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18 minutes ago, CaveGirl said:
I agree with you that Fonda did an amazing turn as an evil dude in that film.
I would say that, someone I never thought of as a great actor, namely Fred MacMurray who was always playing sort of bland guys, even in "Double Indemnity", was really a dastardly bas...you know the rest which rhymes with "dastard" in "The Apartment". Supposedly he got so much attention for being a real rat, that he never wanted to play such a part again, sadly, since it really showed he had acting chops. I thought he was kind of corny in DI, and that Babs was really the rotten apple, but in TA, Freddie boy was a real nasty number and totally believable too, in the horrid way he treated Miss Kublick [sp?].Billy Wilder was really able to get some range out of MacMurray one might not have expected he had, didn't he? Also worth mentioning is The Caine Mutiny, in which MacMurray also plays a heel.
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Wow, 21,000 posts and never created a thread!
I go through phases where I don't create any. It's always deflating when I think of something really interesting I want to share with my fellow members only to watch it sink to Page Three in a day and a half because no one bothered to read it, while someone else's post that in my opinion adds zero constructive to these boards gets 10 times as many views as mine. And then I momentarily get huffy and think well these schmos don't deserve a thread created by me! But a couple of weeks go by, and I start creating threads again.
You probably save yourself a lot of heartache your way (or you may not be as sensitive as I).
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Oh God, it's starting again.
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Sounds like a manufactured line to me, as the spot quickly needs to identify that this is, indeed, a tour group. But yeah, it definitely has a ring of self-importance.
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17 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Sadly this is still here. ha ha.
Jeez, I don't knock your threads!
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I certainly thought these two films might have routinely gotten a foreign films spotlight on TCM, but it appears Last Year at Marienbad has aired only once on TCM, way back in 2000, while Garden of the Fitzi-Continis has never aired. I too am woefully behind the curve on many of the most famous foreign movies of all time and haven't seen either of thee movies. Years ago, I learned more about the twist or puzzle behind Marienbad than I wanted to in an article I read, and haven't really been clamoring to see it since then, as I already feel I know too much. But I should still probably seek it out.
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6 hours ago, cmovieviewer said:
There seems to be a pretty good version of the movie on YouTube - sounds like you just missed the last 5 minutes or so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHt-Thp1Gk
(Since TCM doesn't have it available, I hope they don't mind this reference.)
I watched this movie on YouTube two or three years ago. The link above may be the same one I used. I would recommend watching it there!
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While I know I've seen some Alan Smithee movies, I'm hard-pressed to remember which ones off the top of my head. Does anyone know what the very first one was? When did the use of this name start, anyway, and where the heck did the name come from?
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I swear we just had a thread like this in the last couple of months in which I brought up Donald Meek and noted "His last name is MEEK!", which got a couple of laughing emojis.
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I don't think I've mentioned that I enrolled in the AMC A-List program, which is their version of Movie Pass. It costs $20/month, but for that fee, you can see three movies a week. And all movies, regardless if they're in 3-D or IMAX, or if they're really popular movies being screened at peak viewing times, which isn't necessarily true for Movie Pass. You have to commit to at least three months minimum, but the monthly fee is guaranteed to remain unchanged for a full year if you continue to stay enrolled.
In June alone, I have seen:
Ant-Man & the Wasp
Sorry to Bother You
Skyscraper
The Equalizer II
Hotel Transylvania 3So, I've easily paid for my $20 this month.
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Seems that I've read that Bogart wasn't especially interested in doing this film - he was a last-second insert, I think - and kind of slept-walked through it, though I can't give you the source for that information. Also that maybe he wasn't terribly impressed with Audrey Hepburn. Regardless, I just don't think Bogie was capable of giving a bad performance, even if his heart wasn't in it, and I still find him interesting to watch in this film.
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5 hours ago, Dargo said:
Geeeeeze, I KNEW I'd get a whole lot of crap for admitting to this June Allyson thing!!!
(...I hope you folks know that somewhere out there DGF is probably smilin' a big ol' smile right about now)
Sounds like you need some support, Dargo. Will it earn me eternal pervert status to say I found Allyson for once in her career actually kinda sexy in Too Young to Kiss in which she's pretending to be 14 and subsequently messing with Van Johnson's mind? Note that I said PRETENDING! Don't judge me too harshly, TCM Message Boards faithful.
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Some of these posts are leaving me in stunned near-silence!
I've seen Casblanca and Citizen Kane probably more than a hundred times each.
I haven't seen Green Dolphin Street. The Women also immediately comes to mind. King Solomon's Mine I guess I've never really watched, just bits and pieces. Quo Vadis? same. If I ever have the time or energy, I'd like to scroll through moviecollectoroh's database and figure out what's the most-aired TCM film that I've never seen.
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8 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
But sewhite, maybe I'm missing something here ( I admit, that happens more often than I care to say), but as far as I can tell you don't say what thread this post you're referring to was on. Can you enlighten me, please?
It was on General Discussions. It was gone for a while. I complained about it, and soon after, it was magically restored. As I say in the post above, I have no idea if I actually had some power in making that happened or if it was just happenstance.
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Thanks, James, but I'm not insane. It did disappear for a certain amount of time, I would say 15 hours or more. Shortly after I started complaining about its disappearance, it returned. I don't know if I had any impact on that or if it was just a general restoration of genuine threads that got temporarily deleted along with all the spam. Anyway, it was really, honestly gone for a certain amount of time.
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That's a great story. About a month ago, I saw an eyesight-impaired customer getting set up with his own earpiece that would provide SAP description for them in the theater. He wasn't totally blind, because a very famous local celebrity came in the theater at the same time, and his friend pointed the celebrity out to him, and he turned his head to look. It's wonderful technology can help people continue to enjoy films! My dad, in his mid-80s, is struggling to read print, and I'm not sure what we're going to be able to do about that. My mom has discovered a sort of magnifying table where you can put a book under a special glass, but it would require sitting up straight and keeping the book under the glass. I just don't think my dad is going to adjust to that. His whole life, he's liked to have his easy chair leaning back in the farthest position it will go while reading, and I seriously doubt he's going to change his behavior at 85, even if it means it would help him read. He's quite stubborn. But I don't know. He would never go buy such a thing himself, but if I just bought it, and was it there in the house, he might give it a try. So, I'm considering doing that for his birthday in September.
What is a sleep mask?
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Okay, well, 30 years. Thanks for the info!
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Wow, that was a bit ... graphic.
But, yeah, you can't blame TCM for this one. Not only is it a Disney full-length (partially) animated feature - of which none have ever aired on TCM, as far as I know - but Disney has buried it for 40 years, at least in this country. Blame (or credit, depending on how you feel about these things) rests solely with Disney.
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17 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
What in the hell is this thread about, anyway?
Sepiatone
It's a song Barbara Streisand sings in Funny Girl, one of the few in the movie where she actually tries to affect a bit of an actual Fanny Brice accent. Watching it again during the musical month, I was just struck by the ending of the song where she draws out the last syllable of the song, and if she just can't let the song end on so traditional a finish, she **** her head and repeats the syllable "Noo?" as if asking a question. That had stuck in my head for weeks, and I don't know, it was like three in the morning, and I just thought I'd post the line from the song and see if anybody got the reference. Possibly I was so obscure I actually ended up getting the thread temporarily deleted!
Edit: Oh, good grief, how about "tilts"? She "tilts" her head. I can't use the word that rhymes with "rocks" to describe how she moves her head.
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The newest film I can find on the OP's list is Wetherby, a 1985 British film with Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Joely Richardson (who played her mother's younger self). Calvin didn't list a studio for this one, but it was distributed in the US by MGM/UA Classics and so was probably in the library back in the day.
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I don't know if TCM was already organizing programming by themes as early as Day Two, but there very well may have been a group of Cukor films all airing back-to-back.
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8 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Here are a couple of questions somewhat related to the thread topic:
What is the newest non-documentary feature film to air on TCM?
How about in the earlier, pre-millennium "better days" of TCM? What was the newest movie to have shown back then?
Someone has posted a list of all the films that aired the first week or so of TCM, and Rich and Famous, the Candice Bergen-Jacqueline Bissett remake of Old Acquaintance aired the second day of TCM's existence! It's an MGM film and is presumably in the library, though TCM took a long break between airings. If it hadn't been shown one time in 2012, it would have been on the list above. Anyway, it was only 13 years old when it aired on TCM in 1994 and I think would be a contender.
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8 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
We're No Angels.
You know, I don't think I've ever seen that! I've seen the remake with Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn. Now I gotta go look at moviecollectoroh's database and see if TCM ever shows it.
Edit: It appears TCM used to show it quite a bit, back in the day when Paramounts were more common on the network. But it hasn't aired for six years. Like the others I listed, it's also a very late-career Bogart film. He saved all his color films for the last five years of his career.
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When 'good guy/gal' actors suddenly play evil....
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This caused some hand-wringing among the public and media back in the day. Macauley Culkin in The Good Son: