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

"fanny and alexander" 2am monday

Such riches the past few days. The Jazz Singer, Die! Die! My Darling, The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

Peter Tork: "Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor."

he must be quoting somebody, yeah?

I did wake up in time to watch. It remains interesting but is any of it sposed to be funny? Aside from Davy Jones choosing Sonny Liston to bloody him in the boxing ring. (I first saw 20+ years ago on a twinbill w/ Skidoo.)

I don't think it's supposed to be funny like the show was funny, but there are funny moments. The repartee between the boys and the greasy spoon waitress is pretty great.

yeah, he's like a drag Rose Marie (who I know was on the sitcom a few times).

I think Nicholson thinks he wrote an incisive McLuhanesque media critique.

Probably, but I'll take that over Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern thinking they really had America's number.

A slew of Louis Malle tonight and tomorrow... The Fire Within late tonight is a fab way to be sent to bed in magnificent bummerdom.

zazie in the metro!!!

Zazie is pretty bad, no? Love the book.

I'm DVRing the next three.

I never knew a Louis Malle film was involved in the case in which Potter Stewart made his famous "I know it when I see it" comment.

That being Les Amants. I haven't watched anything yet, but Black Moon looks like it has some interesting talents involved- Joe Dallesandro AND Sven Nykvist.

4 Roger Cormans tonight, leading off with A Bucket of Blood. Anthony Perkins fest tomorrow night, incl Disney's The Black Hole and Welles' The Trial (which I seem to like way more than most ppl).

I kinda like The Trial.

the best Anthony Perkins performance too. Love the interrogation scene at the beginning.

Karloff Karlooff Karloff! tonight.

This Guest Programmer thing for ALL NOVEMBER looks wildly variable. This week, Alfred Molina, Donald Trump (Kane, lol), Gore Vidal.

If you crave more of Donald Trump: Film Critic there's an Errol Morris interview of him talking about Kane somewhere on Morris' website.

We have 6 days to guess why Chris Elliott programmed On Golden Pond.

Who knew that Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald movies were an inspiration to genuine opera stars?

Finally saw an actual Ed Wood movie (Bride of the Monster) this morning. Fun and stupid.

the contest winner seems to have the best lineup of all?

the Renee Fleming films are about, you know, composers

The Train and The Battle of Algiers on Saturday evening; Sunday night has a diverse '60s lineup of What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Closely Watched Trains, Point Blank and Blow-Up.

the Sunday night programmer is some Food Network host

Alton Brown! He's super cool and smart.

I though you didn't use your kitchen?

anyone see Matt Groening last night? Nice that Dan Castellaneta took "DOH!" from Laurel & Hardy's great foil James Finlayson!

http://www.wayoutwest.org/finlayson/fin3.jpg

I'd also never heard MG acknowlege that Homer Simpson was named after the Day of the Locust character.

If I had been online anytime yesterday, I'd have alerted on Thelma Schoonmaker's programming night. Led off with a very odd UK wartime murder mystery Green for Danger, with Alastair Sim as a sort of bumbling yet semi-competent Scotland Yard inspector.

T.S. said she and Scorsese are now doing a history of Britfilm doc.

Did anyone see why Chris Elliott picked On Golden Pond? I can't access the online vid.

Harvey Fierstein goes w/ Bette Davis then The Women tonight.

I DVRed Green for Danger and also meant to put out a Thelma Schoonmaker alert but didn't do it.

William Wellman fest tnite -- besides Cagney's signature role, maybe I'll finally catch Wild Boys of the Road.

In Germany that first film you mention is called Grapefruit ins Gesicht.

j/k

hehe

Top of the world, Morbius.

attack of the crap people/the killer shrews/the green slime on right now (2-6 am)

they're showing the real suburbia (the spheeris punk rock one) next friday at 2 am. i'm excited, i haven't seen it in years.

haha. CRAB people. but it was a corman film...

Thanks for the heads up on suburbia.

Tonight brings Notorious on The Essentials

Who's Bob's opposite number on The Essentials these days- still the star of the upcoming Cougar Club, Carrie Fisher?

Yup, Leia's still hangin' in there.

Early monday morning TCM is showing the nineteen thirty one film of "The Maltese Falcon" with Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade. Should be worth a look just out of curiousity.

I've seen that. Alison Skipworth is great in the Greenstreet part!

January's Star of the Month: Mr. James FUCKIN' Cagney

give my regards to broadway

^that's like, his worst musical

in high school, i used to smoke weed on george m. cohan blvd, and felt compelled to watch yankee doodle dandy and seven little foys. jon, elmo, and i were all, also, in 'george m.: the musical' ca. 1995.

Are they showing One, Two, Three, Morbius?

Sam Spade
For a second, I read that as they were showing Queen of Spades and I got real excited.

Someone should've mentioned Ford's The Iron Horse was on last night. Rent it!

I had my early versions of Maltese Falcon mixed up -- the one w/ a female Gutman is Satan Met a Lady.

Yeah, someone should have mentioned that Ford, otherwise we're going to have to pays hundreds of dollars for that boxed set.

Kim's will have the individual titles as rentable. :)

Did no one tell us it's Irene Dunne Month? (Eric, bevare)

Tonight: Preminger's sublime Bonjour Tristesse (D Kerr RIP), and the punky Suburbia in the cult spot.

Pabst's Kameradschaft is this week's feature on TCM Imports. (Sunday night/Monday morning)