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

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!

holy shit they showed Belladonna of Sadness on TCM? that's awesome

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.

Aww, I always liked him on TCM. Just watched that Tab Hunter doc, too, which he appears in briefly. RIP.

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!

the opening Burton sermon is the best scene in that film (tho the rest is decent). wait til next time

Iguana is my fave Burton, and my fave Huston, though I realize that puts me in the minority (re: the latter, at least).

^mine too.

Came to post:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237393/Billy-Liar-Movie-Clip-Twisterella.html

omg Altman's "Countdown" just starting!

Dolores del Rio Google Doodle for her birthday today

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.

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

Albert Brooks twofer tonight: Real Life and Modern Romance.

The Barbara Stanwyck Christmas comedy Remember the Night (which I've never seen) is airing tonight.

It is a+

Next On TCM
‏ @NextOnTCM
27m27 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.

Actually I don't remember how it ends, may have always passed out before that, and Mazursky's endings can suck, but yknow endings. (Mazursky's penultimates can suck too, but maybe I didn't get that far either, in this case---but the Art of Carney getting time to shine is still lodged in mind.)

Never Too Young to Die is on and it's amazing

Agreed

https://i.imgur.com/AWzIgWY.gif

https://i.imgur.com/eEvE3AR.gif

https://i.imgur.com/DRi3pF0.gif

https://i.imgur.com/zUyedCX.gif

Definitely Gene's finest acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bholsClE4

Rita Hayworth born in Brooklyn 100 years ago today... She's the TCM Star of the Month, but they ran some stuff last night, not today.

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/10/17/beauty-break-happy-rita-hayworth-centennial.html

First women filmmakers tonight.

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1442019%7C0/Pioneers-First-Women-Filmmakers-Nov-1-8.html?fbclid=IwAR2t_Gj8kFrTKba2dpuQRQuL1tm6G4fAAnLK7du82IY2UkWldUyHI--Y23w

TCM's weekly Popeye cartoons have become a lovely staple of my Saturday mornings over the last few months.

aw i used to love those, maybe i shd watch

well blow me down

Centennial tribute to Ernie Kovacs tonight:

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1462735|0/Ernie-Kovacs-Centennial-1-23.html

I only know of him by reputation; I’ll set my PVR to record the episodes. Are any of the movies their airing in between them worth seeing?

I haven't seen any of them. The Ernie Kovacs thread may have more information.

Buster Keaton right now. First a doc from Peter B & Co, The Great Buster.

Forgot he was a witch doctor in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini- named Bwana!- which was shot by David Crosby’s dad, apparently. And title sequence by the Gumby guy, I think

Who was a student of Vorkapich.

All of which explains the claymation porkpie hat

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1569171%7C0/Pre-Code-Premieres-5-3.html

On Sunday May 3, TCM is screening a pair of high-profile Pre-Code premieres--The Silver Cord and The Sin of Nora Moran (both 1933). I've seen both of these. Neither is a masterwork, but both are extremely interesting. I thought TSC was tied up in rights issues; if yes kudos to TCM for untangling them.

Proposal for discussion to the ILX film posters: The Silver Cord is the beginning of what has been nicknamed "Hag Horror": Yes/No?

good tip tyvm

Asian Americans in Classic Hollywood
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1569332%7C0/Asian-Americans-in-Classic-Hollywood-5-6.html

Missed the first week, but the showings from then are still on-demand on their website until tomorrow. Really nuts to see Sessue Hayakawa in a self-produced, self-starring film from 1919 (The Dragon Painter). Tonight there's three Sam Fuller movies, all pretty solid from what I remember.

Notfilm, a feature doc on Beckett, Buster Keaton and Film, tonight

John Ford today, incl Sergeant Rutledge and The Horse Soldiers

They're really mixing up the Summer Under the Stars honorees this year:

SZ "Cuddles" Sakall on Tuesday!

later:

Diana Dors
Anne Shirley
Nina Foch
Paul Henreid

Nina Foch's son was not easy to deal with

prompted a "foch you," did he

heh, something like that

omg her first husband was James Lipton

Did not know that! But did know another son of a famous person who was friends with Lipton who told me a funny story about watching Lipton edit his show. The gentleman in question the was son of her second husband. Was a friend of my freshman year roommate, had a lot of crazy intense energy, was kind of scary to be around, but seemed to work out pretty well for him romance-wise. One time I went to study in the suite of some former roommates of his- he had since gone to live in one of the so-called “psycho-singles”- and they should me various locations where he had done physical damage to the infrastructure due to his challenges with executive function.

The Lipton story is: my friend was on the phone with Lipton who was he was about to edit a show he did with Sissy Spacek. Lipton invited him over and said something like “Run [insert name here]! You will receive quite an education!” My friend described his editing instructions as somewhat dramatically issued. “Cut to Sissy. Now cut to me. (Voice gets louder and more intense) Now back to Sissy! And back to ME!”

Today's Dolores Del Rio Summer Under the Stars day MAY feature the TCM premiere of Ramona (1928) at 8pm. I say MAY because the title has appeared and disappeared from the schedule; the current schedule shows NOTHING in the 8pm slot; and no one at Nitrateville.com is saying anything about having recorded a score.

I saw Ramona last year at AFI Silver. It's romantic piffle, but some of the most beautiful piffle ever filmed. I'm in no rush to revisit it, but I may record the block just to see WHAT TCM does with the time slot.