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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)

Actually, I still use it to hear about cool movies, just not to know what's on TV.

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

A Foreign Affair, tonight at 11
Look for Friedrich Hollaender on piano when Marlene sings his composition "Black Market"

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Every once in a while he talks about something modern. Dude liked Spanglish!

x-post

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get the DirecTV mag, it must be extra $?

Bogdanovich's REVISED Directed by John Ford tonight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

We sure as hell aren't paying extra for the mag.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Among the goodies in store for December are The Conqueror Worm (AKA Witchfinder General), The Honeymoon Killers, The Last Man On Earth (all from TCM Underground) and "Rock Films" series with Rock Around The Clock, It's Trad, Dad!, Don't Knock The Twist and Rock'n'Roll High School.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Palm Beach Story is on right now.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Monday, 20 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Shop Around the Corner tonight at 10 (forget that they're all sposed to be Hungarian)

(ken, buying the Sturges box?)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

You want to know what makes me cry? The crinkles in Margaret Sullavan's voice. She was better in Three Comrades, but still....

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Rerunning "Directed by John Ford" tomorrow.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I just might have to get that box set, Morbius, if only for Christmas In July.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Remember this thread?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Busby Berkeley fest tnite; Footlight Parade is a must cuz it has all the usual stuff, PLUS Cagney blowing through it at 90 mph.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Remember, Ace In The Hole is on early Thursday morning.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

and a bunch of '30s Jean Arthurs I've never even heard of tonight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Martin & Lewis:

The Caddy Thursday night at 8 ET, Living It Up (my favorite) on Sunday morning.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lonely Are the Brave 12:30AM tonight

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a kid living in Yosemite, my dad was really excited to show me 'The Heroes of Telemark' once when it came on TV.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau. Kirk Douglas' favorite movie.

(xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

also - William Shatner, and introducing Carroll O'Connor

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

and Charles Bronson?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

5 a.m. Saturday, wtf...

Devil With Hitler, The (1942)

If he wants to keep control of Hell, Satan has to get Hitler to perform a good deed. Cast: Alan Mowbray, Bobby Watson, George E. Stone. Dir: Gordon Douglas.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

not on netflix ;_;

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Last Detail premiering at 2:30 a.m. ET tonight.

Saturday, a bill of special-effects Oscar winners beginning with 2001.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

and Nashville in the wee hours tnite.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Cool stuff for March:

I Know Were I'm Going on Thursday the 8th
Europa '51 followed by This Sporting Life on Tuesday the 13th
Take The Money and Run on Friday the 16th
Ace In The Hole/The Big Carnival on Saturday the 17th
Le Proces De Jeanne D'Arc on Sunday the 18th
A Thousand Clowns followed by Harold and Maude on Friday the 23 which as it happens is a pretty wicked day all around

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think tonight (or maybe it was this morning), Chinatown and The Conversation are back to back!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also: CRIMSON FUCKING TIDE?!?!??!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

31 Days of Oscar dude. It was nominated for something.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

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