The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
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Alcohol = poison
- domino harvey
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Guitry's film is cinematic poison
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A couple of upgrades will be amazing! Bring on Bergman, Dreyer, Eisenstein!FrauBlucher wrote:No new additions since this morning. So, perhaps we'll be getting a couple of upgrades.
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- Such is life on board the Redoutable
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As much as I'd like to be eating these words in half an hour, I don't think we're getting much in the way of upgrades beyond Sid and Nancy.
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I thought it was for poison. However, I suspect that the poison symbol was co-opted by Prohibitionists and applied to liquor, which they considered to be poison, and they were so successful that it ended up being more associated with liquor than poison.
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We got Hopscotch too... so there.Mungo wrote:As much as I'd like to be eating these words in half an hour, I don't think we're getting much in the way of upgrades beyond Sid and Nancy.
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Are August announcements always underwhelming like this?… NYC does turn into a ghost town that time of the year (well, if you don’t consider tourists).
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A few years ago we had Y Tu Mama Tambien and All that Jazz both in August... so it depends?
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Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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"Be careful what you wish for, for it may come true."cdnchris wrote:We got Hopscotch too... so there.Mungo wrote:As much as I'd like to be eating these words in half an hour, I don't think we're getting much in the way of upgrades beyond Sid and Nancy.
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sorkin fast paced dialog in french, so be ready to read subtitles that fly by in a flash. the eclipse films are fascinating, funny and sometimes brilliant. but I imagine the dialog is so fast and witty it's hard to condense the translation for subtitles and even condensed, it's hard to have them up on screen long enough for people to read, so I imagine it made his films it hard to export his work versus more normal paced dialog films.JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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Two movies in a month with the same star—Gary Oldman. Isn't that unusual?
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Name one witty aspect of La poisonmovielocke wrote:sorkin fast paced dialog in french, so be ready to read subtitles that fly by in a flash. the eclipse films are fascinating, funny and sometimes brilliant. but I imagine the dialog is so fast and witty it's hard to condense the translation for subtitles and even condensed, it's hard to have them up on screen long enough for people to read, so I imagine it made his films it hard to export his work versus more normal paced dialog films.JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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The fact that there are about 500 HD ready french films more worthy of a Criterion treatment than La Poison is a pretty good jokedomino harvey wrote:Name one witty aspect of La poisonmovielocke wrote:sorkin fast paced dialog in french, so be ready to read subtitles that fly by in a flash. the eclipse films are fascinating, funny and sometimes brilliant. but I imagine the dialog is so fast and witty it's hard to condense the translation for subtitles and even condensed, it's hard to have them up on screen long enough for people to read, so I imagine it made his films it hard to export his work versus more normal paced dialog films.JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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I really only liked The Story of a Cheat, but thought that one was terrific and really deserved a stand-alone, blu release.movielocke wrote:sorkin fast paced dialog in french, so be ready to read subtitles that fly by in a flash. the eclipse films are fascinating, funny and sometimes brilliant. but I imagine the dialog is so fast and witty it's hard to condense the translation for subtitles and even condensed, it's hard to have them up on screen long enough for people to read, so I imagine it made his films it hard to export his work versus more normal paced dialog films.JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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Still some unfilled phantom pages for directors from the Golden Age of Hollywood and what film may be attached...
George Sidney- Scaramouche (1952) and/or Show Boat (1951)
James Whale- Show Boat (1936)
Raoul Walsh- High Sierra (1941) or They Drive by Night (1940)
Mervyn LeRoy- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Rouben Mamoulian- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Henry Hathaway- Niagara (1953) or Call Northside 777 (1948)
Edward Dmytryk- Crossfire (1947)
George Sidney- Scaramouche (1952) and/or Show Boat (1951)
James Whale- Show Boat (1936)
Raoul Walsh- High Sierra (1941) or They Drive by Night (1940)
Mervyn LeRoy- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Rouben Mamoulian- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Henry Hathaway- Niagara (1953) or Call Northside 777 (1948)
Edward Dmytryk- Crossfire (1947)
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Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.
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With The Roaring Twenties going out of print, then perhaps this is the Raoul Walsh title.FrauBlucher wrote: Raoul Walsh- High Sierra (1941) or They Drive by Night (1940)
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What film is this? Wasn't familiar, checked his IMDB page and didn't see anything called Obsession.knives wrote:Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.
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Link.FrauBlucher wrote:What film is this? Wasn't familiar, checked his IMDB page and didn't see anything called Obsession.knives wrote:Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.
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Very intriguing. I'm guessing it's for The Adjuster, Exotica or The Sweet Hereafter. An update of Zeitgeist's amazing Egoyan box set, which features what I consider to be his finest work, Family Viewing, would be great, but is unlikely.
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