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I made mention of this film in the thread about the Films of the BFI London. It was only recently discovered, restored and then presented last month at the festival in London.

Palmerin, has your stepfather been lifting under a rock? Inglorious Basterds of course takes rewriting WWII events to its extreme with the heroes killing all of the major Nazis in a theatre ala The Dirty Dozen. I was slapping my head going what the f ...? And that one was done well after the fact. At least Casablanca was made close to the actual events.

Sunday, October 18/19 3:45 a.m. No End (1984). A Polish film by Kieslowski is the one I would like to catch.

I think to teenagers they are referred to as "daddy duds" not classics!

I got to do some sfx recording in a B-17 on that one!

Yeah, I just watched Curse of the Cat People the other night and it doesn't really have much to offer. A shaggy cat people movie really.

Saturday, October 17 6 a.m. City For Conquest (1940). A James Cagney film that I have yet to see. And it looks like a good one too.

Kay, I think you will find the weekly links in this thriving thread!

Have you seen Zachary Scott in Luis Bunuel's The Young One (1960) ? I saw it last year at London's BFI and really liked the film. The acting in it is very different though. Very stilted. And I'm referring to the entire cast. The young girl was apparently a novice but I thought she was okay. Zachary is a bit OTT. Verging on Nicholson's Jack Torrence in The Shining but unintentional. I will have to see it again as it was quite difficult to judge how a seasoned actor like Scott could come off so .. I hate to use the word amateurish, but it at times it is like watching actors in a high school play. I wondered too if it all suffered from a frustrated sound recordist telling them all to speak up, instead of knowing how to capture a naturalistic performance. Some early sound films suffered from that. Everyone seems to be barking for no apparent reason.

And I always like the TCM listings for Gone With the Wind Part 2 followed by Gone With the Wind Part 1. But I take it that is just a programme error.

Mr. Gorman I am constantly amazed at the depth of your knowledge for, how can I put it, alternate or low budget cinema. I love it!

Illeana was fantastic in Cape Fear (1991) and Alive (1993) too. I love the fact that at the moment they are focusing on some of the indie films done by American female directors. Indie films are not always going to please everyone out there but they do deserve some measure of support now and then. Yes, the films of Penny Marshall (I even worked on one) and Diane Keaton and a few others have gained larger audiences but we can see those films on lots of other channels. I think people are getting too hung up on the word 'classic' associated with this channel. What does it mean anyway? Just the fact that the films are old? If so, should we be watching more silents on TCM? I'm happy with a bit of variation now and then.

Friday, October 16 6:30 a.m. National Velvet (1944). I wonder why this is bumped in Canada in favour of The Three Musketeers (1948) which I thought was dreadful. I've recorded National Velvet from TCM Canada in the past so this one baffles me. 8:45 a.m. The Hoodlum Saint (1946). A William Powell film that I haven’t seen. 4:30 a.m. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970). This Czech film by Jaromil Jires looks interesting.

Or is February Oscar month?

Maybe you can request Hot Spell over desert?

I love theatre in the movies too. One of my favourites is Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) which begins with its stage performance in the Globe theatre before moving into the 'world.' Leslie Banks as Chorus is the perfect introduction to the play within the film. Thankfully the Globe has now been reconstructed in London so one can get a sense what these performances were really like in Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare In Love (1998) might make a good Globe theatre double bill with Olivier's Henry V.

Well, a tremendous improvement over December. Certainly not as many recent repeats. We are finally getting Ronald Colman's Bulldog Drummond (1929) on Jan. 7. Not sure if it is a premiere, or not but this one was pretty good ... Straight Time (1978) with Dustin Hoffman and a hot Theresa Russell. On Jan 8/9

I second that. He has had an amazing varied career, working all over the world for some great directors. One of my favourite and underrated Sutherland performances is his Six Degrees of Separation.

I wonder if this is all some sort of automatic computer cataloguing system? My library on line system is the worst. You look up a film then it is a guessing game as to which version it is. The information under the title may be just the original author ... e.g., Charlotte Bronte (1816-1865). But beyond that there is no clue as to which version of Jane Eyre the dvd may be. I may be an old fogey, but I'm finding this laissez-faire attitude carries over into everything in today's world. No one really cares about their work anymore.

Ian Patick, Why not join in on some of the community threads such as "I just watched" with your reviews instead of doing a blog in this discussion forum? Just a thought.

Hard to kill a class room of five years olds with those! Touche, Fred.

Thursday, October 15 The evening of films by Women is the highlight of the week. 8 p.m. Araya (1959). Looks looks like it could be very good. 9:30 p.m. Harlan County, USA (1976). Barbara Kopple’s film is quite possibly the best documentary that I have seen. It was bumped from the Canadian schedule the last time it was on TCM. 11:30 p.m. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) by Connie Field. Restored by the Library of Congress. 12:45 a.m. Portrait of Jason (1967). A Shirley Clarke film. 2:45 a.m. The Decline of the Western Civilization (1981). The punk scene in LA. Bring it on!

my guess is Robert Osborne's picks are just Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and from midnight on, it is the work of a more adventurous programmer.

Has her grandfather, Melvyn Douglas ever been SOTM? She could intro all of his films I'm sure.

Variety is great. Just tune out when there is something that is not your particular cup of tea. Who can watch tv 24/7 anyway? What most of us do not wish to see is the same old same old repeats month after month. You might look at parts of December's schedule as examples of cut and paste uninspired scheduling.