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OK, I was at least half wrong. The Mel Brooks/Cavett show was new. Pretty excellent, too. "Handheld!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's probably the funniest Mel's been in thirty years. "I need air!"

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a few mins of Woody '71 before taping the rest -- his answer to what kind of girls he likes that circles around to "disgusting earth mothers" was something else (in a neurotic Hip Playboy-Era Comedian way).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

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.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Cavett looked like such a surfer dude.

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

ooooh, Witchfinder General is awesome.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Hawks? do you even like Hawks, young turk?

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

AWESOME!!!!!!!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

i miss tcm

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

one shot

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really like Hawks yet, no.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

(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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

The Cavett/Mitchum interview was outstanding

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

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

http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ferrara_ms45.jpg

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

someone tape that one for me ok?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

Man is S. Poitier a terrible actor.

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

no William Finley, for sure.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

narrated by Cliff Robertson, I believe

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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recently watched: along the great divide (raoul walsh. 1951. kirk douglas.) dark of the sun (1968. jim brown. rod taylor. loved it!) flesh (1932. john ford. wallace beery.)

stuff i recorded that i need to watch: ah, wilderness!, midnight lace, the unsuspected, jewel robbery, witness for the prosecution, cynthia, the big trees, the feminine touch, don't make waves, first lady, the safecracker, close to the heart, our vines have tender grapes, on moonlight bay, fitzwilly, never say goodbye, hell's heroes, holiday affair, irene, winter meeting.

― scott seward, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:34 (two years ago)

via tcm i developed a mad crush on miriam hopkins during the pandemic. oof!

― scott seward, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:35 (two years ago)

Dark of The Sun is awesome.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 July 2023 16:39 (two years ago)

it really is. i was surprised.

― scott seward, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:53 (two years ago)

I saw Sullivan's Travels maybe two weeks back on TCM. What an amazing film. So meta!

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 7 July 2023 20:22 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

On Apr 26, @TCM announced a two-night memorial tribute to Harry Belafonte in July.

At some point in the last few weeks, that became a *one-night* tribute.

Night 2 (tonight) was replaced by programming promoting BARBIE, released by TCM's sister company Warner Bros.#TCMParty https://t.co/MHYzG2ihGj
— Will McKinley (@willmckinley) July 22, 2023

― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Sunday, 23 July 2023 01:40 (two years ago)

I noticed recently that the Watch TCM app has stopped working on my Roku, Android, and iOS devices; the app loads but won't play anything.

― Brad C., Sunday, 23 July 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

Just finished watching THE PHILADELPHIA STORY and then my eyes were blinded by a giant big pink Barbie logo behind Ben Mankiewicz and Greta Gerwig, who is apparently picking the films for this evening, as per an earlier post.

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 July 2023 02:03 (two years ago)

My eyes were so dazzled I didn’t notice the redundant “giant big” in my post.

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 July 2023 02:15 (two years ago)

Ugh, still contemplating this.

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 July 2023 13:15 (two years ago)

They just aired Frank Perry’s incredible Last Summer, but I haven’t had a chance to watch my DVR recording of it yet. I’ve seen a 16mm print from Australia’s National Film Archives and the 1980’s VHS release, which are both different.

― beamish13, Monday, 24 July 2023 15:02 (two years ago)

I'm glad to see the Watch TCM app is working again

― Brad C., Friday, 28 July 2023 02:16 (two years ago)

Did it break?

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 02:17 (two years ago)

it was out of action on all my gadgets for several days

― Brad C., Friday, 28 July 2023 02:21 (two years ago)

Same here. But it's working fine now.

― Cherish, Friday, 28 July 2023 03:52 (two years ago)

No doubt the guy who knew how it worked got fired or else was working on the Barbie tie-ins.

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 06:47 (two years ago)

not quite dead

https://ew.com/tv/tcm-insiders-detail-fight-to-protect-turner-classic-movies-network/

― Brad C., Monday, 7 August 2023 21:57 (two years ago)

Good article – I don't remember EW's reporting getting that granular in the past (in particular the long section potentially linking the cuts to Zaslav's salary/earnings).

― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, 7 August 2023 22:37 (two years ago)

Okay, then. But the whole thing made my stomach turn and it is still not quite calmed down.

― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 August 2023 23:01 (two years ago)

Oh damn they namechecked Millie in that EW piece. She's a pal, so I'm never not going to be furious about that.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:45 (two years ago)

one month passes...

William Friedkin tribute tonight (times EDT)

8:00 The French Connection
10:00 To Live and Die in L.A.
12:15 The Boys in the Band

― Chris L, Thursday, 14 September 2023 19:34 (two years ago)

one month passes...

Read about a movie that sounds interesting to check out (Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards)… it’s not streaming readily, but turns out it’s on TCM tonight & tmrrw morning; what serendipity.

― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Sunday, 29 October 2023 02:41 (two years ago)

it's fun. great soundtrack iirc

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 29 October 2023 03:31 (two years ago)

That movie whips ass

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 29 October 2023 04:05 (two years ago)

Yeah, it’s good.

― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 October 2023 04:32 (two years ago)

Next week, Noir Alley is showing Abandoned (1949), which has never before aired on TCM.

― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Sunday, 29 October 2023 06:55 (two years ago)

Greil Marcus "Real Life Top 10" bait: Where the Boys Are and Godard's Weekend, back-to-back in a couple of hours.

― clemenza, Friday, 3 November 2023 02:50 (two years ago)

six months pass...

Discovered a Bluesky account that alerts you to every film that airs on TCM, an hour in advance: https://bsky.app/profile/nextontcm.bsky.social

― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Saturday, 11 May 2024 22:39 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tcm-fans-david-zaslav-1235914706/

OH ZASLAV NO

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:40 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

3/29 8:10AM
Famous Boners (1942)
15 mins | Short | TV-G

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 21:12 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

Randomly turned on TCM channel immediately shows Kent Smith of Cat People in a Joan Crawford movie directed by Vincent Sherman. #onethread

― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2026 16:55 (five months ago)

With some time off, been watching a lot of TCM this month.
A Woman's Face (1941) with Joan Crawford was a fun, slightly devious melodrama - remade apparently from a 1938 Swedish original with Ingrid Bergman I've got to watch now.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) was a delightful discovery, I watched it twice!
Closed the year with Powell/Pressburger's A Matter of Life of Death (1946) - just incredible on so many levels, I've pretty much slept on these filmmakers my whole life.

― Nhex, Friday, 2 January 2026 21:00 (five months ago)

Also that Next on TCM bsky account mentioned by morrisp moved here, I think
https://bsky.app/profile/tcm-up-next.bsky.social

― Nhex, Friday, 2 January 2026 21:02 (five months ago)

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