slaytonf Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Or has this already been done? Anyway, my suggestion for TCM's annual New Year's Eve moviethon is to show Hayao Miyazaki movies. As many as possible. All of 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Not New Year's Evil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 The Divorcee has a New Year's scene. Doesn't Cavalcade start with one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted December 31, 2018 Author Share Posted December 31, 2018 So does Showboat (1936, 1951). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 The Gold Rush and Splendor in the Grass also feature New Years Eve scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 53 minutes ago, LawrenceA said: Not New Year's Evil. Need to be careful with fireworks when celebrating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight08 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 2 hours ago, Fedya said: The Divorcee has a New Year's scene. Doesn't Cavalcade start with one? I believe that "Made For Each Other" with James Stewart and Carole Lombard has a memorable New Year's Eve party scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted December 31, 2018 Author Share Posted December 31, 2018 One Way Passage (1932), and it's remake 'Till We Meet Again (1940) both end, wistfully, on New Year's Eve. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det Jim McLeod Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 It has to be "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), it all takes place on New Year's Eve and all goes topsy-turvy after a rousing version of "Auld Lange Syne" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brrrcold Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 14 hours ago, Fedya said: The Divorcee has a New Year's scene. Doesn't Cavalcade start with one? The much maligned CALVACADE starts and ends with scenes set at New Years Eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Every Day's a Holiday (1937), my favorite Mae West film, opens on New Year's Eve, 1899/1900. And of course, there's Radio Days, with a great New Year's Eve 1943/1944 ending: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 The Time Machine (1960) with Rod Taylor and Alan Young. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I like "Repeat Performance" (1947), in which an actress (Joan Leslie) fatally shoots her husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. And then she magically gets a chance to relive the previous 365 days! Richard Basehart plays a key role as her friend, a poet. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 30 minutes ago, jakeem said: I like "Repeat Performance" (1947), in which an actress (Joan Leslie) fatally shoots her husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. And then she magically gets a chance to relive the previous 365 days! Richard Basehart plays a key role as her friend, a poet. Wow! THAT'S the usual "girl-next-door" Joan Leslie there? (...lookin' mighty sultry there Joan, you pistol-packin' mama, you!...who would'a thought?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 29 minutes ago, Dargo said: Wow! THAT'S the usual "girl-next-door" Joan Leslie there? (...lookin' mighty sultry there Joan, you pistol-packin' mama, you!...who would'a thought?!) Yeah, but I believe that "girl-next-door" image prompted the filmmakers to change the character from the pistol-packin' mama type in the novel that inspired the picture. Of course, Leslie was barely 21 at the time the film was shot. She was the Jennifer Lawrence/Saorise Ronan of her era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Well, The Apartment ends with the New Year's Eve card game Bridget Jone's Diary starts and ends with New Year's In Bachelor Mother, Ginger Rogers and David Niven step out to celebrate and Peter's Friends (92) is all about old friends spending a New Year's weekend together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 20 minutes ago, jakeem said: Yeah, but I believe that "girl-next-door" image prompted the filmmakers to change the character from the pistol-packin' mama type in the novel that inspired the picture. Of course, Leslie was barely 21 at the time the film was shot. She was the Jennifer Lawrence/Saorise Ronan of her era. I just now went to Joan Leslie's Wiki page, and in it it says she'd soon grow tired of playing the ingenue type while under contract with W-B, and...well, I'll let you read it for yourself here, jakeem... By 1946, Leslie was growing increasingly dissatisfied with the roles offered to her by the studio. She sought more serious and mature roles and wanted to break out of her ingenue image which was partly due to her young age. Her decision was also based on moral and religious grounds.[36] With the help of her lawyer Oscar Cummings, she took Warner Brothers to court in order to get released from her contract.[37] In 1947, the Catholic Theatre Guild gave Leslie an award because of her "consistent refusal to use her talents and art in film productions of objectionable character."[38] As a result of this, Jack Warner used his influence to blacklist her from other major Hollywood studios.[39] In 1947, she signed a two-picture contract with the poverty row studio Eagle-Lion Films. The first one was Repeat Performance (1947), a film noir in which she played a Broadway actress.[40] The other was Northwest Stampede (1948) in which she performed with James Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 5 minutes ago, Dargo said: I just now went to Joan Leslie's Wiki page, and in it it says she'd soon grow tired of playing the ingenue type while under contract with W-B, and...well, I'll you read it for yourself here, jakeem... Thanks for that, Dargo. I wonder what Leslie might have thought about the film roles Uma Thurman did before she turned 21. Thurman in "Henry and June" (1990) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 6 minutes ago, jakeem said: Thanks for that, Dargo. I wonder what Leslie might have thought about the film roles Uma Thurman did before she turned 21. Thurman in "Henry and June" (1990) Yeah, or the advantages that post-studio era actors and actresses have in regard to their own career paths. (...and after people like Jack Warner would be the decider of such things) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhov Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I mentioned them in another thread but Carnival Night and Carnival Night 2, Fifty Years Later are set at New Year's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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slaytonf Posted December 31, 2018 Author Share Posted December 31, 2018 Looks like we're having a plan for the next New Year's Eve programming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryGH Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Enjoying "Cheyenne" (1947) on New Year's Eve: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Godfather II in cuba. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Strange Days (1995) - A mystery set during the then-future New Year's Eve of 1999/2000 celebrations, which is now nearly 20 years in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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