June 27, 20214 yr Author Vertigo isn't in my top Hitchcock films. I get what he was trying to do, it just didn't work.
June 27, 20214 yr 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 …
June 28, 20214 yr 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.
June 29, 20214 yr 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
June 29, 20214 yr 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.
July 31, 20214 yr The Asphalt Jungle is one of the greatest film noir movies ever made. Sterling Hayden shines.Sent from my moto g stylus 5G using Tapatalk
August 6, 20214 yr 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.
August 6, 20214 yr Author 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.
August 6, 20214 yr 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.
August 6, 20214 yr 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.
August 7, 20214 yr 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.
August 7, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is still one of the all time great comedies. Buck Privates is my favorite.
September 3, 20214 yr Author TCM is tricking things up again with a new logo. I wonder what else are they going to screw with? A lot, apparently. Edited September 3, 20214 yr by RPM
September 6, 20214 yr 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?
September 6, 20214 yr Author 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.
September 7, 20214 yr Wyler rules. Greer Garson and Myrna Loy are pure smoke. And Wuthering Heights made me have a severe teenage crush on Merle Oberon.
September 11, 20214 yr 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
September 11, 20214 yr 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.
September 11, 20214 yr 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]
September 11, 20214 yr Author 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.
September 19, 20214 yr Author 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?
September 20, 20214 yr I've got probably 10+ Noir Alley films on the DVR. Just waiting for a rainy day.
October 22, 20214 yr 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.
November 20, 20214 yr 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.
November 20, 20214 yr Author It was so good The Duke remade it with Robert Mitchum in '66 and called it El Dorado.
November 20, 20214 yr 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.
December 14, 20214 yr 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
December 17, 20214 yr 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.
December 17, 20214 yr 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. Edited December 17, 20214 yr by DougO
December 17, 20214 yr 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: Lucy green lit "Star Trek" when the executives at Desilu were telling her it would be too expensive to produce and a sure failure.
December 17, 20214 yr 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!
January 24, 20223 yr 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.
January 24, 20223 yr 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.
January 29, 20223 yr They’re about to fire up Burden of Dreams, the documentary about Werner Herzog making Fitzcarraldo
February 12, 20223 yr 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
February 12, 20223 yr 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.
February 23, 20223 yr 9 hours ago, RPM said: It's Desi Arnaz day. Desi had a bad day at Bataan today.
February 23, 20223 yr 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.
February 23, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, RPM said: Cheyenne Social Club is on. Shirley Jones is quite the fetching Madame. No doubt.
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