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Where can I revisit the SCTV parody, "Polynesiantown"?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Coming this month:

The Trial on Wednesday the 4th
King of Kings (Nick Ray version) on Easter Sunday (the 8th)
A Jason Robards marathon (including Once Upon A Time In The West and A Thousand Clowns) on Thursday the 12th
Broken Blossoms followed by The Testament of Dr. Mabuse on Sunday the 15th
A five film (+1 doc) Chaplin marathon on Monday the 16th
A five film Harold Lloyd marathon on Friday the 20th
Some Came Running on Tuesday the 24th
A rerun of the Russ Meyer cult films Double Feature on Friday the 27th
Germany, Year Zero on Sunday the 29th

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Who saw Osborne's hour with Jane Fonda? Glossed Julia, The Morning After, Tout va Bien all out of existence so they could thoroughly rehash On Golden Syrup for 15 minutes. Yes Jane, Dad was a cold fish, we've heard...

Ken, it's gotta be on the SCTV box?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

tonight at 8 is "only angels have wings" which i saw a little bit of years ago and thought it was brilliant:

A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC

― gff, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's quintessential Hawks ... you really need the big screen when he's got 7 or 8 actors in the frame though.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Robards marathon 2-nite.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

that Brando doc they've produced for next month is almost 3 hours!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

(i didn't end up watching "only angels have wings," whoops)

― gff, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cautionary trilogy of television tales (fittingly post-Imus) tonight includes A Face in the Crowd, Network ... and The Barefoot Executive??

Followed by Coffy and Foxy Brown.

Late Sunday, Griffith's transracial weepie Broken Blossoms and Lang's Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

dr mabuse, always wanted to see that. is broken blossoms any good?

i was thinking about face in the crowd just the other night; certainly has some resonance with the imus kerfluffle.

― J.D., Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I finally don't think the script to Network is the greatest screenplay of all time.

Well, I guess I haven't thought that in a decade, but now I also don't think it's dead-on accurate, aside from programming (and promotions) superseding news content.

― Eric H., Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

Man I forgot how awesome Coffy is.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

Network certainly has some reactionary palaver from Chayefsky in there -- that Wronged Wife scene is lousy enough to win Ms Straight an Oscar -- but was amazingly prescient about the next 20 years of TV.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

broken blossoms is great. and man, so was coffy.

― remy bean, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Holden gives the best perf in Network; only he could deliver that "shrieking nothingness" bilge.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Best performance is Marlene Warfield as the Angela Davis archtype. Best of the Oscar-nominated performances, though, is Holden.

Still, I think pretty much everyone in the movie is up to the goofy task. I can even see why Straight and Beatty got nominated (or won) for what are both essentially walk-on-and-deliver-one-page-of-dialogue roles. Most of the movie's smaller parts seem bigger than they are due to the uniformly hysterical/sarcastic vibe (i.e. Conchata Ferrell's "crusty but benign" mantra).

― Eric H., Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

During Mets' games they play the clip of Peter Finch saying "I want you all to get up..." and cut it off at "and yell" LET'S GO METS.

It's Rita Hayworth night!

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's also played in Marlins games (Finch's speech echoes across the empty stadium).

Network fools a lot of us because its characters speak in complete sentences -- a chimera more touching than Chayevsky's belief that TV makes us dumb.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but when I first fell in love with Network, I didn't really have much affection for intensely talky movies (I didn't like All About Eve nearly as much then as I do now), so there must've been something else.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Was it the phrase "impugn his cocksmanship"?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure what to make of Max Schumacher quoting Anna Karenina either.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

xpost -- I think it was that it allowed me to be the only male in high school acting class who didn't do Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects or "you can't handle the truth!" for my monologue.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

haha. I'd love to hear the tape.

i did Woody Allen's "The Moose" standup bit. And some O'Neill thing.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys all get this channel on basic cable??

and if so, do you realize youre destined for hell?

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

not basic basic, but I've had it for awhile on the next step up. I still seldom watch.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

also they showed coffy????? holy shit.

i used to get this on basic but then my cable company pulled it & it made me want to kill.

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

youre a spoiled motherfucker then morbius

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I get tcm on basic cable, which helps make up for the lack of other decent channels. But no way am I paying for digital cable.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

"and Nashville in the wee hours tnite."

ha i was over at someone elses place & got to watch this. totally uncut. someone plz try to argue that tcm isnt the greatest channel on earth i mean srsly

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not spoiled, I spent about 20 years of my life seeing what they show elsewhere before TCM came into existence.

Also, I'm never home.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

My Name Is Julia Ross (hourlong B noir, endlessly ripped off) tnite

4 hours of Harold Lloyd tomw morning

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Vincente Minnelli's Sinatra-MacLaine-Martin down & out weepfest Some Came Running is on this afternoon followed by a Bob Osbourne chat w/Shirley.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I can sit through another Bob Osbourne chat ever again.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

when i was a kid & this was still on basic i always loved that guys intros, does he still do them? cant remember his name but he kinda reminded me of peter funt

--My Name Is Julia Ross (hourlong B noir, endlessly ripped off) tnite--

see this is the kind of thing im talking about. what other channel etc

xp HAHA IS THAT HIM??

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I never watch the chats. I am having too bad of a week to be able to watch Some Came Running again right now.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

In the UK we get TCM on Freeview (free digital broadcast over the airwaves) but it's "encrypted" for some reason and I can't see it :/

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Brando doc tonight (followed by The Men) & tom'w.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

And didn't I read that Wally Cox isn't even mentioned in this doc?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

The folks who saw him on the stage are either very practiced storytellers, or he blew them away like no one else.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jerry Lewis x3 tonight, following Nutty Prof w/ my fave solo (Ladies Man) and fave w/ Dean (Living It Up).

Born Losers and Mad Max after JL.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kate Hepburn films (centennial) all week at 8pm. Try Alice Adams.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Preminger's Baby Face tnite, then mid-late Welles x3

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Saw Baby Face not too long ago: minor Preminger, but Jean Simmons is superb in a terrible wig (at least I think it's a wig).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize David Thomson was guest programmer last night. Act of Violence looked interesting, but the Mets were on.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of Welles early Wednesday morning.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

taped stella dallas and ossessione off tcm a few nights ago. let's see how long before my tivo deletes them of its own accord!

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Battle Of Algiers tonight! That is (no matter what your ILXOR Clock says): still May 27, if you're Pacific, since will be 11 PM; May 28, if you're Central like me, since will be 1 AM (note to self).Acerbic commentary by Michael Atkinson on TCM site.

― dow, Monday, 28 May 2007 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh man

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

That one guy that quit's favorite movie is on right now.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yours, Mine And Ours? Really?

― Eric H., Monday, 28 May 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

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