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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 28, 2017 15:19:12 GMT -5
Check TCM On Demand, Crusader; it may be on of the available titles now. I just checked and it's not there on my TCM on Demand yet, but I have a friend who is a Tuesday Weld fan and he might loan me his DVD and I've haven't heard from him - via e-mail yet. Thanks for the tip. Sometimes, if a movie's going to appear there, it's usually not the next day, but two days after, so check again tomorrow, cc.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 15:21:59 GMT -5
I just checked and it's not there on my TCM on Demand yet, but I have a friend who is a Tuesday Weld fan and he might loan me his DVD and I've haven't heard from him - via e-mail yet. Thanks for the tip. Sometimes, if a movie's going to appear there, it's usually not the next day, but two days after, so check again tomorrow, cc. I do that and thanks for suggesting it.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 28, 2017 20:07:03 GMT -5
Just finished our family's annual watching of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Even though I've probably seen it 20+ times, if not 30 or more, I still love singing the songs along with the movie, which is made more fun now because my daughters join in.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 29, 2017 14:10:38 GMT -5
Repulsion (1965) An introverted young woman's monotonous life leads her to slowly descend into madness culminating in violent outbursts where she murders her boyfriend and then her landlord. There are some interesting visuals in the later half of the movie that depict her gradually losing her mind. I felt the hands coming out of the walls to be pretty disturbing. I think the ending is really interesting and it left me wondering whether she actually killed anyone of it it was all just in her head the whole time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 17:54:45 GMT -5
Watched Run Silent Run Deep starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster this afternoon on TCM. I just loved the tension and the drama that goes with this film. Later on, I will watch the two Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee. I haven't seen these movies before.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 29, 2017 23:38:05 GMT -5
Watched Run Silent Run Deep starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster this afternoon on TCM. I just loved the tension and the drama that goes with this film. Later on, I will watch the two Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee. I haven't seen these movies before. Probably the greatest submarine movie, until Das Boot came along.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 30, 2017 0:02:55 GMT -5
Just finished watching Murphy's Romance with my wife. She has a batch of movies she plays as background noise, to help calm her (she suffers from depression and anxiety). I've heard it playing; but, we decided to watch it, while eating dinner. It's a wonderful little gentle tale of a single mother (Sally Field) who has bought an old horse ranch and stables, in a small western town and tries to get by. She meets up with the town pharmacists, Murphy, played by James Garner. A romance slowly builds, though it is sidetracked by the reappearance of her immature ex-husband. The film is just a delight, as Field and Garner have great chemistry together and the film just exudes some good old fashioned common sense, honest emotion, and a gentle story. It was sold as a romantic comedy and there is some humor; but, what it really is is a true romance. The film is so well written and acted, filled with lots of great character actors will have you trying to remember where you've seen them before. Corey Haim, just before the teen idol thing got out of hand, plays Fields' son. One of the best scenes, which was shown frequently when they were originally promoting the film... Garner is just great in the film and Sally Field is right there with him. He has a nice scene with Corey Haim. Just prior to it, there was a poker game with Sally, Garner, Corey and Sally's ex-where Murphy catches him dealing off the bottom of the deck. he asks to speak to him on the porch and lets him know he saw what he was doing and that it was just a game for matches; a game with his son. The ex blows it off. That is followed with an outing at the movies, which turns out to be a slasher film. Murphy is turned off by it and the boy soon follows him. Murphy tells him he once worked a summer in a slaughterhouse and he doesn't need to pay good money to be reminded of it. he shares a Lifesaver with Corey and Corey says he knows his father, who is still inside, was cheating in the card game. Murphy just replies that whether he grows up to be like his father is up to him. It's just a simple statement; but filled with wisdom that the boy needs, desperately. It's a film for the rest of America, while other films were aiming at the "sophisticated" audiences on the coast. It's small town life, small town people, and just people living their life and falling in love. We could use more films like it, as Hollywood has forgotten how to do them and certainly hasn't had the same level of writing in some time. It's a masterclass through and through.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 30, 2017 0:14:12 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of Jim Garner. I really love the film. Feels like where and when I grew up.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 30, 2017 7:55:43 GMT -5
Murphy's Romance perfectly captures small town rural America. Reminds me so much of summers spent visiting my grandparents and the small Arizona retirement towns they moved in/out of and Payson the small town up in the mountains where they finally settled into. Looove this gentle, intelligent and touching movie about life and relationships.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 30, 2017 13:33:29 GMT -5
I'm a coastal big-city person but I thoroughly enjoyed Murphy's Romance.
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Post by Jesse on Nov 1, 2017 2:50:17 GMT -5
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) I've been meaning to watch this for awhile and finally found the time and opportunity to watch it on TCM On Demand. It's a long film to sit through but it's pretty entertaining. Honestly it doesn't get better than Bette Davis and Joan Crawford chewing the scenery together. There are moments on screen where it feels like you can see the real life tension between the two actors and their rivalry itself is pretty interesting. Davis plays a bratty child star grown into a hopeless alcoholic who believes she is responsible for crippling her sister and at times her performance is haunting. There's this great contrast between the sisters; Blanche is meek, kind and disabled while Jane is ... the devil. There's also a great performance from Victor Buono who played King Tut in the 60s Batman TV series. The build up to the climax is incredibly tense and suspenseful and the reveal at the end is genuinely moving. I can't recommend this one enough!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 3:27:37 GMT -5
Looking at the Month of November Schedule of Turner Classic Movies - this is the weakness month of programming that I ever saw in my 30 plus years of watching TCM. There are 2-3 movies that I would like to see and that's pretty much sum up that month.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2017 9:05:38 GMT -5
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) I've been meaning to watch this for awhile and finally found the time and opportunity to watch it on TCM On Demand. It's a long film to sit through but it's pretty entertaining. Honestly it doesn't get better than Bette Davis and Joan Crawford chewing the scenery together. There are moments on screen where it feels like you can see the real life tension between the two actors and their rivalry itself is pretty interesting. Davis plays a bratty child star grown into a hopeless alcoholic who believes she is responsible for crippling her sister and at times her performance is haunting. There's this great contrast between the sisters; Blanche is meek, kind and disabled while Jane is ... the devil. There's also a great performance from Victor Buono who played King Tut in the 60s Batman TV series. The build up to the climax is incredibly tense and suspenseful and the reveal at the end is genuinely moving. I can't recommend this one enough! That is seriously one creepy movie; from the way it is shot, to the performances, to just about everything. There was a tv movie version, in 1991, with the stunt casting of real sisters Lynn and Vanessa redgrave that was decent, in its own right; but fails in comparison. Lynn was especially deranged and I think she had a bit of fun torturing Vanessa. John Glover essentially plays the Victor Buono character, with a name change and some other elements altered. It would have been really interesting to see it done by Haley and Juliet Mills. Pollyana turns psycho and tortures Nanny, for years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 12:39:17 GMT -5
Watched the Original Godzilla Film - Uncut version, with Japanese/English subtitles and Restored. It was nice to see this version and always a classic horror movie & since then always a somber and respected movie of Japanese citizens having to go through a crisis of unthinkable horror that ever graced the silver screen.
I've seen this over and over again and always reminds a favorite of mine.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 1, 2017 13:22:08 GMT -5
I saw a lot of films from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list in October. This doesn't include a few movies from the List that I've seen before, like Dracula and Eyes Without a Face. Daybreak (le jour se leve) (1939) - Jean Gabin is a guy who killed his rival and then sits in his apartment and waits for the gendarmes, reminiscing about the events that led up to the murder. Fires Were Started (1943) - An interesting (and short) wartime documentary about the firefighters who rode around London, putting out fires caused by Nazi bombs during the Blitz. Force of Evil (1948) - John Garfield is a crooked lawyer running a huge scam on the New York numbers racket. Marie Windsor makes the most of her small part (as always) and Thomas Gomez does an awesome job as Garfield's brother. High Society (1956) - I liked this a lot better than I thought I would. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly are wonderful! And Sinatra has a great number with Celeste Holm about how much it must suck to be rich. Mondo Cane (1962) - I still can't get over the fish living in trees! But the most stunning thing about this movie is not skinned dogs in pots. It's the blatant racism and sexism in the narration. Black God, White Devil (1964) - Brazilian movies are awesome! I think. I wasn't always certain what was going on. The Spider's Stratagem (1970) - The List has a lot of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci. The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - Charles Grodin and Cybil Sheppard rock this film. Directed by Elaine May. Nashville (1975) - I've been wanting to see this for decades, quite independently of the List. It was worth the wait. All the star wrote their own country songs, so there's a bit of a weird This Is Spinal Tap or A Mighty Wind vibe to some of the performances. Henry Gibson's hyper-nationalist song about America's awesomeness is genius in its lameness. It sounds like a real country song that I would hear on the radio that would make me roll my eyes. Grease (1978) - I've seen parts of this, going all the way back to the late 1970s when it was on cable all the time. And I still have a huge crush on Didi Conn! But I'd never seen the whole thing until a few weeks ago. It's pretty awesome. And now I have a new crush on Dinah Manoff! Bull Durham (1988) - I should have seen this a long time ago! I loved it that Susan Sarandon was listening to Edith Piaf. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) - A Russian film about ... I don't know exactly. If I was going to single out one movie every month as being the least likely to interest most film buffs, I would pick this one for October. I liked it though. I think I've just seen so many experimental, avant-garde films at this point that I've learned to appreciate them a lot more than I used to. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) - The editors of the List sure do love documentaries about Aileen Wuronos. The Pillow Book (1996) - The greatest movie ever made about how to get revenge on the depraved publisher who ruined your father. Write books on peoples' naked bodies and have them go to his house until he kills himself. So weird! Peter Greenaway is a FREAK! Good Bye Lenin! (2003) - A German comedy about the fall of Communism in East Berlin. It stars Daniel Bruhl, the guy who killed all the Allied soldiers from the church tower in the movie-within-the-movie in Inglourious Basterds.
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