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CineKarine
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Sing your worries away, smile, be kind and accentuate the positive!
DVD wish list: The Accused (48), Margie (46), I'll Get By (50), The Constant Nymph (43), The Voice of the Turtle (47), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (34), Her Twelve Men (54), The Lost Moment (47), I Walk Alone (48), The Glass...
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
The Major & the Minor! YES! This is by far the best announcement all year, and might still be so if this were December.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I...
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
Finally, some more Billy Wilder. I've been holding on to my Midnight tape forever. Hopefully, I can still unload it on Ebay as it's been going for pretty good coin.
I would rather have had a Billy Wilder boxset including his screenwriting years and his directing years, but I'll take what I can get from Universal.
Now bring on "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife", "Five Graves to Cairo", & "A Foreign Affair"
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
This is the best news I've had all week. I can finally take The Major and the Minor off my list. I didn't see this coming at all.
I haven't seen Easy Living or Midnight but I might just buy those as well because I hear they are really good.
All I can say is I am going to be broke in April!
As for the cover art I really don't like Major and Minor but the rest are ok!
Most Wanted on DVD: Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Bachelor Mother (1939), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Easy to Love (1953), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Penelope (1966), The Opposite Sex (1956), Lovely to Look At (1952), Naughty...
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
This is fantastic news...and of COURSE it comes just weeks after I finally broke down and bought the R2 Major and the Minor...oh well. I'll be buying all 4 of these.
Most-wanted R1s: The Patsy (1927); Personal Property (1937); Ever Since Eve (1937); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); Two-Faced Woman (1941); Kitty (1945); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); Black Magic (1949); Rapture (1965)
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
Ok so we know extras include Intro with Robert Osborne, is that it? Are there even trailers?
Most Wanted on DVD: Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Bachelor Mother (1939), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Easy to Love (1953), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Penelope (1966), The Opposite Sex (1956), Lovely to Look At (1952), Naughty...
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
ZOMG!!!! I wasn't expecting these films to be released at all. April is gonna be really expensive.
Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Eric Peterson
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
| Hopefully some bonus shorts. |
Fat chance! This is Universal you know!
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
I pre-ordered all of these titles off Amazon for 9.99
Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
Outstanding news! I'm especially (and happily) surprised that Universal is releasing these individually, rather than in a hodgepodge set. I'm not a big fan of SHE DONE HIME WRONG, but will definitely pick up EASY LIVING, THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR and MIDNIGHT.
Hopefully, these will sell reasonably well. If so, I nominate the following for a "Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies 2" collection (even though these, like the above titles, don't necessarily adhere to a strict definition of "screwball comedy"):
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935, Charlie Ruggles & Charles Laughton)
PROFESSOR BEWARE (1938, Harold Lloyd)
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940, Fred MacMurray & Claudette Colbert)
MURDER, HE SAYS (1945, Fred MacMurray & Marjorie Main)
My Current Damage at DVD AficionadoTop 5 most-wanted films on R1 DVD wish list:
SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965) / MURDER, HE SAYS (1945) / UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963) / CRACK IN THE WORLD (1965) / ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1933)
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Re: Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL
My nominations for the next wave would be:
Remember the Night (40)
She Loves Me Not (34) - an hilarious film practically never shown anywhere
The Gilded Lily (35)
The Affairs of Susan (45)
All of these films are truly outstanding and would be great additions to any classic film collection.
Sing your worries away, smile, be kind and accentuate the positive!
DVD wish list: The Accused (48), Margie (46), I'll Get By (50), The Constant Nymph (43), The Voice of the Turtle (47), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (34), Her Twelve Men (54), The Lost Moment (47), I Walk Alone (48), The Glass...
