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late Sun., 9-15 for TCM Imports.....
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2:00 AM
Emitai ( 1971)
Set during World War II, a group of Diola women lead a rebellion against French seizures of men and rice for the war effort.
Dir: Ousmane Sembene Cast: Ousmane Camara , Robert Fontaine , Andongo Diabon .
BW- 101 mins,
".... Sembène’s nuanced touch, one that would run through his later films, has the utmost regard for the customs, but he doesn’t discount the pragmatism Djimenko represents. These are complex times, compounded by the silence of the gods. Djimenko feels his hands were forced by the inaction of the gods. ..."
see: https://thebrokencliche.com/2017/01/22/film-review-ousmane-sembenes-emitai/
4:00 AM
Ceddo ( 1977)
Set in the 17th century, the kidnapping of a proud African princess becomes the catalyst in a power struggle involving guardians of tradition, missionaries, and slave traders.
Dir: Ousmane Sembene Cast: Tabara Ndiaye , Moustapha Yade , Ismaila Diagne .
BW- 117 mins,
"...... the village in the film is an exemplary microcosm of African (or at least West African) society in the throes of a crucial transition brought about by external pressures, and internal greed, ambition and dissension, so the time-span of the film (approximately a day and a half) offers an exemplary survey of two or more centuries of West African history. ...."
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late tonight, my FAV Marx Bros.
2:00 AM (ET)comedyDuck Soup (1933)Synopsis: When he's named dictator of Freedonia, a con artist declares war on the neighboring kingdom.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Leo McCarey. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres, Edgar Kennedy, Leonid Kinskey, Charles Middleton.
The Marx Brothers' most sustained bit of insanity, a flop when first released, but now considered a satiric masterpiece. In postage-stampsized Freedonia, Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) declares war on neighboring Sylvania just for the hell of it. Enough gags for five movies, but our favorite is still the mirror sequence. Zeppo's swan song with his brothers.
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6 hours ago, midnight08 said:
I'm surprised there's no mention of "That's My Boy" which TCM premiered last night in prime time. It's a rare 1932 Columbia film that may have never been on television before. The star of the film, Richard Cromwell, reminds me of Leonardo DiCaprio.
sorry about that.......
it was on MC's list
my mistake......
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late Fri., 9-13 for Underground II........
4:15 AM (ET)B/W - 98 m
Witchboard (1987)Synopsis: A young woman becomes obsessed with a spirit she contacted through a ouija board
Dir: Kevin Tenney Cast: Todd Allen , Tawny Kitaen , Stephen Nichols .
"For folks who like their scares straight and their movies without much else, Witchboard provides exactly that."[11] Henry Edgar of the Virginia Daily Press called the film "almost funny by accident," also writing: "There's nothing very good in Witchboard, though the film as a unit is so awful it unintentionally qualifies as a comedy by taking itself so seriously you can't help laughing."[ ....
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchboard
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on OHMSS, what's with sissy tinkling piano intro music??
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Thurs., 9-12 for Special Theme: James Bond....
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8:00 PM
On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969)
Dir: Peter Hunt Cast: George Lazenby , Diana Rigg , Telly Savalas .
BW- 142 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:45 AM
Live and Let Die ( 1973)
Dir: Guy Hamilton Cast: Roger Moore , Clifton James , Yaphet Kotto .
BW- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM
Man with the Golden Gun, The ( 1974)
Dir: Guy Hamilton Cast: Maud Adams , Roger Moore , Herve Villechaize .
BW- 125 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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tonight for SOTM ........probably my fav Poitier performance
Raisin in the Sun, A (1961)Synopsis: A black woman uses her late husband's life insurance to build a better world for her children.
Dir: Daniel Petrie Cast: Sidney Poitier , Claudia McNeil , Ruby Dee .-
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5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Silent films are a challenge.
People who love silent films would be angry with me for saying that, but it’s true.
ill watch anything with LON CHANEY and the MELIES films are great, and BEN HUR (1926) is excellent...
i just *like* dialogue.
(dodges NORMA DESMOND’s cigarette)
have you tried METROPOLIS, GREED or NOSFERATU ??
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On 9/7/2019 at 4:48 PM, mr6666 said:
Sun., 9-7 for STARRING CAROL LYNLEY (coincidental memorial tribute)
(times ET)10:00 PMB/W - 89 m
Blue Denim (1959)Synopsis: A teenage girl gets pregnant by her boyfriend and together they decide to get an abortion. Their parents find out and try to convince them to marry and keep the child.
" In the original stage version, Janet does have her pregnancy aborted, and she and Arthur talk it over later as they settle their feelings for each other. When the play was adapted for Hollywood, however, strict production codes forbade anything but the condemnation of abortion, so the storyline was changed....."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Denim
Dir: Philip Dunne Cast: Carol Lynley , Brandon de Wilde , MacDonald Carey .
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Philip Dunne. Carol Lynley, Brandon de Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, Roberta Shore.
"De Wilde and Lynley are striking as teenagers faced with Carol's pregnancy. Dated and naive, but well-acted adaptation of Broadway play." CinemaScope.
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later Sun. for TCM Imports...........
2:30 AMB/W - 90 m
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)Synopsis: filmmakers travel up and down Thailand interviewing people from all walks of life and feeding them an interrupted storyline which they are asked to finish.
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Cast: Duangja Hiransri , Kongkeirt Komsiri , Somsri Pinyopol .
"....Because its experimental nature falls outside the mainstream of Thai cinema, Mysterious Object at Noon received little attention in the director's native country. However, through film festival screenings overseas, the film gained positive notice from film critics.
"Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture. It's really a movie that requires listening, reminding us that the medium did become talking pictures at one point," said Elvis Mitchell in The New York Times.
Sunday bump.......
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If you haven't seen #TheBigClock (1948) yet, you need to! Two chances on
@TCM
's #NoirAlley this weekend: tonight at 12AM/Sunday 10AM/ET!
Remade as 1987's No Way Out (Kevin Costner & Gene Hackman), the original stars Charles Laughton & Ray Milland. #TCMParty #LetsMovie
@NoirAlley
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Sun., 9-7 for STARRING CAROL LYNLEY (coincidental memorial tribute)
(times ET)10:00 PMB/W - 89 m
Blue Denim (1959)Synopsis: A teenage girl gets pregnant by her boyfriend and together they decide to get an abortion. Their parents find out and try to convince them to marry and keep the child.
" In the original stage version, Janet does have her pregnancy aborted, and she and Arthur talk it over later as they settle their feelings for each other. When the play was adapted for Hollywood, however, strict production codes forbade anything but the condemnation of abortion, so the storyline was changed....."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Denim
Dir: Philip Dunne Cast: Carol Lynley , Brandon de Wilde , MacDonald Carey .
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Philip Dunne. Carol Lynley, Brandon de Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, Roberta Shore.
"De Wilde and Lynley are striking as teenagers faced with Carol's pregnancy. Dated and naive, but well-acted adaptation of Broadway play." CinemaScope.
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later Sun. for TCM Imports...........
2:30 AMB/W - 90 m
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)Synopsis: filmmakers travel up and down Thailand interviewing people from all walks of life and feeding them an interrupted storyline which they are asked to finish.
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Cast: Duangja Hiransri , Kongkeirt Komsiri , Somsri Pinyopol .
"....Because its experimental nature falls outside the mainstream of Thai cinema, Mysterious Object at Noon received little attention in the director's native country. However, through film festival screenings overseas, the film gained positive notice from film critics.
"Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture. It's really a movie that requires listening, reminding us that the medium did become talking pictures at one point," said Elvis Mitchell in The New York Times.
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earlier today 9-6
11:00 AM (ET)C - 84 m
(funny my DTV schedule listed this as a Nazi Holocaust doc.narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor )
horrorGenocide (1968)Synopsis: The insects of the Earth rise up against humanity in this horror film.
Dir: Kazui Nihonmatsu Cast: Keisuke Sonoi , Yusuke Kawazu , Emi Shindo .
".... Genocide tears a page from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) before going wildly off the rails in its second act, dragging into the mix a missing hydrogen bomb, the coldblooded response of the American military complex, a beautiful but hopelessly deranged Holocaust survivor in cahoots with Eastern bloc spies, and insects sharing a single purpose to annihilate mankind before mankind can destroy the planet ..."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/822106/Genocide/articles.html
(sounds like fun.......maybe it'll be ON DEMAND)
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late Sat., 9-7
3:30 AM (ET)B/W - 88 m
TV-14Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)Synopsis: A Mexican bandit teams up with a band of renegade Native Americans to avenge his older brothers when they are killed by a prankster, gold-obsessed bounty hunter.
Dir: Sergio Corbucci Cast: Andrea Aureli , Ettore Manni , Franco DeRosa .
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tonight 9-2 for Disney Vault Treasures....
(times ET)
8:00 PM
Fun and Fancy Free ( 1947)
Dir: William Morgan Cast: Edgar Bergen , Dinah Shore , Luana Patten .
BW- 73 mins, CC,
9:30 PM
Donald's Tire Trouble ( 1943)
Dir: Dick Lundy
BW- 7 mins, CC,
11:45 PM
Happiest Millionaire ( 1967)
Dir: Norman Tokar Cast: Fred MacMurray , Tommy Steele , Greer Garson .
BW- 168 mins, CC,
2:45 AM
Art of Skiing, The ( 1941)
Dir: Jack Kinney
BW- 8 mins, CC,
2:55 AM
Snowball Express ( 1972)
Dir: Norman Tokar Cast: Dean Jones , Nancy Olson , Harry Morgan .
BW- 94 mins, CC,
4:45 AM
Hockey Champ, The ( 1939)
Dir: Jack King
BW- 7 mins, CC,
5:15 AM
Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The ( 1964)
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Tommy Kirk , Annette Funicello , Leon Ames .
BW- 91 mins, CC,
(**click titles for info)
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Sun., 9-1 for TCM Imports.........
2:00 AM (ET)B/W - 104 m
Scent of a Woman (1974)Synopsis: An army cadet acts as baby-sitter to a mischievous, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The angry captain, wants no pity, wreaks havoc in every situation,
Dir: Dino Risi Cast: Vittorio Gassman , Alessandro Momo , Agostina Belli .leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards. An American remake, Scent of a Woman, was released in 1992.
" Vittorio Gassman plays a lecherous cad (as only he can), but the carefree exuberance he showed in The Easy Life shades here, some 20 years later, into mercilessly funny misanthropy. Gassman won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance as the blind military captain ..."
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for tomorrow on SILENT SUNDAY (don't remember seeing this before)
12:00 AM (ET)B/W - 72 mindramaMating Call, The (1928)Synopsis: In this silent film, a World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
Dir: James Cruze Cast: Thomas Meighan , Evelyn Brent , Renée Adorée .
The New York Times observed, "It looks very much as though a great deal of superfluous matter had been packed into The Mating Call."An outspoken critic of cinematic decadence, the trade publication Harrison's Reports dismissed the film as "controversial in nature." Curiously, it was more concerned that the depiction of "The Order" might offend regional chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, and bring about negative repercussions....."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498285/Mating-Call-The/articles.html
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Sat., 8-30 for SUTS: Susan Hayward......
10:15 PM (ET)B/W - 101 m
House of Strangers (1949)Synopsis: depict a close family torn apart by success achieved by illegal means that separates them from their once simple and happy life, as well as the resulting betrayal, fratricide (attempted or real) and long-held grievances and revenge
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Susan Hayward , Richard Conte .
".... the film was well received, with Bosley Crowther in the New York Times calling it "a sizzling and picturesque exposure of a segment of nouveau-riche life within the Italian-American population." At the Cannes Film Festival, Edward G. Robinson won Best Actor and Mankiewicz was nominated for the Grand Prix. ..
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78560/House-of-Strangers/articles.html
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:😧 Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Debra Paget, Hope Emerson, Esther Minciotti.
"Dynamic drama of ruthless financier Robinson who uses his four sons to suit his own schemes. Unique plotline has been utilized in various disguises for many subsequent films--most memorably, five years later in the Western BROKEN LANCE."
(& THE GODFATHER....)
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Sun., 8-25 for SUTS: Dustin Hoffman........
7:45 AM (ET) weird time for a premiereB/W - 118 m
Hero (1992)Synopsis: cynical conman/thief rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit.
Dir: Stephen Frears Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Geena Davis , Andy Garcia .
"... the Washington Post, felt that Hoffman's "presence overshadows the part, He's a big, V-8 engine booming and rumbling inside a moped." His colleague Hal Hinson, however, also writing for the Washington Post, ends his review of Hero by saying: "It's cagey, funny and vivaciously smart. It may also be one of the worldliest fairy tales ever made, and that rarest of things, a family film with real meat on its bones."
see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/77871/Hero/articles.html
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this just shows, like LION KING live-action re-do....it just doesn't work when animals are the Stars......
no character or emotion in the faces!
if it's ALL in the Narration, may as well be an audio-book
Yes, I HATE this!
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yeah...seems like it's been DUSTIN HOFFMAN before and...WITH ALL APOLOGIES TO BOGIE IF I DERAIL THE THREAD OR ANYTHING, but there were some pretty recent (and multiple) allegations against him that were GROTESQUE.
This........??
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/05/dustin-hoffman-john-oliver-interview
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Sat., 8-24 for SUTS: Shirley MacLaine ......
9:30 AM (ET)B/W - 101 m
TV-14Woman Times Seven (1967)Synopsis:
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Shirley MacLaine , Peter Sellers , Elspeth March ." Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband. "
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#TCMRemembers Peter Fonda, actor, director and screenwriter, who set the counterculture in motion.
Join us Sunday, September 15 as we honor Fonda with a double feature of his films.
Catch ULEE'S GOLD ('97) at 8pm ET followed by EASY RIDER ('69) at 10pm ET.
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