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

wish i had known, woulda liked to have a dvr copy

I've started keeping a list of alerts on my iPad of upcoming movies I wanna watch/record on TCM. In case any of these might be of interest to anyone else here, this is what I've got on my list for this month:

Jan 15: A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds
Jan 17: Gaslight
The Life of Emile Zola
Jan 22: Island of Lost Souls
Haxan
Jan 23: Earrings of Madame de...
Jan 27: Possession
Jan 29: The Vanishing

p sure there is more ophuls on the 22nd, also

o i meant 23rd

Which Gaslight? Thorold Dickinson original with Anton Walbrook?

Gotta love those Earrings.

1944, Ingrid Bergman.

s'okay, but the other one is better.

Anton Walbrook still has that Old World European reserve whereas Charles Boyer got a little hammy in Hollywood. He's great in Earrings... though

damn i havent seen Possession since it got remastered/dvd release

god why didnt anyone ever tell me soylent green was such a visually beautiful movie

i've honestl always put it off because it was my highschool girlfriend's redneck father's favorite movie

soylent green has a devastating credits sequence

Yes it does

god why didnt anyone ever tell me soylent green was such a visually beautiful movie

The cinematographer, Richard H Kline, did some other Fleischer films, incl Mandingo & The Boston Strangler. (also The Fury and... Howard the Duck)

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/with_little_help_from_petticoat_8PrE2OAhnSxCn1B5RbvIMM

huge blindspot for me so i'm excited to watch (almost) all of these:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/474213%7C0/70-s-Sci-Fi-4-21.html

the beach party movies are (predictably) dumb. i think i was hoping for more and now i'm kinda wishing todd haynes made some kind of meticulously stylized pastiche version of a beach party movie that secretly explored in melodrama style the tensions undergirding the beach party movie conventions. seriously, tho, are any of these good enough to be worth watching? even the names sound interchangeable.

They Live! and Escape from NY on tnite

They Live is not without its own virtues, but it's mostly worth reading so you can know what's being talked about in Jonathan Lethem's awesome book on the film.

*worth WATCHING, of course.

Tourneur's STARS IN MY CROWN is on TONIGHT! It's a sweet gentle dream of a movie, probably better than TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in any medium.

Much to do, but the minute I start watching Advise and Consent, I'm hooked.

Badlands on tonight at 8

yay!

yessss

...followed by Bonnie and Clyde/Dog Day Afternoon...

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21772/Last-Summer/

on fri/sat

along w/ 'little darlings' & 'modern girls'

Originally I thought they were airing Late Summer.

This makes a helluva lot more sense as part of a triple feature that includes Little Darlings, though.

I wonder if their copy will have boobs...

Spike Lee as guest programmer on Thursday July 5...Ace In The Hole, Night of the Hunter and On The Waterfront.

Will finally get to see the former. If you haven't, for unfathomable some reason, seen the latter two, cancel any and all plans.

i've seen Ace in the Hole and On the Waterfront - two of my fave films of all time. never saw Night of the Hunter tho.

Can't get too cocky as I've never seen Ace, but seriously...you are not allowed to do anything else til you've seen NotH.

Also, Friday has a run of Jimmy Stewart westerns followed by D'Zullawski's Posession. It's ok/healthy if I don't leave my house for the rest of the week, right?

this thread needs to be updated more

classic adventure mondays!

Also Repulsion is on after Possession on Friday night.

I've never seen On the Waterfront. The other two are favorites. Saw Ace in the Hole at the Film Forum when it was restored. Bleakest movie ever. Night of the Hunter is a longtime fave and I've seen it many many times.

I watched Sullivan's Travels the other night -- just wonderful. In fact -- this is my secret shame brought to light -- it was the first Sturges film I'd seen.

Also, apparently Veronica Lake was four and a half feet tall.

That's nothing. I am at least that tall.

STOKED to see Posession in something other than VHS rip, thanks for the heads up.

also, must see thread on the topic (first dozen posts or so): three frames

high;y recommend Repulsion too

shit mordy, night of the hunter is a definite top five all time film for ANYONE
On the Waterfront is good, Ace in the Hole is great
Sullivan's Travels is an A++++ cockeyed caravan, boy
veronica lake is a roll of dimes

oh shit I want to see Possession, good stuff!

this might be my favorite of all my bookmarked threads. always good news itt

trying to imagine osborne's intro to 'possession' is giving me lols

tried watching 'last summer' last night btw. we got through half and had to turn it off. too disturbing + upsetting!

huh. the very end is the most disturbing + unsettling part btw!

(this all makes it sound like a haneke movie or smething but it in no way is)

i could tell where it was going. it was disturbing from the get-go, and it was clearly getting more so as the movie went on

tcm tnite reminding me that i will watch gone w/ the wind any and every time it's on

hahaha jesus look at tomorrow's lineup:

Scarlet Coat, The (1955)
Declaration Of Independence, The (1938)
Devil's Disciple, The (1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Historic Maryland (1941)
1776 (1972)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
United States Marine Band (1942)

Bound for Glory (Woody Guthrie biopic) is on after the 4th of July marathon tho-- worth seeing?

Huh, they showed Drums Along the Mohawk just 2-3 weeks ago.

ooo, i want to watch 1776 this 4th of july