[Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)]

remember from past airing on TCM

 

 

[HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM]

anyone catch The Stalker on Imports last Sun. ?

Terrific though ambiguous Russian sci-fi (sort of)

Just don't ask me to explain it

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4739-stalker-meaning-and-making

& http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/344200/Stalker/articles.html

 

[TCM Premieres]

(thanks for reminder, Lawrence)

also late Sat., 6-23/24

4:00 AM (ET)

B/W - 118 m

TV-MA

 

All-American Boy, The (1973)

Synopsis: boxer's " fear of owing something to someone and his inability to hold up his part of a bargain infringes on his sense of "freedom," which negatively impacts anyone in his personal orbit. "
Dir: Charles Eastman Cast:  Jon Voight , Nancie Phillips , Art Metrano .

".... Though flawed, with an unsympathetic protagonist too unclear to pin down, the film does reflect a unique voice from a turbulent time. "

see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67047/All-American-Boy-The/articles.html

[TCM Premieres]

Sat., 6-23 for                           Noir Alley....

12:00 AM (ET)

B/W - 82 m

TV-PG

 

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950)

Synopsis:

A woman in the process of divorce shoots her husband and gets her police lieutenant boyfriend to help hide the body.

Dir: Felix E. Feist Cast:  Lee J. Cobb , Jane Wyatt , John Dall .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Cheated_Himself

['search' function wonky again]

anyone having issues trying to use 'search' function??

 

[Mad About Musicals]

2 hours ago, allthumbs said:

i am disappointed that NONE of the Rogers & Hammerstein musicals are being broadcast. they had a great influence on film as well as the stage.

pretty sure they've aired OKLAHOMA. CAROUSEL & KING & I previously

[Mad About Musicals]

was IAFW the 1st cynical musical?

[Mad About Musicals]

 

[Films of 2018]

Worst Movie of the Year? Travolta's 'Gotti' Reviews Earns 0 Percent Score on Rotten Tomatoes

http://www.newsweek.com/john-gotti-movie-reviews-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-worst-movie-year-980144?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter

"That the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise," Glenn Kenny, a New York Times critic and featured reviewer on Rotten Tomatoes, wrote Friday. "What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is."

[TCM Premieres]

late Sun., 6-17 for                    TCM Imports......

4:00 AM (ET)

B/W - 86 m

TV-MA

Widescreen
 

Fighting Elegy (1966)

Synopsis: High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki Cast:  Hideki Takahashi , Junko Asano , Yusuke Kawazu .

"... In equal parts hilarious and disturbing, Fighting Elegy finds Suzuki returning to the terrain of Japanese youth he explored in some of his fascinating earlier films like The Boy Who Came Back (1958), The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961), Teenage Yakuza (1962), The Incorrigible (1963) and Born Under Crossed Stars (1965).

His affinity for getting sincere, dedicated performances out of young actors was already a given; however, it really pays off here thanks to one of his strongest scripts courtesy of Kaneto Shindo, best known for penning the sexually-charged horror classic Onibaba (1964). .........

see article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/558661/Fighting-Elegy/articles.html

[First Movie SONG That Comes to Mind]

- disadvantage to being a ROYAL

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Jean Gabin

 

-teen singer turned actor

[TCM Premieres]

6-10, Sun. pm for                      '50s Suburbia.......

8:00 PM (ET)

B/W - 101 min



Closed
Captions

No Down Payment (1957)

Synopsis:
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast:  Joanne Woodward , Sheree North , Tony Randall .

" a startling reflection of the post-war years, when World War II veterans were moving into new suburban housing tracts and trying to achieve the "American Dream." Director Martin Ritt's film rips the veneer from the glossy, picture-perfect image of 1950s middle-class life of the Leave it to Beaver era. ...

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85078/No-Down-Payment/articles.html

 

 

 

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LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:    

 

? Martin Ritt. Joanne Woodward, Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Barbara Rush, Pat Hingle.

Turgid suburban soaper of intertwining problems of several young married couples.

CinemaScope.

[Films of 2018]

'Hereditary' Review: Family Horror Tale Is the Scariest Movie of 2018

Story of a family suffering from grief – and something vaguely supernatural – is an instant scary-movie classic

".....The movie builds like a gathering storm. You'll be hearing the score by saxophonist Colin Stetson in your nightmares, where the visual effects of makeup-and-prosthetics master Steve Newburn also work their dark magic. Still, Hereditary achieves its tightest hold on us, not through gore but through the violence of the mind. It gives us real people to contemplate, not the cardboard cutouts hack directors use for cheap scares. ....

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/hereditary-movie-review-scariest-movie-of-2018-w521098

[TCM Premieres]

Wed., 6-6 for                    Treasures from Disney Vault.....

(times ET)

8:00 PM	Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios, A ( 1937)
	BW- 10 mins, CC,
8:15 PM	Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures, The ( 1975)
	Dir:  James Algar BW- 89 mins, CC,
10:00 PM	Legend of Lobo, The ( 1962)
	Dir:  James Algar Cast:  Rex Allen , BW- 67 mins, CC,
11:15 PM	Society Dog Show ( 1939)
	BW- 8 mins, CC,
11:25 PM	Greyfriars Bobby ( 1961)
	Dir:  Don Chaffey Cast:  Donald Crisp , Laurence Naismith , Alex Mackenzie . BW- 91 mins, CC,
1:02 AM	Dogs 'N Ducks ( 1953)
	In this short film, a boy trains his new golden retriever for a duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog. Dir:  Norman Wright BW- 10 mins,
1:15 AM	Pluto's Purchase ( 1948)
	BW- 7 mins, CC,
1:23 AM	Big Red ( 1962)
	Dir:  Norman Tokar Cast:  Walter Pidgeon , Gilles Payant , Emile Genest . BW- 89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM	Moose Hunters ( 1937)
	BW- 9 mins, CC,
3:09 AM	Benji the Hunted ( 1987)
	Dir:  Joe Camp Cast:  Red Steagall , Frank Inn , Benji--The Dog . BW- 89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 AM	Banjo ( 1947)  **
	A southern orphan has to leave her beloved dog behind when she moves North. Dir:  Richard O. Fleischer Cast:  Sharyn Moffett , Jacqueline White , Walter Reed . BW- 68 mins, CC,

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Zorba the Greek

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Edna May Oliver 

 

- ruthless killer

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

11 hours ago, Swithin said:

Billie Burke was in Topper Returns with Rafaela Ottiano. 

 

Ottiano was in The Devil Doll w/Lionel Barrymore

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Topaz

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

Sid Haig

[TCM Premieres]

(thanks, Bogie)

Monday, June 4

8 p.m. (ET) and again at 1:45 a.m.  Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016).  Fairly new documentary about Howard.

" an intimate documentary about Howard's life directed by Thomas Hamilton. This film includes once-lost home movies, both color and black and white, from the Howard family. ...."

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1402032|0/Leslie-Howard-Mondays-in-June.html

[HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM]

late Sun. for TCM Imports.......

2:00 AM (ET)

B/W - 101 m

 

drama

Woman's Face, A (1938)

Synopsis: Plastic surgery gives a bitter, scarred woman a new chance at life.
Dir: Gustaf Molander Cast:  Tore Svennberg , Anders Henrikson , Ingrid Bergman .

- a Swedish version of same title of '41 film w/Joan Crawford

see: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96193/Woman-s-Face-A/articles.html

 

don't recall ever seeing this before, but w/Bergman it's certainly worth checking out

[TCM Premieres]

cmovieviewer & MCOH....

[HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM]

On 5/27/2018 at 9:54 AM, Bogie56 said:

Monday, May 28/29

2 a.m.  Breakthrough (1950).  With Frank Lovejoy.  I haven’t seen this one.

first time for me too & found it pretty absorbing for a  B-war flick.

Put it this way, liked it better than the writer of the TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69632/Breakthrough/articles.html

but maybe not quite THIS much....

".... Reviews were largely positive, with The Hollywood Reporter heralding "a powerful, tensely absorbing film" and Louella Parsons of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner's crowed, "Here is realism of the finest kind." The Hollywood Citizen News mistakenly praised Roy del Ruth (it was  Lewis Seiler ) for "a brilliant job of directing" and a grudgingly complimentary Newsweek lauded the "grime-smeared honesty" of Breakthrough's dramatis personae. "

[TCM Premieres]

late Tues., 5-29 for                       Spotlight: Movie Series....

4:00 AM (ET)

B/W - 65 m

TV-PG

 

Return of Bulldog Drummond, The (1934)

Synopsis: The retired British captain forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis.
Dir: Walter Summers Cast:  Joyce Kennedy , Ralph Richardson , Ann Todd .

".... this 1934 British picture is based on The Black Gang (1922), the immediate sequel to his franchise-launching Bulldog Drummond (1920). .... it’s a fast-paced ripping yarn which stumbles interestingly as it tries not to be quite as politically embarrassing as the novel. ..."

https://johnnyalucard.com/2017/12/07/film-review-the-return-of-bulldog-drummond-1934/