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Guns as phallic imagery typically only works for me when they're held by women.

http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ferrara_ms45.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

eh, either way, it's recording or has been already. also: carol reed marathon tomorrow, so i'll be getting a couple of those too. technology yeah!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

A week and a half later, and I still don't really like Hawks.

'Twentieth Century', 'Bringing Up Baby', 'His Girl Friday', and 'Ball of Fire' are first rate comedies.

'To Have and Have Not' has some great moments as does 'The Big Sleep'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

the big sleep is nothing BUT great moments, pretty much.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

re Carol Reed marathon. Make sure you watch Running Man, and compare and contrast with The Talented Mr Ripley.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

joseph -- Death of a Cyclist at month's end, Walter Reade's Janus fest.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

someone tape that one for me ok?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm betting none of you hipsters are taping tonight's trifecta of trendies' whipping boy Stanley Kramer (Defiant Ones is still a prime sample of Sidney Poitier's greatness). Haven't seen Ship of Fools since I was a kid, but it's got Vivien Leigh practically doing Blanche again ... and Michael Dunn!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

wow, I've never seen Our Man in Havana -- read Greene last year, hoping to catch some location I might've trod through on my visit.

Also, W.C. in The Bank Dick tomw morning.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

'Our Man in Havana' is funny, iIrc and 'The Bank Dick' is hilarious.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

"A river of beer! running over your grandmother's paisley shawl!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Man is S. Poitier a terrible actor.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

no William Finley, for sure.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Caught the end of the Cavett/Hitchcock interview which seemed very good. Thought I taped the next showing of it, but it turns out I got that same old Men Who Made The Movies doc they always show.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

narrated by Cliff Robertson, I believe

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

luvin me some tcm. Got one tivo devoted to tcm. yep, I'm a strange one; but sometimes nothing soothes more than a noir classic or other tcm fair even if I have seen it 50 times. Even am oddly drawn to the transition pieces like the "open all night" take off on the night hawkes pic and the piece containing "lonely tears" by

I also think I am about the only person on the planet who liked the new 2006 "Black Dahlia" - I liked it b/c it was done in an old fashioned genre and I could forgive the choppy nature and hasty tie up of loose ends at the end, simply for the fact that it was much like many of the '30s & '40s films that followed the same formula; but alas, back then folks were far more forgiving of putting a nice tidy end on everything. Plus it got HUGE bonus points with me cuz of the very good LA locale scenes and gritty feel. I was born 40 years too late!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

doh! somehow "by BECK" didn't make it into last post.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

stanley kramer movies are nowhere near as bad as everyone thinks they are. i mean if it weren't for dreary old andrew sarris et al i wouldn't even know i was "supposed" to hate him and revere otto preminger or whoever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 30 September 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think "The Bank Dick" is even better with the sound off.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

the fuck it is!

Hitchcock did a brilliant riff for Cavett on a laxative commercial.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hitchcock was the king of the non sequitur on that Cavett interview. Did you catch the joke about the boy at school who kept getting beaten up? Or the dinner-party stories?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

i've seen "the bank dick" like three times and it's more hilarious each time. wc fields has prob aged better than any comic actor, ever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's only because he started out at, like, 85 years old.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

he just looked 85 when he was 45.

Haven't finished the Hitch interview, and I taped the Lon Chaney double feature last night.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I watched most of Ship of Fools while in a bar listening to bands. It seemed pretty good, Elizabeth Ashley was a knockout. And Werner Klemperer!

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

also: carol reed marathon tomorrow, so i'll be getting a couple of those too.

um, oops. caught the third man last night at any rate.

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The TCM Underground show debuts late tonight w/ a Ed Wood twofer of Plan Nine From Outer Space and Bride of The Monster.

http://tcmunderground.com/

Next month (on the 2nd) they'll be adding a Dick Cavett w/Ingmar Bergman to the rotation.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see the Groucho interview last night?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

DAMMIT Mike, you gotta post that beforehand! (weeps softly)

I assume all these are in the Cavett DVDS.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know 'til I got home. My gf recorded it on the DVR and she asked me if I wanted to watch it last night.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's from '69 -- wonder if they mention Skidoo!!

Tom'w morning at 4:45, The Old Dark House, maybe James Whale's best film aside from Bride of Frankenstein.

Sirk's Tarnished Angels (his gloss on Faulkner's Pylon) Sat at 2:15pm.

Sunday night at 10:15, Living It Up, probably the best Martin & Lewis movie I've seen -- Jerry thinks he's dying of radiation poisoning after wandering onto a nuclear test site (only in a '50s comedy)...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Happily, TCM is running all the Cavetts (incl Groucho) daytime next Monday.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Groucho was pretty rockin' on that Cavett, hissing about Mayor Daley and saying he liked Tom Jones ... nowhere as feeble or slowed as he is on his Live at Carnegie Hall album just 3 years later.

Anyway, Jailhouse Rock (which I have never seen) tonight at 6.

Masque of the Red Death looks like the best thing they're showing on Halloween.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that movie must kick ass to be even better than Freaks, Cat People or The Leopard Man.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

If a recall correctly, Masque of the Red Death indeed kicks ass, Price and Corman at the top of their game.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, I like all those (tho Curse of the Cat People might rank higher), but yes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, I missed groucho but saw the last bit of hitchcock, which was AMAZING

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Masque of the Red Death

Haven't seen this since high school but I remember liking its hysterical campness as being oddly faithful to Poe's style.

Didn't see Hitch. :(

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there a scene where a woman worshipping Satan brands an upsidedown cross into her own heaving bosom?

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like it.

It helps if you are (or were) Catholic perhaps, it has an aura of REAL transgressive Evil, as much as Rosemary's Baby or Night of the Demon maybe.

Whenever Masque usta screen in NY in all its widescreen glory, it always had Japanese (I think) titles running at the side of the print.

Speaking of Poe, I notice that I aciidentally taped a short adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart last night -- directed by Jules Dassin! Does TCM include the shorts sched in its program guide? They never seem to be on the website.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm miffed that I missed Our Man in Havana a few weeks ago, especially when Mom called to mention what a great time Dad had watching it.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't go to Sloppy Joe's when I was in Havana, so I couldn't tell if the interior was a set or not. (The men's room looked authentic.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am watching The Boy With Green Hair, which I recorded a little while back. The Technicolor looks great, like an Archers production. I didn't know the theme song was "Nature Boy"- was this where the song originated?

I would have put this on a Joseph Losey thread, but I couldn't find one.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Young shaved-head child actor Dean Stockwell looks like he is a relation of Ron Howard's brother's alien character on "The Corbomite Maneuver" on Star Trek TOS.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

And his Halloween Jack-O-Lantern looks like the cheesy sacrificial cave of the alien god Vaal (or is this the god himself?) in "The Apple" episode.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

And Pat O'Brien's Irish dancing and singing is reminding me of Finnegan on the "Shore Leave" episode.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'll stop now.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm trying to watch High Society, but am basically skipping around to the musical numbers.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Which make it well worth it, especially when they play "Now You Has Jazz" and Der Bingle introduces all the cats in Satchmo's band by name.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

If you missed Ride the High Country, grab the disc. Molly Haskell is right, Bloody Sam's most humane film. "All I want is to enter my house justified."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

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Discovered a Bluesky account that alerts you to every film that airs on TCM, an hour in advance: https://bsky.app/profile/nextontcm.bsky.social

― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Saturday, 11 May 2024 22:39 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tcm-fans-david-zaslav-1235914706/

OH ZASLAV NO

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:40 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

3/29 8:10AM
Famous Boners (1942)
15 mins | Short | TV-G

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 21:12 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

Randomly turned on TCM channel immediately shows Kent Smith of Cat People in a Joan Crawford movie directed by Vincent Sherman. #onethread

― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 January 2026 16:55 (five months ago)

With some time off, been watching a lot of TCM this month.
A Woman's Face (1941) with Joan Crawford was a fun, slightly devious melodrama - remade apparently from a 1938 Swedish original with Ingrid Bergman I've got to watch now.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) was a delightful discovery, I watched it twice!
Closed the year with Powell/Pressburger's A Matter of Life of Death (1946) - just incredible on so many levels, I've pretty much slept on these filmmakers my whole life.

― Nhex, Friday, 2 January 2026 21:00 (five months ago)

Also that Next on TCM bsky account mentioned by morrisp moved here, I think
https://bsky.app/profile/tcm-up-next.bsky.social

― Nhex, Friday, 2 January 2026 21:02 (five months ago)

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