It is now time for marvelous 1962 to take the stage, one of the best years for films. Next up will be 1984. 1962 (Films Seen: 87) The Best: 1 To Kill a Mockingbird 2 The L-Shaped Room 3 The Counterfeit Traitor 4 Sundays and Cybele 5 Long Day's Journey Into Night 6 All Fall Down 7 Advise and Consent ...

I watched the end of "My Fair Lady." The best part. Love Audrey Hepburn but Rex Harrison is such a jerk. After the movie was the hilarious promo for the WB tours. Someone may have watched the drag race scene from American Graffiti. Then a promo for Max. Is Max going to be the streaming ho...

The Song of Bernadette

Next: a Church service (continuing in the same theme)

TCM programming dept.: "Whose birthday should we celebrate for May 2nd?" -- "How about Theodore Bikel?" -- "Great!" LOL Bless their hearts. (but then they don't even schedule I BURY THE LIVING) Bikel is an offbeat choice. There aren't too many people involved with film...

I wrote about it on the I Just Watched thread, but I am still stunned and somewhat mortified that last year's film The holdovers went so far as to include a fake 1971 copyright in its opening credits to try to feel more like a 70s film.

Assorted notes.... The Upside of Anger (2005) was a little less than 20 years ago, but it feels like a bygone era of major studio moviemaking, being the saga of an acerbic middle-aged woman (Joan Allen) left with a major chip on her shoulder after her husband vanishes from the scene, her relationshi...

Write-ups from Criterion's website..... Ones I've already seen in bold. 1999 It’s been twenty-five years since cinema bid the twentieth century farewell with an extraordinary batch of films. In retrospect, 1999 was a time of intriguing cross-pollinations between the studios and independents, nationa...

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Truthfully, Shearer and Howard both give marvelous performances in the 1936 version.

What about Andy Devine and Edna May Oliver?

Edna May Oliver was rather earthy but worked quite well. Andy Devine was a curious pick.

My favorite line in the original THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, from Ben Stiller: "We had a bomb scare in the Bronx yesterday but it turned out to be a cantelope" PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE tomorrow! (Wednesday) Good line alright here Bronxie, but, and while I hate to be a stickler here...

I remember the Breathless remake being ok. Not great, but not awful (if you didn't compare it to the original) I don't remember that much about it. Think it was based in L.A. It was. I guess if a famous French film which had starred an American actress came to be remade, it was a nice, snappy idea ...

I am totally with you on AMERICAN BEAUTY. I didn't see it when it was in theaters, but when I did see it, I was like YUCK! I gave the movie a half star on Letterboxd. Good for you for giving it half a star on Letterboxd. I think I gave it 1 and a half, mostly because I did like Annette Bening's per...

It turns out the May schedule has Breathless , not Godard's first film which TCM has shown fairly frequently, but the 1983 remake starring Richard Gere. It also has Switching Channels , by common consent everybody's least favorite version of The Front Page . Might as well test that view. It seems a...

The 1983 remake of Breathless is the one where Richard Gere shows off the family jewels. That's all I remember about it! Bingo Long is one I'd like to see. Yes, that was unusual for a male star at the time. Still is. Yes, was going to say that I never saw the Breathless remake, but I remember heari...

Rewatched a large portion of Victor/Victoria last night. Still holds up very well, and it is one of Blake Edwards' finest hours. Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren should have won the supporting Oscars that year.

Now is the time for 1939. Next up will be 1962. 1939 (Films Seen:110) The Best: 1 Gone with the Wind 2 The Wizard of Oz 3 Goodbye Mr. Chips 4 Midnight 5 The Old Maid 6 Intermezzo 7 The Women 8 Drums Along the Mohawk 9 Love Affair 10 Ninotchka 11 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 12 Beau Geste 13 Dark Vic...