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Jeremiah Johnson
(liked being left alone)
- your dream prom date
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Magnificent Seven
-first film star who surprised you when they debuted in their own TV series
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Ellen Corby played 'Grandma' in The Waltons
- film actor who won Tony as best actor
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Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore singing "Tess's Torch Song"
a duet from the movie Up in Arms (1945)
next - a Desi Arnaz solo
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"...........Horror films remain perennially popular, despite periodic (and always exaggerated) rumors of their demise, even in the face of steadily declining ticket sales and desperately shifting models of distribution.
Into the new millennium, horror films have retained their power to shock and outrage by continuing to plumb our deepest primordial terrors and incarnate our sickest, most socially unpalatable fantasies. They are, in what amounts to a particularly delicious irony, a “safe space” in which we can explore these otherwise unfathomable facets of our true selves, while yet consoling ourselves with the knowledge that “it’s only a movie.”
At the same time, the genre manages to find fresh and powerful metaphors for where we’re at as a society and how we endure fractious, fearful times. For every eviscerated remake or toothless throwback, there’s a startlingly fresh take on the genre’s most time-honored tropes; for every milquetoast PG-13 compromise, there’s a ferocious take-no-prisoners attempt to push the envelope on what we can honestly say about ourselves. And some of our favorites are currently streaming on Netflix.......
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/best-horror-movies-on-netflix-streaming/
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SUN., 5-15
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4:15am
Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise".........The screenplay, by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon (based on the 1956 Glenn Ford movie of the same name), also hints at depths of Gibson's character: He's a self-made man with a temper, who needs to control it in order to win. But the movie sets up more elements than it deals with................Howard is a director who specializes in movies about tension within large groups of people (his credits include “Backdraft,” “Apollo 13” and “The Paper”). Here again he chooses a large canvas, and fills it with a lot of characters. The movie would have benefitted from a tight rewrite (it is too ambitious in including plot threads it doesn't have time to deal with), but Gibson's strong central performance speeds it along....12:30 SILENT SUNDAY......am
"......star actress Tamae returns to Japan to reunite with her daughter Shigeko, whom she left behind with her then husband Atsumi in favour of her career. In her absence, Atsumi has married again, and the bond between Shigeko and her stepmother Masako has grown as strong as between a blood-related child and mother. .......".......Narratively the film seems nothing remarkable or incredibly special, but Naruse’s clever and playful use of editing and camera technique is incredibly revealing. Of the twenty-four silent films Naruse made in 1930-1934 , only five remain. No Blood Relations is from the middle of that grouping of films, which makes it difficult to fit into his overall body of work since many of the films surrounding it are lost (many Japanese films were destroyed after WWII).When compared to a director like Yasujiro Ozu, Naruse’s camera technique is radical. He uses whip-pans, quick cuts, axial cuts, and a looming and moving camera.........This film is nothing incredibly special from a narrative standpoint, but is incredibly revealing of Naruse as an artist and individual filmmaker. No Blood Relation, on a surface level, seems no great cinematic revelation, but with only the slightest look a bit deep one will find an artist working within a simple melodrama and pushing himself from a technical standpoint. ....
SEE: https://theprojectionbooth.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/no-blood-relation-1932-dir-mikio-naruse/
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late FRI., 5-13 Underground......
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2:00am
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Enemy Mine
- funniest Silent film?
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2 hours ago, BamaDillert said:
Anne Baxter
next:
big Broadway star but was never a huge star in films
Christine Ebersole
-film star who flopped on Broadway
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late SUN., 5-8 Silent Sunday........
Von Stroheim's classic epic
12:30am
".....Stroheim said of Greed "..........I felt they had become weary of insipid pollyanna stories, with their doll-like heroines steeped in eternal virginity, and their hairless, flat-chested sterile heroes who were as lily-white as the heroines. I had graduated from the D. W. Griffith school of film-making and intended to go the Master one better as regards film realism. I knew that everything could be done with film, the only medium which could reproduce life as it really was."
The production and eventual mutilation of Greed is one of the more complicated episodes in Hollywood history. .... -
late SUN. 5-8, early Mon. TCM Imports........
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4:30am
Caustic, feisty, and lazy English professor Butley is having a very bad day. A much younger woman challenges his ascendancy at work, his ex-wife announces her marriage to a man he cannot stand, and his male lover tells him that he is leaving him for another man. .".........The Alan Bates performance reminded me of how good he was in a movie that never got a proper American playoff, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.” He gives the character so much spirit that the material never feels as depressing as it sounds. We get the feeling that here’s one old campaigner who will stay on his feet no matter what, and give the bastards as good as he gets.The supporting cast (especially Richard O’Callaghan as Joey) is also good, and Pinter’s direction moves with such awareness of what the play is about that we’re hardly conscious of any sense of filmed theater. ..........MON., 5-9pm
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. .....".......... it's best characterized not as an Alice Faye or a Carmen Miranda movie, but as a Busby Berkeley movie. It is far and away dominated by Berkeley's consistent visual inventiveness, be it his kaleidoscopic and geometric overhead shots, his knockout color schemes, his special effects, or just by the props and objects that he places in the frame. ........-
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FRI., 5-6
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Murder on Diamond Row (1937) aka "The Squeaker"London's thieves are at the mercy of a super fence, who is in on every big jewellery robbery in the city. If the thieves won't split the loot with him, 'The Squeaker' shops them to the Police. A disgraced ex-detective believes there may be an opportunity to clear his name if he can capture 'The Squeaker'."........Radio Times wrote, "Edgar Wallace's classic whodunnit has been reworked into an efficient crime story by producer Alexander Korda...Confined within starchy studio sets, William K Howard directs steadily, but the removal of that touch of mystery leaves him with precious little to play with, to the extent that he has to bolster the action with protracted love scenes between Lowe and Ann Todd. Robert Newton and Alastair Sim put in pleasing support appearances".........====================================================late SAT., 5-6 NOIR ALLEY...............12:15am
Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash. The rich Harkness in-laws, and their other son Bill, had never seen Patrice, so they accept her ....."........... Like so many films before it, but more acutely than, say, Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel or Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (both from 1945), Leisen's semi-noir paints a deft portrait of suburban paradise, only to lift the carpets and examine the social stratum's bloody costs and repressed anxiety. Even during the finale, which typically pulls a few rabbits out of a hat and absolves Stanwyck from any technical culpability, the film is eloquently conflicted and tellingly guilt-ridden. "-
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9:15pm (ET)
Documentary (54 min.)".........., Hollywood both faces and self-generates an ongoing series of issues surrounding how Asian stories are told, who plays Asian characters and why, after so many years, it still blames audiences for an appalling lack of Asian representation. Through interviews with film historians and actors, the Kuperbergs posit that much of the problem stems from three major issues: The perception that Asian culture is a monolith; socio-political detritus—including the long dead puritanical streak Hollywood once had; and leftover World War II feelings spurred by propaganda—and the tired crap and pablum from the era of the Hays Code, which wouldn’t allow for interracial romance, sexual content, etc. ........-
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"I Won't Grow Up" from Peter Pan 1955 broadcast w/Mary Martin
- song remembered from 1st musical you saw in a movie theater
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"Lady with Red Hair" (1940) with Claude Rains teaching Miriam Hopkins
- 1st foreign film (w/subtitles) you remember
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late SUN., 5-1 TCM IMPORTS.........
4:45am (ET )
A picaresque story of the coach and party that followed hard on the one which tried to transport Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to safety in 1791. ............And what if the travelers represented a Who's Who of second-rank nobility, intellectuals and notorious celebrities? What if, indeed, they included Casanova, that aging rake; Tom Paine, the radical American pamphleteer; Restif de la Bretonne, the first pornographer; and a countess from the king's household?....."....... A series of vignettes, made delicious by the top-class characterisation and dialogue, contribute to moving the plot along as well as giving the viewer some light relief which however never loses sight of the breathless atmosphere of those revolutionary times.
Mastroianni as the self-deprecating, tired, aging Casanova is a treat from the very first frame he graces to the last. This legendary actor has always brought a unique depth of humanity to his roles, but despite all the other fine actors and characters in this film I just couldn't have imagined it without him..........-
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Supporting Ladies only please
in Games and Trivia
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Brown was in The Late George Apley 1947, with Edna Best