LonesomePolecat

Can words express how excited I am that after scheduling on several of my programming challenge schedules TCM is showing this one on March 1st? 5:30 PM Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) A poet-soldier allows his oversized nose to stand in the way of love. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez. Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. C-137 mins, This is a FANTASTIC movie, and the best version of Cyrano there is!! I am thrilled! Also excited about Wings, Daddy Long Legs, Return of the King (even though I think it's too new to show, it's one of the only movies from the decade I adore, so I can't really complain), State Fair, Amadeus!!!, and all the movies whose titles I've never even read before. Always love seeing things I've never seen before.

Saw Funny Girl last night and thought that only in a movie could someone wear hair and makeup, and often styles of clothing, 50 years before it was fashionable and still seem fashionable for the time they're in. Amazing!

And if you're caught in the rain your hair and makeup don't get messed up, not to mention clothes, and once you're inside or under something, you are dry almost immediately.

I too had never heard of Oscar Micheaux. Now I want to keep my eye out for his films.

Well, thanks, SueSue! After I read those other schedules I figured I'd get none, so thanks!

It could be that they're saving people like Cary Grant for later in the series. That's what I reasoned when I thought the same thing. I've been enjoying this immensely. In Film History land I'm in the Advanced category and even I learned a TON from this series, and thought of things in a new way, and appreciated people I never appreciated before. Awesome.

It was hard to chose but I decided to submit my vote for *Fedya* because of the actual amount of ideas that I wish I thought of. Brilliant ideas and hilarious too. And thanks for running the thing. It's been great fun!

I am so grateful for TCM! 1. The original doc "Moguls and Movie Stars" is especially fantastic. 2. Films shown as they were originally meant to be seen, no cuts, no commercials, no pan-and-scanning--wooo! 3. All the great movies I've been introduced to thanks to TCM, such as Five Graves to Cairo, the Wrong Man, Remember the Night, and the others that I wouldn't have ever seen any other way. 4. The "commercials" between the films are just as interesting as the films 5. The interesting themes and such 6. All the fantastic premieres 7. Robert Osbourne!!!

Crappy movies. Filth, bad writing, over dependence on effects and sex to sell the story, bad acting, people who have no business being on screen have massively successful carreers. And sequels. Sheesh. no original good scripts anymore!!

kriegerg69 , your brilliant comment led me to ask just what the taxes would be on a lifetime supply of chocolate? And I know I've said this somewhere before, but it bears repeating: where would we be without the Instant Knock-out? But "High School Musical" inspires me to mention that in real life you can't get hired as a teacher if you act like the teachers in pretty much every movie about high school. And in real life, for that matter you can't go through high school in one specific clique never doing any other extra-curricular activities. And for that matter, in real life you can't "rule the school" because it's too diverse!

My dad always considered It Happened One Night to be a screwball comedy, but I didn't, though I can see where he got that idea. To me it's not screwy enough.

That's interesting. It was great to see those characters again. Seems like England's remark on the British, and therefore their message for their WWII enemies. "Yeah, we seem like buffoons, but don't mess with us."

1. More foreign language films 2. The movie "What's So Bad About Feeling Good" 3. Bring Kermit the Frog back as a guest programmer!!! 4. More rare gems like "Five Graves to Cairo" for The Essentials or at least under the guise of "You have GOT to see this!" 5. More DVD releases for unreleased movies like "What's So Bad About Feeling Good" and "Five Graves to Cairo" 6. More character actors for SOTM and Summer Under the Stars 7. More vintage documentaries 8. Some new, different TV spots talking about old actors

Aw, man, I wanted to edit my notes a little. oh well. It'll take me some time to decide between all the great choices...

Just watched Night Train to Munich (1940), which had those two familiar british guys from The Lady Vanishes (1938) playing the EXACT same parts. Brilliant!

As one who often got carsick, this one always bugged me. Apparently in movies people cough AS they vomit. What skill they possess.

That's true about Spirit of St Louis. I forgot it was Wilder, so there you go. And I forgot the other one I scheduled: John Ford's *Mister Roberts* --completely unlike John Ford to direct not only a non-Western, non-Irish/Welsh WWII movie let alone one based on a play! You'd never know it was John Ford if it weren't for the presence of his regulars Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, and Harry Carey, Jr. But a very good success!

Clever idea, Fedya, and good job. Made me laugh out loud several times, especially "Triumph of the Won't" ---how I wish I thought of that title! And "The lady Vanishes" is certainly an essential film. Fantastic!

Good points. Bitter Tea of General Yen is kind of unlike Capra, other than Barbara Stanwyck's presence. I would say the common thread between all of Wilder's films is "becoming a mensch".

Ub *Iwerks* -- animator who did "photographic effects" for Hitch's The Birds

Jacques Tati "___ is for the way you look at me" Frankincense and ____ Madeline Kahn's last name in "What's Up Doc?" + lyricist Oscar Hammer_____

I put a theme about this topic in my TCM Programming Challenge schedule and someone thought it would make an interesting thread. SO here we go. Ever watch a movie of a certain genre, then find out who directed it, then woke up from fainting from shock only to day, "Wow! Stanley Donen can do SUSPENSE??" or "Hitchcock can do STRAIGHT COMEDY?!!" That's what we're here to discuss. In my schedule these were my examples of SUCCESSFUL times when directors, who were known for "one type of movie" made a success out of directing a different type of film. (Or at least I believe these to be successful mold-breaking) ---George Cukor, director of Philadelphia Story, does the Hitchcockian *Gaslight* ---Stanley Donen, the Musical King, does the Hitchcockian, or even Blake Edwardsian, *Charade* ---Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese filmmaker, does the Russian film *Dersu Urzala* (I think I spelled that wrong) ---Stanley Kramer, the guy who does Message Films like Guess Who's Coming To DInner, tackles the mad-cap Ultimate Comedy, *It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World* ---Then, Alfred Hitchcock, aka Edgar Allen Poe reincarnated, does the light comedy *Mr and Mrs Smith* And here's one I forgot about on my schedule and I've been kicking myself ever since, because it's the least likely of all: ---Francis Ford Coppola---yes, THE Francis Ford Coppola--brings to the screen the Irish/Southern Tony Award Winning Musical, *Finian's Rainbow* ---yes, that's a Coppola film! Then of course there are times when it's not a success, as in, to me, John Huston's direction of *Annie* ---not your best work, dear. And what have we to add? There are so many!

This is funny because I was just watching the film version of Neil SImon's *Lost in Yonkers* for the first time and was amazed that Richard Dreyfus got either first or second billing, when he shows up 45 minutes into the film, and is only in 1/3 of the rest of it. He had a good agent I suppose.

I on the other hand watch MORE when they show these types of movies. You're going to hate next month when Mickey Rooney is SOTM.

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