lol George Hamilton triple bill. Followed in wee hrs by The Apple and Roller Boogie.
Paul Newman all day and night Sunday.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I worship The Apple. In the wee hours so Robert Osbourne (sp?) won't have to introduce it. Still, I pray TCM won't slip into AMC trash programming.
Monday the 13th, Syncopation (1942): A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love. Cast: Jackie Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Bonita Granville. Dir: William Dieterle
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 10 October 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
4 Jacques Tati films tonight.
GAHHH
― donna rouge, Friday, 10 October 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait i don't have time to watch tv anymore anyway lol
They're all on disc too
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 10 October 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Re "trash programming": Late Fridays are for cult stuff. Even for stuff cults won't touch (like Wicked Wicked).
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always wanted to see that but keep missing it. I'm too lazy to check: is the ENTIRE film in split screen?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep. It's not very good at all, but the best jokes are made via the contradictions between what you see on one side and the other. The two songs that Tiffany Bolling sings are gaspingly awful.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
May be coming on again soon?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
can anyone recommend Jodie Foster in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane? late tonight
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw it a thousand years but I never forgot the twist ending. Go for it.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked it. Would watch again.
― nickn, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
curious to see how you take it.paedo vibe throughout; martin sheen on a roll; Foster body double nip shot
― sexyDancer, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I just watched it recently. it's got a very play-like feel and lotsa lol 70s aesthetics but I always dug the suburban gothic vibe it purveys. acting is pretty good, especially sheen fueling his thankless paedo role with fearless creepiness.
when I was a kid it fueled my childhood fantasies of living by myself. if you remember what it was like being the weirdo smart kid you will prolly identify w/ foster's character.
factoid: body double is foster's older sister
― Edward III, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone here see on Wednesday - or at any time before - Gregory La Cava's (My Man Godfrey) STAGE DOOR ?
Jesus what a cast - 1937's Katherine Hepburn (un-annoying), Ginger Rogers (astonishing, savage, career-best dramatic performance hands down), pre-stardom Lucile Ball, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden and a v. adolescent (14 yrs old) Ann Miller! Almost all women cast, everything "The Women" purports to be but actually entertaining, and line after line of witty, merciless, non-stop zings.
Quite a find...!
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I was gonna catch that, but there are already so many movies on my TiVo that something had to give.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 17 October 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
sure, Stage Door > The Women
that Jodie movie is kinda badly directed and written, but she makes it work.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 18 October 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I watch Stage Door every few months (Hepburn's scene in Menjou's office is one of her very best). The only mystery is why Andrea Leeds' total drip of a performance got the only Oscar nod.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 18 October 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Dated tragic-character sympathy factor, expected to be long-lasting tragedienne enthusiasm, otherwise I don't understand why
― Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, 19 October 2008 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Alfred: Oscar's taste has always blown.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 19 October 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Stage Door is lovely. But The Women (1939) has been pushing and pulling me ever since Chicago Channel 32 showed it many, many, many years ago (although now that I think of it, I saw Stage Door almsot as early).
Things Stage Door lacks:
1. Joan Crawford2. The world-historic fashion show 3. The greatest costume design of all-time (beach outfit with hand)4. The second greatest (Sylvia's "Seeing Eye" top)5. A line as great as "Oh the publicity! La publicité!"6. Crystal's bathtub7. No men (yes, yes, they're "there" but it makes a difference)8. As bald an exploration into "the class feeling you run into nowadays"9. The talk between Miriam and Mary in Reno10. Joan Crawford
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
20 Monday5:00 AM Kongo (1932)
A crippled madman seeks revenge on the daughter of the man who betrayed him. Cast: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel.
I thought I had this on tape but I can't find it. I hear it's still pretty brutal to watch.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, Kevin, but I'm with Pauline Kael on The Women (who would no doubt apply the same criticism to the "Sex and the City" movie).
Also: I was struck by how unfunny it is.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Roz is HILARIOUS in it! In the lunch scene at Mary's, check out her eyes after Nancy asks "Well, Sylvia, feeling better?"
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
23 Thursday7:30 AM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis
tom'w eve:
6:30 PM Cop Hater (Berke, 1958) - BW-75 mins. - From an Evan Hunter/Ed McBain novel, this B-film stars Robert Loggia as a detective at the fictional 87th Precinct looking into several killings of police officers without any obvious connection. The rest of the cast seems mostly unknown (to me anyway), with the exceptions of a young Jerry Orbach and Vincent Gardenia. United Artists is the credited distributor, putting MGM in control of the rights. It’s not on DVD.
http://filmjournal.net/clydefro/2008/10/17/the-tcm-ten-1018-1024/
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that's based on the first of the bazillion 87th Precinct movies.
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah. Looking forward to Cop hater.
I pointed this out on the Zappa thread: The World's Greatest Sinner and 200 Motels late night on Friday.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn! 'World's Greatest Sinner' doesn't seem to be showing in the UK, and Psychotronic Video and those good folks at Norton records have only been telling me to see it for twenty years!
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
It's definitely in a class by itself although it fascinates me most as a film in a forever unfinished state (at least in the version I own).
Thanx for that link, Morbs, although it'll probably just add to my pile of unseen films.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, Cop Hater wasn't bad. A couple clinker lines/deliveries; otherwise a decent piece of neo-noir.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 24 October 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
28 Tuesday11:15 AM Boeing Boeing (1965) A playboy uses airline schedules to maintain "exclusive" relationships with three flight attendants at the same time. Cast: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter. Dir: John Rich (who???). C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
That is widely regarded as one of Lewis's "straightest" roles.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to get a DVR for birthday/xmas, just for time-shifting TCM content. I want to watch The Spiral Staircase, but I ain't getting up at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
you know you could probably get a vcr for $3 nowadays
― Edward III, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha, I have a cheap VCR, but taped stuff looks so bad.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, get TiVo, definitely.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
So what do people think of the ending of The World's Greatest Sinner? On its IMDb page, "God strikes him dead."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Or "down." Something like that.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
the film sucks
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
and then god struck him dead
― Edward III, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I should have recorded it off of TCM since I saw that their print was gorgeous (how???). My version ends with Carey writing in a bedroom lit by a Kiss Me Deadly-style Great Whasit. So yeah, God or some similar sort of ineffable phenomenon gets him in the end.
Oooh boy is this a kooky one!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never even heard of this one but it sounds like a great victory movie:
6 Thursday
3:30 PM First a Girl (1935) An out-of-work actress passes herself off as a female impersonator and becomes a star. Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee. Dir: Victor Saville. BW-92 mins
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 6 November 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
My version ends with Carey writing in a bedroom
That should be "writhing." I'm only correcting it because I don't want some poor soul to search for a version with Carey writing.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 6 November 2008 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
The Trip & Psych-Out late tnite
Miracle of Morgan's Creek on Sunday morning
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 November 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
man i miss having cable every time this thread comes up
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ARGH why is Rose McGowan still co-hosting and introducing films on the weekends here?? wtf, please
― Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, 7 December 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Van Johnson x 5 tnite
Meet Me in St Lois late Christmas Eve
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It still annoys me that they don't move to NY.
― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
robert osborne is looking tired lately. slurring his words, big bags around his eyes. i think they're working him too hard.
― amateurist, Thursday, 25 December 2008 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link