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Caught the end of the Cavett/Hitchcock interview which seemed very good. Thought I taped the next showing of it, but it turns out I got that same old Men Who Made The Movies doc they always show.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

narrated by Cliff Robertson, I believe

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

luvin me some tcm. Got one tivo devoted to tcm. yep, I'm a strange one; but sometimes nothing soothes more than a noir classic or other tcm fair even if I have seen it 50 times. Even am oddly drawn to the transition pieces like the "open all night" take off on the night hawkes pic and the piece containing "lonely tears" by

I also think I am about the only person on the planet who liked the new 2006 "Black Dahlia" - I liked it b/c it was done in an old fashioned genre and I could forgive the choppy nature and hasty tie up of loose ends at the end, simply for the fact that it was much like many of the '30s & '40s films that followed the same formula; but alas, back then folks were far more forgiving of putting a nice tidy end on everything. Plus it got HUGE bonus points with me cuz of the very good LA locale scenes and gritty feel. I was born 40 years too late!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

doh! somehow "by BECK" didn't make it into last post.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

stanley kramer movies are nowhere near as bad as everyone thinks they are. i mean if it weren't for dreary old andrew sarris et al i wouldn't even know i was "supposed" to hate him and revere otto preminger or whoever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 30 September 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think "The Bank Dick" is even better with the sound off.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

the fuck it is!

Hitchcock did a brilliant riff for Cavett on a laxative commercial.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hitchcock was the king of the non sequitur on that Cavett interview. Did you catch the joke about the boy at school who kept getting beaten up? Or the dinner-party stories?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

i've seen "the bank dick" like three times and it's more hilarious each time. wc fields has prob aged better than any comic actor, ever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's only because he started out at, like, 85 years old.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

he just looked 85 when he was 45.

Haven't finished the Hitch interview, and I taped the Lon Chaney double feature last night.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I watched most of Ship of Fools while in a bar listening to bands. It seemed pretty good, Elizabeth Ashley was a knockout. And Werner Klemperer!

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

also: carol reed marathon tomorrow, so i'll be getting a couple of those too.

um, oops. caught the third man last night at any rate.

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The TCM Underground show debuts late tonight w/ a Ed Wood twofer of Plan Nine From Outer Space and Bride of The Monster.

http://tcmunderground.com/

Next month (on the 2nd) they'll be adding a Dick Cavett w/Ingmar Bergman to the rotation.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see the Groucho interview last night?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

DAMMIT Mike, you gotta post that beforehand! (weeps softly)

I assume all these are in the Cavett DVDS.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know 'til I got home. My gf recorded it on the DVR and she asked me if I wanted to watch it last night.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's from '69 -- wonder if they mention Skidoo!!

Tom'w morning at 4:45, The Old Dark House, maybe James Whale's best film aside from Bride of Frankenstein.

Sirk's Tarnished Angels (his gloss on Faulkner's Pylon) Sat at 2:15pm.

Sunday night at 10:15, Living It Up, probably the best Martin & Lewis movie I've seen -- Jerry thinks he's dying of radiation poisoning after wandering onto a nuclear test site (only in a '50s comedy)...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Happily, TCM is running all the Cavetts (incl Groucho) daytime next Monday.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Groucho was pretty rockin' on that Cavett, hissing about Mayor Daley and saying he liked Tom Jones ... nowhere as feeble or slowed as he is on his Live at Carnegie Hall album just 3 years later.

Anyway, Jailhouse Rock (which I have never seen) tonight at 6.

Masque of the Red Death looks like the best thing they're showing on Halloween.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that movie must kick ass to be even better than Freaks, Cat People or The Leopard Man.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

If a recall correctly, Masque of the Red Death indeed kicks ass, Price and Corman at the top of their game.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, I like all those (tho Curse of the Cat People might rank higher), but yes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, I missed groucho but saw the last bit of hitchcock, which was AMAZING

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Masque of the Red Death

Haven't seen this since high school but I remember liking its hysterical campness as being oddly faithful to Poe's style.

Didn't see Hitch. :(

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there a scene where a woman worshipping Satan brands an upsidedown cross into her own heaving bosom?

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like it.

It helps if you are (or were) Catholic perhaps, it has an aura of REAL transgressive Evil, as much as Rosemary's Baby or Night of the Demon maybe.

Whenever Masque usta screen in NY in all its widescreen glory, it always had Japanese (I think) titles running at the side of the print.

Speaking of Poe, I notice that I aciidentally taped a short adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart last night -- directed by Jules Dassin! Does TCM include the shorts sched in its program guide? They never seem to be on the website.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm miffed that I missed Our Man in Havana a few weeks ago, especially when Mom called to mention what a great time Dad had watching it.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't go to Sloppy Joe's when I was in Havana, so I couldn't tell if the interior was a set or not. (The men's room looked authentic.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am watching The Boy With Green Hair, which I recorded a little while back. The Technicolor looks great, like an Archers production. I didn't know the theme song was "Nature Boy"- was this where the song originated?

I would have put this on a Joseph Losey thread, but I couldn't find one.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Young shaved-head child actor Dean Stockwell looks like he is a relation of Ron Howard's brother's alien character on "The Corbomite Maneuver" on Star Trek TOS.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

And his Halloween Jack-O-Lantern looks like the cheesy sacrificial cave of the alien god Vaal (or is this the god himself?) in "The Apple" episode.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

And Pat O'Brien's Irish dancing and singing is reminding me of Finnegan on the "Shore Leave" episode.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'll stop now.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm trying to watch High Society, but am basically skipping around to the musical numbers.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Which make it well worth it, especially when they play "Now You Has Jazz" and Der Bingle introduces all the cats in Satchmo's band by name.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Sunday, 29 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

If you missed Ride the High Country, grab the disc. Molly Haskell is right, Bloody Sam's most humane film. "All I want is to enter my house justified."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I thought so too until I saw The Ballad of Cable Hogue; both are easily my favorite Peckinpah joints.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

STILL haven't watched death of a cyclist or three of the four marx bros. movies i taped (the one i did: animal crackers, which was bizarre, it basically being a filmed variety show coupled with not-great sound quality made it kinda hard to get into for me. i'm hoping leo mccarey was able to reign them in somewhat in the later stuff, or that they became better at integrating their material in with the overall narrative.) (bear in mind i am fairly naive/ignorant about the marx bros. so poss. wishful thinking here)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Halfway through my first viewing of The Thing From Another World. I can't believe I waited this long to see it- maybe the original short story loomed too large.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

morbius, what'd you think of jailhouse rock? i saw it earlier this year for the first time and quite enjoyed it, esp for how surprisingly ruthless and cynical elvis's character was.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

Masque of the Red Death is killer. Cinematography by Nicholas Roeg!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

J.D., I haven't watched the tape yet.

Joe, Duck Soup is easily their best film, cuz McCarey unleashed them in a cinematic way. Oh man, if you thought Animal Crackers was stagey and slow, have a few drinks before The Cocoanuts (also a Broadway hit for them) -- the camera hardly moves cuz the sound cameras were so huge, and it was directed by a guy who didn't speak English. Fast-forwarding to the Bros' gags is fine there... In the MGM films, the Marx plot utterly stops every 10 minutes so the romantic leads can take over -- deadly in its own glossy way.

I think Price is hilarious (intentionally so) in House of Usher, tonight after Masque. Might try to stay up for Phibes (never seen!) if I don't go to an Almodovar film at BAM.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Have to remember to Tivo Masque. The wife's agreed to watch Audition tonight - a great movie to watch with someone who's never seen it before. Mu-haw-haw.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if Vincent Price and Dick Cavett ever overlapped at the Yale pool?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ingmar Bergman up next on the vintage Cavett. I'm trying to imagine I.B. dealing with Jimmy Kimmel.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Has anybody watched the Underground show? How is it?

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pauline Kael on the romantic musical numbers thrown into Marx Brothers movies for people to "relate to": "*What* people?"

Also, did anyone catch the de facto Roky Erickson Film Festival last Friday? "I Walked With a Zombie" and "Creature With the Atom Brain."

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 2 November 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Billy Wilder's most overlooked comedy, A Foreign Affair, tonight at 11 -- Jean Arthur as an Iowa Congresswoman in post-WW2 Berlin rubble, Marlene Dietrich as a singer suspected of ties to Hitler.

Preceded by the stirring elephantine musical 1776 (Howard da Silva as Ben Franklin, classic)... which I saw at Radio City Music Hall when it premiered.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody here have Direct TV? Martin Scorcese does this "Scorcese Recommends" deal every month for their monthly mag, I shit you not. Little blurbs for films on cable that month he'd recommend seeing, most usually from TCM. If I didn't work for a video store, I'd be using it to find some cool obscure shit.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

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