Gloria
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:19 PM
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"Things to Come" on TCM now!!!!!! HG Well's story about post-war collapse |
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of civiization (WWI) and its rebuilding through 2036.....made in 1936 with Raymond Massey and Ralph Richardson... 3 stars!!!!!
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:20 PM
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1. Torn between that and the end of The Twilight Zone Marathon |
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... on Sci Fi (my annual guilty pleasure) ... man, so many of those TZ eppy's were so prescient it's creepy.
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:56 PM
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6. I can't tear myself away from TZ... |
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and watch it every year. I love Serling. What a mind!
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:27 PM
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:35 PM
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remarkable that it's still shown these days.
Good for them over at TCM.
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:44 PM
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4. 1970--oil hoarding!! Still fighting, want "victorious peace".....sound |
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:55 PM
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5. ...and Raymond Massey smiling |
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sardonically, "I've heard that before."
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Tue Jan-01-08 09:23 PM
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"Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great." Produced by the American Petroleum Institute. (1956) http://youtube.com/watch?v=H8kKju7YEXo&feature=relatedhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=SzdN2yjABPE&feature=related
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:57 PM
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Seen it... I dunno, maybe 15 times. :)
It's a great double feature with Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."
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Tue Jan-01-08 09:19 PM
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9. Is it the longer restored version? |
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The making of the new version has long been discussed in film circles...much like the guy who's trying to restore the entire It's A Mad MAd Mad etc World.
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Oeditpus Rex
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Tue Jan-01-08 09:42 PM
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I got it a few years ago. It's 97 minutes, not 120, and it's unrestored — though the case boasts something about a "pristine new film-to-video transfer from original source materials."
The video quality's pretty good, but the audio's lacking in certain scenes. It's a helluva lot better than the one I taped from the old USA Network, though. :)
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Tue Jan-01-08 08:57 PM
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8. Wings Over The World based in Basra? |
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Tue Jan-01-08 09:56 PM
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12. Just finished the audiobook of "Fahrenheit 451" |
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I hated the movie (although I love Truffaut) and always found Bradbury too preachy for my taste (not to mention his recent right-wing rants). But this book, like TTC, was surprisingly prescient in describing a dumbed-down, pleasure-addicted society that's only too willing to sit in their media centers and surrender all of their freedoms and individuality.
The book was written, by the way, in 1953.
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Tue Jan-01-08 10:28 PM
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13. Interesting...I'm downloading it on Miro now. |
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It's featured in their Archive Classic Movie Channel. It's got a lot of interesting stuff to watch there. Watched Orson Wells, "The Stranger" this PM.
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