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

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?

Nope.

Enjoying "All For Pleasure" right now (Professor Longhair!)...hope I can stay awake through the Lightnin' Hopkins doc

If there are any Archers fans who haven't seen I Know Where I'm Going, it's on tomorrow evening.

it's great
these bayou docs are fun too!

Angel Face is really stupid btw

Kicking myself that I missed Les Blank's Spend It All. I didn't know it was airing until I got in later last night and saw the post above. I've been wanting to see that since Marcus put it in his decade-end list in an old James Monaco book. (It's on YouTube, I think, but that doesn't work for me.)

Here's something bizarre, though. I was at a rep screening of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl last night. I won't get into the movie here, but it not only includes a clip from Blank's Burden of Dreams, it has a reenactment of the same scene.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/

The Les Blank movies are available on TCM on Demand until August 5th

Thanks. I took a look, and that doesn't seem to be an option in Canada (not sure if my set-up would be suitable anyway).

Sorry. I am gonna try to take advantage of it here in the US

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/blank-79.php

Christgau in 79 re Les Blank

Hulu Plus works for TCM on Demand too, according to a posting on ILM

If you still have a place that rents Criterions near you, Spend It All is in their Les Blank box set.

If TCM had an on demand thing like HBO Now (aka doesn't require a cable subscription) I would snap it up so damn fast

they KINDA do but it's pretty meh

If you have Sling, you can stream TCM for $5 extra per month. No on demand yet though.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/ claims to have access to the past week's films on demand but i've had poor luck with it

99% of my TV watching (not counting sports) is streaming – I don’t have the time or patience to watch things live anymore #firstworldproblems. Sling sounded great until I learned it didn’t come with VOD for all channels. I’ll give their website a try to see if there’s anything available for non-subscribers.

When Netflix first launched its streaming service it had a really solid catalog of classic films, now that their emphasis is on TV and original content their back catalog is pretty damn pathetic. Would like to see someone step up to offer classic movie streaming (and not terrible public domain films tyvm) for cord cutters.

900+ Criterions on Hulu...

If they the same volume and kinds of ads that they did when I had my hulu trial earlier this year then no thanks. I still have some of the commercials memorized ugh

no commercials on the criterions iirc
they're just horribly organized.

How so, forks?

they're alphabetized and THAT'S IT
so hunting for something to watch means that you have to know what you're looking for and even then it might be organized differently.
some of this shifts depending on the GUI and player you use but Tivo/iOS/Sony's interfaces for Hulu and Criterion are very poor.

i just got (for my bday) an amazon fire tv explicitly to play mubi on my television; it's the only machine i can find that has an app. will report back.

Oh, I use my little cheat sheet -- sort by year, director, length, IMDB rating, etc.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12MGHYZXB_lTyWIoG_7-r4s-Xlve-obn1bM34kbDVtW8/edit#gid=901134214

nice. i just want to explore though.

best thing I've ever seen in my life. thank you.

My particular frustration is with the title cards for selection, some of them are informative and some aren't. Some will list the director or whatever but the image is so small you can barely see it.

you should freeze the title/director etc row to keep it on the top.

Yeah, I never have figured out how to do that.
yellow = I've seen it, btw

Back to TCM, the big finish for the noir programming today:

6:00 AM THE BIG HEAT (1953)
7:45 AM SUDDENLY (1954)
9:30 AM I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES (1955)
11:30 AM BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
1:00 PM THE HARDER THEY FALL (1956)
3:00 PM WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
4:45 PM BLUE GARDENIA (1953)
6:15 PM PARTY GIRL (1958)
8:00 PM CRISS CROSS (1949)
9:45 PM BRUTE FORCE (1947)
11:30 PM DESPERATE (1947)
1:00 AM THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
3:00 AM THE WRONG MAN (1956)

i now have 100 noir films on my tivo; this should keep me for a year
watched about 20

Party Girl is kinda nuts; Lancaster x 2 that follows a must

I think it's just View: Freeze 1 row, but you need the title row to be on top.

Got it -- thanks, dan!

I've been trying to catch up on the noir films with TCM on Demand, but sometimes the site doesn't load or the films time out.

I passed the Film Noir class--anyone else take it? So much fun!

heh, i got caught up and only did the first three weeks. gotta go back as long as it's up!

Martin Scorsese writes about “a few women whose work has affected me over the years, and whose careers tell interesting stories.” And they are Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland and Teresa Wright.

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1105037%7C0/Scorsese-Screens-for-August.html

Caught The Razor's Edge during the Tierney day; she's always worth catching

Marx Brothers/Groucho solo on Friday. My sad confession: I haven't seen any of their films other than Duck Soup/Opera/Races, so I'll be recording a bunch.

ffwd thru all the non-Marx stuff in The Cocoanuts