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Apr 9, 2014 - 8:05 AM
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Solium
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Pia Zadora is THE LONELY LADY.
So is this something you're dying to see released? Have you actually seen it? Just want to clarify before trying to hunt it down.
Would love to see the hilarious "sex under the influence" scene, or the infamous "hallucination" scene in high definition. It's the movie that killed once and for all the hackneyed Jacqueline Susann/Harold Robbins school of trash spectaculars that plagued the cinema in the late '70s/early '80s.
Who cares about story or acting? It's got Pia Zadora in it. Good enough for me!
I will add "Emily" with Koo Stark. Late night cable in the 80's was awesome.
Well I'm trying to keep an open mind here but you're not making it easy. The 'Lonely Lady' is posted so let's move on to 'Emily': This sounds like nothing more than soft core porn and not even good porn at that. I mean, are you really asking me to put this on the same board with 'The Fifth Seal' from Hungary, an unequivocal masterpiece of cinema, simply because some chick looks hot with her clothes off? Take a look at these comments on 'Emily' and tell me what you think:
"If watching this for a great storyline, acting, writing, or character development, your definitely not watching for the right reasons. It's an el cheapo sex film, nothing more, nothing less."
Another:
"The movie is horribly directed and acted all through.It contains unbelievable scene sequence and the story is so unrealistic that it starts to bore after fifteen minutes. I wonder whether there is any connection of the plot with the writing of the legend Marquis de Sade. Everyone in the movie seem to be obsessed with one and only one feeling, and that is sex. The major sex scene at the end of the movie is also unerotic and boring. Don't watch this movie even if u r a fan of Koo Stark."
Still another:
"An attempt at some semblance of soft-core porn that is neither enticing, nor the least bit interesting. It's the kind of movie a 12 year old watches at three a.m. only to see a pair of breasts, then to be disappointed when they don't see enough of them and the result is about 10 minutes of nudity and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of useless dialogue."
I wasn't comparing it with great films. Long answer short, yes it's trashy fun. Will it resonate with ppl today? Of course not. (Or if your over a certain age when it was released.) It has to do with ones personal experience. I saw Emily at the right age where it was discovery. Today it's the nostalgia thing. Just like I can enjoy Star Trek TOS today without rolling my eyes at Papier-mâché rocks. It meant something more at the time. So one is far more forgiving looking back. 
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Still another: "An attempt at some semblance of soft-core porn that is neither enticing, nor the least bit interesting. It's the kind of movie a 12 year old watches at three a.m. only to see a pair of breasts, then to be disappointed when they don't see enough of them and the result is about 10 minutes of nudity and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of useless dialogue."
I was not disappointed. 
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Director John Korty is best known for his television work (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which he won an Emmy) and his documentaries (Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977), for which he won an Oscar). But earlier in his career, he made several independent theatrical features. One of these was 1970’s RIVERRUN, which featured a cast of unknowns, except for John McLiam, a grizzled character actor who had extensive television experience and had appeared in “Cool Hand Luke” and “In Cold Blood.” McLiam would go on to appear in a number of westerns during the 1970s
RIVERRUN is a film of its time, about a conscientious objector and his girlfriend who leave the Berkeley campus for life on a San Marin County sheep farm. There they are visited by the girl’s father (McLiam), a veteran sailor who takes a dislike to the boy. Family drama follows. In addition to directing, Korty wrote the original screenplay and was his own director of photography.
Columbia picked up the film for distribution, but it didn’t get much play. I saw the film a few years after its release, in a college film appreciation class. I’ve never been able to see it since. It has never been released on any home video format.
The film gets a rather high 7.2 rating on IMDB by the 9 people who have managed to see it, but it's so obscure that Leonard Maltin doesn't even cover it in his "Movie Guide."
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I just loved TONY RANDALL"S performance in FOOLIN AROUND-80- A CLASSIC. Think about it folks, don't you think this is one thread that should go on until this board closes down?THE UGLY DUCKLING-59- Is it lost?
The Ugly Duckling, a comic version of Jekyll and Hyde that pre-dates Jery Lewis' The Nutty Professor is probably not lost but not on DVD. I posted it, thanks.
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Definitely not on DVD. Sounds like fun. Love to see it so it's posted. Thanks
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With the talents involved in its production, you’d think that 1970’s TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON would have received some sort of a release by now. But we don’t have so much as a cassette tape, let alone a DVD. Liza Minnelli stars in the film, and is supported by Ken Howard, James Coco, and Fred Williamson. Marjorie Kellogg wrote the script from her own novel, and Otto Preminger directed.
Leonard Maltin gives the “moving story” 3 and a half stars, noting that “moments of comedy, melodrama [and] compassion [are] expertly blended by Preminger in one of his best films.” Given all the obscure and dubious items that Olive Films is releasing from Paramount (such as Preminger's own SKIDOO), where is this?
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I'm annoyed this slipped my memory - now playing the fabulous score! - the 1974 film The Dove ... Joseph Bottoms & Deborah Raffin.
Producer: Gregory Peck ; Director: Charles Jarrott
see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071438/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A film I had no interest in seeing as a young teenager ... and then in 1976 I got the score and had to see the film ... wonderful, pure entertainment.
I manged to get the VHS of it 20+ years ago ... long gone, of course, and I haven't seen the film for far too many years.
Mitch
Can't find a DVD anywhere so it's posted, thanks.
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THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
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