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by rain Bard
Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

I don't believe much if any of it is original. Tracey was an ethnomusicologist, and my understanding is that he selected and supervised the recording of African pieces he had already been familiar with. I may be wrong, but that seems to me to fit the definition of an adapted score.
by rain Bard
Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:28 pm
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [BB] Best by Best Game - The Continuation
Replies: 4196
Views: 156089

Is Gangsta's Paradise (based so heavily on Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder) sufficiently original to qualify as an original song? Don't mean to take air out of a selction, but I've always wondered.
by rain Bard
Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:20 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

Group 1: preserve Vivien Merchant

Group 2: replace Bernstein's score to Return Of The Seven with Cornel Wilde & Andrew Tracey's music in The Naked Prey
by rain Bard
Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:49 pm
Forum: 83rd Predictions and Precursors
Topic: Spirit Award Nominees
Replies: 10
Views: 752

Happy for Uncle Boonmee, Lovers of Hate and John C. Reilly in Cyrus. If any of them win I'll be shocked but thrilled.
by rain Bard
Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:33 pm
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: 2011 Oscar Host
Replies: 27
Views: 2536

Here are my two tweets on the subject this morning: 1. While the Academy is pressing likely acting nominees into service as hosts, why not make probable costuming nominees design all the gowns? 2. In fact, lets have Anthony Dod Mantle DP the telecast, & if he wins the cinematography Oscar he ca...
by rain Bard
Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:21 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

Group 1: replace Zinnemann with Carl Dreyer, Gertrud. Group 2: a. replace The Bible - Toshiro Mayuzumi, with The Burmese Harp, Akira Ifukube b. replace The Professionals with Le Bonheur in Color Cinematography Group 3: a. replace Mister Buddwing with Sword Of Doom in B& costume design b. add Ju...
by rain Bard
Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:28 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [BB] Best by Best Game - The Continuation
Replies: 4196
Views: 156089

Picture: White Nights Director: Luchino Visconti, White Nights Actor: Victor Sjöström, Wild Strawberries Actress: Anne Bancroft, Nightfall Supporting Actor: Brian Keith, Nightfall Supporting Actress: Isuzu Yamada, Tokyo Twilight Ensemble: the Tarnished Angels Original Screenplay: Country Hotel Adap...
by rain Bard
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:54 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

Preserve Antonioni as director
Original Screenplay: It Happened Here replaces The Naked Prey
Original Score: Juliet of the Spirits replaces Born Free
Costume Design - B&W: It Happened Here replaces Morgan
Costume Design- Color: preserve Juliet of the Spirits
by rain Bard
Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:44 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [BB] Best by Best Game - The Continuation
Replies: 4196
Views: 156089

Sorry I'm late! Picture: the Cranes Are Flying Director: Mikhael Kalazatov, the Cranes Are Flying Actor: Michael Redgrave, Time Without Pity Actress: Grace Chang, Mambo Girl Supporting Actor: Aleksey Batalov, the Cranes Are Flying Supporting Actress: Janis Paige, Silk Stockings Ensemble: Kanal Orig...
by rain Bard
Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:20 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [BB] Best by Best Game - The Continuation
Replies: 4196
Views: 156089

Really? Tony Curtis supporting? If I cared so much about it, I guess I should have put him in lead myself. But surely this is a co-lead situation. Oh well.



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by rain Bard
Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:40 pm
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [BB] Best by Best Game - The Continuation
Replies: 4196
Views: 156089

Picture: the Sweet Smell of Success Director: Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall Actor: James Cagney, Man of a Thousand Faces Actress: Tatyana Samojlova, Cranes Are Flying Supporting Actor: Jean Marais, White Nights Supporting Actress: Joan Blondell, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Ensemble: the Delinquen...
by rain Bard
Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:30 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

group 1: replace Claude Lelouch with Jean-Luc Godard for Masculine-Feminine.

group 2: replace original screenplay to A Man And A Woman with Loves Of A Blonde, screenplay by Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer and Vaclav Sasek.

group 3: add The Sword of Doom to sound effects.
by rain Bard
Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:10 am
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

Don't forget that in addition to figuring out what to do with that last supporting actor slot, there's the question of whether Michael Mann deserves to keep his slot in the director category.
by rain Bard
Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:02 pm
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: [NE] Nomination Elim Game ('79- OSCARGUY)
Replies: 4571
Views: 167602

replace Sam Mendes. With whom? so many options, but I think I gotta go with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne for Rosetta.
by rain Bard
Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:35 pm
Forum: General Off-Topic
Topic: Happy Birthday, Oscar Guy
Replies: 21
Views: 2661

Happy birthday Wes!

Magilla, you're funny.

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