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I can't say I'm thrilled Canadians don't get to see Diary of a Chambermaid, but the schedule for that day is a little difficult for me, and seeing one less movie can be forgiven. (Though seriously, why Victor Mature as a replacement?] By contrast, I'm very annoyed that Canadians don't get to see Foreign Correspondent, Grand Illusion or To be or not to Be. The first one is most peculiar, since it's not as if there weren't other Hitchcock movies on television on both TCM and Canadian TV. And it is striking that only a limited number of movies are consistently kicked off the TCM Canada schedule.
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Having had three Ozu films on my schedule I like the Ozu evening tribute. I also like having Vampyr, Midnight and Le Million. And the Spanish special seems very interesting.
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I saw five movies last week. Ida is an interesting, if not entirely successful film. If not as contemptible as Richard Brody suggests in his blog, it is a movie whose shots "herald their own gravity with their stillness." What J. Hoberman scornfully said of Schindler's List, with Poland as its own special effect, has been wrongly taken to heart. The Mark of Zorro was a lot of fun once Fairbanks started moving: one only wishes there were more scenes of him as Zorro. The Formula, shown on TCM Canada as a substitute for Kieslowski's trilogy, may be one of dullest "thrillers" ever made. George C. Scott is given little to do except occasionally whine about 1980 America, and he's not often in physical danger. Moreover the plot is both obvious and needlessly complicated. The Story of Mankind is basically a curiosity, a children's book turned into a pompous summary of history fit only for children. It's of interest for what people expected children might reasonably be expected to know. (One might think that Vincent Price's satanic advocate would make more of Christian bigotry, and not focus on a few unrepresentative tyrants.) Goodbye South, Goodbye is one of the strangest crime dramas you are ever likely to see, with its unique and extremely atypical rhythms in modern Taiwan.
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4 times on TCM, and zero times I suspect on TCM Canada.
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I've been busy recently so I haven't had time to comment on Lydecker's schedule. I'm particularly pleased with having The Crime of Monsieur Lange on, as well as having Addison DeWitt as a guest programmer. Choosing Rollover is an interesting choice, since I got the VHS tape several years but never got around to actually watching it.
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I saw three movies this week. Under the Skin was the best I suppose with Scarlett Johannson playing an alien who looks strikingly like Scarlet Johannson, only as a brunette trolling the streets of Scotland. I didn't particularly care for Jonathan Glazer's previous films Sexy Beast or Birth, but this strikes me as an improvement, with a striking score and with Johannson's character learning the value of compassion, with unpleasant consequences. Pillow Talk was much less amusing, since Doris Day has little attraction to me, nor does Hudson for that matter. (It says something that the best line comes from Thelma Ritter.) The value of The Great Beauty depends considerably on whether you think remaking La Dolce Vita is both a good idea, especially with having something especially new to say. The movie's visual scheme is so striking, one is almost pleased that the movie has a personality.
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I am not a fan of either of the three films. Giant is clearly the least, ponderous pseudo-social message mongering from Stevens. The only time I saw Rebel Without a Cause I thought it was superficial (somehow James Dean's mother is too assertive). East of Eden is not a good movie, but Dean's performance is a great one.
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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer: I've wanted to see that for years. Also, The Music Room and The World of Apu make their TCM premieres. Of course, we've been promised the latter before, so let's keep our fingers crossed.
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Thank you RMeingast.
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I don't suppose this is exactly egregious, but Jonathan Rosenbaum has argued that both Ninotchka and Love in the Afternoon would have been better with Cary Grant in the lead, and it's hard to disagree.
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A pity no one is updating this: I just learned that we Canadians don't get to enjoy Rene Clair day this Wednesday.
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Interesting schedule Speedracer3. Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Blue Bird and All that Jazz all are interesting premieres. Also like the choice of The Rocky Horror Picture show. I'm particularly pleased with the underrated Clue, which despite a vulgar start does actually get going well. Not only does it include one of Madeleine Kahn's iconic screen moments ("it-it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths... Heathing...") but Tim Curry gives one of the best performances of 1985, certainly more deserving than the preposterously overrated William Hurt.
Classic Afficando, I'm actually waiting for your programming notes. The idea of having movies celebrate the first day of summer strikes me as a good one though.
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I saw six movies over the last two weeks. The Fifth Musketeer certainly shows the value of a good director because despite a top notch cast and Jack Cardiff as cinematographer it is devoid of intelligence and charm. It's distinctly duller than the vulgar 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask, which tells the same story, and it's not as engaging as the otherwise uninteresting 1993 The Three Musketeers. Blue is essentially a blue screen while Derek Jarman explains what it's like to die of AIDS. It's an interesting conceit. The silent Wizard of Oz is a ghastly mistake. I don't know why Larry Semon wanted to make the story into a showcase for his wife, but it does not work at all. The story turned inside out, the witless slapstick, Semon's own creepy and unattractive face, and having a black man play the Cowardly Lion, it all leads to a disaster.
Three other movies are much more worthwhile. Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch's interesting take on vampire myths. Its sense of cool, with vampires as depressed bohemians, is very well sustained, and if you can adapt it, very rewarding. A Hen in the Wind is another fine Ozu film, notwithstanding Ozu's own low opinion of the movie and a ending many would find problematic or frankly unacceptable. Pearls of the Crown is a charming comedy by Sacha Guitry.about three men trying to find the fate of a pearl necklace, four of which are now in the British Crown. It's sort of a low key Lubtisch in places.
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The problem I see of voting for the best day of the schedule would be that in our votes we only have a dozen votes or so, which means races are won by only a couple of votes or so. Multiplying the number of choices by seven increases the possibility of an eight-way tie for first place. Also, the winner is likely to be the day with the most popular and admired movies.
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I've only read a couple of Stephen King stories, but I've encountered enough of the movies based on his books that I see no reason why Kubrick should have any particular respects for his wishes. And the dialogue, in Kubrick's special passive-aggressive never straightforward way is brilliant:
Jack: Eh... Mr. Grady... weren't you once the caretaker here?
Grady: Why no, sir. I don't believe so.
Jack: You, er, a married man, are you, Mr. Grady?
Grady: Yes, sir. I have a wife and, uh two daughters, sir.
Jack: And, er... where are they now?
Grady: Oh, they're somewhere around. I'm not quite sure at the moment, sir.
Jack: [takes Grady's cloth and wipes his hand with it] Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize you. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh … chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And … then you blew your brains out.
Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.
Jack: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here.
Grady: I'm sorry to differ with you, sir, but you are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know, sir, I've always been here.
Serously, Philip Stone should have got an Oscar nomination for the last sentence alone.
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Schedule for September 28, 2014-October 4, 2014
Star of the Month: Chishu Ryu
Friday Night Spotlight: Unhappy Romances
TCM Silent Sunday: The Oyster Princess (1919)
TCM Imports: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
The Essentials: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Underground Double Feature: Tropical Malady (2004) Angel Heart (1987)
Required Theme: Bold New Worlds of Weirdness
Cultural Challenge: Chinese Cinema
Guest Programmer: Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, from The Leopard
1910s 1
1920s 6
1930s 12
1940s 16
1950s 14
1960s 14
1970s 4
1980s 8
1990s 7
2000s 4
Premieres:
Dogville (2003)
Winter Soldier (1972)
Dreams (1990) (a.k.a Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
The Small Back Room (1948)
The Puppet Master (1993)
Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Muriel (1963)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Charulata (1964)
Matilda (1996)
Exempt Premieres:
The Oyster Princess (1919) (Silent)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) (TCM Imports)
A City of Sadness (1989) (Cultural Challenge)
The Horse Thief (1986) (Cultural Challenge)
In the Mood for Love (2000) (Cultural Challenge)
Farewell my Concubine (1993) (Cultural Challenge)
Chungking Express (1994) (Cultural Challenge)
The Music Room (1958) (GP)
Barry Lyndon (1975) (GP)
Tropical Malady (2004) (Underground)
Angel Heart (1987) (Underground)
We start Sundday off with a birthday tribute to Marcello Mastroianni, with nicely segues into our theme about back stage or back cinema films. Also we get to celebrate Bridgette Bardot's birthday with Contempt. We conclude with Dogville, a western that stages place entirely on a sound stage, and one of the century's most important films. Finally we celebrate the first Sunday in autumn with what may the greatest movie you've never seen, about one particularly melancholy Taiwanese summer in particular.
Monday is the anniversary of the Munich agreement, which strikes me as a good reason to have four movies about debacles, military and moral. After all losing is not the worst thing you can do in a war. We celebrate Greer Garson's birthday with three movies on the British home front. Then we have an evening devote to star of the month Chishu Ryu, then we devote all of Tuesday to celebrating the birthday of Michael Powell.
October 1 marks, for better or for worse, the establishment of the people's republic of China. So I decided to devote a whole day to Chinese cinema, starting off in the morning and afternoon with four western films, and three Chinese ones. In particular I would like to point out the TCM premiere of The Puppetmaster, a film about a Taiwanese puppet master who conveniently also helps showcase Taiwanese history. The five movies come from all three Chinese cinemas--the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, even though under international law they are all one country. They include China's only Palme D'Or (Farewell my Concubine) Venice Golden Lion winner A City of Sadness, and the highest ranking 21st century film on the 2012 Sight and Sound poll (In the Mood for Love).
October 2 marks the birthday of Richard III, last of England's Plantagenet Kings, so we use him to mark off four films that take place in the middle ages, including Marketa Lazarova, perhaps the most admired Czechoslovak film of all time. We then have a birthday tribute for Groucho Marx. Originally I had Che Guevera as my guest programmer, but then realized he had to be fictional. So instead I have Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina. His five choices include movies about aristocratic decline in India, the fate of the Russian aristocracy, his native postwar Sicily, the failure of one Irish upstart to enter the British aristocracy, and finally ending with a movie about elegant Viennese philandering.
October 3 marks the birthday of Thomas Wolfe, so we have six films where you can't go home again. Either family issues are not resolved, or the past can't be surmounted and triumphed over. We have Lola as an exception to this theme before we got on to our Friday night spotlight. Here are four movies where love does not conquer all, where lovers do not end up happily, and all in all, show more integrity that Hollywood is currently comfortable with. October 4 we have three movies based on the work of birthday boy Damon Runyon. We also have a birthday tribute to Buster Keaton. I wondered how to connect the two Fred Astaire movies with the themes. I thought that if Marlon Brando wasn't exactly the most obvious dancing star, neither were Joan Fontaine and Gracie Allen. But then I stopped caring. I suppose I could replace the two Astaire movies with Seven Chances and Limelight, in return for poster promising to vote for me regardless of the other people's schedules, and sending me properly notarized statements to that effect. I'm really quite shameless in asking for votes. Finally we deal with the theme of new frontiers, new worlds, transformations, and here I have a sci-fi/fantasy theme, with Dave Bowman's metamorphosis into the Starchild, Matilda Wormwood's discovery of her telekinetic powers, James Woods' transformation in to a VCR, the animal transformation in Tropical Malady's Buddhist Brokeback Mountain, or the extremely unpleasant change that awaits Mickey Rourke's character in Angel Heart. -
Sunday, September 28 2014
Happy Birthday, Marcello Mastroianni!
06:00 AM Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) Embassy Pictures Corporation C-118 min Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren D: Vittorio de Sica P/S
08:00 AM White Nights (1957) Cinecitta BW-107 min Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, D: Luchino Visconti P/S
10:00 AM The Organizer (1963) Lux Films BW-128 min Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori D: Mario Monicelli P/S
All the World's a (Sound?)stage
12:15 PM 8 1/2 (1963) Cinecitta BW-135 min Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, D; Federico Fellini P/S
02:30 PM Contempt (1963) Rome Paris Films C-104 min Michel Piccoli, Bridgette Bardot, Jack Palance D: Jean-Luc Godard P/S
04:!5 PM Kiss me Kate (1953) MGM C-109 min Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller D: George Sidney P/S
06:15 PM Footlight Parade (1933) Warner Bros BW-104 min James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler D: Lloyd Bacon P/S
08:00 PM The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) C/BW-82 min Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello D: Woody Allen P/S
09:30 PM Dogville (2003) Zentropa Entertaintments C-177 min Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, James Caan D: Lars von Trier Premiere#1
12:45 AM (Silent) The Oyster Princess (1919) PAGU BW-60 min Victor Janison, Ossi Oswalda D: Ernst Lubitsch EXEMPT
02:00 AM (Foreign) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Yang and his Gang Filmmakers c-237 min Chang Chen, Lisa Yang D: Edward Yang EXEMPT
Monday, September 29, 2014
Memories of Munich: Debacles Military and Moral
06:15 AM The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Warner Bros BW-116 min Errrol Flynn, Olivia de Havailand D: Michael Curtiz P/S
08:15 AM Paths of Glory (1957) United Artists BW-88 min Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready D: Stanley Kubrick P/S
09:45 AM They Died with Their Boots on (1941) Warner Bros BW-140 min Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havailand D: Raoul Walsh P/S
12:15 PM Winter Soldier (1972) Millenium Zero BW-96 min D: Winterfilm Collective Premiere#2
Happy Birthday Greer Garson: three movies on the British Home Front
02:00 PM Mrs. Miniver (1942) MGM BW-134 min Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon D: William Wyler P/S
04:15 PM Went the Day Well? (1942) Ealing Studios BW-92 min Leslie Brooks, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sidney D: Alberto Cavalcanti P/S
06:00 PM Hope and Glory (1987) Columbia C-113 min Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sammi Davis, Sarah Miles, Ian Bannen D: John Boorman P/S
Star of the Month Chishu Ryu
08:00 PM Late Spring (1949) Shochiku BW-108 min Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara D: Yasujiro Ozu
10:00 PM There was a Father (1942) Shockiku BW-94 min Chishu Ryu, Mitsuko Mito D: Yasujiro Ozu P/S
11:45 PM Tokyo Story (1953) Shochiku BW-136 min Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setusko Hara D; Yasujiro Ozu P/S
02:15 AM Early Summer (1951) Shochiku BW-125 min Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chikage Awashima D: Yasujiro Ozu P/S
04:30 AM Dreams (1990) Warner Bros C-119 min Chishu Ryu, Martin Scorsese, Akira Tereo D: Akira Kurosawa Premiere#3
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Happy Birthday Michael Powell!
06:30 AM Black Narcissus (1947) The Archers C-99 min Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons, D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
08:15 AM I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) The Archers BW-91 min Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey D: Michael Powell, Emeric Prressburger P/S
10:00 AM A Matter of Life and Death (1946) The Archers BW-104 min David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
11:45 PM The Red Shoes (1948) The Archers C-133 min Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
02:00 PM The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) British Lion Films C-128 min Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
04:15 PM Contraband (1940) Anglo-American BW-92 min Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson D: Michael Powell P/S
06:00 PM The Small Back Room (1949) British Lion Films BW-106 min David Farrar, Kathleen Byron D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Premiere #4
08:00 PM The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) The Archers C-162 min Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
10::45 PM A Canterbury Tale (1944) The Archers BW- 95 min, Eric Portman, Sheila Sim D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger P/S
12:30 AM One of our Aircraft is Missing (1942) Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors BW-102 min Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, D: Michael Powell, Eric Pressburger P/S
02:15 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940) United Artists C-106 min Sabu, John Justin, Conrad Veidt D: Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan P/S
04:15 AM Peeping Tom (1960) Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors C-101 min Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer D: Michael Powell P/S
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
China's Twentieth Century on Film
06:00 AM The Good Earth (1937) MGM BW-138 min Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, D: Sidney Franklin P/S
08:30 AM The Goddess (1934) Lianhua Film Company BW-85 min Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Zhzhi D: Wu Yonggang P/S
10:00 AM The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Columbia BW-88 min Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther D: Frank Capra P/S
11:30 AM The Puppetmaster (1993) ERA C-142 min Lim Giong, Li Tain-lu D: Hou Hsiao Hsien Premiere#5
02:00 PM 7 Women (1966) MGM C-87 min Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, Sue Lyon D: John Ford P/S
03:30 PM Days of Being Wild (1990) Rim C-94 min Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung D: Wong Kar-Wai P/S
05:15 PM The Last Emperor (1987) Columbia C-160 min John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole D: Bernardo Bertolucci P/S
Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Mainland
08:00 PM A City of Sadness (1989) 3-H Films C-157 min Tony Leung, Sung Young Chen D: Hou Hsiao-Hsien EXEMPT
10:45 PM The Horse Thief (1986) Xi'an Film Studio C-88 min Hou Yong, Zhao Fei D: Tian Zhuangzhuang EXEMPT
12:30 AM In the Mood for Love (2000) USA Films C-98 min Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung D: Wong Kar-Wai EXEMPT
02:15 AM Farewell my Concubine (1993) Beijing Film Studio C-155 min Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li D: Chen Kaige EXEMPT
05:00 AM Chungking Express (1994) Jet Tone Production C-98 min Brigitte Lin, tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro D: Wong-Kar Wai EXEMPT
Thursday, October 2, 2014
That's just simply medieval
06:45 AM Richard III (1955) London Films C-161 min Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson, John Gielguld, D: Laurence Olivier P/S
09:30 AM The Court Jester (1956) Paramount C-101 min Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone D: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama P/S
11:15 AM The Flame and the Arrow (1950) Warner Bros C-88 Burt Lancaster, Virgina Mayo D: Jacques Tourneur P/S
12:45 PM Marketa Lazarova (1967) Barrandov Studious BW-162 min Magda Vasaryona, Josef Kemr, Frantisek Velecky, D: Frantisek Vlacil Premiere #6
Happy Birthday Groucho Marx!
03:30 PM A Night at the Opera (1935) MGM BW-93 min Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont D: Sam Wood P/S
05:15 PM Monkey Business (1931) Paramount BW-68 min Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Thelma Todd, Zeppo Marx D: Norman Z. McLeod P/S
06:45 PM Duck Soup (1933) Paramount BW-68 min Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Zeppo Marx D: Leo McCarey P/S
Guest Programmer Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, from The Leopard
08:00 PM The Music Room (1958) Aurora BW-100 min Chhabi Biswas, Padma Devi, Gangapada Bose D: Satyajit Ray EXEMPT
09:45 PM Russian Ark (2002) The Hermitage Bridge Studio C-96 min Sergei Dontsov D: Alexander Sokurov P/S
11:30 PM Salvatore Giuliano (1962) BW-123 min Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, D: Francesco Rosi P/S
01:45 AM Barry Lyndon (1975) Warner C-184 min Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson D: Stanley Kubrick EXEMPT
05:00 AM La Ronde (1950) Films Sacha Gordin BW-97 min Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Simone Simon D: Max Ophuls P/S
Friday, October 3, 2014
In Memoriam Thomas Wolfe: You can't go Home Again
06:45 AM Man of the West (1958) United Artists C-100 min Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Julia London D: Anthony Mann P/S
08:30 AM The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) BW-123 min James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Martin, Vera Miles D: John Ford P/S
10:45 AM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Warner Bros BW-122 min Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden D: Elia Kazan P/S
01:00 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Madeleine Films C-91 min Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo D: Jacques Demy P/S
02:45 PM Muriel (1963) Argos Films C-115 min Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kenen D: Alain Resnais Premiere #7
04:45 PM The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) Columbia C-103 min Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn D: Bob Rafelson P/S
But sometimes you just might
06:30 PM Lola (1961) Rome-Paris Films BW-90 min Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel D: Jacques Demy
Friday night spotlight: sometimes love just ain't enough
08:00 PM The Rules of the Game (1939) Nouvelles Editions de Films BW-113 min Marcel Diallo, Jean Renoir D: Jean Renoir P/S
10:00 PM Tess (1979) Columbia C-186 min Natassja Kinski, Peter Firth D: Roman Polanski P/s
01:15 AM Paris, Texas (1984) Chanel four Films C-150 min Harry Dean Stanton, Natassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell D: Wim Wenders Premiere#8
04:00 AM Charulata (1964) R.D. Bansal & Co BW-117 min Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shalien Mukherjee D: Satyajit Ray Premiere #9
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Happy Birthday Damon Runyon!
06:00 AM Lady for a Day (1933) Columbia BW-96 min May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibber D: Frank Capra P/S
07:45 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938) Warner Bros BW-85 min Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, D: Lloyd Bacon P/S
09:15 AM Guys and Dolls (1955) MGM C-150 min Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra D: Joseph L. Mankewicz P/S
Special Fred Astaire Saturday Matinee
11:45 AM A Damsel in Distress (1937) RKO BW-98 min Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, Gracie Allen D: George Stevens P/S
01:30 PM You were Never Lovelier (1942) Columbia BW-97 min Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou D: William A. Seiter P/S
Happy Birthday Buster Keaton!
03:15 PM One Week (1920) Metro BW-19 min Buster Keaton, Sybil Sealy D: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline P/S
03:45 PM The Navigator (1924) MGM BW-69 min Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire D: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp P/S
05:00 PM Our Hospitality (1923) Metro Pictures BW-74 min Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts D: Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone P/S
06:15 PM The Playhouse (1921) First National Pictures BW-22 min Buster Keaton, Virgina Fox D: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline P/S
06:45 PM Cops (1922) First National Pictures BW-18 min Buster Keaton, Virgina Fox D: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton P/S
07:15 PM Sherlock Jr., (1924) Metro Pictures BW-45 min Buster Keaton, Ward Crane D: Buster Keaton P/S
Special Challenge: Entering New Worlds of Weirdness
08:00 PM (Essentials) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) MGM C-142 min Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Gary Lockwood D: Stanley Kubrick P/S
10:30 PM Matilda (1996) Tristar Pictures c-98 min Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Pam Ferris D: Danny DeVito Premiere#10
12:15 AM Videodrome (1983) Universal C-87 min James Woods, Deborah Harry P/S
01:45 AM (Underground) Tropical Malady (2004) TIFA C-125 min Sakda Kaewbuadee, Banlop Lamnot D: Apichatpong Weerasethakul EXEMPT
04:00 AM (Underground) Angel Heart (1987) Tri-Star C-113 min Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet D: Alan Parker
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Nice schedules LonesomePolecat and OBrien Mundy. Devoting a whole evening to live radio movies is a fascinating idead, and I certainly do't know enough old movies to make a theme like that. Nor would I remember that Ray Walston was even in The Sting, or indeed remember him well enough to build a centennial birthday celebration around him. And a decade by decade retrospective of Hepubrn's career is a great idea. Choosing Iranian film is a great idea. I thought about it myself, and was considering the Koker Trilogy, along with films by Makmalbaf and Panahi. As for you OBrien Mundy remembering scorers, set designers and script writers would be too esoteric for me to remember. I actually devoted much of a day to Polish cinema in a previous schedule, though for this one I was more incluined to devote a day to Czechoslovak movies. The Young Girls of Rochefort is an excellent choice, I've suggested it myself in the past. Since it will be soon be out on Criterion, perhaps TCM will actually show it in the future. (Though the three Satyajit Ray features on Criterion haven't encouraged them to do that.) I'm struck that I've never suggested Peter Ibbetson in the past. It's a wonderful movie that deserves to be better known. It also means that I can't use it as a choice.
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Not to be a killjoy LonesomePolecat, but the schedule is supposed to end at 6 AM he following Sunday morning, and yours ends at 7.
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Seven days done. Now all I have to do is write up my explanation for my choices.
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Four days down, three to go: I am correct in thinking TCM has never show The Small Back Room?
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Two days down, five to go
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Just to be clear: if you have more than four movies from a country on foreign movie night, only four of them will be exempt from the premiere limit?
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Just a minute. How does one search for one's previous posts since the great website change?
What was the first movie you saw in a theater?
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I'm not sure. One day I will have to look up back issues of the small town newspaper where I grew up for showtimes, but I suspect I saw either Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy and the Disney animated version of Robin Hood before I saw The Shaggy Dog.