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it's often remarked upon but damn astaire looks so gnomic and weird next to her
good thing he's fred astaire

but he always looked a bit gnomic and weird! i meann...
http://www.movpins.com/big/MV5BMTM2NjE2ODM5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTA4NTIyNw/still-of-fred-astaire-and-ginger-rogers-in-the-gay-divorcee-(1934).jpg

still looks like a p cool film

sorry so big

as he got older he started looking more like a marionette to me.

always looked about 55 from the '30s thru '50s

yeah but who cared? he was fred astaire.

Can't act, can't sing, bald, can dance a little

that's hilarious tbh

he became an actual marionette-looking puppet in that Rankin-Bass special about Santa Claus, of course.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/lite987.com/files/2012/12/Fred1.jpg

apropos

Friday, June 26
6:00 AM THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
8:00 AM THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (1947)
9:45 AM THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
11:00 AM LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
1:00 PM OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
2:45 PM POSSESSED (1947)
4:45 PM ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948)
6:30 PM THE SET-UP (1949)
8:00 PM THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944)
9:45 PM BERLIN EXPRESS (1948)
11:30 PM THE STRANGER (1946)
1:15 AM THE THIRD MAN (1949)
3:00 AM POINT BLANK (1967)

I'm out of DVR space.
The original Postman Always Rings Twice is pretty good stuff. You probably woke up too late to record it.
Gonna try to do Lady in the Lake, hear it's a an interesting experiment.
Out of the Past, obviously all-time great! Same with The Third Man.
Point Blank has a unique place in my heart due to it being remade a million times, semi-sequelized with The Limey, besides already being a cool dark slow boiling revenge journey with Lee Marvin

From the thumbnail summaries, I think I'll record Woman on the Beach, Act of Violence and maybe Berlin Express. I've seen The Stranger, 3rd Man and Point Blank recently enough to skip them this time.

Tomorrow:
6:00 AM JOHNNY BELINDA (1948)
8:00 AM KEY LARGO (1948)
10:00 AM THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948)
11:30 AM THE BRIBE (1949)
1:15 PM SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
3:00 PM THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949)
4:45 PM THE THREAT (1949)
6:00 PM WHITE HEAT (1949)
8:00 PM THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
9:45 PM THE WINDOW (1949)
11:15 PM SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950)
12:45 AM HIGH WALL (1947)
2:30 AM THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
4:30 AM MARLOWE (1969)

What's your pleasure?

Lady From Shanghai, total classic.
Not in the same league as Gun Crazy, but I like They Live By Night.

I rewatched Shanghai just a few weeks ago during the Welles Fridays, so I'll pass on that. I've also seen Key Largo, White Heat and The Long Goodbye with in the last few years. I liked Long Goodbye well enough, but don't really grok its classic status, so maybe I should try it again.

white heat and they live by night are the standouts for me

they live by night is very powerful, white heat is "just" one of the most sheerly enertaining movies ever made

like i don't like noirs so take that w a grain of salt but marlowe is a good movie

I doubt I have to tell anyone to watch The Lady from Shanghai or White Heat if they haven't seen them, but I don't think that Key Largo gets quite the respect that it deserves, and The Big Clock is one of my very favourite underrated noirs.

white heat isn't a noir! it's just a fucking awesome gangster movie.

unless any movie about criminals is a "noir," which is dumb.

I think Cagney's mommy issues push it into noir territory. Total prototype of a David Lynch creep.

like i don't like noirs so take that w a grain of salt but marlowe is a good movie

― johnny crunch, Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

n/m i was confusing this w/ gumshoe ('71), i haven't seen marlowe

they live by night is very powerful, white heat is "just" one of the most sheerly enertaining movies ever made

Intrigued by the casts of SCENE OF THE CRIME and THE THREAT

The Nitrate Diva ‏@NitrateDiva 1h1 hour ago

Sulky Gloria Grahame and I wish you a very noirish 4th of July.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJGXO67WIAA7_97.jpg

smokes the barbecue

"Don't shake that thing at me"---The Misfits! Dang, already started!

But it's good to watch from any point

Today:

6:00 AM FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
7:30 AM A WOMAN'S SECRET (1949)
9:00 AM SIDE STREET (1950)
10:30 AM BLACK HAND (1950)
12:15 PM ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
1:30 PM CAGED (1950)
3:15 PM D.O.A. (1950)
4:45 PM DESTINATION MURDER (1950)
6:15 PM THE TATTOOED STRANGER (1950)
8:00 PM RED LIGHT (1949)
9:45 PM KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
11:45 PM ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
1:30 AM THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
2:45 AM BLUE DAHLIA (1946)
4:30 AM RAW DEAL (1948)

This looks like the most authentically noir lineup yet. Raw Deal got remade as Point Blank and Payback, right?

i kinda doubt it -- it predates the novel the other two are based on.

Side Street is a keeper

Agreed. Kiss Me Deadly is crazy, great OTT pulp cheese, and that ending is unforgettable. Often known now as "the movie Tarantino stole the suitcase gimmick from in Pulp Fiction".
On Dangerous Ground is really great too IMO. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, kind of proto-Coens in the atmosphere.

I just looked to see what TCM On Demand has available right now and the only thing in the War category is Duck Soup.

I think Act of Violence might be my favorite of this summer's noirs so far, but I have 10 or 11 recorded and three more Fridays of programming.

tomorrow:
7:45 AM TENSION (1950)
9:30 AM WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
11:00 AM THE WOMAN ON PIER 13 (1950)
12:30 PM A LADY WITHOUT PASSPORT (1950)
2:00 PM CAUSE FOR ALARM (1951)
3:15 PM NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
4:45 PM STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
6:30 PM THE RACKET (1951)
8:00 PM TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)
10:00 PM THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)
12:15 AM 99 RIVER STREET (1953)
2:00 AM CONFLICT (1945)
3:30 AM KLUTE (1971)

Martha Ivers really isn't that good, but I have a soft spot for it, largely because of the insane girl in the introduction who will later grow up to be Barbra Stanwyck

Double Indemnity in theaters Sunday/Monday (at least in my area) from TCM/Fathom Events - anyone been to one of those re-releases?

Going to try to watch the Candidate/Last Hurrah double-bill tonight--I've only seen the latter once, 35+ years ago. What will actually happen is that I'll drift in and out of sleep through both.

Any of these extra-good? I've seen Elevator to the Gallows but none of the others.

6:45 AM ROADBLOCK (1951)
8:00 AM THE STRIP (1951)
9:30 AM BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)
11:15 AM CLASH BY NIGHT (1952)
1:15 PM KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)
3:00 PM MACAO (1952)
4:45 PM TALK ABOUT A STRANGER (1952)
6:15 PM SPLIT SECOND (1953)
8:00 PM THE NARROW MARGIN (1952)
9:30 PM HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
11:45 PM THE LOCKET (1946)
1:30 AM ANGEL FACE (1952)
3:30 AM ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)

Angel Face is fun

aww only two weeks left. barely watched anything... need to delete some stuff for room for Elevator to the Gallows.

The Locket is a great Rashomon-esque, Russian nesting doll narrative, well ahead of its time. I think it was generally slept on for years due to a lack of home video release until recently.

Angel Face is a fun Mitchum joint with a lovely, bananas femme. I am quite fond of the ending. Don't miss it!

NARROW MARGIN , people!

His Kind of Woman is worth seeing for the Mitchum/Russell pairing and the screwball elements ... Macao is more of the same but less successful

Was going to say something similar

Vanishing Point on tonight

Les Blank docs Tuesday night July 28th from 8pm through to Wednesday morining

TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: LES BLANK

as reflected in this TCM salute, Blank's idiosyncratic films and short subjects covered a wide range of subjects including Cajun culture in the U.S. (Spend It All, 1971): black Creole life (Dry Wood, 1973); the city of New Orleans (Always for Pleasure, 1978); cooking (Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers, 1980); and the polka and its devotees (In Heaven There Is No Beer?, 1984). Of the 11 Blank films shown in our tribute, no less than eight are TCM premieres!

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1:45 AM

documentary

Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins, The (1970)

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2:19 AM

short

All Talking... All Singing... All Dancing (1971)

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2:30 AM

documentary

Well Spent Life, A (1971)

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3:30 AM

short

Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)

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4:15 AM

documentary

In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)

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5:15 AM

short

God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance (1968

Oops, didn't mean to cut and post all that

Tonight the Les Blank films show. Post-Midnight Clifton Chenier and blues docs should be good (worth dvring)and the 1978 New Orleans doc early in the night should also be worth checking out.

Leon Russell too?