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From: v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jackie Chan films
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:25:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <tal691.721450161@huxley>, tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes...
>hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Nov10.222456.21680@wam.umd.edu>, dika@wam.umd.edu (Ting Lin) writes:
>>> Other Jackie Chan Movies are:
>>> 
>>> 	Police Story I,II,III
>>> 	Ms Rose
>	Mr Canton and Lady Rose?

That is probably what he was talking about. Anita Mui was in it also.
Hilarious movie!:-) 

It is a remake of some Bette Davis movie...I think it was A Pocketful 
of Miracles. I'm not sure.


> 
> 
>While it is just a matter of opinion, there are *lots* of others, many
>of which are pretty good. Among his more recent, high budget films:
> 
>	Dragons Forever
>	Armor of God
>	Armor of God II
> 
>Armor of God is a film that nearly killed him, and they had to finish
>the film really quickly and without many stunts after he came out of
>brain surgery. The sequel is much better.

Is this the movie when he jumped off the cliff onto the top of a hot air
balloon? I remember it was one of the Armor of God movies but it has been
years since I've seen it.

When I go home (HK) I will have to check out the video store since I have
seen quite a few requests for work he has done.


>Tonio Loewald
>-- Canberra, Australia - one of many places claiming to be Jackie Chan's home
>			 town :)
> 
>-- 
>Tonio Loewald            | Ph  06 290 1594 | 13 Sabine Cl. Garran
>tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Fax 06 290 1595 | ACT 2605   AUSTRALIA
>"You can lie/You can cry/For all the good it'll do you, you can
>die/But when it's done/And the police come/And they lay you down
From: kardaras@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George S Kardaras)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jennifer Eight Nitpick
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:42:02 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

>rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su) writes:
>
.... 
>- 	Other than this flick is well worth my money.
>- -- 


I have to agree with you. I give the movie a 8/10... It
was great, even though I thought the plot over the first
half of the movie was very slow.

I have a probably dumb question, though: what was the relation
between the blonde  who owned the track and the serial killer
(no more info given to avoid spoilers...) ?

George
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From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Subject: PETER'S FRIENDS -- Review (SPOILER)
Summary: Peter's Friends falls into a deadly trap of sentimentality
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:20:20 GMT

                               PETER'S FRIENDS
			directed by Kenneth Branagh
		written by Kenneth Branagh and Rita Rudner
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Rita Rudner, Tony Slattery, 
Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson.

"Peter's Friends", by cast list alone, should make for a good film, if not an excellent one.  Alas, it didn't.

Ten years after appearing at a New Year's Party performing "Orpheus in the
Underground" Cabaret, the troupe reunite at the huge mansion of one member, 
Peter, at his request.  There is Maggie (Emma Thompson), the frumpish, bookish one who is terribly attached to her cat; Andrew (Kenneth Branagh), the self-
hating sarcastic alcoholic scriptwriter; Sarah, the energetic promiscuous one;
the married couple (Imelda Staunton and Hugh Laurie) who are still mourning
the loss of one of their children and worried sick about the survivor; and
Peter himself, who seems rootless in career and in intimate relationships,
and has inherited a huge, beautiful English mansion.  For New Year's Eve 1991,
Peter invites them all to meet.  Andrew brings his American actress-wife
(Rita Rudner) who embodies all the stereotypes of an American television
actress; Sarah brings Tony, her current lover, who is married to someone
else.  Once they meet and catch up, a series of surprises and revelations
follows, with Peter making the biggest "surprise" of all.

Of course the course of events does not run smoothly.  What looks promising
during the opening credits all the way to the train station where Maggie meets
up with Sarah and Brian ( Tony Slattery) slides into a dog of a script.  Peter's surprise is
pretty evident by the time he and Andrew collect firewood; and it appears
that during the writing, Branagh and Rudner were so hung up on their own 
characters (I guess obnoxious characters beset by personal problems are
supposedly more complicated than genial characters beset by personal problems)
that the married couple are given precious little to do, and Laurie looks
really out of place and uncomfortable with his screen role. By the time 
Rudner's character gains an atom of respectability, her character is shunted 
off to L.A.; and apparently Rudner and Branagh had decided that Sarah's lover
was just getting too much attention, so they wrote him off to return back to
his wife.

The film has a few wonderful moments: Maggie leaving her cat, and telling
Andrew of her last relationship with a guy who wrote self-help books; Sarah and
Brian making wild, spontaneous love in the train; Maggie making a pass at
Peter; and Rudner's meeting with the cook: "Haven't you seen Upstairs,
Downstairs?"

However, a few wonderful moments doesn't always make for a good film.  I was
really disappointed, and felt that the actors were wasted in their roles.

Christina O'Sullivan
cosulliv@sfu.ca

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From: rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
Subject: In praise of Flight of The Phoenix
Summary: Heroism in the Movies
Keywords: Jimmy Stuart, Hardy Kruger
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:21:51 GMT

Flight of the Phoenix 
James Stuart
Hardy Kruger
Richard Atenboro
Ernist Borgnine
and many others.

In a time when movies glorify the stupid and violent it is a rare pleasure
to view a movie which deals with the heroic aspects of people without
portraing them a vapid plaster saints.

Flight of the Phoenix was just such a movie. The plot is  straight
forward. A plane owned by an oil company in Saudi Arabia is caught up in a
sandstorm, blown of course and downed in the desert far off the normal
flight paths.  The problem is simple, how to get out of a seemingly
hopeless situation. The soloution is ingenious. The parts of the wrecked
plane are used to construct a new plane which flies the survivors out.

The real worth of the movie is the interaction between the characters.
Jimmy Stuart plays the part of the pilot, an in charge kind of man who
feels totally responsible for the accident which has downed the plane. His
problem is sharing his authority with one of the passengers who happens to
be an airplaine designer, but is one of these obnoxious Germanic types.
Stuart manfully concedes authority to this passenger, because there is no
better way of getting out.

The *ingenius* quirk in the plot is the air craft design, played by Hardy
Kruger, designs model airplanes. This is not revealed untill the new plane
is nearly completed.  The reaction to this revaltion is positively
electric. But the people go on with the plan, and eventually finish and
successfuly fly the plane out.

I give it 9 out of a possible 10.

I would like to hear your impressions of this fine motion picture.

Conan the Libertarian "Beautify America, don't brake for tax collectors"

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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: Dracula played by Frank Langella
Summary: Frank Langella is boring
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:10:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.175449.9299@newstand.syr.edu>, ncchang@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ning-chih Chang) writes:
> 	Since the new Dracula film will be released this Friday,  I would 
> 	like to discuss the 1979 Dracula played by Frank Langella.  I think
> 	he is the most romantic Dracula I've ever seen.  However, from several
> 	newspaper reviews, the movie was thought as a failure.  How do you 
> 	think about it?
> 	
> 	

In every movie I've seen with Frank Langella (Dracula,
Sherlock Holmes, The 12 Chairs, some French movie with Faye Dunaway)
he has looked bored, uninterested in acting, and very very dull.
He's ruined every movie he's been in.  He postures, he poses,
but he doesn't act.

marc colten

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From: wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley)
Subject: Re: MOVIES ABOUT BLIND PEOPLE
Reply-To: eprice@sybase.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:00:01 GMT

In article <tmcfarla.721364579@sfu.ca>
tmcfarla@fraser.sfu.ca (Tara McFarlane) writes:

>of course there is always THE KILLER, released about 1990, or so.

If you're talking about John Woo's THE KILLER, 1989.

>It takes a poke at dubbed movies from Hong Kong.

It does?  How?  (Hey, maybe I missed something...)

>BTW, there is a blind woman in the film.

But it's hardly *about* blind people.  There are lots of movies with blind
characters.  [SUSPIRIA had a blind character.  RED HEAT (Walter Hill's) had
a blind character.  THE HOT SPOT had a blind character.  THE BLUES BROTHERS
(Ray Charles)!  MANHUNTER had a blind character (this was even a nontrivial
role actually).  WISE BLOOD has a blind character (eventually).  And there
was that Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder flick (in fact, maybe this would
qualify).  Maybe NIGHT ON EARTH would qualify too.  etc. etc. etc.]

>It is also hilarious!

Hmm...  No comment.

-Ed (not Tim), eprice@sybase.com (not wildman@...)
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:19:32 GMT

In article <1dfn3dINNf17@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce732@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven K. Wilcken) writes:
>
>A movie I would put in the running is "the Return of Captain Invincable."
>This movie answers the age old question, Why don't you see Christopher Lee
>in any musicals.  It would be just another cheesy superhero movie except
>for the musical numbers.  Bad music and much too much of it.
>

I really was surprised by how funny this movie was.  Alan Arkin as the
"Man of Magnet".  Very enjoyable, although with many flaws.

GMS
From: mdouglas@cad067.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Maria Douglas )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: STAR WARS
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:13:39 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp.


-- 
	Right now Lucas is working on a new Star Wars Movie. It it episode I. Don't
	know the title of the movie.  Lucas has said that the movie is to be about
	the adventures of Obiwan Kenobi and Anikan(sp) Skywalker when they were very
	young.  The movie is to be released sometime between 1995-1998...

	Brad

He changed his mind?  Just a few months ago in Cinemafantastique he said
that he would never make another Star Wars film.  The Young Indiana Jones
TV series is just too profitable for him, and he didn't think a fourth
film (Star Wars "I") could possibly live up to the last three.  I was
very disappointed when I read this, but I figured that was the way film
business goes.  Where and when did you get this info, Brad?  I'm interested.

Thanks,

Maria
--
Maria E. Douglas	(408) 765-4728		    
Intel Corporation	mdouglas@cadev6.intel.com  

I don't speak for Intel.  Puh-leeeze!
From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Creative Bleeping.
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

mpdixon@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL P DIXON) writes:

}Saw this last night on the NBC Sunday Night Movie, "THE HARD WAY".  It
}starred Michael J. Fox and James Woods.  In one scene Fox is handcuffed
}to a bed and wakes up to it out.  He screams, "You slug in a ditch, you
}slug in a ditch!"

Yeah, when I heard that I just broke out laughing.  I'll tell ya, I think
that some of the most creative work coming out of Hollywood today is being
done in thinking up "acceptable" substitutions for "dirty" words and phrases.
I mean, "slug in a ditch" has the right syllables, the right cadence, the
right beginning sound and the right ending sound.  And it even sounds
mildly insulting.

On the other hand, the butchering job that was done on the scene where
James Woods' character was hanging onto the tow truck was atrocious and
unforgivable.

--James Preston
From: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Mimi Rogers Filmography
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:38:39 GMT
Reply-To: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Systemedia Group Headquarters, Dayton (Miamisburg), Ohio

The title says it all. Please email or post.

Thanks.

-Jim
From: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harald K. Zink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:16:27 GMT
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harald K. Zink)
Organization: Alchemy Software Designs


No movie can be worse than Highlander II !!!!
From: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harald K. Zink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad i
Date: 4 Nov 92 17:30:47 GMT
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harald K. Zink)
Organization: Alchemy Software Designs

In article <1992Oct14.043651.17342@news.acns.nwu.edu> ssc@nwu.edu (Steven 
Chung)
 writes:
>How could you have forgotten 'Cool World' so quickly--or perhaps all of you
>were smart enough not to let a friend talk you into seeing it...
>(I'll never forgive him.)
>

in reply of which <donnell@barnacle.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)> writes:
>What the hell was bad about "Cool World". My friends and I not only like
>the film, but we want to LIVE THERE! Seriously, I thought it was fine.

Not that I really want to live in the Cool World, but I fail to understand as 
well why people could consider it 'bad'.  My impression was of a well made, 
interesting movie that shows us what the fever/wet-dreams of animators look 
like.  I noticed that generally those that expected more of 'Roger Rabitt' 
stuff were disappointed, but then again, they never tried to understand what 
the movie was really about...
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From: alanj@ibmpcug.co.uk (Alan Jay)
Subject: UK Screenings of Blade Runner -- Directors Cut
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:08:39 GMT
Summary: Screenings in London, Manchester and Brighton from Nov 27th


After the UK Premiere of the Director's Cut at the London
Film Festival (a sell out at the Empire[sulk]) the film will be
released from the 27th November at the following Cinemas:


MGM Shaftesbury Ave
MGM Fulham Rd
Screen at Islington (?)

Leeds Showcase
MGM Brighton


The distributor tells me these are 35mm prints (were there
any 70mm prints in the US? of the DC).

ALan
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From: hammond@css.itd.umich.edu (Steve Hammond)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz 2.2
Date: 12 Nov 1992 05:35:10 GMT
Organization: U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
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I messed up the date again It is due on the 22nd of November.
-- 
Steve Hammond                                               hammond@umich.edu
 
   To hell with them, Max.  We're going to give 'em back their heros!
From: dd00@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DARIUSH DERAKHSHANI)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Zentropa
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:24:42 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>Anne Witchner <aw0w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> I saw Zentropa and enjoyed it.  I would like others' impressions and
>> thoughts.  Thanks.
>

I thought Zentropa was one of the best films I've ever seen.  It was
brilliantly done!  It dared to be innovative at a time when almost every
camera angle had been done already, and it succeeded.  Cinematographically, it
was wonderful, especially the use of color over B&W for focus of composition.
It was quite good!
-- 

Surrealincerely Yours,

          ====)------------------- Dariush

                                        "Whatever."
                        "Life is just an annoying side effect of sex."
From: jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: name this actor
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:36:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
Reply-To: jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon) 

 -=> Quoting Dwight Mcduffee to All <=-

 DM> Can someone please tell me the name of the French actor who
 DM> played Rocco in the film "Rocco and His Brothers"?

Tres facile ! The name is Alain DELON, the others are Renato SALVATORI and
Annie GIRARDOT( who was Renato's wife in real life)

... "What?!? This isn't the Files section?!?"
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
                       
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From: kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Not A Random Name)
Subject: Re: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:47:24 GMT

colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:

>In article <1992Nov11.222550.16196@cs.ucla.edu>, reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>> >I've never heard of Norman McLean, and I've never read his books, but
>> >recently Smithsonian Magazine did a piece on the man, his book, his
...
>Okay 50% of children survived - but the other 50% didn't.  From
>what the article described it sounds to me that Norman McLean became
...
>What in the father - as described in the article - brought about the
>novelist and professor?

>I think you've just agreed with me about it's phony "universalism".
>It may have a lot to say about families other than the McLeans, but I
>just think what it has to say is mostly bad.

You spend a lot of time talking about ONE article you read that gave you 
an unfavorable impression of Rev. McLean.  FIrst of all, if this has you
so upset, perhaps you should check with some OTHER sources?  Perhaps you
should read the book?  Perhaps you should see the movie?  Parhaps you should
know what you are talking about before you prejudge?

What the Rev. McLean was actually like is not important to the discussion
of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.  THe movie is based on a fictionalized account
of Norman's childhood.  It was never presented as being non-fiction and
it shouldn't be judged as such.

If you want to believe that Rev. McLean was a horrible person I suppose that's
up to you, after all he's been dead a long time and your opinion probably 
won't bother him too much.  But if you want to judge the film, at least see
it first; else you are no better than the Christian Fundamentalists who
condemened THE LAST TEMPATION OF CHRIST sight unseen.

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From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: re: Eberts DRACULA review
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:38:09 GMT

In article <BxoHxs.GBA@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> kpapai@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Ken Papai) writes:
>Just read Roger Ebert's review that he posted on CompuServe.  He likes
>the movie.  He loves its look.  I can't wait.  I've been waiting since
>I first heard of Coppola's project 10 months ago.

Well, what did he say?
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From: arritter@helix.nih.gov (Alice R. Ritter)
Subject: Re: Dracula played by Frank Langella
Reply-To: arritter@helix.nih.gov (Alice R. Ritter)
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:52:35 GMT

I haven't seen this one in a while, but remember liking it a lot
when it came out.  

I did see the version with Louis Jourdan the other nite--what a bomb!!!!
The only positive thing I can say about this movie was that he did LOOK
good as the Count, but why he would stoop to such a low-level, just plain
bad production, I don't know.

I guess I always see him in Gigi--does anyone out there remember other
roles Jourdan had?

alice ritter = arritter@madhatter.cber.nih.gov
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From: maxc1104@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Avoid normal situations.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Christmas Movies
Summary: My humble (HAH!) suggestion
Keywords: alt.fan.anatomy.jill-schoelen.babe.babe.babe
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:46:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Special Corps

In article <1992Nov6.113720.28973@cbfsb.cb.att.com> fgn@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (frank.g.neves) writes:
>
>          Who would you like to see play Ebeneezer Scrooge?
>
>My own personal choice has to be Wallace Shawn. To me, it would be an
>instant classic.  Anyone care to contribute their thoughts?
>
  It wouldn't be an instant classic for _me_, since the Alastair Sim version
is one of my all-time faves, and I can't imagine another version even coming
close. However, since you asked, I vote for Paul Newman... or, if that choice
isn't culty enough for all you cult-item fans, Vincent Schiavelli.

							Love & kisses,

						The Stainless Steel Moviegoer

						"You lost ANOTHER submarine?"
						-- _The Hunt for Red October_
From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Do movie stars sound like smurfs on US TV?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 01:24:57 EET
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

> otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
> [small explanation of 3/2 pulldown snarfed from Bob Niland's articles]

> Erm... But how is this when pictures change very much (due to rapid
> movement and such)? Then you should see moving lines twice in the pic-
> ture. It happens when we watch NTSC converted to PAL.
> Does that happen? And isn't it rather disturbing? I find it is.

Yes, they are called motion artifacts.  And yes, they are somewhat
disturbing.  Of course people from NTSC countries wonder how do we
cope with the PAL 50Hz flicker.

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