roverrocks

I personally like Chariots of Fire. I liked it when it came out and I still like it today. Probably because I am a big fan of BBC dramas and Masterpiece Theater thru the decades.

There's a remake of GODZILLA coming out in 2014. I am not a big fan of remakes but the special effects in this trailer I saw today are pretty staggering and exciting. Who knows if the actual movie will be good or not. Here is the trailer:

I agree with you that the film taken in it's entirety is most definitely "worth watching". I thoroughly enjoy the movie as a student of European history of the first half of the 20th Century and that's not even getting into race, culture, and politics of Mexico and Cuba at the time and since. A lot of vivid meaning under the surface and on the surface. I think the film is brilliant in it's entirety. Watching the great (great to me) Oskar Werner "die" of a film heart attack is very prophetic of his real heart attack death not all that many years hence.

I thought most of the Vivien Leigh segments were completely overdone and some of the worst parts of the movie. Rather than have Leigh's "Blanch DuBois" show up I would rather have seen some other fine older actress playing a similar part that wasn't just a reprisal of a famous role. As I have not read the book I obviously need to. Books can contain 100 times what a movie can. Edited by: roverrocks on Feb 25, 2014 12:39 PM

SHIP OF FOOLS (1965) is a brilliant and well acted slice of life and the coming storm of a future. Great characterizations of the claustrophobic intimacy and yet far reaching loneliness and political naivete of a floating hotel which nobody may escape for a month and yet then when they offboard in Bremerhaven they are still prisoners of their own individual cages of life. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie again on Feb. 24. A very fine cast. Even "Blanche DuBois" was aboard. Thanks TCM.

Ditto to what you said. Condolences to his family.

A big ditto Sepiatone: This is a truly wonderful feel-good movie that I love no matter how many times I see it. Would have been a truly great escapist movie for the WW2 days when it came out. Nobody should ever feel bad about enjoying this movie. Schmaltz in this kind of package is wonderful.

Two great films of 1948 last evening at opposing ends of the spectrum of light. Viewed the vivid brilliant color of the great passionate "THE RED SHOES" last night followed by the lonely, dark,misty, black and white austerity of Olivier's "HAMLET". Two utterly magnificent movies seemingly lived and transpiring on two different planets. Very nice way to spend an evening. Thanks TCM.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEAQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fnewspage%2F58411252%2F&ei=3WcBU73FOcSuyQGzr4HADw&usg=AFQjCNHPf4y5OeoMIZKfxBmGPczBlVahlw&bvm=bv.61535280,d.aWc A little blurb on Blueboy a little way down in this article. As much as I like bacon and ham and pork ribs I do hope Blueboy survived for a better fate as well as his beautiful sow co-star of the movie.

Viewed STATE FAIR (1933) today for the first time. Wonderful movie and slice of life from rural America during the Depression Days. Well acted with good stories of the lives and loves centered around one farm family and their exciting few days of fair competition and youthful first loves at the annual State Fair. Much better than later STATE FAIR remakes IMO. Terrific cast (including some scene stealing hogs). One film I want to view again.

Too funny Sepiatone!!! LOL!! Myself and my brothers and sisters grew up calling one of our grandmothers "Ne" which was short for Neva. Don't know how it happened. I grew uncomfortable calling her "Ne" later in life but it was an ingrained habit for all us siblings for 40 years.

As a kid I could hardly wait each week for the new episode of COMBAT.

Simply a wonderful uplifting movie of two very lonely people finding love after their first bloom of youth subsides and of parents having to let go. All in a massive city where finding love is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Borgnine's very best performance and the one he seemed destined for. Betsy Blair was just as terrific as the lonely schoolteacher. +A movie.

Recently have read "The Last of the Doughboys", "Alex and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina", "Lawrence IN Arabia", "Fur Volk and Fuhrer", and "The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward Vll, The Playboy Prince". All terrifically interesting. Currently reading "Hitler's Furies". Love to read and study European history. Got "The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz, "The Panzer Graf"", "Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household", and "Warsaw 1944" on my shelf waiting to be read. Read lots of fiction too. Reading is MY life outside of old movies. "The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and "How the light Gets In" were all excellent. Ann Rice's new novel "The Wolves of Midwinter" was a huge disappointment to me. One other American history book I read recently "The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend" was simply extraordinary. The most personal, vivid and full-of-facts story of the Wars of the High Plains between whites and Indians I have ever read. I give it 6 out of 5 stars. It's that fascinating.

Morrow vividly played a high school punk opposing Glen Ford in THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. Pretty good movie IMO.

I had forgotten just how intense and emotional this fine Swedish film was. A vivid movie of intense acting especially by Ullmann and also by Lena Nyman as the daughters of Ingrid Bergman. A movie of the fine line between love and hate/bitterness.

Looking forward to viewing AUTUMN SONATA this morning. Haven't seen this wonderful movie in many many years that I can recall. Bergman and Ullmann directed by the great Ingmar Bergman. Doesn't get much better than that. One fine movie. If you haven't seen it then realize it's not to be missed.

Loved him in IT"S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD.

Reschedule soon TCM!! Very soon!! Us silent movies buffs implore you!!

Wow skimpole, I had no idea the Canadian schedule differed so much from the U.S. schedule!!!!!!!!!! Some really good stuff they are not scheduling up North. Wow again!!

I too would much preferred to keep THE COSSACKS on the schedule as originally intended. Nothing against Shirley Temple in the slightest. Please reschedule THE COSSACKS at an early date TCM. Many of us would greatly appreciate this happening. How about Sunday March 23 in place of NOTORIOUS which has been broadcast many times and most people know almost by heart. Edited by: roverrocks on Feb 11, 2014 9:31 PM Edited by: roverrocks on Feb 11, 2014 9:34 PM

A wonderful photo. Thanks mongo.

Yes, "rest peacefully, Ms. Temple". Another icon passed away.

Shakespeare is fiction. SCHINDLER"S LIST is not. Big big big difference. SCHINDLER'S LIST may be uplifting at the end but it is certainly not triumphant in any sense to me. One simply realizes that only these few and and a few others were basically all that remained of a proud and vibrant and cultured ancient religious race in most countries of central Europe. They died horrifically in the millions along with millions of Gypsies, Poles, Russian POW's, and others in the extermination/POW/"work" camps of the Nazis. I certainly did not feel triumphant at the end of the movie. I felt drained and horrified as my ancestry is German. My wife won't ever see it again either and I basically dragged her against her will to a theater to experience the horror as I think it is important for everyone to see it. Never forget. Never. It is way way beyond what you call "dire content". Edited by: roverrocks on Feb 11, 2014 12:00 AM

SCHINDLER'S LIST is very hard to watch though one of the greats. Too much pain and anguish and cruelty. Should be required viewing for all young people. Never forget. Never.