Bogie56
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So you are saying they did exist? Do you swear on the good name and reputation of your family? World War II was a very real event, so including implausibilities in a WWII based story is both irresponsible and dishonest, and very likely to impact cynics such as my stepfather, who never quite believed that WWII really happened.
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.
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Sunday, October 18/19
3:45 a.m. No End (1984). A Polish film by Kieslowski is the one I would like to catch.
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Defining a "classic" is a way of giving away your age. If you're a teenager a film from the last century (pre 2000) may be considered a classic. If you are one of the senior members (no names but you know who you are) of these boards a film must be from the previous century (pre 1900) to be a classic.
I think to teenagers they are referred to as "daddy duds" not classics!
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I'm looking forward to HEAVY METAL as well.
I got to do some sfx recording in a B-17 on that one!
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Saturday, October 17th: All times E.S.T.--1st movie is Early Saturday morning:
3:15 a.m.--"Curse of the Cat People"--(1944)--Val Lewton character study, not true horror, IMHO.
11:30 p.m.--"The Baron of Arizona"--(1950)--Vincent Price tries to buy all Arizona Territory.
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.
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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.
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Here are the weekly links to the January 2016 TCM schedule:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2016-01-01
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2016-01-08
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2016-01-15
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2016-01-22
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2016-01-29
Fred McMurray is the Star Of The Month.
A MILLIONARE FOR CHRISTY is airing on January 20 (actually early January 21).
THE SHAGGY DOG airs on January 27.
Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (with Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, Cher and Kathy Bates reprising their roles from Altman's stage production) is airing on January 5 as part of the salute to Hollywood Foreign Press Restorations.
Kim Ki-Young's THE HOUSEMAID is scheduled for January 31 on TCM Imports.
Kay, I think you will find the weekly links in this thriving thread!
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Zachary made far fewer films than Robert Ryan, but I have enjoyed every movie that I have seen him in. Last week TCM showed THE SOUTHERNER 1945, and Zachary played a completely different role. Instead of playing a cad, he was a struggling farmer trying to keep his family together. I was happy that he had a chance to play good guy roles too, and to be engaged to a decent woman like Joan Leslie.
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.
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why show children of the damned before village of the damned tonite?
it's dumb.
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.
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If TCM 'programmed' the movies of RON ORMOND (1910-1981) for a day there would be quite an eclectic mix. However, I don't think his Christian "scare" films of the 1970s are widely available. They sound like a hoot. But there are "B"-westerns and '50s and '60s low-budget nuggets (Mesa of the Lost Women, Forty Acre Feud, The Girl from Tobacco Row, White Lightnin' Road, The Monster and The Stripper) to pick from.
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!
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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.
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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.
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Or is February Oscar month?
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Joke about it all you want, but this is really a series of embarrassing errors. I would mention it to Ben during our dinner at Musso & Frank's, but...........
Maybe you can request Hot Spell over desert?
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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.
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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
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I'd like to see Donald Sutherland be SOTM sometime. Prolific actor. Caught him in 'A Dry White Season' the other night - just excellent, as usual.
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.
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just saw on 10-17 listing....
10:00 PMB/W82 min
TV-G
dramaPetrified Forest, The (1935)An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Genevieve Tobin , Nina Campana , Gus Leonard .
with NO mention of Davis, Howard OR Bogart !!
-Is this starting to be some kind of guessing GAME, or WHAT??
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.
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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.
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Why does no one ever point out that the "arms" the Constitution was written about were single-shot muskets, which required about 1 full minute to re-load.
Hard to kill a class room of five years olds with those!
Touche, Fred.
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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!
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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.
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Has her grandfather, Melvyn Douglas ever been SOTM? She could intro all of his films I'm sure.
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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.
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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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.