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

I was going to say it's my favourite comedy of the past whatever, but I think it's my favourite comedy ever; I'd have to check, but I think I had it #1 in the ILX poll. Throwaway exchange I love:

"Why do you keep speaking to me like I'm a dog?"
"I'll explain later."

"Eh-heh-heh": Young Mr. Sad Bad And Sexist Shithead To Know doesn't deserve the voluptuous horror of Karen Black

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2c5VHFIgAEDTh7.jpg

Are we allowed to use the words "nest" and "egg" in the same sentence?

btw, WilliamC, there's no need for you to watch Lost In America now, all the jokes are in here.

The core, the heart money, the nest egg.

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Korda's Jungle Book is on tomorrow. Worth seeing?

i think so! Sabu has amazing presence and the cinematography is dreamlike.

^^

i always think of this strangely poignant song when i think of sabu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkJ4mFINyo

Tonight at 8 (EST of course)

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remember the night is AWESOME and stanwyck is all time

i once had a really odd conversation with my mother about how much she hated Barbara Stanwyck. it was hilarious.

Almost feel bad for your mom.

But if you were to recount hilarious conversation it might cheer me up.

I wish I could accurately relay it, but it wasn't so much the words as the pure, unexpected, primal disgust in her face when I mentioned how much I loved Stanwyck, as she simply muttered "I don't like her. I never did." It totally came out of nowhere.

Some of these have been/probably will/not/ be on tcm, but mainly it's a big free stash---suppressed yet supposedly uncut Kubrick etc:
http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

Virna Lisi, Virni Lisi many (incl. your mamma) have named you...arrivederci on TV, hopefully soon...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/arts/virna-lisi-actress-who-rose-in-60s-dies-at-78.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Si, "Virna" officiale, but Virni mi personal

remember the night is AWESOME and stanwyck is all time

^^^ this. I had never seen it until a couple years ago, and now I don't know how I lived without it all this time. I just made that screen capture my screen saver, thanks!

TCM: Alert! You must show this again!
Le Petit Soldat (JLG, '61) w Anna Karina

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5zsbjZCIAAWCFJ.jpg

Well alrighty then---not bad: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=2014-12-31

Are you going to watch Mon Oncle D'Amerique?

Hey, it is categorized as a Comedy.

it is one.

(Saw it a few weeks ago for the first time in 34 years, on a library VHS)

^^The New Yorker DVD is VHS quality. The film is as serious as one can be with an extended fight scene between two guys in mouse suits inside its running time.

it might be resnais's strangest film, and that is /really/ saying something.

Haven't watched in 20 some odd years myself so recorded this morning. Will keep an eye out for teh comedy.

Marx Brothers all night long starting at 8pm EST:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1054507%7C0/Marx-Brothers-Marathon-1-1.html

also this:
http://moviemorlocks.com/2014/12/31/this-week-on-tcm-underground-nothing-lasts-forever-1984/

Will give it a look-see thanks.

Never heard of that, thanks! "La Dolce Gilda" replays in my headbox more often than seems likely.

And here it is, for the moment! Also for 3'34", which might be all of it, don't remember:

http://vimeo.com/48286686

Yow, that flickering/in and out of synch w dialogue def not in the original, but you'll get the idea (and it is complete)

Just a reminder...Nothing Lasts Forever starts in about half an hour.

kurosawa's the Idiot in the wee hours:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78942/Hakuchi/articles.html

Arthur Penn's The Chase late tonight, for those of us who are curious as to why Robin Wood devoted a whole chapter to it in Hollywood From Vietnam to Reagan.

http://www.avclub.com/article/tcm-premiering-fully-restored-extremely-rare-harry-214248

xp I couldn't get into 'the chase' at all

also I dvr'd 'Umberto D.' a while back off tcm -- was hard to figure out having never seen it before, they showed the last :30 mins (so last reel?) first! "FINE came up & it then continued after fading out & I was like damn, this shit is experimental! anyway, I still liked it p well, good flick

Arthur Penn didn't like The Chase (taken away from him in editing).

Mordy, are you into Houdini? College prof of mine wrote a major biography.

@pareene
Robert Osborne is like a 14-year-old cat I know he's going to die soon but I don't want to admit it

Heh. It's painful to watch him take a couple of steps at the beginning of an introduction.

Wow, that Bitter Tea of General Yen... so racist, yet apparently it failed on release because people were shocked by the miscegenation aspect!? Still, I'm kind of amazed by that Fu Manchu vampire erotic dream sequence.

I missed the recent runs of Baby Face but fortunately it's on their On Demand service for a few more days

They're re-running Deathdream aka Dead of Night on the 25th
http://moviemorlocks.com/2014/11/28/this-week-on-tcm-underground-deathdream-1972/

Deathdream: from the director of Porky's and A Christmas Story.

(Pretty good, unsettling movie though.)

tbf this was after Black Christmas but yeah, it's still weird (not to mention the Cassavetes cast)

it's on their On Demand service for a few more days
Watch Gaslight and Stage Fright while you are at it.

does that go to teevees or just peecees?

Was wondering myself.

i haven't checked my cable box yet, but hopefully...
i can never remember if I already saw Stage Fright or just Torn Curtain

Don't think can watch on cable, and can't stream at all if your provider is Time Warner :(

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/
if you wanna try