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Marilyn
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:37 pm Reply with quote
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That reminds me that I still have to watch Four Horsemen...

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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:42 pm Reply with quote
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You're welcome Marilyn.
Nancy
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:37 pm Reply with quote
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I have seen Four Horsemen (I once even suffered through the 1962 remake, with Glenn Ford, of all people, in the Valentino role -- avoid it!); it's one of the Valentinos Syd taped for me off TCM. Not one of my favorite Valentinos, though he is quite good, and there's that tango! It did seem awfully long to me, but worth seeing at least once. I tend to dip into it here and there, rather than re-watching the whole movie.

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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:56 am Reply with quote
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Nancy wrote:
(At this rate, I might have to break down and actually read Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse someday.) I'll let y'all know how it is.


i've read it and, while the style is somewhat archaic, the story holds up well. the family saga was a popular genre in the early part of the 20th century. the film (original) is relatively true to the novel.
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Nancy
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:00 am Reply with quote
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bocce wrote:
Nancy wrote:
(At this rate, I might have to break down and actually read Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse someday.) I'll let y'all know how it is.


i've read it and, while the style is somewhat archaic, the story holds up well. the family saga was a popular genre in the early part of the 20th century. the film (original) is relatively true to the novel.


Thanks for the info, bocce. That helps. When I'm in the right mood, I'll give it a try.

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bocce
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:10 am Reply with quote
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http://emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-a/4hrsm10.htm

whenever you're ready...
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Nancy
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:17 am Reply with quote
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Terrific, bocce! Thanks.

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Nancy
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:52 am Reply with quote
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Well, since Borders was evil enough to send me a coupon, I picked up a set of three Garbo silents on DVD today. I've seen Flesh and the Devil, but haven't seen The Mysterious Lady or The Temptress. Not sure how soon I'll get to them, though. I've got a stack of movies waiting to be watched, including a couple of rentals that have to be back Monday.

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Marilyn
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:21 am Reply with quote
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The Temptress is wonderful. The new score for it was written as part of TCM's Young Composers Contest, too. I'd move it up the viewing queue.

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Marilyn wrote:
The Temptress is wonderful. The new score for it was written as part of TCM's Young Composers Contest, too. I'd move it up the viewing queue.


Thanks for the tip, Marilyn! I'll have to do that. I just got through watching Junebug, and I have to watch Proof later today so I can return both of them. I really liked Junebug. I see why people have been raving about it. Watched the Wallace & Gromit flick last night with a group of friends who hadn't seen it before. They really thought it was funny.

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Nancy
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:42 pm Reply with quote
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Just started watching the Marion Davies version of Quality Street. (As I've mentioned before, my schedule is so weird that I end up watching movies a bit at a time.) So far, she's enchanting. I have the Katharine Hepburn remake on tape somewhere. I'll have to hunt it up at some point and compare them. Will post more on this version after I finish watching it.

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:27 pm Reply with quote
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My DVD of the silent Call of Cthulhu has arrived, as if I didn't have enough to watch already. The box says there are intertitles in Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera (whatever that is), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. No Thai or Korean?

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Syd
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I didn't know Luxembourg had its own language, but apparently it does. It's a dialect of German heavily influenced by French spoken by 300,000 people worldwide. But Basque and Gaelic conspicuously missing from that list. (Also anything in a non-Latin alphabet.)

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:47 pm Reply with quote
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Syd wrote:
I didn't know Luxembourg had its own language, but apparently it does. It's a dialect of German heavily influenced by French spoken by 300,000 people worldwide. But Basque and Gaelic conspicuously missing from that list. (Also anything in a non-Latin alphabet.)


I assume by "Irish" they mean Gaelic.

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Oops. Euskara is Basque. No Romansch or Esperanto.

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