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Cavett looked like such a surfer dude.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

ooooh, Witchfinder General is awesome.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

hopefully it won't have that awful score they slapped on it in the 80s!

i've had the jingle for 'one reel wonders' going thru my head all day for some reason.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've wanted to see Witchfinder General forever! Nice that the station is starting to show some new (old) stuff. I can only make VHS recordings of Hawks's, Aldrich's and Visconte's stuff so many times.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hawks? do you even like Hawks, young turk?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Next month TCM is launching a weekly cult films double feature program hosted by Rob Zombie. The second week will be Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Mudhoney. The Conqueror Worm (aka Witchfinder General) is on tap for later on.

AWESOME!!!!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

the 'hosted by rob zombie' aspect is a turnoff. i would really really like to see bob osborne bookends to mudhoney.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

Why won't they show "A Bout de Souffle" for once?

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

i miss tcm

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

I didn't know much about "La Jetée" beyond the 12 Monkeys connection, so I was surprised that it was a series of still images with narration and a score, not a "motion picture" as such.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

But it moves for a little bit in there, doesn't it?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

one shot

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Pretty good, even in the English language version. Although the experimenters were still whispering in German, it seemed to me. I forgot that the future-Earthers first appear Meet The Beatles-style.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't really like Hawks yet, no.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

one shot
She blinks!

Tomorrow, Thursday, Robert Mitchum- interview with Dick Cavett, Night of the Hunter, Out of the Past, Thunder Road.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Cavett int w/ Hitchcock tonight ... given what a savvy interviewee he was, I'm not expecting any Truffaut-level insights.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

A week and a half later, and I still don't really like Hawks.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Somehow I saw you going for Monkey Business (not one of my favorites, tho it's OK).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

I was disappointed by that one. I thought maybe it might strike some sort of queer funny bone in me, but mostly it didn't. I do (predictably) think Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is one of the greatest films ever made.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

i'm TiVo-ing death of a cyclist tonight (? i think). has anyone seen this?

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

(somehow it didn't occur to me until just a couple of days ago that we not only have TCM at our house but also video-recording capabilities.)

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

joseph, wasn't that the other night? oops! I'd never even heard of that one.

E, Monty and John Ireland comparin' guns in Red River is all the queer Hawks bone I need.

I (predictably) forgot Gentlemen Prefer Blondes about ten minutes after I saw it.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Cavett/Mitchum interview was outstanding

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Guns as phallic imagery typically only works for me when they're held by women.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

eh, either way, it's recording or has been already. also: carol reed marathon tomorrow, so i'll be getting a couple of those too. technology yeah!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

A week and a half later, and I still don't really like Hawks.

'Twentieth Century', 'Bringing Up Baby', 'His Girl Friday', and 'Ball of Fire' are first rate comedies.

'To Have and Have Not' has some great moments as does 'The Big Sleep'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

the big sleep is nothing BUT great moments, pretty much.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

re Carol Reed marathon. Make sure you watch Running Man, and compare and contrast with The Talented Mr Ripley.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

joseph -- Death of a Cyclist at month's end, Walter Reade's Janus fest.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

someone tape that one for me ok?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm betting none of you hipsters are taping tonight's trifecta of trendies' whipping boy Stanley Kramer (Defiant Ones is still a prime sample of Sidney Poitier's greatness). Haven't seen Ship of Fools since I was a kid, but it's got Vivien Leigh practically doing Blanche again ... and Michael Dunn!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

wow, I've never seen Our Man in Havana -- read Greene last year, hoping to catch some location I might've trod through on my visit.

Also, W.C. in The Bank Dick tomw morning.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

'Our Man in Havana' is funny, iIrc and 'The Bank Dick' is hilarious.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

"A river of beer! running over your grandmother's paisley shawl!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Man is S. Poitier a terrible actor.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 September 2006 17:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

no William Finley, for sure.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Caught the end of the Cavett/Hitchcock interview which seemed very good. Thought I taped the next showing of it, but it turns out I got that same old Men Who Made The Movies doc they always show.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

narrated by Cliff Robertson, I believe

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

luvin me some tcm. Got one tivo devoted to tcm. yep, I'm a strange one; but sometimes nothing soothes more than a noir classic or other tcm fair even if I have seen it 50 times. Even am oddly drawn to the transition pieces like the "open all night" take off on the night hawkes pic and the piece containing "lonely tears" by

I also think I am about the only person on the planet who liked the new 2006 "Black Dahlia" - I liked it b/c it was done in an old fashioned genre and I could forgive the choppy nature and hasty tie up of loose ends at the end, simply for the fact that it was much like many of the '30s & '40s films that followed the same formula; but alas, back then folks were far more forgiving of putting a nice tidy end on everything. Plus it got HUGE bonus points with me cuz of the very good LA locale scenes and gritty feel. I was born 40 years too late!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

doh! somehow "by BECK" didn't make it into last post.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

stanley kramer movies are nowhere near as bad as everyone thinks they are. i mean if it weren't for dreary old andrew sarris et al i wouldn't even know i was "supposed" to hate him and revere otto preminger or whoever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 30 September 2006 09:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think "The Bank Dick" is even better with the sound off.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

the fuck it is!

Hitchcock did a brilliant riff for Cavett on a laxative commercial.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hitchcock was the king of the non sequitur on that Cavett interview. Did you catch the joke about the boy at school who kept getting beaten up? Or the dinner-party stories?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

i've seen "the bank dick" like three times and it's more hilarious each time. wc fields has prob aged better than any comic actor, ever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

That's only because he started out at, like, 85 years old.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

he just looked 85 when he was 45.

Haven't finished the Hitch interview, and I taped the Lon Chaney double feature last night.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

I watched most of Ship of Fools while in a bar listening to bands. It seemed pretty good, Elizabeth Ashley was a knockout. And Werner Klemperer!

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

also: carol reed marathon tomorrow, so i'll be getting a couple of those too.

um, oops. caught the third man last night at any rate.

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

The TCM Underground show debuts late tonight w/ a Ed Wood twofer of Plan Nine From Outer Space and Bride of The Monster.

http://tcmunderground.com/

Next month (on the 2nd) they'll be adding a Dick Cavett w/Ingmar Bergman to the rotation.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

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that's endorsement enough for me, thanks!

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:21 (5 months ago) Permalink

yeah it's a great doc imo

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 December 2012 22:37 (5 months ago) Permalink

I more or less learned to read by reading my dad's underground comix so Crumb is a touchstone as much as Dr. Seuss or Big Bird really. I remember liking the doc but i last saw it when it was first released; probably due for a rescreening.

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 December 2012 22:43 (5 months ago) Permalink

funny girl on right now

― Mordy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:27 (5 months ago) Permalink

Spirit of the Beehive, California Split, and The Last Detail tonight. Late but maybe the west coasters can catch some.

― nickn, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:08 (5 months ago) Permalink

bill paxton making some nice picks tonight

― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:10 (5 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Trio of pre-Hollywood Hitchcocks tonight: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Sabotage. I watched The Lady Vanishes just a few weeks ago, but it still sounds like a good way to spend 5 hrs.

― If it were up to you we'd all be eating tea and strumpets. (WilliamC), Sunday, 27 January 2013 21:33 (4 months ago) Permalink

Noticed that, but thanks for reminding.

― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 January 2013 21:54 (4 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Scripts by Tennessee Williams right now... Tonight, five docu-fics by Lionel Rogosin (strongly recommend the first two):

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/568367%7C0/Lionel-Rogosin-3-13.html

And Friday night, four of the Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman collabs (at least two of which are monumental).

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 13:06 (3 months ago) Permalink

Fell asleep halfway thru "Rome: Open City" on Friday and hate myself for it :(

(Not bored, just really tired)

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 14 March 2013 05:13 (3 months ago) Permalink

bump for Roberto-Ingrid x4 tonight

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 March 2013 18:05 (3 months ago) Permalink

Watched some of Europe 51 that was dubbed into English. It was ok

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 March 2013 14:43 (3 months ago) Permalink

It was all dubbed into English (I just watched only some of it)

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 March 2013 14:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

I had watched Stromboli earlier in the week, the subtitled version on Hulu/Criterion. All the dialogue was in Italian, including Bergman's, and I didn't think anything of it. Last night during the baseball game I switched over briefly and saw that it was a dubbed version, with some dialogue differences -- much more effective, as the Italian villagers' dialogue wasn't dubbed and it did a great job of conveying Karin's isolation due to not being able to speak/understand the local language.

― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Saturday, 16 March 2013 15:02 (3 months ago) Permalink

Tootsie on tonight if you've somehow never seen it (or if you're me, haven't seen it in a while).

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

Must be Dustin Hoffman night, since Little Big Man is on as well.

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:49 (3 months ago) Permalink

That one I haven't seen. Worth watching?

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:53 (3 months ago) Permalink

It is too long and and I think there are parts that might have aged badly, but there is also some good stuff in there. Differently worth watching. Then after watching read the book.

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2013 00:07 (3 months ago) Permalink

Why wouldn't you want Europa 51 in English, to hear Bergman's voice? (also, all Italian films of the era are dubbed, including into Italian)

otoh having to hear Ingrid and Sanders dubbed into Italian in Voyage in Italy is silly.

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 March 2013 01:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

Watching LBM now. Recently reread the book so sometimes feel a slight disappointment at various details gone missing and emphases shifted but some things movie has that book doesn't: John Hammond's bluesmoaning soundtrack, bigger role for Allardyce T. Meriweather, as played Martin Balsam- "Listen to me! Two legged creature will believe anything, and the more preposterous the better: whales speak French at the bottom of the sea" etc- and Chief Dan George.

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

There are moments of broad comedy in the film that are indistinguishable from something like Support Your Local Gunfighter whereas the the tone of the book never falters. Hey, looks like a new batch of Thomas Berger ebooks appeared last week.

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2013 05:15 (3 months ago) Permalink

tonight: For All Mankind, 2010, Forbidden Planet

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:57 (2 months ago) Permalink

Cool Thx.

I was too hard on LBM. Both of the big set pieces, The Battle of the Washita and the Battle of the Little Bighorn are really well done, Robert Mulligan's Custer has grown on me and yeah, Chief Dan George, Chief Dan George.

Anyone who watched, is watching or will watch For All Mankind please see if you can respond to this unanswered question: Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2013 01:49 (2 months ago) Permalink

not tcm but I think posters here might enjoy http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/22/kurosawa_on_hulu_seven_samurai_rashomon_and_22_more_movies_are_streaming.html

― Mordy, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:47 (2 months ago) Permalink

Domo arrigato!

― Brad C., Friday, 22 March 2013 23:38 (2 months ago) Permalink

Mister Mordato.

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2013 23:41 (2 months ago) Permalink

Le Mans is on right now.

if you like auto racing this is good

― brownie, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:03 (2 months ago) Permalink

Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room on late tonight.

The amazing He Who Gets Slapped on tomorrow morning.

― "Rob is startled, this is straight up gangster" (R Baez), Monday, 1 April 2013 01:04 (2 months ago) Permalink

The un-Netflixable Sleuth (1972) is on tonight at 8pm

― Johnny Hotcox, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:06 (2 months ago) Permalink

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