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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+

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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

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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.

enjoyed the nina foch day they had last week. lotta 1-hr goofs that were uniformly interesting if not Good

Just saw part of The Devil's Playground which was not so hot, as tcm.com agrees; however, this take incl. lots about Del Rio's adventures, beginning as a star of the Silent Age, and continuing for quite a while:
...Dolores del Rio's reign as a Hollywood glamour queen ended before the war broke out, but she was never at a loss for admirers. Even into the 1940s, the photographic record of her beauty rivals that of Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford. Del Rio had divorced her first husband Jaime del Rio in the silent era but kept his name. Afterwards, she resisted breaking up the home of her mentor/director Edwin Carewe, choosing instead to marry MGM art director Cedric Gibbons. That union lasted for 11 years before it was broken by her torrid affair with a young Orson Welles, who stated in public that del Rio was the most exciting woman he had ever met. When Welles fell out of favor after Citizen Kane (1941) and was no longer welcome in some Hollywood social circles, del Rio refused to disassociate herself with him. She performed with Welles in the RKO film Journey Into Fear (1943), at which time he took up with Hollywood's sensational new attraction, Rita Hayworth. Del Rio then returned to Mexico for the next chapter in her long career. Despite never having made a Spanish language feature, she became an instant star in Mexican classics, some of them for the top director Emilio Fernandez. Always a popular figure, she returned to Hollywood to work in television and to play character parts in features. Several were for her old friend John Ford; one of her more memorable performances was as Elvis Presley's mother in his Western hit Flaming Star (1960).

By Glenn Erickson Flaming Star dir. by Don Siegel, wonder if Erickson got any of the other details wrong?? Anyway, though I've never seen it, seems to be gen. regarded as pretty good.

She does look pretty amazing in Playground, and whole thing looks better than average for sure. This submarine picture benefits greatly from the input of lighting cameraman Lucien Ballard, who had refined his craft at Paramount, helping Josef von Sternberg film several Marlene Dietrich pictures. Ballard would later become known as the cinematographer of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and the best films of director Sam Peckinpah, Ride the High Country (1962) and The Wild Bunch (1969).

Oh wow, Eva Marie Saint Day! Good idea, never saw one of those before. Just now turned on TV and here's All Fall Down, with Beatty (Warren, not Ned alas).

So have any of yall seen all of Loving? 1970 as hell--Gordon Willis's urban cinematography was almost too effective---Saint was oxygen and sunlight everytime, dreading and on point and enduring, she did all the loving---but so much George Segal, who got glowing, endlessly detailed praise in quoted reviews by heavy hitters, but I stopped watching because of him/his character, I mean it was just the Johnny Onenote Sub-Cheever-Updike etc., though down-to-earth no-frills etc, didn't get the sighting of nuance in reviews---anybody see it all? Wish I'd kept watching for sake of Saint, but it was late as hell.

Loving is definitely a very 1970 movie, but I dug it. The final stretch is the film’s most memorable, where it all kinda dips into the realm of rude comedy. I can see getting frustrated with Segal’s character, though.

Yeah, I read the full synopsis later, wish I'd stayed with it. Did get to some very good scenes with sudden deep glimpses of Segar-Saint marital bond, incl. erotic on some levesl, also of course the ongoing conversations about financial considerations---and they were both shaken up by winding-down exchange between husband and wife they might be buying a house from, if things go well (the soon-to-be-ex-husband seems to be an artist, like Segal's character, or at least he's like "You don't want this [art object]? It's yours." "No. No it isn't" And she tells Segal how good, how studio-ready the light and the whole space is. Outside, Saint is crying in his arms, apologizing for bringing him there; it seems like it could be bad luck for their own shaky situation, and also---an intrusion somehow, on something they shouldn't have seen---is the way I took it--what a scene, brief but relentless sequence of scenes! Yeah, I will have to watch the whole thing. Other parts are funny and shrewd and/or "rude," yeah.)(Does the agent really have a port-a-potty in his office, is that what that is? Little worrywart dude is the future[*mid*-70s]-cool Roy Scheider!)

Also when they're spooning in the bed, as he declares that the babysitter has hots for him, calling him "Mr. Thomas" as confirmation---name's not Thomas and wife Saint is like, oooo Mr. Thomas, take me to the gates of ecstasy," not roleplaying so much (although may be some of that) as demonstrating that she's unfazed (does she know about Princess Grace, who has just dumped him because she is intelligently unconvinced by his "I'll tell her tonight."?). Also when she finds what she knows is just the right dress at the store, and yet asks him what he thinks, and it's not an entirely rhetorical question, but she's not just looking at him; she knows she's still got it.

Oh today's Alain Delon Day, only one I've seen so far was Spirits of the Dead, three adaptations of Poe, with Delon in "William Wilson," dir./co-scripted by Malle, okay but then Fellini's "Toby Dammit" vrooooom sorry again Malle (and even Vadim w Jane Fonda, see it's not just Malle this happens to)

End of Summer Tour cont. tonight (saw some of The Decline of Western Civilization Part 1 last night, passed out before Elvis On Tour, but have seen it before; it's cool), opening with The Song Remains The Same, later Jimi, Otis sets re-edited into sep movies---from Monterey Pop footage, I take it (both sets made on a single, splendid LP, which I hope I've still got somewhere)Jimi Plays Monterey incl credit for Janis Joplin, so edits are maybe not too condensed), later an excursion with the worthy, could-be unique Louie Bluie, a performer who started v. early in the 20th Century, think he's still just middle-aged in the early 1970s; he's also an amazing graphic artist by then)---and much else, incl. Don't Look Back, 'til during the day Tuesday, when we get crime capers, if not sprees; Tuesday night is Women Make Film.

Tom Waits' (never on DVD or BLU) Big Time is coming up too.

Think I saw that on cable! With one of his hippest combos, from early 80s, maybe?

Late '80s, on tomorrow, alongside Les Blank's freewheeling Leon Russell film, A Poem Is A Naked Person.

Apparently it's on Prime as a basic free title.

Louie Blouie’s director commentary is better than the film

Tonight: TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Three with her: Tamango (John Berry, 1959): A graphic portrayal of the horrors on a slave ship sailing from Africa. The captain takes a black woman as his mistress and a rebellion is sparked.
Then Tarzan's Peril and The Harlem Globetrotters: very brief clips incl. her make them seem worth checking.
Then Where Now Are The Dreams of Youth?(Ozu, 1932):Cheating extends to the business world, as a new company head helps his classmates with entrance exams, then gives a lovelorn nerd a spine transplant.
And then Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons(Misumi,1973) and
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell(Kurada,1974)

Those are probably the recent new restorations of Lone Wolf and Cub that Criterion put out a year or so ago. Soooooooooo dope.