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

would est have been as successful if werner erhard weren't a serenely handsome man?

Well, considering LR Hubb4rd, maybe cult popularity is inversely proportional to the founder's looks.

"You theenk zo?"

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Is Lost In America any good?

my favorite Albert Brooks film! "no Santy Claus"

"We were going to touch Indians!"

"You GIVE the money BACK!"

Also the motorcycle rider. My fave Brooks too.

"no Santy Claus"

this scene.

the justification of Garry Marshall's existence

^^

also: the long slow slide into hysteria in the scene b/w Brooks and his boss

No one has mentioned the "nest egg" yet.

I think I did in the Brooks thread.

No one can mention "nest egg" if they do not understand the concept "nest egg."

I was going to say it's my favourite comedy of the past whatever, but I think it's my favourite comedy ever; I'd have to check, but I think I had it #1 in the ILX poll. Throwaway exchange I love:

"Why do you keep speaking to me like I'm a dog?"
"I'll explain later."

"Eh-heh-heh": Young Mr. Sad Bad And Sexist Shithead To Know doesn't deserve the voluptuous horror of Karen Black

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2c5VHFIgAEDTh7.jpg

Are we allowed to use the words "nest" and "egg" in the same sentence?

btw, WilliamC, there's no need for you to watch Lost In America now, all the jokes are in here.

The core, the heart money, the nest egg.

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Korda's Jungle Book is on tomorrow. Worth seeing?

i think so! Sabu has amazing presence and the cinematography is dreamlike.

^^

i always think of this strangely poignant song when i think of sabu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkJ4mFINyo

Tonight at 8 (EST of course)

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remember the night is AWESOME and stanwyck is all time

i once had a really odd conversation with my mother about how much she hated Barbara Stanwyck. it was hilarious.

Almost feel bad for your mom.

But if you were to recount hilarious conversation it might cheer me up.

I wish I could accurately relay it, but it wasn't so much the words as the pure, unexpected, primal disgust in her face when I mentioned how much I loved Stanwyck, as she simply muttered "I don't like her. I never did." It totally came out of nowhere.

Some of these have been/probably will/not/ be on tcm, but mainly it's a big free stash---suppressed yet supposedly uncut Kubrick etc:
http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

Virna Lisi, Virni Lisi many (incl. your mamma) have named you...arrivederci on TV, hopefully soon...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/arts/virna-lisi-actress-who-rose-in-60s-dies-at-78.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Si, "Virna" officiale, but Virni mi personal

remember the night is AWESOME and stanwyck is all time

^^^ this. I had never seen it until a couple years ago, and now I don't know how I lived without it all this time. I just made that screen capture my screen saver, thanks!

TCM: Alert! You must show this again!
Le Petit Soldat (JLG, '61) w Anna Karina

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5zsbjZCIAAWCFJ.jpg

Well alrighty then---not bad: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=2014-12-31

Are you going to watch Mon Oncle D'Amerique?

Hey, it is categorized as a Comedy.

it is one.

(Saw it a few weeks ago for the first time in 34 years, on a library VHS)

^^The New Yorker DVD is VHS quality. The film is as serious as one can be with an extended fight scene between two guys in mouse suits inside its running time.

it might be resnais's strangest film, and that is /really/ saying something.

Haven't watched in 20 some odd years myself so recorded this morning. Will keep an eye out for teh comedy.

Marx Brothers all night long starting at 8pm EST:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1054507%7C0/Marx-Brothers-Marathon-1-1.html

also this:
http://moviemorlocks.com/2014/12/31/this-week-on-tcm-underground-nothing-lasts-forever-1984/

Will give it a look-see thanks.

Never heard of that, thanks! "La Dolce Gilda" replays in my headbox more often than seems likely.

And here it is, for the moment! Also for 3'34", which might be all of it, don't remember:

http://vimeo.com/48286686

Yow, that flickering/in and out of synch w dialogue def not in the original, but you'll get the idea (and it is complete)

Just a reminder...Nothing Lasts Forever starts in about half an hour.

kurosawa's the Idiot in the wee hours:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78942/Hakuchi/articles.html