
sex scenes (literally "scenes", with the various participants posed still
in shadowy light like sculptures), I found this an interesting and novel
concept; but unfortunately the scene would be shown too briefly. If your
eye focussed in on one aspect of these often complex manages, you 
necessarily missed the remainder of the tableau, whereas if you tried to scan
the whole, all detail was missed. ...Sheez! that was annoying. It seemed to
me that these scenes might have conveyed some character development along
with clarifying the relationships within the plot somehow, but apparently,
like the rest of the movie, they were just picturesque fluff, and one needn't
have wasted one's time worrying about them.

Sorry to be so harsh. But this is an exploitation film aimed at young
male gays. And though it appears many of them really like MOPI because
of its special focus, there's not much substance there for others.

--danny
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From: tperreau@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (The Mad Scot)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 09:28:07 GMT


Well, for those of us who were tired of all the Aliens talk,
what we wish for is what we get - no more Aliens, now it's
all Blade Runner *sheeeesh* (BTW - I have not seen the DC
Blade Runner, nor am I likely to see it - I didn't think that
Blade Runner was that good in the first place)

However, from the pages of the new Science Fiction Age magazine
in the Movies section by Jim Steranko (reprinted without permission)

	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.

Now, don't go send your flames to me about "No he isn't and
here is my reasoning why..." - I don't care.  I just saw this
and remembered all the discussion on the net about replicant
and replicant NOT!  Just some more food for thought.

This self same article also mentioned that ERB "A Princess of
Mars" movie was canceled - Tom Cruise was to be John Carter
(not a bad choice, IMHO) and apparently Julia Roberts was to
be Dejiah (sp?) Thoris.  Gawd, am I glad that movie did get
canned!  Roberts as a small, buxon, _black-haired_ Thoris?
NOT!  I always pictured the Martians (except for the Tharks)
as Oriental-looking.

'Course, Bull from _Night Court_ would have made a damn good
Thark :)

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