BOOO they didn’t play The Third Man! They played the Immortal Battalion? Somethin like that.
If they ever play “Spreadin’ the Jam” (1945) a short that’s the first film direcrted by the great Charles Walters — don’t miss it!
I apologize for not having the dates but a lot of Powell and Pressburger is coming up. Its surprising how rare their films are shown (except The Red Shoes which is my favorite but I also own).
Saturday:
6am — William Wyler’s great quasi-noir DEAD END (along with nearly a dozen other Wylers)
Sunday:
Is Michael “Casablanca” Curtiz an auteur? This day chock full of his films will help answer the question.
Ok. Justin, since YOU are the schoolmarm of the wild west and I am not, I will listen to what YOU have to say on which movies to watch.
Daniel, I’m sorry I offended you on your assign-me-a-film-thread. It just struck me as funny.
Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind being a schoolmarm in the wild west.
Why did it strike you as funny? People are responding to it. I’m just curious as to why it is FUNNY to share movies with other people. Isn’t that what you are doing in this thread?
I just spent 7 weeks in the States ( I live in the UK) and was astonished at the breadth of the TCM programming there. A Day long tribute to Margaret Rutherford? A Frankie Laine musical? It was terrific. In the UK, we have TCM but it runs the same films over and over again , mostly from the 60’s & 70 when MGM made a lot of films there. I love The Yellow Rolls Royce and The VIPS and Where Eagles Dare as much as the next guy but those films are seemingly on a continuous loop.
TCM is finally running Tony Richardson’s Sailor from Gibraltar…I’ve been dying to see that…very curious to see what he did with it.
Daniel & Vicari:
Haha! it IS funny!
Last explanation from me — it isn’t funny to share movies. It just reminded me of those fortune teller booths at carnies where you go in the tent, a psychic reads your palm and says, “Movie X is for you.” I believe in puncturing pretention, and what could be more pretentious than assuming you know us well enough to “assign” us films. It’s also self important.
Why not do what everyone else does - start a thread saying, “Here’s a film I love, I recommend everyone watch it.”
The very fact that you are dogging me like deNiro dogged Nolte in Cape Fear shows your deep insecurity — did you get VENGEANCE IS MINE tattooed on your arm?
Daniel Kasman:
Cutiz is not an auteur, thank God.
He was something far more useful at Warners circa 1933s and 40s: one of those geniuses of the system.
Riding herd on Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Bogart, and the Dead End Kids for ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES,
turning that into a genre classic in a matter of days—imagine the train wreck Antonioni would make of that.
Those two 5-star melodramas, MILDRED PIERCE and CASABLANCA, wound up being
solid entertainment, the latter of which is an icon of cinema.
That’s something Godard couldn’t manage, not with all the kings horses and all the king’s men.
Of course, he wouldn’t want to, anymore than Curtiz might desire (or manage) to expand the horizons of the cinema experience.
Takes all kinds, the man once said.
Tonight they are showing all 3 films in the Early Films of Samuel Fuller eclipse set and a documentary of him afterward as part of the Men Who Make Movies series.
>>Cutiz is not an auteur, thank God.
He was something far more useful at Warners circa 1933s and 40s: one of those geniuses of the system.<<
Maybe I’m wrong, but I do think Curtiz is an auteur & it’s because he was a genius of the system. I love the way he moved from genre to genre, tackling whatever flavor of the month the studio was pushing, yet all the while his films are recognizably his. MILDRED PIERCE may seem like an atypical venture, but watch the scene where Crawford comes down the spiral staircase to discover her husband and her daughter canoodling. The camera angles & the German Expressionist/Noir shadows are pure Curtiz as much as the gigantic shadows of sword-fighting on the walls in the swashbucklers. Yes his technique changed (shall we say grew?) over time, but i don’t think he can be said to have lost his way until the Doris Day musicals.
Anything coming up soon?
It seems like there hasn’t been much of excitement on here lately, or am I just missing it?
Drew: They’ve been having ‘Summer Under the Stars’ so the films, imo, have been hit-and-miss.
A Dorothy Arzner film on Tuesday. A lot of Frank Borzage in the fall.
“Marnie, you’re achin’ mah leg.”
lol, Banal1 – that reminds me one of my all time favorite lines: “We don’t talk smahrrt about the Bye-bull in this house.”
Star of the month in September is Bernard Herrmann. Really looking forward to this. 16 films that he did the scores for.
Ergh. I miss TCM.
Me too. :(
Stars in My Crown, the Jacques Tourneur film is coming on Friday. I don’t think it’s on DVD anywhere so this is pretty good news.
Next Wednesday (June 30th) on TCM, Anthony Mann:
6 AM – Two O’ Clock Courage
7:15 – Desperate
8:30 – Border Incident
10:15 – Side Street
12 PM – The Naked Spur
1:45 – God’s Little Acre
3:45 – Man of the West
5:30 – Cimmaron (1960)
They’ve been showing a lot of hard to find John Huston films lately too:
Fat City, The Dead, Sinful Davy, and others.
Glad this thread got brought back up. Following
Also glad this thread was brought up!
Over the next week I’d recommend:
23Jun – The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Capra)
23Jun – Seven Women (Ford)
23Jun – 55 Days at Peking (Borzage)
23Jun – China Doll (Borzage)
(Won’t find four better and more different films in a row than those above!)
24Jun – Small Town Girl (Wellman) [haven’t seen it but doubt it’s not great]
24Jun – Men in War (mann)
24Jun – This is Korea (Ford)
24Jun – I Want You (Robson) [haven’t seen it but probably interesting]
25Jun – Deep End (Skolimowski)
26Jun – Hangmen Also Die (Lang)
26Jun – Bedlam (Robson)
I was setting my DVR for the week when I posted the above, Daniel, and coincidentally selected most of the same films you posted. Just to correct a typo, 55 Days at Peking is Nick Ray, not Borzage.
Max Ophuls’ Caught will be playing on March 21st at 10:15 PM EST.
Christopher Langford
Tonight’s Bergman’s night on TCM – look back at the post from Justin. My DVR is getting a workout.