Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread David Kusumoto
** I saw Fishler in person that one and only time -- and he struck me then as a very quiet but intense young man, almost trying to hide from any attention. When I tried to interview him, he was visibly uncomfortable and gave me only a few one-breath quotes. But everyone in the huge room was

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
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Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Evans
I bet if I drew a line connecting all of MoPo's members -- that I would find (besides a shared interest in posters) -- a past or present interest in comics, sports cards and sci-fi/sorcery stuff. Not here! Rich On 15 Mar 2009, at 06:46, David Kusumoto wrote: ** I saw Fishler in person that

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Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Roland Lataille
I did collect comics and sports cards many years ago. Now only items related to movies that were presented in Cinerama. --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: From: Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk Subject: Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler... To:

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Saul H. Chapman, Ph.D.
Collected comics (Classics Illustrated, DC and Marvel) and MONSTER cards. Can't seem to remember if the latter came with bubble gum. I think they probably did. This was back in Brooklyn in the late 50's and early 60's. Never really did collect sports cards. Saul Visit the MoPo

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Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread David Kusumoto
When it comes to who buys what I tend to think that people's privacy be respected. ** Hi Phil. I agree with this 100%. As a collector, I don't want people to know what posters I buy or consign unless I share such info voluntarily. But as an ex-reporter and news director, when an

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Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread David Kusumoto
** I confess when my good-looking girlfriend (who's now my wife) and I first walked into Comic-Con in the 1970s (which was then held in the smallish El Cortez Hotel and later the Civic Center here in San Diego) -- we were taken aback by the geek factor, people dressed up in costumes and

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
I thoroughly enjoyed setting up at comics for 25 years starting in the El Cortez days of the show, and afterward at the former convention center where the show was much more kick-ass in my opinion than it is today now it's all business then we used to have all out costume contests where the

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread McDaniel Kirby
That opinion is RIDICULOUS. In the sense of deserving and inspiring ridicule. BARRY LYNDON is a wonderful film. Deliberate doesn't always mean slow. Gorgeous it is, and there is no better self-evident example of the moralism that Kubrick represented. I first saw it on Christmas night,

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Roger Kim
I also like the classical music in Barry Lyndon. It perfectly enhances the mood throughout the movie. Speaking of glorious cinematography, I recall reading that they had to develop special wide-aperture lenses for that movie in order to shoot the candlelight scenes without movie lights.

[MOPO] Barry Lyndon

2009-03-15 Thread channinglylethomson
Some critics felt that the candlelight photography was an interesting experiment by Kubrick but others found that that was all it was -- an experiment. They felt that part of the artifice of film is to create a scene with lighting and film that looks like it was shot in a room lit by

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Craig Miller
At 03:29 PM 3/15/2009, David Kusumoto wrote: ** Today, Comic-Con is gigantic, with crowds of around 100,000 or more held at the huge San Diego Convention Center on the harbor -- and though the event still retains its geek factor -- it's far more inclusive, with tons of stuff for children and

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Craig Miller
At 04:20 PM 3/15/2009, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote: the past 2 years, the fire marshall has shut down entry until other attendees left. so last year on Saturday, several thousand people who had waited on line for 6 hours to buy a ticket get in couldn't buy a ticket never got inside to

Re: [MOPO] Barry Lyndon

2009-03-15 Thread Franc
I saw this film in a special preview for magazine movie critics. They were a tough group and the film lost their interest (and mine) about a half- hour in. I found the film curiously stillborn but the room found the film HILARIOUS. I remember Marisa Berenson having the right look for the film,

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
Everyone knows that the lenses were supplied to Kubrick for BARRY LYNDON by NASA as a payback for him shooting the fake moon landing for them. It was even featured in a documenatary about Stanley. Phil - Original Message - From: Roger Kim To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU

Re: [MOPO] Barry Lyndon

2009-03-15 Thread Glenn Taranto
I have always found Kubrick's earliest films are the ones I go back to. Maybe I'm simple minded or just have simple tastes but I find all this later work overblown, overbudget and overindulgent... Give me Killer's Kiss , The Killing or Paths Of Glory any day. Glenn T. - Original

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Glenn Taranto
Is that the sound of another can of worms being opened? - Original Message - From: Phil Edwards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick Everyone knows that the lenses were supplied to Kubrick for BARRY

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
Kubrick loved to sign. I have a few stills that his PA at Hawk Films got for me in the mid-70s as the bookshop I was working for (The Cinema Bookshop in Great Russell Street, London) was where he got his film books. She explained that few people asked him to sign because of his reputation for

[MOPO] help please: PASSION PLAY old poster, teens? twenties? earlier?

2009-03-15 Thread David Lieberman
Does anyone know what this is exactly? _http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/apics2008/passionmar09.jpg_ (http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/apics2008/passionmar09.jpg) it looks/feels like its from the teens/twenties or earlier not sure if it is or isn't a film poster (no credits) 27

Re: [MOPO] help please: PASSION PLAY old poster, teens? twenties? earlier?

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
AOL EmailI'd say it's a stock poster for use for a theatrical (non cinema) event. Such stock posters were available for many standard theatre works (and the Passion Play fits the bill) performed by repertory troupes. Tried googling the printer's name? That might give you a time frame. Phil

Re: [MOPO] help please: PASSION PLAY old poster, teens? twenties? e, etc.

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
actually I have a 3 sheet for this which is a 1918 film it happens to be a film that was played for many years, most especially in the South and states like Utah however, little is known beyond that to my knowledge At 06:12 PM 3/15/2009, David Lieberman wrote: Does anyone know what this

[MOPO] OT: Comic-Con, movie posters, etc...

2009-03-15 Thread David Kusumoto
Craig and Rich: ** Well, I remember one year -- five of us went, two adults and three nephews and nieces; it was on a Saturday and it cost us more than $100 -- and to me, well, I'm small potatoes and that seemed like a fortune for just one day's worth of browsing, and then you have to add

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...

2009-03-15 Thread Bruce Hershenson
David I have always meant to apologize for hassling your wife back then at that Comic-Con in the 1970s! Seriously though, I really have to admire Steve Fishler. Back at the time of that auction, Steve and around a dozen other guys were advertising hot and heavy that each one of them paid the

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Bruce Hershenson
First off, for those of you not in my club, the question was *what film directed by Stanley Kubrick (other than Eyes Wide Shut!)** do you feel is the WORST he ever made.* ** I eliminated EWS because I assumed it would win in a landslide! I also eliminated the pre-Killer's Kiss movies because

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Ari Richards
After 2001, Eyes Wide shut is my favourite S.K film. Ari --- On Mon, 16/3/09, Roger Kim roger...@iname.com wrote: From: Roger Kim roger...@iname.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Received: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 2:56 PM Oops. I forgot that Eyes

Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Kubrick

2009-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
Yes, definitely gets better as times goes by and is best seen as SK intended, unmatted 4.3. That way all those weird converging angles in the awesome production design can be fully appreciated. Definitely a film for the mathematicians. And astonishing what he got out of Cruise and