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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 17, 2018 5:43:14 GMT
Won't be as many possibiles as "Movies About Making Movies" but rather than OT that thread will OP a new one ! As always, essays and images are always welcome and encouraged ! (Especially since if it looks like just lists it may get moved to Lists and Recommendations  ) Starting off with a Favorite :  lhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/?ref_=nv_sr_1 |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 17, 2018 5:45:20 GMT
THE GAZEBO -- Glenn Ford is a TV director
TOOTSIE
A FACE IN THE CROWD
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 17, 2018 12:13:21 GMT
Good Morning, Vietnam
American Hot Wax
FM
WUSA
The Front
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 17, 2018 13:21:13 GMT
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
RADIO DAYS
SOAPDISH
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Post by biker1 on Sept 17, 2018 15:10:52 GMT
5 picks..
Quiz Show (1994) - The perfect Hollywood movie. Thoroughly entertaining.
Real Life (1979) - reality TV in the suburbs. Hilarious.
Auto Focus (2002) - sleazy 1960s set biopic re. actor Bob Crane and hit tv show "Hogan's Heroes"
Death Watch (1980-fr) - future set reality TV show in a world where death by illness has virtually been eliminated. Harvey Keitel is the reporter.
The Truman Show (1998)
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Post by movielover on Sept 17, 2018 15:18:28 GMT
Broadcast News  Talk Radio  Edtv  |
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Post by biker1 on Sept 17, 2018 15:54:37 GMT
The problem with the Lists and Recommendations board, is that hardly anyone seems interested in using it..the last post there was 8 days ago.
So, shifting a post there is almost like deleting it. An odd apathy, when you consider the level of list addiction on the internet.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 17, 2018 17:00:28 GMT
The problem with the Lists and Recommendations board, is that hardly anyone seems interested in using it..the last post there was 8 days ago. So, shifting a post there is almost like deleting it. An odd apathy, when you consider the level of list addiction on the internet. That's why this OP always encourages essays, images and comments  |
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 17, 2018 17:13:17 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 17, 2018 17:52:03 GMT
 Walter Matthau and George Burns in The Sunshine Boys 1975, was about getting on an old sketch on a TV show  Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina in Ginger and Fred 1986, was also about getting an old act on a TV show, this time a dance duo. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 17, 2018 22:00:10 GMT
Tootsie is one of my all time, over and over, favorites on so many levels. Hoffman's BEST performance (imo) in a career of good to really REALLY good / great performances (even in roles and films I do not care for) BUT Much of Tootsie seems to be a comical view of Hoffman as he might really be ~ as an actor who needs to be inspired / motivated. Michael Dorsey: Are you saying that nobody in New York will work with me?
George Fields: No, no, that's too limited... nobody in Hollywood wants to work with you either. I can't even set you up for a commercial. You played a *tomato* for 30 seconds - they went a half a day over schedule because you wouldn't sit down.
Michael Dorsey: Of course. It was illogical.
George Fields: YOU WERE A TOMATO. A tomato doesn't have logic. A tomato can't move.
Michael Dorsey: That's what I said. So if he can't move, how's he gonna sit down, George? I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato. Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber... I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass.
Casting. Performances. Story. Characters … all A+
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Post by amyghost on Sept 17, 2018 22:15:53 GMT
Network.
Good Night and Good Luck. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 19, 2018 21:26:35 GMT
Simon and Laura (1955) UK Directed by Muriel Box. The wonderfully entertaining film was adapted from a popular play. Satirising the early days of BBC Television, the film focuses on an argumentative acting couple; Simon (Peter Finch) and Laura (Kay Kendall) Foster. Married for over 20 years their life together has devolved into is one of constant bickering at each other. However they are chosen to play a faux-harmonious version of 'themselves' in a daily soap opera filmed in their own home... An established theatrical and character actor Peter Finch stars in his first headline lead role in a British film. The previous year he had signed a seven-year contract with the Rank Organisation worth a generous £87,500 to make one film a year for them. The studio executives stated at the time , "We are going to build Peter into a major British star"... 
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 19, 2018 22:17:46 GMT
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 19, 2018 22:18:54 GMT
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Talk Radio
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Post by Staccato on Sept 19, 2018 22:39:03 GMT
"The Unsuspected" (1947) Radio: Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Joan Caulfield
"The Glass Webb" (1953) TV: John Forysthe, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Denning
"The Great Man" (1956) Radio: Jose Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Dean Jagger
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 19, 2018 22:45:23 GMT
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 19, 2018 22:53:32 GMT
I guess news broadcast is considered TV show   |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 20, 2018 0:25:33 GMT
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Post by Staccato on Sept 20, 2018 12:46:09 GMT
A CRY FOR HELP (1975)
A TV MOVIE ABOUT A RADIO CALL-IN SHOW.
ROBERT CULP, EILEEN HEILVEIL
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