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It was all dubbed into English (I just watched only some of it)

I had watched Stromboli earlier in the week, the subtitled version on Hulu/Criterion. All the dialogue was in Italian, including Bergman's, and I didn't think anything of it. Last night during the baseball game I switched over briefly and saw that it was a dubbed version, with some dialogue differences -- much more effective, as the Italian villagers' dialogue wasn't dubbed and it did a great job of conveying Karin's isolation due to not being able to speak/understand the local language.

Tootsie on tonight if you've somehow never seen it (or if you're me, haven't seen it in a while).

Must be Dustin Hoffman night, since Little Big Man is on as well.

That one I haven't seen. Worth watching?

It is too long and and I think there are parts that might have aged badly, but there is also some good stuff in there. Differently worth watching. Then after watching read the book.

Why wouldn't you want Europa 51 in English, to hear Bergman's voice? (also, all Italian films of the era are dubbed, including into Italian)

otoh having to hear Ingrid and Sanders dubbed into Italian in Voyage in Italy is silly.

Watching LBM now. Recently reread the book so sometimes feel a slight disappointment at various details gone missing and emphases shifted but some things movie has that book doesn't: John Hammond's bluesmoaning soundtrack, bigger role for Allardyce T. Meriweather, as played Martin Balsam- "Listen to me! Two legged creature will believe anything, and the more preposterous the better: whales speak French at the bottom of the sea" etc- and Chief Dan George.

There are moments of broad comedy in the film that are indistinguishable from something like Support Your Local Gunfighter whereas the the tone of the book never falters. Hey, looks like a new batch of Thomas Berger ebooks appeared last week.

tonight: For All Mankind, 2010, Forbidden Planet

Cool Thx.

I was too hard on LBM. Both of the big set pieces, The Battle of the Washita and the Battle of the Little Bighorn are really well done, Robert Mulligan's Custer has grown on me and yeah, Chief Dan George, Chief Dan George.

Anyone who watched, is watching or will watch For All Mankind please see if you can respond to this unanswered question: Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?

not tcm but I think posters here might enjoy http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/22/kurosawa_on_hulu_seven_samurai_rashomon_and_22_more_movies_are_streaming.html

Domo arrigato!

Mister Mordato.

Le Mans is on right now.

if you like auto racing this is good

Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room on late tonight.

The amazing He Who Gets Slapped on tomorrow morning.

The un-Netflixable Sleuth (1972) is on tonight at 8pm

truffaut every friday in july

also p cool tho im sure theyre on youtube - old johnny carson interviews every monday hosted/introduced by conan

Interested to see this TCM Import La Cucaracha, which features the Big Four of Mexican Cinema, Maria Felix, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz and Emilio Fernandez.

catherine deneuve marathon tonight

yeah dvr'ing un flic

One of my favorites, Dead of Night(1945) starting now.

chabrols les cousins & le beau serge early am tomorrow and then beau travail the next day

An early Scorsese, "Who's That Knocking At My Door?" (1967) overnight tonight. Worth catching?

Yeah. It's very interesting.

Huh! "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" is on tonight too, not mentioned in the monthly schedule I looked at a couple of weeks ago.

woah

UGH! I missed it!

Eh, Who's That Knocking At My Door is... well, I'll be kind, it's very early for Scorcese.

set Dark Passages to record earlier today but something went wrong. typical.

UGH! I missed it!

― *tera, Saturday, March 8, 2014 6:22 PM (1 hour ago)

??? -- If you mean the Scorsese and Symbiopsychowhatchamacallit, those are on later tonight.

This is a good basic take on Who's That Knocking At My Door, under its original title, I Call First. Scorcese's full-length debut (90 minutes, but quite full), court reporter Keitel's debut too. Good basic, but doesn't get into the sometimes inspired, nobody-but-early-Marty S. bursts (opening has a childhood memory of Granny, smiling, bringing the camera a nice big treat from the oven, to the tune of what sounds like a subway zombie beating a railroad tie on a defunct third rail, in perfect rhythm--another side of the 60s)(it's a thoughtful investigation of/romp with the macho fuckhead mentality, like all his best and some not-so-good flicks) Anyway, here's young Ebert's first glimpse: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-call-first--whos-that-knocking-at-my-door-1967

Symbiopsychowhatchamacallit is worth seeing, but kind of like a stoned dream of visiting improvised scenes on the set of Mad Men (something to keep the third-tier supporting cast on their toes; no stars).

No I didn't miss it! Woohoo

13 Mickey Rooneys this Sunday

(all '33-47)

Princess Tam-Tam coming on, followed by Hungry For Ass

Holy Crap, just now realized: they started the day with The Russian Ark, now: Spirit of the Beehive, later: La Jetee (among others).
Happy Labor Day---http://www.tcm.com/schedule/

Oh, now I see: they're doing a 24 hour tribute to the Telluride Film Festival, flicks from that:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1027361|0/24-Hour-Tribute-to-the-Telluride-Film-Festival-9-1.html

Strong month. I've got a bunch of stuff marked to record/watch. I missed Under Capricorn in August, glad they're showing it again on the 27th.

It's been a while since I've seen The Crying Game, so PVR'ing that tonight, plus I wanna fill in some of the gaps in my Bacall viewing later this month.

I missed Under Capricorn i
Need to watch too. Did you watch Beehive?

No, but I've seen it within the last couple of years, so I skipped it today.

I didn't have a chance to see it then, but every time I have, and meant to check out just a few minutes, I've gotten hooked (really didn't "mean" to watch the whole thing more than twice). The same can't said of Pan And The Labyrinth, though they're often connected. It was good enough, but the gifted lead actress was the only child in it, while Spirit's momentum was greatly increased by the tumult of two kids (and others in the audience onscreen, when they're all drinking in the original Frankenstein). Which may be why Pan's own historically-based Govt. vs. rebels storyline, so well-populated by adults, just about took over, while Spirit built and centered its own kinda beehive (and labyrinth, for that matter).
(I'm enjoying The Strain's juicy pulp pastiche so far; maybe more Del Toro's best kind of thing.)

It's on Hulu Plus! Which can be tried for free---h'm-m-m! http://www.hulu.com/watch/215859

Yeah, I should have mentioned, I can watch Beehive whenever I want. $8/month really is worth it just for the Criterions.

http://jewishexponent.com/culture/2014/09/classic-movie-channel-focuses-on-jewish-films

Newly restored for its 50th anniversary, and recently screened and celebrated at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Sallah airs Sept. 16 on Turner Classic Movies with another key title in the Israeli canon, the 1955 battlefield drama Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer.

The black-and-white double bill is the centerpiece of TCM’s expansive series airing Tuesdays in September, “The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film.” Other highlights include the rarely screened Edward Dymytryk-Kirk Douglas drama The Juggler (part of a Sept. 9 focus on the Holocaust), the little-known 1934 historical drama The House of Rothschild (Sept. 23, when the theme is “Tackling Prejudice”) and the terrific World War II epic, The Young Lions, featuring Montgomery Clift as a Jewish G.I. (one of four coming-of-age sagas airing Sept. 30).

Alert! Green For Danger tomorrow in the AM.

OK, I've set it to record, but I'd never heard of it before. What in particular makes you recommend it?

It's got a good, tense British WWII noirish thriller atmosphere. Also director is not that well known so you might overlook it.