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The new Borat is very funny.

Now I know how Joseph K felt

probably

The Pacific was where RKO used to dump all the footage they cut from unfinished Welles films that were turning out too good to show...

--- and if you're going to annoyingly include the same quote with every single posting (why?), you really should find out how to spell Joe Cotten's name - especially here! -- I wouldn't care if it burned me!!

la Higham appears in the recent ABC (Australia) doco on Merle Oberon (which documents the unshakeable belief of many in the state of Tasmania that M.O. was born and raised there). Higgam is wheeled on to outline the starlet's impeccable Eurasian credentials and Indian origins. i guess jaime could re...

We can only guess from internal evidence - i.e. the abysmal film which resulted. Orson probably thought rolling around in very skimpy night attire on a medieval bed with a naked associate female artiste would not result in a net increase in his own artistic prestige. He was right. Tom Baker (Dr Who)...

[quote]Yes, I'll have to consider that BFI CK book next, if it's as good as this one. The Perkins BFI Ambersons book is terrific - detailed enthusiastic analysis of the images, cutting, and performances which sends you right back to look at the film. Alas the Mulvey BFI Kane book is turgid and ponde...

Thanks! fantastically interesting. one of 48 surviving frames...

er which Ambersons page are the screen captures of deleted scenes on? not the Lightfoot? it's good there are enough now for it to be confusing...

King Lear? hardly: Fool: The cod-piece that will house Before the head has any, The head and he shall louse; So beggars marry many. (King Lear III iii 27-30) Fool: Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick, and...

What about the peabrain reviewer in the New York Times this week who called Uncle Jack a "forgettable character"? Can't remember her name.

Shouldn't Bogdanovich have directed the remake? He showed in Daisy Miller he can do the stuff even in colour and with a variable cast.