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Alicia Malone‏Verified account @aliciamalone 4h4 hours ago It’s hard to put into words what this job means to me. To call it a dream doesn’t even seem enough. And what lovely words here!! I’m so excited for my friend @DaveKarger too. I promise to do all of you fellow classic film lovers and @TCM devotees proud. see: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dave-karger-alicia-malone-join-tcm-as-full-time-hosts-1089333

bump for Sat. --------------------------------------------------- BTW-ANYone seen this Gibson flick? worth recording??

Sat., 3-3 LAST day of 31DoOscar............. 11:30 PM (ET) C - 178 m Widescreen drama Braveheart (1995) Synopsis: In the late 13th century, Sir William Wallace leads the Scots in a revolt against King Edward I of England. Dir: Mel Gibson Cast: Mel Gibson , Sophie Marceau , Angus Macfadyen . " Critical opinion at the time of its release was equally split. The New York Times said it was "a great ambitious gamble that pays off...an exhilarating new-fashioned epic," while the Washington Post dismissed it as "bloody, glib, saccharin and lengthy." TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69593/Braveheart/articles.html

Fri., 2-23 for 31DoOscar.......... (times ET) 12:00 AM Dead Man Walking ( 1995) A nun offers spiritual counsel to a death-row in-mate. Dir: Tim Robbins Cast: Susan Sarandon , Sean Penn , Robert Prosky . C- 122 mins, CC, "... The film received glowing reviews, not least for the riveting performances of Sarandon and Penn. In particular, Penn's work goes against the grain of sympathy, and critics noted that the actor and director do not take the easy route of trying to make the character likable or relatable while still driving home the courage of Prejean's belief in the value of saving every soul. " TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72495/Dead-Man-Walking/articles.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat., 2-24 12:15 AM There Will Be Blood ( 2007) In turn-of-the-century California, a prospector transforms himself into an oil tycoon and drifts into corruption the more successful he becomes. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis , Mary Elizabeth Barrett , Paul Dano . C- 158 mins, CC, Letterbox Format " The fifth film by Paul Thomas Anderson reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as a frontier myth turned robber baron drama. It's loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, though Anderson focuses solely on the first section of the novel .... a driven, solitary prospector attempting to dig his way to the American dream ... and becomes brutally competitive as success breeds greed for power and control. .... D.D.Lewis: "We all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week. We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal. And what is more invigorating than to unleash some of that stuff?" - won Academy Awards for Daniel Day-Lewis (his second Oscar for Best Actor) and cinematographer Robert Elswit and six additional nominations, including nods for Anderson for his screenplay and direction and for Best Picture (it went to No Country for Old Men)

Martin Scorsese to Get Inaugural Robert Osborne Award "Martin Scorsese will receive the inaugural Robert Osborne Award in recognition of his work as a film preservationist and impassioned movie fan next month at the ninth annual TCM Classic Film Festival. The Robert Osborne Award, named for the late TCM host and Hollywood Reporter columnist, will be given out annually at the event to someone "whose work has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic films alive and thriving for generations to come," it was announced Thursday. Scorsese, 75, with 12 Oscar nominations and a directing win for The Departed (2006), established in 1990 The Film Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history by working in partnership with archives and studios..... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tcm-classic-film-festival-martin-scorsese-receive-inaugural-robert-osborne-award-1089799

2 great premieres coming up, one tonight... 12:00 AM C - 122 m TV-MA drama Dead Man Walking (1995) Synopsis: A nun offers spiritual counsel to a death-row in-mate. Dir: Tim Robbins Cast: Susan Sarandon , Sean Penn , Robert Prosky . & a fav of mine late Sat. night.... 12:15 AM C - 158 m drama There Will Be Blood (2007) Synopsis: In turn-of-the-century California, a prospector transforms himself into an oil tycoon and drifts into corruption the more successful he becomes. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis , Mary Elizabeth Barrett , Paul Dano .

Fri., 2-23 for 31DoOscar.......... (times ET) 12:00 AM Dead Man Walking ( 1995) A nun offers spiritual counsel to a death-row in-mate. Dir: Tim Robbins Cast: Susan Sarandon , Sean Penn , Robert Prosky . C- 122 mins, CC, "... The film received glowing reviews, not least for the riveting performances of Sarandon and Penn. In particular, Penn's work goes against the grain of sympathy, and critics noted that the actor and director do not take the easy route of trying to make the character likable or relatable while still driving home the courage of Prejean's belief in the value of saving every soul. " TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72495/Dead-Man-Walking/articles.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat., 2-24 12:15 AM There Will Be Blood ( 2007) In turn-of-the-century California, a prospector transforms himself into an oil tycoon and drifts into corruption the more successful he becomes. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis , Mary Elizabeth Barrett , Paul Dano . C- 158 mins, CC, Letterbox Format TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/649228/There-Will-Be-Blood/articles.html " The fifth film by Paul Thomas Anderson reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as a frontier myth turned robber baron drama. It's loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, though Anderson focuses solely on the first section of the novel .... a driven, solitary prospector attempting to dig his way to the American dream ... and becomes brutally competitive as success breeds greed for power and control. .... D.D.Lewis: "We all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week. We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal. And what is more invigorating than to unleash some of that stuff?" - won Academy Awards for Daniel Day-Lewis (his second Oscar for Best Actor) and cinematographer Robert Elswit and six additional nominations, including nods for Anderson for his screenplay and direction and for Best Picture (it went to No Country for Old Men)

see: https://annieawards.org/legacy & Click on any of the links on the left to get a complete list of the nominees and winners for the corresponding year.

Dana Andrews - best fencing display

Tues., 2-13 for 31DoOscar: Foreign Language Films.... (times ET) 8:00 AM B/W - 107 m drama Immortal Love (1961) Synopsis: A young woman is forced into a marriage with a man she does not love after her fiancé does not return from war. Over the next few decades, their children try to find love of their own while their parents remain miserable. Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Hideko Takamine , Keiji Sada , Tatsuya Nakadai . TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/74220/Immortal-Love/articles.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:15 AM C - 103 m drama Antonia's Line (1995) Synopsis: A woman of a Dutch family inherits her mother's farm and begins a matriarchy that twists and turns throughout time. Dir: Marleen Gorris Cast: Willeke Van Ammelrooy , Els Dottermans , Dora Van Der Groen . TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/442704/Antonia-s-Line/articles.html

New Miskatonic Institute - "..........Miskatonic is the brainchild of Kier-La Janisse, a film writer and programmer. Ms. Janisse started it after she grew tired of people dismissing horror “because they thought it was for complete morons,” as she put it. The institute has operated out of its current Brooklyn location since September, offering courses led by writers, scholars, directors and others with a passion for the genre...... at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, which takes its name from the fictional university, frights are the reason it’s alive. During a recent class in the darkened hall at Film Noir, a Greenpoint, Brooklyn microcinema that houses the real Miskatonic, the topic was “Penda’s Fen,” an obscure 1974 film.... Miskatonic is also tapping into the golden age of horror in the wider culture, propelled in part by the Oscar-nominated films “Get Out” and “The Shape of Water.” Adam Lowenstein, a professor of English and film and media studies at the University of Pittsburgh, cited Miskatonic as one of many passionate players in “a watershed moment for the study of the horror film.” This fresh academic embrace dovetails enthusiastically with the new vogue for horror, which hasn’t resonated with such urgency since 1968, the year of “Night of the Living Dead” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” Mr. Lowenstein said. “To understand the change, it would be like if ‘Night of the Living Dead’ got an Academy Award nomination like ‘Get Out’ did,” said Mr. Lowenstein, the author of “Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema and the Modern Horror Film.” “That’s mind boggling, and thrilling,” he added. What’s different now is a new generation of horror filmmakers who are hitting the raw nerves exposed by current social movements.... ... “Because horror films have a vocabulary for the horrific, the painful, the traumatic, the things we don’t want to look at or see or think about, they really give us an invaluable opportunity to understand and perhaps change the things in ourselves and our society that need changing,” he said. “Horror is healthy.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/arts/horror-film-school-miskatonic-institute.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur & see: http://www.miskatonic-nyc.com/

'The 15:17 to Paris': Film Review- "Clint Eastwood's latest casts three real heroes who stopped a terrorist on a Paris-bound fast train in 2016 as the main actors in a story about ordinary people having greatness thrust upon them. Is there a full-length feature film in the dramatic but blink-and-it's-over incident of three young Americans subduing a heavily armed terrorist determined to kill as many people as possible on a Paris-bound fast train two years ago? Unfortunately for Clint Eastwood's latest, there really isn't...... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/1517-paris-review-1082888

Fifty Shades Freed: A Spoilereview Another sequel so awful that it needs to be described in detail to be believed https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/02/fifty-shades-freed-a-spoilereview/552887/

Mon., 2-5 for 31 Days of Oscar: Documentaries...... (times ET) 2:30 PM B/W - 52 m documentary Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) Synopsis: Acclaimed poet and author Robert Frost looks back at his career. Dir: Shirley Clarke "The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the lost champion of the individual mind and sensibility, against an intrusive society and officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has, as Frost says, 'A lover's quarrel with the world.'" - Pres. JFK ... "An effective, moving document of a man in the last few months of his life, a man who appeared much in public (as the semi-official poet laureate of the Kennedy Administration) but whose private side was not well known." The film is not a biography of the man in any real sense, but more a master's class in writing from one of the most beloved poets of the 20th century...." TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498407/Robert-Frost-A-Lover-s-Quarrel-with-the-World/articles.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 PM C - 97 m documentary Inconvenient Truth, An (2006) Synopsis: Former Vice President Al Gore campaigns to expose the dangers of global warming while inspiring the public to take actions to prevent it. Dir: Davis Guggenheim Cast: Al Gore , " A look at former Vice President Al Gore's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it..... Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective; to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most impassioned cause of his life--convinced that there is still time to make a difference." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/636630/Inconvenient-Truth-An/articles.html Roger Ebert: "You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to,"[56] calling the film "horrifying, enthralling and [having] the potential, I believe, to actually change public policy and begin a process which could save the Earth."[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth#Reviews

Mon., 2-5 (times ET) 6:45 AM Sorrow and the Pity, The ( 1969) Part I of the restored French documentary that recreates the Nazi occupation of France. Dir: Marcel Ophuls Cast: Emmanuel D'Astier De La Vigerie , Rene Dechambrun , Jacques Duclos . BW- 246 mins, Letterbox Format 10:52 AM Hitler Lives ( 1945) This short propaganda film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on. Vitaphone Release 1408A. BW- 17 mins,

" Charles Burnett made an auspicious feature debut in 1977 with Killer of Sheep, a powerful, poetic portrait of life in the Los Angeles ghetto Watts which he made as his thesis film for the filmmaking program at UCLA. The B&W feature gained international recognition at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Critics' Prize, and was chosen as a "national treasure" and put on the National Film Registry in 1990. It's a landmark of African American filmmaking and American independent cinema, yet it never received a theatrical release until 2007, ... http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84293/My-Brother-s-Wedding/articles.html

rob trench‏ @robtrench 4h4 hours ago Ozploitation fans aren't going to want to miss Razorback playing on @TCMUnderground tonight at 2:30am. Like Jaws, but with a giant killer pig.

Tiffany Vazquez ??‏Verified account @filmiliarface 5h5 hours ago "I don’t want to not address the questions that will come so I should just say: the intros today are the last I filmed as Saturday Daytime host on TCM. My contract was not renewed. This experience has changed my life and I’m forever thankful for it."

China’s Controversial ‘Have A Nice Day’ Sets U.S. Release Dates, New English Trailer- Liu Jian’s Have A Nice Day, a 2D animated feature that ran afoul of China’s government authorities and was barred from screening at Annecy last year, is set to debut in the United States later this month. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/chinas-controversial-nice-day-sets-u-s-release-dates-new-english-trailer-155753.html

Fri., 1-26 for Spotlight: Survival Movies... 9:45 PM (ET) B/W - 100 m My Side of the Mountain (1969) Synopsis: a 12 year old, going on 13, leaving the safety and security of his home in Canada to live in the wild. It was based on the bestselling book of the same name by Jean Craighead George that became a sensation in 1959. Dir: James B. Clark Cast: Teddy Eccles , Theodore Bikel , Tudi Wiggins . TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84393/My-Side-of-the-Mountain/articles.html ''A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man his own way." https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_side_of_the_mountain/

Fri., 1-26 for Spotlight: Survival Movies... 9:45 PM (ET) B/W - 100 m My Side of the Mountain (1969) Synopsis: a 12 year old, going on 13, leaving the safety and security of his home in Canada to live in the wild. It was based on the bestselling book of the same name by Jean Craighead George that became a sensation in 1959. Dir: James B. Clark Cast: Teddy Eccles , Theodore Bikel , Tudi Wiggins . TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84393/My-Side-of-the-Mountain/articles.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ late Sat., 1-27 for Underground.... 2:30 AM B/W - 95 m TV-14 Razorback (1984) Synopsis: After the disappearance of his wife, who was filming a documentary in Gamulla, Australia, the husband discovers that she was taken by a giant Razorback. It is now a battle of man against beast. Dir: Russell Mulcahy Cast: Gregory Harrison , Bill Kerr , Arkie Whiteley . wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorback_(film)

late 1-24 2:30 AM (ET) B/W - 141 m El Norte (1983) Synopsis: story of indigenous youths who flee Guatemala and make their way to the U.S. Dir: Gregory Nava Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez , David Villalpando , Ernesto Gomez Cruz . "seminal, both for its graceful blend of classical narrative and magic realism, and the power with which it brought an otherwise invisible world to life." "with astonishing visual beauty, with unashamed melodrama, with anger leavened by hope. It is a Grapes of Wrath for our time." TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/483204/El-Norte/articles.html

late tonight 1-21 for TCM Imports....... 2:15 AM (ET) C - 187 m drama Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) Synopsis: Migrant workers struggle to send their child to school. Dir: Ermanno Olmi Cast: Luigi Ornaghi , Francesca Moriggi , Omar Brignoli . "Its strength lies not just in its ravishing depiction of the changing seasons in a stunning part of Lombardy nor in its human sympathies, which are never patronising to the ordinary people he finds so unordinary, but in its measured, cumulative approach to the hard life of those close to penury and exploited by the powerful." tcm article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93887/Tree-of-Wooden-Clogs-The/articles.html

late Sat., 1-20 for Underground.... 2:00 AM ET B/W - 102 m Night Visitor, The (1971) Synopsis: asylum inmate crafts a plan to revenge himself against those who wronged him Dir: Laslo Benedek Cast: Max von Sydow , Trevor Howard , Liv Ullmann . "an uncommonly fascinating film .....with "taut but controlled performances that underline the tensions that make The Night Visitor a captivating, moody and scenic thriller." tcm article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84977/Night-Visitor-The/articles.html

Noir Alley‏Verified account @NoirAlley 10m10 minutes ago .@EddieMuller hosts John Farrow's WHERE DANGER LIVES ('50) tomorrow at 10am ET on #NoirAlley