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

Let's talk November (all times EST):

Nov. 6 - 4:15 am — The Petrified Forest (never got around to seeing it)
Nov. 6 - 10:00 pm - And Then There Were None (the first telling of Ten Little Indians)

Nov. 7 - 5:45 pm - The Last of Sheila (co-written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim!)

Nov. 8 - 2:00 am - Smithereens (with Richard Hell)
Nov. 8 - 5:15 am - Perversion for Profit (anti-porn propaganda film from mid-60’s)
Nov. 8 - 8:00 pm - Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers’ Oscar winning performance, written by Dalton Trumbo)

Nov. 9 - Midnight - The Blackbird (silent 1926 crime film by Tod Browning)
Nov. 9 - 4:00 am - Without Pity (’48 - Fellini script about American racial intolerance after wartime)

Nov. 11 - 8:00 pm - Night of the Hunter (surprisingly hard to tape in high definition!)
Nov. 11 - 9:45 pm - Wise Blood (1979 John Huston direction of a Flannery O’Connor adaptation)

Nov. 12 - 25th Anniversary of Milestone Films
Nov. 12 - 8:00 pm - In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914 silent ’Nanook’-style drama featuring native people of the British Columbia Coast)
Nov. 12 - 9:15 pm - Yo Soy Cuba (GREAT film, worth a rewatch)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78761/I-am-Cuba/articles.html
Nov. 12 - 11:45 pm - The Exiles (’61 drama about a group of Native Americans lost in Los Angeles)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/557794/Exiles-The/articles.html
Nov. 13 - 1:15 am - The Connection (Shirley Clarke)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71424/Connection-The/articles.html
Nov. 13 - 3:15 am - Come Back, Africa (Life in Apartheid, filmed in Apartheid)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494678/Come-Back-Africa/articles.html

Nov. 13 - 6:00 pm - The Tender Trap (50’s sex comedy with Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/444/Tender-Trap-The/articles.html

Nov. 14 - 4:45 am - The Mysterious House of Dr. C (an obscure retelling of ETA Hoffman stories)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84442/Mysterious-House-of-Dr-C-The/articles.html

Nov. 15 - 2:15 am - Abar, the First Black Superman (’77 blaxploitation power fantasy, this look like a real trip... and still topical!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOEL_rV8N4

Nov. 15 - 8:00 pm - The Strange One (a 1957 psychological drama about homosexuality at a military school? Alright, I’m curious)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91609/Strange-One-The/articles.html
Nov. 15 - 10:00 pm - Something Wild (obscure film from director Jack Garfein)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17773/Something-Wild/articles.html

Nov. 16 - Midnight - Traffic in Souls (landmark 1913 White Slavery exploitation film)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/303901/Traffic-In-Souls/articles.html
Nov. 16 - 8:00 pm - My Darling Clementine (Henry Fonda and Victor Mature in one of John Ford’s most critically beloved)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84301/My-Darling-Clementine/articles.html

Nov. 22 - 2:15 pm - Class of 1984 (trashpunk DIY Blackboard Jungle)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71042/Class-of-1984/articles.html

Nov. 23 - Noon - The Body Snatcher (Val Lewton thriller with Karloff and Lugosi)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/748/Body-Snatcher-The/articles.html
Nov. 23 - 4:45 pm - Frankenstein 1970 (from 1958, an atomic re-imagining with Karloff. Looks a mess but worth a peek)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/26962/Frankenstein-1970/articles.html

Nov 27 - Midnight - State of the Union (Capra directed with Spencer Tracy running for president and Katharine Hepburn as his first lady and Angela Lansbury as his mistress)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91341/State-of-the-Union/articles.html

Nov. 30 - 8:00 pm to Dec. 1 - 7:00am: Satyajit Ray and The Apu Trilogy - Newly remastered versions of Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu plus a short on the remastering process and a two hour 1982 documentary on Ray at 2:30am and then a 5:00 am showing of Ray’s The Music Room… hot damn!
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86373/Pather-Panchali/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67513/Aparajito/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96277/Apur-Sansar/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84248/Music-Room-The/articles.html

Dec 3 - 8:00pm - Lured (1947, Sirk)

Dec 4 - 11:00am - The Rounders (1965, Kennedy with Glenn Ford/Henry Fonda)

Dec 5 - 10:00pm - Susan Slept Here (1954, Tashlin with Dick Powell/Debbie Reynolds)

Dec 6 - Midnight - In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray with Bogie)
Dec 6 - 8:00pm - The Twelve Chairs (1970, Mel Brooks)
Dec 6 - 10:00pm - It's In the Bag (1945, Richard Wallace with Jack Benny/Don Ameche)

Dec 7 - 2:00am - Morning for the Osone Family (1946, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Dec 7 - 3:30am - Twenty Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Dec 7 - 11:45am - They Were Expendable (1945, Ford)
Dec 7 - 4:15pm - Prelude to War (1943, Capra)
Dec 7 - 5:15pm - War Comes to America (1945, Capra)
Dec 7 - 6:30pm - December 7th (1943, Capra)

Dec 9 - 6:30am - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946, Lewis Milestone with Barbara Stanwyck/Kirk Douglas)
Dec 9 - 8:30am - Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur with Mitchum and Douglas)

Dec 10 - 2:00am - La Ceremonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)

Dec 12 - 7:15am - Between Two Worlds (1944, Edward A. Blatt)

Dec 13 - 11:00pm - Lady in the Lake (1947, Robert Montgomery)

Dec 14 - 2:30am - Mon Oncle Antoine (1971, Claude Jutra)
Dec 14 - 11:45am - A Summer Place (1959, Delmer Daves)
Dec 14 - 4:00pm - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973, Gilbert Cates)

Dec 15 - 4:45am - Men Must Fight (1933, Edgar Selwyn)

Dec 16 - 8:45am - Crime and Punishment (1935, Josef Von Sternberg)

Dec 17 / Dec 18 - Disney Shorts
9:30pm - The Grasshopper and the Ants
9:40pm - Rescue Dog
9:50pm - Corn Chips
3:00am - Polar Trappers

Dec 18 - 7:30am - Quality Street (1937, George Stevens with Katherine Hepburn)

Dec 20 - 4:15am - Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle)

Dec 21 - 6:00am - The Chapman Report (1962, George Cukor with Jane Fonda / Shelley Winters)

Dec 22 - 1:30am - Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York (1975, Sidney Furie)
Dec 22 - 6:00am - Mr and Mrs. Smith (1941, Hitchcock)
Dec 22 - 9:30am - Stage Fright (1950, Hitchcock)

Dec 29 - 4:00am - Back from Eternity (1956, John Farrow with Anita Ekberg / Rod Steiger)

Dec 31 - 8:15am - The Cocoanuts (1929, Marx Bros)
Dec 31 - 10:00am - A Day at the Races (1937, Marx Bros)
Dec 31 - 8:00pm - The Thin Man (1934, WS Van Dyke with Powell and Loy)

Currently recording 3 by David Lean. Dickens is a big blind spot for me, but I'll take a look at his Oliver Twist. I've seen parts of In Which We Serve and would like to see the whole thing. Madeleine (1950) is the one I don't know anything about.

Very Canadian of me, I know, but I highly recommend Mon Oncle Antoine.

it's been years since i saw it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROqgJvr8ZM

haha, great combo of Martha Ivers with Out of the Past

bunch of chabrols on thursday

just getting around to the lynch dumbland stuff, im glad tcm showed these as theyre p great and i prob wouldnt otherwise watch these.. i believe they are even being shown again in march 2016 so consider this also another alert pls

I remember Possession (Zulawski, 1981) getting a lot of love on ILX. I think it placed in the Horror Films poll results? Anyway, on tonight at 2 a.m. eastern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRvDQvT5MuM

A bunch of Hitch running throughout the day tomorrow. Is The Wrong Man worth weaselling out of xmas shopping to stay home and watch?

Shop Around the Corner on Christmas Eve as always <3

One of those twice-a-month warhorses. (It was on 2 days ago as well.)

The Joseph Losey version of M (1951) on January 1 at 10:15pm EST.

Thanks again!

I wonder, what was Lang's opinion of the remake?

hiroshima mon amour & muriel are on later

muriel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_(film)

When is it on? I'm not finding it on the TCM schedule.

monday 1/4 330am

oh huh well @ least my cable menu sez that, idk maybe they changed the sched i see that its different online

Phase IV, the only feature-length film Saul Bass directed, is tomorrow night.

Thanks for that one.

Tod Browning all day tomorrow — 10 films, 1925-1939.

Hitchcock's 1944 short film Bon Voyage, tomorrow morning and again Saturday night 3/19.

next week, Jerry Lewis

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1181485%7C0/Jerry-Lewis-90th-Birthday-3-15-3-16.html

do NOT make the deeply strange Smorgasbord your first JL film... and Which Way to the Front? preferably goes last. I would prioritize The Bellboy, then Artists and Models. Haven't seen 3 of those 5 M&L movies, in fact.

What can anyone tell me about Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural ?

It's pretty cool. Spooky, weird atmosphere. Worth a watch.

TCM and Criterion Collection are teaming up for a streaming service.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/turner-classic-movies-the-criterion-collection-team-for-new-streaming-service-filmstruck-20160426

No mention of fandor which also hosts(hosted) criterion and tons is great cult and underground art type things.

Fandor has a strong catalog but few people seem to be aware of it.

The Filmstruck site says exclusive for Criterion, so I assume they're gonna drop the other services.

Man, that's going to fuck Hulu. Their Criterion selection was pretty much the only reason to pay for that service.

True, but probably a minority opinion. Generally the only popular Criterion films on there seem to be the ones w/ lots of sex/nudity, e.g. In the Realm of the Senses.

yeah, given all the network shows (present and past) on hulu, i doubt the criterion presence really has that much of an impact. it's true that (like tcm viewers) criterion fans tend to be loyal and probably will pay a premium, which is probably why they think this filmstruck thing is a good idea. i'm all for it, esp. if smaller boutique distributors like milestone and kino are involved, too.

i guess tcm must do a good job at branding, because i feel an unusually loyalty to them in a way that i really shouldn't feel about a division of a major multinational media company.

A bit more detail:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/turner-to-launch-its-first-direct-to-consumer-service-this-fall-1461664860

Fassbinder's Lola and Love Is Colder Than Death back-to-back starting at 2am Monday morning

the cruise this year has a pretty good lineup... Jerry in The 90-Year Old Ship Steward!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-jerry-lewis-leslie-caron-mitzi-gaynor-headline-this-year-s-tcm-classic-cruise-20160710-story.html

Kim Novak left out of headline.

Medium Cool, 10 EST: As a director, Haskell Wexler was a gifted, totally pro and ambitious cinematographer, which works pretty well in this mix of documentary and staged footage with, as Ebert wrote at the time: "fictional characters in real situations" and vice-versa, taking place during the notorious Democratic Convention of '68.
I'm biased by childhood memories of Chicago's political barbecues, and later going to school in Louisville, still with a collective eye among me and my crew for the biggest of the little cities, in Ken Nordine's immortal phrase (he didn't say it in a shitty way). Robert Forster is the ace TV reporter who meets the well-named Verna Bloom, not a Kentucky Woman but from West Virginia, close enough to keep the old associations going. Mike Bloomfield adds jolts, in unexpected ways (the asshole self-righteousness of early Zappa adds abrasive texture, just in case we're getting used to things coming apart, also effective: some sardonic-to-fuck-you droll Appalachoid chants by somebody I haven't indentified).

Mike Bloomfield put the soundtrack together, I meant.

Amazed how little info has come out about FilmStruck. I assume they have to wait til the Hulu deal expires to launch but I was expecting more info to be out there.

Robert Downey Sr.'s No More Excuses (1968): Monday morning July 25, 5am

Preceded by William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), which they've shown before, at 3:45am

I've missed so many films this month that I meant to record.

Sub "month" with "decade."

Monty Clift tonight

my mom just advised me of this also

You must have the right profile.

DVRed Red River. Hadn't remembered Coleen Gray was in it.