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Bad news Lydecker. Looking over my schedule I realized I had booked one movie on Monday afternoon a half an hour too short. So to make up the time I had to replace The Bad Seed with Kiki's Delivery Service.
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Week of November 6-November 12, 2016
SOTM: Kinuyo Tanaka
The Essentials: Gertrud (1964)
Silent Sunday Nights: Underworld (1928)
TCM Imports: Fallen Angels (1995) and Days of Being Wild (1990)
Friday Night Spotlight: Non-Hollywood Musicals
TCM Underground: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Challenges:
Risky Business: Revolutionaries
Funny Business: Smart Children
30s Guest Programmer: Robert de la Chesnaye from The Rules of the Game
Premieres:
Bellflower (2011)
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
The Red and the White (1967)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Jacob the Liar (1977)
Satantango (1994)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
All that Jazz (1979)
Exempt Premieres
Underworld (1927)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Matilda (1996)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Arsenal (1929)
Ice (1969)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Mr. Klein (1976)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Breakdown
1920s 3
1930s 11
1940s 10
1950s 12
1960s 18
1970s 13
1980s 7
1990s 8
2000s 2
2010s 1
The schedule starts off with six movies on l'amour fou, with Bellflower at the tail end of the previous TCM Underground begining them. Along with the official challenge of the dangerous profession, I decided to include an unofficial one, as well, about hit men. This allows us to see the TCM premiere of Pulp Fiction. (This is a bit of a stretch with Underworld, so bear with me.) Monday is devoted to nine movies devoted to precious children, based on a quote from Duck Soup. Then we have the official challenge of a dangerous profession, in this case, revolutionaries. Tuesday happens to be the date of the American presidential election, so we start the day with a day devoted to movies about politics. Then it's time for the star of the month. Not finding any underappreciated great actors born in 1916, I chose Kinuyo Tanaka, the great star of Mizoguchi, Ozu, Naruse, Kinoshita and other great Japanese directors, and whose birthday falls on the 29th. Wednesday marks the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, so we have a day devoted to movies from the former Warsaw Pact. So we have movies from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany and Romania (Bulgaria is out of luck), bookended by films made by two directors, Jerzy Skolimowski and Andrzej Zulawski who had to leave Poland to make the movies they wanted. The day includes the premiere of Palme D'Or winner 4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 Days from Romania, and Hungary's Satantango, which made the top 40 of the 2012 Sight and Sound poll of the greatest movies of all time.
Thursday we celebrate the birthdays of Claude Rains and Richard Burton. For Thursday evening our guest programmer is Robert de la Chesnaye from The Rules of the Game. As such, it makes perfect sense to have one film about another country house party (complete with convenient mechanical invention), a Hollywood film about french aristocrats, and a classic thirties French comedy. We also have two movies that de la Chesnaye, as a French Jew on the verge of the second world war, would be interested in, Army of Shadows and Mr. Klein. Friday, we celebrate the birthdays of director Rene Clair and actress Bibi Andersson. Our Friday night spotlight is on non-Hollywood musicals, so we have movies from France, India, Denmark, Britain and Germany. Finally on Saturday we start the day with autobiographical movies of a sort. Obviously there is fictional leeway from Louis Malle, while Distant Voices, Still Lives is more about Terrence Davies' family than about Davies himself. We also see the TCM premier of Bob Fosse's autobiographical All that Jazz as well as Mohsen Makmalbaf's A Moment of Innocence, the movie he made about his time as an anti-Shah activist at a demonstration, involving the very police officer he stabbed there as an adviser. Finally we have four final features by four great directors, including the TCM essentials feature Gerturd, by Carl Dreyer, and the Underground feature Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick. -
November 6, 2016-November 12, 2016
Sunday November 6, 2016
L'Amour Fou
06:00 AM Bellflower (2011) Coatwolf Production C-103 min Evan Glodel, Jessie Wiseman D: Evan Glodel Premiere #1
07:45 AM The Letter (1940) Warner Bros BW-96 min Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson D: William Wyler P/S
09:30 AM Pierrot le Fou (1965) Rome Paris Films C-110 min Jean-Pierre Belmondo, Anna Karina D: Jean-Luc Godard P/S
11:30 AM Mad Love (1935) MGM BW-68 min Peter Lorre, Frances Drake D: Karl Freund P/S
12:45 PM The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) Gaumont C-125 min Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant D: Leos Carax Premiere#2
03:00 PM Badlands (1973) Warner C-95 min Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates D: Terrence Malick P/S
A dangerous profession, but not the official challenge of a dangerous profession: hit men.
04:45 PM The Killers (1946) Universal BW-103 min Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner D: Robert Siodmak P/S
06:30 PM Murder by Contract (1958) Columbia BW-81 min Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine D: Irving Lerner P/S
08:00 PM Pulp Fiction (1994) Mirimax C-154 min John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis D: Quentin Tarantino Premiere#3
10:45 PM The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Paramount C-103 min Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle D: Peter Yates P/S
12:45 AM Underworld (Silent) (1927) Paramount BW-80 George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, D: Josef von Sternberg (EXEMPT)
02:15 AM Fallen Angels (Foreign) (1995) Jet Tone Production C-90 min Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kineshiro D: Wong Kar Wai (EXEMPT)
04:00 AM Days of Being Wild (1990) Rim C-94 min Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung D: Wong Kar-Wai P/S
Monday, November 7, 2016
"Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it." (Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup)
A Day devoted to Precocious Children
05:45 AM The Kid (1921) First National BW-60 min Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan D: Charles Chaplin P/S
06:45 AM Little Miss Marker (1934) Paramount BW-80 min Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou D: Alexander Hall P/S
08:15 AM Meet me in Saint Louis (1944) MGM C-113 min Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien D: Vincente Minneli P/S
10:15 AM Alice in Wonderland (1933) Paramount BW-77 min Charlotte Henry, W.C. Fields, Edna May Oliver P/S
11:45 AM Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) Kanoon C-83 min Babek Ahmed Poor D: Abbas Kiarostami P/S
01:15 PM Matilda (1996) Tristar Pictures c-98 min Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Pam Ferris D: Danny DeVito FB-EXEMPT
03:00 PM Zazie in the Metro (1960) Astor Pictures C-89 min Catherine Dermongeot, Philippe Noiret D: Louis Malle P/S
04:30 PM Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Studio Ghibli C-103 min Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma D: Hayao Miyazaki P/S
06:15 PM Bugsy Malone (1976) Paramount C-93 min Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster D: Alan Parker FB-EXEMPT
Official Dangerous Profession Challenge: Revolutionaries
08:00 PM The Organizer (1963) Lux Films BW-128 min Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori D: Mario Monicelli P/S
10:15 PM Reds (1981) Paramount C-194 min Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton D: Warren Beatty P/S
01:45 AM Arsenal (1929) VUFKU-Odessa BW-92 min Semyon Svashenko, Mykola Nademsky, D; Alexander Dovzhenko RB-EXEMPT
03:30 AM Ice (1969) American Film Institute BW-130 min Robert Kramer, Leo Bruady D; Robert Kramer RB-EXEMPT
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Movies for Election Day
05:45 AM Wilson (1944) 20th Century Fox c-154 min Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Thomas Mitchell D: Henry King P/S
08:30 AM The Tall Target (1951) MGM BW-75 min Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou D; Anthony Mann P/S
09:45 AM The Best Man (1964) United Artists BW-102 min Henry Fonda, Cliff Richardson D: Franklin J. Schaffner P/S
11:30 AM The Dark Horse (1932) Warner Bros BW-75 min Bette Davis, Warren William, Guy Kibbee D: Alfred Green P/S
12:45 PM Advise & Consent (1962) Columbia Pictures BW-139 min Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Otto Preminger P/S
03:15 PM All the President's Men (1976) Warner Bros C-138 min Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards D: Alan Pakula P/S
05:45 PM Being There (1979) United Artists C-130 min Peter Sellers, Shirley MacClaine, Melvyn Douglas D: Hal Ashby P/S
Star of the Month Kinuyo Tanaka
08:00 PM Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Daiei BW-125 min Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi D: Kenji Mizoguchi P/S
10:15 PM Army (1944) Shochiku BW-87 min Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishu Ryo D: Keisuke Kinoshita P/S
12:00 AM A Hen in the Wind (1948) Scochiku BW-84 min Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chishu Ryo D: Yasujiro Ozu Premiere#4
01:30 AM The Life of Oharu (1952) Shintoho BW-148 min Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsurra, Ichiro Sugai D; Kenji Mizoguchi P/S
04:15 AM Gina Cosmetics (1951) Shintoho BW-87 min Kinuyo Tanaka, Ranko Hanai D: Mikio Naruse P/S
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Warsaw Pact Movie Day
05:45 AM Deep End (1970) Kettledrum Films/Paramount C-90 min Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown D: Jerzy Skolimowski P/S
07:15 AM Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Zespol Fimowy BW-110 min Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezyriski D; Andrzej Wajda P/S
09:15 AM The Red and the White (1967) Mosfilm BW-90 min Joszef Madaras, Tibor Molnar D: Miklos Jancso Premiere #5
10:45 AM Knife in the Water (1962) Zespol Filmowy BW-94 min Jolanta Umecka, Leon Niemczyk, Zygmunt Malanowicz D: Roman Polanski P/S
12:30 AM The Shop on Main Street (1965) Filmove Studio Barrandov BW-125 min Josef Kroner, Ida Kaminska D: Jan Kadar, Elmer Klos P/S
02:45 PM 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) BAC Films C-113 min Anamaria Marinca, Laura Visiliu D: Cristian Mungiu Premiere#6
04:45 PM Daisies (1966) Filmove Studio Barrandov C-76 min Ivana Karbanova, Jitka Cerhova D; Vera Chytilova P/S
06:15 PM Jacob the Liar (1975) DEFA C-100 min Vlastimil Brodsky, Erwin Geschonneck, D: Frank Beyer Premiere#7
08:00 PM Satantango (1994) Von Veitinghoff Filmproduction BW-432 min Mihaly Vig, Eva Almassy Albert, Peter Berling D: Bela Tarr Premiere#8
03:30 AM Possession (1981) Gaumont C-127 min Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill D: Andrzej Zulawski P/S
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Happy Birthday Claude Rains!
05:45 AM The Invisible Man (1933) Universal BW-71 min Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan. Dir: James Whale P/S
07:00 AM The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) Universal BW-87 min Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery D: Stuart Walker P/S
08:30 AM Mr. Skeffington (1944) Warner BW-145 min Claude Rains, Bette Davis D: Vincent Sherman P/S
11:00 AM Now Voyager (1942) Warner BW-117 min Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid D: Irving Rapper P/S
Happy Birthday Richard Burton!
01:00 PM The Desert Rats (1953) 20th Century Fox BW-88 min Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton D: Robert Wise P/S
02:30 PM Look Back in Anger (1959) Warner Bros BW-98 min Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Edith Evans D: Tony Richardson P/S
04:15 PM The Spy who Came in From the Cold (1965) Paramount BW-112 min Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner D: Martin Ritt P/S
06:15 PM Bitter Victory (1957) Columbia BW-101 min Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens D: Nicholas Ray P/S
Guest Programmer Robert de la Chesnaye from The Rules of the Game
08:00 PM Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Svensk Filmindustri BW-108 min Gunnar Bjornstrand, Eva Dahlbeck D: Ingmar Bergman P/S
10:00 PM Army of Shadows (1969) Les Films Corona C-140 min Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, D: Jean-Pierre Melville 30-EXEMPT
12:30 AM Love me Tonight (1932) Paramount BW-104 min Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy D: Rouben Mamoulian P/S
02:30 AM Mr. Klein (1976) Lira Films C-123 min Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau D: Joseph Losey 30-EXEMPT
04:45 AM The story of a Cheat (1936) Films Sonores Tobis BW-81 min Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno D: Sacha Guitry P/S
Friday, November 11, 2016
Happy Birthday Rene Clair!
06:15 AM I married a Witch (1942) Universal BW-77 min Veronica Lake, Fredric March D: Rene Clair P/S
07:45 AM And Then There Were None (1945) 20th Century Fox BW-97 min Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Houston, Louis Hayward, D: Rene Clair P/S
09:30 AM Le Million (1931) Films Sonores Tobis BW-83 min Rene Lefevre, Annabella, D: Rene Clair P/S
11:00 AM A Nous la Liberte (1931) Films Sonores Tobis BW-104 min Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy D: Rene Clair P/S
Happy Birthday Bibi Andersson!
12:45 PM Persona (1966) Svensk Filmindustri BW-83 min Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, D: Ingmar Bergman P/S
02:15 PM The Kremlin Letter (1970) 20th Century Fox C-121 min Bib Andersson, George Sanders, Richard Boone D: John Huston P/S
04:30 PM Duel at Diablo (1966) United Artists C-103 min Bibi Andersson, James Garner, Sidney Poitier D: Ralph Nelson P/S
06:15 PM The Passion of Anna (1969) Svensk Filmindustri C-101 min Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow D: Ingmar Bergman P/S
Friday Night Spotlight: Non-Hollywood Musicals
08:00 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Madeleine Films C-91 min Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo D: Jacques Demy P/S
09:45 PM Awaara (1951) RK films BW-169 min Raj Kapoor, Nargis D: Raj Kapoor P/S
12:45 AM Dancer in the Dark (2000) Canal C-140 min Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, Joel Grey D: Lars von Trier Premiere#9
03:15 AM Absolute Beginners (1986) Orion C-108 min Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie D: Julian Temple P/S
05:15 AM The Blue Angel (1930) UFA BW-99 min Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich D: Josef von Sternberg P/S
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Autobiographical Movies
07:00 AM Murmur of the Heart (1971) Orion films C-118 min Benoit Ferraux, Lea Massari D: Louis Malle P/S
09:00 AM The 400 Blows (1959) Les Films de Carosse BW-99 min Jean-Pierre Leaud, Albert Remi, Claire Maurier D; Francois Truffaut P/S
10:45 AM 8 1/2 (1963) Cinecitta BW-135 min Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, D; Federico Fellini P/S
01:00 PM Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) British Film Institute C-85 min Pete Postelthwaite, Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne D: Terrence Davies Premiere#10
02:30 PM A Moment of Innocence (1996) MK2 Productions C-78 min Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makmalbaf D: Mohsen Makmalbaf Premiere #11
04:00 PM Annie Hall (1977) United Artists BW-93 min Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts D: Woody Allen P/S
05:45 PM All that Jazz (1979) 20th Century Fox C-123 min Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Erzsebet Foldi D: Bob Fosse Premiere #12
Valedictory Movies
08:00 PM (Essentials) Gertrud (1964) Palladium BW-116 min Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode D: Carl Theodor Dreyer P/S
10:15 PM Family Plot (1976) Universal Pictures C-120 min Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern. D:Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures P/S
12:30 AM The Sacrifice (1986) Sandrew C-149 min Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, D: Andrei Tarkovsky, P/S
03:15 AM (Underground) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) C-159 min Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman D: Stanley Kubrick EXEMPT-
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Well, I now have all seven days, and only have to write up my notes. Also make sure that I have only 12 premieres.
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Well now I have Wednesday and Thursday
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Well I've got Sunday and Tuesday down. Three more days left.
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I saw four movies this week. The most striking thing about It's Alive is not the killer baby, but the willingness of authorities to destroy it without a thought, and their incompetence in doing so. I wish I had paid more attention to Just Tell me What you Want, it actually seems rather interesting as I watched it in a half interested way. It has Myrna Loy's last performance and Ali McGraw and Alan King make an unexpected couple. The Long Voyage Home got a relatively rare Canadian showing, and it strikes me as one of Ford's exercises in male bonding, which I didn't find particularly interesting or profound. Nostalgia for the Light is an interesting documentary by Patricio Guzman which deals with a vast Chilean desert with so little water that it's excellent for astronomers. It's also the sight of one of Pinochet's prison camps, and much of the movie is spent of people, like Antigone, looking for the bodies of his victims after the regime made some effort to destroy them.
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For some reason I've had trouble replying to the other TCM programming thread, so I'm not sure where I'll put my actual schedule. So far, I have Monday and Saturday done.
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Well I saw five movies last week. Bergman Island and Let there be Light were good competent documentaries. I suppose they could have been better. THX 1138 clearly could have been much better. In its favor, its use of white backgrounds does show some of the stylistic sense that didn't entirely desert George Lucas in The Phantom Menace. On the other hand the basic conceit is a literary cliche, a dystopia which denies sex and reduces people to numbers, like Zamyatin's We a half century earlier. The Gunfighter is by contrast a much better western. Readers of this thread will know I'm not that enamored of westerns, but this example of a man about to be killed by his own myth works quite well not only on its own terms, but on others ones as well. Mauvais Sang works even better, with the combination of crime noir and unconsummated l'amour fou making it one of the best movies I've seen this summer.
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Ooh I've got my SOTM, my guest programmer, and my TV Star whose movie career was eclipsed by their television career finished!!
I have a SOTM, dangerous profession, Marx Brothers quote, thirties movie character guest performer and Underground selection.
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Tarr's use of long, uninterupted takes has influenced a lot of American filmmakers.
Have you seen Gus Van Sant's ELEPHANT?
Yes, but before I'd seen Tarr's movies.
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I'll have to take a closer look at it. The foreign film evenings could be better, than having Rohmer and Fanny and Alexander is always cool. Plus the evening devoted to Claude Chabrol. And there's Heavenly Creatures, The First Deadly sin, as well as the Disney version of Babes of Toyland plus The Island at the Top of the World. I've never seen the first, while I was disappointed rewatching the second after rewatching it a couple of decades later.
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I'd like to go as the fifth Doctor.
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This article provides some insight into rom-com sitcoms: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122767/youre-worst-shows-why-rom-coms-should-be-sad-and-painful
One advantage of sitcoms over movies is time. The Shop Around the Corner takes 99 minutes to introduce its characters, in particular introduce Margaret Sullavan, show the paramaters of the Stewart-Sullavan relationship, and get to the eventual happy ending. In the meantime it has also has to present the "arc" of several other characters. By contrast a comedy can take years for this to develop and usually the viewers watch it in real time.
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What TV series was that?
"Baby Daddy" oddly enough. And yes this comes from a contributor whose next programming challenge prominently includes Bela Tarr.
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To come so close, to try so hard, to work so well together, to need her so much, only to be tricked out of one's love, so that no one tells you the truth, so that you get no chance to make your case such that one loses not because of the winner's moral superiority, but convenient deniability, such that nothing that you say or do will ever be good enough, and that your love mean nothing strikes me as grossly unjust.
I can't imagine a movie that ends that way, but I saw a tv series whose season ended recently that way, and I can't stop thinking about it.
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I've seen seven movies over the past two weeks. The Kiss is the one silent Garbo film which really does show her appeal as a star. Jacques Feyder also has an interesting directorial style. Listen up Philip is about an obnoxious but talented writer whose obnoxiousness eventually makes him deeply unhappy. Perhaps. But it's much easier to show him being obnoxious than it is to show him being talented, so there's little reason to care for him. It seems the point of the movie is to flatter the audience that while they're not as talented as Philip Roth, at least they're not jerks. There is certainly no sign of the qualities one might associate with literary talent, such as wit, curiosity or insight. The Battle for Russia is obviously a flawed propaganda film, but it does benefit from genuine Soviet footage. From the Clouds to the Resistance was seen with French subtitles, so this austere film which combines Greek mythology with Cesare Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires wasn't fully appreciated. Citizenfour is a documentary about Edward Snowden's revelations about government spying. And while it does have footage about his interviews with Glenn Greenwald just before the story broke, it doesn't necessarily make it a cinematically successful film. Beau Geste is an interesting film, and the siege of Fort Zinderneuf is exciting, notwithstanding that we know the outcome, or most of it, and Brian Donleavy gives a good performance as a brutal, ruthless sergeant with genuine military devotion. It does continue William Wellman's reputation as a director whose best films can be compared to other more successful ones (in this case The Four Feathers). Canyon Passage is an interesting western, showing aspects of a larger society, and slowly developing a more complex set of characters. Unfortunately, after the first hour or so, I couldn't give the movie my full attention, and so didn't quite see how all the loose ends of the plot were tied up to give Dana Andrews the expected happy ending.
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This could be updated over the past five years:
The Deep Blue Sea
Bellflower
To the Wonder
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Her
The Wind Rises (he marries her, but she dies)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (lesbian version)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (girl doesn't get boy)
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so THAT'S a reason for drudging up a 5 yr. old thread??
Well , there weren't any six year old threads to drudge up.
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Woody Allen is great at not getting the girl. MANHATTAN, ANNIE HALL, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. The bittersweet endings are touching. Sam Spade famously loses Bridgid through his own difficult choice. How much does it hurt? You tell me. There should be more mainstream movies like this. Who needs to see the same story over and over?
He marries the girl in Love and Death only to be shot at the end.
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I am slowly reading The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson, who at one points makes the argument that Heathcliff isn't really a character but a device designed to make sure the upper class people get a happy ending they would not be able to get by their own devices.
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Perhaps more could be said about what makes a bad romantic comedy, a genre whose recent productions from Hollywood have gotten little critical respect this century.
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I've probably mentioned this before, but for years I have thought that The Good Soldier, with Ralph Fiennes and Emma Thompson as the Ashburnhams would make an excellent movie.
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L.A. Confidential
Ed: Take a walk, honey, before I haul your **** downtown.
Johnny: You are making a large mistake.
Woman: Get away from our table.
Ed: Shut up! [leans in] A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker.
Johnny: Hey!
Ed: She just looks like Lana Turner.
Jack: [grinning] She is Lana Turner.
Ed: What?
Jack: She is Lana Turner.
[Lana throws a drink in Ed's face]
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TCM Programming Challenge #30 -- Risky Business (Challenges)
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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I've been busy for the past couple of weeks, so I haven't really had a chance to comment on the other schedules. Speedracer, I particularly like the premiere for Fig Leaves, Errol Flynn sans moustache, and costumes by Edith Head. Lonesome Polecat, "My first Talkie" is a great idea, as is Marx Brothers quote day, submarining as a dangerous profession, and the premiere of The Last Tycoon. Bogie56, I particularly like Max von Sydow as star of the month (one of my own suggestions on past challenges), several films by Max Ophuls, as well as having Providence, 4 Little Girls, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Kings of the Road as premieres.