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
A bit more detail:http://www.wsj.com/articles/turner-to-launch-its-first-direct-to-consumer-service-this-fall-1461664860
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
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
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
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
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 July 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I've missed so many films this month that I meant to record.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Saturday, 23 July 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Sub "month" with "decade."
― The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Monty Clift tonight
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
my mom just advised me of this also
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
You must have the right profile.
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
DVRed Red River. Hadn't remembered Coleen Gray was in it.
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8iskwQkEg
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
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.
― musically, Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Just turned on The Prizefighter and the Lady. This movie is crazy.
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 December 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
My DVR is like 90% recordings from TCM.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
Ditto. Also stacks up far beyond what I can conceivably watch so old things keep disappearing.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
I record to disc so I lose things only if a disc fails, but I've got a stack literally going back years.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
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.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
RIP Robert Osborne
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-robert-osborne-dies-20170306-story.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
How many times a minute with him led to a night of unbridled joy and new discovery.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
sad news :(
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:45 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xQ0xNRMSg
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
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.
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 6 March 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link
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?
― dow, Monday, 6 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
It's my favorite late Bunuel!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
holy shit they showed Belladonna of Sadness on TCM? that's awesome
― Nhex, Monday, 6 March 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
I was past 30 by the time R.O. made his TCM debut, already steeped in cinephilia, and hence I don't think he *introduced* me to anything vital. However, I can see the role he played for younger people, and he was a good host.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Aww, I always liked him on TCM. Just watched that Tab Hunter doc, too, which he appears in briefly. RIP.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
I missed today's Stanwyck marathon--incl. several I hadn't even heard of, despite prev epic sequences----but right now they're rolling Night Of The Iguana. If you missed the first few minutes, no prob basically, get to it!
― dow, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:29 (seven years ago) link
the opening Burton sermon is the best scene in that film (tho the rest is decent). wait til next time
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
Iguana is my fave Burton, and my fave Huston, though I realize that puts me in the minority (re: the latter, at least).
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
^mine too.
Came to post:http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237393/Billy-Liar-Movie-Clip-Twisterella.html
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
omg Altman's "Countdown" just starting!
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Dolores del Rio Google Doodle for her birthday today
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 August 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
Stanwyck's The Miracle Woman is on tonight at 3 a.m. Eastern---from 1931, with plenty of Capra Corn and prob lots from other sources, judging by TCM's very full synopsis---this isn't that, just some backstory with good quotes: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83572/The-Miracle-Woman/articles.html Y'all watch and report back, okay? I don't have a DVR, boo-hoo.
― dow, Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
c/p'ing from the National Film Registry thread:
Per the TCM.com forums, TCM's TBA programming for tonight turns out to be a special on this year's NFR inductees. The reported titles are THESE AMAZING SHADOWS (2011) (a documentary about the NFR), ACE IN THE HOLE, WANDA , HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, and BOULEVARD NIGHTS. Apparently Leonard Maltin and Carla Hayden (Library of Congress) will host this live.
― I, Fanbrat (j.lu), Wednesday, December 13, 2017 11:40 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
Albert Brooks twofer tonight: Real Life and Modern Romance.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Sunday, 17 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
The Barbara Stanwyck Christmas comedy Remember the Night (which I've never seen) is airing tonight.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 December 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
It is a+
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 December 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
Next On TCM @NextOnTCM27m27 minutes ago
HARRY AND TONTO (1974) Josh Mostel, Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney. Dir: Paul Mazursky 10:00 PM ET When his apartment house is condemned, a retired man goes searching for his place in the world.
Color, 115 mins, CC, Letterbox, Gone To Look For America, with his cat, in a big-funky-ass ol' man car, matter of fact this is fairly funky all over. On Route 66, I believe, anyway hella traffic and wires and smog and shit.
― dow, Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link