Here's my script for my "fantasy" submission for the TCM Guest Programmer Contest. It is titled "The Bartender" for an all-too-appropriate reason. ( With a tip of the hat and heart-felt thanks to all the Classic Cinema College contributors from whom I took much inspiration .) THE...

When I was little, I would make time for every showing of The World, The Flesh and The Devil (The Harry Belafonte/Inger Stevens film) whenever it would show up on television. I don't know why I was so interested or entertained. Perhaps it was the idea of having an entire city to one's self in which ...

Hollis -
Keep an eye on the Encore Westerns Channel. They slip in a letterboxed film once in awhile.

This month the channel is showing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in a letterbox format. And I believe the channel has shown The Wild Bunch in letterbox also.

kjk

Hello Mr. Ark - Re: THE HAIRY APE Bendix is incredible in this film, one of the rare opportunities he had to carry the weight of a truly dramatic film. [snip] THE HAIRY APE suffers a bit from some crude direction, but overall an oddly compelling and emotionally solid (thanks to Bendix) film. Isn't ...

...with all these films being thrown out - Well, looks like I will have to pick and choose ;) I haven't seen A Street Car Named Desire either, as a matter of fact. I guess I should really check that one out. mrsl , what do you think of The Wild One ? BHFan - If it helps at all as you plan your week...

Well, at least I'm catching up with the longer termed TCMers. If the DeMille doc is a few years old, it begs the question: What is Mr. Brownlow's latest project? I wonder what he's working on now? Not that I really pay attention to his stuff but, after a little research, I found out that these proj...

I'm bleery-eyed, but content, having just gotten in from seeing Cecil B. De Mille – American Epic , Kevin Brownlow 's documentary on the King of Epic Hokum. I noticed that the documentary was 1) presented by Turner Classic Movies; and 2) was made in 2004. Does this mean y'all have already seen it? ...

Mr. Arkadin - Next month's (May) Guest Programmer is film historian David Thomson and he has chosen Mr. Arkadin as one of his films. You can read about his Guest Programmer evening here - http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=159382 and it includes this "quote" - Thomson tells host ...

Anybody see the pair of French films My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle ? Two of the very few newer films I really admire. If you check them out, definitely start with My Father's Glory as My Mother's Castle is a sequel to the first film. I forget when and how I came across them (early Bravo?)...

I still can't register into the Forums.

The website recognizes me on Non-Forum pages as it reads "Greetings hlywdkjk" near the top of those pages, but I get a "HTTP Server Error 500" everytime I try to register or post in Forum area.

A Vertigo piece would be swell, wouldn't it? I could go to the grave of Carlotta Valdez, buy a nosegay at Podesta Baldacchi, gaze at Ms. Valdez' portrait and then race up the stairs of the campanile only to find Robert Osborne (dressed as a nun) at the precipice! Thank Goodness you didn't think of ...

movieman1957 wrote: ...With Randolph Scott (cue chorus*)

*been wanting to do that for some time now.

It must be tiresome for Mr. Scott to travel around with his own choir.
But I didn't even know he had one.

kjk

Perhaps I misunderstood it but looks to me like TCM got it all backwards....anyone commenting about a troll would get one warning and then be banned. What the hell about the damn trolls? Are there no banning of them? Or did I misunderstand what it said? No. I don't think you misunderstood what was ...

They had at least three different spammers on there as well yesterday.:? Looks like all those posts were removed. Don't know if I was the only one to contact TCMWebAdmin about the 'spam', but I did send emails alerting them to the posts and then noticed that those posts (including the evangelical s...

In effort to restore sanity at the mothership, TCM WebAdmin has laid down the law on negative posts. Read the short, concise message here -

http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/ann.jspa?annID=17

It doesn't get much plainer than that.

kjk