TopBilled Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 _MARCH_ MARTY THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS THE PINK PANTHER HIS GIRL FRIDAY _APRIL_ FIELD OF DREAMS HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE LAURA BEAUTY AND THE BEAST '46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Thanks TopBilled. Did you get this information from the March and April schedules or is there a link to the next season of The Essentials? I'm curious as to what will be included after April.. I still only see the current season's movies listed on The Essentials section on the TCM site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Hey! Laura! Beauty and the Beast is definitely, definitely essential. OK. Now. Can I consider myself to have a full round grounding in film without having seen Sugarland Express? Mmmm. Yes. The same for How to Marry a Millionaire? Yeeeess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 >Did you get this information from the March and April schedules or is there a link to the next season of The Essentials? From the two monthly schedules, yes. I have not seen/found a link yet listing all the titles. Usually in May there is a repeat, and there are repeats occasionally during the summer-- but I agree, there will definitely be more selections. It will be fun to find out what they are once the link is posted or as the May and June schedules become available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 >slaytonf wrote: Beauty and the Beast is definitely, definitely essential. Excuse my French, but you are absolutely correct! They should pair Jean Cocteau's 1946 fantasy film "La Belle et la B?te" with his equally dazzling 1950 drama "Orph?e" ("Orpheus"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 >slaytonf wrote: Beauty and the Beast is definitely, definitely essential. >jakeem wrote: Excuse my French, but you are absolutely correct! They should pair Jean Cocteau's 1946 fantasy film "La Belle et la B?te" with his equally dazzling 1950 drama "Orph?e" ("Orpheus"). Are you saying Cocteau's BEAUTY & THE BEAST is a 1946 film? Wow. I saw Cocteau's B&TB once maybe 30 years ago and my memory of it must be kind of dim. I remember it all grainy and contrast-y and thought it was a very early movie, made like in the 1920's-30's. Just goes to show how fallible memory is! Well, at least I remember enjoying & being impressed by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 >TikiSoo wrote: Are you saying Cocteau's BEAUTY & THE BEAST is a 1946 film? Wow. I saw Cocteau's B&TB once maybe 30 years ago and my memory of it must be kind of dim. I remember it all grainy and contrast-y and thought it was a very early movie, made like in the 1920's-30's. I believe the movie is part of the Criterion Collection, I'm sure it's been cleaned up considerably, which means TCM will have a sterling print. Edited by: jakeem on Jan 8, 2014 7:02 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 >jakeem: >which means TCM will have a sterling print One hopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 The Essentials 2014 schedule is now up. There are a quite a few movies that I am looking forward to especially the following: LAURA BEAUTY AND THE BEAST FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT BELLE DE JOUR COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER TWENTIETH CENTURY THE BLACK STALLION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Holden, Would you please provide the link or else copy and paste the entire 2014-2015 Essentials schedule into this thread so folks can look at it? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 TopBilled. Go to MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS at the top of the page. A list will appear. Click on THE ESSENTIALS and it will take you to THE ESSENTIALS page where you can then click on SCHEDULE. Until recently the previous year's schedule appeared, but I saw a promo today directing viewers to the schedule online and, lo and behold, the new schedule was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Thanks to Holden's detective work, here's the full schedule: _MARCH 2014_ MARTY THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS THE PINK PANTHER HIS GIRL FRIDAY _APRIL 2014_ FIELD OF DREAMS HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE LAURA BEAUTY AND THE BEAST '46 _MAY 2014_ IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT STELLA DALLAS THE HAUNTING THE DIRTY DOZEN MY FAIR LADY _JUNE 2014_ ON THE WATERFRONT TO BE OR NOT TO BE I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS & BLOW-UP THE CHAMP _JULY 2014_ WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? BUS STOP METROPOLIS THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS _AUGUST 2014_ THE PINK PANTHER THE THIN MAN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARTY HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE _SEPTEMBER 2014_ COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER BELLE DE JOUR HIS GIRL FRIDAY & NETWORK LAURA _OCTOBER 2014_ TWENTIETH CENTURY STELLA DALLAS FIELD OF DREAMS THE HAUNTING _NOVEMBER 2014_ TO BE OR NOT TO BE THE DIRTY DOZEN ON THE WATERFRONT THE CHAMP BEAUTY AND THE BEAST '46 _DECEMBER 2014_ WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? MY FAIR LADY THE BLACK STALLION THE THIN MAN _JANUARY 2015_ BUS STOP METROPOLIS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER TWENTIETH CENTURY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I wish there weren't two Peter Sellers's movies scheduled for this season. I do not care for his work at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 >I wish there weren't two Peter Sellers's movies scheduled for this season. I do not care for his work at all. I feel about Sellers the way I feel about Garbo-- they are acquired tastes. Often over-rated but worth some sort of recognition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Just a quick glance shows many multiple showings for the same movie. Given that the biggest problem with The Essentials is that there's seldom anything new, this is kind of like adding insult to injury. It's one thing for movies like Laura, which seldom show up on TCM's regular programming, but the vast majority of these double (and even triple) dippers are movies that show up time and time again to begin with, such as His Girl Friday, Stella Dallas, and Bus Stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 I agree, Andy. For the reasons you so delicately stated, I am disappointed in the new season of Essentials. One rarely screened gem like LAURA and a few foreign films does not fully offset the rest. There is a huge amount of usual suspects-- repeat showings (not only is the film repeated but the wraparounds for this series get repeated), and though this last point does not bother me so much, I am sure people will complain about the high volume of newer classics. Then there is the fact that Drew Barrymore is probably past her expiration date as the co-host for Essentials. It really is time for someone else to sit alongside Robert. Sorry Drew fans, but that is how I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Andy, I really think that it's time to retire the concept. There are films on the list which seem to run every month anyway - ON THE WATERFRONT and MY FAIR LADY for example. ALICE B. TOKLAS may be the worst choice for an Essential since they aired THAT TOUCH OF MINK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I agree, although Drew's expiration date was a date prior to her co-hosting her first "Essentials". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Essential Essentials : Beauty and the Beast Laura Metropolis Belle de Jour Network The Black Stallion And despite repeats: Stella Dallas On the Waterfront Marty In the Heat of the Night The Pink Panther My Fair Lady The Thin Man His Girl Friday Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Champ Non-essential Essentials: How to Marry a Millionaire Bus Stop Twentieth Century The Dirty Dozen I Love You, Alice B. Toklas The Sugarland Express To Be Or Not to Be Indeterminately-essential Essentials: the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I don't find Peter Sellers remotely funny so I would not select either I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS or THE PINK PANTHER as an Essential movie. I know Sellers does have his devotees though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 You're using the term "repeats". Do you mean that these films have been "Essentials" in the past? Can the same film be an "Essential" in more than one TCM season? It's hard to believe that ON THE WATERFRONT and MY FAIR LADY have not yet been "Essentials". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxreyman Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 SHOWINGS: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT - 1 I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS - 1 BLOW-UP - 1 BELLE DE JOUR -1 NETWORK - 1 THE BLACK STALLION - 1 MARTY - 2 THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS - 2 THE PINK PANTHER - 2 HIS GIRL FRIDAY - 2 FIELD OF DREAMS - 2 HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE - 2 LAURA - 2 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST '46 - 2 STELLA DALLAS - 2 THE HAUNTING - 2 THE DIRTY DOZEN - 2 MY FAIR LADY - 2 ON THE WATERFRONT - 2 TO BE OR NOT TO BE - 2 THE CHAMP - 2 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? - 2 BUS STOP - 2 METROPOLIS - 2 THE THIN MAN - 2 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT - 2 COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER - 2 TWENTIETH CENTURY - 2 I do not understand the problem here. TCM is showing 28 films for the new season of The Essentials. There are 44 Saturdays remaining in the TCM schedule AFTER the 31 Days of Oscar schedule. This means that TCM could show 48 single showings of films throughout the remaining 48 Saturdays. Or that TCM could show a certain amount of one time showings followed by double showings of other films. They do this every year. There are always repeat showings of Essential films. Obviously they either do not have all the money in the world to showcase one film for each Saturday, which would be 48 separate films, or they WANT to showcase multiple showings of certain films throughout the season. Or TCM wants to show repeats so that people who may have missed the first showing of a particular film will be able to see that film again. Now as far as showing the same old films each season, I think what happens is that TCM tries to get newer films for each season, but like everything else on the channel, some films are seen multiple times throughout the year. Whenever TCM appropriates films to be shown, in some or many instances the films are packaged with other films from whichever distributor they are coming from. So if they show The Dirty Dozen twice on The Essentials, the film could also be shown four other times throughout the year. Maybe? Probably more or less depending on who the distributor is and how many other films are packaged along with The Dirty Dozen. Or possibly along with the The Dirty Dozen, the film distributor has decided to allow / include Field of Dreams for two showings and to get Field of Dreams, TCM has to agree to show The Dirty Dozen six times during the year. So they show Field of Dreams and The Dirty Dozen twice during The Essentials. I don't know exactly how the films are distributed or how many films are agreed upon and how often a certain film is supposed to be shown. I am sure each and every distributor has certain rules or requirements for particular films. Overall I think that folks need to be aware that TCM does do the best that they can by showing as many films as they do. Look at it this way. As long as TCM shows the films they do show, they are much better at presenting films than other channels like The Fox Movie Channel. Ever look at their schedules? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 slayton wrote: >OK. Now. Can I consider myself to have a full round grounding in film without having seen Sugarland Express? >Mmmm. Yes. >The same for How to Marry a Millionaire? >Yeeeess. But slayton baby, how can you know whether these films are "Essential" material if you've never seen them? Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 22, 2014 12:41 PM Dang this "quote" business ! One needs to take a course just to make it even semi-effective. (Sorry about the salty language.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Wasn't THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS Spielberg's first FEATURE Film (DUEL doesn't count). That in itself may make it an "Essential". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I think it might be. In any case, *Sugarland Express* is pretty darn good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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