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I just might have to get that box set, Morbius, if only for Christmas In July.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember this thread?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Busby Berkeley fest tnite; Footlight Parade is a must cuz it has all the usual stuff, PLUS Cagney blowing through it at 90 mph.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Remember, Ace In The Hole is on early Thursday morning.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

and a bunch of '30s Jean Arthurs I've never even heard of tonight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Martin & Lewis:

The Caddy Thursday night at 8 ET, Living It Up (my favorite) on Sunday morning.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Lonely Are the Brave 12:30AM tonight

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was a kid living in Yosemite, my dad was really excited to show me 'The Heroes of Telemark' once when it came on TV.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau. Kirk Douglas' favorite movie.

(xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

also - William Shatner, and introducing Carroll O'Connor

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

and Charles Bronson?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

5 a.m. Saturday, wtf...

Devil With Hitler, The (1942)

If he wants to keep control of Hell, Satan has to get Hitler to perform a good deed. Cast: Alan Mowbray, Bobby Watson, George E. Stone. Dir: Gordon Douglas.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

not on netflix ;_;

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The Last Detail premiering at 2:30 a.m. ET tonight.

Saturday, a bill of special-effects Oscar winners beginning with 2001.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

and Nashville in the wee hours tnite.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Cool stuff for March:

I Know Were I'm Going on Thursday the 8th
Europa '51 followed by This Sporting Life on Tuesday the 13th
Take The Money and Run on Friday the 16th
Ace In The Hole/The Big Carnival on Saturday the 17th
Le Proces De Jeanne D'Arc on Sunday the 18th
A Thousand Clowns followed by Harold and Maude on Friday the 23 which as it happens is a pretty wicked day all around

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I think tonight (or maybe it was this morning), Chinatown and The Conversation are back to back!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: CRIMSON FUCKING TIDE?!?!??!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

31 Days of Oscar dude. It was nominated for something.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Best Silver Surfer Namedrop!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

A Thousand Clowns

Oh man, I love this movie! Been waiting ages for it to be shown too. I'm gonna make sure my parents tivo it so I can get it next time I'm home.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Europa '51 is unmissable.

It's Gene Kelly Month: It's Always Fair Weather on the 12th is esp underseen (theme of mid-Fifties middle-class anomie).

Ken, I may try to catch that RKO twinbill at FF at 5:40.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds good, but no can do

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Tonight at 8 ET, Bogey's Spade and Marlowe followed by Kiss Me Deadly.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

already seen or reseen this week:

awakenings
gold diggers of '35
man who shot liberty valance

― remy bean, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Betty Hutton interview at 7 ET tonight.

Jerry Lewis triple feature for his 81st tomorrow, followed by early Woody Allen, incl his Cavett '71 interview.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Bresson Joan of Arc movie on tonight at 2AM, I think.

When did Carrie Fisher replace Molly Haskell on The Essentials?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 18 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't she just Guest Programmer or somthin? cuz shit, othwise that's hideous.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I think she's the new regular co-host. Maybe Molly knew too much for Bob O's liking. Carrie can probably keep him supplied with childhood showbiz anecdotes: "And then Chill Wills pushed Noah Beery into the pool, the resulting splash drenching my mother so she had to change outfits."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

well, I imagine they'll change hosts regularly? Wasn't it previously Sydney Pollack solo?

Some of the upcoming stuff is far from essential: It's a Mad x4 World and fer God's sake, Fear Strikes Out??

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear that fear has not struck out at all, and that it is downhill from now on.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Man I'm glad I had the TV on at 11 last night or I woulda missed Chinatown. Don't slip on me, TCM doods!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 March 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but Chinatown is on TCM (and DVD shelves) all the time.

― Eric H., Thursday, 29 March 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Where can I revisit the SCTV parody, "Polynesiantown"?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Coming this month:

The Trial on Wednesday the 4th
King of Kings (Nick Ray version) on Easter Sunday (the 8th)
A Jason Robards marathon (including Once Upon A Time In The West and A Thousand Clowns) on Thursday the 12th
Broken Blossoms followed by The Testament of Dr. Mabuse on Sunday the 15th
A five film (+1 doc) Chaplin marathon on Monday the 16th
A five film Harold Lloyd marathon on Friday the 20th
Some Came Running on Tuesday the 24th
A rerun of the Russ Meyer cult films Double Feature on Friday the 27th
Germany, Year Zero on Sunday the 29th

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Who saw Osborne's hour with Jane Fonda? Glossed Julia, The Morning After, Tout va Bien all out of existence so they could thoroughly rehash On Golden Syrup for 15 minutes. Yes Jane, Dad was a cold fish, we've heard...

Ken, it's gotta be on the SCTV box?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight at 8 is "only angels have wings" which i saw a little bit of years ago and thought it was brilliant:

A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC

― gff, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It's quintessential Hawks ... you really need the big screen when he's got 7 or 8 actors in the frame though.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Robards marathon 2-nite.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

that Brando doc they've produced for next month is almost 3 hours!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(i didn't end up watching "only angels have wings," whoops)

― gff, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Cautionary trilogy of television tales (fittingly post-Imus) tonight includes A Face in the Crowd, Network ... and The Barefoot Executive??

Followed by Coffy and Foxy Brown.

Late Sunday, Griffith's transracial weepie Broken Blossoms and Lang's Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

dr mabuse, always wanted to see that. is broken blossoms any good?

i was thinking about face in the crowd just the other night; certainly has some resonance with the imus kerfluffle.

― J.D., Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I finally don't think the script to Network is the greatest screenplay of all time.

Well, I guess I haven't thought that in a decade, but now I also don't think it's dead-on accurate, aside from programming (and promotions) superseding news content.

― Eric H., Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Man I forgot how awesome Coffy is.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Network certainly has some reactionary palaver from Chayefsky in there -- that Wronged Wife scene is lousy enough to win Ms Straight an Oscar -- but was amazingly prescient about the next 20 years of TV.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

broken blossoms is great. and man, so was coffy.

― remy bean, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Holden gives the best perf in Network; only he could deliver that "shrieking nothingness" bilge.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Best performance is Marlene Warfield as the Angela Davis archtype. Best of the Oscar-nominated performances, though, is Holden.

Still, I think pretty much everyone in the movie is up to the goofy task. I can even see why Straight and Beatty got nominated (or won) for what are both essentially walk-on-and-deliver-one-page-of-dialogue roles. Most of the movie's smaller parts seem bigger than they are due to the uniformly hysterical/sarcastic vibe (i.e. Conchata Ferrell's "crusty but benign" mantra).

― Eric H., Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

During Mets' games they play the clip of Peter Finch saying "I want you all to get up..." and cut it off at "and yell" LET'S GO METS.

It's Rita Hayworth night!

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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