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From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01330
Keywords: author=K.Johnson
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:16:08 GMT
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: ?


                         STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

97 min., PG, Drama/Comedy, 1991, Canadian
Director: Cynthia Scott
Cast: Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Winifred Holden,
      Cissy Meddings, Mary Meigs, Catherine Roche,
      Michelle Sweeny, Beth Webber

     Several women are on a bus when it breaks down in the middle of
nowhere.  One of the women knows of an old falling apart house nearby
where no one lives anymore.  There are no provisions in the house and
they have little with them.  They have to depend on each other's talents
and knowledge until the bus can be fixed.

     STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY is a rather good film.  It does have some
slow spots, but on the whole it is well crafted.  The locations are well
picked.  By the house is a beautiful lake, and the house has nice
mountains in the background.  On a scale of zero to five, I give
STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY a three.  STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY is rated
PG for adult situations.

     The story, itself, is very well done.  It is touching.  You can
feel when the people are scared or depressed.  The actresses did a very
good job, I feel, convincing the audience that they were the character
in the film.  The one main problem with the film is that it sometimes
gets slow.  The fault is not with the actresses, I think, but lies in
the screenplay.  The other main problem with the film is that the oldest
woman tries, I think, to draw a little too much sympathy from the
audience.  If the actress, sorry I don't remember who played her, had
under played the character a bit, the character would have been more
believable.  The screenplay, otherwise, is very well done.  It is a
believable story, which makes the movie much better.  The characters are
ones that I felt myself caring about.  I was hoping that they wouldn't
die stranded out in the middle of nowhere, but would make it to
civilization.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
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From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: MY MOTHER'S CASTLE
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01310
Keywords: author=K.Johnson
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:46:07 GMT
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: ?


                           MY MOTHER'S CASTLE
                      A film review by Ken Johnson
                       Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

90 min., PG, Drama, 1990, In French with English subtitles
Director: Yves Robert
Cast: Sorry, missed them

     A young French boy is in love with the hills of France.  He would
like to spend all his time in his family's second house in the hills,
but because of schooling and his father's job he is unable to spend much
time there.  He tries, whenever possible, to go up to the hills so he
can have fun.

     I found MY MOTHER'S CASTLE to be a very interesting and beautiful
film to watch.  What makes this film so interesting is not so much the
plot, as it is in the scenery.  I highly recommend that if this film
comes to a theater near you, you go see it.  It will be well worth the
trip.  I rate MY MOTHER'S CASTLE a four on a scale of zero to five.  MY
MOTHER'S CASTLE is rated PG and I couldn't find anything that anyone
might find objectionable.

     MY MOTHER'S CASTLE is the sequel to Yves Robert's earlier film MY
FATHER'S GLORY, which unfortunately I have not yet been able to see.  MY
MOTHER'S CASTLE, and MY FATHER'S GLORY, are based on the writings of
Marcel Pagnol.  From the way this film ends I think that it will be the
last in the series.  The title of the film makes little sense until just
before the end when it gets explained to you.

     The best part, I feel, were the locations used for the filming.  I
assume that the locations are in France, but at any rate they are
perfect.  The film would not be near as good as it is if the locations
weren't as well picked.  The opening credits are shown while a camera
pans around a beautiful mountain.  The acting was really well done, by
all the people in the film.  The actors really convince you that they
are the person in the film.  I started to actually feel for the people
in the film.

     I almost didn't go to see this film when it was playing in my town,
because I thought that it was going to be boring.  I haven't had a good
record with imported films.  I have seen a dreadful French film called
CHOCOLAT, a boring Danish film called PELLE THE CONQUEROR, a semi-poor
French film called BAXTER, and a reasonably good Italian film called THE
STORY OF BOYS AND GIRLS.  But I am really glad that I went and saw MY
MOTHER'S CASTLE.  I just can't put into words the way that I felt about
it.  I am going to try to see if I can get my local art/import theater
to get MY FATHER'S GLORY to see if it is just as good.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: T2 is crap!
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:33:01 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <54567@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:
>In article <4766@krafla.rhi.hi.is> karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen) writes:

>>He didn't have to kill Sarah, it would have been pointless (see below).

>Wrong.  He killed people who didn't serve his objective:

>The only reasons that the T1000 didn't kill Sarah are:

>'We can't kill off the star'
>'We have to leave her alive for the sequel'

You forgot
'It would have been too depressing to kill of Arnie and Sarah at the end,
leaving poor little John an orphan with no one to take care of him.'
Read: The audience wouldn't have liked it.

>Jorge Diaz

-Kristy
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Subject: Re: Nude Tina Louise
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:35:12 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: holada

In article <2890089@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, gvg@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Greg Goebel) writes:
> And where is Tina Louise these days?  Some of the old GI cast are pushing up
> daisies now but I do see Bob Denver doing some things every rare now and
> then.
> 
> I always liked him better as Maynard G. Krebs ("WORK!?").  BTW, remember 
> Zelda on DOBIE GILLIS?  I heard her on the radio the other night talking 
> about how she got blackballed in filmland because she was a lesbian. 

  Ever notice how every actor/actress who no longer works is the victim 
of some kind of discrimination?  I've never seen an actor or actress 
who said,"I'm not working because I didn't have the talent or 
training needed". If hollywood really discriminated against gays, there 
would be a drastic drop in available people.

  I suggest that Ms. Zelda take a look at how Hollywood protected certain gays
of the same period (like Rock Hudson), and then check her own re-runs.
She was not that good at her craft, and I suspect that's the real reason
for her lack of employment.


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From: dk2z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Louis Kardos)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Movies so SHOCKING YOU WILL...
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:34:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.AdsabKi00Uh_A_8FER
Organization: Senior, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Director John Waters' movies will SHOCK people who think they are UNSHOCKABLE!
YOU'RE WHOLE OUTLOOK ON LIFE COULD CHANGE!!!
 
Watch them preferrably in this order:
Polyester
Female Trouble
Desparate Living
Pink Flamingos
 
These movies will leave you exhausted with fascination at how shocking
people can be. Not mere sex and violence, those subjects are not
creatively tasteless, these movies celebrate "good bad taste" Read John
Waters' autobiography "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste" to
learn more. You can find these movies in the CULT or BAD CINEMA section
of your local video store, or MAYBE in the comedy section.  Also check
out the movie HEATHERS, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
 
Don K, Carnegie Mellon, PA
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Regarding Henry:Henry V vs Henry V: Shakespeare and Men's
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:31:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Apr11.233703.9366@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:

>Besides, Jon, here you are mistaken on the meaning of "axiom."  An axiom
>is that which we assume, not prove.  My "feel free to argue" was an
>invitation to dispute this.  Your riposte "a highly debatable personal
>opinion of yours" is not an argument; because something is an opinion
>does not make it wrong.  

It was only a riposte to your calling it an "axiom," since I was
unwilling to assume it as true.  I've nothing against opinions, we all
have 'em.

>You now must show me that Shakespeare is a
>dramatist first and only a poet second, since I claim that the reverse
>is true.  

Actually, no, I don't have to do that.  My contrary opinion is that he
was not either of things "first" and the other "second."  He was a poet
AND a dramatist.  The one does not interfere with the other.  Poetry is
the stuff, the texture of his work; drama is the medium which makes use
of it.

>I'll give you a tip: your arguments in favor of editing
>Shakespeare's texts for performance seriously weaken your case. 

I'd love to know how.  (Yes, I read your other recent post expanding on
this point.)  Does the omission of two lines from Twelfth Night in an
otherwise complete performance make it a bad play?  Does it make
Shakespeare somehow not a dramatist?  Does cutting a servant's line from
The Three Sisters make Chekhov not a playwright?  How about trimming Man
and Superman, for Shaw?

I feel as if I'm being represented as a rabid text-abridger here, a
modern-day Bowdler or Henry Irving.  I merely observed that yes,
Shakespeare is sometimes cut in performance.  Sometimes not.  Sometimes
his plays are performed in translation.  Somehow his greatness survives
all this.  For the record (if it matters), I have seen onstage textually
complete performances of Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well,
Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a few more.  Does that
suddenly raise Shakespeare's dramatic stock?  I get the feeling (perhaps
mistakenly) that you regard the theater as a rather inferior place, a
rough and approximate medium from which you wish to "save" the Bard.

I think we've talked this one to death.  Cheers.

Jon Alan Conrad


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From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
Subject: Re: T2 - Why didn't Sarah die???
Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 02:21:46 GMT

domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast (alias Daniel O'Malley)) writes:

>I've just seen Terminator 2 for the second time, and there is an aspect
>of the story that bugs me. Early on in the film, T800 explains to John
>about the T1000's ability to take on anyone's shape, and how the subject was
>usually killed afterwards (like with John's foster father and the guard
>at the asylum). What I want to know is: Near the end of the film, when
>T1000 takes on Sarah's shape, how come she is spared? (I somehow doubt
>it was an act of mercy, or a slight mistake on his part [remember -
>this guy is supposed to be the ultimate killing machine])

If you had just been frozen with liquid nitrogen and had been shattered
and had to reform yourself, you'd make a few mistakes too.

>--
>+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+  |-----Daniel O'Malley-----|----"Look - I didn't mount an invasion just to----|  |-------------------------|-------whisk some flippin' eggs!", protested------|
>|        //               |----the Supreme Dalek from the TARDIS kitchen.----|  |   ====//  ====    ====  |--------------------------------------------------|
>| //   // //   // //   // |---"In the begining, the universe was created.----|  |  ===//   ===// //   //  |-This has made a lot of people angry and has been-|
>|-------------------------|---------widely regarded as a bad move."----------|  |--domalley@unix1.tcd.ie--|----The Restaurant at the End Of The Universe-----|  +-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

Hey, systems have a 4-line limit for signatures for a REASON!  PLEASE
construct a smaller signature file.  10 lines is WAY too many lines.

Another way to get around such signature limits is to read the signature
in manually, and not have the system add it automatically.  (Myself, I
set up another command in vi, control-a, to position the cursor at the
end of the editor and ":r ~/sig".)

--
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gberigan `-' cse.unl.edu | seriously.  Keep out of sight of children.
From: ddrumm@amiganet.chi.il.us (Daniel Drumm)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best Scenes in movies  (Another annoying thread)
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:16:47 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Markus Stumptner:
 
In that car chase in To Live and Die in LA that you mentioned (with one of the
best theme songs for an action movie by the Wang Chungster) there is something
really weird, and I noticed it when I saw it on video. When the cut to a shot
of the Impala they are driving weaving through traffic, it looks like it is on
some sort of swivel underneath the car. It turns so weird, and the car doesn't
lean when it swerves back and forth. Either that's an awfully tight suspension
or they stuck a swivel under the car. I don't know why I remember that, but I
do.
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: NEVSKY at Davies?
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:30:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: dog.22526
Reply-To: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
Distribution: ba
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

A teasingly short blurb in a recent San Francisco Chron indicated 
that ALEXANDER NEVSKY would be presented in Davies Symphony Hall 
with the score played by a live orchestra.  This blessed event 
would occur in early February 1993.  Anybody know more?

--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
From: epp@mala.bc.ca (Lorne Epp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: rollerball question
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:52:29 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

In article <ru88qINN6hr@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM writes:
> o.k. movie fans. one question i can't find the answer to.
> 
> on what books were the following movies based on:
> 
> ROLLERBALL
> 
> SOLENT GREEN
> 

I don't know about ROLLERBALL, but SOYLENT GREEN is based on
"Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:33:53 GMT
From: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain Sinclair)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: buckaroo banzai--good?? bad??
Reply-To: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney

tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:
 >I enjoyed watching it but it appears amateurish and the plot is
 >flakey. Then again, it's meant to be!

I watched it again recently, and it really is... different.  But not
nearly so extreme that there should never be a sequel (which is
the firm opinion of the bloke who owns the rights.)  All the Japanese
people I know who've seen it detest it, too. :-)

                                                    ,
I liked the terrible running joke about John Bigboote.



--
Iain Sinclair   axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au                             ne cede.
From: moscatel@granite.ma30.bull.com (Joseph Moscatelli)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Why Horror? (was: Silence Lambs & Cape Fear Hysteria !!!)
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:30:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: mips2.1992Apr7.163029.1951
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.

In article <1992Apr6.164040.1@mdcbbs.com> rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
 
>rumor has it he acquired the famous lip twitch). James Arness's first film
>role was as a human Vegetable in "It Came From Outer Space". And as

He also portrayed a vegetable in "The Thing ...." :-)

-- 
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From: jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Music from Goodfellas
Keywords: Soundtrack, Gruesome, Pesci, Euphony
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:35:04 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

epohl@hubcap.clemson.edu (Erik Alan Pohl) writes:

# 	Could anyone e-mail or post the music played during (or right
# after) the first kill in Goodfellas?  Or I think it was the first kill,
# in a bar, the corpse gets thrown in the trunk of their car, gets
# buried beside a road... the music playing in the bar when the murder
# takes place is soooo ethereal and fitting.      

"Aquarius" - Donovan
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: "alien^3" and "Hot Shots" [was: __A L I E N 3__ news]
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:10:05 GMT

>Actually I think the chihuahua is a reference to the Star Trek episode: The
>Trouble With Tribbles.  By the end of this episode everyone is having to watch
>where they sit for fear of sitting on a tribble!

One of the earliest "Monty Python's Flying Circus" Episodes, if I remember
correctly, had a running gag about characters accidentally sitting on 
pigs, after which the offending porker would be shot.  I doubt that the
chihuahua business is a reference to this, but I thought I'd throw it in
for all you animal-sitter fans out there.  :)


                               --Steve Stelter
                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: ed_l1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: New versions Bladerunner
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:57:00 HST
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

In article <dvlmal.702854615@zeus>, dvlmal@cs.umu.se (Mats Arvendal) writes:
> I've heard some roumors that new video-releases of Alien, The Abyss and 

> Bladerunner coming out this spring.  Anyone else heard something about this?

We have been talking about the re-new-old release of Blade Runner (2 words)
on alt.cult-movies for months now.

In a nutshell, Ridley Scott wanted to re-release the ORIGINAL version of
Blade Runner to theatres, and word has it (after some West Coast showings)
that a "few more" scenes will be shot and it will be released in the fall.

The Blade Runner that showed in theatres around the country several years ago 
was a chopped version of the original "director's cut."
The first video release included scenes not included in the theatre version,
but was essentially the same movie.  Perhaps the new video that you say is
rumored will be the "director's cut" (first theater sneak preview).
However, if they are releasing a theater version in the fall, I doubt it.

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From: ph9jba@nestor.uucp (82245-anglum)
Subject: "THUNDERHEART"
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 13:37:30 GMT

'thunderheart' is a representation of what actually happened at Pine Ridge
in the '70's.  
 The religious sequences are accurately done; and the belief system expressed
 is also true.
 The debate currently going on about the movie's validity is nonsenical--ask
 any Lakota.
 The names of the major players have been changed--but for the rest--it is
 fictionalized history--just as the section of 'War and Remembance' which
 dealt with the concentration camps.
 Leonard Peltier was accurately depicted; and the Grandfather Medicine Person
 was Frank Fools Crow to whom the movie was dedicated.
 The only part Ibeg to differ with was the reason shown for the problem--it
 was just wasichu greed.
 Next time have an Oglala Lakota review the movie.

Jeannine Crowfoot -- Hunkpapa Lakota

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From: eabu202@orion.oac.uci.edu (Virany Margaret Kreng)
Subject: Jo Anne Worley
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:18:07 GMT

During Beauty and the Beast, I found that the voice of the Wardrobe sounded
familiar and the credits listed the voice as belonging to Jo Anne Worley (sp?)

Can anybody tell me what else she might have been in?  Her name sounds familiar
too but I can't seem to place the face...

Thanx...

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From: garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Re: on an unrelated subject...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:53:27 GMT

In a previous article, Scott W Roby posted a way to start a new thread
without making a followup. I just wanted to add that in the version of rn
that I use, you can start a new thread by following up to the $ article,
which is really nonexistant. So just type '$', which puts you at the end of
the newsgroup, then use 'f' to follow up.  This way you don't have to
exit rn. Someone please let me know if this is wrong. t

-- 
Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
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