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"Kyle, now THAT'S the link I was hoping to see!" - Buffalo Chuck
You're welcome - but which link was the one you used?
The complete schedule for February has been available for weeks now. It is the link to the special webpage/website set up for "31 Days Of Oscar" that is "new".
( http://www.tcm.com/redirects/link/?cid=189674 )
At that webpage there is supposed to be a link to a PDF file also listing the "31 Days..." selections. I write about that link because the PDF files available each month with the primetime grid of the TCM schedule also includes designations of a film being a "premiere". This month's PDF notes such films as The Natural, The Trip To Bountiful, Cell 2455, Death Row and The File On Thelma Jordan (among others) as being "TCM Premieres".
I looked over the entire "31 Days.." schedule this morning. As a long time viewer, here is my educated guess at 20-some of the Feb/March titles that are being shown on TCM for the first time.
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Atlantic City ( 1981)
Kundun (1997)
The Wings Of The Dove (1997)
Wings (1927)
--A Nous La Liberte (1931)--
--The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)--
Easy Rider (1969)
The Reivers (1969)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Midnight Express (1978)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003)
Se7en (1995)
Little Big Man (1970)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Amistad (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Equus (1977)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Yes, Giorgio (1982) (with the recently deceased Luciano Pavarotti Bravo!)
Contact (1997)
Marathon Man (1976)
--Kotch (1971)--
All About Eve (1950)
The Dresser (1983)
Maverick (1994)
While I am pretty certain all the above titles are "premieres", these below are ones I am less sure are being shown for the first time.
Memphisto (1982)
Wild Is The Wind (1957) (Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani)
--The Whisperers (1967)--
Voyage Of The Damned (1976)
Caesar And Cleopatra (1945)
--Love With The Proper Stranger-- (1964)
--Save The Tiger (1973)--
--The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964)--
Samson And Delilah (1949)
The Bodyguard (1992) (though I think this was shown last year)
The Buccaneer (1958) (with Yul Brynner)
The Buccaneer (1938) (with Fredric March)
There Goes My Heart (1938) (with Fredric March)
--The Spanish Main (1945) (with Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara)--
Captain Caution (1940)
On The Beach (1959)
Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964)
If anyone else can say - one way or another - if they have or have not seen any of these films on TCM, chime in and set us straight.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"And to all of those on this board who are complaining about this choice,you really need grow up, because not all those who are young are stupid and ignorant about of movies, especially old movies." - Nicki82
Hear, Hear!
Reverse age-ism is certainly common around here. Glad you spoke up.
Kyle (far from 25 years old) In Hollywood
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"Audrey Totter might be a wonderful Guest Programmer to talk to Robert Osborne. Imagine talking to actors who were around during the era of these great old films."
While I think a "Private Screenings" with someone like Audrey Totter might be of interest to many folks, she is certainly no household name. There would be a very small subset of people who would search out her appearance on TCM. And it sounds like TCM has already been down that road. If it is true, that "Private Screenings" episode needs to be taken off the shelf and shown again soon.
But would Audrey Totter have anything valid - let alone interesting - to say about a film like The Apartment? I bet she could reminisce on her own films quite well but doubt that she has the breadth of knowledge to speak on Essential films not from her era - let alone her genre{s}.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"That's why I'm putting up Kyle's name for next year." - movieman1957
Now cut that out!
Kyle In Hollywood
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"Rose McGowan?!? Marilyn Manson's ex- girlfriend [?}" - Chimerical
Wow. If that is true, I think it enhances her status even a bit more. Shock-Rocker Marilyn Manson is no intellectual slouch himself.
If you want to check out her gravitas in regard to Classic film, I suggest you view the intros/outros for the four films she selected as a Guest Programmer this past November. Use the "video" link in the banner above and search using the terms "Movie Intro". All of the Guest Programmer Intros are there to be seen online. Just scroll through the list and you will see her clips for selected films - Night Of The Hunter, Out Of The Past, A Place In The Sun and That Touch Of Mink.
Kyle (remembering Clint Eastwood started on TV and was in a gawdawful musical film) In Hollywood
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Here's a link to TCM's special webpage for the "31 Days Of Oscar" event.
http://www.tcm.com/redirects/link/?cid=189674
And here's a link to the complete "Movie News" page for the Press Release
http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=191590
Sorry. I forgot to include that with the original post.
Kyle In Hollywood
ps - I think I have compiled a list of 30 of the "premieres" but don't have time to post it now.
These full page schedules may help you put together a partial list too.
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=PST&oid=2/1/2008
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=PST&oid=3/1/2008 (March 1 & 2 only)
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Thursday January 10th -
In recognition of this month's "Great Romances" event.
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If anyone wants to re-visit her Guest Programmer evening, the Intros and Outros to the four films she selected are available for viewing in the TCM Media Room. Just click on the "Video" link in the above banner and search using the terms "Movie Intro".
As a reminder, the four fiilm she selected and introduced that evening were A Place In The Sun, Night Of The Hunter, That Touch Of Mink and Out Of The Past (when Robert Osborne compared her to Audrey Totter.)
Kyle In Hollywood
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From the press release on this year's "31 Days Of Oscar" event.
Taking its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR? film festival to an entirely new level, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will showcase the depth of its movie library by devoting each night in February to a decade of OSCAR?-winning and nominated films—all uncut and commercial free.
More than 35 titles are making their first appearance on TCM, including the first Best Picture winner, 1927’s Wings (Monday, Feb. 4); such cultural touchstones as Five Easy Pieces (Friday, Feb. 1) and Easy Rider (Thursday, Feb. 7); box-office blockbusters like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Sunday, Feb. 10), Steel Magnolias (Saturday, Feb. 16) and Maverick (Sunday, March 2); and one of the most nominated films of all, All About Eve (Saturday, March 1). Also new to TCM are such modern classics as Atlantic City (Saturday, Feb. 2), The Trip to Bountiful (Saturday, Feb. 2), The Wings of the Dove (Sunday, Feb. 3), Kundun (Sunday, Feb. 3), Apocalypse Now (Friday, Feb. 8), Amistad (Sunday, Feb. 17) and Contact (Sunday, Feb. 24).
“In this, the 14th year we’ve presented TCM’s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR?, we are really showing off our movie library, which is without a doubt the biggest and best in the industry,” said Charlie Tabesh, senior vice president of programming for TCM. “By dedicating each night to a particular decade and each day to a specific theme, we prove that no other network can celebrate the Academy Awards with the breadth of TCM.”
No argument from me on that last point. Well done Mr. Tabesh... as always.
Kyle In Hollywood
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I hope I am not the only one excited with the choice.
http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=191626
Kyle In Hollywood
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Here's an article reprinted in today's LATimes on TCM's Star Of The Month salute to James Cagney.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-cagney9jan09,1,6768779.story
COMMENTARY
In any role, Cagney sparkles
By Michael Sragow / Baltimore Sun
January 9, 2008
These days we're often told that stars become stars after a role defines them -- as hard guy, swashbuckler or romantic leading man -- and that audiences accept them only in variations on that role.
But the career of James Cagney, the most protean acting talent in the first three decades of talking pictures, obliterates that conventional wisdom. What drew audiences to him was the way he made acting seem like a form of controlled euphoria. With breakneck ease, he expressed the galvanizing speed and variety -- and the breakneck rhythms -- of 20th-century America.
All this month, you can see him draw a zigzag signature over the American landscape in Turner Classic Movies' salute to Cagney as its Star of the Month.
Born on New York's Lower East Side and bred in the equally rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Yorkville, Cagney gave the sleepy world of the early talkies an adrenaline-charged dose of metropolitan energy. He made 53 movies in just over three decades, from the 1930 crime melodrama "Sinner's Holiday" to Billy Wilder's 1961 satiric comedy about East and West Berlin, "One, Two, Three."
Those two films are opposite in every way. That's why they're appropriate bookends for the body of Cagney's work. He was the most versatile Hollywood star of them all. His credits ranged from gangster movies such as 1931's "The Public Enemy" and 1949's "White Heat" to screwball comedies such as 1941's "The Bride Came C.O.D."
In 1932, Lincoln Kirstein wrote, "When Cagney gets down off a truck, or deals a hand at cards, or curses, or slaps his girl . . . he is, for the time being, the American hero, whom ordinary men and boys recognize as themselves and women consider 'cute.' It is impossible to tell whether his handshake is cordial or threatening. He is 'cute' -- the way Abraham Lincoln said a certain trapper was 'cute,' that is, quick, candid and ambiguous."
The actor's surplus energy expressed itself in fellow feeling or psychosis, in youthful high spirits as well as embittered rage and in a 100-proof charm that alternated on screen with homicidal cruelty. Once he started to take his career into his own hands (after widely publicized disputes with Warner Bros.), it was impossible from film to film to predict which Cagney would emerge -- Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde.
The grapefruit he mashed into Mae Clarke's face in "The Public Enemy" grew to epitomize sexual sadism in the movies; soon afterward, Cagney complained that every script he read contained some wife-beating. But he didn't squawk when the role honestly called for it. As torch singer Ruth Etting's brutal lover in the 1955 biopic "Love Me or Leave Me," he slapped Doris Day so convincingly that he stole the picture clean away from her.
Cagney could be equally convincing playing gentler men. In 1948, he even brought off the role of William Saroyan's San Francisco saloon saint in "The Time of Your Life." As Joe, a free-floating philosopher, he tried to save men and women from their own worst instincts instead of cuffing them around. In this one-of-a-kind Cagney movie, he proved that he could convey emotion without resorting to kinetics: He spent most of his screen time sitting down. So great was his banked energy that his chair became the anchor of the film.
But Cagney's special genius lay in movement. Whether he tripped the light fantastic or shot up the town, this former vaudeville dancer had split-second control. Whether he was in the pink of youth or sporting a sizable middle-aged paunch, he moved as if he were a marionette pulling his own strings -- a punk Pinocchio with kapow. Imagine a wire running from his **** through his neck, giving his torso and head a swiveling motion and letting his feet tap and hands dangle, and you've got the basic Cagney posture for both dance and destruction.
He made that posture infinitely flexible. In 1939's "The Roaring Twenties," it allowed him to perform a dance of death that sent him ricocheting up and down a set of New York City church steps, as if he were a fatally wounded, hard-boiled Bojangles. In "Angels With Dirty Faces" from 1938, it allowed him to make rapid swaggering gestures -- shooting out his shirt cuffs and half-hitching his shoulders -- while playing gangland god for the Dead End Kids. And it allowed him to win the best actor Oscar in 1942 as George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," for tapping like a one-man percussion team and flying like Peter Pan all over the stage, even up the proscenium wall.
What put across Cagney's inspired showboating was the sheer glee he took in performing. Without a hint of self-consciousness, he seemed to invite audiences to join in. His furtive smiles, feline glances and quicksilver receptiveness, his all-out physicality and angular elegance, became trademarks.
His final feature film role was in Milos Forman's 1981 "Ragtime"; he died five years later, at age 86. He left the movies as he entered them: a star who created distinct characters. Cagney, who played Lon Chaney in "The Man With a Thousand Faces," was himself the Man With a Thousand Personalities -- each different, yet because of their agility or fierceness or pride, each still unmistakably Cagney.
Michael Sragow is a film critic at the Baltimore Sun.
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Wednesday January 9th -
In recognition of Star Of The Month James Cagney.
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"I was surprisd to see that "Emma" (1996) on the schedule for today."
I was pleased to see Emma on the schedule for last night. I think it was a wonderful addition to an evening devoted to films about matchmaking. I am always impressed with choices made by TCM to theme out the evening hours every day.
I find it funny that some people will notice that the "contemporary" Emma premiered last night and ruminate about that but no one has mentioned the TCM premiere that preceeded it - The Matchmaker with the wonderful Shirley Booth and Paul Ford. THAT was the important scheduling event last night. And props to TCM for showing Hello Dolly! later on last night. Where else could one see the musical and its original source material in one evening than on TCM? No other channel immediately comes to my mind.
Add in last evening's lesser known and still entertaining Bachelor Bait later on and then finish up with Edgar G Ulmer's Yiddish film American Schadchen / American Matchmaker and it is a wonderfully full and interesting evening of television.
I didn't watch Emma last evening but I hope TCM schedules it again someday. I would like to see it - preferably paired with the film that used the Bronte source material as its inspiration - Clueless with Alicia Silverstone. Gasp! A pair of films from the '90's! Call me a heretic, I guess. But I was never good at being parochial about anything.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"Is TCM becoming less "Classic"?" - rover27
No.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Tuesday January 8th -
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Monday January 7th -
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Thanks Frank Grimes.
At three hours I probably won't go out of my way to catch all of Woman In The Moon. But it was a very interesting five or six minute sequence to catch out of the blue.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Well, this certainly is is the oddest Fritz Lang thread...
I just caught a film clip from Woman In The Moon (1929) on the "public access" "Classic Arts Showcase" cable channel. The scene was of the public unveiling of the rocket ship and the launch. (Quite Thrilling.) It continued through to the point of the all the ship's occupants (seemingly?) dead or passed out from the lack of oxygen or due to the high air pressure.
What I am wondering is, where in the story arc does this scene occur in the film? Is this in the middle or near the end of the film? Anyone want to fill me in?
Kyle In Hollywood
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Hello Minya -
It's certainly nice to have a new fan of this thread. And I'd bet many others count the poster for The Sin Of Nora Moran as one of their favorites also.
I hope I can continue to keep you thrilled with this thread. I have many more to post.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Sunday January 6th
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Here's some things I'd recommend to ailing friend whose defenses are down and who already had a bunch of friends to recommend classics to her.
Seabiscuit
Pleasantville
The Hudsucker Proxy
Topsy-Turvy
The Terminal
An Ideal Husband
A Man Of No Importance
Into The West
The Secret Of Roan Inish
The Legend Of 1900 (not to be confused with 1900)
Kyle In Hollywood
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nyman607 -
As Guest Programmer author Gore Vidal presented these three films -
The Letter (1940)
A Midsummer's Night Dream (1935)
That Hamilton Woman (1941) a TCM Premiere.
Here's the link to his profile, etc. But it is inaccessible at the moment that I am writing this. Hmmm?
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article?cid=183285
I believe you can still many (all?) of the Guest Programmer's Intros and Outros online in the TCM Media Room. Use the "video" link in the banner above and search on the terms "Movie Intro"
Kyle In Hollywood
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Friday January 4th -
Italian poster for Larceny, Inc.
TCM on this year's "31 Days Of Oscar"
in General Discussions
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Rich -
Thanks for chiming in. You are probably correct about The Fall Of The Roman Empire. It isn't a film I would go out of my way to see let alone remember if it has been shown on TCM in the past.
I did re-read the "press release" to check and see if the wording regarding the "premieres" was such that it meant that there are 35+ films being shown during the "31 Days..." event for the first time - but some of these films may have been seen on TCM before at some other time, during some other month during the year. But I don't believe that is the case. The "premieres" during "31 Days..." are "new-to-TCM" selections.
Kyle In Hollywood