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

hiroshima mon amour & muriel are on later

muriel?

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

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

monday 1/4 330am

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

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

Thanks for that one.

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

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

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.

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

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

TCM and Criterion Collection are teaming up for a streaming service.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/turner-classic-movies-the-criterion-collection-team-for-new-streaming-service-filmstruck-20160426

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A bit more detail:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/turner-to-launch-its-first-direct-to-consumer-service-this-fall-1461664860

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

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.

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).

Mike Bloomfield put the soundtrack together, I meant.

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.

Robert Downey Sr.'s No More Excuses (1968): Monday morning July 25, 5am

Preceded by William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), which they've shown before, at 3:45am

I've missed so many films this month that I meant to record.

Sub "month" with "decade."

Monty Clift tonight

my mom just advised me of this also

You must have the right profile.

DVRed Red River. Hadn't remembered Coleen Gray was in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8iskwQkEg

filmstruck looks fun but the library is so...classy. gimme some b noirs and westerns! i remember 100 years ago when netflix's streaming selection had a pretty solid library of older films, wish that could make a comeback.

also if filmstruck had a TCM stream included i would be super into it, doesn't look like that's the case though.

Just turned on The Prizefighter and the Lady. This movie is crazy.

Does anyone else aggressively DVR TCM besides me? It's kind of all I watch apart from sports and the odd MST3K binge on youtube tbh

My DVR is like 90% recordings from TCM.

Ditto. Also stacks up far beyond what I can conceivably watch so old things keep disappearing.

I record to disc so I lose things only if a disc fails, but I've got a stack literally going back years.

I do too. My DVR is perpetually over 90% full, and it's somewhat of a struggle to find the time to watch enough to record what I want to.

RIP Robert Osborne

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-robert-osborne-dies-20170306-story.html

How many times a minute with him led to a night of unbridled joy and new discovery.

i'd be curious to see him w/ Mr Drysdale

Osborne had small parts in TV series such as “The Californians,” “The Whirlybirds” and “Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond,” as well as playing banker Drysdale’s young assistant in the pilot episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” in 1962.

I also recall him reminiscing about letting Bette Davis vet his new apartment in NYC.

sad news :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xQ0xNRMSg

Aww man RIP.

Saturday night they showed the new scan of Belladonna of Sadness and holy shit that was the most mindblowing thing I've ever seen on TV!! They followed it with Fantastic Planet.

I caught just the last 20-25 min. at most of Buñuel's Tristana, starring Catherine Denueve, from 1970---seemed good, in one of B.'s more deadpan grooves (typical of his work with deadpan CD, of course)(also with Churchmice) Is the whole thing good? If you want more than (or at least nuanced) cynicism, that is?

It's my favorite late Bunuel!