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Paths of Glory is my #3 choice for best movie of 1957, behind Kwai and 12 Angry Men.

Years where the Best Picture Oscar winner matches my personal choice for best movie of the year: 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front 1934 - It Happened One Night 1942 - Casablanca* (this won for 1943, but I include it with the year it was released. Mrs Miniver won the 1942 Best Picture Oscar, and is my #2 choice for the year) 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia 1972 - The Godfather 1974 - The Godfather Part II 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs 1992 - Unforgiven 1993 - Schindler's List 2004 - Million Dollar Baby 2007 - No Country for Old Men 2013 - 12 Years a Slave

Not even All About Eve? Or On the Waterfront? Or The Bridge on the River Kwai?

I've seen Dark Command, but I've never watched any of the Maisie movies.

I don't know what these two are, but I've seen the others.

Dwight Argo is a cool name. You could be a gunslinger, or a secret agent. Or even a European superhero!

Anyone who likes 60's Mondo movies should enjoy these, available on the Severin website on Black Friday (Nov. 29): The Wild, Wild World of Jayne MansfieldSynopsis: The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield is the notorious final feature of the Hollywood star, a mondo-style celebration of all things Mansfield in which Jayne turns a European vacation into a Skin-Goddess Spectacle! See Jayne visit a nudist colony on the Isle of Levant! Go with Jayne to a gay bar where she quickly gets confused! Join Jayne at various Parisian strip clubs, then watch as she takes a private lesson at Pierre's striptease school! Marvel with Jayne at the wonders of "All-Girl Topless Band," an underground Transvestite Beauty Contest, and Jayne's own unabashed nude scenes from the rarely seen skinflick Promises, Promises! All of which is capped off with shocking photos of Jayne's fatal car crash before hubby Mickey Hargity (Bloody Pit Of Horror) takes us on a final tour of Jayne's Pink Palace! Wow, wow, and double wow. Breathtakingly berserk, this is definitely must-see, must-have, must-Mansfield!Special Features and Technical Specs: NEWLY REMASTERED FROM A 35MM PRINT Bonus movie: Wild, Weird, Wonderful Italians (1963),newly remastered from a 35mm print from The Something Weird Vaults The Devil & Jayne - Interview with Anton LaVey Biographer Blanche Barton Trailer Mondo BalordoSynopsis: In Mondo Balordo, narrator Boris Karloff demonstrates that "nothing invented by the human mind can be as macabre, grotesque, and thrilling as the behavior of people in so-called real life," and we witness a global freak show encompassing transvestites, lesbians, Japanese bondage, the "reincarnation of Rudolph Valentino," and 27-inch-tall zoot suit-clad Franz Drago singing "I Ain't Got No Body"!Special Features and Technical Specs: NEWLY REMASTERED IN 4K Bonus movie: The Orientals (1960), newly remastered from a 35mm print from The Something Weird Vaults Trailer

Your name is Dargo Argo?!?

This is a bit ahead in the schedule, but does anyone know what's being shown on November 29th in the late-night TCM Underground slot? Looking at the TCM Underground thread, I had posted that The Pyramid (1976) was scheduled, as well as a "???" which would have meant the schedule was blank in that spot when first posted. However, I just perused the schedule, and The Pyramid is no longer listed. They have Marty coming on at 12:15AM ET, and then the schedule jumps to 4:00AM ET, with a short (Changing from 1971) followed by something called Drug Stories from 2019. Marty is only 94 minutes, so even if they pad with commentary and interstitials, it still wouldn't run more than an hour and 45 minutes, meaning something will be on 2:00 AM. EDIT: It appears that The Pyramid still shows up on the weekly schedule, just not the daily one. And I can't find anything about Drug Stories on IMDb.

The OP stated that they were trying to avoid any films with graphic (gruesome) violence, and/or salty language (notice their mention of an edited version of Patton), and I'm assuming other more mature subject matter (nudity, sexual situations beyond the most chaste). The film list was intended for use as a curriculum supplement for home-schooling children on WWII.

Since the last catch-up, I've seen these foreign films: Leon Morin, Priest, Jean-Pierre Melville, France (1961) 7/10 I really liked Emmanuelle Riva as a young French woman during the Nazi occupation who begins to explore her spirituality, with help from new local priest Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le Doulos, Jean-Pierre Melville, France (1962) 7/10 Good crime drama with Serge Reggiani and Jean-Paul Belmondo as professional crooks working together on a new heist, only maybe they're not. Le Petit Soldat, Jean-Luc Godard, France (1963) 5/10 More Godard pretension and dated socio-political posturing as Michel Subor and Anna Karina find romance despite their clashing ideals. The Merchant of Four Seasons, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany (1973) 5/10 More of Fassbinder's clumsy, stilted characterizations highlight this melodrama about a drunken fruit vendor and his battles with his wife. Parade, Jacques Tati, France (1974) 5/10 Originally made for French television, this is a filmed circus performance, as well as a few short comedic sketches. Tati was reportedly near financial ruin at the time, and made this to pay the bills. Where Is the Friend's House?, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran (1987) 6/10 An elementary school student goes in search of his friend's house to return a book and keep the kid out of trouble. The snapshot of Iranian life is unusual for those unfamiliar with Iranian cinema, but I found the move frequently dull. Solo con Tu Pareja, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico (1991) 5/10 Cuaron's feature directing debut was this 90's sex comedy about a promiscuous young man (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who thinks he has contracted HIV. I wasn't impressed, but this isn't really my genre of choice.

I didn't have any of those above among my top tens, but I liked them all nonetheless, and watched the entire series of each. I'm still working on watching Doctor Who. I've recently watched Spearhead from Space and Death to the Daleks, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, and The Ark in Space and The Sontaran Experiment with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). I have a dozen or more other individual-serial discs, as well as the boxsets of the newer seasons, which I'll watch when I get to those years (I'm watching things in chronological order).

Then I've seen that one, too.

I haven't seen The Parent Trap, and I'm not quite sure what #53 is, but it looks familiar.

2010's Game of Thrones Fargo Hannibal The Good Wife Stranger Things The Expanse Eastbound & Down Bates Motel Bosch True Detective 2000's Lost The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Firefly Rome The Sopranos Supernatural Medium Eureka The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Da Ali G Show 1990's The X-Files Buffy the Vampire Slayer ER Twin Peaks The Larry Sanders Show Star Trek: The Next Generation Law & Order The State Late Night with Conan O'Brien Mystery Science Theater 3000 1980's St. Elsewhere Hill Street Blues Star Trek: The Next Generation Late Night with David Letterman SCTV Black Adder Saturday Night Live Cheers Miami Vice The Kids in the Hall 1970's Monty Python's Flying Circus Saturday Night Live The Rockford Files Columbo Taxi Kolchak: The Night Stalker Night Gallery Barney Miller The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Bob Newhart Show 1960's The Twilight Zone Star Trek The Outer Limits The Avengers The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Fugitive Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Ed Sullivan Show Laugh-In The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 1950's Playhouse 90 Perry Mason Alfred Hitchcock Presents Have Gun - Will Travel The Untouchables Wagon Train Leave It to Beaver I Love Lucy The Naked City You Bet Your Life

These above are the only ones I watched a substantial amount of. I liked them all. My personal top ten of the decade: Game of Thrones Fargo Hannibal The Good Wife Stranger Things The Expanse Eastbound & Down Bates Motel Bosch True Detective

I mentioned this elsewhere, and thought I'd share it here: 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Breaking Bad Mad Men The Americans Planet Earth (Blue Planet II, Planet Earth II) Fleabag Adventure Time The Good Place Atlanta Parks and Recreation The Great British Baking Show 30 Rock Barry Rectify The Good Wife American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson Game of Thrones The Crown Bob's Burgers Justified Stranger Things Brooklyn Nine-Nine Chernobyl Better Call Saul Catastrophe When They See Us My Mad Fat Diary Hannibal Key & Peele Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Twin Peaks: The Return Succession The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance BoJack Horseman Veep Legends of Tomorrow Downton Abbey The Night Manager The Good Fight Mozart in the Jungle Review Counterpart Man Seeking Woman The Leftovers Community Penny Dreaful Boardwalk Empire Broad City Gravity Falls Happy Valley Killing Eve Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23 Halt and Catch Fire Looking Fargo Russian Doll Treme It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Sherlock Orphan Black Rick and Morty American Vandal Downward Dog Jane the Virgin Terriers In the Flesh Doctor Who GLOW Documentary Now! Big Mouth Outlander black-ish Speechless The Handmaid's Tale Queen Sugar Happy Endings Master of None Detroiters Steven Universe Black Mirror Better Things One Day at a Time The Expanse Fringe The Assassination of Gianni Versace The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Westworld Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Orange Is the New Black The Knick Portlandia Nathan for You Pose The Bold Type Schitt's Creek Grey's Anatomy Eastbound & Down Fresh Off the Boat Silicon Valley Parenthood https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/best-tv-shows-2010s.html

I think a lot of that is the glut of options available. There are more films, TV shows, music and games at people's fingertips than ever before. There are not enough hours in a day to enjoy them all. Much the same way cable TV fragmented the TV viewership, streaming, and the availability of hundreds of thousands of hours of shows and movies, guarantees that there won't be as much attention paid to any one thing as there used to be. You know how many movies I watch (too many!), and yet there were still over a quarter of the movies listed on that 100 best of the decade thread that I haven't seen. Same goes for best TV of the decade (I think I watched two of the top ten shows listed, if that).

The internet/social media has fostered this "hype build-up leading to opening-weekend, then forget it" mentality that seems to have overtaken most current filmgoers. The material being released doesn't do a lot to foster long-term discussion either.

Yes, retro TV seems to be more prevalent than retro movies. I've read that MeTV has risen in ratings to be among the top ten channels on occasion. I'm not sure what TCM's viewer numbers are (that's been a contentious subject for a long time, and especially recently given Comcast's comments regarding TCM's very low viewership numbers), but other retro stations similar to MeTV have gone almost exclusively to retro TV rather than sticking to older films that they started out predominantly showing.

I think about that, and the changing nature of classic film viewership. When TCM began, and when AMC was in its classic-film mode, many of the performers and filmmakers were still alive. However, more importantly I think, many people who had seen those films in the theaters during their initial release (1930's and 1940's, or even earlier) were still around. As the population ages and dies off, the viewership of those films changes from nostalgia and reminiscence into historical curiosity and film appreciation, which brings a different, much smaller, group of viewers. I think there will always be classic film fans, but their numbers will continue to shrink in the ever-more-crowded entertainment landscape of the future. End of BS spiel.

Hangmen Also Die covers the same story as Hitler's Madman.

No A Bridge Too Far and Operation Market Garden?

Here's the list, for those who don't like to click links: Classic World War 2 Films in Chronological Order Prewar Young Winston Winston Churchill childhood, young adulthood years 1933 The Mortal Storm Impact on German family when Hitler becomes Chancellor 1937 (and on) Inn of the Sixth Happiness Missionary Gladys Aylward leads 100 orphans to safety in China from invading Japanese 1939 Sep Mrs. Miniver England declares war on Germany, homefront Nov 15 - Dec 13 Battle of River Plate 1st major naval conflict of WW2 1940 May 26 to Jun 4 Dunkirk Dunkirk Evacuation The Way Ahead Conscripted civilians trained and replace Dunkirk casualties Sum 1940 Spitfire (First of the Few) Set in 1940 tells of Spitfire designers in 1930s Jun – Sep 17 Battle of Britain Bombing of England by Germany Reach for the Sky Douglas Bader – RAF pilot & commander Sep 5 – Jan 1941 The One that Got Away Downed German pilot escapes from Canadian prison camp 1941 Mar 27 Sink the Bismarck Story of stopping the great German ship - Bismarck Apr – Nov The Desert Rats Siege of Tobruk Apr 41 – Jul 42 Flying Tigers US pilots volunteer for Chinese airforce May 1940-Nov 22 1941 Under Ten Flags German ship sinks 22 merchant ships Dec Casablanca Nazi occupation North Africa Dec Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor They Were Expendable Use of PT boats shortly after Pearl Harbor 1942 Jan – Apr Bataan Battle of Bataan 1940-45 The Colditz Story Most escapes from POW camp during WW2 Early Destination Tokyo Reconnaissance for Doolittle Feb – Apr 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Doolittle Raid The Cruel Sea Battle of the Atlantic (Uboats – from Fall 1939 through 1945) The Enemy Below Uboat/US Subs Action in the North Atlantic US Merchant Marine & U boats Counter-Attack (1945) Russians build underwater bridges Jan – Jun The Malta Story Battle of Malta The Eternal Sea (Amazon) Rear Adm. John Hoskins loses leg and fights to stay on aircraft carrier Mar Attack on the Iron Coast St. Nazaire Raid Fighting Seabees Naval Construction Battalions Jun 4-7 Midway Battle of Midway Jun Hangmen Also Die Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich #2 SS mastermind – very much a fictional version Oct Edge of Darkness Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation (fictional story but shows about the resistance) After Jun 42 bef 43 Sahara Allied soldiers protect a well from a group of Axis soldiers Nov 10 Sea of Sand On the eve of Battle of El Alamein, patrol to destroy fuel dump Island on Bird Street Boy survives in Polish ghetto, Robinson Crusoe style 1943 1942-1943 Bridge on the River Kwai based on Burma railway built by Japanese from Jun 42 through Dec 1943 Jan Twelve O’ Clock High 1st bombing of Germany 1943 Command Decision bombing Germany at night The Gallant Hours Admiral Halsey leading up to and victory of Guadalcanal Feb Guadalcanal Diary Battle of Guadacanal Mainly Mid 1943 Patton – edited version Battle of El Guetta & Allied Invasion of Sicily (normal version has a lot of bad language) May 16-17 The Dam Busters Operation Chastise Jul – Aug 1943 To Hell & Back Audie Murphy, most decorated WW2 veteran – Allied Invasion of Sicily Before Jul The Man Who Never Was Operation Mincemeat – used dead man to confuse Germany of Allied Invasion Aug 7 Story of GI Joe War Correspondent Ernie Pyle during the Invasion of Siciliy The Counterfeit Traitor Erik Erikson – swedish oil executive who becomes a spy for the Allies Sep 15 Guns of Navarone Battle of Leros 43-45 Above Us the Waves British X-class (midget) submarines Dec The Devil’s Brigade 1st Special Service Force (Devil’s Brigade) first mission Italian Campaign Aug 1943 – 1944 Operation Crossbow Development of VI and V2 Rockets 1943-1944 Five Fingers Elyesa Bazna – spy 1944 formed early 1944 Merrill’s Marauders Unit formed for Burma campaign 1940-44 Password is Courage Sgt Maj. Charles Coward – multiple escapes Mar 24 & 25 The Great Escape True escape story of POWs May I Was Monty’s Double Operation Copperhead 13 Rue Madeline Training Spies for invasion of France 36 Hours Germans try to trick American Major into telling about Allied invasion Jun Ike Planning of Normandy Invasion Jun Longest Day Normandy Invasion Jun 1944 Carve Her Name with Pride True story of SOE agent Violette Szabo and her execution +Jul 20, 1944 The Desert Fox Story of Rommel and the assassination attempt on Hitler on Jul 20, 1944 Oct Hell is for Heroes Siegfried Line Dec Stalag 17 Life in POW camp Dec – Feb Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge Late 1944 Decision Before Dawn Postwar Germany right before the war ends 1945 Jan Miracle of the White Stallions Evacation of the Lipizzaner horses from Vienna by the US Army Feb – Mar Sands of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Beginning or the End Development of Atomic Bomb Above and Beyond Bombing Japan Postwar Best Years of Our Lives Soldiers adjusting to postwar life Foreign Affair Real footage of bombed out Germany/postwar life Judgment at Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials

I hope you called someone to check on Estelle Parsons!