Threads similar like this one may exist, but I want this to be a thread previewing significant films that will be showing on television in the near future.
On Turner Classic Movies this month, is the premiere of Max Ophuls' Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948). Date is March 27, 10:15pm eastern.
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Available only on an all region DVD and not Region 1, I heard this has been the most requested film for Turner to show since the cable channel came on air. I'm definitely excited for this film to finally show because Ophuls has spent too much time in the shadows of cinephile love.
I always keep my ear to what's happening on Turner so I'll keep posting more interesting titles, but I definitely want other recommendations and notices from people on the board.
For people with the Ovation channel, this Sunday they'll be playing : Cabaret@noon, Paper Moon@3:00, Chinatown@5:00 and then Cinema Paradiso@8:00. The last one, seeing as how it will conflict with the oscars, will replay at one in the morning.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 03, 2010, 05:56:26 AMAvailable only on an all region DVD and not Region 1
All region means it'll play in any region, includion region 1.
Quote from: MacGuffin on March 03, 2010, 08:46:57 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 03, 2010, 05:56:26 AMAvailable only on an all region DVD and not Region 1
All region means it'll play in any region, includion region 1.
I know, but it's usually filler for a company to release a crappy edition and get the benefits of all regions. I'm still waiting for a proper Region 1 DVD.
So apparently this month is the 100th anniversary of Akira Kurosawa's birth and on TCM they're playing his movies every Tuesday night. overall they're showing about twenty of his films.
Glad you started this since I have wanted to do this for years (especially in regards to TCM showings), but I'm not cool enough for people to take part if I did it.
:yabbse-smiley:
there's a pretty interesting line-up this evening (well, 18 hours from now) on TCM:
8:Citizen Kane
10:15: The Seventh Seal
12:00: The Third Man
2:00: The Earrings of Madame De...
Quote from: classical gas on October 06, 2010, 02:24:03 AM
there's a pretty interesting line-up this evening (well, 18 hours from now) on TCM:
8:Citizen Kane
10:15: The Seventh Seal
12:00: The Third Man
2:00: The Earrings of Madame De...
I noticed that, too. I can see the connection between 1 and 3, but not sure about 2 and 4.
I've recently got to see two Malick films courtesy of TCM - Badlands and Days of Heaven.
It's Critic's Pick night. You're going to get random but good all month. David Ansen and Richard Corliss tonight.
I ended up watching a good deal of Kane. Just saw that Wes Anderson put Earrings at the top of his Criterion list. Ophuls is one of the ones I've seen mentioned, but have yet to see any of his films. I will have to record it.
TCM is great. I saw The Virgin Spring for the first time recently. I knew it was Bergman, so I planned to watch the first bit while recording and then go to bed and watch the rest later. I was so engrossed I ended up watching the whole thing.
It sucks that IFC is taking after the Sundance channel and showing commercials now. It's borderline sacriligious! Like if xixax started having pop up ads or something..
Quote from: Reelist on December 09, 2010, 01:18:02 PM
It sucks that IFC is taking after the Sundance channel and showing commercials now. It's borderline sacriligious! Like if xixax started having pop up ads or something..
Yea, I noticed that during an airing of Heathers the other night. I was confused but I also did not know about Sundance's turn to commercials. I'm just glad a movie like The White Ribbon has premiered on Starz and I can watch it uninterrupted. Actually, the mainstream movie networks have more and better new indepedent and foreign film releases. I feel like if I want to watch old TV shows from early 2000s or 90s, I will go to IFC now.
They're showing commercials during the movies? :shock:
Yeah, not even like for upcoming movies and events but commercial commercials. It's blowing my mind, what happened to your independence IFC? I guess they needed the Christmas dough :yabbse-undecided:
Their Facebook page is up in arms about it.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/IFC
a pleasant surprise- I wake up this morning and Magnolia is showing on FX. I've never seen it shown on cable tv before. Granted, I won't get to watch the whole thing ( like I'd want to with editing and commercial breaks, psssshh ) but I've been thinking about this movie a lot lately since it was brought up in discussion again, I really have a lot of respect for it. Great start of the day!
Monday morning, 4am on TCM, How I Won the War is showing. One of my favorite comedies and relatively forgotten by today's measure of classic 1960s filmmaking.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on January 16, 2011, 01:58:57 AM
Monday morning, 4am on TCM, How I Won the War is showing. One of my favorite comedies and relatively forgotten by today's measure of classic 1960s filmmaking.
Just now seeing this. I have wondered about that film for some time. Unfortunately, it looks like it is not playing again anytime soon.
"An English army had just won the war..." (I think that's the line)
If anyone here gets the Chiller network as part of their cable package, G.P.S., an independent thriller I co-wrote, is playing on it this Saturday the 9th and the following Sunday the 17th. Check your listings for showtimes (it's playing at least twice on the 9th and I think only once on the 17th). So if you're bored over the weekend, and ideally three or four drinks into it, it's a fun flick and you should watch it.
I'll watch it! Sounds stellar..
Please do! I don't want to sound like I'm not proud of it, but I don't want to oversell it either. It's an entertaining movie that is right in its element on cable on a Saturday afternoon.
I also have three cameos in the film: once as a boom operator during a news broadcast early in the movie, once as a dead body stand-in, and once as a stunt-crotch when a character gets kneed in the balls during a fight scene.
^^ I'm sorry Polka, I never watched it. I don't want you to think I saw it and kept my thoughts to myself because it was sooooo bad. I was just offering my support for a pretty cool achievement ( getting a film you helped make on Tv) and I will try to find G.P.S in the near future ( If it takes awhile to get back to you, that isn't a snub either.)
So anyway, I turn on the TV and The Shining is on FX. I usually don't like to watch 'the greats' on cable because of the editing and shitty reception, but I figured I'd just keep it on as background noise while I ate my dinner. Then, almost as if the god willed it himself ( happy belated, BTW ) my sister ( 15 ) busts into my room all excited, like "Look what I got!" She was holding a Shining Dvd. I'd been putting off buying it forever because if I did I might never leave the house. She's been obsessing about seeing this movie again for months. She's caught the Kubrick bug, I'm so proud of her :cry:
Is there still a way to see Chiller?
I have it on Time Warner, and I think it's great! They've shown Twin Peaks, Tales from the Crypt, House of The Devil, and The Woman. Which is more than I can say for other networks, my only gripe with it is, as I stated above, the editing and commercials. It saved me on a lot of rainy afternoons but I just don't have the time to watch TV like that anymore. If I got a movie on there, I'd be jumping for joy! anyone seen G.P.S?
Quote from: Reelist on July 27, 2012, 08:09:59 PM
anyone seen G.P.S?
You can get the DVD on Netflix. No Instant yet, for reasons that I'm not privy to. I feel like if it was on Instant, people would actually watch it.
Is it the one from 2007? Actually that's the only "G.P.S." on Netflix, so I answered my own question.
Yeah, it was released as "GPS: The Movie" which has always annoyed me. So people don't confuse it with "GPS: The Breakfast Cereal," I suppose.
Kurosawa marathon on TCM all day.
Toshiro Mifune Marathon starts at 8:00 pm ( eastern )
Schedule (http://www.tcm.com/schedule/)
I'm not even gonna have to use the clicker today!
Quote from: Reelist on August 09, 2012, 11:35:44 AM
Kurosawa marathon on TCM all day.
Toshiro Mifune Marathon starts at 8:00 pm ( eastern )
Schedule (http://www.tcm.com/schedule/)
I'm not even gonna have to use the clicker today!
Shit, I wanna watch that. Does anyone know a way to watch TCM online?...