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Tues., 3-10 for UNDER-APPRECIATED SONGWRITERS
WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN ........
(times ET)
8:00 PMB/W - 80 m
It's Love Again (1936)Synopsis:
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Jessie Matthews , Robert Young , Sonnie Hale ."It's Love Again (1936) was Gaumont-British's attempt to sell their quintessentially British star, Jessie Matthews, to the American public. To do this, they created a Hollywood-style film, written by an American writer, Marion Dix, directed by Victor Saville, a British filmmaker who had worked extensively in Hollywood, and co-starring Hollywood leading man Robert Young. Paradoxically, Gaumont-British used the film to reinforce how shallow they thought Hollywood was......."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79586/It-s-Love-Again/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Victor Saville. Robert Young, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Ernest Milton, Robb Wilton, Sara Allgood.
Lighter-than-air musical-comedy vehicle for Matthews following her success with Saville on EVERGREEN. Young is wise-guy publicity man who dreams up idea of creating an imaginary socialite, until Matthews steps out of the chorus line to fill the role. Funny, charming and imaginatively done, with several pleasant songs.
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10:00 PMB/W - 90 m
Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)Synopsis:
Dir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: June Haver , George Montgomery , Vivian Blaine .see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93110/Three-Little-Girls-in-Blue/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 H. Bruce Humberstone. June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm, Vera-Ellen, Frank Latimore, Charles Smith.
Colorful tale of three sisters out to trap wealthy husbands; familiar plot with good tunes like "You Make Me Feel So Young.'' A remake of THREE BLIND MICE and MOON OVER MIAMI, set in turn of the century Atlantic City. Holm's film debut.
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Ava DuVernay Is Developing ‘Wings Of Fire’ Series Adaptation With Warner Bros. Animation
By Alex Dudok de Wit | 03/09/2020 2:50 pm | 0
Ava DuVernay, the acclaimed filmmaker known for her work in live action, has teamed up with Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) to develop the animated family tv series Wings of Fire.
Here are the details:
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Sun., 3-8
12:00 AM (ET) Silent Sundays........B/W - 87 m
Siren of the Tropics (1929)Synopsis: A native of the French Antilles follows the man she loves to Paris where she becomes the toast of the city.
Dir: Henri Étiévant Cast: Josephine Baker , Regina Thomas , Pierre Batcheff .
"....... it received almost unanimously positive reviews from film critics. The film was screened from December 1927 until July 1928, which was considered an exceptionally long running time. Most of these positive reviews focused on Baker's body, comparing her agile movements to those of animals. Following her positive reception in Siren of the Tropics and increased public interest surrounding her, Baker published an autobiography called "Les mémoirs de Josephine Baker." Following the film's very successful premiere, Baker also had a doll made in her likeness and sold in Stockholm, and starred in a toothpaste commercial.[3] This positive reception of Baker's feature film debut set the stage for her starring roles in the films Zouzou (1934) and Princesse Tam-Tam (1935). "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_of_the_Tropics
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2:00 AM (ET) TCM Imports.........B/W - 94 m
Insiang (1979)Synopsis: Slum life for pretty young Insiang (Hilda Koronel) is an ugly trap. She and her mother Tonya (Mona Lisa) do laundry for a living; their home is a shack constructed from scraps of metal and cardboard. It's a harsh world, ...........
Dir: Lino Brocka Cast: Hilda Koronel , Mona Lisa , Ruel Vernal .
".....Brocka said that he had structured Insiang as a tragedy, and that his intention was "to show the annihilation of a human being, the loss of human dignity caused by the physical and social environment and to point out the need to change these life conditions."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/524891/Insiang/articles.html
& happy to see return of Silents + Imports!!
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Remembering Robert Osborne today with this 2012 article about his "Secret Favorite Movies."
I've watched about half of the films so far since saving the list a few years ago, and they're unsurprisingly wonderful.
https://thedailybeast.com/robert-osbornes-secret-favorite-movies
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
Another wasted month. At least Noir Alley is back.......
& SILENTS, IMPORTS + Underground!!
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Tues., 3-3 for AAFCA PRESENTS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE ON FILM........
11:30 PM (ET)B/W - 101 minSynopsis: gospel music as performed by church choirs and special vocalists. Performance sequences are interspersed with interview testimony, focusing on two talented old-timers that helped originate the gospel movement back in the 1930s.
Dir: George T Nierenberg Cast: Sallie Martin , Charles White , Edgar O'Neal .
...... Roger Ebert called the film "joyful ... one of the best musicals and one of the most interesting documentaries. And it's also a terrific good time.".....
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/482928/Say-Amen-Somebody-The-Good-News-Musical/articles.html
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early Mon., 3-2
6:00 AM (ET)B/W - 91 m
Card, The (1952) (aka "The Promoter")Synopsis: Henry, the earnest young son of a washerwoman, uses his wits, and occasional sleight of hand, to become the most successful man in town.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Alec Guinness , Glynis Johns , Petula Clark .
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Ronald Neame. Cast: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark, Edward Chapman.
Charming comedy about a likable but penniless young man who sees how to get ahead in the world--and seizes his opportunity. Script by Eric Ambler from Arnold Bennett's story The Card, also its title in England.
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(Thanks, Lorna)
Fri., 2-27
8:00 PM (ET)
Broken Lance (1954)Synopsis:
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Spencer Tracy , Robert Wagner , Jean Peters .LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Edward Dmytryk. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O'Brian, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, E. G. Marshall.
Tracy is superlative in tight-knit script (by Richard Murphy, from an Oscar-winning Philip Yordan story) about patriarchal rancher who finds he's losing control of his cattle empire and his family is fragmenting into warring factions. Remake of HOUSE OF STRANGERS (although it owes more to King Lear!). CinemaScope.
".......it was well received at the time by audiences and critics. The New York Times deemed it "refreshingly serious" and trade paper Variety called it a "topnotch Western drama. Scenes of breathtaking beauty...are captured by Joe McDonald's [sic] exceptional use of the C'Scope lens. This footage shows a grown-up CinemaScope, a process that has lived up to the promise of the pioneer The Robe (1953)... Wagner does his best work yet [and] Widmark's gift for menace rates a hackle-raising display."
In addition to Jurado's Best Supporting Actress nomination, Broken Lance won the Oscar for Best Story........see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69764/Broken-Lance/articles.html
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kinda Boring, til Mon., 2-24...........
12:15 PM
La Ronde ( 1950)
A series of inter-related affairs link lovers from all levels of society.
Dir: Max Ophüls Cast: Anton Walbrook , Danielle Darrieux , Simone Signoret .
BW- 93 mins,
2:00 PM
Young Girls of Rochefort, The ( 1967)
Twin sisters who each want to find romance befriend a couple of visiting carnival workers.
Dir: Jacques Demy Cast: Catherine Deneuve , Françoise Dorléac , George Chakiris .
C- 127 mins, Letterbox Format
4:15 PM
Le Plaisir ( 1954)
Three stories explore the intersection of pleasure, purity and sex.
Dir: Max Ophüls Cast: Jean Gabin , Madeleine Renaud , Danielle Darrieux .
BW- 98 mins,
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22 hours ago, mr6666 said:
okay, that may justify CGI in those 2 scenes..........
but what about the REST of the movie??
NO talented, trainable DOGS available??
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Fri., 2-21
10:30 PM (ET)B/W - 114 m
TV-MAHours, The (2002)Synopsis: tells the story of three generations of women impacted by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway...
Dir: Stephen Daldry Cast: Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore , Meryl Streep .
"In addition to David Hare's Academy Award-nominated screenplay, The Hours features an incredibly impressive cast, including strong performances by three of Hollywood's top actresses: Nicole Kidman (Virginia Woolf), Julianne Moore (Laura Brown) and Meryl Streep (Clarissa Vaughan), as well as supporting performances ..........
The popularity and critical praise for the novel The Hours and its film adaptation was completely unexpected by both Michael Cunningham and his publisher. When asked if he knew he had written a bestseller and that it would be adapted to a feature-length film, Cunningham said, "Neither I nor anyone involved with the book--my publisher, my agent--thought anything about this: this is my arty little novel, it will sell a few thousand copies and then march with whatever dignity it can muster to the remainders tables. And, really, everything that's happened has been a surprise."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/439834/Hours-The/articles.html
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okay, that may justify CGI in those 2 scenes..........
but what about the REST of the movie??
NO talented, trainable DOGS available??
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Canadian Screen Awards (@TheCdnAcademy) 2020:
All The Animation Nominees.
See the list here: https://cartoonbrew.com/awards/canadia
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‘Call of the Wild’ Review: Harrison Ford’s Digital-Dog Day Afternoon
New version of Jack London’s classic man-meets-dog adventure digitizes its canine hero—and loses something vital in the process
"Maybe it’s a sign of times that Harrison Ford is sharing a screen with a digital dog. Why use a real canine when a computer can make certain that a pixelated pup performs according to SAG rules and not his actual nature? You can hear the voices of future filmmakers, echoing throughout the Hollywood Hills: “Get more feeling into the mutt’s eyes.” “Make him run faster than a real dog can!” That’s the case in The Call of the Wild, the umpteenth screen version of Jack London’s classic 1903 adventure novel .........
Luckily, Ford is at his droll, grumpy-old-man best, so he can do his own acting without having his emotions computer generated. At least for now.....
director Chris Sanders makes his live-action debut in a film that too often feels like a cartoon in the manner of his previous films Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. It’s understandable that you wouldn’t want to put an actual dog in scenes that require a dangerous underwater rescue and an escape from a life-crushing avalanche. But something is missing here. .....
the feeling persists that a real dog could have closed the emotional gap that technology puts between illusion and reality (last year’s photorealistic take on The Lion King had the same distancing problem). Digital slight-of-hand makes a poor substitute for all things bright and beautiful. Faking it is no answer to Jack London’s call of the wild — or an audience’s call for astonishment.........
-Disappointing.........
Enough already with director's obsession w/UNNECESSARY CGI characters & Location creation!!
are they CHEAP, LAZY or What??
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For the first time that we can remember, both the Oscar-winning animation and live-action shorts are available to view online immediately following their wins.ANIMATION: Hair Love https://youtu.be/kNw8V_Fkw28LIVE-ACTION:The Neighbors’ Window
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Fri., 2-14
8:00 PM (ET)B/W - 155 m
TV-14
Closed
CaptionsFirm, The (1993)Synopsis: follows hotshot young law student Mitch McDeere (Cruise) as he is wooed by every major law firm in America during his final year in Harvard Law School. Along with his schoolteacher wife Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), they turn down the big coastal firms to take a job in Memphis with Bendini, Lambert & Locke, led with regal authority by Oliver Lambert (Hal Holbrook). They offer him the highest salary and a familial atmosphere that appeals to Mitch, who grew up in a broken home and had to scrap his way to the top. But the firm has its secrets,.........
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise , Jeanne Tripplehorn , Gene Hackman .
".....While Cruise makes a sympathetic babyface hero, it's the conflicted Avery Tolar who is the heart of the film. A corrupted man exhausted by the toll of his crimes, Gene Hackman turns him into tragic collateral damage to the firm's moral-warping crimes. ............
The massive success of The Firm made Grisham adaptations a Hollywood addiction throughout the 1990s -............ There were seven total films made in the decade,.......
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/74979/Firm-The/articles.html
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Thurs., 2-13 for 31 DAYS OF OSCAR........
8:00 PM (ET)B/W - 82 mWhen Worlds Collide (1951)Synopsis: Scientists race against time to build a super rocket ship that can save a select group before the earth collides with another planet. Naturally, no one wants to be left behind for the final Armageddon.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Richard Derr , Barbara Rush , Peter Hanson .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide_(1951_film)
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Rudolph Mate. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, Larry Keating, John Hoyt.
Scientist tries to convince a doubting world that Earth is in path of rogue planet. Convince yourself this could happen and you'll have fun. Special effects (including submersion of Manhattan) won Oscar for this George Pal production. Based on the novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
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Kirk Douglas, RIP. Here’s The Greatest Animated Short Ever Made About Him.
"......if we had to choose just one piece of animation that best embodies the actor and honors his animation legacy, there’s no question it would have to be The Big Story.
This homage to the actor, in which multiple Douglases do verbal battle with each other, was created by British filmmakers Tim Watts and David Stoten, and would go on to win the 1994 BAFTA for best animated short. It was also nominated for a best animated short Oscar, and with a runtime of 1-minute-56-seconds (with credits), it ranks among the shortest animated films ever nominated for that honor. Frank Gorshin handled the vocal duties as Douglas. Watch a lo-res copy of the film below:
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I'll never forget meeting Kirk Douglas for a Q&A at the 2011
Film Festival. Don't recall which movie.
In the makeshift green room before, he beckons me. "I worked with your Uncle Joe on a picture."
"I know," I say. "Letter to 3 Wives." "No," says Kirk, "a western."
He's referring to "There Was a Crooked Man," with Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn & Lee Grant
. "Do you know what I learned making that picture?" he asks. "No," I say, already laughing because Kirk is grinning
. "I learned your uncle shouldn't have made a western."
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Our thoughts are with the friends and family of screen legend Kirk Douglas.
remembers him here:
Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103
The actor starred in such films as 'Champion,' 'The Bad and the Beautiful,' 'Lust for Life,' 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral' and 'Spartacus,' to name just a few.
Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday. He was 103.
“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” son Michael Douglas wrote on his Instagram account. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the Golden Age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.”...............
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Sat., 2-8 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: 360 DEGREES OF OSCAR............
2:00 AM (ET)B/W - 108 m
Bull Durham (1988)Synopsis: Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is an aging ball player who has been bouncing around the minors for a dozen years and is sent down to a single-A team in Durham, NC, to mentor a hotshot but wildly erratic young pitcher (Tim Robbins, in a breakthrough performance). Complications arise in the form of Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a passionate devotee in the "Church of Baseball" ...
Dir: Ron Shelton Cast: Kevin Costner , Susan Sarandon , Tim Robbins ."......very favorably reviewed, with New Yorker critic Pauline Kael saying it had "the kind of dizzying off-center literacy that Preston Sturges' pictures had. It's a satirical celebration of our native jauntiness and wit."......
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69864/Bull-Durham/articles.html
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NOT @online schedule.............
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Tonight: a post-apocalyptic double premiere beginning with DEATHSPORT (1978) at 2:00 am east / 11:00 pm westfollowed by CHERRY 2000 (1987) at 3:30 am east / 12:30 pm west!
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