Bogie56
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Here is a new film at this year's BFI Festival that may interest some ...
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) by Kent Jones.
No doubt this documentary is based on the time Truffaut was doing his interviews for his book on Hitchcock. It looks very interesting and one would think a natural to be shown on TCM at some point.
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Do you think Rosalind Russell really somehow convinced herself that this was true?
It's entirely possible. I've witnessed similar in my time. Usually no one says anything when it is altered in post production.
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Hopefully Alain Delon will one day be given a day during Summer Under The Stars.
That would be pretty amazing. I suppose it would involve a few premieres.
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Friday, September 18
8:15 a.m. Canada gets a substitution for The Asphalt Jungle which is Once a Thief (1965) with Alain Delon and Ann Margret. I’ll take it.
noon. The Bastard. Which is it? The Swedish Eva Dahlbeck film or the Rita Hayworth caper film, Buy the Cats? My money is on the latter.
The Andrew Sisters are tops in …
9:45 p.m. Buck Privates (1941) and
11:15 p.m. In the Navy (1941)
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Here's another from the London Film festival ...
Kiss Me Kate 3D (1953) Dir: George Sidney
Restored in 2K from the 35mm Ansco colour right eye and left eye original camera negatives.
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Thursday, September 17
11 a.m. Nightfall (1957). A Jacques Tourneur film that I haven’t seen. With Anne Bancroft and Aldo Ray.
8 p.m. Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) with the one and only, Victor Mature! A guilty pleasure. Jay Robinson reprises his carpet-chewing role as Caligula. Great fun.
Great double bill. Someone was having some fun …
10 p.m. The Conqueror (1956) with John Wayne as Genghis Khan. The fallout from this one is legendary.
4:30 a.m. Top Secret Affair (1957) A Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas that I have never seen.
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The 2015 BFI London Film Festival has some interesting restored films.
Variety (1925) Dir: EA Dupont. With Emil Jannings. By the Murnau Foundation using nitrate prints and duplicate negatives to realize a 2K digital restoration.
A Man For All seasons (1966) Dir: fred Zinnemann. Sony Pictures 4K Digital restoration from original negative.
Women In Love (1969) Dir: Ken Russell. "Taken for 4kScans" supervised by cinematographer Billy Williams.
Our Man In Havana (!959) Dir: Carol Reed. Sony Pictures 4K restoration from original picture negative.
The Battle of the Century (1927) Dir; Clyde Bruckman. With Laurel & Hardy. Previously thought to be (mostly) lost, "rediscovered via the 'mostly lost' film workshop at the Library of Congress Film Department, courtesy of a collector.
Warlock (1959) Dir: Edward Dmytryk. With Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Dorothy Malone. 4K Digital REstoration by 20th Century Fox.
The Raging Moon (1971) Dir: Bryan Forbes. With Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman. 2K Digital Restoraiton from original negative.
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Dir: Luchino Visconti. Restored by Cineteca di Bologna. (I'm guessing that this restoration was done a few years ago)
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Any recommendations for tonight's Godard films???
(Article: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1117665|0/Jean-Luc-Godard-9-16.html
Personally I would go for Breathless and A Woman Is a Woman. I was a titch disappointed when I saw Pierrot Le Fou and I have yet to see Masculin-Feminin.
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I finally caught up with TCM's Underground presentation of Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967). Quite enjoyable I must say. The crazy knife wielding sisters were great.
The music score by Ronald Stein was probably way better than the film deserved.
And boy did Carol Ohmart look like a ringer for Meryl Streep.
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Has anyone seen any films released in 2015 that they would like to recommend?
Curious if our film loving group has any recommendations. And thanks to those who have already posted some.
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Do you want it shut down?
Of course not
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Was Klaatu some kind of interstellar Commie?
Or will debate of that get this thread shut down?
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Just caught a few minutes of John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940) while recording it. I think it is arguably Ward Bond's and Thomas Mitchell's finest film performances. A rare lead role for Mitchell.
And Ian Hunter is a standout too.
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I've seen Hathaway in a few films and thought she was pretty good, but after her silliness the year she won that Oscar, the sight of her near any movie makes me want to pull my hair out.
Then you would probably like this brilliant parody ...
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One descendent of MARY POPPINS will be the upcoming Disney sequel to that classic.
According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34257573) and Entertainment Weekly (http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/disney-mary-poppins-rob-marshall), the new movie, to be directed by Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, INTO THE WOODS), will feature Mary returning to the Banks family. It'll be based on several of the Poppins books -- the original movie was based on just the first book -- and will be set during the Depression rather than the Edwardian era. There'll be new songs by the composers of the "Hairspray" musical, and Anne Hathaway is the favorite to play Mary, although that hasn't been decided yet.
Although I'm always skeptical of remakes and sequels -- for example, I found CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY to be a disappointment compared to the original WILLY WONKA version -- I hope they do a good job with the upcoming Poppins movie. I found SAVING MR. BANKS, which focused on the making of the original MARY POPPINS, to be very enjoyable, making me want to read the Poppins books, which I never did as a child (and still haven't done). If there's good as-yet-unused material in the other books, maybe it's a good idea to explore it.
I just hope they resist the temptation to "update" the stories with smart-alecky modern "humor," in a lame attempt to draw younger viewers. I'm no longer young myself, but if I were, I'd feel patronized by older screenwriters trying to mimic my generation's sense of humor. There's no need to talk down to young people -- they're clever enough to understand different types of humor.
Rob Marshall? ... yuck.
His Nine was an abortion.
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Wednesday, Sept 16
I would have liked to record a couple of the Godard films tomorrow but they are not playing in Canada. [What, they can’t afford to play a Godard film in Canada? We’re not talking the South Park movie here.]
Arturo may not want to know this but two Mexican movies have been substituted in Canada ...
2:15 a.m. Los Que Volvieron (1947)
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4 a.m. Hermosa Ideal (1948)
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Has anyone seen any films released in 2015 that they would like to recommend?
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This is a truly wonderful schedule! It is very amazing that it is your first. You are to be chastised for not participating in prior Challenges!
I like very much: Max von Sydow as Star of the Month.
I truly did giggle when I saw that you did include variant for Canadian schedule. I assume that you are very familiar with which movies are never shown there.
I thank you for bringing us a great schedule!
Thank you SansFin, Lydecker and LonesomePolecat for your words of encouragement.
I didn't have the nerve to tackle a challenge before this as the previous responses all seemed so incredibly well done and difficult to do.
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Tuesday, September 15
6:15 p.m. Agatha (1979) with Vanessa Redgrave was pretty good as I recall.
8 p.m. The Long Voyage Home (1940) John Ford does Eugene O’Neil. A good vehicle for Thomas Mitchell. I’ve only got a BBC copy which had a lousy print.
10 p.m. The Battle of Midway (1942). Oscar winning short subject by John Ford. Amazing colour footage if I have the right film.
11:45 p.m. December 7th (1943). Directed by Gregg Toland. Never seen this one.
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Somehow, trains are more charismatic and romantic than buses. How many films, other than IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and BUS STOP, have great bus scenes?
Who can forget John Candy's rendition of "The Flintstones" in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) ?
Or the ending of Midnight Cowboy (1969) ?
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A lot of good films are mentioned in this thread. Trains can be featured prominently in the story or play small, pivotal roles like in BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK or HIGH NOON. My favorite "train" film is also my favorite Burt Lancaster film , the WW2 thriller THE TRAIN. I must also mention that Nick and Nora Charles had some great scenes traveling on a train, especially in THE THIN MAN GOES HOME.
indeed, and who can forget the Ale & Quail Club train sequence in The Palm Beach Story (1942)?
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There are some great train scenes in Reds (1981).
Yes, and everyone's favourite around here, Doctor Zhivago (1965).
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The saucer landed here.... an area of the mall known as The Ellipse:
Better send two guys and a shortstop to guard that thing!
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In that case, then someone did post that it was on the original schedule and got pulled for some reason.....I don't think the estate was the reason... (I think it was Holden who posted that).
I believe I posted about My Foolish Heart first. I note the films that I would like to record when the schedule first comes out so as the date approached I noticed that it was no longer on the schedule.
It used to play all the time. Perhaps on other channels.
It doesn't appear to be on dvd either. But they are selling some sort of copy in Spain!
HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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Saturday, September 19
Who else but TCM would have an Anton Walbrook evening?
8 p.m. The Red Shoes (1948)
10:30 p.m. The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
midnight. I Accuse! (1958). He’s terrific in this one.
Now if they could only dig out a couple of his German films such as …
Salto Mortale (1931) by E.A. Dupont
Viktor and Viktoria (1933) by Reinhold Schunzel where Walbrook takes the James Garner part.