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

maybe they'll do it in October

Tomorrow is a good day for watching TCM all day. Anatomy Of A Murder, Bell Book And Candle, Picnic, Splendor in The Grass and Jigoku.

are those all in 'Scope? anyhoo, this is why I need to get rid of cable, I'm workin'.

Picnic and Splendor in The Grass are both in CinemaScope! Can't you record them?

I've seen em, and I have no time to watch films ppl gave me for Christmas.

I wish people would give me nice movies for christmas, instead I get flannel sleepwear and tools.

Jean Simmons on Tuesday nights this month:

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/385841|0/Jean-Simmons-Tuesdays-in-June.html

OOPS! ZOMBIES ATE THIS PAGE!

The '|' character is messing up clicking through, but cut-and-paste of address works fine.

Tashlin's dizzy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, momentarily.

Lots of Tod Browning-Lon Chaney movies on tonight. The Unknown is a must see.

24 hrs of Jean Gabin on Thursday.

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-08-18

Thanks, Morbz!

I didn't know Faulkner had been adapted to the screen this early -- does anybody have an opinion on The Story of Temple Drake (1933)? It's about to come on.

Goodness, that was a bit scandalous.

watching this right now and its fucking awesome!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5e3ttvlymI

the "duovision" thing is srsly next level!!! weird that the trailer doesnt employ the same technique... but like, the entire movie is two shots in split screen. its like watching two cuts of the same same movie, showing two different views of the same plot the whole time

also it takes place at the hotel del corodano (sup, ned)

like the video to semisonic's "closing time" but instead of a band in one half of the screen its different shots of the scene in the other frame, or shots of what the characters in the other frame are talking about, or shots of someone on the other side of the hotel doing something sneaky.

i'm so into this!!

stoked:

http://i.imgur.com/xnNie.png

i hope they show a funny thing happened

they are counting that. also beach blanket bingo.

they are leaving out the railrodder however

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqqxyZeDXo

Tonight on Underground, Millie's outdone herself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G6XgzhtCJI

Hey I watched Wicked Wicked too -- it was pretty great! The stabber reminded me so much of Jeffrey Dahmer that I felt genuinely creeped out for a while. His mask was gross. The songs were also awesome.

Duovision kind of made me want to barf though, too overstimulating.

good lookin out johnny fever!

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/298551_10150336950732634_624252633_8510816_537079269_n.jpg

I'd be cool if TCM become the 24 hour musicals channel.

BUMP because Carnival of Souls is about to start!

tomorrow is we cant go home again & dont expect too much the doc his last wife made abt him

him being nic ray

Interview with Millie: http://www.atlantamagazine.com/eldredgeatl/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10307086

I wish I could introduce her to everyone in the world.

Chaplin tonight.

Hausu was on tonite and I missed it

DVR-ing it! Caught it just in time.

wish i had known, woulda liked to have a dvr copy

I've started keeping a list of alerts on my iPad of upcoming movies I wanna watch/record on TCM. In case any of these might be of interest to anyone else here, this is what I've got on my list for this month:

Jan 15: A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds
Jan 17: Gaslight
The Life of Emile Zola
Jan 22: Island of Lost Souls
Haxan
Jan 23: Earrings of Madame de...
Jan 27: Possession
Jan 29: The Vanishing

p sure there is more ophuls on the 22nd, also

o i meant 23rd

Which Gaslight? Thorold Dickinson original with Anton Walbrook?

Gotta love those Earrings.

1944, Ingrid Bergman.

s'okay, but the other one is better.

Anton Walbrook still has that Old World European reserve whereas Charles Boyer got a little hammy in Hollywood. He's great in Earrings... though

damn i havent seen Possession since it got remastered/dvd release

god why didnt anyone ever tell me soylent green was such a visually beautiful movie

i've honestl always put it off because it was my highschool girlfriend's redneck father's favorite movie

soylent green has a devastating credits sequence

Yes it does

god why didnt anyone ever tell me soylent green was such a visually beautiful movie

The cinematographer, Richard H Kline, did some other Fleischer films, incl Mandingo & The Boston Strangler. (also The Fury and... Howard the Duck)

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/with_little_help_from_petticoat_8PrE2OAhnSxCn1B5RbvIMM

huge blindspot for me so i'm excited to watch (almost) all of these:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/474213%7C0/70-s-Sci-Fi-4-21.html

the beach party movies are (predictably) dumb. i think i was hoping for more and now i'm kinda wishing todd haynes made some kind of meticulously stylized pastiche version of a beach party movie that secretly explored in melodrama style the tensions undergirding the beach party movie conventions. seriously, tho, are any of these good enough to be worth watching? even the names sound interchangeable.

They Live! and Escape from NY on tnite

They Live is not without its own virtues, but it's mostly worth reading so you can know what's being talked about in Jonathan Lethem's awesome book on the film.