My respect for DeMille has increased since I have been reading Scott Eyman's
great bio, EMPIRE OF
DREAMS. DeMille gets too little credit, I think. As far THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
goes, how can anyone
not like it! Moses, Moses!
1.Thou shalt not watch too many Lubitsch movies
2. Thou shalt not watch THE HANGOVER and that kind of tripe more than once
3. Thou shalt buy only Criterion DVDs.
4. Thou shalt get thy ass a Blu-Ray player
5. Thou shalt hook up thy Netflix streaming
6. Thy Queen Cleopatra is a Taylor-made Queen; thou shalt have
no other Queens before me.
7. Honor 70mm to keep it Holy.
8. Thou shalt collect movie posters
9. Thou shalt buy them from MovieArt
10. Thou shalt slag others and their snotty opinions when they trample on thy
Sacred Cows like STAR WARS and that shit.
So let it be written. So let it be DONE.
Kirby McDaniel
www.movieart.net
On Jun 28, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Franc wrote:
> When I was in college, Mae West and W.C. Fields and The Marx Broethers had a
> revival among students my age. I remember seeing some of these movies for the
> first time at revival houses and loved them. Seeing some of these now (not
> all), I realize that they certainly have their moments but are hardly classic
> and some are not even good films. I feel that way also about Cecil B.
> DeMille's second version of The Ten Commandments which I probably saw about
> five times when I was ten. On the other hand, everytime I re-watch Sunset
> Boulevard, Citizen Kane or Wizard Of Oz, they get better and better. FRANC
> -----Original Message-----
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> Hershenson
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> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [MOPO] A possible conversation starter
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> MoPo has been quiet of late, so I thought I would ask a question that has
> been on my mind of late, as I have been re-watching some classic and not so
> classic movies.
>
> I find some of them are about as great as I remembered them, but others seem
> to have changed drastically (or maybe it is I who have changed) because some
> are barely watchable at all!
>
> So my question is, are there movies you once thought classic that you later
> re-watched and found they are not nearly as good as you had once thought?
>
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