darkblue Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 'Medium Cool' (1969) is yet another rare treasure for the month of July. A cult item - I've read that it's probably the most politically radical film ever made by a major studio. Definitely recording it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 The most radical movie from a studio is sometimes said to be Uptight (dir. Jules Dassin), which adapted Odd Man Out as a black power movie which is supposed to have argued for black revolution. I don't recall Medium Cool as being particularly radical, but it's been a long time since I've seen it. It's certainly against Mayor Daley and the actions of the police at the DNC in Chicago, but many non-radicals shared that view. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point considered itself radical, but the two non-actor leads are so inept and sound so dumb that they probably converted people to LBJ and Mayor Daley. ZP is gorgeous to look at, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 12:00 p.m.--"Harper" (1966)--Sixties remake of "The Big Sleep".That might explain why I had so much trouble figuring out what the **** was going on in Harper. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Wasn't Zabriskie Point taken off the TCM schedule for being too adult (for lack of a better word)? I think Frtiz the Cat was another, but I don't think that came from a major studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Wasn't Zabriskie Point taken off the TCM schedule for being too adult (for lack of a better word)? I think Frtiz the Cat was another, but I don't think that came from a major studio. Hmmm. I don't know, but the only thing I can offer that may be of any help is that someone informed me not too long ago that sometime around 2010 or so TCM showed the Ken Russell movie THE DEVILS, and seriously: if they can show that thing I don't really know what's out there that's too raunchy for their standards. (Ps I really like THE DEVILS a lot tho.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 Monday, July 18/19 3:15 a.m. The Big Steal (1949). It’s been a while since I’ve seen this Mitchum heist flick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Sunday, July 17 A very interesting late night schedule. 2 a.m. Before the Rain (1994). With Katrin Cartlidge. I'm very much looking forward to Milcho Manchevskii's BEFORE THE RAIN, starring Grégoire Colin and the wonderful Katrin Cartlidge, whose work with Mike Leigh was so brilliant and who died too soon at the age of 41. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Tomorrow I'm recording The Clown (1953). It's being shown as part of Red Skeleton day, but I'm getting it for Charles Buchinsky. Primetime and late night have a lot of good movies, as well. Touch of Evil, Night of the Hunter, Out of the Past - three of the best. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Tuesday at 6pm. Another rare treat. 'Red Sun' (1971) starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. In this western, Bronson has no idea what he's up against when he encounters a samurai who is travelling in America on a diplomatic mission. It's been years since I saw this - somewhere around 1974 or so - but I remember liking it very much. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 Tuesday, July 19 A day of spaghetti westerns. Oh, boy. Here’s two with Tony Anthony … 10 a.m. The Stranger Returns (1968) noon. The Silent Stranger (1968) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Tomorrow I'm recording The First Traveling Saleslady, as it features an early role for Clint Eastwood. I also second darkblue's Red Sun recommendation: Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine...a once in a lifetime cast! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Tuesday, July 19th; all times E.S.T.; spaghetti westerns by day, four Sergio Leone SWs by night plus one Arthur Lubin: 8:00 p.m. "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964)--This was the first of the SWs that hit the U.S. and made major money and Clint Eastwood a star. Striking photography and sudden violence mix. 9:45 p.m. "For a Few Dollars More" (1965). 5:00 a.m. "The First Traveling Saleslady" (1956)--I second LawrenceA's recommendation--Eastwood and Channing make a Memorable couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 19, 2016 Author Share Posted July 19, 2016 Wednesday, July 20 3 p.m. Cowboy (1958) Sounds like City Slickers (1991). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Wednesday, July 20 3 p.m. Cowboy (1958) Sounds like City Slickers (1991). I wasn't crazy about either of them. But I'll be taping three of the Glenn Ford westerns, Heaven with a Gun, Day of the Evil Gun, and The Last Challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Tomorrow I'm recording The First Traveling Saleslady, as it features an early role for Clint Eastwood.I hope I'm not spoiling too much, but in an "only in Hollywood" casting, Eastwood's character is romantically paired with... Carol Channing's. She was only in her early 30s when she made this, but already sounded like she was in her 60s, I thought. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Tuesday at 6pm. Another rare treat. 'Red Sun' (1971) starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. In this western, Bronson has no idea what he's up against when he encounters a samurai who is travelling in America on a diplomatic mission. It's been years since I saw this - somewhere around 1974 or so - but I remember liking it very much. My one and only time watching this one was also in the early 1970s and I too recall enjoying it. So, needless to say, you can guess what I am doing right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 3:10 TO YUMA comes on at 3:45 pm (est) today, and if any of you have not seen it, it's really recommended: even for those who don't like westerns. (it's one of those westerns with a healthy sense of film noir about it- in a way it's kindasorta a reworking of KISS OF DEATH.) GREAT example of Black and White cinematography and lighting at its finest. I don't care for Glenn Ford, but he's good in this; Van Heflin is terrific, but (as i recall it) the real acting honors go not to the misleadingly third billed Felicia Farrar (who is in the movie for one scene) but to THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS HEFLIN'S WIFE; she is EXCELLENT...(sorry, had to imdb her: it's LEORA DANA.) I would say her performance ranks right up there with Geraldine Page in HONDO as among the finest given by an actress in a western. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Leora Dana is yet another actress who should have had a bigger career. She has the small and thankless role of Arthur Kennedy's wife in Some Came Running and a better role as Natalie Wood's mother in Kings Go Forth. She was in the original Broadway cast of The Best Man, but unfortunately was not in the movie version. I first became aware of her when she played the long-lost mother of Iris (Beverlee McKinsey) on Another World for a couple of years. She always made the most of whatever scene she had. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I first became aware of her when she played the long-lost mother of Iris (Beverlee McKinsey) on Another World for a couple of years. She always made the most of whatever scene she had. OMG!!!! "You are my waaaay, to Another World (to another world) You are the one who makes me fly so high, you are the rain when my spirits run dry..." Although, forgive me, I grew up with (and bow at the altar of) Carmen Duncan as Iris in the late eighties-nineties ANOTHER WORLD. I understand they were very different interpretations of the character, but I just loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooved her SO MUCH. (still more than a little PO'ed she went to prison for accidentally shooting Carl at his and Rachel's wedding.) a seminal moment from my childhood: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) This is the excellent version starring: Ronald Colman. Queen Christina (1933) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 Queen Christina (1933) in which one should be on the lookout for the throne partially pictured below, which was recycled many years later for a little 1989 film called BATMAN... "Hubba hubba hubba, Money money money... Who do ya' trust?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 ...but I just loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooved her SO MUCH. An interesting study of redundancy. But rather than call you on that, I'll compliment you on your wonderful sense of emphasis. = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 20, 2016 Author Share Posted July 20, 2016 Thursday, July 21 10 p.m. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) “Attica! Attica!” Another classic from the 70’s. Who is the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? … Shut your mouth, it’s … Shaft (1971) at 2:30 a.m. Can you dig it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Friday, July 22 9 a.m. Untamed (1929) with Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. 4:30 p.m. The Nuisance (1933). Sounds like a good Lee Tracy picture. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Saturday, July 23/24 Unfortunately, this has now disappeared from the schedule…. 2:15 a.m. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1975). A Peter Cushing Dracula that I have not yet seen. Sounds like it is a Hong Kong entry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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