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i may not watch a tenth of those but i'm gonna tape em at least.
Highlights to me are the Brownings, the Lewton and Halloween classics, the complete Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, some of those indie films and a permanent copy of Portrait of Jason on the hard drive.

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link

Have only seen the first Decline.

Over the Edge by Kaplan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)

Over the Edge depicts American suburban life in the 1970s and includes themes of teenage rebellion and drug and alcohol use by junior high school students. The rock music soundtrack features Cheap Trick, the Cars, and the Ramones.

The film was inspired by events described in a 1973 San Francisco Examiner article entitled "Mousepacks: Kids on a Crime Spree" by Bruce Koon and James A. Finefrock.

14 year old Matt Dillon

curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link

i saw over the edge when i was like eleven and it made a huge impression of BAD BOY LIFE and have not seen it since.
curious if it has anything to it.

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link

I saw it when I was a kid about 1000 times. It was an HBO staple. I've seen it as an adult a few times. It is an absolutely awesome movie.

dan selzer, Monday, 21 September 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link

A Dickie Moore memorial marathon?!

Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link

wish i'd known about this
apparently it's bresson day today
diary of a country priest playing rn; followed by man escaped, pickpocket, le proces de jeanne d'arc, au hasard balthazar

drash, Friday, 25 September 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link

this saturday at 3am est - HAUSU

also a powell and pressburger marathon on the morning / afternoon of the 30th: The Spy in Black, Contraband, I Know Where I'm Going, A Matter of Life and Death, Tales of Hoffman, Night Ambush

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Let's talk November (all times EST):

Nov. 6 - 4:15 am — The Petrified Forest (never got around to seeing it)
Nov. 6 - 10:00 pm - And Then There Were None (the first telling of Ten Little Indians)

Nov. 7 - 5:45 pm - The Last of Sheila (co-written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim!)

Nov. 8 - 2:00 am - Smithereens (with Richard Hell)
Nov. 8 - 5:15 am - Perversion for Profit (anti-porn propaganda film from mid-60’s)
Nov. 8 - 8:00 pm - Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers’ Oscar winning performance, written by Dalton Trumbo)

Nov. 9 - Midnight - The Blackbird (silent 1926 crime film by Tod Browning)
Nov. 9 - 4:00 am - Without Pity (’48 - Fellini script about American racial intolerance after wartime)

Nov. 11 - 8:00 pm - Night of the Hunter (surprisingly hard to tape in high definition!)
Nov. 11 - 9:45 pm - Wise Blood (1979 John Huston direction of a Flannery O’Connor adaptation)

Nov. 12 - 25th Anniversary of Milestone Films
Nov. 12 - 8:00 pm - In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914 silent ’Nanook’-style drama featuring native people of the British Columbia Coast)
Nov. 12 - 9:15 pm - Yo Soy Cuba (GREAT film, worth a rewatch)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78761/I-am-Cuba/articles.html
Nov. 12 - 11:45 pm - The Exiles (’61 drama about a group of Native Americans lost in Los Angeles)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/557794/Exiles-The/articles.html
Nov. 13 - 1:15 am - The Connection (Shirley Clarke)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71424/Connection-The/articles.html
Nov. 13 - 3:15 am - Come Back, Africa (Life in Apartheid, filmed in Apartheid)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494678/Come-Back-Africa/articles.html

Nov. 13 - 6:00 pm - The Tender Trap (50’s sex comedy with Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/444/Tender-Trap-The/articles.html

Nov. 14 - 4:45 am - The Mysterious House of Dr. C (an obscure retelling of ETA Hoffman stories)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84442/Mysterious-House-of-Dr-C-The/articles.html

Nov. 15 - 2:15 am - Abar, the First Black Superman (’77 blaxploitation power fantasy, this look like a real trip... and still topical!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOEL_rV8N4

Nov. 15 - 8:00 pm - The Strange One (a 1957 psychological drama about homosexuality at a military school? Alright, I’m curious)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91609/Strange-One-The/articles.html
Nov. 15 - 10:00 pm - Something Wild (obscure film from director Jack Garfein)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17773/Something-Wild/articles.html

Nov. 16 - Midnight - Traffic in Souls (landmark 1913 White Slavery exploitation film)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/303901/Traffic-In-Souls/articles.html
Nov. 16 - 8:00 pm - My Darling Clementine (Henry Fonda and Victor Mature in one of John Ford’s most critically beloved)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84301/My-Darling-Clementine/articles.html

Nov. 22 - 2:15 pm - Class of 1984 (trashpunk DIY Blackboard Jungle)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71042/Class-of-1984/articles.html

Nov. 23 - Noon - The Body Snatcher (Val Lewton thriller with Karloff and Lugosi)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/748/Body-Snatcher-The/articles.html
Nov. 23 - 4:45 pm - Frankenstein 1970 (from 1958, an atomic re-imagining with Karloff. Looks a mess but worth a peek)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/26962/Frankenstein-1970/articles.html

Nov 27 - Midnight - State of the Union (Capra directed with Spencer Tracy running for president and Katharine Hepburn as his first lady and Angela Lansbury as his mistress)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91341/State-of-the-Union/articles.html

Nov. 30 - 8:00 pm to Dec. 1 - 7:00am: Satyajit Ray and The Apu Trilogy - Newly remastered versions of Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu plus a short on the remastering process and a two hour 1982 documentary on Ray at 2:30am and then a 5:00 am showing of Ray’s The Music Room… hot damn!
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86373/Pather-Panchali/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67513/Aparajito/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96277/Apur-Sansar/articles.html
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84248/Music-Room-The/articles.html

a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Dec 3 - 8:00pm - Lured (1947, Sirk)

Dec 4 - 11:00am - The Rounders (1965, Kennedy with Glenn Ford/Henry Fonda)

Dec 5 - 10:00pm - Susan Slept Here (1954, Tashlin with Dick Powell/Debbie Reynolds)

Dec 6 - Midnight - In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray with Bogie)
Dec 6 - 8:00pm - The Twelve Chairs (1970, Mel Brooks)
Dec 6 - 10:00pm - It's In the Bag (1945, Richard Wallace with Jack Benny/Don Ameche)

Dec 7 - 2:00am - Morning for the Osone Family (1946, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Dec 7 - 3:30am - Twenty Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Dec 7 - 11:45am - They Were Expendable (1945, Ford)
Dec 7 - 4:15pm - Prelude to War (1943, Capra)
Dec 7 - 5:15pm - War Comes to America (1945, Capra)
Dec 7 - 6:30pm - December 7th (1943, Capra)

Dec 9 - 6:30am - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946, Lewis Milestone with Barbara Stanwyck/Kirk Douglas)
Dec 9 - 8:30am - Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur with Mitchum and Douglas)

Dec 10 - 2:00am - La Ceremonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)

Dec 12 - 7:15am - Between Two Worlds (1944, Edward A. Blatt)

Dec 13 - 11:00pm - Lady in the Lake (1947, Robert Montgomery)

Dec 14 - 2:30am - Mon Oncle Antoine (1971, Claude Jutra)
Dec 14 - 11:45am - A Summer Place (1959, Delmer Daves)
Dec 14 - 4:00pm - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973, Gilbert Cates)

Dec 15 - 4:45am - Men Must Fight (1933, Edgar Selwyn)

Dec 16 - 8:45am - Crime and Punishment (1935, Josef Von Sternberg)

Dec 17 / Dec 18 - Disney Shorts
9:30pm - The Grasshopper and the Ants
9:40pm - Rescue Dog
9:50pm - Corn Chips
3:00am - Polar Trappers

Dec 18 - 7:30am - Quality Street (1937, George Stevens with Katherine Hepburn)

Dec 20 - 4:15am - Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle)

Dec 21 - 6:00am - The Chapman Report (1962, George Cukor with Jane Fonda / Shelley Winters)

Dec 22 - 1:30am - Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York (1975, Sidney Furie)
Dec 22 - 6:00am - Mr and Mrs. Smith (1941, Hitchcock)
Dec 22 - 9:30am - Stage Fright (1950, Hitchcock)

Dec 29 - 4:00am - Back from Eternity (1956, John Farrow with Anita Ekberg / Rod Steiger)

Dec 31 - 8:15am - The Cocoanuts (1929, Marx Bros)
Dec 31 - 10:00am - A Day at the Races (1937, Marx Bros)
Dec 31 - 8:00pm - The Thin Man (1934, WS Van Dyke with Powell and Loy)

Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link

Currently recording 3 by David Lean. Dickens is a big blind spot for me, but I'll take a look at his Oliver Twist. I've seen parts of In Which We Serve and would like to see the whole thing. Madeleine (1950) is the one I don't know anything about.

phở intellectual (WilliamC), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link

Very Canadian of me, I know, but I highly recommend Mon Oncle Antoine.

Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link

it's been years since i saw it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROqgJvr8ZM

Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link

haha, great combo of Martha Ivers with Out of the Past

Nhex, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link

bunch of chabrols on thursday

johnny crunch, Monday, 7 December 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link

just getting around to the lynch dumbland stuff, im glad tcm showed these as theyre p great and i prob wouldnt otherwise watch these.. i believe they are even being shown again in march 2016 so consider this also another alert pls

johnny crunch, Friday, 11 December 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link

I remember Possession (Zulawski, 1981) getting a lot of love on ILX. I think it placed in the Horror Films poll results? Anyway, on tonight at 2 a.m. eastern.

Mister, would you please help my brony? (WilliamC), Saturday, 19 December 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link

A bunch of Hitch running throughout the day tomorrow. Is The Wrong Man worth weaselling out of xmas shopping to stay home and watch?

Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link

Shop Around the Corner on Christmas Eve as always <3

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link

One of those twice-a-month warhorses. (It was on 2 days ago as well.)

Mister, would you please help my brony? (WilliamC), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link

The Joseph Losey version of M (1951) on January 1 at 10:15pm EST.

Diana Fire (j.lu), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link

Thanks again!

Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link

I wonder, what was Lang's opinion of the remake?

doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link

hiroshima mon amour & muriel are on later

johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 January 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link

muriel?

doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Sunday, 3 January 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_(film)

johnny crunch, Monday, 4 January 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link

When is it on? I'm not finding it on the TCM schedule.

doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Monday, 4 January 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link

monday 1/4 330am

johnny crunch, Monday, 4 January 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link

oh huh well @ least my cable menu sez that, idk maybe they changed the sched i see that its different online

johnny crunch, Monday, 4 January 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link

Phase IV, the only feature-length film Saul Bass directed, is tomorrow night.

WilliamC, Friday, 8 January 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link

Thanks for that one.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 8 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Tod Browning all day tomorrow — 10 films, 1925-1939.

WilliamC, Sunday, 24 January 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Hitchcock's 1944 short film Bon Voyage, tomorrow morning and again Saturday night 3/19.

WilliamC, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link

next week, Jerry Lewis

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1181485%7C0/Jerry-Lewis-90th-Birthday-3-15-3-16.html

do NOT make the deeply strange Smorgasbord your first JL film... and Which Way to the Front? preferably goes last. I would prioritize The Bellboy, then Artists and Models. Haven't seen 3 of those 5 M&L movies, in fact.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

What can anyone tell me about Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural ?

Yoshimi P-We's Playhouse (WilliamC), Thursday, 24 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link

It's pretty cool. Spooky, weird atmosphere. Worth a watch.

bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 March 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

No mention of fandor which also hosts(hosted) criterion and tons is great cult and underground art type things.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link

Fandor has a strong catalog but few people seem to be aware of it.

Chris L, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link

The Filmstruck site says exclusive for Criterion, so I assume they're gonna drop the other services.

Nhex, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link

Man, that's going to fuck Hulu. Their Criterion selection was pretty much the only reason to pay for that service.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link

True, but probably a minority opinion. Generally the only popular Criterion films on there seem to be the ones w/ lots of sex/nudity, e.g. In the Realm of the Senses.

Chris L, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link

yeah, given all the network shows (present and past) on hulu, i doubt the criterion presence really has that much of an impact. it's true that (like tcm viewers) criterion fans tend to be loyal and probably will pay a premium, which is probably why they think this filmstruck thing is a good idea. i'm all for it, esp. if smaller boutique distributors like milestone and kino are involved, too.

wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link

i guess tcm must do a good job at branding, because i feel an unusually loyalty to them in a way that i really shouldn't feel about a division of a major multinational media company.

wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Fassbinder's Lola and Love Is Colder Than Death back-to-back starting at 2am Monday morning

Josefa, Saturday, 21 May 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

the cruise this year has a pretty good lineup... Jerry in The 90-Year Old Ship Steward!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-jerry-lewis-leslie-caron-mitzi-gaynor-headline-this-year-s-tcm-classic-cruise-20160710-story.html

Kim Novak left out of headline.

helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link

Medium Cool, 10 EST: As a director, Haskell Wexler was a gifted, totally pro and ambitious cinematographer, which works pretty well in this mix of documentary and staged footage with, as Ebert wrote at the time: "fictional characters in real situations" and vice-versa, taking place during the notorious Democratic Convention of '68.
I'm biased by childhood memories of Chicago's political barbecues, and later going to school in Louisville, still with a collective eye among me and my crew for the biggest of the little cities, in Ken Nordine's immortal phrase (he didn't say it in a shitty way). Robert Forster is the ace TV reporter who meets the well-named Verna Bloom, not a Kentucky Woman but from West Virginia, close enough to keep the old associations going. Mike Bloomfield adds jolts, in unexpected ways (the asshole self-righteousness of early Zappa adds abrasive texture, just in case we're getting used to things coming apart, also effective: some sardonic-to-fuck-you droll Appalachoid chants by somebody I haven't indentified).

dow, Monday, 18 July 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link

Mike Bloomfield put the soundtrack together, I meant.

dow, Monday, 18 July 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link

Amazed how little info has come out about FilmStruck. I assume they have to wait til the Hulu deal expires to launch but I was expecting more info to be out there.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link


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