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The Chosen (1981)

To all you Bogart fans who also love golf (like me), this weekend's PGA Tour event might be of interest. The Genesis Open which was once called the LA Open will be televised on Golf Channel and NBC. It's played at the famed Riviera Country Club. Many of Hollywood's iconic figures were members there including Bogie. He actually lived close to the course and would position himself underneath the sycamore tree beside the 12th hole, with a thermos of bourbon, to watch the pros come through during the tournament. It was hence named The Bogart Tree. Apparently, though he never participated in celebrity golf tournaments Bogart was a very good player according to his son. My guess is he probably played a few rounds with some of the other famous members like Clark Gable and Katherine Hepburn. Another sad but interesting fact is that actor Conrad Veidt who played Major Strasser in CASABLANCA died of a heart attack while playing golf at Riviera.

I was born 20 years after 1975. I first saw Citizen Kane when I was about 16, and I loved it . It was a masterpiece, a glorious film. It prompted me to dig deeper with movies, and in the decade since I've gone hog wild on watching films, as one can see from my personal viewing page with all 4,592 films: https://letterboxd.com/BCarr95/. (yes, the name on the page is my real name) Admittedly, I have been on a recent run of watching more recent films (largely due to getting through what I need to on Netflix, because I really don't like to subscribe to them more than one month a year, plus a project for a poll that tends to be modern [films directed by women]) Yes, I might tend to be too positive on too many films, but I just have movies in my blood. Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that this reporter in question has invalidated 54.82% of everything I have seen, because that is the percentage of everything I've seen released before January 1, 1975. these films often include my favorite stars, have wonderful, literate scripts, and had a general sense of wonder and magic that has mostly evaporated since then. To cut oneself off from films because they feel they are 'old and boring' is a sign of immaturity and ignorance. To try to slur them is lacking any sense of authority or nuance. The only way to make a concrete judgement is to actually explore. And when one is not even willing to do that, it is a pretty sorry state of affairs.

The Blue Veil (1951)

Get Smart (2008) 😉

John Saxon

While perhaps not "playing against type" (which does seem the subject topic in TB's thread here) I have to say the following might be one of the bravest performances in any film I've ever seen... Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives. (...and in a manner of speaking, with Mr. Russell being a non-professional actor but still holding his own in this film against some great professional actors, I believe makes his performance especially brave)

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1. Robert Aldrich -- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) 2. William Castle -- Mr. Sardonicus (1961) 5. Lewis Milestone -- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 6. Mike Nichols -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7. Alexander Payne -- Sidways (2009) 8. Vincent Sherman -- The Young Philadelphians (1959) 9. George Sidney -- Young Bess (1953) 10. Don Siegel -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Goodbye Columbus Brighton Beach Memoirs early tv series, The Goldbergs

Crossing Delancey (1988) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

People who'd never seen A Chorus Line on stage (like me) tended to like the movie, but people who had seen it on stage and felt passionately devoted to it tended not to like the movie. The Marvin Hamlisch score is strong.

Indignation (2016) A Jewish college student grapples with love, education and fighting in the Korean War.

The Force is all about control I also thought of control rooms in space movies like APOLLO 13 Maxwell Smart of GET SMART was an agent of CONTROL

This is a Merle Oberon film I would really like to see. I wish TCM would lease it! Show me something I haven't seen from a lovey actress I adore.

I'm still goin'! I've got my SOTM picked and all my required TCM programming scheduled. I have all my prime time themes planned. Though I just remembered, "duh, I have to schedule the challenge requirements too, not just my random stuff." Lol!

Jane Wyman

Some of us like Brussels sprouts as much as we like CITIZEN KANE.

Track of the Cat

Looks like Bogie had a flat swing plane. Believe Hogan did, too but don't hold me to that. Many golf historians will tell you the great Ben Hogan was the greatest ball striker of all time. There are others but I'll put my money on Jack Nicklaus who made some of the greatest shots under pressure to win 18 majors. The above tree is the Bogey Tree. Source: Flickr .

The trouble is that KANE was never a blockbuster, and didn't become a classic until years after its release. After a successful opening in New York in April 1941, the film flopped miserably in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, despite near-universal critical praise. It really was the personality of Orson Welles that gave CITIZEN KANE the cachet it came to have. A great movie? Absolutely. But, like other classic films that flopped at the box office, greatness was thrust upon it much later. As for standing the test of time, it was time (and television) that made KANE a classic. But if it's a movie for movie buffs only, then I gladly admit to being a movie buff.

Good answer to MM's query here, TB. And in fact, Welles' masterpiece was NOT a money maker for RKO when IT was first released, and as you may know. And so, therein lies the false premise to MM's apparent use of box office returns or the popularity or lack thereof in regards to quantifying ANY motion picture ever made and its becoming known as a "classic" and/or a "great" and/or noteworthy film. (...kind'a reminds me of a certain guy who recently, like in the past four years, would always point to the ratings of some news networks of which he'd then negatively comment upon if what he heard from that source would displease him, and as if the popularity of something is the end all and be all of its quality...yeah MM, I'm talkin' about "your boy" here, dude) LOL

Martin Next: Moore, Dewhurst, Zenk

PORTRAIT IN BLACK (1960)

THE GREAT SANTINI 1979

Now, try telling people it's a story about the ruthless rise and karmic fall of a insecure loved-and-hated billionaire, who tried to control everyone and everything just to be loved, but in the end, couldn't control his own fallible childish personal-demons, and ended up a reclusive prisoner of his own now-crumbling getaway estate...How "out of date" does THAT sound? The reason Kane has the image of a "snooty film-school" movie is not only the embarrassing academic press it gets, but also the cultural Casablanca Factor, dating back to the mid-70's. What is (or was) the Casablanca Factor?...Why is it called that? Because say "Classic film fan", and there's a 1 in 3 chance you're picturing Woody Allen staring rapturously at the end of Casablanca in a half-filled run-down NYC revival house, in the opening of Play It Again, Sam. Back before the VHS Renaissance (ie., mid-70's, before '82-'83), we didn't know Old Movies, because we joked about them playing cheap stations at 2am with used-car ads. Anyone who would go out of his way to see a classic 30's-40's or foreign film on the big city arthouse/college-revival screen was either depicted as a snooty intellectual elite, or--more often--some mousy nebbish who wanted to escape the mean, harsh, gritty world to live in the tinsel dreams of Fred Astaire and Humphrey Bogart, and escape their poor nothing lives. Usually, in movies or sitcoms, we saw the poor, rapt, screen-illuminated soul sitting alone with his popcorn in the half-filled seats, whose other patrons are either makeout teens ignoring the movie, or dozing homeless bums, as most full-time occupants of run-down city revival houses were, back in the Nixon era. It was a popular dismissive image back when old movies were "demonized" in the early 70's, and then condescendingly sentimentalized in the mid-70's. And if that's what the author is still picturing when he imagines "Citizen Kane" fans, then, in the words of the Deadpool character..."****, you're old." 😅

Baile, Marjie - Lori Nelson in Bend of the River

...Oo, the DARK EDGELORD of Mordor! 🙄 That's the "hostility" I'm talking about: Those Old White Non-Internet-Using Parents who want to make you curious about past culture are your enemies, because they represent the Old Ways, and must therefore be trolled by the Enlightened New Generation, united in their resolve to shut their ears to such vile racist/sexist indoctrination. Still, at least he watches Barry Lyndon (he says), and doesn't use THAT as the usual all-purpose dismissive straw-man codeword for, quote, "boring" three-hour big-budget Oscar-nominated mid-70's period movies. And, refreshingly, knows that Kubrick actually directed another movie besides Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange or The Shining....Not many do. Yes, we know what you're trying to say, but please cut it immediately--Watching the "First Reactor"-verse on YouTube, it's amazing what movies a generation HASN'T seen but will watch on a triple-dog-dare, and if you think "everybody knows" the Big Twist from "The Empire Strikes Back", boy, have about two dozen reactors I've counted so far have news for you. (Half of them already did, but didn't have a clue what context it had to do with.) So far, only one has been brave enough to consider watching Citizen Kane (he hasn't yet) so...don't be a Lucy trying to comment on other Lucys. I ran across The Birds and Psycho--and the Vincente Minneli musicals--back when PBS re-ran the "Men Who Made the Movies" film-school documentaries during afternoon filler. Imagine tuning in on Mrs. Bates, the crows at the playground, or Fred Astaire's "Shine on Your Shoes", with NO context whatsoever, while waiting for The Electric Company. 😳 The lack of movies on TV has taken away our ability to run across an old 30's-40's movie at random, and keep watching to figure out what we're seeing--We don't know the name, or what year it was made, something just hooked us when we were off guard. (I remember watching the Frederic March/Charles Laughton 30's "Les Miserables" on a local NYC station just hoping it'd explain what one was.) As for the Marx Brothers, I first saw a double feature of A Night at the Opera/A Day at the Races at the local theater four blocks away, back when theaters were local and independent and threw their own Saturday kiddie matinees together out of what was cheap enough to rent...That's how I first saw "The Music Box" and "The Fatal Glass of Beer", too. Later, another local theater had a prepaid 10-ticket pass, and frequently showed classic revivals (this was before the VHS era), so it was exactly as easy to go see Duck Soup or Harold & Maude on a Wednesday night as it was to see the big Friday-night opener: If there's no difference in the venue--as there isn't with disk or streaming--there's no difference in the age of a movie.

Another brave performance is the one Dirk Bogarde gives in VICTIM (1961). He portrays a married man who has a homosexual affair and ends up blackmailed. Off camera Bogarde himself was closeted and remained so for the rest of his life, even after homosexuality was decriminalized in Britain. I can imagine that his choosing to do VICTIM was not an easy decision for him to make. He might have feared it would not be well-received and that it could potentially sabotage his career as a leading man in British cinema.

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1. Robert Aldrich Autumn Leaves (1956) 2. William Castle N/A 3. Ida Lupino The Trouble with Angels (1966) 4. Walter Hill N/A 5. Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 6. Mike Nichols Postcards from the Edge (1990) 7. Alexander Payne Nebraska (2013) 8. Vincent Sherman The Hasty Heart (1949) 9. George Sidney Show Boat (1951) 10. Don Siegel The Shootist (1976)

Dr. Broadway (1942) Next: Two O'Clock Courage (1945) two earlier movies directed by Anthony Mann

DAMES 1934

YOUNG DR. KILDARE (1938)

Lydia The Tattooed Lady - Virginia Weidler - The Philadelphia Story, ( I think Virginia is hilarious ) hit theme song from a 1960's film

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Li'l Abner 1959

Woke folk do make me anxious because they naively feel like they are at the peak of human moral superiority. Like Bill Maher said - and I can't find the exact quote - 20 years from now the woke of today will be horrified by what they once considered normal.

THE GLENN MILLER STORY (1954) Next: STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (1955) Two more with James Stewart & June Allyson.

CHARLOTTE'S WEB (2006) Next: Isak Dinesen

Parrish, Leslie

Nuyen, France

ANNE SHIRLEY next: Shenandoah 1965 The Graduate 1967 The Stepford Wives 1975 Voyaged of the Damned 1976 The Hero 2017

Carole Landis committed suicide and it's been said that she did it over Rex ending their affair. That's pretty well known. Rex's nickname was Sexy Rexy, he was known for fooling around. Kay Kendall was a beautiful actress who sadly died when she was only 33. She was adorable in Les Girls. Rex was married many times, mostly to actresses, beautiful Lili Palmer was another, Interesting story between Lili and Rex and their marriage and Kay Kendall. Your thread Swithin

Thought I would bring this back up as tomorrow, Friday, is the Day for this.

People can understand a business mogul reaching for political power, even if newspapers are dying a slow death. And yeah I kind of do blame people who cannot or will not consider that the world was once very different, who have no curiosity about how things once were, and who believe nothing of any consequence could possibly have happened before the day they were born. Screw em.

And we do need it! This reminds of the sketch from THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON's tribute to SAVED BY THE BELL featuring original BELL cast members a few years ago that references not only SHOWGIRLS but BEVERLY HILLS 90210. This sketch made me happy then and continues to make me happy now!

Worth mentioning are the films that Paramount made across the pond. These are not necessarily films made in Britain that secured distribution in America through Paramount. Instead, they are ones the studio produced in Britain with "frozen funds." Sometimes these productions featured American stars, sometimes they had exclusively British casts. As you can see there were quite a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Paramount_British_films Incidentally the term "quota quickie" is British slang for B-movie. Theaters owners in the 1930s expected a quota of B films to play as part of a double bill with the more prestigious "A" films. Some of the more well-known Par Brit productions include: SO EVIL MY LOVE (1948) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE (1958) BECKET (1964) THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965) ALFIE (1966) ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) THE ITALIAN JOB (1969)

Per MovieCollector's database, this one hasn't aired on TCM since 2008: