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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8iskwQkEg

filmstruck looks fun but the library is so...classy. gimme some b noirs and westerns! i remember 100 years ago when netflix's streaming selection had a pretty solid library of older films, wish that could make a comeback.

also if filmstruck had a TCM stream included i would be super into it, doesn't look like that's the case though.

Just turned on The Prizefighter and the Lady. This movie is crazy.

Does anyone else aggressively DVR TCM besides me? It's kind of all I watch apart from sports and the odd MST3K binge on youtube tbh

My DVR is like 90% recordings from TCM.

Ditto. Also stacks up far beyond what I can conceivably watch so old things keep disappearing.

I record to disc so I lose things only if a disc fails, but I've got a stack literally going back years.

I do too. My DVR is perpetually over 90% full, and it's somewhat of a struggle to find the time to watch enough to record what I want to.

RIP Robert Osborne

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-robert-osborne-dies-20170306-story.html

How many times a minute with him led to a night of unbridled joy and new discovery.

i'd be curious to see him w/ Mr Drysdale

Osborne had small parts in TV series such as “The Californians,” “The Whirlybirds” and “Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond,” as well as playing banker Drysdale’s young assistant in the pilot episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” in 1962.

I also recall him reminiscing about letting Bette Davis vet his new apartment in NYC.

sad news :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xQ0xNRMSg

Aww man RIP.

Saturday night they showed the new scan of Belladonna of Sadness and holy shit that was the most mindblowing thing I've ever seen on TV!! They followed it with Fantastic Planet.

I caught just the last 20-25 min. at most of Buñuel's Tristana, starring Catherine Denueve, from 1970---seemed good, in one of B.'s more deadpan grooves (typical of his work with deadpan CD, of course)(also with Churchmice) Is the whole thing good? If you want more than (or at least nuanced) cynicism, that is?

It's my favorite late Bunuel!

holy shit they showed Belladonna of Sadness on TCM? that's awesome

I was past 30 by the time R.O. made his TCM debut, already steeped in cinephilia, and hence I don't think he *introduced* me to anything vital. However, I can see the role he played for younger people, and he was a good host.

Aww, I always liked him on TCM. Just watched that Tab Hunter doc, too, which he appears in briefly. RIP.

I missed today's Stanwyck marathon--incl. several I hadn't even heard of, despite prev epic sequences----but right now they're rolling Night Of The Iguana. If you missed the first few minutes, no prob basically, get to it!

the opening Burton sermon is the best scene in that film (tho the rest is decent). wait til next time

Iguana is my fave Burton, and my fave Huston, though I realize that puts me in the minority (re: the latter, at least).

^mine too.

Came to post:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237393/Billy-Liar-Movie-Clip-Twisterella.html

omg Altman's "Countdown" just starting!

Dolores del Rio Google Doodle for her birthday today

Stanwyck's The Miracle Woman is on tonight at 3 a.m. Eastern---from 1931, with plenty of Capra Corn and prob lots from other sources, judging by TCM's very full synopsis---this isn't that, just some backstory with good quotes: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83572/The-Miracle-Woman/articles.html Y'all watch and report back, okay? I don't have a DVR, boo-hoo.

c/p'ing from the National Film Registry thread:

Per the TCM.com forums, TCM's TBA programming for tonight turns out to be a special on this year's NFR inductees. The reported titles are THESE AMAZING SHADOWS (2011) (a documentary about the NFR), ACE IN THE HOLE, WANDA , HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, and BOULEVARD NIGHTS. Apparently Leonard Maltin and Carla Hayden (Library of Congress) will host this live.

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Albert Brooks twofer tonight: Real Life and Modern Romance.

The Barbara Stanwyck Christmas comedy Remember the Night (which I've never seen) is airing tonight.

It is a+

Next On TCM
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27m27 minutes ago

HARRY AND TONTO (1974) Josh Mostel, Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney. Dir: Paul Mazursky 10:00 PM ET

When his apartment house is condemned, a retired man goes searching for his place in the world.

Color, 115 mins, CC, Letterbox, Gone To Look For America, with his cat, in a big-funky-ass ol' man car, matter of fact this is fairly funky all over. On Route 66, I believe, anyway hella traffic and wires and smog and shit.

Actually I don't remember how it ends, may have always passed out before that, and Mazursky's endings can suck, but yknow endings. (Mazursky's penultimates can suck too, but maybe I didn't get that far either, in this case---but the Art of Carney getting time to shine is still lodged in mind.)

Never Too Young to Die is on and it's amazing

Agreed

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Definitely Gene's finest acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bholsClE4

Rita Hayworth born in Brooklyn 100 years ago today... She's the TCM Star of the Month, but they ran some stuff last night, not today.

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/10/17/beauty-break-happy-rita-hayworth-centennial.html

First women filmmakers tonight.

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1442019%7C0/Pioneers-First-Women-Filmmakers-Nov-1-8.html?fbclid=IwAR2t_Gj8kFrTKba2dpuQRQuL1tm6G4fAAnLK7du82IY2UkWldUyHI--Y23w

TCM's weekly Popeye cartoons have become a lovely staple of my Saturday mornings over the last few months.

aw i used to love those, maybe i shd watch

well blow me down