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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 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anybody watched the Underground show? How is it?

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

x-post

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Palm Beach Story is on right now.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember this thread?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Lonely Are the Brave 12:30AM tonight

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

(xpost)

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

also - William Shatner, and introducing Carroll O'Connor

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

and Charles Bronson?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

not on netflix ;_;

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

and Nashville in the wee hours tnite.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

Best Silver Surfer Namedrop!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

A Thousand Clowns

Oh man, I love this movie! Been waiting ages for it to be shown too. I'm gonna make sure my parents tivo it so I can get it next time I'm home.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Europa '51 is unmissable.

It's Gene Kelly Month: It's Always Fair Weather on the 12th is esp underseen (theme of mid-Fifties middle-class anomie).

Ken, I may try to catch that RKO twinbill at FF at 5:40.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds good, but no can do

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Tonight at 8 ET, Bogey's Spade and Marlowe followed by Kiss Me Deadly.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

already seen or reseen this week:

awakenings
gold diggers of '35
man who shot liberty valance

― remy bean, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Betty Hutton interview at 7 ET tonight.

Jerry Lewis triple feature for his 81st tomorrow, followed by early Woody Allen, incl his Cavett '71 interview.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Bresson Joan of Arc movie on tonight at 2AM, I think.

When did Carrie Fisher replace Molly Haskell on The Essentials?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 18 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't she just Guest Programmer or somthin? cuz shit, othwise that's hideous.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I think she's the new regular co-host. Maybe Molly knew too much for Bob O's liking. Carrie can probably keep him supplied with childhood showbiz anecdotes: "And then Chill Wills pushed Noah Beery into the pool, the resulting splash drenching my mother so she had to change outfits."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

well, I imagine they'll change hosts regularly? Wasn't it previously Sydney Pollack solo?

Some of the upcoming stuff is far from essential: It's a Mad x4 World and fer God's sake, Fear Strikes Out??

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear that fear has not struck out at all, and that it is downhill from now on.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Man I'm glad I had the TV on at 11 last night or I woulda missed Chinatown. Don't slip on me, TCM doods!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 March 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but Chinatown is on TCM (and DVD shelves) all the time.

― Eric H., Thursday, 29 March 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Where can I revisit the SCTV parody, "Polynesiantown"?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Coming this month:

The Trial on Wednesday the 4th
King of Kings (Nick Ray version) on Easter Sunday (the 8th)
A Jason Robards marathon (including Once Upon A Time In The West and A Thousand Clowns) on Thursday the 12th
Broken Blossoms followed by The Testament of Dr. Mabuse on Sunday the 15th
A five film (+1 doc) Chaplin marathon on Monday the 16th
A five film Harold Lloyd marathon on Friday the 20th
Some Came Running on Tuesday the 24th
A rerun of the Russ Meyer cult films Double Feature on Friday the 27th
Germany, Year Zero on Sunday the 29th

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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