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

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.

Sunday night/Monday morning-The Passion of Joan of Arc and Cruel Story of Youth back-to-back.

Jimmy Stewart stuff tonight and then a few Bob Mitchum's- I think I'm gonna try to watch The Big Steal again.

A late warning, but today is Vincent Price day @ TCM.

today Doris Day

tomorrow Alan Ladd (lol, theyre including Citizen Kane)

Our Man in Havana late tonight

Gotta see that! I read Greene's 21 Stories, Collected Essays, and Brighton Rock this winter and spring.

It's not even out on DVD. I don't think it was ever on video!

also, Sat & Sun are Spencer Tracy & Errol Flynn days.

wow, if u slog thru Becket today, they follow it with 4 of the greatest films of the '60s, Ride the Hi Country-Cherbourg-Jetee-Pt Blank. I feel like I'm guest programmer.

Wow.

totally nicks some stuff off my netflix queue. v. happy i saw this...

And then, a couple hours later, a double bill of The Wind and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Which is like as though I were guest-programming I suspect, though I'd probably go with Female Trouble against Gertrud.

A few hours ago, some friends of mine were scolding me for having never watched La Jetee. Well, guess what playing right now?

Eric, why you skip over Henri Langlois doc?

Why did you stop short of it?

I was listing from memory, yr lucky I came up with those four.

Is Rob Zombie still doing the cult movies thing?

Don't suppose some kind person with TCM and a DVD recorder would care to press record for me the next time "The Password is Courage" comes on?

I'll gladly send you a blank and postage costs!

And yes, I'm aware it's regarded as a dud film, but anyways...

This week on TCM Imports: Pabst's Westfront 1918. It will be preceded by Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg.

Ha, I just came here to say how come nobody told me about the Lubitsch and the Pabst.

Pabst Threepenny Opera out on DVD today, no?

It came out last week.

Yeah, I must have been reading last week's papers.

Perhaps due to a recycling snafu.

Looks like there are some good noirs throughout the AM tomorrow, including Railroaded!.

In the early PM too.