TopBilled Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 There's a Lana Turner movie I still have never seen ...I think I recorded it long ago...just never got around to watching it. Am I missing anything good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 According to JustWatch.com it is only available to rent or own with Apple iTunes. I have no idea, but guess it is nice.https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/green-dolphin-street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, jimmymac21 said: According to JustWatch.com it is only available to rent or own with Apple iTunes. I have no idea, but guess it is nice.https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/green-dolphin-street Thanks. It's not on TCM's schedule in the months ahead. But I do have a copy of it. I just never took the time to watch it. I think I was afraid it would just be another overblown melodrama with Lana Turner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bethluvsfilms Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Believe it or not, I still haven't gotten around to watching CITIZEN KANE. I really REALLY want to see it, considering its reputation. Even if I don't like it, at least I would like to be able to say I finally got to see it. Though I suspect it will be on again before I know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said: Believe it or not, I still haven't gotten around to watching CITIZEN KANE. I really REALLY want to see it, considering its reputation. Even if I don't like it, at least I would like to be able to say I finally got to see it. Though I suspect it will be on again before I know it. CITIZEN KANE is airing on the 27th of August on TCM, as part of the tribute for Agnes Moorehead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bethluvsfilms Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, TopBilled said: CITIZEN KANE is airing on the 27th of August on TCM, as part of the tribute for Agnes Moorehead. Thanks for the heads-up! Gotta make sure I'll be able to watch it, or DVR it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 29 minutes ago, TopBilled said: CITIZEN KANE is airing on the 27th of August on TCM, as part of the tribute for Agnes Moorehead. "Rosebud". I have not watched it from start to finish. I know it is famous, but starts off boring for me. Then again, it isn't a musical. No singing or dancing. How can you call it a movie. Grin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 5 minutes ago, jimmymac21 said: "Rosebud". I have not watched it from start to finish. I know it is famous, but starts off boring for me. Then again, it isn't a musical. No singing or dancing. How can you call it a movie. Grin! Possible remake...KANE THE MUSICAL at a theater near you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said: Believe it or not, I still haven't gotten around to watching CITIZEN KANE. I probably can beat that. I almost can't admit this but I saw Casablanca for the very first time a few days ago. When I was young and in college a professor teaching a beginner's Shakespeare course made his patented opening class speech by warning his green impressionable students, to wit, if you're here and doubting all the noise about how good the Bard is and you are determined to find something wrong with him that everyone else missed, forget it, you won't find anything. He's that good. That's what came to mind after watching Casablanca. I don't remember being so immediately hooked and so consistently held throughout any movie before. It is as close to flawless than any film in my memory. I've been thinking about writing about this on a review thread here on the Boards. Not a review, but a simple catalogue of my considerable enthusiasms. Don't even ask why so long as I will not be able to conceive an answer. And to think I'm old enough to be dead. I could have missed it. Watch Green Dolphin Street. It's been awhile but I remember enjoying. It's a rather wild story. I read the novel in French for a Reading Group (before I even knew that a movie existed) but I cheated and read most of it in English. I was still in the French phase when the surprise hit and that made it all the more dramatic. Warning: Don't read a synopsis first. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Some of these posts are leaving me in stunned near-silence! I've seen Casblanca and Citizen Kane probably more than a hundred times each. I haven't seen Green Dolphin Street. The Women also immediately comes to mind. King Solomon's Mine I guess I've never really watched, just bits and pieces. Quo Vadis? same. If I ever have the time or energy, I'd like to scroll through moviecollectoroh's database and figure out what's the most-aired TCM film that I've never seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 2 hours ago, jimmymac21 said: "Rosebud". I have not watched it from start to finish. I know it is famous, but starts off boring for me. Then again, it isn't a musical. No singing or dancing. How can you call it a movie. Grin! It helps if you dig up either PBS's "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" documentary (on the disk?), or at least Liev Schrieber in the dramatized "RKO 281". After that, you can't take your eyes off of Welles. As for me, I think I've seen only ONE Errol Flynn movie in my life, and that the obvious one. Keep forgetting to look up The Sea Hawk at the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I would like to see a list of oft-shown titles before I could pick one out. There are a number of much-ballyhooed foreign films that I haven't caught up with yet, like Last Year at Marienbad, or The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, but I don't know that either has been on TCM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I certainly thought these two films might have routinely gotten a foreign films spotlight on TCM, but it appears Last Year at Marienbad has aired only once on TCM, way back in 2000, while Garden of the Fitzi-Continis has never aired. I too am woefully behind the curve on many of the most famous foreign movies of all time and haven't seen either of thee movies. Years ago, I learned more about the twist or puzzle behind Marienbad than I wanted to in an article I read, and haven't really been clamoring to see it since then, as I already feel I know too much. But I should still probably seek it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 A few years ago for me it was Singing In The Rain. I avoided it for years solely because of this dumb looking poster. Great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 1 hour ago, MovieCollectorOH said: A few years ago for me it was Singing In The Rain. I avoided it for years solely because of this dumb looking poster. Great movie. Why would the poster keep you from seeing it? Seems fairly harmless to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 19 hours ago, TopBilled said: There's a Lana Turner movie I still have never seen ...I think I recorded it long ago...just never got around to watching it. Am I missing anything good? It's kind of soapy but with seasoned performers like Gladys Cooper, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Angela's mother Moyna MacGill, and Frank Morgan, how can you go wrong. Plus Van Heflin is always worth watching and Lana is well, Lana and does fine. I say...watch it, and give us your opinion afterwards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Just now, CaveGirl said: It's kind of soapy but with seasoned performers like Gladys Cooper, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Angela's mother Moyna MacGill, and Frank Morgan, how can you go wrong. Plus Van Heflin is always worth watching and Lana is well, Lana and does fine. I say...watch it, and give us your opinion afterwards. Thanks. I shall do that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 15 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said: Believe it or not, I still haven't gotten around to watching CITIZEN KANE. I really REALLY want to see it, considering its reputation. Even if I don't like it, at least I would like to be able to say I finally got to see it. Though I suspect it will be on again before I know it. Beth, this is unacceptable! Charles Foster Kane is going to put you in his basement fireplace with a certain snow toy, if you don't get on to watching this film asap. What if the world ends tomorrow or Kim starts sending his nuclear projectiles all over the US map? Maybe you're not in the US, so don't care, but I care. I'm dying to hear what you think of "CK" as a first time viewer. Please share your review with us, when you see it and tell us what you think about Rosebud. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bethluvsfilms Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 15 minutes ago, CaveGirl said: Beth, this is unacceptable! Charles Foster Kane is going to put you in his basement fireplace with a certain snow toy, if you don't get on to watching this film asap. What if the world ends tomorrow or Kim starts sending his nuclear projectiles all over the US map? Maybe you're not in the US, so don't care, but I care. I'm dying to hear what you think of "CK" as a first time viewer. Please share your review with us, when you see it and tell us what you think about Rosebud. I promise to watch it the next time it's on. I am dying of curiosity to see it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I just finished White Christmas for the first time. I don't know how often it plays on TCM being a Paramount movie, but it is arguably the most famous American film that I had not seen before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 51 minutes ago, TopBilled said: Why would the poster keep you from seeing it? Seems fairly harmless to me. Nobody's perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 13 minutes ago, LawrenceA said: I just finished White Christmas for the first time. I don't know how often it plays on TCM being a Paramount movie, but it is arguably the most famous American film that I had not seen before. While Holiday Inn has played about three times in the last couple of years, it's been 12 years since White Christmas aired on TCM. Hey, I didn't know White Christmas was directed by Michael Curtiz! Is there anything that guy didn't do? Would have been cool if it had been included in his recent tribute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 5 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said: While Holiday Inn has played about three times in the last couple of years, it's been 12 years since White Christmas aired on TCM. Hey, I didn't know White Christmas was directed by Michael Curtiz! Is there anything that guy didn't do? Would have been cool if it had been included in his recent tribute. White Christmas was one of Curtiz first films he directed after his long term contract with Warner Bros. ended. It may not have been included in his recent tribute because it is a Paramount film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingFan Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 17 hours ago, jimmymac21 said: "Rosebud". I have not watched it from start to finish. I know it is famous, but starts off boring for me. Then again, it isn't a musical. No singing or dancing. How can you call it a movie. Grin! Citizen Kane isn't a musical, that's true. But no singing or dancing? I beg to differ: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 1 hour ago, LawrenceA said: I just finished White Christmas for the first time. I don't know how often it plays on TCM being a Paramount movie, but it is arguably the most famous American film that I had not seen before. What did you think of it? Something you'd watch again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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