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From: crawford@cs.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: The Brother From Another Planet....
Organization: University of Chicago  AI Lab
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:22:07 GMT

In article <4211@equinox.unr.edu> harrisl@unssun.nevada.edu (Larry Harris)
writes:
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering if anyone from this group has ever seen this movie.
>If so, what did you think of it, and could I possibly aquire a copy?
>[...]

'Brother From Another Planet' is available on home video; I *think* Home Film
Festival carries it.  It's definitely worth seeing, not least for its "Other"
view of the complexities of human life and emotions.
From: esrag@warwick.ac.uk (-Spike-)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Blues Brothers
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:40:31 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <HIDEG.92Jul21105352@spsd4360a.erim.org> hideg@spsd4360a.erim.org (Steve Hideg) writes:
>In article <HIDEG.92Jul21085927@spsd4360a.erim.org> hideg@spsd4360a.erim.org (Steve Hideg) writes:
>
>
>   "You don't like it?"
>
>   "No, I don't like it."
>
>   <car jumps over the opening drawbridge>

Doesn't Jake say at  this point:

    "This car's got a lot of pick-up" <or something??!!>

>
>   "It's got a cop engine, a four hundred fourty cubic inch plant."
>                                          ^^^^^^
>
>Oops! Uh, er...I think it's simply "four hundred cubic inch plant..."
>Sorry.
>
>   "It's got cop shocks, cop tires. It was built before catalytic
>    converters, so it runs good on regular gas. So is it the new
>    Bluesmobile or what?"
>
>   "Fix the lighter."
>



Bill

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From: rtpo@jyu.fi (Risto Tapani Pohjonen)
Subject: Re: Dario Argento
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:40:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.054801.14530@athena.mit.edu> eprice@sql.sybase.com writes:

>VSoM's version of DEEP RED (PROFUNDO ROSSO) is described as a "Euro
>composite" (whatever that means) and runs 105 minutes, compared to the
>US release of 98 minutes and the original which is 112 minutes...
>According to a posting here a while back this version is really bad.

 Well, this version of PROFONDO ROSSO has been 'composed' from two dif-
ferent sources. Most of it, I think, comes from the DEEP RED, dubbed in
English. The other source might be an Italian video release with English
subtitles. The whole thing looks like it had been 'edited' by two VCR's
in someones livingroom :-/
 The quality is also quite poor, but I think it's still almost watchable.
And don't even dream about Hifi...


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From: ess3791@zeus.tamu.edu (Storm)
Subject: Re: Fans of really bad movies...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:02:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.195608.13819@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>,
ken@netmail.austin.ibm.com writes...
> 
>I am curious - how many others will watch just about anything put
>before them? That's doesn't mean it's not O.K. to laugh, or make
>fun of the film, but I will watch just about any grade Z movie
>and *enjoy* it somehow. Do others do this?

Yes, although the amount of time since I've slept is directly proportional to
the amount of these movies that I end up watching.

-Storm

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Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: tosca@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Crispin Russell)
Subject: Re: Clockwork Orange
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:17:31 GMT

From article <1992Jul21.131322.21344@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>, by bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church):
> In article <1992Jul21.000210.7577@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> tosca@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Crispin Russell) writes:
> 
>>Clockwork Orange was released on video in Australia before the censorship laws
>>caught up with it.  This was when there were no laws!  A case of technology
>>moving faster than legislation.  A number of movies were withdrawn after the
>>film legislation was changed to incorporate video.
> 
> Was  this another Brazil like case where there was censorship but it didn't 
> include video yet, or just no censorship at all? Just curious.
> 
> 
> -- 
> *********************************************
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> *    bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu           *
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I'm not sure I understand your question as I don't know what happened to
Brazil but the situation was that the censorship laws were all specific
to the cinema and television.  When drafted no-one had foreseen the advent
of video so there was no specific mention of it and it took a couple of
years before the legislators ie. the Aussie government caught up and 
banned some films via alterations to the legislation.

Tosca

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Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Subject: Re: Name that Movie, Part II
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:36:27 GMT

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:18:18 GMT, stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) said:

stame> In article <27JUL199214532454@jane.uh.edu> vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:
>Sean Connery is the administrator or a lunar colony, and the
>'company' is trying to kill him. The send an assasin to get him.
>Connery has the help of a scrappy but kindly woman doctor. This is a
>recent movie (past 10 years, I guess.)  I saw it once a long time
>ago. WHAT IS IT CALLED?

stame> Sounds a bit like _Outland_, though I've never seen it so I
stame> can't be sure.

Yes, this movie is Outland. Good flick...

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                        ss@wpi.wpi.edu
From: bigk@cs.uq.oz.au (Kathy Williamson)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: does this qualify as a "cult" movie
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:17:00 GMT
Reply-To: bigk@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Jul22.173554.8297@cs.rose-hulman.edu> derry@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (John Derry) writes:



>"A Boy And His Dog"   Don Johnson, ca 1974    Cult classic?


>It just happens to be one of my favorites.  Since I stumbled onto this  
>group, I thought I'd see if anyone's heard of it.


>thanks


Apparently a sequel called A GIRL AND HER DOG was planned, but it didn't
eventuate.

I thought that the ending of ABAHD was interesting.  It made me laugh, though
other friends who watched it said that they knew what was going to happen. . .

Kathleen
From: psybm@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: don't look now
Date: 23 Jul 92 07:40:43 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University

I've only seen "Don't Look Now" once (and that was a few years ago),
so I'm not an expert, but here's my opinion anyway....
someone else on the net put forward the view that the action was supposed
to be a revenge fantasy in Julie Christie's chararacter's head, however,
when I saw the movie, I thought that it was fairly straightforward.
If you know anything about Jung's work, the events in the film could be
put down to synchronicity.  That is two unrelated events happen to come
together coincidentally (very simplistic version of Jung's theory).


*********
SPOILERS
*********


A dwarf in a red raincoat runs around Venice killing people.
A girl in a red raincoat drowns in the U.S. 
Parents of girl travel to Venice to get over their grief.
Father sees dwarf, follows dwarf, gets killed by dwarf.


The psychic "sees" this and tries to warn against it.  It has
'nothing' to do with girl's death (apart from the coincidence of
the red raincoat).





So, what do you think of this explanation?


Cath. 
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: tosca@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Crispin Russell)
Subject: Re: Clockwork Orange
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 00:02:10 GMT

From article <2A678F6E.1852@ics.uci.edu>, by truesdel@ics.uci.edu (R. Scott Truesdell):
> In article <1992Jul16.050804.28433@engage.pko.dec.com>, boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place) writes:
>>
>> In article <1992Jul16.022414.13658@mel.dit.csiro.au>, gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green) writes...
>>
>> } Was Clockwork Orange ever released on video ?
>>
>> In the US, it was. Not in the UK, though, and I would guess not in Oz either.
> 
> In a conversation with a British subject I was told that it was banned
> outright in Britain because it protrayed the country in such a negative
> light. My friend always picked up a few copies during each trip to the
> U.S. and brought them back to the U.K. for friends and profit.
> 
>   --scott
> 

Clockwork Orange was released on video in Australia before the censorship laws
caught up with it.  This was when there were no laws!  A case of technology
moving faster than legislation.  A number of movies were withdrawn after the
film legislation was changed to incorporate video.

Tosca

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Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: Kathleen Bedard <mistress@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: THE WICKER MAN
X-To: S EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:18:00 GMT

SE>From: EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk)

SE>THE WICKER MAN

I also saw this movie -about 2 years ago on pay tv.  The ending
surprised me (I was totally fooled).  Over the last couple of years I've
recommended it to a few people and my local video store has it in stock
so it must be available.

Kathleen

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From: Ryan Tanner <tannerr@CS.ORST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bliss
Originator: tannerr@storm.CS.ORST.EDU
Keywords: bliss
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:35:57 GMT

bzthomps@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Zac Thompson) writes:


>	Has anyone else out there seen this?  I almost cried, my head hurt so much after watching it.  It's (I believe) an Australian film, won lots of awards.  It's very weird, very twisted, but _*EXCELLENT*_  I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to be fascinated by the ugly side of human nature.  I won't even begin to discuss the storyline.  I will say that some people may not be able to watch this.  But this is AC-M, so...

Argh! use the enter key once in a while eh?  This movie holds the distinction
that it is one of the few movies my friends and I watched the first time
without a single word being spoken the whole movie.  Very rare, Riders on
the Storm also holds this honor.  Very good movie, and is very deep.  I
don't know about the claim some people might not be able to watch it.  I
guess if you were that sensitive you wouldn't get to the video store in the
first place.

But it's a very good film, and I see more in it every time I watch it.  I've
seen it in excess of 20 times....

Ryan

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                                                   "There can be only FIVE!"

DISCLAIMER:  I don't even know the person!
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: dgo@athens.uucp (26265-nachem)
Subject: Re: Blues Brothers
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:06:13 GMT


a
How about " No Ma'am, we're musicians."


"FOUR fried chickens and a coke"

"Hi this is car 55 we're in a truck..."

"Lotsa space in this mall..." 


etc.


Dave

Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: charlesk@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Hak Kim)
Subject: Re: HEATHERS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:07:13 GMT

Eric T. Jue <etjue@lbl.gov> writes:

>In article <UBNAREHO.92Jul28190955@queen.mcs.Drexel.edu> Brian S.
>Narehood, ubnareho@mcs.Drexel.edu writes:
>>    What I would like to know is:
>>        are there any ftp sites that I can get gif's from
>>      this movie.

>I don't know of any, but I have an original movie press-kit that has some
>great photos that I may be able to digitize.  Any suggestions?

Anything with Winona Ryder sounds good.  Sounds like a really good idea.

I'm all for it.

Regards,

Charles H. Kim

charlesk@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: tmcfarla@fraser.sfu.ca (Tara McFarlane)
Subject: Re: The Brother From Another Planet....
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:11:33 GMT

my copy's pirated so i don't think you'd want a copy of it.
From: torsten@daimi.aau.dk (Torsten B. Hagemann)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Anyone collecting all these nifty Blues Brothers quotes?
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:44:43 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) writes:
>I could easily play the movie and start typing away.  It's just that
>people are typing away as it is.  :)

Maybe you should, and then ask all those d***heads stop writing all these
half remembered always erroneous "quotes", it is pretty annoying for someone
who doesn't even claim to know every line in the movie to see even the most
obvious easily learnt lines getting turned upside down.

Call me Jake.

Torsten "Blues" Hagemann


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From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject:  Letterboxing (was Re: Blade Runner)
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:08:32 GMT

The aspect ratio (vertical to horizontal) of a TV is different from a movie screen. In order to fill the screen, most movies, when converted to a format that will be viewed on TV (VHS, beta, LD, etc.) are 'panned', that is you see only a portion of the entire original film screen. This has a way of wrecking large panaormaic shots (well in fact it ruins the entire film since the audience does not see the film as it was filmed - they only see portions of the screen).

Many director's started demanding letterbox release so that the movie could be seen the way it was meant to be seen. Letterbox is fairly common on LD releases because since the format has more resolution,so you can use a bigger screen without it becoming grainy. Letterboxing is not very common for video tape releases (yet).

So what is letterboxing ? The top and bottom of the screen are blacked out so that the original aspect ratio of the film can be presented in the squarish aspect ratio of TV. eg.

                        \/
              -----------------------
              |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| <- black                   
              |---------------------|                    
              |                     |
              |                     | <- movie
              |                     |
              |                     |
              |---------------------|
              |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| <- black

There are 2 types of letter boxing - 2:1 and 3:1 which refer to the vertical to horizontal ratio. 2:1 is more common since there is less black space. With 3:1 there is a lot of black space on the screen so your TV had better be big (I found my 29" inadequate when watching the Bladerunner LD which has 3:1). ! 

But what a difference ! The opening shots of Bladerunner are spectacular with letterboxing ! Rent an LD player (assuming your TV can handle the extra resolution) and get something like Bladerunner or any Lucas, Spielberg production.

cheers,


Shiv
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Can anyone name this movie?
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:27:55 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art,. Athens

In article <1992Jul30.140201.3182@athena.mit.edu> sao@athena.mit.edu (Andy Oakland) writes:

>I think Lindsey Wagner (she of "Bionic Woman" fame) played a schoolteacher
>sent into the town to teach the children.  Sound familiar?

Lindsey Wagner must be the queen of 'made for TV' movies.



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From: bagus@netcom.com (Mark E. Ruedy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.moviess,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Urike Ottinger?  Nick Zed??
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:06:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <fymmmrf.richh@netcom.com> richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:
>
>
>Anyone ever seen any work by either of these?
>Comments?
>

Get a subscribtion to "Film Threat" magazine.  They are always writing up
his cheap shit movies.  Spend yo' money. 

-mark
From: laurelp+@pitt.edu (Laurel A Povazan)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Fans of really bad movies...
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:33:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul27.161109.19725@nmsu.edu> pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.195608.13819@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> ken@batman.austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>   Simply put, I'll watch anything.

I'll give any movie a chance (especially a horror movie), so I guess you could
say that I will watch just about anything too. Most of the time I will sit
through a movie even if it is bad. There are some movies that I won't watch
again, and others that I never get sick of. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
				Laurel

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From: vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Name that Movie, Part II
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:53:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Sean Connery is the administrator or a lunar colony, and the 'company' is trying
to kill him. The send an assasin to get him. Connery has the help of a scrappy
but kindly woman doctor. This is a recent movie (past 10 years, I guess.)
I saw it once a long time ago. WHAT IS IT CALLED?
Thanks.
From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: HEATHERS
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:02:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <154hatINN58g@network.ucsd.edu> M Maxwell writes:
>I laughed until i soiled my  jeans.  Mostly because i went to that
>high school (figuratively speaking, of course), so it was great to 
>see the neuroses of the rich and super-popular running their lethal
>course.  One of the top three movies of 1989.
>
>My favorite line:  "Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw!"
>-------------------

Well not trying to start another quotes thread, but how about,
"I love my son!  I love my dead, gay son!"

>Matt Maxwell
>mmaxwell@ucsd.edu
>
>Hey you kids!  Don't touch that, it's ART! 


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From: bahn@main.mndly.umn.edu (Christopher Bahn)
Subject: Re: Boy and His Dog (Voice of Blood)
Organization: the Minnesota Daily (U of MN Student Newspaper)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:11:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.025405.27973@walter.cray.com> matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:

>This is a reply to a poster who stated that the voice of Blood was performed 
>in the film by Jason Robard (accidentally killed the original thread). Sorry,
>but the film's credits list Tim McIntire as the lucky winner. Tim is also
>credited with performing the song, "Boy and His Dog" which is heard over
>the closing credits of the movie. Jason Robard *did* appear in the film as
>one of the members of New Topeka's town council. He was the one that kept
>intoning, "And may God have mercy on your souls". Hope this clears things
>up.

Ach...you're right. And I just reread that post of mine...it came out a heck 
of a lot more snide than I intended. I eat crow.


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From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Curt Tsui)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Raimi in Miller's Crossing
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:49:50 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

bahn@main.mndly.umn.edu  writes:
> I've seen that movie three times and didn't know he was in it. Where does he 
> appear?
Raimi is the gangster who leads off the humongous shootout at
one of Leo's bars. 

SPOILERS (sort of)

He shoots the man staggering out of the just-firebombed bar,
starts to chortle, and is promptly gunned down by survivors in
the bar as a shootout occurs.

SPOILERS end

Raimi was not a producer, tho he used to live with the Coen
bros.
--

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From: M Maxwell
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: HEATHERS
Date: 28 Jul 1992 22:22:21 GMT
Organization: UC San Diego
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: irpsws80.ucsd.edu

In article <24993@dog.ee.lbl.gov> etjue@lbl.gov (Eric T. Jue) writes:
>I really thought "Heathers" was a good flick.  Anybody have opinions on
>this movie?
>
I laughed until i soiled my  jeans.  Mostly because i went to that
high school (figuratively speaking, of course), so it was great to 
see the neuroses of the rich and super-popular running their lethal
course.  One of the top three movies of 1989.

My favorite line:  "Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw!"
-------------------
Matt Maxwell
mmaxwell@ucsd.edu

Hey you kids!  Don't touch that, it's ART!