HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM

[speedracer5]

I remember when this came out. I got off work early so I could see the first show. I liked it.

I'll assume you saw this in some sort of revival.  You make it sound like you remember when the film came out in '27 and you got off work early to see it.  Lol. 

[GregoryPeckfan]

In looking over the movies TCM is airing on Mother's Day, there are not any titles which I have never seen before.

 

However, it has been a long time since I've seen Bunny Lake is Missing, so I will be recording it to watch again.

 

Regarding Please Don't Eat the Daisies: the titles I have seen because I am a fan of the stars so I can cross them off my to-seen list.... I find the fact that Day is always unavailable when Niven is trying to find  her annoying.  My favourite scenes are the ones with Niven and Page by themselves.

 

I Remember Mama is a wonderful film.

 

I've seen Light in the Piazza, but I cannot  remember it much. 

[GregoryPeckfan]

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In looking at the schedule for Mother's Day, I noticed that they are mostly dramas during the day.  The evening continues with films like Sounder - fantastic.

 

But the 24 hour schedule should not end until 3am Pacific.

 

The film scheduled to air at 1:30am is not what I would call a Mother's Day movie - Blow Up.

 

Is that the movie  airing in both countries?

[speedracer5]

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In looking at the schedule for Mother's Day, I noticed that they are mostly dramas during the day.  The evening continues with films like Sounder - fantastic.

 

But the 24 hour schedule should not end until 3am Pacific.

 

The film scheduled to air at 1:30am is not what I would call a Mother's Day movie - Blow Up.

 

Is that the movie  airing in both countries?

 

Since it is Sunday, I believe that the Sunday silent movie starts at 9:30pm and then starting at 11:00pm, they're showing the weekly "Import" film.  This week they're doing a Michelangelo Antonioni double feature. 

[GregoryPeckfan]

Since it is Sunday, I believe that the Sunday silent movie starts at 9:30pm and then starting at 11:00pm, they're showing the weekly "Import" film.  This week they're doing a Michelangelo Antonioni double feature. 

Thanks, Speedracer.

 

I know they air TCM Imports Sunday nights, but I was not sure if Blow Up was airing in both countries. 

 

Blow Up is the only movie by Antonioni that I've seen before, despite the fact that I've seen lots of movies by other Italian directors.

[speedracer5]

Thanks, Speedracer.

 

I know they air TCM Imports Sunday nights, but I was not sure if Blow Up was airing in both countries. 

 

Blow Up is the only movie by Antonioni that I've seen before, despite the fact that I've seen lots of movies by other Italian directors.

I only look at the American schedule and Blow Up was listed :-)

[LawrenceA]

I'll assume you saw this in some sort of revival.  You make it sound like you remember when the film came out in '27 and you got off work early to see it.  Lol. 

 

What, you think I'm some kinda whipper-snapper? Get off my lawn!

 

I have never seen Mockery. Like Bogie, I had never even heard of it. So I'll be taping it.

[speedracer5]

What, you think I'm some kinda whipper-snapper? Get off my lawn!

 

I have never seen Mockery. Like Bogie, I had never even heard of it. So I'll be taping it.

Ah I see.  You were being facetious.  

 

Good show, young man.  Good show!

[LawrenceA]

Ah I see.  You were being facetious.  

 

I know it's wrong, but this place gets awfully dull on Saturdays!

[LornaHansonForbes]

I've seen Light in the Piazza, but I cannot remember it much.

Its a weird, kind of dated film with an ambitious but muddled premise and some beautiful scenery. It's the story of a middle-aged woman visiting Italy with her developmentally disabled daughter. The daughter falls in love with a local guy and drama ensues. Kind of sort of remade as THE OTHER SISTER with Juliette Lewis and Diane Keaton a few years back.

[SansFin]

Dear Brigitte (1965)

 

I believe that this is: Premiere on: TCM.

 

I find this movie to be very fun and uncomplicated. It had strange aspect for me as I felt while watching it first time that little boy might send some person to the corn field. 

[LawrenceA]

Tomorrow, I'll be recording The Bat Whispers (1930) and Havana Widows (1933).

 

The former is my cup of tea, while the latter has a good cast.

[mr6666]

Sunday, May 8/9

 

12:30 a.m.  Mockery (1927).  I haven’t seen this Lon Chaney film before.  Hadn’t even heard of it actually.

 

Mockery (1927) The "Man of a Thousand Faces," Lon Chaney is best remembered for his physically and emotionally grotesque characterizations in such films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). As a consequence, the full range of his talents is often overlooked. A rare screening of Benjamin Christensen's Mockery (1927) offers a wonderful opportunity to see a Chaney performance less reliant upon a frightening visage: Sergei, an uneducated Siberian peasant....

 

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2253/Mockery/articles.html

[GregoryPeckfan]

Tomorrow, I'll be recording The Bat Whispers (1930) and Havana Widows (1933).

 

The former is my cup of tea, while the latter has a good cast.

I am recording The Bat Whispers as well. I've seen The bat, and The Bat Whispers is another version of that story.

[Bogie56]

Monday, May 9

 

I haven’t seen any of these programmers on during the day.

 

10 p.m.  Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946).  Not great by any means but a must for Humphrey Bogart completists.

 

[Bogie56]

Tuesday, May 10

 

5 good films from 1941 in the evening and the best of the lot kicks it all off…

 

8 p.m.  Citizen Kane (1941)

 

[GregoryPeckfan]

Monday, May 9

 

I haven’t seen any of these programmers on during the day.

 

10 p.m.  Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946).  Not great by any means but a must for Humphrey Bogart completists.

Bogie:

 

Kid Daab has started a thread about how dark the print is that TCM aired.  I have not seen this movie before and have taped it, but since it is not a great film I am not willing to sit through a dark print for such a short amount of time of Bogart.

 

How far into the movie does he and Bacall appear and for how long?

 

I could fast forward through scenes I don't like to get to scenes I do like.

 

That is what I did when I watched Thousands Cheer, which TCM is also airing tonight which was a one viewing is enough for me type of film.

[speedracer5]

5/10

 

Fred Astaire Daytime Birthday tribute

 

All the films are fun (Okay, I haven't seen two of the Astaire/Rogers films scheduled, but I'm sure they're good):

 

-Roberta.  Look for Lucille Ball in an uncredited role as a fashion model! 

-Flying Down to Rio has a bonkers production number at the end that takes place on top of biplanes.  

-Damsel in Distress features good sport Joan Fontaine performing a dance with Astaire.  Kudos to Astaire for choreographing a dance that was within his partner's ability despite it being far below his own.

 

I'm not as big a fan of Silk Stockings and Royal Wedding, but they're worth watching for individual musical numbers.  Cyd Charisse has a fabulous number in Silk Stockings and Astaire's famous dancing on the ceiling number is in Royal Wedding.

 

The Belle of New York is probably the only true clunker in this lineup, despite co-starring the excellent Vera-Ellen.  My favorite number is the ending one where Astaire and Vera-Ellen dance together and end up floating in the air.  I think the biggest problem with this film is that it is overly ambitious.  Too much was attempted in this film and instead of focusing on one really great trick or gimmick, they tried to do all these different things and nothing came off how it was probably intended.

 

I wish that they would have scheduled The Barkleys of Broadway, I want to see this film again.  I also want to see Let's Dance with Betty Hutton (whom I'm not a fan of, she's annoying).  I had never even heard of this film until I read about it in Astaire's autobiography. 

 

All the films in the 75th anniversary tribute are excellent. I haven't seen Sergeant York (though it's on my DVR) or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but I'm sure they're good too.  I may try to tune in for my favorites in the lineup: Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon.  Though I may get home too late to watch 'Kane' in its entirety.  I do own all three of the first films ('Kane,' 'Falcon' and Suspicion), so I suppose I could recreate the lineup myself.  Lol. 

 

 

[GregoryPeckfan]

I've seen all of the movies airing Tuesday daytime and Tuesday evening.

 

I am recording Carefree because I do not remember it and it is the only one of Astaire's films with Rogers where I am unable to think of any song or dance routine off the top of my head.

 

My favourites of the Astaire films TCM is airing are Roberta, Royal Wedding and Silk Stockings.

 

See Ninotchka before you see Silk Stockings.  Silk Stockings is a good musical remake of the Garbo film.

 

The Iron Petticoat is a horrible remake of Ninotchka and I could not finish it.  Greta Garbo hated T.I.P

 

 

 

As for the evening movies, all of them are excellent movies.  I own DVDs of many  most of them - not Sgt. York, however.  I've seen York, but I don't own it.

 

 

[speedracer5]

I've seen all of the movies airing Tuesday daytime and Tuesday evening.

 

I am recording Carefree because I do not remember it and it is the only one of Astaire's films with Rogers where I am unable to think of any song or dance routine off the top of my head.

 

My favourites of the Astaire films TCM is airing are Roberta, Royal Wedding and Silk Stockings.

 

See Ninotchka before you see Silk Stockings.  Silk Stockings is a good musical remake of the Garbo film.

 

The Iron Petticoat is a horrible remake of Ninotchka and I could not finish it.  Greta Garbo hated T.I.P

 

 

 

As for the evening movies, all of them are excellent movies.  I own DVDs of many  most of them - not Sgt. York, however.  I've seen York, but I don't own it.

Carefree for whatever reason is the only Astaire/Rogers movie that is hard to find on DVD.  I believe it is the second to last of the films they made during the 1930s.  I own both of the TCM Astaire/Rogers collections that include 8/10 of their films.  I looked for Carefree on the internet and could only find very expensive third party seller copies.  Even the library didn't have the film.  I ended up finding a copy of the film at the annual library book sale that I go to.  I got a copy of the film for $2! So now I have all nine of Astaire and Rogers' films.  I am on the look out for a copy of The Barkleys of Broadway. 

 

I have seen Silk Stockings and was aware that it was a musical remake of Ninotchka.  I haven't seen Garbo's original film, but I did know the storyline.  I have Ninotchka on my DVR, I recorded it during Garbo's SUTS night (I think it was SUTS, maybe it was her birthday! I can't remember now), but haven't watched it.  I have a few of Garbo's films recorded.  I've been trying to "get" Garbo and see what the big deal was about her.  I'm finally starting to "get" Marlene Dietrich, so maybe I'm ready for Garbo.  I even recorded a couple of her famous silent movies, even though I'm not the biggest silent movie person.  I'll have to really psyche myself up for those and allow myself absolutely no distractions.  No message board during a silent film. I haven't seen The Iron Petticoat.  I would probably only venture to watch it for the unusual pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope.  I have a feeling Hope probably got on Hepburn's nerves.  Those two do not seem like they would have been compatible. 

[GregoryPeckfan]

Carefree for whatever reason is the only Astaire/Rogers movie that is hard to find on DVD.  I believe it is the second to last of the films they made during the 1930s.  I own both of the TCM Astaire/Rogers collections that include 8/10 of their films.  I looked for Carefree on the internet and could only find very expensive third party seller copies.  Even the library didn't have the film.  I ended up finding a copy of the film at the annual library book sale that I go to.  I got a copy of the film for $2! So now I have all nine of Astaire and Rogers' films.  I am on the look out for a copy of The Barkleys of Broadway. 

 

I have seen Silk Stockings and was aware that it was a musical remake of Ninotchka.  I haven't seen Garbo's original film, but I did know the storyline.  I have Ninotchka on my DVR, I recorded it during Garbo's SUTS night (I think it was SUTS, maybe it was her birthday! I can't remember now), but haven't watched it.  I have a few of Garbo's films recorded.  I've been trying to "get" Garbo and see what the big deal was about her.  I'm finally starting to "get" Marlene Dietrich, so maybe I'm ready for Garbo.  I even recorded a couple of her famous silent movies, even though I'm not the biggest silent movie person.  I'll have to really psyche myself up for those and allow myself absolutely no distractions.  No message board during a silent film. I haven't seen The Iron Petticoat.  I would probably only venture to watch it for the unusual pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope.  I have a feeling Hope probably got on Hepburn's nerves.  Those two do not seem like they would have been compatible. 

The Iron Petticoat is a mess.  Bob Hope tried to get out of the film but was not allowed.  I tried to watch it.  I recorded it and watched it later and I really tried. I even tried to fast forward through parts I did not like to get through the whole film and I still did not get through it.

 

My recommendation to see Ninotchka before Silk Stockings is for  people who have not already seen Silk Stockings before the Garbo version.  It is a delightful film with Melvin Douglas as her leading man. Douglas was one of those actors who a great leading man and accepted the idea of being a supporting actor as an older man.  It was when he was an older actor that he was finally awarded by Oscar.

 

I know you have not seen a lot of foreign language movies and that you keep trying to see them.  I hope you have seen and enjoyed some of Sophia Loren's Italian movies.

 

As for Garbo in particular, I find her fascinating.  I've seen most of her English language films, and some of her Sweedish films.  The film that best shows what a delight she was is Ninotchka.  Also  in Grand Hotel I find myself watching her always no matter who is sharing the screen with her and you *know* how I love the Barrymore siblings.  Garbo is in love with John's character.

 

As for Marlene, I don't find her as fascinating as Garbo, but I do find her fascinating.  My favourite film of hers in a foreign language is The Blue Angel.  I love her in Stage Fright.  It's a Hitchcock film, so I maybe biased here  - check that I AM biased here.

[Bogie56]

Wednesday, May 11

 

Hit!   midnight.  The French Connection (1971).  Ground breaking William Friedkin film.

 

[GregoryPeckfan]

Wednesday daytime I will be recording Charge of the light Brigade which I have never seen based upon the recommendations of Speedracer.

[darkblue]

At 2 am tomorrow I have my recorder set for 'The Organization' (1971).

 

This was the third in the long-forgotten Virgil Tibbs trilogy which began with 'In the Heat of the Night' in 1967.

 

Now all I'll have to do is get 'They Call Me Mister Tibbs' (1970) and I'll have 'em all.

[LawrenceA]

At 2 am tomorrow I have my recorder set for 'The Organization' (1971).

 

This was the third in the long-forgotten Virgil Tibbs trilogy which began with 'In the Heat of the Night' in 1967.

 

Now all I'll have to do is get 'They Call Me Mister Tibbs' (1970) and I'll have 'em all.

 

I finally watched those two in the last year. They were being shown quite frequently on a channel I get called Encore Black. Glad to finally see them.