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The 2019 Toronto Film Critics Association Best Picture and Best Foreign Film Award … Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea Other 2019 Foreign Film nominees … Pain and Glory (2019) Pedro Almodovar, Spain Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Celine Sciamma, France

Saturday, July 11 10 a.m. Popeye: Nix on Hypnotricks (1941). 1:30 a.m. America, America (1963). Really good Elia Kazan film. But when the schedule was originally released this was mistakenly described as a Korean film by Kil-soo Chang, America, America (1988). It took me a while to track this down on the imdb as it has a different year and spelling for the director.

Friday, July 10 When the schedule was originally announced this was my pick at 10:30 a.m. So This Is Paris (1926). Ernst Lubitsch silent with Myrna Loy in a small part. Unfortunately that has been scratched. 3:30 a.m. Cherry 2000 (1998). With Melanie Griffith. I didn’t think this was half bad when I saw it years ago.

Thursday, July 9 Max von Sydow tribute evening 2:45 a.m. The Virgin Spring (1960). Of those on offer this evening this one is my favourite von Sydow performance.

Wednesday, July 8 midnight. A Night at the Opera (1935). We can use a few laughs about now.

The Big Gundown is my favourite Morricone score. I recently saw two Chinese martial arts films which just did needle drop illegal appropriation of cues from the soundtrack album: Dragon Inn (1967) and Moonlight Sword and Jade Lion (1977). I'm sure there are more of them too.

2002 H (2002) Jong-Hyuk Lee, South Korea The South Korean Police look like they have a copycat serial killer on their hands. It’s a stylish film which I found a tad hard to keep up with but thankfully all the confusion comes together in a good surprise ending. Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven (2002) Daniel Burman, Argentina It takes ‘meet cute’ to an absurdist level. A man travels to Tierra del Fuego to scatter his wife’s ashes in the sound and then to commit suicide on a mountaintop. There he meets the pregnant Stewardess who was on his flight who has chosen the same spot to end her life. It was okay but just a bit too intentionally quirky for me.

Tuesday, July 7 7:45 a.m. Camille (1937). Garbo.

Monday, July 6/7 1:15 a.m. The Vikings (1958). With Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine.

Sunday, July 5 Jessica Tandy then Hume Cronyn … 8 p.m. Driving Miss Daisy (1989). 10 p.m. The Seventh Cross (1944).

You travel only a bit further north of Toronto and people start to sound like Bob and Doug Mckenzie, eh. But generally to most people the difference between urban Canadian and urban American (other than New Yawk) is like trying to distinguish between Australian and Kiwi. I try my best to figure that out as most Kiwis don't like to be asked what part of Australia they come from.

The winner of the 2019 Prix Louis Delluc Best Picture … Joan of Arc (2019) Bruno Dumont, France

This was my overall favourite film of 1994.

Saturday, July 4 10 a.m. Popeye: The Mighty Navy (1941). 11:30 a.m. Star In the Night (1945). A western nativity short subject directed by Don Siegel.

I have to agree with you, Dargo. Aboat and Aboot are just exaggerations but Canadians DO pronounce words like that a bit differently. I couldn't hear it myself but I have had Canadian actors 'corrected' by American directors when they hear the "Canadianisms" coming through when they are supposed to be playing American characters. When I moved to London it was easier to pick up on the distinctiveness. I started to be able to recognize voices from Minnesota because they sounded more Canadian than those from other States.

Friday, July 3 12:15 a.m. Stagecoach (1939). It says it is on in Canada. It has been replaced here a few times in the past.

I would settle for a handful of American Mountie movies on Canada Day. We do have a sense of humour. Spelled hum-o-u-r, as you know, Dargo.

Thursday, July 2 2:45 p.m. Girl With Green Eyes (1964). With Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave.

Wednesday, July 1 A MESSAGE TO THE TCM PROGRAMMERS: Just in case you ever check out this thread and while you are working on the schedule for July how about doing your loyal Canadian viewers a turn by celebrating Canada Day on July 1st? July 1 What about featuring some of these people on July 1: Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer (landed), Norman Jewison, Marie Dressler, Walter Pidgeon, Mary Pickford, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, John Candy, Glenn Ford, Deanna Durbin, Colleen Dewhurst, Lorne Green, John Ireland, William Shatner, James Doohan, Martin Short, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, Keanu Reeves, Norma Shearer, Christopher Plummer, John Colicos, Matheson Lang, Donald Sutherland, Leslie Nielsen, Gordon Pinsent, Laura Linney, Eugene Levy, Chief Dan George, Jay Silverheels, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, David Cronenberg, Denis Villeneuve, Denys Arcand, Francis Mankiewicz, Joanna Shimkus, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Maude Eburne, Arthur Hiller, Brendan Fraser, Brent Carver, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Genevieve Bujold, Ryan Gosling, Barry Pepper, Catherine O'Hara, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Craig Russell, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Bruce Greenwood, Raymond Massey, Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Rody Piper, Kate Nelligan and Raymond Burr.

R.I.P. 'Whittaker Walt'

Wednesday, July 1 Happy Birthday, Olivia de Havilland who turns 104! She shares a birthday with Canada. 6:30 a.m. Call It a Day (1937).

Wednesday, July 1 Still no Canada Day TCM? What about featuring some of these people on July 1: Norman Jewison, Marie Dressler, Walter Pidgeon, Mary Pickford, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, John Candy, Glenn Ford, Deanna Durbin, Colleen Dewhurst, Lorne Green, John Ireland, William Shatner, Martin Short, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, Keanu Reeves, Norma Shearer, Christopher Plummer, Matheson Lang, Donald Sutherland, Leslie Nielsen, Laura Linney, Chief Dan George, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, David Cronenberg, Denis Villeneuve, Denys Arcand, Francis Mankiewicz, Joanna Shimkus, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Brendan Fraser, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Genevieve Bujold, Ryan Gosling, Barry Pepper, Catherine O'Hara, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Bruce Greenwood, Raymond Massey, Ivan Reitman, Rody Piper, Kate Nelligan and Raymond Burr.

Tuesday, June 30 6 p.m. Cape Fear (1962). Another Robert Mitchum triumph.

1996 and I’ve also seen … Dragon From Shaolin (1996) Sai Hung Fung, Hong Kong Not to be confused with Dragon From Shaolin/Brawl Busters (1978) from South Korea. This one is in my ‘also seen’ category because I felt that for a film made in 1996 it should have been much better. It felt like it was made in the 60’s. It’s an incredibly silly martial arts film worthy of the Three Stooges (without intended humor). The set pieces feel lifted straight from the cheesiest of movie serials with plenty of maniacal belly laughs from the villains. I did love the baddie with the ten foot pig tail which he whipped around cutting the hero to pieces. The cheeseball dubbing added to the fun. The copy I saw was from youtube and it featured some “deleted” talkative scenes which had German subtitles. Someone went to the effort to amalgamate versions. Some may get a kick out of this. My wife gave up after three minutes. Blind Date (1996) Theo van Gogh, the Netherlands This is really a series of vignettes about a damaged couple who pretend to meet for blind dates to work out their problems. Not my cup of tea. The characters are slightly more sympathetic in the remake with Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson (2007).

Monday, June 29 Ray Harryhausen’s 100th Birthday. 8 p.m. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). With Torin Thatcher as the quintessential evil wizard.