filmlover

The rule that's bothering me is the "new-to-DVD" rule. Hi, Fedya, lol, I was really hoping people would enjoy the idea of creating their own special boxset. Having seen that one of the most posted threads on the Message Boards is "Not Yet on DVD But Should Be", I thought sure others would like to let go and show what they could do if they were able to. filmlover

Yours is the first up, and it's a great schedule, SinatraFan. I can see how hard you worked on it. I love the tribute to the Mills family (always had a soft spot for Hayley). I would leave the food fest in. I, too, would love to see the return of Darkness before Dawn. And as Stanwyck is one of my favorite actresses, I think having her as Star of the Month would be wonderful. I would love to see The Blue Dahlia but has it ever been on TCM before? I don't recall. And I need to apologize to all that my instructions were long and complicated. lol, hosting is much harder than I thought it would be. What I was hoping to see with regards to the Hollywood idea was 5 films. And one thing that is always good is to include running times and studios on all the films in the schedule. Two things I would alter: 1. would be the choice of The Great Ziegfeld from the boxset. It has been previously released on DVD and the set is to be all new. 2. Here is a case of great minds thinking alike. Two schedules back, lzcutter did a birthday tribute to Walter Brennan called "Was You Ever Stung by a Dead Bee?".

Happy belated birthday, filmlover. Thanks, Matt. As far as silents go, just google silent movies and pick one. You don't have to adhere to the rules and can pick any one you want. I just want mention to others that you can choose any studio for Silent Sunday Night, TCM Import, and TCM Underground. That's what Matt meant by not having to adhere to Rule #1 for those. However, for everything else, the Rules listed do apply.

I was in Costco the other day and saw the boxset. The cover image of Hitch is a bit unsettling. I think it's a "deathmask".

I will shorten the spaces in the instructions.

Since so many pages have passed since this thread began on February 1, I just want to recap for newcomers and previous Challengers alike the instructions for the contest and in filling out your schedules: The TCM Programming Challenge is a fun-only contest for fans of TCM that was started here by fellow Message Board poster, path40a, in early 2006 as a great exercise for fans of TCM on the Message Board and is not sponsored by TCM. The contest will run from February 1st, until midnight PST on March 7th, 2007. In doing the Challenge, you imagine yourself to be the Turner Classic Movies' programmer and come up with one week of TCM programming. IMPORTANT: Your very best bet to seeing what schedules look like is to check out the links to all of the four previous TCM Programming Challenges. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS NEW CHALLENGE: RULE #1: Your week will contain films generally regarded as the ?TCM Library?: Warner Bros - pre 1950 MGM - all RKO - all PLUS since TCM has been expanding the number of studios they are presenting, you will be able to add films from these FIVE other studios: Monogram Pictures ? all Columbia Pictures ? all J. Arthur Rank ? all United Artists ? after 1950 only Walt Disney - live action films only You may also include films not included above if the films have previously scheduled on TCM. Please mark those as ?p/s? next to their title in your schedule. RULE #2: Since the title of this current Challenge is ?Take 5?, which is also a filmmaking expression, dedicate one evening of your schedule (5 films) to Hollywood. (If you don?t care for the Hollywood idea, then program instead one evening dedicated to the number ?Five?. For example, your theme could be ?Taking the Fifth? where you schedule five courtroom movies.?) RULE #3: As we have seen, TCM will help promote a new DVD boxset by having one evening where TCM showcases two or three titles from the set. Your assignment: a) Create an imaginary new DVD boxset containing 5 actual movies from the WB-pre 1950, MGM-all, and RKO-all library only (not the other five studios). All titles must be new to DVD. This imaginary boxset can be a continuation of a previous series, such as the Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection or you can create a brand new theme. One of your week?s scheduled evenings will showcase two or three of the titles, but not all five so people will still be tempted to buy it. c) List your boxset idea and the five titles after the end of the week?s schedule. Okay, now here is where I will loosen up on some requirements from previous Challenges. 1. No Guest Programmer this time. 2. You can program a serial on Saturday morning, but you don?t have to. It?s up to you. 3. You have your choice of five ?Premieres? (films that haven?t been aired on TCM before). You have free reign to choose films which are not covered in Rule #1. Include these standard items of a TCM schedule: 1. Star of the Month - their films can consume one evening (usually 3-4 movies) 2. Have themes for each day (e.g., link at least two, or preferably four or five films). Check the links to previous schedules. 3. Program in The Essentials at 8PM ET Saturday night, Cartoon Alley on Saturday at 11:30 AM ET, TCM Underground on Friday night/Saturday AM), Silent Sunday Night at approximately midnight, and TCM Imports immediately following Silent Sunday Night. 4. The first day of your schedule will be Sunday morning, starting at 6AM ET, and the last day of your schedule will be Saturday night/Sunday AM. Each evening?s programs begins at 8 PM ET. 5. Use tcmdb.com or imdb.com to get running times so that you don't exceed 24 hours per day of programming. 6. Recognize actor's birthdays and/or do other unannounced tributes and film linkages during some of the days Also, include some notes after you have posted your complete schedule to explain your ideas. Here are links to previous Challenges. This will give you the idea of how to format your Week?s schedule. Also, in viewing this, you will see ideas that previous Challenge takers have chosen. Look at them to make sure your ideas have not been done in the past. 1st Challenge: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=78996&start=90#7788525 2nd Challenge: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=81972&start=45#7802360 3rd Challenge: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=89014&start=60#7840406 4th Challenge: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=92573&start=30#7859318 Here are several links to help you select films from the following companies: RKO: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0041421/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0020206/ Warner Bros./First National: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026840/ Rank: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0027356/ United Artists (after 1950): http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026841/ Columbia: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0071509/ Walt Disney (live-action only): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_live_action_films Monogram Pictures: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0025996/ PRIZES: There will be prizes for those receiving the most votes (voting is done by you, the members of this board). 1. Turner Classic Movies is generously donating TCM t-shirts, hats, etc. (Thank you, TCM Programmer!) 2. I am also going to provide DVDs (some are full-length movie serials) and other movie-related merchandise. Specific details of prizes will be provided at the conclusion of the contest. VOTING: On March 8th, 2007, a special thread for voting will be listed after the contest ends at midnight PST, March 7, 2007. You will be eligible to vote at that time if you are a message board member registered before February 1st, 2007 (in other words, January 31, 2007 or earlier). If you register after January 31, 2007 and enter a full week?s schedule before the contest closes on March 7th, you will be entitled to vote. Message was edited by: filmlover Message was edited by: filmlover

I have seen kubrickbuff's schedule which was good but didn't have any regular TCM features (Cartoon Alley, Sunday Silent Night, TCM Underground, etc.) or any of this Challenge's particular requirements listed in the first post. I advised where they should be placed, don't give up, and see some of the schedules as they get posted.

In addition to Closely Watched Trains, I just noticed it a few times during Big Country.

Thanks, EVERYONE!, for the birthday wishes. You sure know how to throw a great party.

Well, I am wondering if it is back again. There was a signal loss and then no sound for a few minutes during Closely Watched Trains. Anybody else experience this?

Hi, SinatraFan, it can be any week of the year.

It's amazing to me that a thread like this can still get people inserting their same opinions that have been in multiple other threads recently. But not so surprising is the fighting starts up again. Doesn't anyone else notice these trouble threads are always started by someone who just starts the fire and then never reappears? I mean, here we are, three pages into it and never a peep from this dirk character since the first. I think instead of calling him a troll, we'll call him ?the arsonist,? because he starts fires and takes off, while the destruction tears aparts everything again. I just did a little checking: Though under different screennames, first-time posters worked it by starting threads with a header designed like this one to get the feud going again. Here we have "You call that a classic?", posted by Dirk on his first registered day. Total posts to date by Dirk, all in this thread: 1. Number of replies by others: 39. Before now, we have had: "TCM Sells Out - Pan & Scan - Quiller Memorandum", posted by Ham Dog on his first registered day. Total posts by Ham Dog to date, all in that thread: 2. Number of replies by others: 15. ?Will anything stop the destruction of Turner Classic Movies??, posted by jcd on his first registered day. Total posts by jcd to date, all in that thread: 4. Number of replies by others: 105. Then the two threads started by davidff: ?Tipsy Robert Osborne? and ?the lush is back tonight?. The ?tipsy? thread was started on his first registered day. Total posts by davidff: 12, and all in those two threads. Number of replies by others: 49 and 11, respectively. When will we learn to ignore posts with headers made of T-N-T? It only leads to the uncivil war starting up again.

I was watching the opening introduction to "The Show" and Robert Osborne said it was a film that has just been sitting on the shelf because it didn't have a score. It made me wonder how many other possible treasures there might be that are delayed until a score is created. I feel that rare silents can be shown even if there isn't a score. While the score can benefit the film, the movie should still be able to sustain our interest without it. (I think in the case of sound films that a score, done well, is integral to the movie's pacing and feeling.) What do others think? Would you like TCM to show rare silents even if there is no score?

kubrick, I have just sent you a PM. filmlover

In today's L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-cinefile4feb04,1,3773693.story?ctrack=1&cset=true and from the website of the theater: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendardetails.aspx?details_type=2&id=219 Shirley MacLaine is to be at the screening of The Apartment on February 9th.

Everybody is still welcome to join in. You have until March 7th to submit a schedule. See the first post in this thread for instructions.

I just noted a Circuit City flyer special on the new individual release James Bond Ultimate Editions of Goldfinger, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, License to Kill, Spy Who Loved Me, and Goldeneye at $7.99 each when you buy two. Boy, can't beat that price.

And I feel, if we are using a 4 star rating system, that I would give it 3 or 3 1/2. Sometimes visual style can make a film like this entirely worth watching. While Tron, when it came out, I would only give 1/2 star at most.

I was in Costco this weekend and they have the Hitchcock Signature Collection, the Doris Day Collection, The Tennessee Williams Collection, and The Chaplin Collection vol.1 on sale for $42.99 each. Those are great savings, especially the Hitchcock set (regularly $99.98). They also have the 2-DVD sets of Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, and My Fair Lady at $8.99 each.

There, you see what happens when you make me give clues that are too easy? It is How to Succeed...

Afraid not. Clue #5: Chipmunk

Kyle, I was wondering about that. Wasn't the month that featured Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy (together and apart) the first two SOTMs for one month?

I loved Sin City and found it one of the most visually stunning movies I had ever seen. I think it captured Frank Miller's work perfectly.

Welcome, Caps. Instructions on the TCM Challenge are in the very first post on this thread.

You may do a tribute to someone without it being a birthday. TCM does them all the time. Birthdays are just a good way to dedicate a night to someone. Sometimes, people will pick a star they want to a birthday tribute to and that way they then know what week to schedule.