Movies Threads


Ennis
Theatrical releases only or can I list made for (dare I say it) television movies and mini-series? I realize that for most Karassians the previous clarification is unnecessary. Hey! someone's got to be the token middle American in the group!

Istohow
Made-for-TV movies are still movies, so they should be included. My opinion is that TV mini-series should not count: "Roots" was designed to be viewed as some number of separate 'segments', I think. "Roots, the Movie" would be about 12 hours long, and I think even Cine-Paul would agree that that's not a "movie."

"Roots, part n" might count as a made-for-TV movie, but the "part n" bit is significant. A "movie" may leave a dangling plot-line (as in "The Empire Strikes Back") but a complete mini-series wouldn't count.


Cine-(smartass)-Paul
Now have you actually SEEN The Bicycle Thief or, like everybody else in America, do you claim to have seen it to get Cine-Points from whatever Gods of the cinema are out there?

Gilbert, cultural slob/snob extraordinaire
Coppola-wannabe Paul accused:
Now have you actually SEEN The Bicycle Thief or, like everybody else in America, do you claim to have seen it to get Cine-Points from whatever Gods of the cinema are out there?
Hey, shud-up and go back to your Beavis and Butthead, Clerks worshipper.

I did   go to school for 2 years, plus worked 1 year in the Hub Of The Universe - Boston. I even went to see a few movies at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge. Which is just down the street from that theatre which has only played The King Of Hearts for God-only-knows how many decades. SO!

Yes, I HAVE seen The Bicycle Thief and enjoyed it immensely. What I want to know is - have you seen The Rules Of The Game?

P.S. Had you heard that Pink Flamingoes is been re-released in all its gory (no typo) for its 25th anniversary?

KKK (Kubrick-Kurosawa-Kobelja)
... have you seen The Rules Of The Game?
Isn't that one of those boring old french movies that rambles on about bourgoise excess and ultimately endorses anti-American-Commie-Marxist-Satanist values?

Yes....... I've seen it.

> Gilbert, cultural slob/snob extraordinaire

We of the younger Karass can only hope to measure up.

P.S. Had you heard that Pink Flamingoes is been re-released in all its gory (no typo) for its 25th anniversary?
Can do better than that........

Yes I know that Pink Flamingoes is out. It is currently playing at the Music Box theatre here in Chicago.

However my roomate, who runs the Chicago Underground Film Festival, secured John Waters as this years guest of honor. So there has been much Waters-mania floating around my homestead for the past couple of months, culminating in the big fund-raiser shindig last Saturday where Dinner with the Prince of Puke was raffled off.

I did NOT win, but being the person who is producing a series of commercials for the festival, at minimal cost to them, I am reasonably assured of the eventual meeting, hand-shake, gimme-a-job schmoooze when he arrives.

Should be amusing.

P.S. Clerks SUCKED!


M.
Can we have a subset of "probably really junky movies that I saw when I was too young to know that, and which infected my mind in some unshakable way"?

Editors' note: Having seen the "final" list, it wuold appear that some of us answered the question in the affirmative.

Meanwhile, the original confusion about which thread was being replied to caused the editor and various list-members to digress regarding who originally requested the movies lists and what the requirements were. That has been excised from this BoM version as a courtesy to posterity. However, that subthread eventually resulted in...

Commandante XX - E-Mail Anarchist
Subject: Re: Movies
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

HA! I lied. This post is not   about movies. Instead...

Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: 1,331:

Commandante XX - E-Mail Anarchist (has a nice ring to it...)

Istohow
At 11:48 AM 4/16/97 -0500, Cine-Paul replied to AIRWUG's suggestion:
>Thanks for reminding me about that one. Now there's an idea for the Karass
>page (ISTOHOW needs something extra to do):
> A listing of movies recommended by each member.

Should I break my listing down by country of origin, director, year, subject matter, quality level, or star?

Yes please. HTML tables would be great, with one column for each of those items. Try not to use HTML frames, though - that would be too slow for access this way. Please include columns for hyperlinks to reviews, and put hyperlinks in for the directors and major stars when you fill in those rows.

Thanks for volunteering!

For the rest of Karass, send suggestions for additional rows to Cine-Paul. He is a much more natural owner of the the Karass Cinema page than ISTOHOW, anyhow. Otherwise, great idea Airwug!

Cine-Paul
DB the Middle signed off:
Commandante XX - E-Mail Anarchist (has a nice ring to it...)

Better watch out man....... Istohow the Net-Nazi might 'git 'ya for your inappropriate subject line :->

And....uh.....yeah it does have a ring to it.

Istohow
Better watch out man....... Kislanko the Net-Nazi might 'git 'ya for your inappropriate subject line :->

Just as an FYI my complaint was not about the "appropriateness" of the subject lines in the moral sense. I just got so damned confused trying to find and order the movie listing posts because they seemed to come in random order in multiple "threads", and if I were going to construct a "best of the maillist" entry out of them it was going to take two and half years...

Fortunately for me, 'bout the time I was ready to give up anyway Cine-Paul volunteered to do that...

And....uh.....yeah it does have a ring to it.
Indeed it does. Seems appropriate, too.

Cine-Paul
Istohow intoned:
Fortunately for me, 'bout the time I was ready to give up anyway Cine-Paul volunteered to do that...
Glad to see that geriatric Paul has the same sense of humour that his aging younger counterpart has.

XX
Guess my attempts at humor don't translate in this medium. Joanna always says that I'm pretty funny, but looks aren't everything....

If everybody has entered their choices, let the ripping and gnashing begin, eh? (I really had intended for this to be an interesting thread...)

Obligatory smiley face------> :-)

Editor's note: Not everybody had posted their movie list. However, this posting did for a brief moment get the thread back onto the subject of movies...

Jennifer
I need to ask what the point/object of Re: Movies (Really!) is/was so I can put in my 2 cents worth. Is it a list of your favorite movies or movies you thought were funny? I've looked back quite a ways to find the original subject but couldn't find it. Could it have been sent in the short time we were not subscribed to Karass because of our disk failure? Inquring minds (?) want to know!!

Gilbert
Dave-duplicate, the XX conjectured:
Guess my attempts at humor don't translate in this medium. Joanna always says that I'm pretty funny, but looks aren't everything....
All right! All right, Mr. Wiseguy! Where do you want the new orifice torn!!!!
Pink Flamingoes

For Paul, the film-fool:

Are there plans in the works to re-release any of Waters' other classics?

I was particularly fond of Female Trouble. Or, maybe it was just (hold your nose tightly when saying this for proper vocal inflection) the ambience of the Towne Theater in Sacramento ...

Crumb
I still haven't seen this. Is there any Crumb music in it (either George or Robert)? Or, is it just crumby music?

Lives of the Saints

What the ...? I've read the book, haven't seen the movie.

(I really had intended for this to be an interesting thread...)
So who said it wasn't?

And by the way, XX, if you're going to be in NYC this Saturday, drop by HMV Music and click a photo of shy Fripp for me, would you?

Cine-Paul
Gilby inquired:
Are there plans in the works to re-release any of Waters' other classics?
I honestly don't know, gonna have to get back to you on this one. However, I do know that Female Trouble, the Musical, is playing at one of the more eclectic (Gay) theatres here in town. When the Film Festival had its big raffle for Dinner with Waters the entire cast came down and did a few numbers for the crowd. It were funny.

EditorThe thread(s) wandered back onto trying to shame Cine-Paul into learning how to share his Cine-Knowledge by learning a new medium (English?) and building a Karass-Cine web page... The effort was ultimately a failure. Evidently you really can't teach an old dog new tricks...

Ignint-Paul
However, the page hasn't been started ('les Cine-Paul's workin' on it)
Nope...... Not quite up to the challenge as of yet.

AIRFLUB 1
Film gate Paul 'fessed up:
Nope...... Not quite up to the challenge as of yet.
Go away - ya bother him ... He's still trying to figure out the difference between ISO and ASA. ;-)

Cine-Paul
Quoting Istohow
(grin) So far Airwug and cine-paul have volunteered.

NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

AAAAAUUUUURRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!

P.S. Would agin' Paul "Please" consider mounting my thread to the best of the Karass list since Humble-Small-Shrinking in the corner Paul (who is intellectually unable to master the dynamics of web construction) is woefully incapable of such a heady task. Kiss-Kiss, Smooch-Smooch, Brownose-Brownose :-)

Editor
The groveling smartass was really talking about a new thread about Music. We'll see if we can get that one done in less than the two weeks it took to get this one organized...

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