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Nonetheless, it would be wise to keep an ear to the ground just in case it does.
It appears that BLUE VELVET has once again been bumped from the TCM schedule
The David Lynch shorts are still on the schedule for the overnight hours on October 31, but Lynch's BLUE VELVET has been replaced by TWICE UPON A TIME (which doesn't appear to be connected to David Lynch).
TWICE UPON A TIME (an animated feature from the 1980s) looks very good, but I am disappointed that BLUE VELVET has been taken away yet again.
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Thank you, for you kind words Frau Wunderbar...honestly, I feel a little guilty for ripping so viciously at Ms. Werts (well, as much guilt as I can feel in my shriveled little artichoke heart). It's done. Were she ever to see it, I'd say "my bad" t'wards maybe being a little too vicious and just remind her to "cool it" with the "whole" "putting everything in quotes" "thing" that she does.
It's not "professional."
Dammit. There I go again...I just can't be nice sometimes...most times...all the time.
What exactly did Ms. Werts mean when she referred to Gene Kelly as a "guy's guy" anyway?
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I haven't seen Deathtrap in years, either. I wish I wasn't at work now, but watching it. I also saw it when it first came out.
DEATHTRAP is scheduled air again on TCM in September as part of the tribute to Sidney Lumet.
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I know a lot of people who love it. I did not love it, but THE BODY is my favorite story, ever written.
Are there any major differences in the BODY versus STAND BY ME?
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I think CARRIE is a better film than it is a book. However, I think there are superb film adaptations of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, MISERY, THE DEAD ZONE, and, especially, DOLORES CALIBORNE. Others, such as CHRISTINE, CUJO, THE MIST and some others, are very good. I think THE SHINING is among the worst film adaptations of a King story.
I love the movie STAND BY ME, which is based on Stephen King's novella THE BODY.
I've never read the book so I don't know how the two compare, but the movie is one of my favorites.
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Tomorrow, Michael Caine is up, and there are a few movies I'm looking forward to. First is The Ipcress File, the first movie in the Harry Palmer series. Billion Dollar Brain (also scheduled) has been shown, but by that time, the series, mirroring the Bond movies that inspired it, had become over-the-top, playing for humor, and satire. But Ipcress is a nifty, cynical, hard-edged spy thriller. How do I know this? Well, I've seen it, so it's not new to me, but I'm glad to see it on TCM. There's also Hell in Korea, The Wilby Conspiracy, Deathtrap, and The Romantic Englishwoman, which I don't know anything about.
I'd never heard of THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN either, but I see that it also stars Glenda Jackson so I definitely want to see it.
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I agree that Virginia Leith's voice is similar. She was excellent in the first One Step Beyond segment and Black Widow '54 with Peggy Ann Garner, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney and Ginger Rogers.. The novel is excellent as well as the film.
I had seen on her on TV - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
as a kid. Though some horror films are noteworthy, I somehow hoped to see her act in more film noir roles like Black Widow and A Kiss Before Dying.
THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE is such a fun movie!
It's [...] crazy in a good way.
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I just read Main Street again a few months ago. The first
time was probably fifteen years ago. It has held up pretty well,
at least for me. Lewis does hit all the usual small town
targets, but he also criticizes his heroine, so it's not as
one sided as it seems at first. I suppose it's up to the
individual which side he or she comes down on, if he or
she comes down on any side. If you have the time, give it
another chance. Length wise, it's pretty manageable.
I'll try to give it another chance as an adult.
I do remember that Sinclair Lewis was critical of the heroine as well as of the townsfolk that she tried to bring culture to.
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Oh goody! What time? (Hope its not the graveyard hours.)
It's scheduled for 12 midnight Eastern on November 16.
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I was thinking, one of the reasons why I found THE EGYPTIAN so interesting is because- with 50's biblical epics- they are either deliciously bad but substantively lacking or well-meaning and dull as dishwater.
THE EGYPTIAN- at least as much of it as I was able to see- was an intriguing mixture of camp and class....and all so watchable (and with an intriguing and very clear, and slightly subversive, moral to it.)
again- please encore this one, TCM.
THE EGYPTIAN is scheduled to air again on TCM in November.
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SCARLET STREET is scheduled to air on TCM in October.
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Joan Crawford wasn't alone in having her last film not be a good one. That said, I don't think TROG is all that bad. I found it watchable. I've seen far worse movies than TROG.
Bette Davis' last film was that 1989 Larry Cohen flick WICKED STEPMOTHER
Peter Sellers' was the dreadful THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU which has no comedic energy whatsoever.
Miriam Hopkins' last film was the not-badly-made-but-irritating 1969 horror movie 'SAVAGE INTRUDER' which featured John Garfield's son in the lead role.
I thought Bette Davis's last movie was WHALES OF AUGUST.
I remember reading (maybe on this board) that she dropped out of a later movie.
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I am really, really looking forward to the night of September 25 that TCM has devoted to James Dean's television legacy.
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Hello fellow fans!
2 big things on my mind today:
1) Is there any way to see exactly which films are currently in the TCM library? I see a schedule, but that's not what I want...
2) Does anyone know how to get specific information on hard to find movies? For example, if I wanted to see "A House Divided" Directed by William Wyler starring Walter Huston, how would I do that? I've looked at the IMDB, but it doesn't give the information I want such as: Is it available, anywhere? Is it lost completely? Has it ever been released on video in the USA?
Thanks!!!
Stuart
Stuart, a newbie is only allowed ONE question.
Kidding. kidding. kidding.
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I recently watched SCENT OF A WOMAN for the first time in about 10 years.
What an amazing movie.
Al Pacino, of course, is wonderful in his Oscar-winning role as the alcoholic blind retired Lt Col. Frank Slade ("I'm in the dark here!"), but Chris O'Donnell more than holds his own as the prep school student on scholarship who becomes Slade's Thanksgiving weekend caretaker.
O'Donnell's reactions to Pacino during their first scene together are so real and specific. Movie actors so often rely on the camera to do the work for them in reaction shots (and in many cases it's a valid approach), but it's nice to see genuine reactions in a mainstream American movie.
O'Donnell's Charlie Simms finds himself in New York City with Slade, who states he plans to kill himself after fulfilling a number of goals during the holiday weekend.
Bo Goldman's screenplay (inspired by characters in Dino Risi's PROFUMO DI DONNA, which was adapted from a story by Giovanni Arpino) is funny and moving.
The movie has a Hollywood ending that somehow manages to not feel like one.
The movie features an early movie performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (credited as Philip S. Hoffman). He figures prominently in the prep school subplot.
Gabrielle Anwar appears as a young woman who dances the tango with Pacino in one of the movie's most famous scenes.
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I loved that! I never saw more than a few minutes of the "Jerry Springer Show" on TV and was skeptical about going to the musical. But it was great! Another, more recent, musical that I really liked was London Road, which has just been made into a film. Very complex and unusual -- about the people on a block in a small city in England where a serial killer has been operating. The script for the show comes from interviews with the townspeople. I hear the movie is pretty good, but they play was haunting. They did an excerpt on the NT 50 show.
Yes, the scene fom LONDON ROAD on the National Theatre 50 presentation was very good.
I didn't know it had been adapted into a movie.
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It's been a while since I've read something so unfettered in its stupidity.
I daresay Rex Reed couldn't write something dumber than this, even if he (for once) tried.
I agree: Reed and the author of that piece in the original post could play themselves in the reality show DUMB AND DUMBER.
The comment about Gene Tierney is beyond stupid.
Anyone interested in classic movies (and a viewer of TCM) WOULD know the name Gene Tierney and WOULD know the gender of Gene Tierney.
They may or may not be fan, but they would know who she was.
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I saw The History Boys on stage there -- it was great. I love Alan Bennett's plays, I've seen many of them. My favorite is still one of his very early plays -- Forty Years On.
Another great scene from the National Theatre 50th year special was the one from JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA.
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I was recently telling a friend that, despite going to the theater in London a lot, I missed Helen Mirren's entry onto the scene, which she did with the RSC many years back. I did in my youth see Judi Dench and Maggie Smith on stage many times. But I didn't see Helen Mirren on stage until she appeared in a production of Racine's Phedre at the National Theatre about six years ago. Three of my other British fave actors were also in it -- the late Margaret Tyzack; Wendy Morgan; and Dominic Cooper.
That sounds like a great production.
Dominic Cooper appeared in a scene from THE HISTORY BOYS in the National 50th anniversary presentation.
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Re: Joan Fontaine. I liked her in her Hitchcock films: Suspicion and Rebecca. She does seem to always play a pushover, but for whatever reason I like her-- I probably wouldn't put her in my top 10 (I don't even know if she'd make the top 15) but I don't go out of my way to avoid her.
Joan Fontaine's acting, in my opinion, is amazingly "real."
In THE CONSTANT NYMPH and REBECCA she has such a natural, spontaneous-seeming delivery is in stark contrast the patterned deliveries that were typically found in movies in that era.
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I went to that screening here in NY. It was amazing -- I had seen many of those productions.
Yes, it was amazing.
I especially loved the scene from MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA with Helen Mirren.
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It's my favorite theater in the world (actually, there are four theater in the complex now). You can go to their website and find interviews with many of their actors, in honor of their 50th anniversary, which they celebrated late last year. Here's one of them:
There was a special Stage On Screen presentation celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National.
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I purchased FREAKS AND GEEKS Complete Series (one season only as you mentioned from 1999- 2000) on DVD.
It was a little pricey for a single season but they were able to secure all the music rights for the songs that played during the original broadcasts.
I love that show,