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late Fri., 12-13 for Underground II...... 4:15 AM (ET) B/W - 102 m TV-MA Countryman (1982) Synopsis: a rural Jamaican fisherman takes plane crash survivors under his wing and shelters them while government searchers comb the territory as part of a fierce conflict that's raging in political circles. Dir: Dickie Jobson Cast: Buster Jameson , Kingsley Rose , Ronald Gossop . "..... Countryman has been called both a B movie and an arthouse attraction, and both designations fit quite well. Stronger on vivid atmosphere than coherent plot, it's a unique picture with a one-of-a-kind star. .... see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71606/Countryman/articles.html

Paul McCartney Teams With Netflix on 'High in the Clouds' Animated Feature "........Paul McCartney is teaming with Netflix and Gaumont on an animated feature based on the musician's own children's novel High in the Clouds. Written by McCartney together with Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh and first published in 2005, High in the Clouds follows an imaginative teenage squirrel named Wirral who finds himself pulled into a ramshackle gang of teenage rebels who live high in the clouds after he accidentally antagonizes Gretsch the owl, the tyrannical leader (and fabulous singer!), who steals the voice of anyone who upstages her. McCartney is producing and contributing songs to the feature, which is being directed by Oscar nominee Timothy Reckart (Head Over Heels) from a screenplay by Jon Croker (Paddington, Paddington 2). ............ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paul-mccartney-teams-netflix-high-clouds-animated-film-1261275

cartoonbrew.com @cartoonbrew Not only does Sundance not select animated features for main competition, they selected just 15 animated shorts for a 74-film short competition program. That's from a total of 10,397 submissions! Hard to think of a film festival that's more disrespectful to the animation world.......... We've covered them in the past (https://cartoonbrew.com/festivals/2018-sundance-slamdance-review-animation-infiltrates-festivals-156511.html) but at this point, believe the organization has a predatory approach to animation filmmakers (using us to generate revenue but not giving anything back in return) and we will stop coverage. 2:43 PM · Dec 11, 2019

cartoonbrew.com @cartoonbrew Big Win Tonight For 'Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles' Best Animated Feature At European Film Awards. More: https://cartoonbrew.com/awards/bunuel-

late Sun., 12-8 for TCM Imports......... 2:00 AM (ET) B/W - 85 m Something Different (1963) Synopsis: A story about the frustration experienced by two different women who feel under appreciated, one a gymnast and the other a housewife, Dir: Vera Chytilovß Cast: Eva Bosßkovß , Vera Uzelacova , Jiri Kodet . ......A review in The New Yorker called it "radically and thrillingly different from more or less any film that was being made at the time", praising its camerawork and subject matter.[5] A review in Hyperallergic described the film as "subtle and poignant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Different_(1963_film)

Often wondered if the ONLY reason they keep this going, is to glean programming ideas from the Challenges contest

Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and That’s Worrying "........... Disney was about to start treating older Fox titles as they do older Disney titles — making them mostly unavailable to for-profit theaters. More and more film programmers and theater managers were reporting that they had suddenly and cryptically been told by their studio contacts that Fox’s back catalogue was no longer available to show. .... Now, Fox classics are going into the vault as well, for reasons the company won’t publicly explain or justify. And Disney’s vaultification of Fox titles is bad news for movie theaters that depend on repertory screenings to shore up their increasingly shaky bottom lines. The decision to broaden Disney’s artificial scarcity tactic to include thousands of movies released by a onetime rival is a wounding blow to a swath of theatrical venues that used to be able to show them, and where film buffs were able to see them with an audience. ....... But why, exactly, is Disney doing this? The most commonly floated theory is that the company is trying to give consumers one more reason to subscribe to its new streaming service,.... “Disney has the opportunity not to be the bad guy, to act in the public interest and prove that them owning something is not a bad thing,” ........ https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html

TCM Turns Its Attention to Classic Television Again, Brilliantly - "........Klain explained to me that Rosemary Harris was offered the DuPont Show of the Month role of the adult Cathy at the start, but passed on the opportunity because she already was in rehearsals for another live TV production, the George Schaefer-directed Dial M for Murder). Harris recommended Yvonne Furneaux for the role instead – but when Susskind became so disenchanted with Furneaux, he fired her, so late into production that the “Close-Up” description in that week’s TV Guide still credited her as the leading lady. Instead, Susskind, according to Klain, went back to Harris, said she was responsible for his current dilemma, and insisted on her playing the part opposite Burton. She did so – even though, in some of the scenes, she kept her script just out of camera view to check on her lines. Regardless of the behind-the-scenes drama, the on-the-screen drama is something to watch – and this is the first time since the Eisenhower administration to do so........ http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/TCM-Turns-Its-Attention-to-Classic-Television-Again-Brilliantly.aspx

Fri., 12-6 for Burton Before Taylor.... 8:00 PM B/W - 89 m TV-G DuPont Show of the Month, The: Wuthering Heights (1958) Synopsis: Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge see: http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/TCM-Turns-Its-Attention-to-Classic-Television-Again-Brilliantly.aspx "..... Long presumed lost, this TV incarnation of the Emily Bronte novel, starring Richard Burton and Rosemary Harris, was tracked down recently by Jane Klain, director of research at the Paley Center for Media. Two years ago, her detective work resulted in another TCM premiere of a lost classic: 1966’s The Glass Menagerie, starring Shirley Booth and Hal Holbrook. ....."

don't see on schedules, but there's this PREMIERE.......... * Dec 3 - Close-Up: Oscar Levant Interview (1958) (short) (10:15 pm ET, 15m)

ANALYSIS: Netflix Overtakes Disney In 2019 Annie Award Nominations By Amid Amidi | 12/02/2019 5:04 pm | 2 The nominations for the 47th annual ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards were announced today, and Disney’s stranglehold over the organization has loosened ever so slightly, thanks in large part to the streaming service Netflix, which has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into series and feature production at dozens of studios around the globe..... https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/analysis-netflix-overtakes-disney-in-2019-annie-award-nominations-183251.html

Dave Karger @davekarger · 7h As an amateur piano player I’m so happy to be co-hosting with the fabulous entertainer Michael Feinstein on @TCM . Catch us tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 3) starting at 8ET/5PT as we take you through the life and career of the brilliant musician, actor, and wordsmith Oscar Levant.

Sun., 12-1 for TCM Imports...... (Times ET) 2:00 AM B/W - 87 m Career Girls (1997) Synopsis: which follows Hannah and Annie, two friends who are reuniting for the first time in six years since they left university. As they catch up and reflect on the early days of their friendship, the story flashes back to the mid-eighties and their youthful antics and memories of their first meeting Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Katrin Cartlidge , Lynda Steadman , Kate Byers . "....... Mike Leigh's films realize that for most people, most days, life consists of the routine of earning a living, broken by fleeting thoughts of where our efforts will someday take us--financially, romantically, spiritually or even geographically. We never arrive in most of those places, but the mental images are what keep us trying. .... see: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/career-girls-1997 ========================================= 3:45 AM C - 104 m comedy Life Is Sweet (1990) Synopsis: A tale of everyday survival for several individuals in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Alison Steadman , Jim Broadbent , Claire Skinner . "....The filmmaker, Mike Leigh, works in a unique way: He assembles his actors, and then they spend weeks or months devising the screenplay by improvising together. When it's finished, they start shooting, having in vented the characters from the inside out. With "Life is Sweet," that approach combines more humor and more poignancy into the same story than most screenwriters would have dared. There are scenes here that are funnier than those of any other movie this year, and other scenes that weep with the pain of sad family secrets, and when it's over we have seen some kind of masterpiece. This is one of the best films of the year..... https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-is-sweet-1991 

Netflix’s I Lost My Body turns a weird horror trope into one of the year’s dreamiest dramas "..... Seen partly from the perspective of a severed hand, and partly through flashbacks to the life of the young man it was once attached to, the film finds a kind of skittish melancholy in the idea of a hand crawling around without its owner, a profound loneliness that comes with the sense of being incomplete. I Lost My Body is fundamentally weird and potentially off-putting. But it’s also visually and emotionally beautiful, one of 2019’s most ambitious, engaging films. ...... https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/29/20988657/i-lost-my-body-netflix-review-animated-french-movie-severed-hand ================================== -intriguing, & beautifully directed

Sun., 12-1 for TCM Imports...... (Times ET) 2:00 AM B/W - 87 m Career Girls (1997) Synopsis: which follows Hannah and Annie, two friends who are reuniting for the first time in six years since they left university. As they catch up and reflect on the early days of their friendship, the story flashes back to the mid-eighties and their youthful antics and memories of their first meeting Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Katrin Cartlidge , Lynda Steadman , Kate Byers . "....... Mike Leigh's films realize that for most people, most days, life consists of the routine of earning a living, broken by fleeting thoughts of where our efforts will someday take us--financially, romantically, spiritually or even geographically. We never arrive in most of those places, but the mental images are what keep us trying. .... see: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/career-girls-1997 ========================================= 3:45 AM C - 104 m comedy Life Is Sweet (1990) Synopsis: A tale of everyday survival for several individuals in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Alison Steadman , Jim Broadbent , Claire Skinner . "....The filmmaker, Mike Leigh, works in a unique way: He assembles his actors, and then they spend weeks or months devising the screenplay by improvising together. When it's finished, they start shooting, having in vented the characters from the inside out. With "Life is Sweet," that approach combines more humor and more poignancy into the same story than most screenwriters would have dared. There are scenes here that are funnier than those of any other movie this year, and other scenes that weep with the pain of sad family secrets, and when it's over we have seen some kind of masterpiece. This is one of the best films of the year..... https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-is-sweet-1991

this could just be an audition for future episodes...... ....getting audience feedback first (it's NOT like Miller's all that busy elsewhere...Is he??)

With Netflix’s ‘The Irishman,’ Martin Scorsese is still cinema’s greatest risk taker "......Scorsese has evolved in the years since, but he hasn’t mellowed. His staggeringly rich output from this decade alone is predicated on a bold mix of conceptual daring and visual extravagance. There are many ways to characterize a body of work that includes an elaborate 3-D children’s fantasy about the importance of film preservation (“Hugo”), an old-dark-house thriller set in the labyrinth of the subconscious (“Shutter Island”) and a nearly three-hour boardroom bacchanal (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), but “safe” and “unimaginative” are not among them. For Scorsese, a filmmaker with nothing left to prove, the risk has become its own reward. In an industry that seeks out sure bets and safe material, he continues to swing for the proverbial fences, as if he knew that he couldn’t achieve greatness without entertaining the possibility of failure. A Scorsese picture can risk your impatience, discomfort and anger, but also your exhilaration and awe. In the end his risks feel like a deep expression of faith, namely his faith in the medium and the audience....... https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-29/martin-scorsese-irishman-netflix-marvel

'Knives Out,' A Classic Comic Mystery Of Uncommon Sharpness ".... It is always a delight to see someone joyfully, efficiently, and indelibly demolish any alleged hard barrier between art and entertainment. Knives Out is Rian Johnson's salute to mysteries, but it is also his latest demonstration of his uncommon mastery of the idea that you can — that you should — artfully entertain an audience with loving attention to detail; that it is just as high a purpose as to artfully devastate or confound them. It's one of the best movies of the year, and one of the most purely enjoyable, as well. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/782165138/knives-out-a-classic-comic-mystery-of-uncommon-sharpness?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social

Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film · 4h Two of the very best films of the year are now on Netflix: Mati Diop’s ALTANTICS and Jérémy Clapin’s I LOST MY BODY. Both incredibly unique and stirring visions. Must-sees for the weekend! ================================= cartoonbrew.com @cartoonbrew · 1h Perhaps the only thing more unconventional than the story of "I Lost My Body" is its production process. Director Jérémy Clapin walks us through the making of the film with a series of process videos. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/how-to/how-they-did-it-layering-2d-drawings-onto-3d-animation-in-i-lost-my-body-183151.html

Fri., 11-29 for Underground.... 2:00 AM (ET) B/W - 93 m Pyramid, The (1976) Synopsis: a gritty view of life in Dallas which includes domestic violence amd street violence, but also moments of calm and serenity Dir: Gary Kent Cast: Michael Ashe , Tomi Barrett , Charley Brown . better see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2206456/Pyramid-The/articles.html

Over Two Dozen Shorts Contending For An Oscar Are Free To View Online. Watch Them Here. "This year, a record 92 animated shorts are in the running for an Academy Award. We published a preliminary list of qualified films here, along with the criteria for qualifying. Of the 92 shorts, more than two dozen are currently available to view for free online. Scroll down to watch them all, in alphabetical order. A caveat: their availability is subject to change — some will be temporarily taken offline again, while other qualified shorts will go online in the near future. If you want to make sure you see all of these shorts, you should watch them promptly. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/over-two-dozen-shorts-contending-for-an-oscar-are-free-to-view-online-watch-them-here-183099.html

cartoonbrew.com @cartoonbrew Post-Thanksgiving Meal, Hold Your Own Animation Festival. Over Two Dozen Shorts Contending For An Oscar Are Free To View Online. "This year, a record 92 animated shorts are in the running for an Academy Award. We published a preliminary list of qualified films here, along with the criteria for qualifying. Of the 92 shorts, more than two dozen are currently available to view for free online. Scroll down to watch them all, in alphabetical order. A caveat: their availability is subject to change — some will be temporarily taken offline again, while other qualified shorts will go online in the near future. If you want to make sure you see all of these shorts, you should watch them promptly. Watch Them All Here: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/over-two-dozen-shorts-contending-for-an-oscar-are-free-to-view-online-watch-them-here-183099.html

Martin Scorsese has spent his entire career searching for God The Irishman is the peak of the director’s lifelong obsession with the sacred and profane. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/11/26/20975991/scorsese-career-god-sacred-profane-irishman-netflix-streets-bull-innocence-last-temptation?utm_campaign=alissamarie&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter