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As the title suggests, this is the official voting thread for the 20th TCM Programming Challenge. There are many excellent schedules to choose from, which will all be reposted on this thread for your perusal. Unfortunately, SansFin's is no longer eligible to vote for, at SansFin's own request, but there are plenty of other options.
HOW TO VOTE: You have two options
1. PM me your choice
2. Post it on this thread
DEADLINE:
Voting closes in one week, which means in this case that you have until Monday November 7 at 11:59pm Pacific time.
Reread the schedules. Start deciding. And don't forget to leave nice comments about the schedules!
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I hereby declare this competition in the voting stage. I now close this thread for entries and open the official voting thread. Please post all other comments on that thread.
See you on the flip side!
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Sunny--
I love this schedule. I love all the background people you featured. I love that you scheduled that amazing Hugh Harman cartoon "Peace on Earth" on Christmas. I saw that ONCE as a kid and it has stuck with me ever since with its powerful storytelling and beautiful animation-- I would love to see that on TCM. I have to say thank you for also appreciating the gorgeous Tetons in SHANE. Thanks too for scheduling Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for TCM imports-- awesome film. And also for highlighting the Sons of the Pioneers in there-- love them. Also, great choices for Christmas. And finally, if anyone disagrees that Brannagh's HENRY V is not a classic, they are crazy because it is one of the planet's greatest Shakespeare films. Yay!
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Wow, TWO more amazing schedules. The competition is heating up! Only today and tomorrow left for any more last minute entries. You can do it! Meanwhile, have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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I have watched Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon playing and it's pretty awesome (or I should say "trippy") how in sync it is-- how sound effects work sometimes, or how the song fits what's going on. Especially cool to me was that during "Over the Rainbow" Pink Floyd has airplane sound effects going on that exacly match Dorothy's head movements-- it's as if she is watching the airplanes fly overhead! Far out, man!
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Thanks, Smileys, I did mean the '43 Jane Eyre. So glad it's scheduled. I frequently put it in my programming challenge schedule hoping they'll get the idea to show it. Glad they did.
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This schedule is so clever, Fedya. I love how you worked the challenges into your weekly theme by highlighting a guy with your same name and lots of background artists. Very clever ideas there. Lots of great movies. I especially loved movies by F Hugh Herbert that feature Hugh Herbert. That's so funny! Love this schedule to bits!
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*JACK LEMMON!!! :x*
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Only five days left..... come on, you last minute types! You can do it!
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Very good Metz. Captain's Paradise-- a most original and funny movie.
You're up, Metz!
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Here's one of my favorites:
CLUE 1: A man has two houses and acts differently in each one.
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}I'll add another vote for Robert Wise's 1963 version of *The Haunting .*
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> You folks remember that one. That was made back when directors left those "things that go bump in the night" to the audience's imagination, and just before showing all the gore on screen replaced the idea of what "horror" was.
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That's why I love it. No fancy effects (except one rubber door)-- all editing, camera angles, sound effects, and reactions from the actors. Love it.
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If Tommy Steele is the butler and Fred MacMurray is the boss, is it....
The Happiest Millionaire?
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How Green Was My Valley
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Lost in Yonkers
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Horror is a tough thing to distinguish between suspense sometimes, so I'll just list my favorite "scary" movies:
Jaws
Poltergeist
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
And everything Hitchcock
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It is so interesting to hear how you all got your names. SansFin, I'm so glad I finally understand yours, and now that I do I think it's awesome.
Mine is quite uncomplicated -- it's a song from one of my favorite songs from one of my all time favorite movies *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*. If you can't remember the song titles and such, it's the part where the guys are singing and dancing with axes. Very awesome part of a very awesome movie. At the time I couldn't think of anything else more clever. So this, I guess, represents that I love musicals way too much.
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Only 10 days left in the challenge. Plenty of time for all of you to come up with an entry......
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Rote, Harry - Alan Arkin in WAIT UNTIL DARK
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Ooo--- great idea for a thread. I have a lot of movies I wish TCM would show. I hope I can list them all.
For my dear mother who always hopes these movies will show up on TCM -- come on, do it for mom!:
*What's So Bad About Feeling Good*
*Blackbeard's Ghost*
And for me:
*Summer Magic*
*A New Leaf*
*Jane Eyre*
*Slipper and the Rose*
*Drat, I knew it. I completely blanked. This list isn't over!*
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Filmlover, great idea for a schedule. I know every time I watch That's Entertainment I want to watch every movie they mention, so this schedule is definitely for me. Awesome!
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Darling - Peggy Lee in LADY AND THE TRAMP
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*kingrat*-- Great schedule! A whole day of French films is great. Love doing cinematographers as SOTM. I love how everyone is appreciating background artists even more than I hoped. I'm reading names I never noticed before. Yay!
*TCM*-- please show Three Coins in a Fountain. That movie makes me want to go to Italy via the movie screen.
*All participants*-- How will we ever decide between these great schedules? Thanks for the hard work! Love "getting to know you, getting to know all about you", as it were.
*Everyone else*-- it's only the Ides of October. Let's see those schedules!! You can do it!
Official Voting Thread for the 20th TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
Posted
*SCHEDULE #!: Sans Fin*
NOTE: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL ENTRY AND NOT ELIGIBLE FOR VOTING
(But please leave nice comments about it anyway!)
March 18 to March 24, 2012
Celebrating the World's Great Film Festivals
18 Sunday: *The Con Film Festival*
6:00 AM *Trouble In Paradise* (1932) Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Paramount, 82 mins., P/S
7:30 AM *A Lady Of Chance* (1928) Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. MGM, 78 mins.
9:00 AM *New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford* (1931) William Haines, Jimmy Durante, Leila Hyams. Dir: Sam Wood. MGM, 95 mins.
10:45 AM *Bedtime Story* (1964) Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones. Dir: Ralph Levy. Universal, 99 mins., P/S
12:30 PM *The Lady Eve* (1941) Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn. Dir: Preston Sturges. Paramount, 94 mins., P/S
2:15 PM *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1929) Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, Hedda Hopper. Dir:Sidney Franklin. MGM, 94 mins.
4:00 PM *The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937) Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, William Powell. Dir: Richard Boleslawski. MGM, 98 mins.
5:45 PM *The Sting* (1973) Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. Dir: George Roy Hill. Universal, 129 mins., P/S
*Myself*
My first crush on an American actor.
8:00 PM *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968) Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke. Dir: Norman Jewison. UA, 102 mins., P/S
The first movie my fiance and I saw together.
9:45 PM *How to Steal a Million* (1966) Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach. Dir: William Wyler. WWP, 127 mins. Premiere
Silent Sunday Night
The first movie from which I wanted something
12:00 AM *Tretya meshchanskaya* (1927) Nikolai Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Leonid Yurenyov. Dir: Abram Room. Sovkino, 95 mins., Exempt
TCM Import
The last movie my mother and I watched together.
1:45 AM *Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis* (1998) Nikolai Karachentsov, Tanya Yu, Zinaida Sharko. Dir: Vladimir Bortko. Lenfilm Studio, 114 mins., Exempt
The first DVD I was given.
3:45 AM *All That Jazz* (1979) Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen. Dir: Bob Fosse.Fox, 123 mins., Premiere
19 Monday: *Irving Berlin's Film Festival*
6:00 AM *There's No Business Like Show Business* (1954) Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe. Dir: Walter Lang. Fox, 117 mins., Premiere
8:00 AM *White Christmas* (1954) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. Dir: Michael Curtiz. Paramount, 120 mins., P/S
10:00 AM *Holiday Inn* (1942) Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds. Dir: Mark Sandrich. Paramount, 101 mins., P/S
11:45 AM *Easter Parade* (1948) Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller. Dir: Charles Walters. MGM, 107 mins.
1:45 PM *This Is the Army* (1943) George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. WB, 125 mins.
4:00 PM *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950) Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Edward Arnold. Dir: George Sidney. MGM, 107 mins.
6:00 PM *Alexander's Ragtime Band* (1938) Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche. Dir: Henry King. Fox, 106mins., Premiere
*Do Not Quit Your Day Job*
Shelock Holmes Sings!
8:00 PM *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1939) Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino. Dir: Fred L. Werker. Fox, 85 mins., P/S
Dr. Watson Sings!
9:30 PM *Pursuit to Algiers* (1945) Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan. Dir: Roy William Neill. Universal, 65 mins., P/S
A spy moonlights as a ventriloquist.
10:45 AM *Mr. Moto's Last Warning* (1939) Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field. Dir: Norman Foster. Fox, 71 mins., Premiere
Fighter pilots sing!
12:00 AM *The Dawn Patrol* (1938) Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven. Dir: Edmund Goulding. WB, 103 mins.
A General sings a love song!
1:45 AM *Call Me Madam* (1953) Ethel Merman, Vera-Ellen, Donald O'Connor. Dir: Walter Lang. Fox, 114 mins., P/S
A gold-digger sings the Blues.
3:45 AM *Midnight* (1939) Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore. Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Paramount, 94 mins., P/S
5:30 AM Now Playing - March, 2012. 30 mins.
20 Tuesday: *NYC's Trifecta Festival*
6:00 AM *The Rocking Horse Winner* (1949) Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, John Mills. Dir: Anthony Pelissier. Two Cities, 92 mins., P/S
7:45 AM *Don't Bet On Blondes* (1935) Warren William, Claire Dodd, Errol Flynn. Dir: Robert Florey. WB, 59 mins.
8:45 AM *The Story Of Seabiscuit* (1949) Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister. Dir: David Butler. WBP, 98 mins., P/S
10:30 AM *Stablemates* (1938) Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Margaret Hamilton. Dir: Sam Wood. MGM, 90 mins.
12:00 PM *My Brother Talks To Horses* (1946) Butch Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Charlie Ruggles. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. MGM, 92 mins.
1:45 PM *Three Men On A Horse* (1936) Frank McHugh, Sam Levene, Joan Blondell. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. WB, 86 mins.
3:15 PM *Harrigan's Kid* (1943) Bobby Readick, Frank Craven, William Gargan. Dir: Charles F. Reisner. MGM, 80 mins.
4:45 PM *Sporting Blood* (1931) Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans. Dir: Charles Brabin. MGM, 82 mins.
6:15 PM *Broadway Bill* (1934) Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Helen Vinson. Dir: Frank Capra. Columbia, 104 mins., P/S
*Star of the Month: Steve McQueen*
8:00 PM *The War Lover* (1962) Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field. Dir: Philip Leacock.Columbia, 105 mins., Premiere
9:45 PM *Papillon* (1973) Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Zerbe. Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Columbia, 151 mins., P/S
12:30 AM *Love With The Proper Stranger* (1964) Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Tom Bosley. Dir: Robert Mulligan. Paramount, 100 mins., P/S
2:15 AM *The Reivers* (1969) Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel. Dir: Mark Rydell. Duo, 111 mins., P/S
4:15 AM *Junior Bonner* (1972) Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Solar, 100 mins., P/S
21 Wednesday: *Films In Moscow Festival*
6:00 AM *Song Of Russia* (1943) Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak. Dir: Gregory Ratoff. MGM, 107 mins.
8:00 AM *Mission To Moscow* (1943) Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Eleanor Parker. Dir: Michael Curtiz. WB, 123 mins.
10:15 AM *Scarlet Dawn* (1932) Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Nancy Carroll, Earle Foxe. Dir: William Dieterle. WB, 57 mins.
11:15 AM *Ninotchka* (1939) Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. MGM, 110 mins.
1:15 PM *Comrade X* (1940) Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Felix Bressart. Dir: King Vidor. MGM, 87 mins.
2:45 PM *Tovarich* (1937) Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Anatole Litvak. WB, 92 mins.
4:30 PM *War and Peace* (1956) Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer. Dir: King Vidor. Paramount, 208 mins., P/S
*You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.* - The Princess Bride.
8:00 PM *The Gay Bride* (1934) Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, ZaSu Pitts. Dir: Jack Conway. MGM, 80 mins.
9:30 PM *The Gay Desperado* (1936) Ida Lupino, Nino Martini, Leo Carillo. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. UA, 87 mins., P/S
11:00 PM *The Gay Divorcee* (1934) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. RKO, 105 mins.
12:45 AM *In Gay Madrid* (1930) Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Lottice Howell. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. MGM, 82 mins.
2:15 AM *The Gay Deceiver* (1926) Lew Cody, Malcolm McGregor, Marceline Day. Dir: John M. Stahl. MGM, 70 mins.
3:30 AM *The Gay Old Bird* (1927) Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, Jane Winton. Dir: Herman C. Raymaker. WB, 70 mins.
4:45 AM *The Gay Diplomat* (1931) Ivan Lebedeff, Betty Compson, Genevieve Tobin. Dir: Richard Boleslawski. RKO, 66 mins.
22 Thursday: *Dance in the Sun Film Festival*
6:00 AM *Sumurun* (1920) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. PAGU, 115 mins., Premiere
8:00 AM *Harem Girl* (1952) Joan Davis, Peggie Castle, Arthur Blake. Dir: Edward Bernds. Columbia, 71 mins., P/S
9:15 AM *Solomon And Sheba* (1959) Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders. Dir: King Vidor. UA, 141 mins., P/S
11:45 AM *Arabian Nights* (1942) Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez. Dir: John Rawlins. Universal, 86 mins., P/S
1:15 PM *Bitter Victory* (1958) Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman. Dir: Nicholas Ray. Columbia, 102 mins., P/S
3:00 PM *Piccadilly* (1929) Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong. Dir: E.A. Dupont. BIP, 109 mins., P/S
5:00 PM *Tanned Legs* (1929) June Clyde, Arthur Lake, Sally Blane. Dir: Marshall Neilan. RKO, 66 mins.
6:15 PM *After The Fox* (1966) Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland. Dir: Vittorio De Sica. CCM, 103 mins., P/S
*Hubert de Givenchy* Costume Designer par excellence
8:00 PM *Sabrina* (1954) Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden. Dir: Billy Wilder. Paramount, 112 mins., P/S
10:00 PM *Funny Face* (1957) Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson. Dir: Stanley Donen. Paramount, 103 mins., P/S
11:45 PM *Charade* (1963) Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau. Dir: Stanley Donen. JAR, 113 mins., P/S
1:45 AM *Paris When It Sizzles* (1964) Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Noel Coward. Dir: Richard Quine. Quine, 110 mins., P/S
3:45 AM *Love In The Afternoon* (1957) Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier. Dir: Billy Wilder. Allied, 130 mins., P/S
23 Friday: *The Merchant of Venice Film Festival*
6:00 AM *Counsellor at Law* (1933) John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: William Wyler. Universal, 82 mins., P/S
7:30 AM *The People Against O'Hara* (1951) Spencer Tracy, Diana Lynn, Pat O'Brien. Dir: John Sturges. MGM, 102 mins.
9:15 AM *The Devil and Daniel Webster* (1941) Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, John Craig. Dir: William Dieterle. Dieterle, 112 mins., P/S
11:15 AM *The Fortune Cookie* (1966) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Cliff Osmond. Dir: Billy Wilder. UA, 126 mins., P/S
1:30 PM *To Kill A Mockingbird* (1962) Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford. Dir: Robert Mulligan. Brentwood, 129 mins., P/S
3:45 PM *Inherit The Wind* (1960) Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly. Dir: Stanley Kramer. UA, 128 mins., P/S
6:00 PM *Witness For The Prosecution* (1957) Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich. Dir: Billy Wilder. UA, 116 mins., P/S
*Werner Von Braun's Birthday*
8:00 PM *The Right Stuff* (1983) Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris. Dir: Philip Kaufman. Ladd, 193 mins., P/S
11:15 PM *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968) Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. MGM, 149 mins., P/S
1:45 AM *A Trip to the Moon* (1902) Georges Melies, Henri Delannoy, Bleuette Bernon. Dir: Georges Melies. Star Film, 14 mins., P/S
*TCM Underground*
2:00 AM *12 to the Moon* (1960) Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway. Dir: David Bradley. Columbia, 74 mins., Exempt
3:15 AM *Have Rocket, Will Travel* (1959) The Three Stooges, Jerome Cowan, Robert Colbert. Dir: David Lowell Rich. Columbia, 76 mins., P/S
4:45 AM *The Lost Missile* (1958) Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine. Dir: William Berke. UA, 70 mins., P/S
24 Saturday: *Ann Arbor Festival of Experiments*
6:00 AM *Frankenstein* (1931) Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff. Dir: James Whale. Universal, 70 mins., P/S
7:15 AM *Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde* (1932) Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. MGM, 96 mins.
9:00 AM *Donovan's Brain* (1953) Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis. Dir: Felix E. Feist. UA, 83 mins., P/S
10:30 AM *Doctor X* (1932) Lee Tracy, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray. Dir: Michael Curtiz. First National, 76 mins., P/S
12:00 PM *The Return Of Doctor X* (1939) Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan. Dir: Vincent Sherman. WB, 63 mins.
1:15 PM *The Man They Could Not Hang* (1939) Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox. Dir: Nick Grinde. Columbia, 70 mins., P/S
2:30 PM *The Invisible Ray* (1936) Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton. Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Universal, 79 mins., P/S
4:00 PM *The Invisible Man* (1933) Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan. Dir: James Whale. Universal, 72 mins., P/S
5:15 PM *The Invisible Boy* (1957) Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Harold J. Stone. Dir: Herman Hoffman. MGM, 90 mins.
6:45 PM *The Invisible Woman* (1940) Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, Charles Ruggles. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland, Universal, 72 mins., Premiere
*TCM Essential*
8:00 PM *Laura* (1944) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb. Dir: Otto Preminger. Fox, 87 mins., Premiere
Dana Andrews continues the night.
9:30 PM *Where the Sidewalk Ends* (1950) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Bert Freed. Dir: Otto Preminger. Fox, 95 mins., P/S
11:15 PM *I Want You* (1951) Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger. Dir: Mark Robson. RKO, 102 mins.
1:00 AM *While The City Sleeps* (1956) Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price. Dir: Fritz Lang. RKO, 100 mins.
2:45 AM *Up In Arms* (1944) Dana Andrews, Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore. Dir: Elliott Nugent. RKO, 105 mins.
4:30 AM *Beyond A Reasonable Doubt* (1956) Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer. Dir: Fritz Lang. RKO, 80 mins.
Premieres:
There's No Business Like Show Business
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Sumurun
The Invisible Woman
How to Steal a Million
Laura
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
All That Jazz
The War Lover
March 18 to March 24, 2012
TCM has been paying tribute to film festivals around the world. I wondered what it would be like for people who do not properly hear the names or who misunderstand what is being said. The great variance from my original thoughts was that Friday was first to be The Venus Film Festival. The sci-fi and horror movies fitting for Saturday's The Ann Arbor Experiments Festival would have overloaded the schedule with those genres if I had not changed Friday to be of lawyers. I first wished to make it a day of surgeons performing miraculous surgeries. I did not do that as it may have been too esoteric and I had no way of searching for movies depicting bloodless amputations.
I did have a choice of the Toronto, Moscow, Tokyo or Telluride festivals. After picking movies for those names and moving them around I found Moscow the only one in which everything fit nicely with all good movies and not having to settle for a so-so film only because it would fit.
I wished to have a tribute on Monday, March 19th to Sir Richard Burton. He was a 19th Century author, ethnologist, and explorer. His only link to movies was to have another person with the same name become a star in the 20th Century. It is sad to say I could not find enough movies related to his deeds.
It was not easy to chose movies reflecting myself in any meaningful way. It is only very recently that movies have been made which portray my country in other than paeans or set during the Great Patriotic War. I worked in drab little offices most of my life and there are few movies about people like that. I had to chose movies that were at meaningful points in my life.
My first crush on an American actor was Steve McQueen in *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968). The first movie Capuchin and I saw together was *How to Steal a Million*(1966).
I am told that when I was very little I saw a rug in the market which I wanted very much because it belonged to 'the beautiful woman'. I was so very young I did not know how to explain I had seen it in a movie. It was much later that my uncle recognized it as like one in *Tretya meshchanskaya* (1927).
The last movie my mother and I watched together was *Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis* (1998). It is a very deep and moving film about shallow people.
The very first DVD I was ever given is *All That Jazz* (1979).
My tribute to a person in the background could have been Irving Berlin. That would have been like cheating because it was not done to meet the Challenge requirement. I wished to make one for Givenchy because the clothes are so beautiful. It also let me schedule many of my favorite Audrey Hepburn movies.
I believe all the themes and the movies I choose need no explanation. Some of it is silly. I think they are all good movies.
This is the first Challenge I have entered where I did not have to settle for a second-choice movie to fill a time slot because a first-choice movie did not fit.
I thank you very much for setting an excellent Challenge!
Premieres:
There's No Business Like Show Business
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Sumurun
The Invisible Woman
How to Steal a Million
Laura
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
All That Jazz
The War Lover