TopBilled Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Tuesday February 1, 2022 Fonda on TCM young mr. lincoln jezebel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 The Planet of the Apes Franchise on YouTube I spotted the first three installments (anyway) streaming free on the channel. Looks like they're repeating what they did with the Godzilla movies. Love it. Will definitely watch them in order. Glad I kept my Premium subscription (no ads, though my roomate swears an adblocker does the trick - I doubt it). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Ando, Are you going to tell us what has been added on the Criterion Channel this month? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 8 hours ago, TopBilled said: Ando, Are you going to tell us what has been added on the Criterion Channel this month? 🙂 I'm hoping Eucalyptus P. Milstone will take the lead. He did a great job last month. If we don't get an entry from him I'd be glad to do a quick run-down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Fail Safe (1958, Sidney Lumet) A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack precipitating a potential all-out war. People, unfairly, compare this film to Kubrick's film, Dr. Strangelove, but Lumet strikes a different tone altogether. Strangelove never feels like there's anything but greater hijinks at risk and never really rises above lampoon (imo), though the ultimate message of men being cavalier with the fate of the human race is, admittedly, similar. Lumet's film, on the other hand, is deadly serious and even induces a bit of sweat. Makes you appreciate Strangelove all the more. Recommended. Free on Plex. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Wednesday February 2, 2022 Fonda on TCM drums along the mohawk fort apache the fugitive the wrong man the long night 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Thursday February 3, 2022 Brod on TCM born yesterday big house u.s.a. down three dark streets convicted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 5 hours ago, TopBilled said: Thursday February 3, 2022 Brod on TCM born yesterday big house u.s.a. down three dark streets convicted Had to do a double take. For some reason Brod didn't equate to Broderick Crawford in my mind, TB. He's one of the more unsung of the old Hollywood players. My favorite performance from him is in Robert Rossen's 1949 film, All The Kings Men. Ok, admittedly, the fiesty Mercedes McCambridge is the other great draw but the film is a classic and, of course, was remade in 2006 with Sean Penn in the lead. The Rossen film is currently streaming free on Plex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 FEBRUARY 2022 HIGHLIGHTS Featuring a new introduction by Criterion curatorial director Ashley Clark A perfect storm of rhythm, bass, melody, and political and spiritual messaging, reggae was born in Jamaica in the late 1960s and early ’70s, and has since gone on to become one of the most influential, popular, and genre-exploding forms of music around the globe. The first classic reggae film, Perry Henzell’s wildly entertaining drama The Harder They Come, starring the great Jimmy Cliff as singer-outlaw Ivanhoe Martin, thrummed with hard-edged authenticity and set a template for future classics like Rockers and the recently rediscovered Babylon, whose casts of real-life reggae stars and industry figures lend a sense of raw reportage to fictional narratives. Unsurprisingly, many documentarians have also turned their gaze on reggae’s key trailblazers (The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, The Story of Lovers Rock), amplifying the movement’s resounding cinematic legacy. The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972 Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978 Rockers, Theodoros Bafaloukos, 1978 Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980 Omega Rising Women of Rastafari, D. Elmina Davis, 1988 A Reggae Session, Stephanie Bennett and Thomas Adelman, 1988 We the Ragamuffin, Julian Henriques, 1992 Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998 No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006 The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, 2008 The Story of Lovers Rock, Menelik Shabazz, 2011 For trailblazing singer and screen star Harry Belafonte, acting and activism were always closely intertwined. Rising to prominence in the 1950s, the Jamaican American Belafonte became the first singer to sell over a million records with his chart-topping album Calypso, which introduced the Caribbean musical style to listeners around the world. Inspired by his mentor Paul Robeson, Belafonte used his celebrity to take on roles that challenged racial prejudices and taboos in films like the hard-hitting noir Odds Against Tomorrow and the apocalyptic science-fiction drama The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which he coproduced. Projecting an easygoing charisma and passionate intensity in front of the camera and making key contributions behind it (the hip-hop drama Beat Street, which he produced and composed the music for but did not appear in, is also included here), Belafonte was instrumental in transforming the depiction of Black Americans on-screen and remains a fiercely outspoken advocate for progressive political and social change. Bright Road, Gerald Mayer, 1953 Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959 The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Ranald MacDougall, 1959 The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970 Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974 Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984 Kansas City, Robert Altman, 1996 Featuring hours of supplemental features from Criterion’s Blu-ray box set, as well as a new introduction to Watermelon Man by film scholar Racquel J. Gates Director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness. Though he undeniably altered the course of film history with the anarchic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, that pop-culture bombshell is just one piece of a remarkably varied career that also encompassed forays into European art cinema (The Story of a Three Day Pass), mainstream Hollywood comedy (Watermelon Man), and Broadway musicals (Don’t Play Us Cheap). Each facet of Van Peebles’s renegade genius is on display in this tribute to a transformative artist whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation, and uncompromising vision established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence. The Story of a Three Day Pass, 1967 Watermelon Man, 1970 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 1971 Don’t Play Us Cheap, 1972 While melodrama had been a cinematic staple since the dawn of film history, it took Douglas Sirk, working in luridly expressionistic Technicolor, to realize the full emotional and aesthetic possibilities of the form. Throughout the 1950s, the German-born Sirk helmed a string of deliriously stylized soap operas that turned the genre’s artifice against itself, using its lavish mise-en-scène, wildly improbable plotting, and histrionic excess to create scorching critiques of suburban conformism, traditional family values, and American class and racial attitudes. These films—including the operatically perverse Written on the Wind and the stingingly subversive Imitation of Life—stand as some of the most heartbreaking, outrageous, and visually complex ever made within the Hollywood studio system. Magnificent Obsession, 1954 All That Heaven Allows, 1955 Written on the Wind, 1956 Imitation of Life, 1959 For over three decades, native New Yorker Stanley Nelson has been committed to crafting empathetic, thoughtful, and deeply researched documentaries that illuminate a variety of African American experiences. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and multiple Emmy Award winner, whose latest film, Attica, is shortlisted for an Academy Award, the prolific Nelson is as capable of creating warm, intimate personal portraits (A Place of Our Own, about the forty years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a Black-oriented resort community on Martha’s Vineyard) as he is of spinning thrilling, expansive tales of unfairly overlooked Black contributions to cultural life (The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, Tell Them We Are Rising), and pulsating studies of Black activism in action (Freedom Summer, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution) The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, 1999 A Place of Our Own, 2004 Freedom Summer, 2014 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, 2015 Tell Them We Are Rising, 2017 From earning an Academy Award nomination for his very first screen role in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming to his Oscar win forty years later for Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin has enjoyed an eclectic and distinguished career as both an actor and director. A lifelong cinephile who grew up watching international masterpieces at New York’s legendary Thalia theater, he sits down with his son and fellow actor, Adam Arkin, to discuss his passionate opinions on movies, sharing what he learned about acting from the great French film stars and singling out the director he would have given anything to work with. As something of a specialist in black comedy, the films Arkin has selected unsurprisingly include several superlative examples of the genre, including a devastatingly funny Italian gem (Mafioso), a wild counterculture parable (Greaser’s Palace), and an absurdist art-world satire (The Square). Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937 Of Mice and Men, Lewis Milestone, 1939 The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953 The Horse’s Mouth, Ronald Neame, 1958 Mafioso, Alberto Lattuada, 1962 Greaser’s Palace, Robert Downey Sr., 1972 Running on Empty, Sidney Lumet, 1988 The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017 COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS PREMIERING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL THIS MONTH: Alan & Naomi, Sterling Van Wagenen, 1992 All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, 1955 The Angel Levine, Ján Kadár, 1970 Babylon, Franco Rosso, 1980 Babymother, Julian Henriques, 1998 Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006 Beat Street, Stan Lathan, 1984 Blacks Britannica, David Koff, 1978 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson, 2015 The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, Stanley Nelson, 1999 Bright Road, Gerald Mayer, 1953 Cake Walk, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983 Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam, 2018 Citizen Ruth, Alexander Payne, 1996 ** Company Line, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2009 Death on the Nile, John Guillermin, 1978 Delphine’s Prayers, Rosine Mbakam, 2021 A Different Image, Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel, 1972 Don’t Play Us Cheap, Melvin Van Peebles, 1972 Dream City, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983 Ears, Nose and Throat, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016 Erie, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010 Far from Heaven, Todd Haynes, 2002 Feathers, A. V. Rockwell, 2018 Floyd Norman: An Animated Life, Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey, 2016 Freedom Summer, Stanley Nelson, 2014 Glenville, Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil Pedizisai, 2020 The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972 The Heartland, Marquise Mays, 2021 Hive, Blerta Basholli, 2021 How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), Joe Angio, 2005 IFO, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017 Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk, 1959 Inconsequential Doggereal, Ulysses Jenkins, 1981 Kansas City, Robert Altman, 1996 ** The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks, 1969 Les cinq cent balles, Melvin Van Peebles, 1963 Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937 Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964 Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, 1954 Mass of Images, Ulysses Jenkins, 1978 The Metamorphosis of Birds, Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020 Mississippi Mermaid, François Truffaut, 1969 The Movement of Things, Manuela Serra, 1985 Mutual Native Duplex, Ulysses Jenkins, 1990 Native Son, Pierre Chenal, 1951 The Nomadics, Ulysses Jenkins, 1991 No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006 Notions of Freedom, Ulysses Jenkins, 2007 Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959 Omega Rising Women of Rastafari, D. Elmina Davis, 1988 Personal Best, Robert Towne, 1982 Pier Kids, Elegance Bratton, 2019 A Place of Our Own, Stanley Nelson, 2004 Planet X, Ulysses Jenkins, 2006 Rambling Rose, Martha Coolidge, 1991 A Reggae Session, Stephanie Bennett and Thomas Adelman, 1988 Remnants of the Watts Festival, Ulysses Jenkins, 1980 Rockers, Theodoros Bafaloukos, 1978 Running on Empty, Sidney Lumet, 1988 Self Divination, Ulysses Jenkins, 1989 Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971 Sound That, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2014 The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017 ** The Story of a Three Day Pass, Melvin Van Peebles, 1967 Sun Children, Majid Majidi, 2020 Sunlight, Melvin Van Peebles, 1957 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971 Tell Them We Are Rising, Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams, 2017 Three Pickup Men for Herrick, Melvin van Peebles, 1957 The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman, Rosine Mbakam, 2018 Two-Zone Transfer, Ulysses Jenkins, 1979 The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, 2008 Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier, 1974 Watermelon Man, Melvin Van Peebles, 1970 We the Ragamuffin, Julian Henriques, 1992 Without Your Interpretation, Ulysses Jenkins, 1983 The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Ranald MacDougall, 1959 Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk, 1956 Zebrahead, Anthony Drazan, 1992 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 2 hours ago, ando said: Had to do a double take. For some reason Brod didn't equate to Broderick Crawford in my mind, TB. He didn't go by the name Broderick. Everyone called him Brod. Love all those great Columbia films he made after he earned the Oscar-- BORN YESTERDAY, CARGO TO CAPETOWN, THE MOB, SCANDAL SHEET, THE LAST POSSE and my favorite LAST OF THE COMANCHES. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 2 hours ago, TopBilled said: Love all those great Columbia films... my favorite LAST OF THE COMANCHES. Hmmm. Chcking it out now (nice YT version). Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 The Fugitive Kind (1960, Sidney Lumet) Drifter, Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, wanders into a sleepy Southern town and gets embroiled in a love triangle with an unhappy wife and a town outcast. This one is based on the Tennessee Williams play, Orpheus Descending. It's a poetic, slow burner about hate among tragic characters looking for redemption where they can find it. The tone of the film is a bit off-kilter but Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward make it memorable. Free on tubi. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Hair (1979, Milos Forman) Why people continue to crap on this film because it isn't what happened a decade earlier irritates me. The score, the fabulous singing, the threadbare plot, the explosive choreography and general subject matter are all based on the 60s live phenomena that was the HAIR musical. It's a paean to that historical event and era but is very much its own animal - and a classic at that. Whoever said a film had to have even a tangental relation to its original source? Shakespeare sure didn't. Foreman put together a fantastic production to provide a glimpse for generations who were not around when the 60s erupted and to reveal issues that every American generation has had to contend with since then. The styles may have changed. Almost nothing else has. Free on tubi. BTW, tubi rocks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Ando, Thanks for posing the list of recently added classics on the Criterion Channel. We might also mention which titles will be leaving at the end of February. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Friday February 4, 2022 Teachers on TCM to sir with love stand and deliver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 a raisin in the sun (1961, daniel petrie) Lorraine Hansberry classic Broadway adaptation (most of the cast came straight from the play). Free on tubi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 Saturday February 5, 2022 Dietrich on TCM rancho notorious 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 2/4/2022 at 10:20 AM, TopBilled said: Friday February 4, 2022 Teachers on TCM to sir with love stand and deliver more teachers... The Karate Kid (1984, John G. Avildsen) A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager. Oscar nod for Pat Morita as karate master, Mr. Miyaki. Free on the Peacock Channel. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 2 hours ago, TopBilled said: Saturday February 5, 2022 Dietrich on TCM rancho notorious more Dietrich Witness For The Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder) A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise. 6 Oscar nods, including Best Picture. Free on tubi. Great copy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Bryce Bennett, Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Travis Ganong of the United States will compete for the Alpine Skiing competition's first medal of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in the men’s downhill event, live on NBC tonight starting at 10 p.m. In honor I'm rewatching the 1969 Robert Redford paean to the sport - Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie) on The Criterion Channel One of my favorites from Redford. Good performances and, of course, excellent coverage of Alpine crashing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 8 hours ago, ando said: Bryce Bennett, Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Travis Ganong of the United States will compete for the Alpine Skiing competition's first medal of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in the men’s downhill event, live on NBC tonight starting at 10 p.m. In honor I'm rewatching the 1969 Robert Redford paean to the sport - Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie) on The Criterion Channel One of my favorites from Redford. Good performances and, of course, excellent coverage of Alpine crashing. more snow... Dekalog I (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski) Kieślowski's first installment of the famous 10 part extended film set that centers around each of the biblical Ten Commandments. Dekalog I, which is a meditation on the commandment, I AM THE LORD THY GOD; THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GOD BUT ME, involves a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, raising his young son to look to science for answers while his aunt lives a life rooted in faith. Set deep in the heart of a frozen Warsaw this first entry in the series is one of the most unforgettable films I've seen. Streaming on easterneuropeanmovies.com. The Criterion Channel needs to get the rights to this classic. It's one of the best on the label. The co-writer on Dekalog, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, talks about the project, beginning with the challenge of the first film: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 Sunday February 6, 2022 Carrot on TCM it happened one night 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 Monday February 7, 2022 Single on TCM the divorcee forsaking all others 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Tuesday February 8, 2022 Fonda on TCM mister roberts 12 angry men 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ando Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Henry V (1989, Kenneth Branagh) The best way to see Branagh's version of The Bard's history, of course, would be on the largest screen (preferable IMAX, though extant prints may not make this possible) that your local cinema has to offer. That's how I initially saw it. Branagh conjured a splendid bit of magic. Free on tubi. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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