The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages

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Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages

#976 Post by swo17 » Tue May 16, 2017 3:47 pm

Alcohol = poison

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#977 Post by domino harvey » Tue May 16, 2017 4:03 pm

Guitry's film is cinematic poison Image

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#978 Post by Graphist » Tue May 16, 2017 4:07 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:No new additions since this morning. So, perhaps we'll be getting a couple of upgrades.
A couple of upgrades will be amazing! Bring on Bergman, Dreyer, Eisenstein!

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#979 Post by Never Cursed » Tue May 16, 2017 4:10 pm

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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#980 Post by Bressonaire » Tue May 16, 2017 4:36 pm

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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#982 Post by cdnchris » Tue May 16, 2017 4:50 pm

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.
We got Hopscotch too... so there.

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#983 Post by Graphist » Tue May 16, 2017 4:54 pm

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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#984 Post by kcota17 » Tue May 16, 2017 4:57 pm

A few years ago we had Y Tu Mama Tambien and All that Jazz both in August... so it depends?

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#985 Post by John Shade » Tue May 16, 2017 4:57 pm

Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.

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#986 Post by Never Cursed » Tue May 16, 2017 4:59 pm

cdnchris wrote:
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.
We got Hopscotch too... so there.
"Be careful what you wish for, for it may come true."

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#987 Post by movielocke » Tue May 16, 2017 5:20 pm

JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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.

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#988 Post by Bressonaire » Tue May 16, 2017 5:27 pm

Two movies in a month with the same star—Gary Oldman. Isn't that unusual?

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#989 Post by domino harvey » Tue May 16, 2017 5:48 pm

movielocke wrote:
JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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.
Name one witty aspect of La poison

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#990 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Tue May 16, 2017 6:04 pm

domino harvey wrote:
movielocke wrote:
JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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.
Name one witty aspect of La poison
The fact that there are about 500 HD ready french films more worthy of a Criterion treatment than La Poison is a pretty good joke

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#991 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue May 16, 2017 9:53 pm

movielocke wrote:
JohnShade wrote:Never seen a Guitry film, not seeing many big endorsements here to motivate me either.
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.
I really only liked The Story of a Cheat, but thought that one was terrific and really deserved a stand-alone, blu release.

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#992 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon May 22, 2017 7:23 am

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)

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#993 Post by knives » Mon May 22, 2017 10:10 am

Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.

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#994 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon May 22, 2017 5:17 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Raoul Walsh- High Sierra (1941) or They Drive by Night (1940)
With The Roaring Twenties going out of print, then perhaps this is the Raoul Walsh title.

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#995 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue May 23, 2017 6:28 am

knives wrote:Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.
What film is this? Wasn't familiar, checked his IMDB page and didn't see anything called Obsession.

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#996 Post by antnield » Tue May 23, 2017 6:47 am

FrauBlucher wrote:
knives wrote:Dmytryk is Obsession which they had on Hulu for a time.
What film is this? Wasn't familiar, checked his IMDB page and didn't see anything called Obsession.
Link.

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#997 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue May 23, 2017 6:55 am

Thanks

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#998 Post by dwk » Wed Jun 07, 2017 5:27 pm


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#999 Post by beamish13 » Wed Jun 07, 2017 5:37 pm

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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