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I like Alan Cummings who hosts Sundance's Midnight Maddness. For me it is all about having someone who is fun, exciting and on the edge. When TCM starts showing Cult Films they will need someone who knows these films, so they better start looking now. Alan Cummings is already taken so they will have to look somewhere else.

When I try to copy and paste the monthly schedule to Word I have to spend so much time cleaning it up, but before the change, each film was self contained in a table that pasted over perfect. I guess the new web designers are not using tables anymore but Flash which doesn't seem to work as well. They spent so much money redesigning the web page that they will never go back to the old one. That web developer is long gone and all the code is gone too. I just don't use the TCM web site that much anymore, using Yahoo TV Listings instead. You can click on the channel on the right and all the programs are listed for that 24 hour day. It's a shame that the TCM Web Site has become useless.

The Last Picture Show (1971) Turner Classic Movies Mar 03 02:00am Movies, 135 Mins. **** (Rated R) The lives of high-schoolers, a debutante and others overlap in a dying 1950s Texas town. Adult Situations; Language; Nudity; Violence. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sharon Taggart, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Jessie Lee Fulton, Gary Brockette, Loyd Catlett, John Hillerman, Noble Willingham. Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Producer: Stephen J. Friedman, Stephen J. Friedman

Whatch for this film on Showtime Extreme The Eagle Has Landed (1976) A Nazi colonel drops a colonel, a task force and an Irishman into England to kidnap Winston Churchill. Adult Situations. Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Siegfried Rauch, John Barrett, Maurice Roeves, Leigh Dilley. Director: John Sturges. Producers: Jack Winer, David Niven Jr. Distribution:Columbia

Lord of the Flies (1963) Turner Classic Movies Mar 04 04:00pm Movies, 120 Mins. *** (Rated NR) English schoolboys, stranded on a desert island without adults, soon turn savage. From the William Golding book. Cast: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allen, Kent Fletcher, Nicholas Hammond. Director: Peter Brook. Producer: Lewis Allen. Goofs for Lord of the Flies (1963) * Factual errors: As Piggy is nearsighted, his spectacles could not be used as a "magnifying glass" to light a bonfire: lenses for nearsightedness would scatter, not concentrate, the sun's rays. (This error occurs in the original novel and was perpetuated in the 1990 remake.) * Continuity: When Simon leaves the shelters on the beach, he is shirtless. Yet when he watches Jack and the hunters kill the pig, he is wearing a clean, white shirt. Later when we see Simon again, he is shirtless once again. * Crew or equipment visible: After the vote for chief, a stake is visible in the sand saying "Anthony M", telling Anthony McCall-Judson, one of the actors, where in the group he is supposed to sit. * Continuity: The boys go on the monster hunt, and leave Piggy behind to take care of the smaller boys. As Piggy looks out to sea, you can see (from behind, at a 3/4 angle) that his left lens is intact. This is after Jack had already broken it in a fight previously.

I'm sure that all of you folks that are not mealy mouthed YES MEN realize that all of the Corporate web sites no longer use POP-UPS to sell their soap, they use FLASH! You have to use Flash-Block on Tools - Adblock to stop this SAP SOAP. Your page will load quicker and you won't have to put up with an Internet that wants to sell you something that you do not need.

It took me 20 minutes to clean up the home page with Adblock so that they would not be trying to sell me all that soap. I never thought that I would be using Adblock on TCM, but I had more stuff to get rid of than I had on Yahoo TV listings.

I just thank GOD that the TCM UK Web site still follows the K.I.S.S. standard and hasn't gone commercialized. I depend on that site to keep up with all the British films that I want to be on the look-out for. Their site looks just like the Sundance Web Page which gives you a calendar to click on for any day and see that days movies along with all the needed info, right there at hands view. No bells and weasels

The Glass Menagerie (1950)(Not on DVD or VHS) Fox Movie Channel Feb 27 02:00pm Movies, 107 Mins. *** (Rated NR) An aging Southern belle inspires her son and prepares her disabled daughter for a gentleman caller. From the Tennessee Williams play. Reportedly, Tennessee Williams intensely disliked this film version of his play because a final touch not found in the original was added at the very end, just before the fadeout, against Williams's wishes. This final touch implied a totally different, much more upbeat ending to the story. Cast: Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy, Ralph Sanford, Ann Tyrrell, John Compton, Gertrude Graner, Sarah Edwards, Chris Alcaide, Sean McClory. Director: Irving Rapper. Producers: Jerry Wald, Charles K. Feldman.

Well stated, and also programmers of the many movie channels know that viewers have become very proficient with all the new technology. We look through Yahoo TV listings, not to see what we want to watch, but what we want to set the timer on our DVR's and DVD recorders for. While we are at work or while we sleep our equipment is recording desired programming. This is why a channel like Cinemax may schedules a rare film 4:00 AM in the morning and will never air that film again. They know that if someone wants to see this film they will set their recorder to catch it for later viewing.

No, every Davis, Crawford and Bogart movie that plays here is on there too. I think that it may have more to do with TCM UK having the release rights to these movies and TCM USA can't get them, even though they are in some library. But if someone else owns these films here than they should show up somewhere, even on a pay channel, but they don't. I keep hoping they will come out on DVD so that I can get them from Netflex.

All of the films listed aired on TCM UK within the past two weeks and only Demon Seed is available on DVD. Brainstorm was scheduled to air a few months back but was replaced with Logins Run, therefore it was a no show. Hopefully many of these British films will either show up on TCM USA or be released on DVD.

HDNETMovies is a channel I keep up with and they make money producing and distributing their own films to theatres and selling them on DVD. IFC and Sundance do the same, and TCM makes money every time Warner Home Video advertises their new DVD's in-between the movies on TCM. So part of your answer can be found in the sale and distribution of DVD's. FMC gets money from DELL, IFC from Target and Heineken.

The Secret Garden *** (1993) with Kate Maberly.This version done only as the British can do it is the best of all the others, and I put it on every year at this time.

Duel (1971) Sundance Channel Mar 05 05:30am Movies, 90 Mins. *** (Rated PG) (Y) The unseen driver of a tailgating semi tries to run a traveling salesman off the road. Adult Situations. Cast: Dennis Weaver, Tim Herbert, Charles Peel, Eddie Firestone, Shirley O'Hara, Lucille Benson, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglass, Gene Dynarski, Cary Loftin. Director: Steven Spielberg. Producer: George Eckstein. In Search of Gregory (1970) Sundance Channel Mar 05 07:00am Add to My Calendar Movies, 90 Mins. ** (Rated PG) A Swiss financier's daughter fantasizes about her father's elusive houseguest from San Francisco. Adult Situations. Cast: Julie Christie, Michael Sarrazin, John Hurt. Director: Peter Wood. Silent Running (1972) Sundance Channel Mar 05 08:45am Movies, 90 Mins. *** (Rated G) A renegade botanist kills his space-station shipmates to save his garden of earthly vegetation. Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Steve Brown, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks, Larry Whisenhut. Director: Douglas Trumbull. Producer: Michael Gruskoff. Distribution: Universal/Universal Int The Battle of Algiers (1965) Sundance Channel Mar 01 11:15am Movies, 135 Mins. *** (Rated NR) Between 1954 and '62, Algeria fights for independence from the French. Cast: Yacef Saadi, Jean Martin, Brahim Haggiag, Tommaso Neri, Sarnia Kierbash, Michele Kierbash, Fawzia El-Kader, Mohamed Ben Kassen. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Producer: Antonio Musu, Yacef Saadi.

Here are some of the films that show on TCM UK that you will never see here: Our Mother's House Fearful of life in an orphanage, seven children bury their mother's body in the garden when she dies after an illness. D: Jack Clayton (1967) Travels With My Aunt Maggie Smith gives a terrific performance as the flamboyant aunt who gives her up-tight nephew the adventure of a lifetime aboard the Orient Express. D: George Cukor (1972) Young Cassidy A richly atmospheric film biography of Irish literary great and revolutionary rebel Sean O'Casey, set in Dublin in 1910. Julie Christie and Maggie Smith star. D: John Ford (1965) The Journey Amid the turbulent events of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, romance blossoms for would-be escapees Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in this heady love story. D: Anatole Litvak (1959) Buddy Buddy Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon team up for this comic tale of a cynical mob hit man who forms an odd alliance with his suicidal neighbour. D: Billy Wilder (1981) Brotherly Love Hilarious study of British upper-class eccentricities with Peter O'Toole and Susannah York as two parts of a peculiar country-house menage-a-trois. D: J. Lee Thompson (1969) The Man Who Laughs Lisa Gastoni and Edmund Purdom star as the notorious Borgias, the decadent Italian rulers who turned politics and poisoning into a lethal art form. D: Sergio Corbucci (1966) Demon Seed Julie Christie is the wife of a brilliant scientist who finds herself forcibly impregnated by a computer that has developed evil ideas of its own. D: Donald Cammell (1977) Brainstorm Christopher Walken stars in this sci-fi chiller. Co-star Natalie Wood died tragically during the film's production. D: Douglas Trumbull (1983) Savage Messiah Intense and erotic depiction of the love affair between the wild young French sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska and a Polish woman 20 years his senior. D: Ken Russell (1972) 36 Hours Ingenious World War II thriller with James Garner as a US intelligence officer duped by the Nazis into betraying vital D-Day secrets. D: George Seaton (1964) Eye of the Devil Occult thriller starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven as the wealthy owners of a French vineyard who become obsessed with pagan sacrifice. D: J. Lee Thompson (1967) Kill or Cure British comedians Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes head the cast of this spoof comedy involving murder and other dastardly deeds at a health farm. D: George **** (1962) Where the Spies Are David Niven stars in this comic spy yarn as the country GP recruited for a vital Middle East mission. D: Val Guest (1965) Ask Any Girl Screwball comedy, with Shirley MacLaine as the young woman who puts the motivational techniques she learns at work into practice to snag a husband. D: Charles Walters (1959) Made in Paris Ann-Margret stars as a nubile young American sent to attend the Paris fashion shows, where she experiences a series of amorous encounters. D: Boris Sagal (1966) The Walking Stick Samantha Eggar stars as a crippled antiques dealer so smitten by the charms of an artist (David Hemmings) that she agrees to participate with him in a robbery. D: Eric Till (1970) Joe: The Busy Body A frenetic French farce with Louis De Funes as a TV writer who shoots a blackmailer (or so he thinks) and hides the body in his garden. D: Jean Girault (1972) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Some of the best-loved fairy-tales of all time are brought to the screen in this delightful and colourful film, starring Laurence Harvey. D: Henry Levin (1962) Alfred the Great David Hemmings stars in this historical swashbuckler about the 9th-century English king who famously burned the cakes and defeated the invading Danes. D: Clive Donner (1969) Cairo A master criminal arrives in Egypt to plot the daring theft of Tutankhamen's treasure from the Cairo Museum. George Sanders stars. D: Wolf Rilla (1963) The Journey Amid the turbulent events of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, romance blossoms for would-be escapees Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in this heady love story. D: Anatole Litvak (1959) Haunted Honeymoon Matrimonial bliss for amateur sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is interrupted when murder enters the picture. Crime mystery from Dorothy L. Sayers. D: Arthur Woods (1940)

Auto Focus (2002) Independent Film Channel Mar 02 01:00am Movies, 120 Mins. *** (Rated R) Actor Bob Crane begins a downward spiral after a seedy pal gets him hooked on anonymous sex and homemade pornography. Adult Situations; Language; Nudity; Violence; Strong Sexual Content. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Kurt Fuller, Ed Begley Jr, Michael Rodgers, Michael E. Rodgers , Michael McKean, Christopher Neiman, Bruce Solomon, Lyle Kanouse. Director(s): Paul Schrader. Producer(s): Trevor Macy, Rick Hess, James Schamus, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Todd Rosken, Pat Dollard, Alicia Allain. Writer: Michael Gerbosi, Mike Gerbosi. Distribution: 20th Century Fox

Leo doesn't like classic movies (pre-1950) and it sounds like he does like Starz and the Encore channels which I hate. If you pick them up for a three week period, thats all thats needed for the whole year. Talk about repetitive, they are the worst! He is not going to explicitly name channels because then he would be shooting down his whole argument. He knows that every channel is repetitive in the films that they show and that TCM is no worse than any other channel, he just can't go to a message board for FMC or Starz or Showtime so he comes here. But Leo, IFC does have a Blog that you can post on, I haven't seen you there yet? What complaints do you have for them?

TCM had Sniffles the mouse in widescreen last year, about three of his cartoons. I loved the one about the owl telling all the other animals about man and how war destroyed their civilization. He was reading from the Bible and giving them the message that "Thou Shall Not Kill".I stayed up all night Christmas Eve recording all the ones that I was able to stay awake for, but I didn't get them all (like Sniffles, I fell asleep). It was a darn shame that they kept interupting the cartoons with those movies!

There is only a small percentage of Guest (1000) and Users (33) on the whole, who come to this message board at any given time, as compared to people who watch TCM. Those who dislike something are more likely to complain than those who are satisfied. Therefore complaints like these should only be taken with a grain of salt and not be given much weight, Average mean or otherwise. For this reason I don't think TCM would use any of these suggestions after they are averaged in to the adjusted mean average to determine any significance.

Last December TCM played great Christmas and Seasonal Shorts and cartoons in-between the movies starting about a week before christmas. I would tune in even if I didn't want to see the movie because I didn't want to miss a great holiday cartoon or special feature. Hopefully some goodies are in the works for this year, including some Short Features that are in the Holiday spirit, and some black and white cartoons that are rarely shown. Message was edited by: allieharding

Sell them for a $Dollar$ right here on the TCM Home page. It would let you know how many people visit your site, and if they spend the buck they are sure to watch the 3-D movies.

Some light hearted fare that is meant to only entertain. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (USA) The Trouble with Angels (1966) The Parent Trap (1961) Pollyanna (1960) Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) The High Cost of Loving (1958) Penelope (1966) Lili (1953) The Glass Slipper (1955) Fanny (1961)cast: Lesly Caron Message was edited by: allieharding

I keep up with another message board where DVD buying addicts talk about their addiction, and when they talk about it they say the same things that a drug addict says. I'm not going to buy anymore old movies, just new movies, I've got 500 DVD's that i'll never watch, I'm starting to charge my DVD's to keep up, I hope Netflix will help me stop buying DVD's. I need my fix!!!!!!!!!!!!

You people stop insulting other people and learn some respect! If you are addicted to buying DVD's that you will never watch more than once than more power to you. I'm glad you have money to throw away.