Re: [MOPO] Movie summery of how it relates to us all

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin
so,,ive been considering my death as i have been at deaths doora few times since 2012 what was this life about?? what would ilike people to rember about meandwillanyone weven givea damn... so...I had my last rites read in 2012..a week before i went tosee martin donnelly a catholic priest iam

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin
I am nota film critic or evena memorabilia specualist oran degreed Pro..when i started my retail shop on Oct 16 ,1981 i hade been selling Movie memorabilia by mail order thru Big reel classic Images and Film collectors world thatlater became Brian Bukantis Movie collecting magazine My polland

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Nemo None
Bruce, actually I watched a lot of that Jeanne, etc. It was trying so hard to be arty but I found it dull and revolting. It was on when I had to stay up for something else and I was too tired to change the channel. Nathalie On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson wrote: > I am likely

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Nemo None
Re: directors' list So Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are still not great. Idiotic! And no Val Lewton. Nathalie On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 9:37 PM David Kusumoto wrote: > As I wrote elsewhere on FB - In my view (opinion, not necessarily fact) - > > The recent trend of being "inclusive" -

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread David Kusumoto
As I wrote elsewhere on FB - In my view (opinion, not necessarily fact) - The recent trend of being "inclusive" - has come at the expense of universally admired "classics" which - until this list - would show up every time. So many great films were not just "re-ordered" - but KICKED OFF, i.e.,

Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC

2022-12-03 Thread David Kusumoto
Thanks to everyone who wrote publicly and privately about my temporary web-host of the NYT's "Casablanca" article that Chris Quarles posted the other day. (I sometimes worry about this group because in its early years, everyone posted from a keyboard. Now "most everyone" posts from their

Re: [MOPO] Aw: Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC

2022-12-03 Thread Morris Everett Jr.
Great exhibit in NYC. I wish I could attend. In my life I ONCE had 5 lobby cards and one insert. Happy collecting fellow MOPOers. Morrie On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 9:23 AM Helmut Hamm wrote: > Thanks for sharing, David. I wish I could go to NY and see these in person. > > This reminds of a

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin
Bruce was this the same as the AFI 100 years 100 Movies?? i dida clapboard for the AFI for that.. I never saw the 100 films chosen ..all i know is I could not give one To Peter pm 90s he refused it saying he disagreed with thelist of Films Tom Hollywood dream factory® since 1977 On 2022-12-03

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Tom Martin
Funny one year i met Peter Bogdonovich at a lecture he gave in Toledo for the Junior League... as always wheni would meet Industry people I would takea clapboard i made as a giftas so manyask forstuff like autographs, however thepeople inthe biz are also fans of cinema// I had jusyt don ea

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Ron Magid
Ignoring horror, Sci fi, fantasy and other genres has been largely the norm since at least the publication of the first major treatise on cinema, Arthur Knight’s The Liveliest Art. Knight was heavyweight critic at the then very influential Playboy magazine. Even Fredric March’s Oscar winning

Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread S Yafet
Alternate reality list! Ugh! No classic horror movies, at all. Just to mention one out of many dud choices. Watched or tried to watch A Journey to Italy years ago. I love Ingrid Bergman but this thing put me to sleep. You are right, Bruce. Nathalie On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce

[MOPO] Aw: Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC

2022-12-03 Thread Helmut Hamm
Thanks for sharing, David. I wish I could go to NY and see these in person. This reminds of a CASABLANCA auction José Ma Carpio put together sometime in the late 90s. I believe it was in New York, but I don‘t remember if he worked for Christies or Sothebys at the time. Either one of them.

[MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022

2022-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost *4 HOURS* of “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it the ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! How the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, apparently with a straight

[MOPO] Do you have friends asking what they can get you as a holiday present?

2022-12-03 Thread Bruce Hershenson
*Are you a poster collector who has friends or relatives asking what they can get you as a holiday present? Why not suggest an eMoviePoster.com Gift Certificate, so that this year you can get what you REALLY want?You can choose from four different styles, including the one pictured below. Go to

Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC

2022-12-03 Thread Wim from MOVIE INK. AMSTERDAM
Excuse me Adam, but that's overreacting. It's perfectly okay to take a glance at the the current cultural and political stage whilst reviewing an exhibit that does exactly that for the times the artworks were made. And thanks for sharing the article!! Wim MOVIE★INK. AMSTERDAM www.movie-ink.com

Re: [MOPO] Casablanca collection on display in NYC

2022-12-03 Thread Adam at Art of the Movies
That’s a great read - Thank you. :-) On 3 Dec 2022, at 04:00, David Kusumoto wrote:  I don't know why I even bother anymore - *he said crankily* - but here it is. Up on my web host for just a couple of days. The NYT writer couldn't help but inject a panoply of contemporaneous political