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

Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair with Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur -- the perfect farcical Berlin '48 counterweight to Germany Year Zero -- tomorrow morning. Do not miss!

Been wanting to see it for years.

The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.

the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great, loved the long post on 'captured!' the other day.

the v/o tease for War and Peace today was "Audrey Hepburn is rushin' around with Henry Fonda..."

The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.
Not according to Cameron Crowe.

Anyway, Marlene is great, Millard Mitchell is great and keep your eye out for Frederick Hollander.

the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great

The very first thing I've heard about that might make the iphone appealing to me.

hope you all sang along with the Iowa Song!

The Lady Eve comin' up

I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

So long, Lulu, I'll send you a postcard.

"Let me ask you a hypothermical question..."

The Crowd in about an hour, one of my fave noncomedies of the '20s.

foreign affair was fucking aces btw

Listen my children! and you will hear...!

You buy these goods, and boy these goods are keen

I did a triple play of the more the merrier, foreign exchange and the devil and miss jones and i liked it

Is Charles Coburn in that middle one too?

nope, that's the billy wilder one. They're all jean arthur though.

Amazed this is the first time I've seen 2010 on TV this year. What programmer could resist the temptation?

This is the SECOND time TCM has had it on since Christmas! They're repeating way too much lately.

Ambersons momentarily!

Frankenheimer's Seconds overnight

that movie is unpleasant

but pretty interesting

I LOVE Seconds.

Airplane! tonight, followed by its inspiration Zero Hour (1957).

Sherlock Jr. leads off double doses of Keaton & Tati at midnight

This Friday night at 2am, listed as 5 Minutes To Live. Just your average Johnny Cash as Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear movie.

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

Great movie! Big influence on Larry Cohen's equally corrosive Bone (1972).

If you miss it or don't have cable, you can watch it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/five_minutes_to_live

i can't even tell you how much i hate the local cable company for inexplicably deciding to drop this channel.

Farley Granger night tom'w

If anyone missed "Ambersons" during February, it's on tomorrow night.

And it's on again at 10 AM ET today.

(too many short-term reruns lately)

Shirley Jones guest-prog tonight, beginning w/ Elmer Gantry

OSCAR WINNER

jeez, it's a Hans Conried triple feature tonight, but 5000 Fingers of Dr T is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwAymlCB1k

Dr. T is nuts.

Fatty Arbuckle's Coney Island short (w/ Buster Keaton) in about 5 minutes

Griffith's Orphans of the Storm at midnight ET

Julie christie all day long

Warren Beatty night is ongoing... coming up: The Parallax View & Ishtar

After A.O. Scott praised Ishtar as undervalued, I got curious again. Should I?

first 20 mins are funny, the rest spotty at best.

i dvr'd mickey one...any good?

fascinating at least, I recall -- nice smoky X-ray cinematography

mickey one has some moments but not real enjoyable

Robert Osborne is such a cool guy. I think he and Brian Lamb from CSpan are two of my favorite television personalities.

Robert Stack all Monday, w/ Sirk's The Tarnished Angels at 9:45 pm ET

bumped for Stack

TTA has the most embarrassing drunk routine I've seen in a movie -- worse than Tom Cruise's in A Few Good Men.