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

would gladly offer "guest programming" services at said hypothetical wburg movie theater

yeah, I was thinking have a liquor license and let Toddp do shows there and be all ocularis/galapagos with the DIY shit but also show Bachelor Party or whatever. Or a double feature of Repulsion and Belle du Jour.

dog movie marathon!

Harold Lloyd all day and night today! Judy Garland tomorrow.

Been reading a lot about Judy in various Johnny Mercer bios.

Gloria Grahame today, In a Lonely Place in primetime.

Sterling Hayden today (incl Zero Hour, the direct inspiration for Airplane!).

Angela Lansbury tomorrow.

the conversation was on last night

Thanks, I'll fire up my time machine.

i mean, its on right now last night

Ida Lupino today, Sinatra tom'w

I thought they did effing Sinatra already.

Out of the Fog had such a great supporting cast.

Sinatra was in a few of the other Stars of the Day's movies.

Peter Sellers today

Is Wuthering Heights good?

Ulmer movie at 1:30 = I can't stay up that late.

wuthering heights is great but then i find merle oberon fascinating.

You wouldn't be the only one.

Phil Karlson triple bill tonight (I liked The Phenix City Story), followed by a blaxploitation twinbill of Willie Dynamite & Sugar Hill.

2 by Renoir overnight: La Bete Humaine & The Southerner

4 Goldie Hawns tonight (I've only seen Foul Play).

HOBO MOVIES tomorrow night!

Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Girls of the Road (1940)

jeez, it's WHEELER & WOOLSEY night!

(not the 4 I'd have picked tho)

Did you catch Girls of the Road?

no, only one of those 5 I don't know

wuthering heights is great but then i find merle oberon fascinating.

I was so mad when Alec Baldwin recommended Wuthering Heights on The Essentials but then went on to say how Oberon sucked in this movie. Not cool, Donaghy.

Murnau's Nosferatu in 90 mins.

Missed the documentary about Johnny Mercer last night.

Putney Swope & Greasers Palace in the cult spot tonight

I asked my black friend about Putney Swope a few months ago and he said, "It's the most racist piece of shit - the only time I've ever walked out of a movie."

eternal lols at "my black friend"

did he see it in 1968?

I'm sure thereabouts.

So his memory of it wouldn't be good, I know, and he's older and different now. I didn't want to go into it with him, though.

I'll clarify, even though you might not be there, Morbs.

I don't think it was 1968, because he'd have been about 20, and that doesn't place him in NYC or in or near Chicago, where he might've seen the movie. So it was probably 7-10 years later.

I asked him about it because I had bought it for a dollar and my friend and I had seen it recently, a couple months before, probably, and I saw it stacked with my videos and wondered what he thought. We've talked about the merits and flaws and social/racial implications of the Bill Cosby Show, Steppin Fetchit, Amos & Andy, Fresh Prince of Bellair, rap music, gansta rap, Everybody Hates Chris, even, uncharacteristically for him, since he brought it up, Song of the South - if it was a popular cultural thing at one time and it featured blacks, we had probably talked about it. Because who else am I going to go to to have a discussion about this stuff without someone going, lol u racist or something. And the Putney Swope comment was the only time he had ever said anything like that. For instance, he has several dvds of Amos & Andy and likes them quite a lot.

When my friend and I had watched it, we enjoyed it a lot, and thought it was unusually edited - that there were a lot of nontrivial decisions made about most aspects of the craft of the movie. We didn't like that Downy dubbed Swope's voice over. We figured that the movie, besides indicting the advertising industry, was also satirizing the exploitation of "black is beautiful" and black militancy, and that the movie had no heroes besides nihilism personified, or some kind of catholic, ultra-moral being teaching people a lesson. And the ads - they seemed to inhabit that space of how white people see black people, how black people see themselves, and how they really are - and inhabit it in a way that makes you deliberately uncomfortable - it reminded me of some of the material black comedians have done. But we were confused after the movie was over, too, and uncertain about it.

I still don't know if I agree about it being incredibly racist.

Greaser's Palace is a really odd film -- in some ways it's a bit like a Jodorowsky movie -- it seems like there was this period in the 70s where a lot of films featured long scenes or at least a lot of scenes of people walking around somewhat aimlessly.

Huh. I got that one for a dollar, too, but I'm pretty sure I got rid of it before watching it.

(I had to gis the cover.)

it's actually pretty rare. i don't think it has been released widely on dvd.

well, as rare as a mass-produced vhs videotape can be.

My cable company is now listing Turner Classic Movies HD in their coming soon section. I may never leave the house again!

I saw Swope in '78 on a twinbill w/ Animal House.

(probably '79, actually -- and that was a fairly wide re-release pairing)

Wow! That's a really interesting/unusual (from my vantage point) juxtaposition. Putney Swope is a really packed movie that I've only seen once, but want to have a copy of so I can watch it multiple times.

it's Claudia Cardinale night.

Redd, the Johnny Mercer doc reruns tom'w at 6pm, followed by films w/ Mercer songs.

WTF?

12:00 AM Miss Mend (1926)

Three reporters fight off a capitalist attempt to release deadly bacteria in the USSR. Cast: Boris Banet, Vladimir Fogel, Natalya Glan. Dir: Fyodor Otsep. BW-250 mins, TV-PG

And don't worry if you miss it. Flicker Alley is releasing it on DVD on the 15th

i recorded this and am super excited to watch it!

for those with Minnelli/Tracy blind spots, Father Of The Bride (1950)
and Father's Little Dividend (1951) late tonight.

Silent Ben-Hur tomw at midnight.

both versions of King of Kings tonight

watched double bill of chicken every sunday (never seen, pretty good) and meet me in st. louis (<3 <3 <3) last night, but i couldn't help noticing that robert osborne was not looking well. he's gaunt and was rushing his line readings (pronounced "biopic" to rhyme with myopic) and just sort of seemed not all there. has he been sick?