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

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I wonder how the censorship doc was (old)?

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I watched the 2nd half of that -- not bad. Gable was a real badass. I'm fascinated by pre-Code Hollywood, the racier the better. (xpost)

Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

The Essentials with Robert Osborne and Rose McGowan?!

Rock Hardy, Monday, 17 March 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link

It's Leslie Banks night!

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

This Sunday night (the 6th) TCM explores marital turmoil with a double feature of Sunrise and Contempt

C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 31 March 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Bette Davis all day tomorrow, for her 100th birthday.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link

They showing the Italian one with Joseph Cotten, Alfredo Sordi and Silvano Mangano?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link

nope, not even The Whales of August, I don't think

Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link

4 Richard Harris films tomw night, incl Peckinpah's Major Dundee with Heston.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link

extended version?

Edward III, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Alberto Sordi.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link

xp: Their site says 136m for Dundee, which is the length of the restored version.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

This Jeopardy! host's programming picks tonight include The Professionals and Lonely Are the Brave

Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Lonely Are the Brave

woo!

gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.cookandjones.co.uk/images/Prof1.jpg

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 14 April 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Little Big Man on soon. Thomas Berger's novels seem to have been going out of print recently based on my anecdotal evidence. Later Don't Knock The Rock and Go, Johnny, Go!.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link

It's Hedy Lamarr night!

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

they showed killer of sheep a few days back. i guess it's a little late to mention that.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

HEDLEY

xpost

impudent harlot, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I love her for her science.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Blacula & sequel tnite. Hitchcocks scattered all day/night tomorrow.

Sunday they kick off their Sinatra Month with a '65 TV special and films including this award-winning short (which drew some insinuations that Frank was A COMMIE):

Short Film: HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE (1945)

Singer Frank Sinatra explains the importance of racial tolerance to a group of tough kids. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-10 mins, TV-G

http://www.tcm.com/2008/sinatra/index.jsp

Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link

didn't he win a special Oscar for it?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link

six of em did:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037792/awards

I'm pretty sure the songwriter(s) were blacklisted?

Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link

ooooh, the lyricist was Abe Meeropol, who adopted the Rosenbergs' kids.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Just noticed the blog, Movie Morlocks, for the first time. How long has it been there: two weeks, two months, two years?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Friday!

Cold war post-nuclear paranoia flicks:
Five (1951)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959, wish it was 1932)
On the Beach (1959)

Supposedly the second one is very loosely based on one of my favorite books, M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.

those are followed by Reefer Madness, Marihuana and Cocaine Fiends.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Friday night, that'd be.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Faye Dunaway tonight, incl the departed Mr Pollack's Three Days of the Condor

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Leslie Caron tonight. One film, The L-Shaped Room includes origin of The Queen Is Dead opening sample.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 8 June 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Father Goose seems like it should be awful, but Cary is pretty funny.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 8 June 2008 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Tomorrow night, the not-on-dvd James Donat "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Oilyrags, Sunday, 6 July 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Skidoo! tonight/tomorrow morning on the cult show.

C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Lee Marvin & Jack Palance in Monte Walsh tom'w night.

all day & night w/ same star every day in August.

Friday: Michael Caine
Saturday: Chaplin

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Marie Dressler Day! didnt see that coming

Dr Morbius, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Kim Novak today... I HIGHLY recommend taping Robert Aldrich's nutso The Legend of Lylah Clare at 1:30 a.m. ET.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Cukor's Bhowani Junction on tomorrow night 7pm CST. Never seen it, not on DVD, VHS now pricey, Cukor divine, etc.

Also, Borzage's brutal but gorgeous A Man's Castle on Sunday the 31st at 10:30pm CST. I'm hoping they have a decent print to work from since I've had a hideous bootleg for years.

Second the love for The Legend of Lylah Clare. After Kiss Me Deadly I'd say it's his best.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link

LAUREL & HARDY for Saturday.

Yeah, Man's Castle is super.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, if I had been paying attention I would have recorded that Aldrich movie. I saw it a few years ago at the Film Forum.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 22 August 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Their on-demand channel (& I assume TCM proper) has / had a pretty good Val Lewton documentary (w/ ponderous / hilarious narration by Scorscese) this month.

David R., Friday, 22 August 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I saw that a few months ago. Hilarious??

Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

thanks for the Borzage update, Kev.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I saw that a few months ago. Hilarious??

Yeah, that wasn't the right word -- his prose & praise got a little too laughably purple @ times for my taste.

David R., Friday, 22 August 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I taped Outcast of the Islands last night. Still unavailable on DVD!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah Man's castle had originally been scheduled in June..can't wait!

johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Stan & Ollie in blackface this morning :o

Dr Morbius, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link

have they entirely stopped showing trashy movies on friday nights?

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 24 August 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link

oh wait they're coming back next month NEVER MIND

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 24 August 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, it's hard to find, like, Greg Peck cult movies

Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 August 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Better get these in before the shutdown:

Thursday September 4 - Jewel Robbery and then immediately after Tay Garnett's One Way Passage. Both left me a bit underwhelmed but both are spoken of highly so proceed accordingly.

Sunday September 7 - Harriet Craig, one of Joan Crawford's very best. About a woman who loves her house more than any human being including her husband played appropriately by the actor with the wussiest name in all of classical Hollywood, Wendell Corey. The ending is NOT sad! Much better and more coherent than Dorothy Arzner's 1936 pass at the story, Craig's Wife.

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link


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