HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ksjohnso@mathlab.mtu.edu(KRIS A. JOHNSON)
Subject: Re: DRACULA's Dr. Seward(Richard E. Grant)
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:44:24 GMT

In article <00963D86.E6E3D000@vms.csd.mu.edu> 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov18.000121.8075@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,  
ieng_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (innlingeng) writes:
> >Can someone please email me the section of the Actor's List for
> >Richard E. Grant?  I know I have seen him in L.A. Story, but I
> >would like to know what other films he has been in, and if anyone
> >knows of any information on him.  Has anyone caught him in any
> >TV interviews?  It is a good thing to mix in more British actors in
> >American films, e.g. Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins in Dracula...
> >and other films that I wont rack my brain to name.
> >

Another film Grant was in is Hudson Hawk.  He also is the narrator of the  
'DRACULA' and Anne Rice's 'Tales of the Body Thief' Audiobooks.

KJ

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From: parnell@bcarh12a.bnr.ca (Christopher Parnell)
Subject: Re: Peter Greenaway
Keywords: macabre, michael nyman, dutch baroque
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:47:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.173626.23093@ohm.york.ac.uk> jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll) writes:
>In <malcolm.722113571@wrs.com> malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes) writes:
>
>2) A year or so ago, Dillons in London had the book props
>for `Prospero's Book's' in the window - `A book of Earth', etc.
>Wonderful. I like the illustrated screenplay more than the film,
>I think.

Does anyone, on a like note, have a list of the Books as Greenaway presented
them?  I attempted to memorise them but got lost after ten or so, when they
started coming in more rapid succession.  Also, have details of the screenplay
(publisher, date, cost) been posted already?  I may have missed that.

Cheers

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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: A problem with Indiana Jones part 3
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:23:13 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1e99pmINNmvk@eagle.natinst.com> darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:

[stuff about the "Leap of Faith" deleted]

Get used to it. Moviegoers are a stupid lot and filmmakers have to do
things like that to make sure everyone gets it.

>Also, when I saw the old man in the knight suit, I thought, "Yeah, right".

So you obviously didn't buy into the premise of the film, why did you
bother to stay and watch it then?

-Geoff
--
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business
From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: 2001 shown letterboxed on TNT
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:04:25 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
> 
> I missed TNT's 2001 last week, but when 2001 was originally released,
> it was labelled "Super Panavision 70" and was shown at theatres
> with Cinerama screens. I *think* (and I know I'll be slapped if i'm
> wrong) that the aspect ratio for Cinerama was roughly 3x the width
> of standard 35mm, since I remember seeing HoW The West was Won at
> a Cinerama theatre back in the olden days when they had to use 
> three projectors, and thus you got a visible split where the
> synched projections were joined on the screen, and each of the
> three sections looked to be about the same aspect ratio as 35mm
> film, or a standard television screen. 
> 
> So based on this totally non-informed formula :-) , if 2001
> was in Cinerama aspect ratio, to see the entire screen width on
> a tv set, you would have a very wide, short picture centered
> on your screen. From your description, it sounds like TNT didn't
> deliver the entire picture. Ask Ted Turner for a cheerful refund :)
> 
> Harv

	Actually, TNT's broadcast was baed on the Criterion laserdisc, the
transfer of which was supervised byStanley Kubrick himself. The aspect
ration is roughly 1.85:1 in Super-Panavision, and comparingmy memories and
actual frame shots of the original film(from Jerome Agel's _The Making of
Kubrick's 2001_), I can state with confidence that TNT didn't skimp on 2001:
what viewers saw was, pretty much, the whole film.

	Whether 2001 was in a full Cinerama aspect ratio, I dunno, but the
description you gave above gave me the impression that the aspect ratio was
something like 6:1-- and that's just a bit _too_ wide, even for _HTWWW_.

/s

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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Favorite Vampire one-liners
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:46:05 GMT
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In article <Bxwxzq.IHn@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j  
kolker) writes:
> Here are my favorite vampire one-liners from the Vampire movies I  
have seen:
> 
> 	Listen to them....children of the night -- Dracula (Lagosi  
version)
> 

This line is also in the Copolla version.

> 	Children of the night, be still! -- Love at First Bite
> 
> 	Look Renfield, only in America -- said when Dracual and Renfield  
raid
> 	a Red Cross blood storage facility and find a whole cooler chest
> 	of blood. (Love at First Bite)
> 
> 	You know too much Von Helsing for one who has lived but one
> 	lifetime -- Dracula, Prince of Darkness (stage play featuring  
Jose
> 	Greco, yes that Jose, Ole)

Also in the Lugosi version.

> 
> 	I never drink.......wine -- Dracula (Lagosi version)
> 

This line is also in the Copolla version.


--
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Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:52:19 -0500 
From: Daniel Read <dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: why the hang-up on NC17?
	<1992Nov17.214051.26610@mprgate.mpr.ca>

 
>There is no such thing as a 'Canadian' rating. In BC an 'R' rated film can be
>seen by kids accompanied by adults. The equivalent in BC to NC-17 is
called >18+.
 
>I think Henry and June was rated 'R' here, as is 'The Lover' which just
>opened. 'The Devil in the Flesh' was 18+.
 
>Each province in Canada has its own ratings, and BC and Quebec are the most
>liberal.

Ontario's rating system has become much more liberal in recent years,
presumably due the influence of those goddamn socialists the NDP.  I
long for those halcyon days when Ontario banned THE BROOD, PRETTY BABY,
THE TIN DRUM, SALO and AI NO CORRIDA and (briefly) THE DEVIL IN THE
FLESH.  

Ontario used to have a rule whereby forbidden films could be viewed by
specialty audiences -- presumably asexual art-film lovers.  Does anyone
know if Ontario still forbids some films from being shown publicly?  I
know that it no longer restricts videos.

daniel


  
 

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From: toriver@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen)
Subject: Re: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:49:24 GMT

In article <HD3auB3w165w@cithara.uucp> spongebo@cithara.uucp (THE EYE-BALL KID) writes:
>
>However, DUNE would make a magnificent TV Mini-series. Having just 
>re-read the books, and knowing a little about TV writing, they are 
>structualy very tight. The narrative is economical, and most of the 
>chapters could remain intact within a TV format -- no gratuitous 
>violence, sex or language. And with the SPFX technology on the horizon 
>today (Speilberg has just bought himself a batery of VIDEO TOASTERS!) it 
>wouldn't be as expensive as "War and Rememberance".
>
>But Directors? Who knows.
>

According to Frank Herbert, the complete movie is five hours long, but had
to be cut because of commercial reasons. DeLaurentis (both father and
daughter) planned on making a TV-serial out of the total material, but I
guess they never came around to doing that...

>One thing I have always maintained thought -- DAVID LYNCH should've 
>directed "BATMAN". I think Tim Burton is one of the most over-rated 
>directors on this planet at the moment. (I'll be that gets me nailed).

Eh... I would like to see Lynch do a movie version of "Sandman", or
perhaps "Hellblazer"... For "Batman", i thought Tim Burton's tendency to use
camera movement and his distinctive "milieu" in movies suited "Batman"
well.

>
>Spongebo - THE EYE-BALL KID (:::::-)
>
>spongebo%cithara@comback.login.qc.ca


-- 
"I'm a Derek, and Dereks don't run!" - Dereks in 'Bad Taste'
toriver@pvv.unit.no
Standard disclaimer should apply to this, I guess...
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From: tfischer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Thomas C. Fischer)
Subject: Re: Spike Lee
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:29:06 GMT

In article <1ejsaqINNf3p@news.aero.org>, werner@aero.org (Michael F. Werner) writes:
|>     What was the name of Spike's first film?  I believe it was a woman's
|> name?
|> 
|> -- 
|>  Michael F. Werner           |   Flight Dynamics Department
|>                              |   The Aerospace Corporation
|>  werner@aerospace.aero.org   |   El Segundo, California, USA  (near Los Angeles)
|> 

"She's Gotta Have It"


great flick, by the way...


tom


tfischer@ncsa.uiuc.edu

"once a freak, always a freak..."
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From: pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer)
Subject: Re: In praise of Flight of The Phoenix
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:58:47 GMT

In article <f5Be03Xgb9Vr00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:

   rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:

   }Flight of the Phoenix 

   }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.

   I agree that it's the characters and their interactions that make this
   movie, but I don't think it's fair to stereotype the designer as "one of 
   those obnoxious Germanic types".  I didn't find his character to be obnoxious,
   really, so much as just somewhat overbearing.  The beauty of the movie is
   that the characters really get beyond the usual stereotypes (well, at least
   sometimes anyway).  Without coming right out and saying it, the movie shows
   why the designer is the way he is; he's had many years of not being taken
   seriously because he "only" designs "toy" planes.

One of my very favorite movies.  One of the aspects I most enjoyed is
that the characters are set up as cardboard stereotypes (``obnoxious
Germanic type'' perfectly describes the designer), and then have depth
added to them as the movie progresses.  Oh, gotta find this one again...

It's also impressive, of course, that the thing really flew -- though
very sad that it didn't land.

-Joe.
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Malcolm X
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:51:33
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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In-reply-to: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 23 Nov 92 12:36:32 GMT

lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann) writes:
|This is an extraordinary movie.  A MUST see, for the superb Denzel
|Washington performance, for the adaptation, and for more evidence
|that Spike Lee is one of the premire directors of our generation.

|This movie has the sweep and scope of an epic, which is only fair because  
|Malcolm X lived an epic life and died a martyr's death.

Agreed.

|One reviewer noted that this movie isn't one movie, but is many
|little movies thrown into a big tent.  He's right---it's part dance
|movie, part Godfather, part prison movie and part religious transformation.

That is appropriate.  It reflects the man's life....

|The movie is a little loose, and the ending and beginning in
|particular could have been tightened.  But the middle of the movie is
|extremely solid, so when I'm saying it could have been a little
|shorter, I only mean it could have run closer to 3 hours rather than
|3 hours, 21 minutes.   

I dunno.  After you read the biography, you may think the opposite.
Knowing the story makes you realize how much you missed from the first
10 years or so from his life.  

Shortest 3.5 hours I've ever spent....
 
|I did not know much about Malcolm X, as he was shot when I was 8.  I
|can't know for sure how much of Spike Lee's movie is the truth and
|how much is revisionism.  However, I do know I want to learn more
|about Malcolm X, and I'll probably look for his autobiography.

The movie is faithful to the autobiography, a book I certainly suggest
reading.

|A quibble on audience behavior:  The audience was overwhelmingly young, black
|and mostly reasonably-behaved.  However, I was really pissed when someone  
|decided that smoking a joint was the appropriate accompaniment to
|seeing this movie.  Talk about someone behaving cluelessly!

That doesn't strike me as a quibble with the audience, rather a
quibble with some individual, which of course has nothing to do with
the film....
--
Peace.
          "I have more respect for a man who lets me know where
           he stands even if he's wrong... than the one who comes
           up like an angel and is nothing but a devil."
                                - Malcolm X
                                   -\--/-
    Don't just adopt opinions     |  \/  |       Some of you are homeboys
          develop them.           |  /\  | but only I am The Homeboy From hell
                                   -/--\-

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From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: Dune sucked! (was: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:43:52 GMT

prodger@leland.Stanford.EDU (phillip prodger) writes:

>I saw Dune for the first time in Hong Kong, where censors and 
>money hungry distributors had cut the film down to an hour and
>a quarter!

I wish it was only that long when I saw it. I really enjoyed the original 
trilogy of books, and it certainly was not that I had trouble following
the movie (as I understand some audiences did.) The movie was just really,
really bad. That stupid "The spice, the worms, is there a connection?" 
voice over was pathetic. The yells they let out when they fired their
(thought amplification?) weapons were comical. I'd rate the special effects
no better than a 3 or 4 out of 10. The original story was butchered and 
trivialized. All in all I still consider it to be the single worst movie
that was trying to be a good movie that I've ever seen. One of the only 
movies that I've ever been so _disappointed_ in that I considered walking
out. Just my opinion, but this is actually the first time I've ever heard 
from anyone who really liked it.

>Hey, I heard that the original cut of the film was 7 or 8 hours
>long, but cut down for general release.  The idea was after it
>flopped to show it in its entirety for the arthouse crowd.

More like the opium den crowd. I don't see how anyone who wasn't
completely stoned could sit through any more than what was released.
In fact, some form of hallucinogen would probably help the film 
immensely.

>-Chompin' at the bit.

To each their own, I guess.
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From: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.video
Subject: Dolby Digital Theatre List
Date: 19 Nov 1992 02:38:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
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Reformatted for 8 space tabs

Theatres Equipped for Dolby Stereo Digital Soundtracks

Country	State		City		Theatre			Owner
USA	California	Canoga Park	Fallbrook Square	General Cinema 
Theatres
USA	California	Corte Madera	Cinema Corte Madera	Pacific 
Theatres
USA	California	Hollywood	Chinese			Mann Theatres
USA	California	Hollywood	El Capitan		Pacific 
Theatres
USA	California	Lakewood	Lakewood Center North	Pacific 
Theatres
USA	California	Los Angeles	Crest			Pacific 
Theatres
USA	California	Los Angeles	Village Theatre		Mann Theatres
USA	California	Newport Beach	Newport Center		Edwards 
Theatres
USA	California	Orange		Cinedome Orange		Syufy 
Enterprises
USA	California	Palm Springs	Courtyard 10		Metropolitan 
Theatres
USA	California	San Francisco	Coronet			United Artists 
Theatre Circuit
USA	Colorado	Englewood	Greenwood Plaza		United Artists 
Theatre Circuit
USA	Florida		Lake Buena VistaPleasure Island 10	American 
Multi-Cinema
USA	Florida		Lake Buena VistaPleasure Island 10	American 
Multi-Cinema
USA	Hawaii		Honolulu	Kahala 5-Plex		Consolidated 
Amusement
USA	New York	New York	Criterion		United Artists 
Theatre Circuit
USA	New York	New York	Embassy			Guild Theatres
USA	New York	New York	Gemini			United Artists 
Theatre Circuit
USA	New York	New York	Guild			Guild Theatres
USA	New York	New York	Murray Hill		City Cinemas
USA	New York	New York	Sutton			City Cinemas
USA	New York	New York	Village East		City Cinemas
USA	Oregon		Portland	Lloyd Center		Act III 
Theatres
USA	Tennessee	Memphis		Germantown Cinemas	Malco Theatres
USA	Texas		Austin		Lakehills		Act III 
Theatres
USA	Texas		Austin		Lincoln			Act III 
Theatres
USA	Texas		Dallas		Northpark East		General Cinema 
Theatres
USA	Washington	Bellevue	Crossroads		Act III 
Theatres
USA	Washington	Lynwood		Alderwood		Act III 
Theatres


This is not a complete list. 
-- 
Jeffry L. Johnson                                    CWRU Film Society Alumnus
Technologist, HLA Lab, Institute of Pathology, CWRU/Univ. Hosp. of Cleveland
Projectionist, Centrum Theatre;      IATSE Local 160  Officer: Examining Board
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From: travgod@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (Double-Stuff Oreo)
Subject: Re: The 100 Funniest Movies (Re: Ent. Weekly...)
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:35:41 GMT

ARGH!!!!!
I missed the original post!!!!

Could someone PLEASE e-mail me the list?!

Thank you so very, very much...
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From: Terri Buchman <buchman@osf.org>
Subject: Re: Dracula
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:32:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.204218.13616@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Deborah
Berman, dberman@cs.washington.edu writes:
>So, my question is whether Dracula has a soul.  In this movie (the
only
>Dracula movie I have seen), I think the answer is yes.  Mina brings
out
>his soul.  What other explanation can we find for the fact that he
wines
>and dines her, woos her, and then decides not to eternally damn her
with
>the same curse he has been eternally damned with (in fact, gives up
his
>own life for this), other than him actually having a soul.  I don't
think
>many would argue with me if I say that Dracula loves Mina.  And to
love
>another requires a soul.

At the risk of sounding trite, whatever.  This movie posits a
Dracula who is redeemed by love.  In this version it may work for
you as you have written.  The guy gets his soul back and heads off
into a 'good' death.

I find it a little difficult to accept his redemption because the
only person he has been good to is the one he lusts after.  I found
no larger change in him that he regrets the other evil acts he did
(the impalements, the treatment of the other vampire women, catching
babies for food, etc.)  It sounds too much like relativism to me -
well I used to be a bad guy, but the times were different then, the
other guys were bad guys too and besides, I just reformed 5 minutes
ago.

Of course, your opinion may differ.  After all I saw BSD with my
sister and she loved the movie.  I really disliked it.  Happens all
the time.
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From: Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Want approx. value of Montague Dawson print, 1958
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:01:22 GMT

   I know this may be the completely incorrect group for this but... 
 
   Does anyone out there know the approx. value of a print of "The Golden 
West-The Pamir" by Montague Dawson published in 1958 by Frost & Reed Ltd. 
of Bristol & London? It is a painting of a Tea Clipper at sea. I don't 
know how prints are graded but it is in extremely good condition as far as 
I know. 
 
 
                                                       Thanks, 
                                                     Adam Salter 
 
IMPORTANT! Reply to adam@zooid.guild.org DO NOT POST REPLIES IN THIS 
GROUP!!!
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Creation of Mickey Mouse
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:37:36 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <Bxv7D7.Dvt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu 
(Sean Alan Squier) writes:

> Does anyone know where I can get a comprehensive history of the
> creation of Mickey Mouse?  I don't want to buy any books, but a friend
> of mine is teaching a third grade class about Mickey Mouse during
> 'Disney week' and needs some interesting facts and stories.  Please
> respond to the address below. 

Ask GMS "Mark" (atts).  Besides having the distinction of *almost* being in
the film _Hero_, he also has fascinating insight into the life of the
real man that the character of Mickey Mouse was based upon.

Mark?  Care to enlighten us again?

Greg Bole                                   "For blood is the life!"
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu          Gary Oldman in _Bram Stoker's Dracula_
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