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The first night of Rita's SOTM run is a pretty impressive outside-the-TCM-library lineup, with three Columbia films and two from 20th Century Fox to kick things off (October 2).

Tunes of Glory is a really good film with powerhouse performances from Alec Guiness and John Mills, reuniting a little more than a dozen years after they made Great Expectations. First time on TCM in seven years!

Kyle Machlachlan NOT nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Drama. Emmys instantly and permanently lose all credibility forever as an institution to be taken seriously, in my mind.

You ... started this thread on April 28, and the NOMINATIONS don't even happen until July 11? Wow!

I've seen the trailer at least twice now before seeing other movies. Looks really cheesey of the Sharknado or Snakes on a Plane variety, but it might be a guilty pleasure. I like seeing Joel McHale plays a supporting role.

TCM has done a hypnosis theme night at least once, maybe twice, in the last 10 years that I can remember. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T is definitely one of the films they showed. I'm struggling to remember the others off the top of my head.

I may be way in the minority on this, but I saw Gus Van Zandt's shot-for-shot (with a few psychological extra shots) remake of Psycho in the theater (I'll go see anything!), and I thought it was pretty great. Vincent Vaughan (who went on to kind of ossify into a certain type) is creepy as heck, and the other performances are great, too.

I certainly wasn't aware of that. I certainly don't want to be behind the times! I'll try to do some research on my own, possibly ask some black people I know what they prefer, hopefully not sounding like totally stupid white guy.

I haven't seen the original, but I saw the English-language remake, also by Haneke, with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. I read it's a virtual shot-for-shot remake. Maybe the most depressing movie I've ever seen! There is one moment of catharsis, when you think there might be some hope. I saw this in a theater with maybe five other people (it wasn't exactly a moneymaker). And when that moment happened, the other people in the theater all cheered and let out whoops of approval. But then, within seconds, we see this is not going to be that kind of movie, and everything is instantly bleak and doomed again. I guess it was pretty brilliant the way Haneke played with audience expectations about how this sort of film is supposed to go. But, as I say, I walked out of the theater in an absolute funk for several hours afterward.

That's just my guess based on the commentary I read. If there are people on here who are not old or are not white, I wish they would share that information!

Certainly sounds from your post and your photo as if you may be aware of a contentious thread that begin with a board member expressing anger over a comment made by Ben M. when introducing that Bengal Lancer movie. A thread in which, I must admit, I have been an active participant. But other than that, pretty quiet ...

If black people stopped using the word "colored" 50 years ago, I hope it won't be too much of an inconvenience to you to let it go, though you make it sound as if it is a great hassle! Yes, I know it's still in the title of the NAACP, but that's just for convenience sake. That organization tends to go strictly by initials these days.

Ha ha, oops! Thanks for the correction, even if it cost you embarrassment!

Actually, Justin Bieber just got engaged to the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. No kidding. Anyone can create a Wikipedia page, I think? If you're unhappy a certain movie is unrepresented, and you know enough about that movie to create a page, then do so!

I think you're being funny and not really accusing me, but for the record, drednm deliberately and intentionally brought race into this by denouncing all rap and hip-hop music as crap. He didn't explicitly mention race, but the implication punches you in the face. I was just responding to that statement! I haven't seen Hamilton, but it appears to be an extraordinarily successful example of incorporating rap and hip-hop elements in a manner that didn't necessarily alienate every old white person on Earth. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Speilberg tries to "hip" up the music of West Side Story to some degree as well.

Okay, well, except for Lawrence ...

We're all just a bunch of old white people on these boards, aren't we?

I'd like to believe you, but re-read her post. Her exact words were people believe that "even to this day", and that it's incumbent on us to do research to understand why. Which is why I responded the way I did above.

Your post got me wondering, so I checked on moviecollectoroh's database. I don't always remember recent TCM history so great myself! Dracula, Dracula's Daughter, The Mummy, Frankenstein,The Bride of Frankenstein and The Wolf Man ALL just aired in October of last year! (and two of those movies aired again in December). Frankenstein vs. The Wolf Man has only ever aired on TCM once; that was in October, 2016. So don't despair! It's certainly possible some of them will be back this October.

Dargo, you make me laugh a lot, but your obsession with Ben M. and "nasally voice" is reaching Hot Spell levels!

Oh, never mind this post. I don't know how to delete it. I thought it was going to appear directly below something I was responding to, but subsequent posts have been made, and it wouldn't make any sense.

The autocensor is indeed a little overzealous. I don't think you can specifically blame TCM. They probably just selected some censor software without a lot of forethought. Can you still not say Peter? I'm gonna type it out and see what happens. When they first started using the software, you couldn't say the first name of actors Sellers and O'Toole. Just put a space between every letter for a word you think is going to get bleeped out.

I don't know how anyone could consider Birth of a Nation to be "an actual truth ... to this day" I don't think it's really incumbent upon me to do a lot of research on why this is so, because all I would discover is those people are full of hate and ignorance. I urge everyone to read Ron Chernow's excellent biography of Ulysses Grant. The chapters about the repeated of mass murders and organized violence against black people by white people in the South just after Reconstruction are an incredibly shameful portion of our history, one that this movie certainly doesn't address.

Wow! I'd heard he was a ringer for Peter Parker, but given the dearth of photos that exist of him, I didn't know how true that was.

Ha ha, well, yes, that's happened to me, too.