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With so much entertainment to choose from, we still can’t resist revisiting old favourites.
Clare Thorp asks why we need to watch the same films over and over.
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..... “it’s a nigh-on perfect film with an inch-perfect script, great performances and some great direction. Not a wasted scene in sight.” Casablanca, 8 1/2, The Last Emperor and Withnail & I (“the best film ever made about friendship”) also got a nod – films that regularly appear in Greatest Ever film polls. One user said: “Some films are what I’d call ‘complete’ – they have a perfect story arc, the score is almost a member of the cast, and are so familiar you can stop and start at any point. They are deeply satisfying and you can lose yourself in them, the cinema equivalent of comfort food. .........
“If you feel anxious or stressed and your body is telling you there’s reason to worry, that’s not the time to start exploring and taking risks. Obviously… [that’s more about] feeling physically unsafe, but also when we feel emotionally uncertain we want something that feels safe – that’s predictable, that we know.”
In this way, indulging in a little nostalgia can be a good thing, he says. “It seems to be a natural way that humans gain some sense of stability and security.”
So what of the rewatchables of the future?......
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191021-re-watching-old-films-the-comforting-allure-of-nostalgia
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WHY so late??
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Thurs., 11-21
1:15 AM (ET)
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Thurs., 11-21
1:15 AM (ET)B/W - 52 m
Synopsis: " In John Ford, The Man Who Invented America ( John Ford, l'homme qui inventa l'Amrique 2019), French filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz has no magic wand to solve the riddle of John Ford, let alone explain how he 'invented' America. His selected film clips instead offer a specific political assessment of the filmmaker's grand contradictions. But if John Ford does represent a true America, it's a dream that refuses to be defined....
He famously opposed the right-wing director Cecil B. DeMille in public yet supported him in private. Even as Ford's later work seems to express liberal values, his personal views turned more conservative. What we mainly learn is that the 'real' John Ford remains unknowable. .........
....goes so far as to suggest that the director strove to 'deconstruct his own legend': "Something had broken in John Ford. He seemed no longer to believe in the America that he had glorified through all his films."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2188892/John-Ford-The-Man-Who-Invented-America/articles.html
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4 hours ago, mr6666 said:
there's no 'envelope' any more
so, can't click it
Uh-ooh!
guess it's like other things,......if ya don't USE it, ya LOSE it (?)
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
I found a way to compose PM's, but it says that you "cannot receive messages", as I tried to send you one as a test.
EDIT: I notice that the "message" prompt appears to me for other users when I hover over their avatar, but not yours. So you may have PM's disabled.
To check if yours is disabled, go to the message button on the top right (the envelope), click on it. At the bottom of the pop-up, click "Go to Inbox". At the bottom center-left of that screen, there's a line that says "Disable My Messenger". Click that to see what's what.
there's no 'envelope' any more
so, can't click it
Uh-ooh!
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we used to have a way to 'private message' other members.
can't seem to find it now......
is it gone or am I just blind??
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late Sun., 11-17
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2:00 AM
Girl's Own Story, A ( 1984)
This short film that traces the story of three suburban teenage girls at the height of Beatlemania.
Dir: Jane Campion Cast: Gabrielle Shornegg , Geraldine Haywood , Marina Knight .
BW- 27 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
Exercise in Discipline: Peel, An ( 1982)
In this short film, a father disciplines his son after throwing orange peels out of the car window.
Dir: Jane Campion Cast: Tim Pye , Katie Pye , Ben Martin .
C- 9 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
Passionless Moments ( 1983)
This short film explores everyday awkward and embarrassing moments.
Dir: Jane Campion Cast: Paul Chubb , Sue Collie , Alan Henry Brown .
BW- 12 mins,
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late Sat., 11-16
3:45 AM (ET)B/W - 78 m
Pathfinder, The (1952)Synopsis:
Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast: George Montgomery , Helena Carter , Jay Silverheels .see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86375/Pathfinder-The/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Sidney Salkow. George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Elena Verdugo, Chief Yowlachie.
Low-budget version of James Fenimore Cooper tale of 1750s Great Lakes area, with Indian and French attacks on Americans. Remade for TV in 1996.
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Tonight! Starting at 2:30 am east / 11:30 pm west, it’s a directed by Susan Seidelman double feature:SMITHEREENS (1982)followed by MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987)11:56 AM · Nov 15, 2019==========================================(still not on schedule??)
Making Mr. Right is a 1987 American science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman; starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters/Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone.[1][2]
This film is primarily about the misadventures between an android and a woman.....
The film received mixed reviews from critics, as it holds a 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Mr._Right
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Teorama is a Colombian municipality located in the department of North Santander.
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late Sun., 11-10 for TCM Imports.........
2:00 AM (ET)B/W - 96 mTeorema (1968)Synopsis: a character known only as The Visitor, a mysterious stranger who insinuates himself into the home and lives of a wealthy Milanese family and has erotic encounters with mother, son, daughter, maid and, with less overt sexuality, father. When he just as suddenly departs halfway through the story, each family member unravels and self-destructs in a manner consistent with their darkest desires and doubts and their individual encounters with The Visitor. ....
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Terence Stamp , Silvana Mangano , Massimo Girotti .
"..... The vantage point of distance over time has not occasioned a solid critical consensus. Teorema has been deemed "intolerably silly" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker), "not a conventional chronicle of bourgeois depravity" but a film that "asks more troubling, cosmic questions" (John Patterson, The Guardian), a "perfect fusion of Marxism and religion...that is both a political allegory and mystical fable" (David Pirie, Time Out) .....
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92557/Teorema/articles.html
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Unraveling the Oscars’ Foreign-Language-Film Debate
The newly rebranded Best International Film award calls attention to how unfair the Academy’s rules are for filmmakers outside the U.S. and Europe.
"...... Starting with the 2020 ceremony, the “Best Foreign-Language Film” award will be known as the “Best International Feature Film” prize. While the shift away from outdated nomenclature signals a desire to broaden voters’ horizons, the Academy undoes this small gesture with a major oversight: The rules for a film’s eligibility have stayed the same.
That means movies that wouldn’t have qualified under the old requirements—at least 50 percent of the dialogue must be in a language other than English—will also not qualify now, even if they are technically “international.”
By retaining the language requirement, the Academy is calling attention to how its rules are fundamentally stacked against filmmakers from countries outside the United States and parts of Europe...
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Anyone seen.......?
0 8PM
Big Picture, The ( 1989)
"... stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Chapman, a filmmaking student who wins a student competition that lands him a contract in Hollywood. What happens from there, story-wise, is about what you'd expect: success goes to his head, failure comes knocking, Nick picks himself up and starts anew. But the plot isn't what matters. Oh no. It's the rotating lineup of incredible actors playing every scene they have to perfection. ...
remains one of the best satirical takes on the movie business ever made.......
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68699/Big-Picture-The/articles.html
Dir: Christopher Gues
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One of my favorite James Cagney pre-Codes, in which he plays a gangster who becomes a journalist. A Depression fantasia built around the infamous real-life Daily News photo of convicted murderer Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair.
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yeah....... some GREAT Cagney pre-codes today!!
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Fri., 11-8 for DENNIS MILLER AND FRIENDS ............
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8:00 PM
Big Picture, The ( 1989)
"... stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Chapman, a filmmaking student who wins a student competition that lands him a contract in Hollywood. What happens from there, story-wise, is about what you'd expect: success goes to his head, failure comes knocking, Nick picks himself up and starts anew. But the plot isn't what matters. Oh no. It's the rotating lineup of incredible actors playing every scene they have to perfection. ...
remains one of the best satirical takes on the movie business ever made.......
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68699/Big-Picture-The/articles.html
Dir: Christopher Guest Cast: Arlene Lorre , Tim Landers , Gary Kroeger .
BW- 102 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
Black Gunn ( 1972)
" about racial tension in L.A., as nightclub boss Jim Brown avenges his brother's death by leading black Vietnam veteran activists against the white mobsters who are responsible.
Dir: Robert Hartford-Davis Cast: Jim Brown , Martin Landau , Brenda Sykes .
BW- 97 mins, CC,
3:45 AM
Take, The ( 1974)
A police lieutenant who is taking bribes is keeping a front within the department by impressing his superior officers with his work on breaking up a big criminal gang.
Dir: Robert Hartford-Davis Cast: Billy Dee Williams , Eddie Albert , Frankie Avalon .
BW- 92 mins, CC,
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W ed., 11-6 for TCM SPOTLIGHT: 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS..............
8:00 PM & 12 AM (ET)B/W - 91 m
TV-PGSynopsis: celebrates the early visionaries who shaped and molded an art form into what it is today. The film focuses on seven early cinematographers who developed their craft through invention, practice and collaboration. These include Billy Bitzer (Intolerance [1916'], Way Down East [1920]), Charles Rosher (Sunrise [1927], The Yearling [1946]), Rollie Totheroh (City Lights [1931], The Gold Rush [1925]), William H. Daniels (Flesh and the Devil [1926], Anna Christie [1930]), Karl Struss (Sunrise [1927], Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [31]), Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane [41], The Grapes of Wrath [40]) and James Wong Howe (The Thin Man [34], Hud [1963]) .........
Dir: Daniel Raim
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@DanielRaim, the director of Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers, for the@tcmwebsite.Check it out! The doc premieres 11/6 at 8PM EST.-
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"Probably the dullest to date of the live-action (or quasi-live) remakes of beloved Disney animated films, Charlie Bean's Lady and the Tramp further explores the limitations of having real (or digitally realistic) critters stand in for the talking animals of yesteryear. ........
That's largely due to the difficulty of giving flesh-and-blood-and-pixel animals the kind of personalities that Walt Disney's veteran animators spent their careers creating.
At their best, these dogs will skate by on kids' weakness for cute animals; at their worst, they look like they should be hawking auto insurance in a TV commercial. Human actors' voices often don't even seem to be coming from the dogs' mouths; and when they do, the actor's personality and the canine's face rarely fuse to create an engaging character.....
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Sun., 11-3 for TCM Imports..........
2:30 AM (ET)B/W - 77 m
TV-14Capricious Summer (1968)Synopsis: ... three middle-aged men--a businessman (Rudolf Hrusnsk), a priest (Frantisek Rehk) and a military officer (Vlastimil Brodsk, who costarred in Closely Watched Trains)--who spend their days drinking and having good-natured arguments at a riverside bathhouse. They are jolted out of their routines by the arrival of a shabby traveling magician and tightrope walker (Menzel himself) and his beautiful young assistant (Jana Drchalov) .....
Dir: Jirí Menzel Cast: Rudolf Hru¿ínský , Vlastimil Brodský , Franti¿ek Rehák ."...... as with all of his films, Menzel brings a warm, humanistic treatment to his characters and their foibles. "We all know that life is cruel and sad," Menzel once said. "What's the point of demonstrating this in films? Let us show that we're brave by laughing at life. And in that laughter let us not look for cynicism but rather reconciliation."
"Jiri Menzel's gentle, autumnal comedy is slightly oblique, like its title," wrote New York Times film critic Vincent Canby, ....see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70214/Capricious-Summer/articles.html
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At the LA Premiere of The Irishman. I thought the film was brilliant.Martin Scorsese did his first feature with me called Boxcar Bertha and Robert De Niro's first role was in Bloody Mama.It's nice to see them finally have a little success.
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2:33 PM · Nov 2, 2019
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Fri., 11-1
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4:15 PMB/W - 104 m
Viva Knievel! (1977)Synopsis: Knievel plays himself in a completely fictitious story about his comeback after a devastating motorcycle accident.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Red Buttons , Sidney Clute , Robert Tafur .http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94885/Viva-Knievel-/articles.html
2:15 AM Underground.....B/W - 80 m
Caged Heat (1974)Synopsis: genre film that explores the oppression of women through the lens of prison life.
Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Juanita Brown , Roberta Collins , Erica Gavin ."...Caged Heat offered viewers all the classic elements of an exploitation film they enjoyed, in particular sex and sadistic violence, and added social critique that was both timely and relevant. It doesn't take itself or its audience too seriously and in the decades since, its release has become a cult classic among genre and exploitation film fans. "
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70040/Caged-Heat/articles.html
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On 10/19/2019 at 3:48 PM, spence said:
She's probably on because of the AFI award
& she's been heavily promoting her new book "HOMEWORK" all over the airways lately
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17 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
I don't understand this thread. Were you trying to copy and paste this article?
https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/turner-classic-movies-25-anniversary-ted-turner-1203183315/
“TCM is a brand, not just a TV network,” says Jennifer Dorian, exec VP and general manager of TCM.
“Much of our future growth will come from fan engagement initiatives.” .......
“We’re really energized by the new structure,” Dorian says. “Being in the Warner Bros. fold will put us closer to the movies and to creative ideas. There are new opportunities for fans,
for consumer products that will really add to our business.” .......
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Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ to premiere at New York Film Fest
in General Discussions
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The Irishman
Critics ConsensusAn epic gangster drama that earns its extended runtime, The Irishman finds Martin Scorsese revisiting familiar themes to poignant, funny, and profound effect.
96%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 30886%
Audience Score
Verified Ratings: 830https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_irishman