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From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Re: Why I Like Colorization
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:09:11 GMT

In article <902@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>Colorization is only done to a *video* version of the film, not a celluloid
>version. Most black and white films were done without TV in mind. TV has
>much less contrast than film does, the result being that many B&W films
>are difficult to see well on TV (especially night scenes). I find that
>colorization brings out the details of the scene much better so it is less
>of a strain on the eye to see. I get tired of low light scenes where all
>I can make out is a face or two (glorious B&W indeed!, more like glorious
>black).
You don't need at all colorization to adapt the gray scale range of movies to
TV. Some gray scale histogram modification is all it takes.
								M.H.
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From: ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon)
Subject: Pet Sematary II
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Distribution: rec.arts.movies
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:14:46 GMT

I was driving in morning traffic yesterday, when I happened to see a bus
with a poster on its side advertising "Pet Sematary II."  The opening date
was August, but I couldn't see exactly when.

I never saw the first film, but I did read the book, and I want to know how
they are continuing the plot, or if the plot of this new film is totally
different?

Inquiring minds would like to know.....


--Karen

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From: mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu (MARC Y. WASSERMAN)
Subject: Wayne's World Music Change
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 01:04:11 GMT

hello:

I just watched the release of "Wayne's World" and
noted that on the package for the movie it said
"Some music has been changed for this videocasette".
Notably the scene that involved the song "Stairway
to Heaven" had been altered.  Does anyone know
the reason behind this?

Thank you.

Marc Wasserman
mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu

-- 
"So you're choosing to run from your own people in a rackety old TARDIS?"
		     D  O  C  T  O  R     W  H  O
				30 Years
"Why not?  After all, that's how it all started!"
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From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Re: why i watch movies
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 09:08:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.1489.26503@channel1> "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com> writes:
>     "Good" means, quite simply, "entertaining."  If I enjoy a movie
>     so much that I could easily forgive any flaws, that I want to
>     see it again, and that I like thinking about this movie and
>     laughing at the jokes ("Sleeper"), or shuddering at the suspense
>     ("Aliens"), or thinking about the deep character development ("Raging
>     Bull"), then it's a good movie.

I think you should add: to me. "Good" means to me, quite simply, "entertaining."
Of course it depends on how you define entertaining. "Salo" by Pasolini is a 
good movie in my opinion, but it's definitely not entertaining. The same is
true for "The silence" ( Bergman ), "Landscape in the mist" and many others.
But maybe some people are even "entertained" by "Salo", who knows...
								M.H.
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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re:Less Than Zero?
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:02:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.211915.17767@sco.COM> maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes) writes:
>
>"Less Than Zero" was in the Critic's Choice display at my local video
>outlet.  I'd assumed it was vacuous teenage tripe about roughing it in
>daddy's Beverly Hills mansion, but now I'm wondering........was it
>critically acclaimed?  Was it more than just another fast cars/fast babes
>teen flick?

The book is pretty good...the movie is a disappointment if you have
read the book...but the movie can stand on its own...with an
especially good supporting performance by James Spader.

Gerald
From: margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: *GREAT MOVIE ACTORS*
Keywords: male only (hunks vs. babes)
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:50:07 GMT

I keep seeing this thread for great movie babes.  Well, why not one
on hunks?  Anyone interested in playing with this?

Older
****

Charlton Heston
Cary Grant
Marlon Brando

etc, etc

Younger
******

well, know me.... Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Patrick Swayze

but, seriously

Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Mel Gibson

etc, etc

If not, then just ignore me.  Most people do.  (no, really.  it's
usally safer.)

margaret@cs.arizona.edu
From: Eric T. Jue <etjue@lbl.gov>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Bruce Lee's son?
Date: 18 Aug 1992 16:14:12 GMT
Organization: LBL
Distribution: world
     <1992Aug17.213023.9839@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.243.64.109
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <twong.05z8@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca> Thomas Wong,
twong@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca writes:
>Now this could be interesting... Brandon Lee (which I assume
is son of Bruce
>Lee) is staring in his own movie due out soon.. The trailers
look interesting
>if you're into these type of movies. 

I was in part of the production for one of his upcoming films
called "Moving Target" co-starring Dustin Nguyen.  This film
has much action without much martial arts.  Brandon doesn't
want to be type-cast as another martial-artist turned actor,
but be regarded as a legitimate film actor.  This movie should
be out early next year.

Eric T. Jue
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Manon of the Spring (was something really stupid)
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:00:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: lll-wink.134080
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Aug20.211302.20883@sco.COM> maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes) writes:
<In other parts of the Western world, audiences are drawn to slick, big 
<budget films with slick, expensive actors.  HOWEVER, outside of North 
<America, audiences will also accept the "smaller" films more readily than
<will North American audiences.  
[. . .]
<I haven't a clue how much T2 grossed in Australia.  But "The Year My Voice
<Broke" grossed more in Australia than it ever will in the U.S. (American
<version excluded).

Ah, perhaps this explains why "Young Einstein" was such a huge hit
in Australia, but such an incredible flop in the US! :-)

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov
From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:52:51 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

In article <1992Aug13.121740.16275@cbnews.cb.att.com> trb@cbnews.cb.att.com (tom.balent) writes:
>In article <12582@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
>>>>>7.  _Zulu_ - Michael Caine's first, one of his best.
>>>-- 
>>>
>>>I considered adding this one to the Best Musical List that was here recently.
>>Does anyone remember the later film entitled "Zulu Dawn" which
>>depicted the events which occurred to other British units the'
>>day before.
>>
>>Zulu Dawn was one of the first politically correct movies. It was
>>absolutely dull and tedious but very correct.
>>
>
>It was also accurate. And thus the problem with war movies that 
>try to show the war part...they are often confusing and boring
>(unless you know something about the battle in question, i.e. who the
>major players are, etc.).
>
>While you may think ZD was PC, it did in fact show what really
>happened, that the British thought a bunch of savages could easily
>be taken care of in a few short weeks (the Zulu War took much longer

I agree that this was the attitude shown in Zulu Dawn. However it
ws also the attitude that was displayed in Zulu.

Zulu was about ther clash of cultures. The clash between the British
and Zulu culures and the clash between the upper and lower clash
cultures which was taking place at the same time in the UK.

Zulu showed the clash of cultures in the opening scene in which the
Zulu maidens were being paired with the warriors. The British missionary's
daughter was horrified when she was told that the object that the maidens
were giving the warriors represented their virginity but at the same time
she was fascinated. During the battle scenes themselves, the British
officers realized that the Zulu general was using planning and tactics
and that the Zulu army was a highly trained highly disciplined force.
The British gained more and more respect for Zulu capability throughout
the battle until the Zulu were regarded as their equals. There was talk
at the beginning of savages but only talk of Zulu tactics at the end.

The famous scene of the duel of chants between the Welsh chorus and
the Zulus emphasizes this. This scene showed the equality between the
two forces. Welsh soldiers had been shown earlier to shirk duty, drink
and be generally slack. However under Zulu attack they had showed
courage and initiative. Like the Zulu they showed themselves to be
true, stalwart and valiant warriors. This also played into the
clash of upper and lower clash cultures. The men in the ranks were
regarded as lazy drunks by their officers. The movie showed otherwise

Zulu Dawn attempted to show the same thing but with absolutely no
subtlety. It showed endless scenes of British racism and British`
incompetence with little continuity and pasteboard characters.

Zulu ended with the salute of the Zulu general to a worthy adversary.
Zulu showed the dignity of cultures and individuals. Zulu Dawn offered`
PC cliches in a dull movie.

-- 
i.sinature
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: What do you call YOUR remote?
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:53:34 GMT

>In <8059@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Nancy M.
>Schnepp) writes:
>
>The TV Guide has an article this week about "zapping".
>in other words, channel scanning.
>At our house we call our remote "the clicker".  Hand
>me "the clicker" is lots quicker than saying, "hand
>me the remote control", don't you think??   Hah!


  This thread, and the popularity of it, shows how this
  has been one of the worst summers for movies in a very
  long time.  Except for one or two films, this season's
  crop is a poor one at best.

  -- Mark
From: quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Nyarlathotep)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Please help identify Canadian Lethal Virus Movie
Date: 15 Aug 92 16:33:39 GMT
Reply-To: quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Nyarlathotep)
Distribution: na
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Aug13.184449.27806@leland.Stanford.EDU> mesora@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rose Adams) writes:
>
>I saw this request on one of my mailing lists and thought I would
>forward it on to this newsgroup.  I'm drawing a blank on this one.
>It would be apprciated if you would send the response to Keith Boettcher
>at:
>	sanjoboe@class.org
> 
>Thanks!
>
>PLOT FOLLOWS:
>
>We are trying to identify a movie remembered from about 1980.
>Here is the plot:  A highly lethat virus excapes from an
>experimental lab in Canada.  The first victim is a bird.  Some
>children on a snowy playground bury the bird and it touching it,
>start the spread of the disease.  A woman flees to the USA, not
>realizing she is safe from the disease, but she is a carrier and
>leaves death in her wake.  One stop she makes is at a fast-food
>place that has just received an order for many sandwiches to be
>delivered.  An employee touches the money she gives him and goes
>on making sandwiches...
>
>Can anyone identify the movie.  We've tried movie index sources
>we know of, but hope someone's memory will help.  For all we
>know, it might not be a theatrical release, but maybe a TV movie
>or even an episode of a TV show.
>
>end of forwarded message...
>
>Cheers!
>

I think it is called "Panic". Was it filmed in Montreal
but was made to look like the generic american city?

--
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  pas parcequ'ils me donnent de fortes emotions, mais
  bien parceque je suis tres grande."
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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Movies starring Claude Rains Wanted.
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:47:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.004130.42718@watson.ibm.com>, yozzo@watson.ibm.com
(Ralph Yozzo) writes:
> 
> One of my favorite actor is Claude Rains and I'd like to see if there is
> any movies that he was in that I missed.
>  
> I've seen him in 
>   "Caesar and Cleopatra"
>   "Casablanca"
>   "Robin Hood" 
>   "The Phantom of the Opera"
>   "The Invisible Man"
> 
>  Did I miss any?
> 

 I'm sure you've missed many.  Off the top of my head, I can
 think of two:

	Notorious
	Pied Piper of Hamelin

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From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Subject: Alan Rickman quote.
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:17:44 GMT


In one movie, I think it is one of the Die Hards, villian Alan Rickman
says something like,
	And Alexander looked out on the breadth of his domain, and wept,
	For there were no more kingdoms left to conquer. ......'Benefits
	of a classical education.'

I'm looking for the name of the movie, and the name of the piece he was
quoting, author, etc.


Thanks
From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Peter Lorre in "Crime and Punishment"
Summary: Wondering if this is on video.
Keywords: Lorre, Arnold, Sternberg
Date: 17 Aug 92 04:50:03 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware


Speaking of Peter Lorre films, does anyone know if the Josef von Sternberg
directed "Crime and Punishment" (1935) is available on videocassette.  I saw
it a few years ago and found Lorre's performance immensely entertaining...

Ben.

-- 
Ben Williams
bew@brahms.udel.edu

               What we got here is a failure to communicate...
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unforgivable  ***SPOILERS***
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:22:35 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Aug12.151322.14073@scott.skidmore.edu>, dtschett@scott.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter) writes:
> 
> I agree with Chris, bad movie all the way.  Some moments I liked
> involved character interplay--but not enough was said about why Gene
> Hackman's character was behaving that way.  Who was he protecting and
> why??

If you interpret "Little Bill" as analogous to the current efforts
of big city police chiefs to solve all the problems of crime by
the use of summary violence, gun control laws, and other police
state tactics, his actions are considerably more understandable.
His intentions are good -- to prevent violence, and to keep
scum out of town that might be a problem.  But good intentions are
not enough.  The level of violence against English Bob, no matter
how deserving a character, represent a contempt for judicial
process (can you say, "Rodney King?") that will eventually lead
to his own death.

The gun control law, intended as a way of reducing violence in 
town, doesn't do a damn thing about cowboys with knives cutting
up prostitutes, but that's not the major category of victim
that gun control laws are intended to protect anyway.

The sheriff's decision to simply require financial compensation
to Slim for damaging Slim's "merchandise," rather than actually
punish the cowboys for a horribly serious crime (mayhem), is
clearly a comment on today's America, where rape is treated 
less seriously than such victimless crimes as drug abuse,
gun ownership, prostitution, and gambling.

It's clear to me.


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
I can make myself popular on USENET again -- all I have to say is that I'm not 
disturbed by the support for North American Man-Boy Love Association in the 
homosexual community.  Being popular at a child's expense isn't worth it.
From: rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:15:58 GMT
Organization: Tigana Restoration Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


In article <2674@nlsun1.oracle.nl> gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley) writes:
>     
>BUT...the terminator we see infiltrate the rebels in T1 does NOT look
>like Arnold at all (the one that massacres the humans in the bunker).
>reason Terminators were so useful to Skynet was because they looked 
.
.
.
>human and so could infiltrate secret rebel strongholds (Reese says


	Another possibility is that John, the adult, wants to send
something back that will be reconginize by his mother as a Terminator.
-- 
[ Rodrick Su           ]-----------------------------------------------------] 
[----------------------[ A bomb lives only as it is falling.		     ] 
[ rod@cats.ucsc.edu    ]------------------------[ ``Use of Weapons''         ] 
[ rod@ucscb.ucsc.edu   ]------------------------[   Iain M. Banks            ]
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From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: The Dark Half, when & who? 
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:28:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.111541.18212@ifi.uio.no> kjetilgr@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Granlien) writes:
>
>	I've heard rumours of thisw movie being in production.
>Can anyone tell me more about this? At least confirming the rumours?

"The Dark Half" is directed by George Romero and stars Timothy Hutton.
It's been completed for quite some time now, but just hasn't made it into
theaters yet (financial problems most likely).

Maybe it will be released this Fall.

                                          -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
From: wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Ezster Balint Filmfest of the Mind
Summary: Revenge! (For the Blues Brothers quote thread a while back)
Keywords: babe ultimate movie **
Date: 20 Aug 92 05:26:32 GMT
Reply-To: eprice@sql.sybase.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug19.181504.8972@jade.tufts.edu>
gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.212007.21986@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>>rice@mirage.rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice) writes:
>>
>>>I've been trying to see every film Ezster Balint has been in.
>>
>>Doesn't this belong to the "** ULTIMATE MOVIE BABES **" thread?
>
>	Sunuva beech!

	I am dee veenner!

-Ed (not Tim), eprice@sql.sybase.com (not wildman@...)

ObUltimateMovieBabeInfo: I noticed Eszter Balint was in a play a
couple of years ago in New York.
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Ezster Balint Filmfest of the Mind
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:15:04 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Aug18.212007.21986@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>rice@mirage.rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice) writes:
>
>>I've been trying to see every film Ezster Balint has been in.
>
>Doesn't this belong to the "** ULTIMATE MOVIE BABES **" thread?

	Sunuva beech!

--
"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like
prunes than rhubarb does."              -Groucho Marx 

gharris@jade.tufts.edu          George Harris, Tufts Univ. Dept. of Mathematics
From: bmahony@neumann.une.edu.au (Al Bundy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What do you call YOUR remote?
Summary: Re: What do you call YOUR remote?
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:22:29 GMT



It's known as the "God Switch" at our place...

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From: marck@nwu.edu (Jater & Co.)
Subject: Re: *THE HOT SPOT* Spoilers - Did the ending irritate anyone?
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: NU ACNS
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:52:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.154800.9542@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>,
chucksi@stc.comm.mot.com (Charlie) wrote:
> 
> Did this 
> ending irritate anyone else out there (understanding of course, it's just 
> a movie)?


i guess i was laughing so hard at this absolutely hilarious attempt at
filmmaking that i'd given up on the plot a good hour before the ending.  i
suppose my girlfriend and i hung on 'til the bitter end 'cause we had been
told by someone who saw it in a theater that the sex in this movie was
particularly tasteful, particularly hot, and well-shot.

hmm.  must have been the "special cut" that was only shown in the theaters
and not released on video.


mlb


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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: PC terms for actresses? (was Re: ** ULTIMATE CLASSIC MOVIE BABES ** Who?)
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:18:17 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:

>I don't know.  For the first 20 years of my life, women in film, drama, etc,
>were referred to as "actresses".  Women in the military were referred to
>as "ma'am" instead of "sir".  Now, I've even heard women referred to with
>the title Mr.

The only place I recall seeing women referred to by the title of "Mr." is Star 
Trek.  Has this happened anywhere else?
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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