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Vertigo isn't in my top Hitchcock films. I get what he was trying to do, it just didn't work.

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  • If TCM was discontinued or stopped hosting non-interrupted movies I would drop DirecTV.

  • Strangers on a Train on now and then North by Northwest.

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    Good POW double feature following The Bridge Over River Kwai.

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12 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Pretty hot takes on what's considered one of the 5 best movies ever made

He’s probably feeling a little lightheaded … 

11 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Pretty hot takes on what's considered one of the 5 best movies ever made

By whom? Do you let other people tell you what’s good or do you decide for yourself? I’ve never heard Vertigo rated as a top 5 film of all time. I wouldn’t put it in the top 5 of the Hitchcock catalog let alone of all time cinema. Not even remotely close. 

13 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

By whom? Do you let other people tell you what’s good or do you decide for yourself? I’ve never heard Vertigo rated as a top 5 film of all time. I wouldn’t put it in the top 5 of the Hitchcock catalog let alone of all time cinema. Not even remotely close. 

It comes in just after the first 4 Fast and the Furious movies

On 6/28/2021 at 6:36 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

By whom? Do you let other people tell you what’s good or do you decide for yourself? I’ve never heard Vertigo rated as a top 5 film of all time. I wouldn’t put it in the top 5 of the Hitchcock catalog let alone of all time cinema. Not even remotely close. 

It is nowhere near as bad as Marnie.

I think it is the worst Hitchcock film of all time.

I wasn't one of Vertigo's biggest fans either. 

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The Asphalt Jungle is one of the greatest film noir movies ever made. Sterling Hayden shines.

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Robert Mitchum day today. Some really good films in the lineup.

32 minutes ago, RPM said:

Robert Mitchum day today. Some really good films in the lineup.

Robert Mitchum, and Kirk Douglass, the best cleft chins in the business.

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2 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Robert Mitchum, and Kirk Douglass, the best cleft chins in the business.

And they are both in Out of the Past with Jane Greer tonight at 7. Awesome flick.

It occurred to me yesterday that I haven't watched a movie on TCM in quite some time. Seems like it has been sorta lame lately. The few good movies are ones you've seen a zillion times and the rest is the whatever lame statement of the week.

1 minute ago, DougO said:

It occurred to me yesterday that I haven't watched a movie on TCM in quite some time. Seems like it has been sorta lame lately. The few good movies are ones you've seen a zillion times and the rest is the whatever lame statement of the week.

It has been kinda lame. Way too much color going on.

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4 hours ago, miguelito said:

Abbott and Costello all day Saturday.

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9 hours ago, miguelito said:

Abbott and Costello all day Saturday.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is still one of the all time great comedies.

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is still one of the all time great comedies.

Buck Privates is my favorite. 

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TCM is tricking things up again with a new logo. I wonder what else are they going to screw with?

A lot, apparently.

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Never knew how much I like Wyler movies.

Saw Dead End and with additions of thinking highly of Best Years of Our Lives, Little Foxes, The Letter and Dodsworth.  Big Country was a good band and an ok movie.  There's some I resist seeing due to perceived cloyingness such as Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday and Mrs. Miniver and a general annoyance in watching Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.

What good Wyler movies am I missing?

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8 minutes ago, dogbreath said:

There's some I resist seeing due to perceived cloyingness such as Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday and Mrs. Miniver

Both of those films are straight up classics. Avoiding them is just... dumb.

Wyler rules. Greer Garson and Myrna Loy are pure smoke. And Wuthering Heights made me have a severe teenage crush on Merle Oberon.

Gameday notwithstanding, decent TCM lineup today.  Starting at 12:45pm:

Sweet Smell of Success

West Side Story

The Producers

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Hustler

some Mickey Rooney flick

The Last Picture Show

On 6/29/2021 at 9:13 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

It is nowhere near as bad as Marnie.

Vertigo is a great film.  It's not as good, in terms of being an enjoyable movie, as just about all the Hitchcock films I've seen, including Marnie - which is fucking great.

Maybe it's Kim Novak's fault, or Jimmy Stewart's.  But it's almost certainly my fault.

Dave Kehr wrote in The Chicago Reader that while the film was "universally despised on its first release, Marnie remains one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest and darkest achievements" as "theme and technique meet on the highest level of film art."[24]Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker that he considered it "Hitchcock's best film."[25] In her 2012 review of the film Emily Cleaver of The Guardian wrote: "The opening shots of Marnie are Hitchcock's ideal of visual storytelling at its purest, and the rest of the film is an underrated gem."[26]

Edith Oliver of The New Yorker called the film "an idiotic and trashy movie with two terrible performances in the leading roles, and I had quite a good time watching it. There is something bracing about Hitchcock at work, even when he is at his worst."[19]

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58 minutes ago, miguelito said:

some Mickey Rooney flick

That's the Noir Alley flick for this week. Drive a Crooked Road is better than decent.

 

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This week's Noir Alley is pretty good. Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford in Human Desire.

Liked Eddie having Dana Delaney as a guest. He's a good interviewer. On the other hand I've given it some time and I've really come to hate the new TCM interstitial themes and logo. It doesn't fit. There's no nostalgia to it and that's 99% of the reason people watch. Ted's dead. What ya gonna do?

Gloria is such underrated classic smoke.

I've got probably 10+ Noir Alley films on the DVR.  Just waiting for a rainy day.

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Jason and the Argonauts (1963) on at 7 tonight, you poor little children.

Fighting skeletons and giants is bad enough without having to do it without your pants on.

Terrified me from my earliest memories.  Every time I see a big statue I expect it to do this to me. 

 

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Rio Lobo. It only occurred to me when watching it tonight that the opening scene is very James Bondish. What a dang near perfect western.

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It was so good The Duke remade it with Robert Mitchum in '66 and called it El Dorado.

11 hours ago, RPM said:

It was so good The Duke remade it with Robert Mitchum in '66 and called it El Dorado.

Yep, even same director. But not quite as good as the Dean version.

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Park Row by Sam Fuller.  Fuller did it all as no studio was interested in journalism's early days. Enjoyed it and it led me to this article where the writer objected to the schmaltz and self-congratulatory AFI list at the time.  I haven't seen half of what's on this guy's list, but do agree that there is some crap on the AFI list at the time (1998), 

list-o-mania

 

FYI

 

If you have not listened to any of the podcasts called The Plot Thickens with Ben Mankiewicz you are missing out.

The third one is out and is about Lucille Ball. It is fascinating and very well produced.

I really enjoyed The Plot Thickens about Bogdanovich when I listened to it last year. The extra interviews with other stars and directors were a great bonus.

The second one really lost me. I made it through the first episode and just never went back. It's hard to get interested in a bad movie that I never cared about, and the kickoff episode didn't do much to convince me otherwise. Maybe I'll give it another shot later.

First two episodes of the Lucy podcast were interesting, but I haven't picked it back up in a few weeks. Been preoccupied with other stuff.

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5 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

If you have not listened to any of the podcasts called The Plot Thickens with Ben Mankiewicz you are missing out.

The third one is out and is about Lucille Ball. It is fascinating and very well produced.

Just finished it this morning. It was great. Some of the finer details of her life - how she grew up, her career, and her marriage, are painful to hear. I didn't know how much I didn't know about someone that was such a significant player in American television. Including this:

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Lucy green lit "Star Trek" when the executives at Desilu were telling her it would be too expensive to produce and a sure failure.

5 hours ago, DougO said:

I really enjoyed The Plot Thickens about Bogdanovich when I listened to it last year. The extra interviews with other stars and directors were a great bonus.

The second one really lost me. I made it through the first episode and just never went back. It's hard to get interested in a bad movie that I never cared about, and the kickoff episode didn't do much to convince me otherwise. Maybe I'll give it another shot later.

First two episodes of the Lucy podcast were interesting, but I haven't picked it back up in a few weeks. Been preoccupied with other stuff.

This was me exactly.

Did not really listen to number 2 adter the first episode.

I am about halfway through Lucy and love it (no pun intended).

You are spot on about the first one.

It was cool to hear John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart cuss. Ha!

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American Pop just started. Haven't seen it in years.

 

On 12/17/2021 at 11:23 AM, DougO said:

I really enjoyed The Plot Thickens about Bogdanovich when I listened to it last year. The extra interviews with other stars and directors were a great bonus.

The second one really lost me. I made it through the first episode and just never went back. It's hard to get interested in a bad movie that I never cared about, and the kickoff episode didn't do much to convince me otherwise. Maybe I'll give it another shot later.

First two episodes of the Lucy podcast were interesting, but I haven't picked it back up in a few weeks. Been preoccupied with other stuff.

Boy, that's about me, although I think the 2nd clearly made me a bit more reluctant to get into the Lucy one. 

2 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Boy, that's about me, although I think the 2nd clearly made me a bit more reluctant to get into the Lucy one. 

I still haven't gone back to continue Lucy version.

They’re about to fire up Burden of Dreams, the documentary about Werner Herzog making Fitzcarraldo

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The Great Escape just started.

If you release sheep into a new pasture they’ll all make a beeline to the tallest grass. You release goats and they first investigate the perimeter fence.

When they arrive at the prison camp everybody heads to the bunks except McQueen, James Garner, Charlie Bronson and a couple of others. Hadn’t noticed that before. Nice touch 

3 minutes ago, mr. sunshine said:

The Great Escape just started.

If you release sheep into a new pasture they’ll all make a beeline to the tallest grass. You release goats and they first investigate the perimeter fence.

When they arrive at the prison camp everybody heads to the bunks except McQueen, James Garner, Charlie Bronson and a couple of others. Hadn’t noticed that before. Nice touch 

Good POW double feature following The Bridge Over River Kwai.

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It's Desi Arnaz day. 

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Cheyenne Social Club is on. Shirley Jones is quite the fetching Madame. 

Caught a lot of Forever Darling yesterday with Des and Lucy, first scene I catch has Ms Hathaway and Mrs Thurston Howell III, Lucien, in it.  Cute movie. 

7 hours ago, RPM said:

Cheyenne Social Club is on. Shirley Jones is quite the fetching Madame. 

No doubt. 

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