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Be thankful for what you've got, or the end may be near
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014
0600 *The Last Waltz* (117 min, p/s) dir. Martin Scorsese; stars the Band
0800 *Howard's End* (1992, Merchant/Ivory, 140 min, p/s) dir. James Ivory, stars Helena Bonham Carter, Prunella Scales
1030 *The Last Picture Show* (1971, Columbia, 127 min, p/s) dir. Peter Bogdanovich; stars Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
1245 *Cinema Paradiso* (1988, 124 min, Cristaldifilm, p/s) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore; stars Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin
They're lamenting in sackcloth
1500 *Francis of Assisi* (1961, Fox, 105 min, p/s) dir. Michael Curtiz, stars Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart
Short: John Frankenheimer on Burt Lancaster
and ashes
1700 *The Towering Inferno* (1974, Fox/WB, 165 min, p/s) dir. John Guillermin, stars Fred Astaire, William Holden, Jennifer Jones
There will be much wailing
2000 *Cry for Happy* (1961, Columbia, 110 min, p/s) dir. George Marshall stars Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, James Shigeta
and gnashing of teeht
2200 *Marathon Man* (1976, Paramound, 125 min) PREMIERE #1 dir. John Schlesinger, stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
0015 Silent Sunday Nights: *Silent Movie* (1976, Fox, 87 min, exempt) dir. Mel Brooks; stars Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise
Short: Stop, Look, and Listen
TCM keeps showing those damn pretentious foreign films, too!
0200 *All About My Mother* (1999, El Deseo, 101 min) EXEMPT dir. Pedro Almod?var; stars Cecilia Roth, Marisa Pendes, Candela Pe?a
0345 *Z* (1969, 127 min, p/s) dir. Costa-Gavras; stars Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trentignant
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24
0600 *Knife in the Water* (1962, Kamera, 94 min, p/s) dir. Roman Polanski; stars Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
0745 *Autumn Sonata* (1978, Personafilm, 99 min, p/s) dir. Ingmar Bergman, stars Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman
0930 *Babette's Feast* (1987, Panorama Film AS, 102 min, p/s) dir. Gabriel Axel, stars Bibi Andersson, Stephanie Audran, Bodil Kjer
1115 *Ivan's Childhood* (1962, Mosfilm, 95 min, p/s) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, stars Nikolai Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov
Promo: Andrew Lloyd Webber on *My Fair Lady*
1300 Closely Watched Trains* (1966, Barrandov, 93 min, p/s) dir Jiř? Menzel, stars V?clav Neck?ř, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsk?
1445 *Boy* (1969, Art Theater Guild, 98 min, p/s) dir. Nagisa Oshima, stars Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe
1630 *The Story of Adele H.* (1975, Artistes Associ?s, 96 min, p/s) dir. Fran?ois Truffaut; stars Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
1815 *The Nasty Girl* (1990, Filmverlag der Autoren, 92 min) PREMIERE #2 dir. Paul Verhoeven; stars Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard M?ller, Monika Baumgartner
Monday night: TCM must be under new management
2000 *The Outlas Josey Wales* (1976, WB, 135 min, p/s) dir Philip Kaufman replaced by Clint Eastwood; stars Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
Short: Searchers For a Special City
2230 *The Train* (1964, UA, 140 min, p/s) dir. Arthur Penn replaced by John Frankenheimer; stars Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
0100 *55 Days at Peking* (1963, Bronston, 154 min, p/s) dir. Anthony Mann replaced by Guy Green; stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
0345 *The Cincinnati Kid* (1965, MGM, 102 min) dir. Sam Peckinpah replaced by Norman Jewison; stars Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell
Short: Lionpower from MGM (1967, MGM, 27 min)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Those of us who dispute the end of TCM are just part of the clique
0600 *The Group* (1966, 150 min, p/s) dir. Sidney Lumet; stars Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman
0830 *Ocean's Eleven* (1960, Dorchester, 127 min, p/s) dir. Lewis Milestons; stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
Or maybe we're in on the conspiracy theory
1045 *Seven Days in May* (1964, Seven Arts, 118 min, p/s) dir. John Frankenheimer; stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
1245 *The Parallax View* (1974, Paramount, 102 min, p/s) dir. Alan J. Pakula; stars Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels
Or maybe we've been brainwashed
1430 *Return to Witch Mountain* (1978, Disney, 95 min, p/s) dir. John Hough; stars Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards
1615 *Telefon* (1977, MGM, 102 min) dir. Don Siegel ; stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasance)
1800 *The Ipcress File* (1965, Rank, 109 min, p/s) dir. Sidney Furie; stars Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
Star of the Month: Rod Taylor
2000 *101 Dalmatians* (1961, Disney, 79 min) PREMIERE #3 dir. Clyde Geronimi; stars Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson
2130 *Hotel* (1967, WB, 124 min, p/s) dir. Richard Quine; stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Melvyn Douglas
2345 *Young Cassidy* (1965, MGM, 110 min) dir. Jack Cardiff; stars Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
0145 *36 Hours* (1965, MGM, 115 min) dir. George Seaton; stars James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
0345 *The VIPs* (1963, MGM, 120 min) dir. Anthony Asquith; stars Rod Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Short: Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean (1966, 10 min)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
TCM shows the same stuff over and over
0600 *Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number* (1966, Edward Small, 99 min, p/s) dir. George Marshall, stars Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller
0745 *Viva Las Vegas* (1964, MGM, 85 min) dir. George Sidney, stars Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova
0915 *Major Dundee* (1965, Columbia, 136 min, p/s) dir. Sam Peckinpah, stars Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton
Short: TCM on Letterboxing (5 min)
1145 *A Thousand Clowns* (1968, 118 min, p/s) dir. Fred Coe, stars Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Barbara Harris
1345 *Mister Buddwing* (1966, MGM, 100 min) dir. Delbert Mann, stars James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette
1530 *Ice Station Zebra* (1968, MGM, 148 min) dir. John Sturges; stars Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
1800 *Bunny Lake is Missing* (1965, Columbia, 107 min, p/s) dir. Otto Preminger, stars Laurence Olivier, Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley
Short: TCM on Letterboxing (5 min)
Set in pubs:
2000 *My Fair Lady* (1964, WB, 170 min) dir. George Cukor, stars Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
2300 *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning* (1960, Woodfall, 89 min, p/s) dir. Karel Reisz, stars Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
0045 *Withnail and I* (1987, Hand Made, 107 min, p/s) dir. Bruce Robinson, stars Richard Grant, Paul McGann
0245 *Frenzy* (1972, Universal, 116 min, p/s) dir. Alfred Hitchcock, stars Jon Finch, Alex McCowen, Anna Massey
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
For those of you who don't like "new" movies, here are some movies about old Hollywood
0445 *Hearts of the West* (1975, MGM, 102 min), dir. Howard Zieff; stars Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasance
0630 *Targets* (1968, Saticoy, 90 min, p/s) dir. Peter Bogdanovich, stars Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
0800 *The Carpetbaggers* (1964, Embassy, 150 min, p/s) dir. Edward Dmytryk; stars George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker
1045 *The Legend of Lylah Clare* (1968, Associates and Aldrich, 130 min, p/s) dir. Robert Aldrich, stars Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine
1300 *Frances* (1982, Brooksfilms, 140 min, p/s) dir. Graeme Clifford; stars Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard
1530 *Harlow* (1965, Paramound, 125 min) PREMIERE #4 dir. Gordon Douglas, stars Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Angela Lansbury
1745 *Gable and Lombard* (1976, Universal, 131 min) PREMIERE #5 dir. ; stars James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Red Buttons
What America means to me: Fighting police corruption
2000 *The Detective* (1968, Fox, 114 min) PREMIERE #6 dir. Gordon Douglas, stars Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Tony Musante
2200 *Witness* (1985, Paramount, 112 min) PREMIERE #7 dir. Peter Wier; stars Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer
0000 *Serpico* (1973, Paramount, 130 min, p/s) dir. Sidney Lumet; stars Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
0215 *Soylent Green* (1973, MGM, 97 min) dir. Richard Fleischer; stars Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28
For those of you who like the old stars, here are some New movies with old stars
0400 *The Black Stallion* (1979, UA, 118 min, p/s) dir. Carroll Ballard, stars Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno, Teri Garr
0600 *The Cassandra Crossing* (1976, Associated General, 129 min, p/s) dir. George P. Cosmatos; stars Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Lionel Stander
0815 *Airport* (1970, Universal, 137 min, p/s) dir. ; stars Burt Lancaster, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin
1045 *One Is a Lonely Number* (1972, MGM, 97 min) dir. Mel Stuart; stars Trish Van Devere, Janet Leigh, Melvyn Douglas
1230 *Fool's Parade* (1971, Columbia, 98 min, p/s) dir. Andrew V. McLaglen; stars James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter
1415 *Rooster Cogburn* (1975, Universal, 108 min, p/s) dir. Stuart Millar; stars John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe
1615 *Grumpy Old Men* (1993, WB, 103 min, p/s) dir. Donald Petrie; stars Jack Lemmon, Walther Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
1800 *Harry in Your Pocket* (1973, UA, 103 min, p/s) dir. Bruce Geller; stars James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Walter Pidgeon
1945 Carson on TCM: Fred Astaire
Friday night spotlight: How movies look at television
2000 *Network* (1976, MGM, 121 min, p/s) dir. Sidney Lumet; stars Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
2215 *The Sunshine Boys* (1975, MGM, 111 min) dir. Herbert Ross; stars Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
0015 *Being There* (1979, 130 min, p/s) dir. Hal Ashby; stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
0230 *Tootsie* (1982, Columbia, 116 min, p/s) dir. Sydney Pollack; stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning
0430 *Twist Around the Clock* (1961, 86 min) dir. Oscar Rudolph; stars Chubby Checker, John Cronin, Mary Mitchell
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Old movies with new stars
0600 *The Great Waltz* (1972, MGM, 135 min) dir. Andrew L. Stone; stars Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, Nigel Patrick
Short: Redd Foxx Becomes a Star
0830 *The Champ* (1979, MGM, 121 min) dir. Franco Zeffirelli; stars Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroeder
1045 *International Velvet* (1978, MGM, 127 min) dir. Bryan Forbes; stars Nanette Newman, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins
1300 *The Wiz* (1978, Universal, 134 min, p/s) dir. Sidney Lumet; stars Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell
Short: A Cinderella Named Elizabeth (1965, 7 min)
1530 *A Star is Born* (1976, WB, 139 min) PREMIERE #8 dir. Frank Pierson; stars Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
1800 *The Jazz Singer* (1980, EMI, 115 min) PREMIERE #9 dir. Richard Fleischer; stars Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz
The TCM boards are one happy family
2000 *The Wrong Box* (1966, Columbia, 105 min, p/s) dir. Bryan Forbes; stars Michael Caine, John Mills, Ralph Richardson
Short: The Million Hare (1963, WB, 6 min)
2200 *Our Mother's House* (1967, MGM, 104 min) dir. Jack Clayton; stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
Short: All Eyes on Sharon Tate
0000: *The Damned* (1969, 156 min) PREMIERE #10 dir. Luchino Visconti; stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
TCM Underground:
0245 *Breakin'* (1984, 90 min, exempt) dir. Joel Silberg; stars Lucinda Dickey, Shabba Doo, Michael "Boogallo Shrimp" Chambers
0430 *Lambada* (1990, 104 min, exempt) dir. Joel Silberg; stars J. Eddie Peck, Melorda Hardin, Shabba Doo
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> I'm highly dubious of all these new posters who register, make one or two posts saying they're unhappy about something at TCM, sometimes creating lengthy, lively threads, and yet the original poster is never heard from again for the rest of eternity.
You'll notice once again that the OP registered eight months ago despite having a total number of posts in the single digits. You'd think somebody who was enough of a fan of TCM to sign up months and months ago would have been watching long enough to see how little of a change there's really been.
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> When my son Jake was about 5 (Christmas '96),
I've got a nephew who would also have been 5 at Christmas '96, but I think the story involving him might be from a year earlier. His parents (my sister and her husband) taught him to be gracious when opening his Christmas gifts. That year, somebody in the family bought him some battery-operated toy, except that whoever got him that present wrapped the batteries separately and put that small package on top of the box with the toy in it. So the nephew takes the little package and unwraps the batteries.
At this point, he holds the batteries up so everybody in the room can see them, and says, "Just what I *ALWAYS WANTED* !" Poor kid couldn't figure out why everybody was laughing so hard.
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Somebody else already mentioned Sarafian being included, but I'm 98% certain Michael Winner was included as well.
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> You see, TCM is not an ADULT FILM CHANNEL. It is a FAMILY CHANNEL.
It wasn't that many generations ago that Laura Ingalls grew up in that little house on the prairie. I'm sure she heard the bumping and grinding of the sex that Charles and Caroline had which produced her three younger siblings.
More related to classic movies, there's a contraception joke in *Yours, Mine, and Ours*, too.
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Technically, isn't the last scene Agnes Moorehead saying that the Eleanor Parker character will be back? (Or is it another character?)
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Because every other news outlet does their year-end retrospective in December?
Flipping through the channels this morning, I saw a commercial on MSNBC asking viewers to vote for their favorite moments from one of their hosts' shows (I think it was Rachel Maddow, but which one it was is beside the point) in 2013. Those evil blankety-blanks! Don't they know they should wait until January to do it?
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> lz, several people here need to get over the very bad habit of telling people that they are always wrong if they don't like exactly what those people like.
I agree. I think we all need to take a step back and think that perhaps the people who liked the movies that accompanied The Story of Film, and even 1960s and later movies in general, might have a point.
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> A quick glance at the actual schedule shows that is not the case at all. *The Golden Years* is a short. It is being showcased with other short films in the late night/early wee hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning.
More specifically, this is the end of the weekly TCM Underground spot. For quite some time now if there's extra time left after the feature-length movies, they've been showing non-mainstream shorts, such as *Perversion for Profit*. If an industrial short like the sort I remember seeing in shop class shows up from time to time as part of the oddball shorts, it seems relatively fitting to me. They could also show *The Case Agasint the 20% Admissions Tax*, which has shown up in between movies once in a while in other dayparts.
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Apparently the most complete print of *Mysterious Island* (the 1929 part-talkie starring Lionel Barrymore), or should I say one more complete than the previously known prints, has been discovered [in a Czech film archive|http://www.radio.cz/en/section/arts/us-film-historians-find-treasure-in-czech-archive].
If you want to listen to the interview instead of reading a transcript, there's a link [here|http://media.blubrry.com/radio_prague_media/rebel.radio.cz/mp3/podcast/en/arts/us-film-historians-find-treasure-in-czech-archive.mp3] to an MP3 file that's about 5.1MB and 11 minutes.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled bickering about movies made after 1960.
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> Two identical threads created on the same day at the same time in two different forums
And by a poster who's been around for over 18 months, at least according to the sign-up date. You'd think anybody around that long would know better.
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My first that was, another movie set in the 1960s?
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> I don't see the big deal. If they miss someone, they can just include them the following year, as they did with Harry Carey Jr. this year.
And Jack Klugman and Charles Durning.
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Remember the 1956 WB version of *Helen of Troy* filmed in Italy? Rossana Podest?, who played Helen in that movie despite having to learn her lines phonetically since she didn't speak English (at least according to Wikipedia), has died at the age of 79. She was also in the Kirk Douglas version of *Ulysses*, although obviously not in the title role. ;-)
I'm sorry to say that the only obituary I could find [is in Italian|http://ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/spettacolo/2013/12/10/Morta-Rossana-Podesta-_9756364.html].
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> But movies made in the 1930s set in previous eras typically featured actors with 1930s hairstyles although sometimes there were modifications to SUGGEST the style of the time of the story . . . but these were always grounded in the time when the movie was made.
I noticed this when I was watching *Back Pay* a couple of weeks ago. A 1930 film set in the World War I era, and the cars look much too modern. (I don't know enough about the different hairstyles of the teens and 30s.)
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Nora Charles: What hit me?
Nick Charles: The sixth martini.
*The House Across the Street* is pretty much the same story as *Love Is on the Air*, Ronald Reagan's debut movie which is coming on on December 14. Both are remakes of *Hi Nellie* starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell.
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Yes; Connery was Star of the Month that month.
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> The other funny thing is that the two more recent threads, this one included have had their start with relative newcomers to the message board. And yet after they started the threads neither one of the OP's have bothered to come back and correspond with the rest of us. I wonder what that says of them?
Nitpick: I believe that these people are infrequent posters, but their registration dates have been quite a few months ago. Which implies that they should know enough about TCM to know better, yet still complain.
I kind of wonder whether some of these are sock puppets of posters who have been banned under other user names.
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I think *Tom Jones* and *The Loved One* are part of a Friday Night Spotlight of food/cooking scenes. It would certainly explain the presence of *Eat Drink Man Woman* and *Christmas in Connecticut* on Friday nights. Oh, and the last three films on the 28th. :-)
Louis Wolheim day (at least, I think that's the morning/afternoon of the 28th).
*Zardoz* in TCM Underground!
*Anna Lucasta*. (Although, I'd be interested in seeing the original version.)
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> Do the "suits" read these boards, or are we just wasting our figurative breath?
I hope they read the boards and laugh at all of us (myself included). :-)
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Ida Lupino [has already been Star of the Month|http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article/173825%7C173826/Robert-Osborne-on-Ida-Lupino.html]. Either June or July 2007, I think.
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Actually, I think *It's a Wonderful Life* is back under copyright, thanks to one of the recent Disney Copyright Extension Acts. I don't remember the full details, though.
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I believe there was a DVD release in Europe as part of a Terry-Thomas collection.
And yes, it is a great movie. "Is this the place with the illegal gambling?" Or the use of memorable movie music.
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A little-known fact is that the woman who was the face for healthcare.gov is actually Manti Teo's girlfriend. ;-)
TCM Programming Challenge #24: "O Say Can You See"
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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NOTES ON A SCHEDULE
With The Story of Film showing up over the past several months, especially once it reached the 1960s, there was a lot of complaining about TCM's programming here on the TCM boards. Dozens and dozens of threads, it seems. There was a part of me that wanted to tell these people to {long, long string of expletives deleted}, but I decided to channel my energy into something else: coming up with a schedule for the Programming Challenge. If they don't like one movie released after Jan. 1, 1960, why not blow their minds with an entire week of such films?
They'll probably say this is the end of TCM as we know it, so there are some movies whose titles suggest finality to kick things off on Sunday. Except for *Cinema Paradiso*, which is there because it has a scene of a movie theater burning down, which I figured was somehow appropriate. The second half of the SUnday afternoon/evening schedule should be self-explanatory, other than the Franciscans being a mendicant order. I'm not certain they wore sackcloth, but it was the best I could do.
The Story of Film showed that there are posters here who hate hate hate "pretentious" foreign films, and seemingly think only Hollywood movies can be "classic", so I picked a day's worth of interesting foreign films from all around the world. Thankfully, last July's Truffaut spotlight gave me a movie I could use here, as did The Story of Film; *Babette's Feast* is on the March 2014 schedule for a Friday Night Spotlight of movie food scenes.
Somebody suggested that all the post-1960 movies must be because TCM is under new managment or something. So I came up with a night of movies under new management, or at least where the director was replaced. I suppose that counts as new management of a sort.
Those of us who aren't shrieking about the putative end of TCM have been accused of being part of a clique, so why not include a movie about a clique of Vassar graduates, followed by a movie starring Hollywood's most famous clique, the Rat Pack? If they're going to accuse us of being a clique, why don't they accuse us of being part of a conspiracy? Or just of being brainwashed?
For Star of the Month, I had to pick somebody who made several movies after 1960, and with the allowing of Disney animated films, I picked Rod Taylor, the voice of Pongo in *101 Dalmatians*.
Somebody else complained about all the repeats, so I scheduled several frequently-aired movies on Wednesday. TCM even shows some of the shorts too much.
The last two movies on Wednesday afternoon have scenes set in British pubs, although I think the opening scene in *Ice Station Zebra* is set in Scotland. However, it's a good segue into the required theme of movies set in English pubs.
Finally on Thanksgiving we get to the old movies, or at least movies dealing with old Hollywood. (Boris Karloff plays an old movie star in *Targets*, and snippets of his film *The Criminal Code* show up on a TV broadcast.) Some are fictuional, some are purportedly biographical.
Tursday night sees the required theme of movies dealing with the meaning of America, for which I decided to spotlight people (actually, they're all police officers) who go up against police corruption.
On Friday, we have a day full of old-time stars -- people who started in the 1930s or earlier -- in movies released in the 1970s or later.
TCM being a TV channel for the movies, I figured why not have the Friday night spotlight look at the way Hollywood has viewed TV. Filming a TV special is part of the plot of *The Sunshine Boys* and *Twist Around the Clock*, while Peter Sellers learns about the world by watching TV in *Being There*. This spotlight could in other weeks go as far back as the late 1930s with *Five of a Kind*, in which the plot uses a TV hookup to show scenes of the Dionne quintuplets to an audience in a big-city theater.
On Friday, I gave you some old actors in recent movies; on Saturday you get some old movies, updated with newer actors! And since this board is really just one big happy family, why not have Saturday night be some similarly happy families? Finally, if you're worried about the end of TCM, why not dance your worries away with some of the post-1980 dance crazes? There's break dancing, and then the craze of 1990, the Lambada. (I don't think there was a macaraena-themed movie.) I didn't realize when I picked these two that they were directed by the same man and cast Shabba Doo.
For once, I actually used the limit of 10 premieres:
*Marathon Man*
*The Nasty Girl*
*101 Dalmatians*
*Harlow*
*Gable and Lombard*
*The Detective*
*Witness*
*A Star is Born* (1976)
*The Jazz Singer* (1980)
*The Damned*