(and eat my dust also belongs on the road movie thread...)
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe I'll finally see Theodora Goes Wild!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
tivoing the whole day basically.
― plastic toy shark (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, 3 Oscar Micheaux features on Friday morning (2 of em silent).
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Ride the Wild Surf on right, Now.
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Rewatching The Shop on the Corner for the zillionth time reminded me how much I adore lubitsch.
^^^
― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
A John Waters fave on Sunday:
4 Sunday1:00 PM CST Susan Slade (1961)A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own. Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire. Dir: Delmer Daves.
Has anyone seen this?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this the Sarah Palin story?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
6 Graham Greene adaps all night! Brighton Rock almost excuses Richard Attenborough's directorial career.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Susan Slade wasn't so hot. But I'm such a genre freak that I enjoyed its particular variation on (instantiation of?) an ancient story. And there was a downright shocking shot towards the end that I waaaay did not anticipate in its graphicness. Did anyone catch it?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Two rare (are there any other kind?) Borzage films tomorrow: Big City (1937) and No Greater Glory (1934). But I'm too busy with my BRAND NEW MURNAU, BORZAGE, AND FOX BOX SET!!! so someone else please take these in and report. Thanx!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 11 January 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
KJB I may fly into Austin in March to steal yr set.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 January 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
You can fly in (and if you do, lemme know!) but ain't comin' near my set! :)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Picnic" is on now and in case u forgot, tis hilarious
― Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, 11 January 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
OH?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The number one movie on my must-see list is on tomorrow morning (Thursday the 15th) @ 6:15am CST:
Downstairs (1932)An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society. Cast: John Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, Paul Lukas. Dir: Monta Bell. BW-78 mins, TV-G I've been dying to see it for quite some time. Someone pretty please record it in case one of my helper bees misses it. Thanx!!!!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck, missed tivoing borzage; I will try downstairs
― i wanna roll stuff UP, i don't wanna NOT roll stuff up!!!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
You rock! And I have a copy of No Greater Glory if anyone wants one.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
well it's a tivo; I don't even HAVE a working vcr these days; so I'm not sure I can be helpful.
― i wanna roll stuff UP, i don't wanna NOT roll stuff up!!!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
It's kewl. I should be okay. I literally have a three-person backup plan. It's nuts, I know, but I don't want to miss this fucker again.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
This reminds me of the episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" where she was having marital problems and called her dad for advice and the old man told he was watching some Claudette Colbert movie that he had seen before but had been interrupted watching and, if he didn't get to finish watching it this time, might not live to see it again.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
^I am becoming Victor (k*l*an)
late tnite: Terror of Tiny Town, The Unholy Three, Freaks
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 January 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Ricardo Montalban Day tom'w
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
R. Osborne interviewing Ernest Borgnine for an hour > Jimmy Carter on TDS
Ernie spilled details on his brief marriages to Ethel Merman AND Katy Jurado!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Gotta see that one
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Merman marriage doomed by popularity of "McHale's Navy"
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I think I saw that here
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
This John Cromwell marathon tonight seems promising.
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Albert Brooks' acidic Modern Romance tomw night (btwn Annie Hall & The Apartment)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"You've heard of a no-win situation, haven't you?"
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Foleying footstpes.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
good lookin' out; that's something I've wanted to see for awhile.
― microsoft and I decided to do some t-shirts (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
has funniest epilogue crawl of all time
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
nuclear war threat movies tonight -- anyone seen this one, by the usually comic Boulting Bros?
Seven Days to Noon (1950) A scientist threatens to detonate a nuclear warhead if the nation will not halt arms research. Cast: Barry Jones, Andre Morell, Hugh Cross. Dir: John Boulting, Roy Boulting. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
also, Alec Baldwin becomes new co-host of The Essentials next month. Hopefully as his Departed character.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
does anybody get the TCM magazine? Worth the investment?
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I only get it when the Film Forum has then lying on the floor near the pay phones (a month in advance). Look at it to check the schedule, not all that often.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
4 Japanese masterworks tnite, leading off w/ Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the tip! I really need to check the lineup on tcm more often.
― 2nd-place ladyboy (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/rr33.jpg
Fact Checking Cuz to TCM!
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Reagan succeeding FDR mighta worked, or rlly not been much diff from Truman
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 1 March 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, what's up with running all Hitchcocks today, except for "Close Encounters" and "Three Faces of Eve"?
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 March 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that Oscar month is over TCM can get back to programming some good movies (a silent prayer for future generations enduring Slumdork on TCM in 2070). Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled) Possessed early this morning although, tee-hee, it gave her another nomination for Best Actress which she damn well deserved. Apart from Rain, it's her best performance (her crazed laughter in a supper club scene is her perhaps her finest moment).
Another great thing about Possessed is it's yet another film to pull out when maniacs try to tell you that classical Hollywood was nothing but flowers. It's a really heavy, miserable outing. In fact, Webster's invented the word "unpleasant" just to account for Possessed. Crawford plays a woman obsessed with a man who does not return her attentions. In the first scene, she intones to him "'I love you' is such an inadequate way of saying 'I love you,'" setting off the damn near goth tone. Miss work for it.
Then a few hours later is The Fighting Seabees by Edward Ludwig, one of the few reportedly worthy directors Sarris left out of The American Cinema. I've never seen it or anything by Ludwig. Anyone?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Kev, you know she made TWO films titled Possessed? (I assume this is '47)
i am stumped on Ludwig, but i bet I've seen some of his silent comedy shorts.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
From the above:
Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
d'oh!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Feh. Daisy Kenyon's her best.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
One of her (and Otto's) best but not her best (still Female on the Beach in my book).
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 March 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It's OK. Straight-up Republic Pictures war melodrama and one of the very few where John Wayne dies.
Fave Ludwig is The Black Scorpion. Track it down
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 2 March 2009 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
first of the Reagan Wednesdays tonight; fair warning
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's the rest of them?
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link