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Oscar Animated Shorts Nominees: How Each Film Was Developed Narratively
By Alex Dudok de Wit | 01/28/2020 6:39 pm | 0
Outwardly eclectic, the five animated shorts up for this year’s Oscar actually make for the most complementary set of nominees in some time.
In different media and from different angles, they all examine a two-way relationship with great feeling. .................
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Oscar Animated Shorts Nominees: How Each Film Was Developed Narratively
By Alex Dudok de Wit | 01/28/2020 6:39 pm | 0
Outwardly eclectic, the five animated shorts up for this year’s Oscar actually make for the most complementary set of nominees in some time. In different media and from different angles, they all examine a two-way relationship with great feeling........
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Mon., 1-27 for TCM SPECIAL THEME: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ........
8:00 PM (ET)B/W - 276 m
TV-14
Shoah: Four Sisters (2018)Synopsis: the Shoah films are not about survival, but about death and horror on a cosmic scale, a scale we do not see but are forced to imagine, by way of the aging, weary, tremulous witnesses.
Cast: Ruth Elias , Paula Biren , Claude Lanzmann .
"....... Four Sisters is a quartet of such interviews, ...... the stories are similar, as you'd imagine: invasion, harassment, transport, camp life, the cunning fight for survival as you watch family and friends vanish on the trains or up in smoke, the emotional toll on staying alive as so many die. ........
This is a film project that's bigger than cinema, more vital than culture, burning with its own moral, existential necessity. .......
See: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2194715/Shoah-Four-Sisters/articles.html
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late Sun., 1-26 for TCM Imports..........
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2:00 AMB/W - 118 m
TV-MA
Night Porter, The (1974)Synopsis: takes place in 1957 Vienna where a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) is accidentally reunited with the SS officer (Dirk Bogarde) who was her torturer, protector and partner in a sadomasochistic relationship. He is now working the night shift in a fancy hotel and a reluctant member of a group of ex-SS seeking to hide their pasts by destroying documents and killing any possible witnesses to their war crimes. The two rekindle their twisted relationship in the porter's apartment until the Nazi cabal forces them into the open
Dir: Liliana Cavani Cast: Dirk Bogarde , Charlotte Rampling , Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu .
"..... "The Night Porter is a provocative and problematic film."
This mid-'70s picture fits pretty neatly into the pejorative category of what many have called "Nazi chic" or what critic Pauline Kael dubbed "Come-Dressed-as-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe parties." Indeed, as Insdorf points out, "it can be seen as an exercise in perversion and exploitation of the Holocaust for the sake of sensationalism." Reviewers at the time of the film's release were not so restrained, calling it "as nasty as it is lubricious...despicable" (Roger Ebert); "a piece of junk...romantic pornography" (Vincent Canby); and from Kael herself, "humanly and aesthetically offensive," granting it a dubious feminist distinction in proving that "women can make junk just like men." ...........see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84946/Night-Porter-The/articles.html
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4:00 AMB/W - 143 m
TV-MACome and See (1985)Synopsis: Aleksey Kravchenko plays a Belarussian teenager who longs to join the partisans fighting the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1943. When he digs up a buried rifle, word spreads and the partisans recruit him, ....... is separated from his unit and returns home, he finds his family slaughtered. He continues to witness Nazi atrocities as he serves, ........
Dir: Elem Klimov Cast: Aleksei Kravchenko , Liubomiras Laucevicius , Olga Mironova .
"...... J. Hoberman of The Village Voice called it "a robust art film with aspirations to the visionary....For the most part, [Klimov] prefers to show the Gorgon as reflected in Perseus's shield. There are few images more indelible than the sight of young [Aleksey] Kravchenko's fear-petrified expression." One unsolicited rave came from a German veteran who saw the film and deemed it a highly accurate representation of what his unit had done in the USSR during World War II. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. ......
the film's reputation has grown over the years. In 2010, Roger Ebert listed it among the great movies, calling it "one of the most devastating films ever made about anything." Writing in The Guardian, Tim Lott said the picture "makes Apocalypse Now look lightweight." ........
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71267/Come-and-See/articles.html
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Sat., 1-25 for Noir Alley..........
12:00 AMB/W - 92 m
TV-PGTry and Get Me! (1950)Synopsis:
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Frank Lovejoy , Kathleen Ryan , Richard Carlson .Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the film and discussed the political and social aspects of the film. He wrote, "Endfield's social consciousness film hits hard at uncontrolled violence in small-town America in much the same way as did Fritz Lang's Fury (also based on the same factual episode). Soon after making this film, the director was blacklisted because of his leftist positions on social and political issues. It's a superb characterization of America's thirst for crime and violence; one of the most powerful statements ever from a Hollywood film about the class divide in America and the yellow rag press that incites the public with poisonous newspaper coverage to sell papers. It calls attention to something about the 'cowboy attitude' in Americans that they don't like to acknowledge about themselves, but Europeans are quite aware of ..........."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Fury_(film)
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LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Cyril Endfield. Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke, Adele Jergens, Renzo Cesara.
Husband and father Lovejoy can't find a job, so he reluctantly helps slick Bridges in a series of robberies . . . but he isn't prepared for kidnapping and murder. Very impressive independent film noir indicts yellow journalism and lynch-mob violence, but doesn't let the criminals off the hook. Based on a true story that took place in California during the 1930s. Deserves to be better known. Originally shown as THE SOUND OF FURY.
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Fri., 1-24 for Mitchum in the 70's.............
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10:00 PMB/W - 95 m
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)Synopsis: Marlowe has been hired by a huge and surly ex-convict, Moose Malloy, to find his old girlfriend Velma, whom he has not seen in seven years. At the same time, Marlowe is investigating the murder of a client named Marriott, who was a victim of blackmail
Dir: Dick Richards Cast: Robert Mitchum , Charlotte Rampling , John Ireland .
"...... Roger Ebert gave it four stars saying "Farewell, My Lovely never steps wrong." Most of the praise went to Mitchum and Miles. A New York Times review noted "Silvia Miles plays a role that seems an overdone clich until you realize that she is doing it with such subtlety that her lost beauty keeps flickering back"; "Robert Mitchum always takes getting to know in a role... But he settles into his part, his performance drops away and he moves through the picture with force, humor and unexpected humility." .....
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/74572/Farewell-My-Lovely/articles.html
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2:00 AM TCM Underground.....B/W - 82 m
Scary Movie (1991)Synopsis: we find our protagonist, the gangly, buttoned-up Warren (no last name given, simply "Warren" and played by John Hawkes) waiting with ever-growing terror to enter the house of horrors. The townspeople wear fake masks, outrageous costumes and garish makeup. Warren trembles in khaki pants and a collared shirt buttoned to the neck. As people laugh and joke, he sweats and shakes. This is his personal hell.
Dir: Daniel Erickson Cast: John Hawkes ,
".... This is an ode to Halloween in a small country town, a Ray Bradbury-esque setting of wind blowing through the leaves and the moon shining on pitch-black nights. Anyone who remembers the horror of the annual haunted house will recall the anticipation of waiting in line, the anxiety of wondering what lies inside. The cinematography lends a helping hand, too, painting blacks in a frightening opaqueness of onyx and indigo and bringing out the bright orange of pumpkins off the vine.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/521355/Scary-Movie/articles.html
3:30 AMB/W - 101 m
Synopsis: During disc jockey Vantia Block's radio show, two hoodlums begin calling and harrassing her. Things take an abrupt turn when the boys drive into a location where there are confronted by Leatherface and sawed into bits as the horrified Vantia listens on the phone. The sheriff convinces Vantia to play a recording of the phone call on the air, in the hopes that the killer will come to the station so that he can be caught.
Dir: Tobe Hooper Cast: Dennis Hopper , Caroline Williams , Bill Johnson .
"....... holds a 48% approval rating on film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 31 reviews with an average rating of 4.87/10. Its consensus reads, "Without the tense atmosphere of its predecessor, the stakes feel lower, but The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 still shocks with a gonzo blend of over-the-top humor and gore." .......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_2#Reception
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W ed., 1-22 for TCM SPOTLIGHT: THE ROARING '20s .........
10:00 PM (ET)B/W - 93 m
Bugsy Malone (1976)Synopsis: classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Scott Baio , Jodie Foster , Florrie Dugger .
"..... it did well in Parker's native U.K. and in Japan and received a number of favorable reviews from major critics. Williams' score was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe, with another Golden Globe nomination for the title tune, and the soundtrack, production design/art direction and screenplay won BAFTAs. .......
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69862/Bugsy-Malone/articles.html
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okay, don't see on online schedule.........
"...... Duff (Ivan Dixon) is an Alabama railroad worker who falls in love with a schoolteacher, Josie (Abbey Lincoln). The couple encounter racism and their relationship is tested by Duff's family dysfunction: he has an absent dad and neglects his own son from a previous relationship. This moving film has the boldness and simplicity of a real master. .......
The performances are so fresh and natural – yet so subtle and delicately judged. The direction is superb in its control and the cinematography creates a gripping docu-realist vision. Why has this passionate and involving love story been relatively overlooked? ........
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/26/nothing-but-a-man-review
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SAG Awards 2020: The Complete Winners List
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “The Irishman” and “Bombshell” received the most film nods, while “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” led on the TV front.-
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12:15 AM (ET)B/W - 91 minCaptive City, The (1952)Synopsis: A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: John Forsythe , Joan Camden , Harold J. Kennedy ." The Captive City effectively skirts the line between film noir and documentary, making it a difficult movie to categorize. Certainly the visual mood created by lurking shadows and murky street lamps lends a noir-ish feel to the flick, while the intro and outro footage of Kefauver frame the story within a realistic context. .......LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Robert Wise. John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crosland, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner.
Small-city newspaper editor Forsythe gradually learns that the Mafia has taken over bookie operations formerly run by corrupt local businessmen. Based-on-fact drama is earnest and intelligent, with fine noir-style photography by Lee Garmes. Sen. Estes Kefauver provides an afterword.
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'Dolittle': What the Critics Are Saying
"........Newsday's Rafer Guzman ...... calling the film "elaborately staged but charmless." Guzman also took issue with Downey's portrayal of Dr. Dolittle, explaining, "As for Downey, his Dolittle is one weird creation — not in an inspired, Gene-Wilder-as-Willie-Wonka way, but in a baffling, Johnny-Depp-as-Mortdecai way. He's a bit of this, a bit of that: a fun-loving kook and surly recluse in a tie-dyed vest. For some reason, Downey has also made the character Welsh, a nationality that, to my American mind, conjures up absolutely nothing. Did Downey just want to have a challenging accent? And is that why all his lines seem to have been re-dubbed? He's the only actor in the film whose tone and volume never vary from a low, close mumble."
The Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper went as far as to brand Dolittle "the first serious contender for Wasted Opportunity of the Decade." Roeper elaborated, "The adventures at sea and on the islands play out like low-rent, animal-centric scenes from a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. By the time the doc endures massive dragon flatulence while performing emergency surgery on the fire-breathing creature, Dolittle has solidified its standing as a spectacularly terrible multi-vehicle pileup."...........
The Guardian's Benjamin Lee first revisits the checkered history of the film's postproduction schedule, which included reshoots and missed release dates, noting that he "doesn't much care for the end product, but it's not as hideous as that potted history might suggest, an average film rather than an atrocious one, a minuscule yet meaningful victory for Universal, still licking its wounds after Cats." The critic goes on to give the opinion that the animals are "far less nightmarish" [than those in Cats], while the film is "less memorable." Speaking to the plot, which he describes in his review as "convoluted" and "silly," ..........
— which currently sits at a 17 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes —
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dolittle-review-roundup-what-critics-are-saying-1269945
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Fri., 1-17 for Bottoms Up!..........
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8:00 PMB/W - 83 m
TV-GWhisky Galore! (1949)Synopsis: concerns the consequences of wartime rationing on the Scottish island of Todday, whose inhabitants, having run out of whisky, jump at the opportunity to salvage some when a freighter carrying 50,000 cases washes up on shore.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Joan Greenwood ,
"..... was, by all counts, a tremendous success becoming a box-office hit that was also well-received by critics. This positive reception was quite the surprise to the higher ups at Ealing, ....
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93314/Whisky-Galore-/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Alexander Mackendrick. Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson, John Gregson. Narrated by Finlay Currie.
Hilarious, fast-paced comedy about WW2 ship sinking while loaded with whiskey and the antics of local Scottish islanders thirsting for its cargo. A solid hit. Scripted by Compton Mackenzie, the author of the novel, who has a small role as Captain Buncher.
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Underground........
2:00 AMB/W - 113 m
TV-PGSynopsis: chronicles over 40 years in Hoover's life from his appointment as director to his death in 1972. High points include his war against gangsters during the Great Depression, his pursuit of communists (the Red Scare) and government homosexuals (the Lavender Scare), uncovering mafia connections and striking fear in the hearts of presidents and other people in positions of power. The film also sheds light on Hoover's fixation with his mother, his obsessive devotion to his work, his potential homosexuality ........
Dir: Larry Cohen
Cast: Broderick Crawford , Jose Ferrer , Robert F. Kennedy (Michael Parks), John F. Kennedy (William Jordan), Martin Luther King Jr. (Raymond St. Jacques), President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Howard Da Silva), President Lyndon B. Johnson (Andrew Duggan), Walter Winchell (Lloyd Gough), Senator Joseph McCarthy (George Wallace), Hoover's rival Melvin Purvis (Michael Sacks) and Hoover's mom (June Havoc)
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87202/Private-Files-Of-J-Edgar-Hoover-The/articles.html
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W ed., 1-15 for The Roaring 20's...........
10:15 PM (ET)B/W - 229 m
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)Synopsis: Once Upon a Time in America takes place in New York City, following a group of Jewish gangsters over the course of five decades: from their childhood, through their exploits during Prohibition and ending with their reunion later in life. They are bound by not only the criminal activities in which they orchestrate and take part in together, but by fierce loyalty and friendship to one another - a bond that is later tested ........
Dir: Sergio Leone
Cast: Robert De Niro (Noodles), James Woods (Max), Elizabeth McGovern (Deborah), Treat Williams (Jimmy O'Donnell), Tuesday Weld (Carol), Burt Young (Joe), Joe Pesci (Frankie), Danny Aiello (Police Chief Aiello) and William Forsythe Rusty Jacobs , Mike Gendel , Alexander Godfrey .
"..... The film received glowing reviews from critics and was well-received by audiences at the festival, who gave the film an enthusiastic 15-minute standing ovation.
Unfortunately, American audiences did not see this original version of Leone's film, but instead a drastically edited 139-minute cut carried out by The Ladd Company (the American distributors for the film), which not only removed 90 minutes, but also inexplicably and recklessly took artistic license by rearranging scenes into chronological order--all without Leone's consent and input. The result was devastating, leading to a disastrous box office turnout, with critics panning what amounted to a hollow shell of Leone's masterwork and what would be the director's last film. As Roger Ebert quipped, after seeing both the Cannes release (known as the "European Cut") and the hacked-up American version, "This was a murdered movie..."see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420378/Once-Upon-A-Time-In-America/articles.html
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SAG LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TCM " We’re celebrating Robert De Niro’s well-deserved SAG Life Achievement Award tonight ...."8pm ET: New York, New York (1977)11pm ET: Mean Streets (1973) **1am ET: True Confessions (1981) **3am ET: The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971)=========================** are my favs
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W ed., 1-15 for The Roaring 20's...........
10:15 PM (ET)B/W - 229 m
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)Synopsis: Once Upon a Time in America takes place in New York City, following a group of Jewish gangsters over the course of five decades: from their childhood, through their exploits during Prohibition and ending with their reunion later in life. They are bound by not only the criminal activities in which they orchestrate and take part in together, but by fierce loyalty and friendship to one another - a bond that is later tested ........
Dir: Sergio Leone
Cast: Robert De Niro (Noodles), James Woods (Max), Elizabeth McGovern (Deborah), Treat Williams (Jimmy O'Donnell), Tuesday Weld (Carol), Burt Young (Joe), Joe Pesci (Frankie), Danny Aiello (Police Chief Aiello) and William Forsythe Rusty Jacobs , Mike Gendel , Alexander Godfrey .
"..... The film received glowing reviews from critics and was well-received by audiences at the festival, who gave the film an enthusiastic 15-minute standing ovation.
Unfortunately, American audiences did not see this original version of Leone's film, but instead a drastically edited 139-minute cut carried out by The Ladd Company (the American distributors for the film), which not only removed 90 minutes, but also inexplicably and recklessly took artistic license by rearranging scenes into chronological order--all without Leone's consent and input. The result was devastating, leading to a disastrous box office turnout, with critics panning what amounted to a hollow shell of Leone's masterwork and what would be the director's last film. As Roger Ebert quipped, after seeing both the Cannes release (known as the "European Cut") and the hacked-up American version, "This was a murdered movie..."see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420378/Once-Upon-A-Time-In-America/articles.html
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·1hTONIGHT: and will honor #HolocaustRemembrance with a night of films. Faculty Advisor and professor Alan Arkatov will speak with about why these films are more relevant than ever.
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The Fossilized 2020 Oscar Nominations
"............ With its nostalgia for the stiff upper lips of the First World War (“1917”: ten nominations), the verities of the Second World War (“Jojo Rabbit”: six nominations, including Best Picture), the glories of pre-modern Hollywood (“Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood”: ten nominations), and the something-for-everyone pseudo-politics of “Joker” (which leads all films with eleven nominations), the Academy has also excluded other movies—and their participants—and, in the process .........
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9 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
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"The Oscars are irrelevant, empty, dispiriting, maddening and invariably wrong".
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"..... due to the somewhat poor sound quality of the film. "
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what was THAT all about??
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Sun., 1-12 for TCM Imports......
4:00 AM (ET)B/W - 103 m
TV-PGdramaBridge, The (1959)Synopsis: A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of WWII.
Dir: Bernhard Wicki Cast: Volker Bohnet , Fritz Wepper , Michael Hinz ."....... it won several international prizes and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film would go on to redefine the anti-war movie and influence members of the New German Cinema, ......
The Bridge was the first film to depict a lost generation of grown-ups who failed their country and left hapless teenagers behind to save it. ...... (author) Dorfmeister, "I hope that the book and the film can help many people to realize that there's no dumber way to handle conflict than by shooting and killing and taking each other's lives."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69685/Bridge-The/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Bernhard Wicki. Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht.
Unrelenting account of teen-age boys drafted into the German army in 1945, as last resort effort to stem Allied invasion.
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