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I wouldn't mind at all. Anyone with a first idea for a new list?

Adam and Eve look toward the sunrise.

I shall prognosticate and see into the future for my choice. 2015 - MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - The best action film in a decade will almost surely lose out to SPOTLIGHT or THE BIG SHORT come Oscar night, and while I have it on good authority that both films are excellent in their own right, I can't see either being more enjoyable to me than FURY ROAD was. Plus, the Academy likes to pride themselves on their social conscience, and FURY ROAD will be seen as too much escapism and not enough political statement.

I'm right there with you. February weather, my birthday, and all of the programming I look forward to on TCM gone for the month. 90% of what I watch on TCM comes from TCM Underground, Silent Sundays, and TCM Imports. Oh well, at least I have 500 other movies waiting to be watched.

Un Chien Andalou Next: fireworks

Yes, but it appears to simply be market research. Surveys about current and possible future content, helpfully (for them) broken down into demographics by your initial entrance questionnaire. Now they can find out what Hispanic homosexual women between the ages of 25-35 that make $50k+ a year and live in the Pacific northwest region want to buy from TCM. And all of those descriptors are used in the questionnaire: race, sexual preference, gender, age, income, where you live...and I wouldn't be too sure that all of this additional info is then not sold to third-party data brokers as an additional revenue stream. SOP with this kind of thing.

Ok, this next director may not be as well known, but he's a beloved figure in genre films. Starting out making industrial films and documentarys, this American was hired by Universal in 1953 to direct one of the earliest juvenile delinquent pictures. He then moved on to direct a string of the most well-liked science fiction films of the era. He also showed a knack at working with the new 3-D format. They weren't all SF films, though, as he also helmed a number of westerns, as well as more conventional comedies and dramas, starring such big names as Audie Murphy, Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Lana Turner, Bob Hope, and Peter Sellers. However, his career peaked in the 1950's, and he will always be most closely associated with the science fiction boom of that decade. I need the director's name, and at least 3 of the 7 science fiction films he directed. Bonus: name the major superstar, still working today, who made his/her film debut in one of this director's 1950's films.

aaaahhh...I should have known that.

Teri Hatcher was a Bond Girl in Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan.

Stuart Erwin was in Pigskin Parade with Judy Garland.

The Swimmer Next: an interview

Penelope

Manhattan Baby

Eddie

Under the Rainbow

Vergara, Sofia

Ed

Ocean's Thirteen

So Proudly We Hail

Thomas, Betty

Ocean's Twelve

Torrance, Jack - Jack Nicholson in THE SHINING

Queen Margot

Rathbone, Basil

Ocean's Eleven