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Their seems to be some question regarding the noon film on Friday, September 18. The Bastard is described both as a Swedish film starring Eva Dahlbeck and as a Rita Hayworth caper film aka Buy the Cats. I would think it would be the Hayworth film as the day is devoted to caper films.

Looks like most of the Godard films on September 16th didn't make it across the border. Life's mysteries.

I watched A Boy and His Dog (1975) again a few weeks ago and unless they cut most of McGraw out of the film I was wondering why the filmmakers bothered to cast him in that one as he had virtually nothing to do in it. Had he fallen on real hard times by then? I may have to wait until the biography arrives to find out.

In this order: A Christmas Carol (1951) The Great Escape (1963) Dr. Strangelove (1964) The Wizard of Oz (1939) 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) A Night at the Opera (1935) Paths of Glory (1957) Casablanca (1942) Bedazzled (1967) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Slaughterhouse Five (1972) Lolita (1962) Touch of Evil (1958) The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Play It Again, Sam (1971) Bananas (1971) Planet of the Apes (1968) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948) Last Tango In Paris (1972) ...stopping at films I've seen 10 times or more

I didn't know that about Great Expectations. The Brooks fiasco was I'll Do Anything. Everyone Says was Woody.

Thomas Newman's score of Road to Perdition (2002) was just about as good as Conrad Hall's photography.

Great Expectations (1974) with Michael York as Pip, James Mason as Magwitch, Sarah Miles as Estella and Margaret Leighton as Miss Havisham.

Sunday, July 5 noon. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) This one divides the crowd. Personally, I love it. Here is a good opportunity to add to the current Dana Andrews thread. 3 p.m. The Misfits (1961) There has been lots of good chat about this one of late. Personally, I would love to see TCM show Sidney Lumet's A View From the Bridge (1962) with Raf Vallone and Maureen Stapleton. There is an Arthur Miller film that seems to have disappeared. 2:15 a.m. Donkey Skin (1970) Jacques Demy film with Catherine Deneuve. Have to record this one! 4 a.m. The Universe of Jacques Demy (1995) by Demy’s wife, Agnes Varda. This makes for a good double bill.

"We're back on the rope" - Steve McQueen improvises in The Great Escape

And am I right in thinking that Canadians are denied the Hal Roach library because some monk owns the rights and is lying on his bed of nails in his dorm watching the comedies thinking, "they're all mine!"

Regretfully, I have to agree with you - most of the time. I watched Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) last night and while I admired Betty's physical courage to take on so many challenges in her part of the trapeze artist, her acting was so way OTT to be bothersome. Very overwrought. The style of the film leant toward the overwrought in any event, but Gloria Grahame and Dorothy Lamour handled it so much better than did Betty Hutton. Looking at it today, it is rather amazing that The Greatest Show on Earth was the Best Picture Oscar winner considering it was chosen over High Noon and The Quiet Man. In Betty Hutton's defence she did have at least one film in which she was not only good, but outstanding. Her Gertrude Kockenlocker in Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1944) hit all the right notes. Brassy Americano blonde who is a little clueless but sincere. Of course, Sturges was at the top of his game when he made this.

The Canadian September 2015 is now up! The Canadian schedule always lags the American one. I guess they have to decide which gems to deny us. It's all a ploy to persuade us to relinquish our national sovereignty.

Reading this thread has inspired me to finally order the Alan Rode biography of Charles McGraw from Amazon. A bit expensive but it is supposed to be a very good read. I like all of McGraw's appearances in the noir films that he did. His persona seemed well suited for that genre. But my favourite McGraw performance was his Marcellus in Spartacus (1960). It was a role that could be easily have been way over the top but McGraw handled it well. I also thought he was terrific as Robert Blake's father, Tex Smith in, In Cold Blood (1967).

Alan Bridges TV MOW remake, Brief Encounter (1974) with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren.

Saturday, July 4 “Come on, Mandrake. The Redcoats are coming!” 6 p.m. Miss Firecracker (1989) with Holly Hunter and Mary Steenburgen. Haven’t seen this one. Nice to have a post-1960 film once in a while too.

I think Dana Andrews is arguably the very best thing about The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). That's my favourite Andrews performance followed by BYOOL. He was actually a studio guest of Elwy Yost's and did the wrap arounds with him like the guest programmers do on TCM.

The Dutch film Karakter (1997) by Mike van Diem may seem a bit obscure to most North American filmgoers but it shouldn't be. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. It also has a really tremendous score by Paleis van Boem. Check it out.

Didn't I see that on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory?

Friday, July 3 Noir Friday has a lot to offer if you haven’t seen them all already. 4:30 a.m. Marlowe (1969) Perhaps not the best Marlowe, but pretty solid nonetheless and features an appearance by Bruce Lee.

Just to add to what I said at 3:58 - Kubrick could have chosen any name or logo. NASA or made something up like TSWRA. But he wanted to tell us that Corporations were in outer space and therefore had to give us a name we recognized in 1968. Not some imaginary name that would not have meant anything. 'nuff said. Finito. No irony.

There is definitely a Danny Elfman 'sound' now. You hear it copied in commercials all the time. The Elfman score that I love the most is not from one of his Tim Burton films, but from To Die For (1995) which also happens to be Nicole Kidman's best movie too.

It was just a way of showing that private enterprise was in outer space. As opposed to a ship that said NASA or CCCP. Simple. End of story. And who would know that CCCP wouldn't be around in 2001?

How about Canadians playing American Presidents next July 1 ? Raymond Massey Alexander Knox Walter Huston Gordon Pinsent Bruce Greenwood William Shatner come to mind.

Hey, before our once a year Canada Day closes maybe I can appeal to the TCM programming Gods (are you there?) to play something Canadian next July 1. There were lots of classic Canadian stars such as Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Walter Pidgeon, Glenn Ford, Donald Sutherland, Genevieve Bujold. Norman Jewison. I'm sure others could add more suggestions .... Even Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown had a Quebecois show on CNN tonight. It shouldn't be hard to do.

"We can talk to one another for hours. Or not talk to one another for hours. In fact we never run out of things not to talk about." - golddigger Jennifer Coolidge on her relationship with her 90 year-old billionaire husband in Best In Show. and "We have lots of things in common. Like soup. We both like soup."