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

Yeah, I read the full synopsis later, wish I'd stayed with it. Did get to some very good scenes with sudden deep glimpses of Segar-Saint marital bond, incl. erotic on some levesl, also of course the ongoing conversations about financial considerations---and they were both shaken up by winding-down exchange between husband and wife they might be buying a house from, if things go well (the soon-to-be-ex-husband seems to be an artist, like Segal's character, or at least he's like "You don't want this [art object]? It's yours." "No. No it isn't" And she tells Segal how good, how studio-ready the light and the whole space is. Outside, Saint is crying in his arms, apologizing for bringing him there; it seems like it could be bad luck for their own shaky situation, and also---an intrusion somehow, on something they shouldn't have seen---is the way I took it--what a scene, brief but relentless sequence of scenes! Yeah, I will have to watch the whole thing. Other parts are funny and shrewd and/or "rude," yeah.)(Does the agent really have a port-a-potty in his office, is that what that is? Little worrywart dude is the future[*mid*-70s]-cool Roy Scheider!)

Also when they're spooning in the bed, as he declares that the babysitter has hots for him, calling him "Mr. Thomas" as confirmation---name's not Thomas and wife Saint is like, oooo Mr. Thomas, take me to the gates of ecstasy," not roleplaying so much (although may be some of that) as demonstrating that she's unfazed (does she know about Princess Grace, who has just dumped him because she is intelligently unconvinced by his "I'll tell her tonight."?). Also when she finds what she knows is just the right dress at the store, and yet asks him what he thinks, and it's not an entirely rhetorical question, but she's not just looking at him; she knows she's still got it.

Oh today's Alain Delon Day, only one I've seen so far was Spirits of the Dead, three adaptations of Poe, with Delon in "William Wilson," dir./co-scripted by Malle, okay but then Fellini's "Toby Dammit" vrooooom sorry again Malle (and even Vadim w Jane Fonda, see it's not just Malle this happens to)

End of Summer Tour cont. tonight (saw some of The Decline of Western Civilization Part 1 last night, passed out before Elvis On Tour, but have seen it before; it's cool), opening with The Song Remains The Same, later Jimi, Otis sets re-edited into sep movies---from Monterey Pop footage, I take it (both sets made on a single, splendid LP, which I hope I've still got somewhere)Jimi Plays Monterey incl credit for Janis Joplin, so edits are maybe not too condensed), later an excursion with the worthy, could-be unique Louie Bluie, a performer who started v. early in the 20th Century, think he's still just middle-aged in the early 1970s; he's also an amazing graphic artist by then)---and much else, incl. Don't Look Back, 'til during the day Tuesday, when we get crime capers, if not sprees; Tuesday night is Women Make Film.

Tom Waits' (never on DVD or BLU) Big Time is coming up too.

Think I saw that on cable! With one of his hippest combos, from early 80s, maybe?

Late '80s, on tomorrow, alongside Les Blank's freewheeling Leon Russell film, A Poem Is A Naked Person.

Apparently it's on Prime as a basic free title.

Louie Blouie’s director commentary is better than the film

Tonight: TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Three with her: Tamango (John Berry, 1959): A graphic portrayal of the horrors on a slave ship sailing from Africa. The captain takes a black woman as his mistress and a rebellion is sparked.
Then Tarzan's Peril and The Harlem Globetrotters: very brief clips incl. her make them seem worth checking.
Then Where Now Are The Dreams of Youth?(Ozu, 1932):Cheating extends to the business world, as a new company head helps his classmates with entrance exams, then gives a lovelorn nerd a spine transplant.
And then Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons(Misumi,1973) and
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell(Kurada,1974)

Those are probably the recent new restorations of Lone Wolf and Cub that Criterion put out a year or so ago. Soooooooooo dope.

Tarzan's Peril and The Harlem Globetrotters

though this was one movie, like when they were on Gilligan's Island or met Scooby-Doo

me too lol

Just now read Richard Stark's jacket in Luc Sante's new Maybe The People Would Be The Times, and then discovered that Point Blank hits TCM @4:00 EST.

point blank whips ass

Times Square airing on TCM Underground tonight at 11:15pm pst

*not available to watch on streaming platforms tho :(

TCM plays all the best stuff after I’ve gone to sleep. Pretty good slate of circus films tonight though.

Just now see that Clash By Night starts at 6 pm EST, then The Sea Wolf, and then an evening with John Garfield, Paul Muni in Juarez hella late, followed by more Garfield.

Both those movies whip ass and idk why jack london hasnt had a modern reworking (harrison ford animated dog movie notwithstanding)

https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-martin-eden-starring-luca-marinelli.html

noticed this months films are airing in alphabetical order ?

One of their 31 Days of Oscar gimmicks.

Next On TCM
@NextOnTCM
CAROL (2015) Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson. Dir: Todd Haynes 9:45 PM ET

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

Color, 119 mins, CC, #romance #TCM
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CAROL (2015) Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson. Dir: Todd Haynes 9:45 PM ET

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

Color, 119 mins, CC, #romance #TCM
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— Next On TCM (@NextOnTCM) April 4, 2021

Woke up, got out of bed, turned it on, A Hard Day's Night just now started.

Did it say you were suckers?

https://filmfestival.tcm.com/schedule/20210509/

I forgot to alert you all to let me come in (2011) (on 5/7), and Her Man (Garnett, 1930) earlier today. But do not miss the TCM premiere of So This Is Paris (Lubitsch, 1926), at 8pm EST. Featuring a new score by Ben Model.

On the road today (earlier, the one where early-1950s Stanwyck has to save her feckless hub and son from escaped killer)---now: Detour---next: Gun Crazy---followed by: They Live By Night---and:Judgement at Nuremberg.(with post-crash Montgomery Clift).

Sorry, just(38 minutes in} now got to A Film About Jimi Hendrix(1973), which I first saw in a 70s theater: well-chosen/transferred performances, good interviews, telling the story, not just endorsements like so many docs.

Erk---Brewster McCloud about 15 min in

Just watched the beginning of Pushover (1954), Kim Novak’s screen debut. After a wan, pre-credits bank robbery, the movie kicks into gear with a late-night scene in which Novak is picked up by a stranger (Fred MacMurray) after a movie… they go to a bar, then his apartment. The chemistry in this entire scene (and Novak herself) are—pardon me—hot fuckin stuff!!

Watched the rest of that movie; it was pretty good (though cheap-looking as hell). MacMurray plays a cop who goes crooked and totally screws up his own scheme. (Don’t worry, that’s not much of a spoiler.)

Stone cold Nightmare Allley tonight @11:05 Central, after a parade of Powers as clean-cut action heroes.

TCM to launch onlyfans page. https://t.co/LOALv96Esd

— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral) August 26, 2021

Looks like it was a new logo?: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_identity_and_on_air_look_for_tcm_by_sibling_rivalry.php

https://memegenerator.net/img/images/400x/73118120.jpg

Oh god that T and M are in different universes

2020’s: death to serifs

ugh, it was much better before

when i write my memoirs it will be called FIRST THEY TOOK OUR SERIFS

Lol, yeah. Ugh, yeah.

Old one was kind of Art Deco or something

Watched a little tonite… I think the new on-air graphics actually look pretty good, it’s a nice refresh. But yeah, the logo in isolation is hard to digest.

The Big Sleep started a little earlier than I thought, not too far back, not like the plot matters that way---next: Out of the Past, Mildred Pierce, Stagecoach, North By Northwest, The Heiress, Body and Soul, and The Bride Wore Red, the only one I haven't seen.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 10:30pm (EST): The TCM premiere of Three Women (Lubitsch, 1924).

Kino is releasing this on Blu-ray in January 2022--hope "The Ernst Lubitsch Collection" means more titles in this vein. (So This Is Paris? Forbidden Paradise? Even an upgrade of the Lubitsch in Berlin box set would be welcome.)

TCM's NFR 2021 programming on Friday, December 17:

08:00 PM(EST) Sounder (1972)
10:00 PM Chicana (1979)
10:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
12:30 AM The Watermelon Woman (1995)
02:15 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
04:45 AM The Méliès Mystery (2021)

Classic Newport doc Jazz On A Summer's Day about to start, followed by How They Got Over(2017), about the great gospel groups, then The Wiz.

One nice thing about JustWatch is they tell you when something is on TCM.

Anyway, starting to up my game with respect to using the on demand feature. Do other people make extensive use of this? One thing I started as of this month is to go to the monthly calendar on the website and search for actors and directors I am currently extra-interested in.

TCM going viral this weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYcwB_deG8

Heard about but didn't watch yet.