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post #51 of 312
3/20/08 at 11:15am
Yes, and I believe Leonard Whiting was only 17. Zefferelli wanted real teenagers to play the parts, since that's what Romeo and Juliet were, they were just kids.

Which was one of the things my professor was quick to point out about the 1936 version - "Wait till you see a 35 year old Juliet, introduced to us in soft focus, petting a deer, no less!"
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post #52 of 312
3/20/08 at 11:23am
Remember when AMC was like TCM? I almost don't. But, I would flip between the two in the evenings.
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post #53 of 312
3/20/08 at 11:24am
TCM makes paying for television a value proposition.
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post #54 of 312
3/21/08 at 4:15am
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I flipped it on and was treated to Olivier's Hamlet followed by Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Not bad, not bad at all.
It was an all Shakespeare night. Macbeth was on before Hamlet, but can't remember what came on after R&J.

Caught 12 Angry Men for the first time on TCM last week. Great film, just great.
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post #55 of 312
3/21/08 at 5:13pm
We get it here in Europe too. Great. I used to watch movies at my mom and dad's because I don't have the service and my dad used to subscribe (he doesn't anymore because he has seen more or less every movie worth watching like 3 or 4 times...)
Honestly, there is no better TV channel for a movie fan.
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post #56 of 312
3/22/08 at 1:31am
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Caught 12 Angry Men for the first time on TCM last week. Great film, just great.
Same here, it was the 1st time I had seen it. All the personalities in the room seemed to come out with such little effort. It was amazing to watch.
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post #57 of 312
4/16/08 at 1:53pm
Alec Baldwin talking to Gene Wilder on that "Role Model" show was really great. Hope it's a series and not a one-off thing.
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post #58 of 312
4/16/08 at 1:55pm
Man, I wish I'd known about this yesterday. Are they re-airing this show?
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post #59 of 312
4/16/08 at 2:04pm
The Wilder/Baldwin show and The Producers right after was great stuff.
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post #60 of 312
4/16/08 at 2:06pm
They had a Heston marathon this last weekend. If I hadn't seen most of his Oscar nom/winners recently I'd have watched the movies again.
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post #61 of 312
4/16/08 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 View Post
Alec Baldwin talking to Gene Wilder on that "Role Model" show was really great. Hope it's a series and not a one-off thing.
If they could do one of these a month,that would be great.
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post #62 of 312
4/16/08 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by WayDen View Post
Caught 12 Angry Men for the first time on TCM last week. Great film, just great.
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Same here, it was the 1st time I had seen it. All the personalities in the room seemed to come out with such little effort. It was amazing to watch.
I don't want to presume what kind of viewers you guys are, but I will say that if on the first viewing you were (rightfully) engrossed by the story and the performances, watch the film at least one more time and look at how brilliantly Lumet shot it, what he does with the background and foreground, how he plays with physical space in the room. It's just fucking remarkable.
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post #63 of 312
4/20/08 at 10:51pm
I realize I'm super late posting this, but it's a Jules Dassin doublefeature tonight on TCM:

THE NAKED CITY (8 pm)

TOPKAPI (9:45 pm)

Also, at 4 am they're airing KILLER OF SHEEP. Thank Christ for DVR.
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post #64 of 312
4/21/08 at 10:38am
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Originally Posted by Jonathan Banks is my hero View Post
I don't want to presume what kind of viewers you guys are, but I will say that if on the first viewing you were (rightfully) engrossed by the story and the performances, watch the film at least one more time and look at how brilliantly Lumet shot it, what he does with the background and foreground, how he plays with physical space in the room. It's just fucking remarkable.
Actually, the few times I've heard the ovie brought up on CHUD, people have mentioned Lumet's work, so I just wanted to emphasize a different aspect to love.

But yeah, the filming is just great. I love how he framed everything when the jurors all stepped away during the racist rant.
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post #65 of 312
4/21/08 at 11:07am
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Originally Posted by Jonathan Banks is my hero View Post
I don't want to presume what kind of viewers you guys are, but I will say that if on the first viewing you were (rightfully) engrossed by the story and the performances, watch the film at least one more time and look at how brilliantly Lumet shot it, what he does with the background and foreground, how he plays with physical space in the room. It's just fucking remarkable.
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Originally Posted by R A Smith View Post
Actually, the few times I've heard the ovie brought up on CHUD, people have mentioned Lumet's work, so I just wanted to emphasize a different aspect to love.

But yeah, the filming is just great. I love how he framed everything when the jurors all stepped away during the racist rant.
Just one of my favorite, favorite movies on earth, and I'll stop what I'm doing and watch this whenever it's being shown. This is one of those movies I never get tired of, and always try to make time for if it's on. Lee J. Cobb's rant and subsequent break down at the end, "Not guilty, not guilty...." while he scrabbles for the torn up pieces of his son's photograph, is brilliant. Gets me everytime.

EDIT: Wow, a cool little coincidence just happened. I just went to my Netflix queue to see what was coming next for me. Back last June, 12 Angry Men was the very first movie from Netflix that I received when I started my account. Today I clicked on my account, and the suggestion there was: "Because you liked 12 Angry Men, may we suggest Anatomy of a Murder."
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post #66 of 312
4/21/08 at 6:20pm
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Man, I wish I'd known about this yesterday. Are they re-airing this show?
Not sure when it's going to be aired again but if you have on demand service then check the TCM listings (mine has the show)
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post #67 of 312
4/22/08 at 9:22pm
TCM has become my default Channel.
But anybody else impressed by Rose McGowan as the co-host for The Essentials...and not just by her looks? She seems much more knowledgable about film then Carrie Fisher did.
Looking forward to the Sinatra salute next month. They are not only showing his great movies, but some of the real dogs as well ("the Kissing Bandit",which Sinatra felt about the same way that Lucas feels about "The Star Wars Holiday Special".)
I really like that they are showing some of Sinatra's Television specials, which have not been aired for years. "Sinatra;A Man And His Music" and "Old Blue Eyes Is Back". Nice idea.
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post #68 of 312
4/22/08 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 View Post
Not sure when it's going to be aired again but if you have on demand service then check the TCM listings (mine has the show)
Eureka! I didn't even know TCM had a section in On Demand. They really buried it in about five different sub-menus, didn't they?

Thanks for the heads up.
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post #69 of 312
5/6/08 at 12:22pm
Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey tonight.
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post #70 of 312
5/6/08 at 12:29pm
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But anybody else impressed by Rose McGowan as the co-host for The Essentials...and not just by her looks? She seems much more knowledgable about film then Carrie Fisher did.
You must be high.
Higher even than Carrie Fisher.
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post #71 of 312
5/17/08 at 2:10pm
Seven Samurai Sunday. 2:00am Central time.

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post #72 of 312
5/20/08 at 2:02pm
It's Jimmy Stewert's 100th birthday today. Tune in for a fucking great line up this evening: Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Anatomy of a Murder, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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post #73 of 312
5/20/08 at 2:18pm
Excellent. Never seen Liberty Valance.
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post #74 of 312
5/20/08 at 3:19pm
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It's Jimmy Stewert's 100th birthday today. Tune in for a fucking great line up this evening: Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Anatomy of a Murder, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Nice! My evening is now planned. Vertigo starts at 5:45 Eastern, followed by the rest. Vertigo isn't my favorite Hitchcock, but it is still good. I have to ditto Ratty in never seeing Liberty Valance.
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post #75 of 312
5/20/08 at 4:14pm
Thanks for the heads up!
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post #76 of 312
5/20/08 at 4:17pm
Those of you seeing Liberty Valence for the first time are in for a treat. Not only is Stewert great, it's one of Ford's best Westerns AND has Wayne's second best performance (first, obviously, The Searchers). Great black and white cinematography, too.
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post #77 of 312
5/20/08 at 4:19pm
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Those of you seeing Liberty Valence for the first time are in for a treat. Not only is Stewert great, it's one of Ford's best Westerns AND has Wayne's second best performance (first, obviously, The Searchers). Great black and white cinematography, too.
Love the Biff-esque Lee Marvin, too!
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post #78 of 312
5/20/08 at 4:37pm
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Originally Posted by Greg Clark View Post
It's Jimmy Stewert's 100th birthday today. Tune in for a fucking great line up this evening: Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Anatomy of a Murder, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Excllent! You're officially my new favorite person in the world for posting this, thanks!
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post #79 of 312
5/21/08 at 2:43pm
Tomorrow night they're playing the "Spielberg on Spielberg" program that first showed on TCM about a year ago. They'll show it twice. Once after an airing of JAWS, then after an airing of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (that 2nd airing will be followed by 1941).

It's a pretty good account of his career as told by him. Though I recall some dudes around here had a period over him not talking about HOOK. Boo-friggin-hoo.
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post #80 of 312
5/21/08 at 2:51pm
Great news. I missed it the first time they showed it.
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post #81 of 312
5/21/08 at 2:58pm
The first airing is set for 10:15 PM Thursday night and the second for 2:30 AM Friday morning. But check your listings because it may differ by timezone and cable company.
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post #82 of 312
5/21/08 at 3:14pm
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I know this isn't the best place to mention this, but I'm really loving the new DVR scheduler app on the DirecTV website. For instance, I read on CHUD about something airing on TCM, and before I forget, I hop over to the DirecTV site, tell it to record the show on my living room DVR, and BAM! everything is taken care of. What a great feature, and it works like a charm!
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Thanks for the heads up on the Spielberg show, Molt!
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post #83 of 312
5/21/08 at 3:16pm
I still have that SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG DVR'd from the last time.
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post #84 of 312
5/21/08 at 4:28pm
I'm gonna watch 1941 for the first time this weekend, maybe that will make Indy 4 the best Spielberg film of the weekend
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post #85 of 312
5/21/08 at 8:20pm
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I'm gonna watch 1941 for the first time this weekend, maybe that will make Indy 4 the best Spielberg film of the weekend
1941 is loud, juvenile and manic. I fucking love it.
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post #86 of 312
5/21/08 at 8:54pm
I wonder if they're showing the theatrical or director's cut of "1941"?
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post #87 of 312
5/21/08 at 8:58pm
It's slotted for two hours so it has to be the theatrical version.
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post #88 of 312
5/21/08 at 9:00pm
Cool. Haven't seen that version in forever.
Am I the only person disappointed with the Spielberg doc.? Great for the layman, but really nothing new.
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post #89 of 312
5/21/08 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty View Post
1941 is loud, juvenile and manic. I fucking love it.
Summed up by John Belushi shooting out the radio after the gas station attendant called him out

"Well, the radio is wrong!"

Well that and the naked lady wrapped around the periscope with the Japanesse guy screaming "HOLLYWOOD!!!"
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post #90 of 312
5/21/08 at 9:22pm
When I was six or seven, thanks to I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND & 1941, I thought Eddie Deezen was maybe the funniest guy on the planet. That scene on the ferris wheel used to make me laugh & laugh...Boy howdy, his career sure nose dived.
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post #91 of 312
5/22/08 at 10:36am
I think he jumped the shark with PUNKY BREWSTER.
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post #92 of 312
5/24/08 at 7:44pm
And thanks to getting called away on a shoot for two days, I missed the Spielberg special AGAIN. Dammit. Hopefully they'll make like Scorsese and put it as an eventual DVD special feature, hopefully for Indy 4 or Lincoln.
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post #93 of 312
6/2/08 at 5:39pm
While I know "classic" is a subjective term, I can fathom why Rush Hour 2 is on TCM's June schedule. It boggles the mind.
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post #94 of 312
6/2/08 at 6:04pm
It's part of their Asian Cinema series this month. I assume it's so the mouth breathers will recognize at least one movie they're showing. They did something similar years ago while doing a series on spy movies and spoofs, where they did a double feature of In Like Flint and Austin Powers.
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post #95 of 312
6/2/08 at 10:15pm
Also, there's a tribute in the schedule tonight for Sydney Pollack: The Slender Thread (on right now, a forgotten Sidney Poitier classic), followed by Three Days of the Condor, Tootsie and Jeramiah Johnson.
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post #96 of 312
6/21/08 at 2:24am
THE MOTHERFUCKING APPLE IS ON IN THIRTY-SIX MINUTES. All Nathan Rabin readers should be on red alert.
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post #97 of 312
6/21/08 at 7:02pm
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THE MOTHERFUCKING APPLE IS ON IN THIRTY-SIX MINUTES. All Nathan Rabin readers should be on red alert.
I had this scheduled to record on my DVR but the cable went out in my neighborhood overnight. I was hoping to glimpse upon this travesty.
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post #98 of 312
6/22/08 at 2:24am
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THE MOTHERFUCKING APPLE IS ON IN THIRTY-SIX MINUTES. All Nathan Rabin readers should be on red alert.
I watched that shit for the first time last night, that fucking ending.
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post #99 of 312
6/22/08 at 8:06pm
Love The Apple. Speeeeeeeeeeed!
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post #100 of 312
6/27/08 at 5:38pm
Tonight: YOR
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