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From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
Subject: Bad Day at Black Rock
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:05:52 GMT

I saw this last night for the first time in over 30 years; the movie itself
was made in 1954, so it's almost 40 years old. And it's good in an eerie,
spare way that made it seem almost like a Greek play.

The movie stars Spencer Tracy as a mysterious man with a paralyzed hand who
gets off a train in a forlorn little town in the desert, not long after World
War II has ended. The townspeople distrust him instantly, and with reason:
he's looking for a missing Japanese-American farmer who was murdered just
after Pearl Harbor.

The cast includes Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Anne Francis.
They're all good, and the film sustains constant interest and suspense. The
violence is rare and understated; you might call this the first American
martial-arts movie, thanks to a brief but astonishing fight between Tracy and
Borgnine.

Millard Kauffman, the screenwriter, recently said he wrote the screenplay as
a direct comment on the red scare that was then destroying Hollywood and
poisoning American political life: "The gorillas have taken over," is a
trenchant line from Tracy in that regard. But it's also a remarkable updated
western and a direct ancestor of many Clint Eastwood vehicles. Though it was
shot in Cinemascope (then a new medium), it's not a "spectacular" film; most
of the scenes are interiors, and I didn't see a single close-up. The effect
is slightly stagy but also Brechtian: we look at these characters as types,
not as entirely unique individuals. This is a movie worth seeing.
--
Crawford Kilian   Communications Department   Capilano College
North Vancouver BC Canada V7J 3H5
Usenet: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca
Internet: ckilian@first.etc.bc.ca

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From: lfiddick@nyx.cs.du.edu (larry fiddick)
Subject: Re: Peter Greenaway
Keywords: macabre, michael nyman, dutch baroque
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 03:17:23 GMT


what is his latest film?
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:17:26 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Nov5.231528.24895@mdd.comm.mot.com>, wu@mdd.comm.mot.com 
(Philip Wu) writes:

>>In Nov 4th's USA Today's Life section, there is an article on Jeff Goldblum.
>>It mentions about the filming of Jurassic Park.  He is cast as the chaos
>>mathematician.  The movie also stars Laura Dern.  The movie will continue
>>filming until December. 

> Who plays the lead archaeologist? (I'm assuming Laura Dern is playing the
> plant expert).

Yes, a *fantastically* cast movie in my opinion.  All the casting announced
fits perfectly with my vision of the characters...

The lead archeologist will be played by Sam Neil (Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red
October, Reily: Ace of Spies)

And the famed director Richard Attenbourough is returning to the front of the
camera to play the "owner" of Jurassic Park. 

Greg Bole                                    "A toast. To all of you...
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu              to hell with you, to all of me!"
                                       Robert De Niro in _Night and the City_
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From: hager@cs.uwp.edu (Toad a la Mode)
Subject: Re: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT  (SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:20:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.200829.6097@cbfsb.cb.att.com> colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.154602.7488@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, leeper@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (mark.r.leeper) writes:
>>                           A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
>>                       A film review by Mark R. Leeper
>> 
>>           Capsule review:  Norman Maclean's autobiographical
>>      novella is brought to the screen by the sure hand of director
>>      Robert Redford.  I found the characters hard to care much
>>      about and the scenery of more interest.  Others' mileage may
>>      vary.  Rating: 0 (-4 to +4).
>
>First, Norman McLean's family was the sickest thing I've ever heard of.
>Well not as bad as some that make the headlines, but Kenny Hardwick
>is not likely to write a lyrical novel smoothing over the ugliness
>of his life and then live long enough to make sure that any movie
>version does not dig any deeper than his self delusions.
>
>
>The other thing that really annoys me about this film is the
>film critics who are leaping over backwards trying to ignore some
>obvious truths.  Ebert even went so far as to say that this was not
>really a story of Montana Protestants and fly fishing - but a 
>"universal" story.  What a crock!  Tell the cult surrounding this
>book that you were going to make movie of the book, but since it
>was so universal you were going to move it to Brooklyn, make the
>main characters a Rabbi and his sons and take out the fly fishing
>and see how "universal" the story is to them.
>

Here's the rub:  Who cares what Mclean's real family was like?  
Maybe they are all self-delusional bastards.  Maybe there is more
fiction than fact in Reford's film.  Who cares?

I know nothing of Mclean, don't know squat about his family, and I 
haven't read his book.  But i did see the film!  And, as far as I'm
concerned it's a great film!  Certainly one of the best I've seen
this year.  I liked the characters, and empathized with them; and I did
find a universal element in the movie:  a young man's (or woman's)
relationship with his parents, and trying to live up to their 
expectations.

Fact or fiction, this one gets four stars from me.


-- 
"Excuse me, there's some people coming, I'm going to have to fall off
the wall now."  "Blah blah blah" ...  (thump)

Matt Hager    hager@cs.uwp.edu
From: cn@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:36:17 GMT
Subject: LIST: Dead (Q-Z), Part 5 of 5
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
From: Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu (Joseph J. Marcheso Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Tough question but perhaps wrong group
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:13:55 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

HI, my friend says she saw a porn film with Sylvester Stallone and
among other things she saw Mr. Stallone:
1)receiving oral sex (it could have been with the hand actually but I
don't remember)
2)fully naked
3)moaning a lot
4)was well endowed

Is this true? Is this actually a movie or was she pulling my leg? If it
is how much of this is true and how much did she make up?
Weird, weird question
thanks a lot
Joe Marcheso
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From: wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley)
Subject: Re: Reno's movie
Reply-To: eprice@sybase.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:27:09 GMT

In article <19645.66.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon) writes:

> -=> Quoting Timothy Worsley to All <=-

Actually I'm Ed Price (not Timothy Worsley).  Tim lets me use his account
for news access...

> TW> -Ed (not Tim), eprice#sybase.com (not wildman@...), fan of Besson and
> TW> Serra and Jean Reno (anyone want to tell me what else he's been in,
> TW> besides Besson's flicks?  not that i would be able to see them here in
> TW> the US, but i'd like to know anyway...)
>
> Bonjour !
> If you are a fan of Besson, (and I am), at the beginning of his career, he
> has done a black and white movie and mute, the name is "Le dernier combat"
> ("The last fight"). This movie takes place after a nuclear holocaust.
> It stars Pierre Jolivet and Jean Bouise. This is a good science-fiction
> movie.

I like to think of it as Besson doing Tarkovsky doing THE ROAD WARRIOR. :-)
It really is a shame that the US video release is not letterboxed.  The
ping-pong scene was especially painful panned-and-scanned!!  Jean Reno was
great in this.  I also noticed that the Doctor appeared in NIKITA as the
guy in the embassy (the one who the guard calls).  Eric Serra's score is
great for LDC too.  There was a really funky bass-line during one of the
chase sequences...

> Jean Reno stared in a pretty stupid (albeit funny) movie called:
> "Operation corned-beef", it's a movie about French spies. The year was
> either 1990 or 1991, but I am not sure.

Aha!  Thanks!  I probably will have no luck finding this, but I will keep
my eye out...

I am positive there must have been wild applause and cheering for the line
"Victor, nettoyeur." in NIKITA, at least in the cinematically civilised
world (France perhaps).  It's a great moment -- you don't know who the
"cleaner" is, until that shot.  Anyone who had been following Besson's
films would be so *thrilled* by Reno's entrance!  Tres cool...  (Note:
NIKITA was the *first* Besson film I saw, so I was completely unaware of
the proper intertextual effect of the scene.  What a shame!)

Ciao,

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

PS Thanks for the response on the Melville films too.  I was just guessing
that L'Armee des Ombres was a gangster film...  I've never seen it.  I
filled out another suggestion card at Videosmith today suggesting they get
more Melville flicks, but I doubt it will do any good!  :-(
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 17:24:47 +0100
From: Oliver_Schiffers@wharfrat.fido.de (Oliver Schiffers)
Subject: databases
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
X-Comment-To: (Vicky Wayman)
Organization: Why Origin? 

Hi Vicky
 
 VW> From: gdg023@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Vicky Wayman)
  VW> 
  VW> Does anybody know about any movie databases out there on the system?
  VW> Stuff on silent films particularly appreciated. Pleae Email responses
  
Please, if you get any information, would you post it to me? 

Thanks, Oliver!

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From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: Ennio Morricone Discography?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:43:29 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

David A. Denboer (umdenbo0@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:

> Can anyone give me a complete list of films scored by Ennio Morricone?  I
> have quite a few of the soundtracks on CD (the best being Cinema Paradiso)
> but am still missing quite a few.  If you know whether or not they are
> available on CD, that would be great.

<this response also emailed>

I have a list of EM recordings that have come to my attention over the last
30 years or so.  He has scored some 400 or so films and TV shows, so the
list is rather long (60 Kb uncompressed).

Due to the foreign titles involved (and some condensed coding of technical
details), my list is in HP ROMAN8 euro characters.  This will print on most
HP printers (e.g. LaserJet).  I can convert the list to ISO 8859/1.  Send
email and let me know which you prefer.

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From: ufaustus@mcl.ucsb.edu (Mark Bergem)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
Keywords: Jeff Goldblum
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:04:16 GMT


 I am really looking forward to this movie, if it's anything like the book.(of  course it won't be, so I don't know whyI'm getting my hopes up.) Does anyone    know when the release date will be...?



			Dr Faustus
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 17:25:34 GMT
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harald K. Zink)
Organization: Alchemy Software Designs

>really tacky 3-D effect but I think Xanadu was the world's worst movie.
> ...
>watch. "Xanadu" is the worst "BIG" movie I have ever seen, and has no
>redeeming qualitities to it that I can see. I wish somebody would tell

No movie with Gene Kelly in it (no matter how misused) has absolutely NO 
redeeming qualities!  Granted, the rest of the movie was trite trash, but then 
again, don't forget that it was a product of the 70's - the decade of trite 
trash (as such, I'm sure that it beat out the "Village People Movie" by a wide 
margin.)

Remember, there can always be worse...!
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From: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Subject: 'innocent blood' -- w
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:38:51 EST

lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:

LN>John Landis' latest film, 'Innocent Blood', lasted all of maybe two weeks
LN>in first-run houses around here.  I caught it the other night at the
LN>dollar theatre, and while it wasn't the best movie I've seen all year, it
LN>was certainly entertaining . . . and a lot better than most of the movies
LN>Landis has been involved in over the past decade or so.  So why did it
LN>crash and burn as badly as it did at the box office?

Me and a friend went and saw it on a cheap Tue ($4.00), and we
enjoyed the film, it wasn't great, but pretty good.  Didn't feel
cheated out of our money.  We viewed it with the right attitude,
the one Landis intended, kinda a black comedy like Amer. Werewolf...

The one thing I didn't like had nothing to do with the movie.
This woman near us, sitting by herself was playing Howard Cosell
all the way through the movie ('Oh sees gonna get it!' 'No, not
there!' etc... :P ).  Cheap nights always bring out the social morons,
or at least the people who don't know that there is such a thing
as 'theatre etiquitte' (sp?)...
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From: PETERC@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Peter Correnty)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: MR SARDONICUS AND WILLIAM CASTLE FILMS
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:36:38 GMT
Organization: Yale University

In article <1992Nov10.164311.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (Dark Lord of the Sith) writes:
 
>
>In article <1689B86A1.PETERC@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, PETERC@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Peter Correnty) writes:
>>
>> Sinister Cinema only carries public domain titles, so they don't have
>> MR. SARDONCIUS.  The only place I've seen it is Eccentri-Cinema.  I
>> bought a copy and the print is very good.  They also have THE TINGLER,
>> HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (which can be easily found in many video stores),
>> HOMICIDAL and I SAW WHAT YOU DID.
>>
>> -Pete.
>
>    Now Pete, what is the use of telling us what is from Eccentri-Cinema
>if you do not forward me the address of this company. Promise yourself to
>write back, or the Dark Lord of the Sith might give you a visit.
>
>--
>
>John P. LaRocque
>4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca
>
 
Sorry... Here it is ...
 
Eccentri-Cinema
1-5 Greta Street
West Haven, CT 06516
 
-Pete.
From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Mary Stuart Masterson
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:09:34 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

>>Actress List".  Besides that this actress seems to have no history.
>
>She has plenty of history.

...........etc.

Also she's married.  Sorry, guys.
.
.
.
.


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From: khoo@ee.ualberta.ca (Tony Khoo)
Subject: Dinner with Andre
Summary: MY DINNER with ANDRE
Keywords: MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:20:47 GMT


	I was sitting on my <en francais> 'toi let' pondering
	life's questions when I recalled a memorable movie
	called "My Dinner with Andre" starring Shawn Wallace.

	What is it about you may ask?  We'll precisely as the
	title suggests....a 3hr movie where Mr. Wallace is having
	dinner with a guy named ANDRE.

	What do they talk about? Everything and anything besides
	pulse modulation systems and graphical convolution plots.

	Is it a good movie?  Hell NO.  If I wanted to listen to
	two guys talk 'bout nothing for 3hrs I would watch TV 
	during my dinner.

	What do you think?

		Cordially, Noth'n to do but to say something

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Die Hard 3: It's a Small World After All (REPOST)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:53:53 GMT

Well, Disney would never, ever go for it.  But the fundamental idea
of "Die Hard" in an amusement park is sound.  So sound that it's being
used as the plot for the next "Beverly Hills Cop" film.  That suggests
to me that you, too, might have what it takes to be a Hollywood 
screenwriter!

(By the way, the next "Beverly Hills Cop" film might not come out 
next summer, after all.  Joel Silver, who was to produce it, has left
the film.  It hasn't started shooting yet, and they were on a very tight
schedule, to begin with.  Some have speculated that Silver has finally
gotten tired of being labelled as a mega-spending producer, and didn't
want to take the heat for the inevitable overages that "Beverly Hills
Cop III" would be certain to have, given their shooting schedule and
release date.)

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
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Where's Parenthood?  Definitely as funny as Roxanne!


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From: hatcher@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Donald L.C. Blewett)
Subject: Jurassic Park Spoiler (almost)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:38:29 GMT


  Someone wanted to know what Jurassic Park is all about.  Well, my first bit
of advice is to spend the money and buy the book (you will not be disappionted)
Secondly, I won't give away the ending, or even the more juicy bits of the 
plot but this is how it shapes up.  People in Central America begin reporting
strange little lizards that walk upright.  Various authorities are called in
and they eventually discover that a millionaire industrialist has discovered
a way to clone actual living dinosaurs and has set up a "theme park" on an
island off the coast of Costa Rica featuring these dinosaurs.  The experts 
make a visit, and if you have any idea how these stories go, you can guess
what happens.  
  FYI, the movie will be delayed because the movie was being filmed in Hawaii
and got caught in the hurricane that went through last summer.
  If you like Jurassic Park, try Crichton's other books.  I highly recommend
"Sphere", "Congo", "The Great Train Robbery", "Eaters of the Dead", "The
Andromeda Strain", and his latest bestseller (which would also make a GREAT
movie) "Rising Sun".  All excellent reads.

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Review: RESERVOIR DOGS
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:00:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.135338.10339@aston.ac.uk> thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:
>	Re: That entire review.
>
>		A tad on the pretentious side, but I agree with the sentiment.
>
>	And by the way - One of the scenes caused a much-movie hardened critic
>to loose his lunch all over the place. What a recommendation!

I should point out that, as modern movies go, the actual acts of violence
that "Reservoir Dogs" show are not that extreme.  Bullets hit bodies,
lots of blood flows, people get cut with knives, but it's no more
explicit than most other R-rated action films.  It's Tarantino's
presentation that makes viewers squirm uncomfortably.  The violent act
that probably had the critic blowing chow happens slightly off camera.
That Tarantino can achieve these effects without showing explicitly what
happened is a sign of talent.  I don't recommend this film as wholeheartedly 
as some others do, as it seemed to me to be fundamentally a movie about 
other movies, but it's extremely well directed, photographed, and acted.  
Those characteristics make it worth the while of anyone really interested
in film.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Saturday, 7 Nov 1992 06:48:51 MST
From: <ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject:    Yakima Canutt info needed

I am seeking some info about the Republic serials in which the stuntwork
was directed by Yakima Canutt. The only reference book I have is
"To Be Continued", which does list the main directors of each serial.
Canutt was given full co-directing credit on
  Manhunt of Mystery Island
  Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
  Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
  G-men Never Forget
But this book does not list the "Second Unit Director", and I know that
there were other Republic serials in which Canutt's direction of stuntwork
was given the credit of "Second Unit Director" (one example is
Zorro's Black Whip).

Can someone please list all the Republic serials which Canutt had
"Second Unit Director" credit?

Bruce Long
icbal@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
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