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From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: anybody else remember this film?
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:05:04 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <1992Dec28.154206.14430@dde.dk> pck@dde.dk (Peter Roboz Kristensen) writes:
>dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
>
>>I've been scratching my brain over this one, can't find a listing in the
>>usual sources, and no one else seems to remember it.
>>  
>>Back in about 1965 I saw a movie whose premise was the Israeli war of
>>indepnednce against the British and Arabs.  The key point was it followed
>>some illegal immigrants arriving hidden in shipping cartons.
>
>Films covering the subject is "Exodus", but
>
>>I'm -pretty sure- one actress was Sophia Loren, but none of the references
>
>I don't think Sophia Loren was in it.
>
>>Sorry I can't recall much more....  ANy hints greatly appreciated.
>>  
>Me neither at the moment.
>

How about JUDITH (1966) in which Loren plays an Austrian Jew
who survives the camps "with makeup intact" as Matlin
comments and goes to Israel in 1948 to locate her Nazi
husband? Video title: CONFLICT. Directed by Daniel Mann.
With Jack Hawkins, Peter Finch, et al.

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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From: zaphod@madnix.uucp (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: BLADE RUNNER FAQ Version 0.9
Summary: Why you should read the book
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:01:04 GMT
Organization: ARP Software

pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
 
>As discussed many times here, and hopefully as explained in the new faq, the
>book is a poor guide to the film.
 
   Depends what you mean by 'guide'.
 
>.................................The obvious differences in world population,
>the fact that the movie replicants (replicant is a word not used in the book
>btw) are capable of empathy and love, and the obvious differences in theme and
>plot make the movie more an answer to the book than a recapitulation of it.
 
   Many little details were picked up from the book but never
explained, and some of them are inconsistent with the other
changes that were made. Also (IMHO) not having read the book puts
you at a disadvantage in the net.discussions.
 
>But I phrased this question poorly. It should have read, "Why couldn't Tyrell
>afford a real owl when Sebastien has live doves in his attic?"
 
   How do you know they were 'live'? The book implies that there
are android spiders and frogs that could have escaped and become
'wild'. Also, I think it's safe to assume that a few species
would survive just to make pests of themselves :-).
 
   Or (more likely) the filmmakers just didn't think of it.
 
==================
zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
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From: mmidboe@nyx.cs.du.edu (digital saint)
Subject: Re: Underrated Actor: Alan Rickman 
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 17:49:14 GMT


     The best Alan Rickman to date has to be Closet Land though. Closet
Land may be one of the most underrated movies of all time. It was rather
brilliant, but the Amnesty International thing kinda got on my nerves.
Alan Rickman plays like an interrogator in Closet Land and Madeleine Stowe
is his victim. The sets are brilliant, the story is brilliant, the acting
is brilliant. If you like Alan Rickman I highly recommend this movie. He
does play a bad guy, I wonder if he will be stuck in those roles forever,
but he does better than anything else I have seen him in.


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From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:10:18 GMT

On another note, I just discovered that BB has merged with a major
music store here in houston and yep, you guessed it, these stores
will no long carry movies.  Of course, they just happen to carry 
movies I usually can't find at BB and rent them for $ 0.49 a night.

Is this happening all over?

--
Ed McCreary                                               ,__o
mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com                       _-\_<,
"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao."  (*)/'(*)
From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: TOYS
Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:26:51 GMT
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This is one of the most frustrating movies of recent times.  For the third  
time, Robin Williams has made an overblown movie of style over substance (the  
other two being Popeye (which I liked) and Hook (which I really didn't)).   
Williams played the quietly manic son of a recently-dead toy manufacturer whose  
inheritence is passed on to his uncle.  Joan Cusack played his sister and Robin  
Wright played the woman he gets interested in.  I don't remember the name of  
the actors who played the uncle or Cousin Patrick.  I think the actor who  
played Patrick was acting in his first movie, and he played his role so  
straight that he provided a perfect foil for Williams and Cusack.

The first hour of this movie is full of delight and fun surprises.  The writing  
is a tad weak, but the acting was pretty good considering.  In a movie like  
this, the acting usually dies before the writing does, but that didn't happen  
here.  The art direction and camera angles were inventive.  The movie starts to  
fall apart in the middle and dies during the last half (though the last ten  
minutes or so return to being quirky).

Barry Levinson and the writer (or did Levinson write this one too?) should be  
taken out and "re-educated."

I saw this movie in a cinema with eight theaters.  When people saw the long  
faces walk out of this movie at the end, about 1/3rd of the people waiting went  
to see Forever Young instead (the line for A Few Good Men being too long).   
This movie is being marketed as a comedy, but for nearly twenty excrutiating  
minutes, there's absolutely nothing funny about it.

*  In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak *
*  because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I *
*  didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade *
* unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... *
*Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.*
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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Help: 'BASIC INSTINCT' confusion
Date: 29 Dec 92 02:13:59 GMT
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Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Dec27.061813.14898@u.washington.edu>, 
tt300zx@milton.u.washington.edu (twin turbo 300zx) writes:
 
*SPOILERS*

> 	i remember that there was some discussion on the the ending
> 	of the movie: 'basic instinct' (michael douglas & sharon stone)
 
> 	my questions: who was the girl that played 'dr. beth gardner'?
> 		      what's her real name?

Jean Tripplehorn
 
> 		      so it was 'proved' or 'verified' that 'beth' is
> 		      the one who killed 'gus'(the police) in the dorm?

I have read that Verhoven believed Stone's character did all the killing.
I thought this was all tied up in the end.  The scene in the book she wrote
showed she killed Gus, and there was alot of proof that she framed Beth.

Sharon Stone's character killed everyone in the movie, and it seems that her
framing Beth was so good that many viewers still thought Beth was guilty.

But don't loose too much sleep over the logic in this film.  It was very
contrived...slick, and very entertaining...but pure trash.

Just my opinion.

Greg Bole                         "I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu         Gary Oldman in _Bram Stoker's Dracula_
From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Extreme Aspect Ratio?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 08:55:29 EET
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

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

> Films shot in Ultra Panavision have a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (from 
> Carr & Hayes). [...]
> 	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Would you believe that the TV here showed a pan&cram version of this about
three weeks ago?  Awful "talking noses" syndrome.  And we all know that it
was released as a letterbox laserdisc not too long ago, so there is a high-
quality LBX video transfer existant...

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From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Date: 3 Jan 1993 20:53:58 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1993Jan3.021504.16584@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> xilin@northstar.dartmouth.edu writes:
[Sorry if I've mangled this a bit]

>[Amadeus] is a very special movie because people who love it love>
>Mozart and his music more than the movie itself.  Am I right? 


Dearly as I love Mozart's music, the primary reason I admire AMADEUS 
is because of the way it uses the character of Saliari to explore 
the destructive power of envy, and to vividly illustrate why it 
is considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins against God. 

It's a very complex and subtle movie, and Murray Abraham was 
brilliant in it. 

--Barbara 

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From: wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Emma Thompson a shoe-in for Best Actress??
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:50:21 GMT
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rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su) writes:


>	Now that LA and NY film critic circles and National Film board 
>	has come up with their selection of the best.  Emma Thompson was
>	one item of agreement for all three as best actress.  One ponders
>	the meaning...

She was unbelievably excellent in the film.

Does anyone know of any other possible Best Actress nominees this year?
The only ones besides Thompson who come to mind are Shirley MacLaine in
"Used People" (which is only just out) and Michelle Pfeiffer in "Love
Fields" (not yet out).  Both actresses got very good reviews for these.

--
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 You are not forgotten.  Your smile will echo forever."
   -- Ryerson Schwark, to our friend Rob Bernardo.
From: mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew Melmon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
Date: 31 Dec 92 22:29:50 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:

>|One might call the film a "White Elephant" if one were a particularly
>|masochistic pundit.

>Or not.  How much of the cost of the film was donated by Cosby, Oprah,
>Jordan, Lee himself, et al?  Wasn't it order 15 million?

No.  In order to raise additional financing beyond what the studio
provided, Lee went to prominent black entertainers.  So, those
stars would have provided approximately six million, at most (Lee
I believe invested two million of the three he was to be paid 
for the film - compared to Cosby and Oprah, Spike does not have
the financial resources to actually back a film).  I assume that
Cosby and Oprah expected to get a return on their money, and that
it was not just given away.  Depending on the financial arrangements
payback would not occur until the film returned to the studio
what it cost to produce - and for that to happen, it will have to
roughly double its cost in gross (so, 66 million) *plus* ten
million for promotional expenses (that's probably a low estimate).

So, until it hauls in 76 million, nobody makes any money (except
the theater owners - maybe).

I will, however, admit that I do not like Spike Lee, and so I
am somewhat eager to see him go down in flames.  It is entirely
possible that the overseas market will save them - though I
am very skeptical the Japanese will even sniff at it, and Japan
is a pretty damn big market.  If, however, it does manage to
match the American release for receipts, the film will make
perhaps two million in profit, divided amongst the investors.

Spike is going to take a bath on this one, and when your a
fire-breathing, controversy-seeking director of arguable
talent - you don't get many baths before you go away.
From: yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Yousten)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: re. Citizen Kane Question
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:52:05 GMT
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In article <1992Dec23.144603.29202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dtussey@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel W Tussey) writes:
>The fact that Rosebud was the name of Kane's sled as a boy is a fundamental 
>part of the movie, as I see it.  The entire movie is about a man who is 
>searching for happiness.  The sled symbolizes the happiness and comfort he felt
>as a boy, and that was taken away from him.  A big deal is made about the 
>Rosebud reference because it is the symbol for everyman's search for happiness.

Right around the end, one reporter (I think) says something like "Kane 
was a man who had everything.  Maybe Rosebud was something he had and
lost."

Like his childhood.
--
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Blacksburg, VA			I saw it just a friend ago"
kay@radford.vak12ed.edu		-from Ogden Nash, "The Wendigo"
From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: re. Citizen Kane Question
Date: 29 Dec 92 05:56:56 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell) writes:

> In article <1992Dec23.144603.29202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dtussey@magnus.
> >The fact that Rosebud was the name of Kane's sled as a boy is a fundamental 
> >part of the movie, as I see it.  The entire movie is about a man who is 
> >searching for happiness.  The sled symbolizes the happiness and comfort he f
> >as a boy, and that was taken away from him.  A big deal is made about the 
> >Rosebud reference because it is the symbol for everyman's search for happine
> 
> How about the idea that the sled isn't about happiness, but about his
> ability to strike out at the world. He isn't able to control anyone anymore
> and he rembers back to when he was a child and he manipulated his parents.
> This was also the time he first gained his wealth and did anything he
> wanted.
> 
> Maybe he was wishing that he could start over again and not turn out
> to be the "control" addict that he had become?
> 
> Flip
> 
> -- 
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Another interesting "sled" thing, was that the new sled that Thatcher 
gave him, was named "Crusader", Foreshadowing his eventuall crusades 
against big business.

Dascoser
From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Where is Tippi Hedren?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:54:52 GMT
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In article <1992Dec20.083423.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>I am interested to know if anyone knows whatever happened to Tippi Hedren who
>appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie.  I've read D. Spoto's
>biography so I am aware of Hedren's falling out with Hitchcock and his alledged
>advances and obsession with her.  Did she completely leave the film industry

Kindergarten Cop? (Or was that another ex-Hitchcock actress?)

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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: The Crying Game
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:09:26 GMT
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Yes! Very entertaining and recommended.
From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental) "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:21:44 GMT

In <12060078@hpmwdjs1.sr.hp.com> smorrow@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Steve Morrow) writes:

>>darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie)

>> (opinion of Braid Donors needed)

>I saw the preview for Brain Donors on a rental video too, only I thought it
>looked funny, so I rented it and was sorely disappointed; many stolen routines
>from other "zany" comedians, chiefly the Marx Brothers, with John Turturro (I
>think that's his name) doing a really awful Groucho imitation.  If you didn't
>particularly like the preview, you might do well skipping the movie.

I loved it and thought that Turturro played his part brilliantly, it was
obviously a copy of the Marx Brothers' comedies but that IMHO didn't make it
any worse.

Highly recommended.

>>Darren

>Steve 

Karl
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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Howards End (was Re: Howard's End)
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:44:21 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1h75unINNavg@transfer.stratus.com>, 
lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann) writes:

>>What Emma Thompson film? 
 
> Howard's End.

Ok, it's a nit pick, but I've seen this one pop up quite a few times.
There is no apostrophe.  The title of the film is:

_Howards End_ 

It was the name of the family estate that Venessa Redgrave's character owned.

Greg Bole                         "I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu         Gary Oldman in _Bram Stoker's Dracula_
From: malhotra@duke.cs.duke.edu (Manish Malhotra)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Robert De Niro, most overrated actor?
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:34:14 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <7226@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
>ssastry@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sudhir K Sastry) writes:
>
>
>His performance in "The Deer Hunter" put him on the map for good. True, he's
>not as versatile as Brando, but in the right role he's as good as it gets.
>
>John


Whoa ! Just a minute please. Talking of versatility, how about 
"Cape Fear" (a psycho-killer), "Awakenings" (a handicapped), 
"Godfather II", "Raging Bull", "Deer Hunter", etc.  
I would be surprised if you could show more versatility in Brando's
roles. His roles in "On the waterfront", "A street car named desire", and 
"Viva Zapata" (some of his best roles in IMHO) etc. are very similar 
-- An angry young man. "Last Tango in Paris" and "Godfather" were some 
other good roles. But I really wouldn't say that Brando showed more 
versatility than DeNiro so far has. 

Manish
From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Extreme Aspect Ratio?
Date: 2 Jan 93 00:20:24 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson) writes:
>In a previous article, cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott) says:

>>up: Which U.S. theatrical release holds the record for the most
>>extreme aspect ratio?
>>
>>       Three popular guesses:
>>
>>       -1) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
>>       -2) SPARTACUS
>>       -3) THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
>>
>>       2001 was the most popular, but nobody could rember the
>>exact aspect ratio. We know that SPARTACUS is up there at 2.6:1,
>>and so is THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.

>None of these. _2001_ and _Spartacus_ should be 2.2:1. _The Good..._
>is standard anamorphic 2.40:1.

>Films shot in Ultra Panavision have a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (from 
>Carr & Hayes). 
>	The Big Fisherman
>	Mutiny On the Bounty
>	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
>	The Fall of the Roman Empire
>	Battle of the Bulge
>	The Greatest Story Ever Told
>	The Hallelujah Trail
>	Kartoum

>Cinerama was shown at an aspect ratio of 2.72-2.77

>If you count special venue presentations then Circlevision would be the most 
>extreme.

	I assume that Carr and Hayes refer to the authors or editors of a
book. What is the name of this volume, and does it contain a list of aspect
ratios according to lense type?

	If so, I would be interested. (And I might be interested, anyway,
if I were more familar with the contents.) Could you give a brief descrip-
tion? Thanks!

						-Cal
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From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Liam Neeson???
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:23:37 GMT
Organization: Chevron

In article <1992Dec22.141915.27610@scott.skidmore.edu>, dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter) writes: 
|> What else has this actor done previous to "Leap of Faith"?
|> Please post any information regarding previous movies he appeared in. 
|> Thank you.

 From the r.a.m. actor's list:

 Neeson, Liam     Big Man, The (aka Crossing the Line)
                  Bounty, The
                  Darkman
                  Dead Pool, The
                  Duet for One
                  Excalibur
                  Good Mother, The
                  High Spirits
                  Hold the Dream (TV)
                  Husbands and Wives
                  Krull
                  Lamb
                  Leap of Faith (1992)
                  Mission, The
                  Next of Kin
                  Satisfaction (aka Girls of Summer)
                  Shining Through
                  Suspect (1987)
                  Sweet as You Are (TV)
                  Sworn to Silence (TV)
                  Under Suspicion (1992)