late Sun: Garbo in The Mysterious Lady, then Pagnol's Marius
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 May 2009 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Diner late tonight after two shittier Barry Levinson films
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Dreyer's The Parson's Widow late tnite; early Capra films tom'w daytime.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 May 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone happen to record the part-talkie Show Boat from last month? Come on....
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 18 May 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
dassin, truffaut, antonioni today/tonight
― rent, Thursday, 18 June 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
nice!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 June 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
All films with "Night" in the title in English, French or Italian?
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 June 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The King of Comedy in about an hour.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
You get extra credit.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Commando is on AMC RIGHT now. Rae Dawn Chong -vs- Dan Hedaya
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 June 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Vincente Minnelli today
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 21 June 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
My friend Millie (Miss TCM herself) just got interviewed: http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/07/working-girl.html
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 July 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
wow she has a great job. and sounds very cool.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man that sounds awesome. I still have a dream about opening a movie theater in Williamsburg and programming it like a freeform college radio station.
More realistically I'd like to program for VH1 classics or WRXP or something.
― dan selzer, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
would gladly offer "guest programming" services at said hypothetical wburg movie theater
― hallmark race cards (donna rouge), Friday, 24 July 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I was thinking have a liquor license and let Toddp do shows there and be all ocularis/galapagos with the DIY shit but also show Bachelor Party or whatever. Or a double feature of Repulsion and Belle du Jour.
― dan selzer, Friday, 24 July 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
dog movie marathon!
― hallmark race cards (donna rouge), Friday, 24 July 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Harold Lloyd all day and night today! Judy Garland tomorrow.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Been reading a lot about Judy in various Johnny Mercer bios.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Gloria Grahame today, In a Lonely Place in primetime.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 August 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Sterling Hayden today (incl Zero Hour, the direct inspiration for Airplane!).
Angela Lansbury tomorrow.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the conversation was on last night
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, I'll fire up my time machine.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, its on right now last night
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Saturday, 22 August 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Ida Lupino today, Sinatra tom'w
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they did effing Sinatra already.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 27 August 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Out of the Fog had such a great supporting cast.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 27 August 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Sinatra was in a few of the other Stars of the Day's movies.
Peter Sellers today
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 August 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Wuthering Heights good?
― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Ulmer movie at 1:30 = I can't stay up that late.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
wuthering heights is great but then i find merle oberon fascinating.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 20 September 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
You wouldn't be the only one.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Phil Karlson triple bill tonight (I liked The Phenix City Story), followed by a blaxploitation twinbill of Willie Dynamite & Sugar Hill.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
2 by Renoir overnight: La Bete Humaine & The Southerner
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
4 Goldie Hawns tonight (I've only seen Foul Play).
HOBO MOVIES tomorrow night!
Sullivan's Travels (1941) Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) My Man Godfrey (1936) Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Girls of the Road (1940)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
jeez, it's WHEELER & WOOLSEY night!
(not the 4 I'd have picked tho)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you catch Girls of the Road?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
no, only one of those 5 I don't know
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I was so mad when Alec Baldwin recommended Wuthering Heights on The Essentials but then went on to say how Oberon sucked in this movie. Not cool, Donaghy.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Murnau's Nosferatu in 90 mins.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 October 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed the documentary about Johnny Mercer last night.
― irmão tuomas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 November 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Putney Swope & Greasers Palace in the cult spot tonight
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I asked my black friend about Putney Swope a few months ago and he said, "It's the most racist piece of shit - the only time I've ever walked out of a movie."
― bamcquern, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
eternal lols at "my black friend"
― bamcquern, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
did he see it in 1968?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure thereabouts.
― bamcquern, Friday, 6 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So his memory of it wouldn't be good, I know, and he's older and different now. I didn't want to go into it with him, though.
I'll clarify, even though you might not be there, Morbs.
I don't think it was 1968, because he'd have been about 20, and that doesn't place him in NYC or in or near Chicago, where he might've seen the movie. So it was probably 7-10 years later.
I asked him about it because I had bought it for a dollar and my friend and I had seen it recently, a couple months before, probably, and I saw it stacked with my videos and wondered what he thought. We've talked about the merits and flaws and social/racial implications of the Bill Cosby Show, Steppin Fetchit, Amos & Andy, Fresh Prince of Bellair, rap music, gansta rap, Everybody Hates Chris, even, uncharacteristically for him, since he brought it up, Song of the South - if it was a popular cultural thing at one time and it featured blacks, we had probably talked about it. Because who else am I going to go to to have a discussion about this stuff without someone going, lol u racist or something. And the Putney Swope comment was the only time he had ever said anything like that. For instance, he has several dvds of Amos & Andy and likes them quite a lot.
When my friend and I had watched it, we enjoyed it a lot, and thought it was unusually edited - that there were a lot of nontrivial decisions made about most aspects of the craft of the movie. We didn't like that Downy dubbed Swope's voice over. We figured that the movie, besides indicting the advertising industry, was also satirizing the exploitation of "black is beautiful" and black militancy, and that the movie had no heroes besides nihilism personified, or some kind of catholic, ultra-moral being teaching people a lesson. And the ads - they seemed to inhabit that space of how white people see black people, how black people see themselves, and how they really are - and inhabit it in a way that makes you deliberately uncomfortable - it reminded me of some of the material black comedians have done. But we were confused after the movie was over, too, and uncertain about it.
I still don't know if I agree about it being incredibly racist.
― bamcquern, Friday, 6 November 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Greaser's Palace is a really odd film -- in some ways it's a bit like a Jodorowsky movie -- it seems like there was this period in the 70s where a lot of films featured long scenes or at least a lot of scenes of people walking around somewhat aimlessly.
― sarahel, Friday, 6 November 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh. I got that one for a dollar, too, but I'm pretty sure I got rid of it before watching it.
― bamcquern, Friday, 6 November 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link