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

if i've never been in to/"got" crumb, would i benefit from seeing this?

Crumb is o_O Bizarrely fascinating even if, like me, you know next to nothing about him. "Benefit" I dunno...

id say probably. im fairly meh on his art, think the doc is stunning

that's endorsement enough for me, thanks!

yeah it's a great doc imo

I more or less learned to read by reading my dad's underground comix so Crumb is a touchstone as much as Dr. Seuss or Big Bird really. I remember liking the doc but i last saw it when it was first released; probably due for a rescreening.

funny girl on right now

Spirit of the Beehive, California Split, and The Last Detail tonight. Late but maybe the west coasters can catch some.

bill paxton making some nice picks tonight

Trio of pre-Hollywood Hitchcocks tonight: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Sabotage. I watched The Lady Vanishes just a few weeks ago, but it still sounds like a good way to spend 5 hrs.

Noticed that, but thanks for reminding.

Scripts by Tennessee Williams right now... Tonight, five docu-fics by Lionel Rogosin (strongly recommend the first two):

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/568367%7C0/Lionel-Rogosin-3-13.html

And Friday night, four of the Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman collabs (at least two of which are monumental).

Fell asleep halfway thru "Rome: Open City" on Friday and hate myself for it :(

(Not bored, just really tired)

bump for Roberto-Ingrid x4 tonight

Watched some of Europe 51 that was dubbed into English. It was ok

It was all dubbed into English (I just watched only some of it)

I had watched Stromboli earlier in the week, the subtitled version on Hulu/Criterion. All the dialogue was in Italian, including Bergman's, and I didn't think anything of it. Last night during the baseball game I switched over briefly and saw that it was a dubbed version, with some dialogue differences -- much more effective, as the Italian villagers' dialogue wasn't dubbed and it did a great job of conveying Karin's isolation due to not being able to speak/understand the local language.

Tootsie on tonight if you've somehow never seen it (or if you're me, haven't seen it in a while).

Must be Dustin Hoffman night, since Little Big Man is on as well.

That one I haven't seen. Worth watching?

It is too long and and I think there are parts that might have aged badly, but there is also some good stuff in there. Differently worth watching. Then after watching read the book.

Why wouldn't you want Europa 51 in English, to hear Bergman's voice? (also, all Italian films of the era are dubbed, including into Italian)

otoh having to hear Ingrid and Sanders dubbed into Italian in Voyage in Italy is silly.

Watching LBM now. Recently reread the book so sometimes feel a slight disappointment at various details gone missing and emphases shifted but some things movie has that book doesn't: John Hammond's bluesmoaning soundtrack, bigger role for Allardyce T. Meriweather, as played Martin Balsam- "Listen to me! Two legged creature will believe anything, and the more preposterous the better: whales speak French at the bottom of the sea" etc- and Chief Dan George.

There are moments of broad comedy in the film that are indistinguishable from something like Support Your Local Gunfighter whereas the the tone of the book never falters. Hey, looks like a new batch of Thomas Berger ebooks appeared last week.

tonight: For All Mankind, 2010, Forbidden Planet

Cool Thx.

I was too hard on LBM. Both of the big set pieces, The Battle of the Washita and the Battle of the Little Bighorn are really well done, Robert Mulligan's Custer has grown on me and yeah, Chief Dan George, Chief Dan George.

Anyone who watched, is watching or will watch For All Mankind please see if you can respond to this unanswered question: Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?

not tcm but I think posters here might enjoy http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/22/kurosawa_on_hulu_seven_samurai_rashomon_and_22_more_movies_are_streaming.html

Domo arrigato!

Mister Mordato.

Le Mans is on right now.

if you like auto racing this is good

Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room on late tonight.

The amazing He Who Gets Slapped on tomorrow morning.

The un-Netflixable Sleuth (1972) is on tonight at 8pm

truffaut every friday in july

also p cool tho im sure theyre on youtube - old johnny carson interviews every monday hosted/introduced by conan

Interested to see this TCM Import La Cucaracha, which features the Big Four of Mexican Cinema, Maria Felix, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz and Emilio Fernandez.

catherine deneuve marathon tonight

yeah dvr'ing un flic

One of my favorites, Dead of Night(1945) starting now.

chabrols les cousins & le beau serge early am tomorrow and then beau travail the next day

An early Scorsese, "Who's That Knocking At My Door?" (1967) overnight tonight. Worth catching?

Yeah. It's very interesting.

Huh! "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" is on tonight too, not mentioned in the monthly schedule I looked at a couple of weeks ago.

woah

UGH! I missed it!

Eh, Who's That Knocking At My Door is... well, I'll be kind, it's very early for Scorcese.

set Dark Passages to record earlier today but something went wrong. typical.

UGH! I missed it!

― *tera, Saturday, March 8, 2014 6:22 PM (1 hour ago)

??? -- If you mean the Scorsese and Symbiopsychowhatchamacallit, those are on later tonight.

This is a good basic take on Who's That Knocking At My Door, under its original title, I Call First. Scorcese's full-length debut (90 minutes, but quite full), court reporter Keitel's debut too. Good basic, but doesn't get into the sometimes inspired, nobody-but-early-Marty S. bursts (opening has a childhood memory of Granny, smiling, bringing the camera a nice big treat from the oven, to the tune of what sounds like a subway zombie beating a railroad tie on a defunct third rail, in perfect rhythm--another side of the 60s)(it's a thoughtful investigation of/romp with the macho fuckhead mentality, like all his best and some not-so-good flicks) Anyway, here's young Ebert's first glimpse: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-call-first--whos-that-knocking-at-my-door-1967

Symbiopsychowhatchamacallit is worth seeing, but kind of like a stoned dream of visiting improvised scenes on the set of Mad Men (something to keep the third-tier supporting cast on their toes; no stars).

No I didn't miss it! Woohoo