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Whew, college football movies every Friday in primetime sounds like a big yawn to me, but I suppose some will enjoy it.

Looks like the Bond theme is every week, not just one night. There have surely never been this high a concentration of Bond movies on TCM. Most of them are premieres. I kinda want to jump ahead and see how recent we get. Could they be showing a Daniel Craig Bond film? Edit: To answer my own question, looks like they stop with the Pierce Brosnan years, 1999's The World is Not Enough being the most recent film.

100 Years of United Artists certainly looks like an interesting theme, and then ... OH MY GOD! FIVE CONNERY BOND FILMS IN A ROW ON SEPTEMBER 5! I'm pretty sure TCM hasn't shown any Bond films at all since Connery had a SUTS day in 2008.

Disney's The Happiest Millionaire late night September 2! The only Greer Garson film that's never before aired on TCM.

Hey, I immediately notice there's an eight-hour gap of yet-to-be-specified daytime programming on September 1 which has nevertheless been assigned the genre "TCM Presents", usually indicating premieres. Everyone keep watching that space!

Oh, man, literally one minute before I was gonna turn out the lights and go to bed, I have to check the message boards one more time! Now, I have to at least check out the first week or two and get some sense of the themes. I don't believe there was a single vote for Poitier in the adjacent thread where people were suggesting SOTM this time around. Not a selection that particularly excites me. I just can't imagine there's going to be some lost Poitier gem being included that takes me by surprise. But I will reserve judgment until I see the selections. Edit: Poitier month is kicking off with the terrific, racially charged No Way Out with Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Stephen McNally. Also small parts by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. I can't overstate how fantastic this movie is. The OTHER movie written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz in 1950. I'm already feeling better about Poitier month.

There are a lot of great mega-concerts that are at least partially available to view. The T.A.M.I. Show, Monterey, Woodstock, Live Aid. If there's any collection of the aforementioned Farm Aid in its entirety, I'm unaware, but that would be worthy also.

There was already a thread about all the honorees just a day or two ago! That I guess has already descended into oblivion. That's probably what Lawrence is pointing out in the post above mine. I posted on that thread to especially express my joy at Lynch's honor, so at the risk of repeating myself, I will do so again. As I said on the other thread, certainly one of the most visionary American directors of the past 40 years.

A much whiter lineup too, it looks like!

I don't know how much of that film footage is available, but there is a massive box set coming out containing the most complete audio record of the event ever. 38 CDs containing 425 songs arranged in order of performance, 267 of which have never before been officially released, including for the first time ever the complete sets of the Grateful Dead, the Band and Credence Clearwater Revival. It's only $800!

I couldn't be more delighted about the Academy's choice to honor Lynch, certainly one of our most unique and visionary filmmakers of the last 40 years. I think the Academy has always had an unusually notable appreciation for his work, honoring him with four Best Director nominations (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and The Straight Story), though he's rarely even remotely approached anything like major commercial success (outside of Season One of Twin Peaks on television). The other two I'm pretty unfamiliar with. It's often mentioned that Wertmuller (who's apparently Italian, despite that Germanic surname?) was the first woman to ever get a Best Director Oscar nomination. Studi is a name I've heard, but I would have to go over his imdb resume to learn how many of his films I've actually seen. I'm sure he's partly being honored for bringing a dignity and authenticity to Native American roles in an industry that historically didn't even bother to cast actual Native Americans and often made the roles terribly stereotypical.

1955 was a pretty great year. Here's just a small sample: Artists & Models Guys & Dolls Pather Panchali Bad Day at Black Rock Les Maitres Fous Hill 24 Doesn't Answer Marty Ordet Bob Le Flambeur Kiss Me Deadly The Man from Laramie Rebel Without a Cause The Phenix City Story Smiles of a Summer Night Night & Fog The Night of the Hunter Lola Montes

I never heard that term, either. I was watching Indiscreet on YouTube last night. In Ingrid Bergman's kitchen, she has no free-standing table but a little alcove with booth-like seats on either side of a tabletop that's possibly connected to the wall. Like a booth in a diner, but the booth-seats only wide enough to seat one person on each side of the table. It looked super-cozy, and I kinda wish I had one in my kitchen! Although it was so small, I feel like Bergman and Cary Grant's knees must haven been bumping against each other underneath the table.

That one has aired on TCM twice, and I saw it one of those times. It was pretty intense, as I recall. Worth watching, though maybe hard to watch multiple times!

I would contest the assertion that they've shown "plenty" of Tyrone Power! (though I support your call for more Alice Faye)

I don't know that I've ever heard anybody call Robert Taylor a great actor. He was a movie star; he was serviceable, and most of his films I've ever seen are enjoyable. So I'm unsure the term "overrated" really applies. He had, I think, bigger stardom than maybe his talent should have brought him. But BARBARA STANWYCK overrated? I'm so flabbergasted by that assessment I don't think can type the ten-thousand word response I'd like to make! She's one of the all-time greats, in my opinion.

If I may just briefly keep the focus on directors, I would point out that beginning with A Clockwork Orange, every film Stanley Kubrick made was for Warner Bros. Unfortunately, given his epic lag time between projects, that turned out to be only five films.

TCM shows the same handful of Curtis films over and over and over. The Sweet Smell of Success, The Defiant Ones and Some Like It Hot are on an endless loop. And after that ...? Once in a while, there's Sex and the Single Girl, The Great Race, Trapeze or Spartacus. And that's seriously just about it. They used to show Operation Petticoat a LOT, but according to MCOH's database, it hasn't aired in seven years. There are all sorts of Curtis Universal pictures that I've never seen. I watched one called Forbidden from 1953 with Curtis and Joanne Dru on YouTube about a year ago. It's sort of a poor imitation of Gilda with an exotic setting, but it's good noirish fun improved by Curtis' performance. I'd love to see Eddie Mueller talk about it.

Tracy got a massive SOTM run in October, 2012. Guess this was before TCM decided the SOTM for October has to have worked largely in horror movies. As I recall, they showed 50 Tracy films. A tiny handful of them were from his Fox days.

Brando is getting a Summer Under the Stars day, so I would assume a SOTM is slot is completely out of the question this year. But good gosh, TCM, one of these years ...!

I've read about half of this book, and I highly recommend for people who are interested in a concise snapshot of a moment in time in (mostly American, mostly mainstream) movie history. I thought about recommending it on here, but figured it would get a dismissive, yawning "meh" from 99 per cent of our members because the year being discussed is so recent (though it's already 20 years ago). People who express boredom with Star Wars are probably not going to want to read a book that devotes an entire chapter to The Phantom Menace. But I'm enjoying it.

The big hit record "Nashville Cats" by the Lovin' Spoonful from 1966 calls them "yellow Sun records from Nashville", which is where Princess and probably many people got their info. They were actually NOT from Nashville, but maybe John Sebastian didn't know that???

We pretty much align on those. Guess my "likes" were a bit stronger than yours, but we're in total agreement on BFG, although we probably weren't the target audience.

Certainly not the only idea he can come up with. Any number of his recent films have been quite good, in my opinion.

Greer Garson came very close. Sunrise at Campobello was made at Warner Bros. and The Happiest Millionaire at Disney, but I believe all of her other movies were made at MGM.