markfp2
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If Comcast runs Universal like they run their cable company we're all in trouble. Hopefully, any deals that TCM has with Universal are ironclad.
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Welcome to the boards. You just missed it. THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS was shown on Saturday, November 14th at 8am.
TCM puts it's schedules out months in advance, March should be out any day now, so unless they just happen to have already scheduled another showing , it would be April at the earliest. I'm not saying they will show it again, just that April would be the earliest.
TCM usually does a war film marathon on Memorial Day weekend, my guess is that if they do show it again, it would be then, but that's just a guess.
You need patience when you request titles. TCM isn't like a radio station where you request a song and they play it right away. For a variety of reasons, it can take months and sometimes even years before requested films get shown. Some films simply aren't available to TCM and they can't be shown at all.
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Some of us said that other studios would be closely watching Warner's "experiment" and if successful would follow their lead and it appears they were right.
Since these MGM films are now distributed by Fox, maybe we'll see some early, rarely seen, Fox films thrown into the mix too.
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> {quote:title=MGMMayer wrote:}{quote} True, there are some genuine, scholarly, serious film historians out there, and I'm not taking anything away from them.....but there are also a lot of unqualified blowhards who are running around, giving themselves the same title and boring the HECK out of people!
Well said!
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No offense to your guest, but it's obvious that he has no idea what he's talking about. There are many hundreds of films shown on TCM that are out on DVD and are selling in large numbers.It's a commonly known fact that, in many cases, sales of DVDs actually increase after a film has been shown on TCM. There are many people who collect DVDs but will buy it only after they've seen the film.
Also keep in mind that TCM really doesn't sell DVDs, they just have a promotion and marketing arrangement with Movies Unlimited, the largest DVD retailer in the country.
As has been discussed here many times, Ted Turner sold out to Time-Warner back in the 1990's and has nothing whatsoever to do with TCM. His film library is now controlled by Warner Bros. That means that TCM has to lease _all_ the films they show from distributors and studios just like every other channel does. If they aren't showing A CHRISTMAS CAROL it's because, for whatever reason, it wasn't available. If TCM had the rights to it, you can be sure it would be on the schedule.
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> {quote:title=Tampopo wrote:}{quote} The theater where I first saw "King of Hearts" was a film geek's paradise
I know what you're talking about. I grew up in a college town and we had one like that too. It's such a shame that most of those are long gone. Seeing films like KING OF HEARTS in theaters like that added to the whole movie going experience. The same can't be said for 20-screen multiplexes.
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Keep in mind too, that he flies to Atlanta every month and records a whole month's worth of intros in just a couple or days. That can be tough on a younger person let alone somebody his age.
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Holly, I'm so glad you had a chance to discover KING OF HEARTS, it's one of my very favorite French films.
I first saw it the early 1970's. It had become a huge hit on the college film circuit and the film society at Syracuse University scheduled it so many times that the distributor sent them their own print. I wasn't a student, but dated one who took me to see it. I guess I must have seen it at least 20 times since and find it just as fresh each time.
You're right, it may not appeal to everyone's tastes, but I think many more people love it than don't.
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> {quote:title=NanaDonna wrote:}{quote} No "We're No Angels" in December? How can that be it is a great movie.
Welcome to the boards. I'm pretty sure TCM has run WE'RE NO ANGELS in the past, so it's possible that their contract for it, with Paramount, has expired and another channel may have it now. TCM can only show what they have the broadcast rights for.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} And just who does AMC think is watching the channel in the overnight slot?
I don't think that it really matters to AMC or any other channel for that matter. The rating services don't count overnight viewers. They run repeats all night and fill it with whatever commercials they can. If nothing else, it pays the bills for operating all night.
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> {quote:title=cfg wrote:}{quote}
> When will TCM show Anton Wahlbrook's great performance in this 1949 movie? Dame Edith Evans wasn't bad in this film either.I think his performance in this film is better than what he did in "The Red Shoes".
I've always wanted to see that one. TCM has been running a good number British films in the last couple of years so perhaps it will turn up. It all depends on whether a distributor makes it available to them.
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> It still amazes when I encounter someone who thinks TCM can show any movie they want, whenever they want.
Well, sometimes I feel that way too, but then I remind myself that while many of us have been around here for years and do have some knowledge of what's involved in programming TCM, the vast majority of viewers don't. I think that they appreciate it when one of us takes time to explain (for maybe the umpteenth time) why TCM can't show IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE or some other film.
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Holly, I seem to recall, you mentioning that you had a multi-region DVD player. If so, there are many John Mills films available from amazon.uk. Some you won't know because they were never released here or were his earlier work, but all worth seeing. I especially like exploring films I've never seen from the various stages of his career. I imagine, there's some rarely seen Alec Guinness films out there too.
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TCM has to lease every single film they show from studios and distributors. If they don't have the broadcast rights they can't show it. It's really that simple.
As for HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE it's a 20th Century-Fox film. While TCM does get some films from them, Fox likes to save others for their own Fox Movie Channel. This is one that they seem to show at least six or eight times a year on that channel. Still, it's possible that Fox might lease it to TCM for a limited number of showings, but that's up to Fox not TCM.
No doubt these are two of many films TCM would love to show, but's not always possible to get them.
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Thanks Molo, I stand corrected. I completely forgot that TCM did run it a couple of times. As to whether the still have under contract is another question.
Edited by: markfp2 on Nov 26, 2009 8:44 PM
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> I'd hate to have been sitting near that person in the theater, listening to and sniffing the sounds emanating from him (her?) after 3 huge tobs of popcorn.
Luckily, for me, it wasn't a date or anything, just somebody I casually know who happened to sit a couple of seats from me. I made sure that never happened again.
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You make some very valid points, but that's not always the case.
Many of the top directors hire the same Director of Photography, editor and others for all or most of their films because they know and respect their work and are comfortable with them. The same is true when those people pick assistants or technicians, or whatever. Even though they all are "freelancers" they've worked together before as a team.
I think what you describe happens more with films of less prestige when a producer simply calls the union, with a shopping list of jobs that need to filled, and takes whoever they send.
You are right though, in the days when all these people were on the payroll of a studio and were assigned to each film by the production office chances are they that over time everybody worked with everybody else more often then they would today.
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Oh, I agree with you 100%. I was just speculating about how interesting it would be to see each man play both parts.
TUNES OF GLORY would also make an great double bill with David Lean's GREAT EXPECTATIONS. It would be a chance to see the two great actors performing together at different stages of their lives and careers.
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> {quote:title=talkietime wrote:}{quote} Osbornes into didnt mention that a colorized Casablanca would be shown perhaps he didnt know that when the intro was recorded.
Or perhaps he just didn't want to admit it. Thank goodness those days are over.
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I recall reading that originally Guinness had been cast as Col. Barrow and Mills as Maj. Sinclair. After they started rehearsal the two stars felt it would be better if they switched roles. Director Neame agreed (after all, who'd argue with those two). Not that I that I think that the film could have been any better, but it would be interesting to see each actor's interpretation of the other role.
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> {quote:title=OrsonLubitsch wrote:}{quote}
> Here in Miami we are actually expanding our "art film" space.
Always glad to hear things like that. Art theaters, especially those run by non-profits, seem be doing pretty good in larger, more cosmopolitan areas, but in smaller cities it not always the case.
The big chains aren't interested and usually there's no longer any independent, local theaters left to show them. Here in New York State, if you exclude New York City and its suburbs, I don't think there's more than five theaters left in the whole state that have a regular art film policy. At one time, there were dozens.
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I'd love to see both of them found, but I got a feeling that there would be a lot more excitement over CONVENTION CITY.
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}
> They do try to convince you to buy those HUGE tubs. I can barely finish eating the regular size.
Around here theaters sell those humongous tubs for $8.00, but as they proudly announce you get free refills. I hate to say it, but I know somebody who actually went back twice. Yikes!
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}> Amen to that! There are movie channels out there that use some sort of copy-protection coding, but TCM isn't one of them.
It's true that there is the technology to do that, but it seems to be used mostly to prevent some pay-for-view movies and high-priced special events from being copied, not regular day to day movies on the premium channels like HBO or Showtime. There hasn't been a movie I wanted to copy on a DVD that I couldn't. Not to say it hasn't happened, just that I've never encountered it.
Of course, there so few movies on those channel that I'd want to keep, it's getting pretty rare for me to record one.
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> {quote:title=scubaboy wrote:}{quote} I have a feeling the pop-up is TCM's way of sabmarining those of us who record movies that are on late to watch later.
Nonsense! TCM isn't doing _anything_ to keep people from recording. If they were, nobody would be able to record and there are hundreds, if not thousands of us, who do so every single day.
Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1977
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> {quote:title=PhillColeman wrote:}{quote} This film hasn't been seen on TV for over 30 years.
Years ago it did have a VHS release on the old Key Video label which I believe was owned by CBS, but the only DVD release I could find was in Portugal of all places and that's out of print.
Since it was co-produced by an American company, and two European partners, maybe there are legal issues that have it tied up.