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

Ricardo Montalban Day tom'w

R. Osborne interviewing Ernest Borgnine for an hour > Jimmy Carter on TDS

Ernie spilled details on his brief marriages to Ethel Merman AND Katy Jurado!

Gotta see that one

Merman marriage doomed by popularity of "McHale's Navy"

Oh yeah, I think I saw that here

This John Cromwell marathon tonight seems promising.

Albert Brooks' acidic Modern Romance tomw night (btwn Annie Hall & The Apartment)

"You've heard of a no-win situation, haven't you?"

Also, Foleying footstpes.

good lookin' out; that's something I've wanted to see for awhile.

has funniest epilogue crawl of all time

nuclear war threat movies tonight -- anyone seen this one, by the usually comic Boulting Bros?

Seven Days to Noon (1950) A scientist threatens to detonate a nuclear warhead if the nation will not halt arms research. Cast: Barry Jones, Andre Morell, Hugh Cross. Dir: John Boulting, Roy Boulting. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

also, Alec Baldwin becomes new co-host of The Essentials next month. Hopefully as his Departed character.

does anybody get the TCM magazine? Worth the investment?

I only get it when the Film Forum has then lying on the floor near the pay phones (a month in advance). Look at it to check the schedule, not all that often.

4 Japanese masterworks tnite, leading off w/ Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp

Thanks for the tip! I really need to check the lineup on tcm more often.

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Fact Checking Cuz to TCM!

Reagan succeeding FDR mighta worked, or rlly not been much diff from Truman

Also, what's up with running all Hitchcocks today, except for "Close Encounters" and "Three Faces of Eve"?

Now that Oscar month is over TCM can get back to programming some good movies (a silent prayer for future generations enduring Slumdork on TCM in 2070). Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled) Possessed early this morning although, tee-hee, it gave her another nomination for Best Actress which she damn well deserved. Apart from Rain, it's her best performance (her crazed laughter in a supper club scene is her perhaps her finest moment).

Another great thing about Possessed is it's yet another film to pull out when maniacs try to tell you that classical Hollywood was nothing but flowers. It's a really heavy, miserable outing. In fact, Webster's invented the word "unpleasant" just to account for Possessed. Crawford plays a woman obsessed with a man who does not return her attentions. In the first scene, she intones to him "'I love you' is such an inadequate way of saying 'I love you,'" setting off the damn near goth tone. Miss work for it.

Then a few hours later is The Fighting Seabees by Edward Ludwig, one of the few reportedly worthy directors Sarris left out of The American Cinema. I've never seen it or anything by Ludwig. Anyone?

Kev, you know she made TWO films titled Possessed? (I assume this is '47)

i am stumped on Ludwig, but i bet I've seen some of his silent comedy shorts.

From the above:

Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled)

d'oh!

Feh. Daisy Kenyon's her best.

One of her (and Otto's) best but not her best (still Female on the Beach in my book).

Then a few hours later is The Fighting Seabees by Edward Ludwig, one of the few reportedly worthy directors Sarris left out of The American Cinema. I've never seen it or anything by Ludwig. Anyone?

It's OK. Straight-up Republic Pictures war melodrama and one of the very few where John Wayne dies.

Fave Ludwig is The Black Scorpion. Track it down

first of the Reagan Wednesdays tonight; fair warning

Where's the rest of them?

ah, the tcm premiere of 'the good fairy'. god i love margaret sullavan.

the Patrick McGoohan 'jazz Othello' is late tnite

5:30 AM Summer of '63 (1963)
Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends. Cast: Michael Bell narrates. C-21 mins,

The Archers' Tales of Hoffmann at 8am ET.

Sun night: maybe Sellers' 2 funniest films, followed by 2 great Chaplins and the German 1943 Munchausen

late Sun: Garbo in The Mysterious Lady, then Pagnol's Marius

Diner late tonight after two shittier Barry Levinson films

Dreyer's The Parson's Widow late tnite; early Capra films tom'w daytime.

Did anyone happen to record the part-talkie Show Boat from last month? Come on....

dassin, truffaut, antonioni today/tonight

nice!

All films with "Night" in the title in English, French or Italian?

The King of Comedy in about an hour.

You get extra credit.

Commando is on AMC RIGHT now. Rae Dawn Chong -vs- Dan Hedaya

Vincente Minnelli today

My friend Millie (Miss TCM herself) just got interviewed: http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/07/working-girl.html

wow she has a great job. and sounds very cool.

oh man that sounds awesome. I still have a dream about opening a movie theater in Williamsburg and programming it like a freeform college radio station.

More realistically I'd like to program for VH1 classics or WRXP or something.

would gladly offer "guest programming" services at said hypothetical wburg movie theater

yeah, I was thinking have a liquor license and let Toddp do shows there and be all ocularis/galapagos with the DIY shit but also show Bachelor Party or whatever. Or a double feature of Repulsion and Belle du Jour.

dog movie marathon!

Harold Lloyd all day and night today! Judy Garland tomorrow.