jakeem Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Turner Classic Movies traditionally schedules theme movies for New Year's Eve. I believe there was a Marx Brothers marathon a couple of years ago. The past two years, the spotlight has been on rock 'n' roll stars and concert performances. If you could program a day full of movies that take place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, what would be on your schedule? One of my favorites is "The Time Machine," George Pal's 1960 screen version of the H.G. Wells story. The film, starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Alan Young, begins on December 31, 1899. Time travel tales are always a perfect way to start a new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 If you could program a day full of movies that take place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, what would be on your schedule? Well, with modern CGI, TCM could add "HAPPY NEW YEAR" signs and banners in the backgrounds of any movie. They could add some signs and decorations to THE CLOCK, such as "Happy New Year 1945". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Turner Classic Movies traditionally schedules theme movies for New Year's Eve. I believe there was a Marx Brothers marathon a couple of years ago. The past two years, the spotlight has been on rock 'n' roll stars and concert performances. If you could program a day full of movies that take place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, what would be on your schedule? One of my favorites is "The Time Machine," George Pal's 1960 screen version of the H.G. Wells story. The film, starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Alan Young, begins on December 31, 1899. Time travel tales are always a perfect way to start a new year! I would show Its Love I'm After with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland. This is a great comedy and set on new years eve and day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Well, with modern CGI, TCM could add "HAPPY NEW YEAR" signs and banners in the backgrounds of any movie. They could add some signs and decorations to THE CLOCK, such as "Happy New Year 1945". I thought TCM's motto was "uncut and unedited." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastet Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 One New Year's Eve, they did a Thin Man marathon, which was great. I always watch After the Thin Man and Holiday. As for a full-day programming theme ... I'll have to think on that one some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 TWILIGHT ZONE FESTIVAL right now, on SYFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I thought TCM's motto was "uncut and unedited." Yes, well, I was making a little joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 The Mae West movie Every Day's a Holiday (1937) begins on New Year's Eve of 1899/1900 and features Charles Winninger saying "Happy New Year" in a very distinctive way. Show Boat (1936) has a New Year's Eve scene, featuring Irene Dunne (singing "After the Ball") and Charles Winninger and his "Happy New Year" line. And then of course there is Woody Allen's Radio Days, which ends on New Year's Eve, 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Yes, well, I was making a little joke. But you weren't wrong. Someone could have a field day adding things to movies "Zelig" style! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 doing a Marx Bros 'marathon' without Duck Soup!! Isn't that against THE LAW!!?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 doing a Marx Bros 'marathon' without Duck Soup!! Isn't that against THE LAW!!?? "Yes it IS! And so BRING us the programmer RESPONSIBLE for this atrocity!" (...and as always: "HAIL, HAIL FREEDONIA!") 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 So TCM will celebrate New Year's afternoon with Joan and Bette late career pscyho babe tag team features. Good way to start 2015. I was gonna start a thread about that. nothin' says happy new year like joan & bette in psycholand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 One year I'd like to see: After the Thin Man Holiday Repeat Performance (1947) Sunset Boulevard (1950) The Apartment (1960) Ocean's 11 (1960) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) New Year's Day (1989) Peter's Friends (1992) End of Days (1999) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 One year I'd like to see: After the Thin Man Holiday Repeat Performance (1947) Sunset Boulevard (1950) The Apartment (1960) Ocean's 11 (1960) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) New Year's Day (1989) Peter's Friends (1992) End of Days (1999) What a great list! I had forgotten about some of those. I seem to remember that "More American Graffiti" (1979), which wasn't directed by George Lucas, ends on New Year's and ties up plot points from the first movie. The nice thing about "Holiday Inn" (1942) is that you could just about show it throughout the year. But let's not forget about this 1974 saga, which has some key scenes right after midnight on New Year's Day in 1959: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBalU46KqKI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 When your New Years starts off with Joan, or that is someone pretending to be Joan, coming at you with an ax, the odds are good that it will be all uphill for the rest of the year. I dunno, starting from Where Love Has Gone to Berserk, that was as good a mini-run of The Dark Side of Bette and Joan as I've seen in quite a while. It sure beat showing Davis's costume dramas and a Crawford clinker like Humoresque. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 You could add Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers and David Niven and The Divorcee with Norma Shearer. They don;t take place on New Year's Eve, but they both have significant New Year party scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm surprised that nobody threw in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, but then, many wouldn't consider it a "classic". There are a lot more movies that feature scenes that take place on New Year's Eve, but not many( if any) that are specifically BASED on the day, as there are Christmas movies or such. But, interesting stuff. Now, (and a bit "off track") some would argue that because( in the case of Christmas, for argument's sake) the movie story TAKES PLACE around or during that specific holiday, that doesn't neccesarily make it a "Christmas" movie. For instance, would anyone here consider the Franciosa/Hutton/Fonda movie "Period Of Adjustment" to actually be a CHRISTMAS movie? Using that criteria, could any movie that has New Year's festivities as a PART of the movie actually be considered a "NEW YEAR'S" movie? (How about THE APARTMENT, which features BOTH Christmas AND New Year's? Where would you place IT?) But still, showing either around those specific holidays wouldn't really be out of line., don'tcha think? Plus, you could actually show them ANYtime, since the stories aren't really ABOUT the holiday's mentioned Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm surprised that nobody threw in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, but then, many wouldn't consider it a "classic". There are a lot more movies that feature scenes that take place on New Year's Eve, but not many( if any) that are specifically BASED on the day, as there are Christmas movies or such. But, interesting stuff. Now, (and a bit "off track") some would argue that because( in the case of Christmas, for argument's sake) the movie story TAKES PLACE around or during that specific holiday, that doesn't neccesarily make it a "Christmas" movie. For instance, would anyone here consider the Franciosa/Hutton/Fonda movie "Period Of Adjustment" to actually be a CHRISTMAS movie? Using that criteria, could any movie that has New Year's festivities as a PART of the movie actually be considered a "NEW YEAR'S" movie? (How about THE APARTMENT, which features BOTH Christmas AND New Year's? Where would you place IT?) But still, showing either around those specific holidays wouldn't really be out of line., don'tcha think? Plus, you could actually show them ANYtime, since the stories aren't really ABOUT the holiday's mentioned Sepiatone And then there's Barry Levinson's 1982 gem "Diner," which takes place in Baltimore during the last week of 1959. It stops short, however, of making it to New Year's Eve. And it never shows the band of friends attending the New York Giants-Baltimore Colts NFL Championship Game at Memorial Stadium on December 27th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingFan Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 And then there's Barry Levinson's 1982 gem "Diner," which takes place in Baltimore during the last week of 1959. It stops short, however, of making it to New Year's Eve. And it never shows the band of friends attending the New York Giants-Baltimore Colts NFL Championship Game at Memorial Stadium on December 27th. It's been a couple of years since I last saw the movie, but I think it does go up to New Year's Eve. Eddie and Elyse are supposed to get married on that day, and the last scenes of the movie are their wedding and reception. In any event, I count it as both a Christmas and a New Year's movie, and often watch it around this time of year. (This year, I'm waiting for the blu ray release next month, probably as part of promoting the new stage musical based on the movie.) The film is one of my very favorites -- saw it in the theater during the original release, and I'd guess that I've seen it maybe 10 or 15 times since then. I never tire of it -- it's one of those movies that, when I watch it, I'm sorry when it ends. You're right that the movie never shows the friends at the big game, but I seem to remember reading that Barry Levinson either did film a scene there or wanted to. Great, great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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