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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM


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Wednesday, March 23

 

We have a nice day of Akira Kurosawa films tomorrow. I'm especially interested in:

 

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

 

This is one I've not seen, so it should be a treat.

All the other films being shown are highly recommended!

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Wednesday, March 23

 

We have a nice day of Akira Kurosawa films tomorrow. I'm especially interested in:

 

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

 

This is one I've not seen, so it should be a treat.

All the other films being shown are highly recommended!

 

It's very good. Although not as stylized as his later films, it has very good performances, particularly from the wonderful Setsuko Hara.

 

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Wednesday, March 23


 


Happy birthday, Akira!  Wow, a whole day of Kurosawa.  I’ve seen all of them so here are my favourites…


 


10:30 a.m..  The Seven Samurai (1954).  One of the all-time greats.


 


5:15 p.m.  High and Low (1963) with Toshiro Mifune again.


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Seven Samurai and High and Low are the only two airing that I've seen, so I'm going to be scrambling to catch the other three. I've especially wanted to see Stray Dog (1949).

 

Going from Kurosawa to comic serial movies makes this a TCM day for the books; though it might be a bit up-side down.

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Thursday, March 24

 

March is only getting better.  A day of Steve McQueen movies.  Happy Birthday, Hilts!

 

In the U.S. you get …

2 p.m.  The Cincinnati Kid (1965).  The entire cast is great starting with McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret and Joan Blondell as dealer, Lady Fingers.  Directed by Canuck, Norman Jewison.  Quebecer, Emile Genest appears as ‘Cajun.’

 

In Canada, you get that little known McQueen replacement … Escape From Fort Bravo (1953).  

 

12:15 a.m.  Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980) with Frank Langella.

 

2:15 a.m.  The Wicker Man (1973) a favourite of lots of people here.  Too bad it has been bumped.

 
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Thursday, March 24

 

March is only getting better.  A day of Steve McQueen movies.  Happy Birthday, Hilts!

 

In the U.S. you get …

2 p.m.  The Cincinnati Kid (1965).  The entire cast is great starting with McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret and Joan Blondell as dealer, Lady Fingers.  Directed by Canuck, Norman Jewison.  Quebecer, Emile Genest appears as ‘Cajun.’

 

In Canada, you get that little known McQueen replacement … Escape From Fort Bravo (1953).  

 

12:15 a.m.  Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980) with Frank Langella.

 

2:15 a.m.  The Wicker Man (1973) a favourite of lots of people here.  Too bad it has been bumped.

 

 

Yes, that wonderful McQueen film Escape From Fort Bravo. :P My first choice as a replacement.

 

 

I am looking forward to Baby, the Rain Must Fall which I am recording.  It is new to me.

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Thurs/Fri, March 24th-25th;  A film better known by a Different title (to me, at least)  is CONDEMNED--All times are E.S.T.:

 

11:45 a.m. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)--Western redo of "Seven Samurai" (1954), with an Oscar nominated score by Elmer Bernstein--fun watch.

 

2:15 a.m. "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (aka "Lemora: The Lady Dracula") (1973)--I KNEW I'd heard the word Lemora in a film title before, but as the "aka".  HOW is Sister Rose going to explain a Southern Gothic/Folk/Wanna-Be European Art/Vampire Film in three minutes or less??  I've Got to stay up and hear this (that?).

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Sunday, March 27

 

2:45 p.m.  Barabbas (1962).  Anthony Quinn is quite good in this one.

 

3 a.m.  Persona (1967)  One of my favourite Ingmar Bergman films.

 

4:30 a.m.  The Virgin Spring (1960) Featuring a good Max Von Sydow performance.  But watch out for Brigitta Valberg as the Mother, Mareta Tore and Gunnel Lindbloom as Ingeri, or Ingrid.

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Sunday, March 27

 

2:45 p.m.  Barabbas (1962).  Anthony Quinn is quite good in this one.

 

3 a.m.  Persona (1967)  One of my favourite Ingmar Bergman films.

 

4:30 a.m.  The Virgin Spring (1960) Featuring a good Max Von Sydow performance.  But watch out for Brigitta Valberg as the Mother, Mareta Tore and Gunnel Lindbloom as Ingeri, or Ingrid.

 

 

I love Max Von Sydow.  Thanks for a reminder of this movie.

 

I saw Barabbas for the first time last year during his SOTM.  I was quite impressed and was surprised it was not as famous to the average viewer/fan of biblical epics.  I'm not a big fan of the genre but I know someone who is.

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hipsters and kool kids should check out Smithereens late nite (2:30 AM EST)

 

now I have actually seen this one & it's pretty good, but frankly getting tired of the UNDERGROUND's obsession with the punk rock scene. Let's get a little more variety here. :)

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now I have actually seen this one & it's pretty good, but frankly getting tired of the UNDERGROUND's obsession with the punk rock scene. Let's get a little more variety here. :)

 

Be thankful that the Underground has never yet developed an obsession with the likes of Justin Bieber.

 

 

Next week brings Abar, the First Black Superman, which sounds hilariously bad.

 

Abar delivers exactly the kind of things you're most likely going to be looking for in a blaxploitation flick - though IIRC, (and without too much of a spoiler), it also attempts to drive it's point home via use of a plot device also used in a certain Claudette Colbert movie recently discussed on these forums - which was something of an unexpected touch.

 

As an aside, did anyone else take advantage of the session of animation movies that TCM aired the other day, before primetime? There were some goodies in there, including Magic Boy (the MGM-ized release of Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke, Gulliver's Travels, Twice Upon a Time (one of my all time favorites) & Watership Down (probably the first animation I ever watched, not aimed squarely at young kids).

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