tcm alert thread (Jun '23 - tcm alert: dead)

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.

oh man

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

Yours, Mine And Ours? Really?

Oh sorry, Eric, his favorite movie is playing on IFC, not TCM.

Eh, I wish it were Yours, Mine And Ours.

You and me both, bro.

oh no, I've missed the first week of pre-Sronewall gay stuff!

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=159623

No wait, I saw a couple minutes of Queen Christina.

I have to confess I've been watching the Tom Kenny hosted Funday Night At The Movies with my daughters- tonight is Sounder. Although so far the only one that held their interest was The Wizard of Oz.

This week on TCM Imports:The Exterminating Angel, and (early warning) Simon of The Desert will be shown early in the morning on July 13th.

5 Fatty Arbuckle films late Sunday night!

...and then The Exterminating Angel!

Big Friday coming up. RANDOLPH SCOOOOOOOOOOOTT!

8:00pm Seven Men From Now (1956) buy now
A former sheriff hunts down the seven men who killed his wife.
Cast: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin. Dir: Budd Boetticher. C-78 mins, TV-PG

9:30pm Decision at Sundown (1957)
A gunman seeks revenge on the man he believes stole his wife.
Cast: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele. Dir: Budd Boetticher. C-77 mins, TV-PG

11:00pm Comanche Station (1960)
After saving a woman kidnapped by Indians, a cowboy has to fight to get her back to civilization.
Cast: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins. Dir: Budd Boetticher. C-73 mins, TV-PG

12:30am Budd Boetticher "A Man Can Do That " (2005)
Documentary that explores the life and career of action/adventure director Budd Boetticher.
C-86 mins, TV-14

2:00am Desperadoes, The (1943) buy now
When someone robs the town bank before he can, a bandit joins forces with the sheriff to catch the real crooks.

Cast: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-87 mins, TV-PG

It's happening RIGHT NOW!

wait what dude its thursday

aghh i have like six movies taped off TCM i need to watch

Shit, I didn't mean to lie.

I've seen that first one before, but it's primo. This second one is pretty sweet stuff, too.

Seven Men from Now is the best of those, I think.

My taping interaction with DirecTV somehow fucked up several months ago, which considering how many unwatched DVDs I return to the library is a good thing.

Coming Monday, SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG.

http://www.tcm.com/2007/spielberg/index.jsp

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/8886/spielberg-on-spielberg

yeah, Richard Schickel I don't expect much from.

Have I ever even heard of Something Evil?

I have an unwatchable DVD-R copy of it on my desk that I haven't managed to make work in any player I've tried. :(

Late Sun/early Mon., depending on where you live: A Nous La Liberte, dir. Rene Claire, an early sound movie, with score by George Auric, including "stylized sounds of real world, such as wooden-clog-wearing prisoners marching in step," a satire of "progress," and he ended up suing Chaplin over Modern Times! Plus influencing other directors whom he didn't sue, apparently. Really interesting article by Jay Carr, linked from tcm.com

Todd Oldham is guest programmer this Wednesday. Among his picks: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and The Last Picture Show.

And remember, Simon of The Desert is on early Saturday morning, and Greed (in a 239-minute cut) is Sunday's silent movie.

SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG tonight.

Sometimes their segues are pretty funny... The Philadelphia Story leads into Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! tonight.

SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG tonight.

-- Dr Morbius, Monday, July 9, 2007 6:49 PM

kill me

there's a waiting list.

My vehicle Forbidden Planet opens Doctor Night tomw, followed by the George C Scott/Paddy Chayefsky The Hospital.

Man o man is The Hospital unwatchable.

haha, quel surprise from you!

(hasn't The King of Comedy come up on yr queue yet?)

i only watch law & order reruns on this channel. should look out for some other stuff, i guess.

no, they don't show dreary cop melodrama TV -- or any TV -- on TCM.

Oh shit, have it confused with Hallmark. Need new brane. I have to check out for TCM. I think I have that but never looked at what they have to offer.

Seriously, how can you defend that Arthur Hiller shit?

But it's written by your boy Paddy!

Diana Rigg and George C. Scott are great.

easy there, I haven't seen the film in 20+ years. But Hiller did direct perhaps the funniest non-Woody/Mel Brooks/Waters film of the '70s, The In-Laws.

Didn't I mention something about how I actually more disliked than liked Network the last time I watched it?

George C. Scott is ... committed in that performance, I'll give him that.

I remember Barnard Hughes being great...

(admittedly re The In-Laws one might want to give the lion's share there to Andrew Bergman & Falk & Arkin... uh, Hiller directed a Natl Lampoon film at age 83? starring Jon Bon Jovi?)

He was also the mulletted head of the Academy through most of the nineties.

leonine, that mane -- he shoulda run MGM

I did enjoy his inflections announcing crappy candidates every Oscar nominee morning. More worth getting up to watch than the actual nominations, anyway.

OK, just kidding, I was pretty much a slave to the idea of Oscar-nominated as quality in those days.

He used to pronounce Susan Sarandon's name "SARAN-dun."

who hasn't? OK, OK, I'm sure you were pronouncing it the right way in kindergarten.

I'm pretty sure Tim Robbins always got it right.