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Chariots of Fire is a very very good movie TikiSoo. No reason to dread watching it. The great and now departed film critic Roger Ebert gave it 4/4 stars and I (tiny person and soul) agree with him. Watch it before panning it.

Because I live with the awesome San Juan Mountains in full view in SW Colorado and with the wild beauty of Utah only a few hours away. We most definitely will have a White Christmas and then we will probably spend New Year's Eve and Day in Moab, Utah viewing the red rocks, cliffs, and arches with a white dusting. Location, location, location and because there's not a metro area for hundreds of miles.

The bestest and wonderfulest and primest and choicest and unsurpassedest and finest Christmas/Holiday movies this year will be TCM's gift to us on Christmas Day of TOP HAT, SWING TIME, SHALL WE DANCE, CAREFREE starting at 6 PM MST (the awesomest time zone to live in by the way). I know where I shall be come Hell or High Water or free Cheeseburgers. Fred and Ginger!! Ginger and Fred!! To a Humbugian Grincher like myself it doesn't get any better.

This man has passed away. Probably part of the largest train robbery ever. Have any movies been made about this Crime of the Century and interesting rogue? http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&ved=0CFsQqQIwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fsltrib%2Fworld%2F57280194-68%2Fbiggs-robbery-train-british.html.csp&ei=6dCxUs6EOOSwyQHf3IGACA&usg=AFQjCNE5LQvFsjGAWlXBjwwihfSlRLVfXQ&sig2=j-tXAONAiHXAZMzFS4bGFw&bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc

My Top 10: Random Harvest Paths of Glory Metropolis Fail Safe On the Beach Top Hat Judgement at Nuremburg Once Upon a Time In the West Red River All Quiet on the Western Front

Just finished watching. A wonderful movie I can now say I have finally watched. Time well spent.

Made me believe in angels.

"Upon hearing of each passing I feel a loss inside, as if a piece of my life has fallen away." : Amen, Amen to this!!!

Red town: I assume he wanted to welcome his brutal killers from his previous reincarnation to Hell cause that is where he was about to send them. The sheets: I don't remember as it's been a long time since seeing the film.

If people aren't shedding a few tears or getting misty eyed or feeling at least a bit depressed over these passings of golden ones then that would be extremely weird and I would question why they are on these forums at all. RIP great ones. Yours lives on the silver screen and off are immortal though your bodies were not. Edited by: roverrocks on Dec 16, 2013 3:14 PM

Definitely not before New Year's Day for the complete TCM Remembers edition for the year. Individual Remembers as they occur during the year but the full and complete TCM Remembers only as the new year turns.

I can't remember if I have seen this movie or not. I will watch it though on Monday night with pleasure.

I apologize to the TCM forum by posting a report that was part of a hoax a few posts down. Sorry. roverrocks. Edited by: roverrocks on Dec 15, 2013 8:06 PM

A terrible, terrible holiday season for the passing of great ones. RIP Miss Fontaine. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CHkQqQIwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fnews%2Factress-joan-fontaine-dies-rebecca-suspicion-665831&ei=e0yuUuTwMOiayAHzqoGwBA&usg=AFQjCNEnyTHPkZYJ4cDqmmYz49DMPNT3mg&sig2=KOTb4TYJkVKzywXfqfubQw&bvm=bv.57967247,d.aWc&cad=rja

The sad poignant ending of the great Australian movie of the Boer War: BREAKER MORANT 1980. #1: #2: The scapegoats of sordid empire building. Never fails to get to me about the countless millions of soldiers who have died, been killed, maimed or executed in 10,000 years of human history for the imperial despotic policies and wars of conquest by megalomaniacs or megalomaniacal governments or megalomaniacal religions who cover themselves in flag/god waving lies.

"The Bishop's Wife" is my without-a-doubt favorite holiday movie and one of my all time favorites as well. Such a feel good movie. Love it. Love it. Love it.

As of late there is so much hateful posting on the TCM Forums. Why is that? Has it always been here or is it on a surge as of late? Vitriol, Meanness, Hate, Contempt, and seeming pure Spite. I gotta admit I am a relative newcomer on the TCM Forums but have read them for a number of years on and off before I entered in and don't remember all this Hateful Spite before. Finding it all very disheartening and sad. That being said Happy Holidays to all and I hope we can all just getting back to being sincere movie buffs and not movie Nazis.

PBS Masterpiece on Sunday evenings. Have watched Masterpiece/Masterpiece Theater/Mystery in all it's myriad forms for decades. Looking Forward to Season 4 of Downton Abbey in January.

I will be watching the Super Bowl but I am highly likely to be watching TCM before and after the big game. I am also highly likely to watch quite a number of College Bowl games with some TCM before and after if they are movies I want to see all intertwined with reading great books. Ah the exciting life of a dead broke retiree.

I only watched one today and that was "College Coach" 1933. Enjoyed it very much. Had not seen it before. Anything with Pat O"Brien is a good movie. Enjoyed Dick Powell as well. Ann Dvorack is delicious.

I wonder what historical personage has been portrayed the most often in the long history of movies??? I would think Jesus with maybe Adolf Hitler in a distant second place.

Thanks for the correction on the daughters. You are quite right skimpole. Makes total sense what you say now that I think back. A magnificent scene of the running girls in the hallway and then the small grand dining room with the rest of Anastasia's siblings and father.

Great post NewYorkGuy. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you stated. Keep up the great work of the past few months TCM. You are opening our minds and that is never a bad thing.

Ebert as a reviewer was right on target about "Russian Ark" as I heartily agree with his 4/4 stars review after watching this amazing and provocative historical costume film on TCM. One has to have a real semblance of Russian/European history in order to appreciate "Arks" historical nuances and I know with only one viewing under my belt that I will have missed many of these nuances and that I will have even greater appreciation of this instant "CLASSIC" after subsequent viewings. I filter as many movies as I can through "rottentomatoes" reviews be they old golden classics of sound and silence or newer more modern movies trying to discern thru the online reviews of many others just what I will want to watch or not watch. I don't reject or gush about any film based solely on one reviewer but rather thru a multitude of reviewers. I neither reject or admire any film simply because of it's ancient lineage or it's mere toddler age. Meritorious does not imply ancients only need apply.

I see the tidal wave as the titanic historical threats to St. Peterburg's/Hermitage's glory and beauty and priceless artworks through time. Bonaparte's French invaders repulsed, Stalin's siege of Russia's own antiquity and people, murderous Nazi invaders lapping at Leningrad's Gates and killing and destroying in the darkest of the Hermitage's days but the essence survived to be reborn again even as the last Bolshevik masters including Gorbachev and Yeltsin wander the darkened museum rooms. The Tidal Waves Of History have been repulsed and the Hermitage reborn in the renamed St. Petersburg which had been Petrograd and then Leningrad during the two great wars the Russians fought against the Germans during the last 100 years. The tidal wave was the tumult of violent history both of Russia's own doing and western European invaders. At present in the last dark and misty seas image the waters are roiling but there is no imminent danger. The Ark of Russia's centuries old art and aristocratic culture continues to float into time.