“But I thought it enhanced the picture “
Of course! I think it would enhance any picture it was applied to and that’s
why I really don’t care for it being inserted in to what amounts as a massive
gimmick, which “The Artist” is. In many ways it’s like watching a vacuum
cleaner shuttle along the
I never knew that about Unchained Melody! But yes, it's hard to imagine those
three films without Alex North's terrific scores.
From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net
To: Neil Jaworski neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent:
Those songs are all memorable, of course. The history of MOON RIVER is
addressed in FIFTH AVENUE, 5 A.M., Sam Wasson's little book about the making
of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. This is a very entertaining read. The footnotes
are almost as entertaining as the text. The most amazing thing about
We often hear that half of all movies made before 1920 are lost. But what
is the most recent lost film? I mean, are there movies of the 1960s or
later that are lost? Or when did people stop being so stupid as to lose
the last surviving example of a movie?
Bruce
--
Bruce Hershenson and the other
Most of the sixties and seventies TV on videotape is lost. Wiped because
videotape was so expensive. It's a matter of debate if a TV-movie is a movie of
course, but then quite a few had their own publicity paper.
Wim
Op 14 feb 2012, om 15:25 heeft Bruce Hershenson het volgende geschreven:
We
There are some that SHOULD be!
K.
On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
We often hear that half of all movies made before 1920 are lost. But what
is the most recent lost film? I mean, are there movies of the 1960s or
later that are lost? Or when did people stop being so
Very true, Kirby! But that was not my question.
Wim, I was not counting made for TV. I think the reason so many of those
were lost is that they simply re-used the tapes (you could record right
over the last recording), so it saved lots of money. Kind of like how they
melted down old films!
Bruce
I finally saw The Artist last week. I knew about the Vertigo quote and
thought that Herrmann's music suited the scene to which it had been applied,
but I still find the use questionable. One of my friends who saw the film
before I did, told me that the Vertigo quote pulled him completely out of
I just checked the IMDb for the the films of Earl Owensby, and while I'm pretty
sure that most of his films eventually saw a video release, THE BRASS RING from
1975 has no votes at all, so chances are, that this one is indeed lost.
For those who are not familiar with the name, Earl Owensby's
There were a lot of independent films from the 60s that played only as roadshow
pictures with no studio or release backing.
Most of them are lost inthe sense the few remaining prints are not available
on DVD or Video tape.
One famous one is Hot Rod Hulabaloo - which I believe is still lost. I
The most recent, mainstream lost film might be Jerry Lewis' tragi-comedy The
Day The Clown Cried (1972) where Jerry plays a clown in a concentration camp
who's job it is to lead kids into the gas chambers.
Only a handful of people have ever seen the film including Harry Shearer who
said The
Howdy
I wrote Earl Owensby's first film - CHALLENGE - when I was a kid just out of
film school.
Earl's acting was so bad he asked that his throat be cut in the opening action
sequence so he would be mute and not required to deliver dialogue throughout
the remaining 80 excrutiating minutes that
Hi,
We are looking for:
STOLEN KISSES Cuban poster
Tyson Vs. Douglas fight poster
TRUE ROMANCE French/Italian or Swedish poster
MAD MAX UK 1 sheet with Hamagami art
JOY HOUSE Italian 39x55
FACE OF ANOTHER Japanese 20x58 STB
Thanks.
sam
Posteritati
239 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
Hi,
We are looking for:
STOLEN KISSES Cuban poster
Tyson Vs. Douglas fight poster
TRUE ROMANCE French/Italian or Swedish poster
MAD MAX UK 1 sheet with Hamagami art
JOY HOUSE Italian 39x55
FACE OF ANOTHER Japanese 20x58 STB
400 BLOWS Japanese 20x29
LOVE ON THE RUN Japanese 20x29
LOVE AT TWENTY
It could not be worse? - or could it - than LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, a film that
managed to somehow trivialize the holocaust while still winning
three Oscars. Not, as you can tell, one of my favorite OscarMoments.
Kirby
On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Neil Jaworski wrote:
The most recent,
think of some great tv stuff of the 50s that were lost.
i've tried to you-tube some old games shows of the 50s
wanna feel old? i recently found an old drake's YODDLES* commercial, but
couldn't find RING DINGS*.
*it was a different cake than it is not. the choc was far
* Those of you who disagree - who feel the insertion of Bernard Herrmann's
5-minute Love Theme from Vertigo into 2011's The Artist - is a
mild-to-moderate sacrilege - are NOT wrong. Many people feel the same way. I
did not. I looked at the film as an homage, akin to many films
I love Moon River, but I catch myself going back and forth on Breakfast at
Tiffany's. The film is lovely and has a five star opening, a lovely bridge in
the middle when Audrey sings Moon River on a guitar and a five-star ending.
But the stuff in-between isn't funny to me, certainly not the
Hi All,
I'm looking for lobby cards for a number of the later Laurel and Hardy movies,
in particular Great Guns, Air Raid Wardens and Jitterbugs (and a few others as
well).
Please let me know what you have.
Thanks,
Lumi
Visit the MoPo
A couple of beers? Is that all it takes?
K.
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On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:37 PM, David Kusumoto wrote:
(But after a couple of beers, I admit I DO laugh at Rooney's
My only problem with it was that it felt off. For the whole of the film you
had silent era music, then it moves to the sweeping Herrmann music which is
from
a much later time. I was pulled out and noticed a device used for more
melodrama. I was bummed because the film had me up to then.
At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, most people know that many Asians
can't process alcohol properly. For some of us, just one ounce can knock us
out. Get us behind a wheel and our prowess navigating roads goes from bad to
worse. A dog could drive better with its eyes closed. :-)
-
Hey Dave and all...
I am coming into this thread late but had to comment. All the songs that
Dave mentioned are the same for me, especially Downtown. I can remember running
down the streets of Hollywood when I was about 9 years old with my sister
singing that song at the top of our
when I hear downtown, all I can remember are the spoof lyrics that
MAD magazine had in an issue in teh 1960s
it went like this:
When you eat meat but hate the meat that you're eating
then you've surely got, GROUND ROUND
It's so unnerving when they're constantly serving
in an eating spot,
Thanks for the link.
All this talk, and hearing the love theme in that clip makes me want
to see it.
Vertigo that is, and for the umpteenth time.
Wherein lies one of the reasons I think it was ill judged, it invites
comparison with Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpiece.
And though the director
Thanks for providing my first
laughing-out-loud-like-a-lunatic-while-sitting-at-an-office-desk moment of the
day! - kuz!
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:08:40 -0800
From: sa...@comic-art.com
Subject: Re: OT: Moon River and Tiffany's
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
when I hear downtown, all I
Brilliant!!
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 2:08:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Moon River and Tiffany's
when I hear downtown, all I can remember are the spoof lyrics that MAD
* Since I seem to be the only person among MoPo who thought Herrmann's
music was OK in The Artist - and who liked the film more than Hugo
(a fine effort marred with pacing problems that had me
conscious of its length, and this from Martin Scorsese, a director who
can make nearly
Hi, Rich,
I'm sure those words were written by Frank Jacobs, a friend of mine and
a movie poster collector as well (mostly 30's + 40's musicals). Everyone
remembers the cartoonists at Mad--- Don Martin, Sergio Arigones
and so many others---but the names of the writers from the early
Somebody should do a retrospective of his work. Where is he based? This could
be very fun.
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Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 5:42:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Moon River and Tiffany's
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