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

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

Thanks, that's where I looked already and could not find TWC on the provider list. Then I saw some blog post about TWC issues with this. Good luck to others though.

orson wells every Friday this month, Too Much Johnson tonight

Too Much Johnson tonight

This was fascinating -- I hope everyone with TCM and a DVR remembered to catch it.

I did, thanks, and I agree.

"Summer of Darkness" - noirs all day Friday during June and July.
Schedule: http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/2015/summerofdarkness/TCM_SummerOfDarkness_Schedule2015.pdf

Wow, The Locket AND Angel Face on the 24th. So much good stuff in that listing.

Wednesdays this month are Sterling Hayden---and tonight, at 2:45 Eastern, we get Hayden times Stanwyck (she's **50**, look out), in Crime of Passion: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=1083998|81483&name=Crime-of-Passion

Rio Bravo in a few, then some Irene Dunn and Barbara Stanwyck.

Tonight people
Next On TCM
‏@NextOnTCM

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1967) Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford. Dir: Orson Welles 8:00 PM ET #com

ohhhhhh

damn Margaret Rutherford's wiki is eyepoppin

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFJ8E37UgAAQ0RR.jpg

The Nitrate Diva
‏@NitrateDiva

Barbara Stanwyck wants YOU to watch a pre-Code movie on #NationalClassicMovieDay!

ouija board eh

Night nurse

i was just talking to somebody who is similarly devoted to b stanwyck as i

forget what he said to watch next, i've only seen a few

I see David Edelstein will be hosting, or will be the guest on, the Welles program this Friday night. He's my favourite active film critic, will try catch some of that.

He's introduced all the Welles programming this month.

I don't keep up with TCM at all--sorry I missed that.

His intros and afterwords have been kinda hilariously OTT.

surm Stanwyck thread's good:
Barbara Stanwyck: An ILX Film Snobs Thread

That must mean over the top...He did a panel on the Pauline Kael biography that turned up on YouTube, and I liked him there. That's probably the only time I've seen him speak, though. (xpost)

oh thanks dow!

For any and all who check out the Summer of Darkness schedule, I'm interested in recommendations. (Nhex's upthread are noted.)

There's so many we should probably just bump this thread every Thursday

For Week 1 (6/5), I can say that Journey Into Fear is straight up gobbidge.

oooh summer of darkness. amazzing.

La Jetee bout 2 commence!

Best. Movie. Ever. (My sister tuned in to watch it.)

TCM sponsored Film Noir MOOC class if anyone wants in: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/748

Friday, 6/05

6:00 AM / M (1931)
8:00 AM / La Bete Humaine (1938)
9:45 AM / Letter, The (1940)
11:30 AM / Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
12:45 PM / High Sierra (1941)
2:30 PM / Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
4:15 PM / Journey Into Fear (1942)
5:45 PM / Johnny Eager (1942)
8:00 PM / Nora Prentiss (1947)
10:15 PM / Woman On The Run (1950)
11:45 PM / Dark Passage (1947)
1:45 AM / Born to Kill (1947)
3:30 AM / L.A. Confidential (1997)

Note: all festival titles will be on WatchTCM, which is nice.
Never saw M, always meant to.
The Maltese Falcon is an obvious classic, Noir 101.
L.A. Confidential was entertaining enough when I saw it so many years ago, not sure if it holds up. It felt like there hadn't been a conscious return to noir in mainstream movies for a while at that time.
Haven't seen the others, thoughts? Tell me what to DVR.

la bete humanite is required watching
high sierra is too
william wyler is fuckin' awesome and i never saw the letter
m is canonical
the rest are all new to me (except la confidential which never got me); i'm taping them all

The Letter is WW's best film with Davis imo, maybe best fullstop

i'm psyched to see it.

Here's a collection of openings and vignettes from the first batch of films:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC55WRXRuDkzNnGOn5Am4MQ3u8EEiyyqI

damn, recording six of these

over the past two days watched: M, The Letter, The Stranger on the Third Floor
Good stuff!

it's been at least a decade since I saw dark passage, gonna rewatch that soon

To celebrate (this) summer of noir, The Nitrate Diva's gifting us w noir gifs. Here's today's; click back at top right for all previous:
https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/raymond-chandler-in-double-indemnity-1944/

ugh 'm so srry i missed Friday

watched high sierra tonight. end sequence is great but in general not an awesome film.