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

except in a few cases, characters must sing in non-performance scenes (only great exception I can think of is Cabaret)

anyway w/ MGM you can start w/ Meet Me in St Louis, Gigi, An American in Paris, and The Band Wagon.

I've seen all four! We watched invitation to the dance (I think that was the title) during the Astaire block the other day. Very weird & not very good

isn't that Kelly?

Yeah, that's Kelly, and was on yesterday afternoon. I watched the first segment of it and was boggled by Claire Sombert's muscles.

Yes thx

Gigi, more like Gi-Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

"In this movie Maurice Chevalier will creep u riiiiiiiiiiight out"

these films are all equally great you shameless curmudgeons

I'm just lashing out bc Singing In The Rain got besmirched, tbh

I like all the other suggestions just fine, btw. Gigi is the only one I've no use for.

Minnelli's great when he's on, but he's not the ONLY awesome musical director out there.

prefer Hermione Baddeley to Hermione Gingold, eh? xp

well there's also Love Me Tonight for all you Chevalier bashers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023158/soundtrack

(I believe that's Stephin Merritt's choice for #1 and he's seen plenty)

That's a great movie. Watch it if you haven't seen it.

(I like Hermione Gingold tons in The Music Man.)

Love Me Tonight's opening rhythms-of-the-city is like '30s Stomp.

oh, I've seen it.

i think i'd go with The Band Wagon maybe

Meet Me in St Louis, Gigi, An American in Paris, and The Band Wagon

I believe there are 4 'stars' of this group of films who are still alive.

watching A Big Hand for the Little Lady on tcm right now. pretty awesome henry fonda poker movie!

it’s with great honor that I report to you that an hour’s worth of rare silent-era animation from my collection will be airing on Turner Classic Movies, *tonight*, at 12am eastern/9pm pacific. For this very special and long overdue broadcast event, we’ve curated several rare, once-thought-lost, historically significant or just downright funny cartoons produced in New York City between 1907 and 1926. That’s not all, though--TCM host Robert Osborne, with Jerry Beck co-hosting, are also presenting both Fleischer features, a block of UPA cartoons, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed in addition to the early NYC shorts.

It’s not to be missed! I hope some or many of you can tune in or set your DVR in time. Important links pertaining to this event below...

My guide to the early NYC animation:
http://cartoonsonfilm.blogspot.com/2012/10/silent-nyc-animation-on-turner-classic.html

Jerry Beck’s rundown of the entire evening’s broadcast:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/first-look-jerry-on-tcm-70817.html

Want to see more programming like this on TCM? Tell TCM how you feel here:
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=165828&tstart=0

The Facebook pre-party has been going on for weeks now! Join in on the fun, and see all the great images and comments that have been posted in anticipation this past month:
http://www.facebook.com/events/400697199995338/?fref=ts

thanks for the alert, forks!

they're showing the fleischer Gulliver's Travels right now

Ida Lupino's The Bigamist is airing tomorrow. Been trying to see that one for a while now.

Tuesday is A Child Is Waiting, never seen it, very excited!

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is on TCM underground tonight.

Fistful of dollars for a few dollars more gb&u on NOW

just came here to post that.

Lawrence of arabia

Simon of the Desert tonight (10 PM Pacific)

REQUIRED VIEWING!

Should have checked thread yesterday. Would have watched both of those.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which I haven't seen yet, tonight.

Master Of The House on tonight. Silent Dreyer, just like you like it.

I put my very brief thoughts about Alice into the Scorsese thread this morning.

/Master Of The House/ on tonight. Silent Dreyer, just like you like it.

Noted cultural vegetable Solaris is on tomorrow night. Killer of Sheep is on late Sunday.

killer of sheep is that dope shit

Loadsa Burnett short films afterwards as well. Man, that's super.

*TIVO TIME*

Hey, The Dardenne's La Promesse on before Killer Of Sheep. Really good/non-case studyish.

Star of the month: Stanwyck, some funky early 30s yesterday, sorry I couldn't pull myself away long enough to alert. Today's not her, but survivors of Nuclear War (she shoulda done one of those; imagine being in a suburban fallout shelter w 50s her). Tonight: Crumb one of my fav docs ever, 1:00 a.m. CST, followed by Gaudi, feat Gaudi himself, from 1966.

Cool! I guess that'll be the first time the words "did you know he masturbates to his own work" are spoken on TCM. Speaking of Zwigoff, I watched Louie Bluie a few weeks ago and it is really really good.

Yes. I'd begun to wonder what it might be like for someone his age in the early 70s, when the more fun aspects of the 60s surfaced and spread through the Deep South (maaan, lemme tell ya). And Louie's ready with an answer or five.

Wonder what Crumb and Bluie might have thought, watching each's Zwigoff docs? They had a number of shared interests...

yeah my 1st reax seeing bluie is r crumb prob loves this

i think it's friday 1/4 theres some amos poe stuff scheduled i want 2 remember and dvr

if i've never been in to/"got" crumb, would i benefit from seeing this?

Crumb is o_O Bizarrely fascinating even if, like me, you know next to nothing about him. "Benefit" I dunno...

id say probably. im fairly meh on his art, think the doc is stunning