Comments on: Top 5: If You Were a TCM Guest Programmer

By: used porsche

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By: dkp

dkp — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:30:16 +0000

madam x
the birds
cool hand luke
cat on a hot tin roof
a streetcar named desire
imitation of life
a summer place
rio bravo
the longest yard
slap shot………………

By: Superpower

Superpower — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:44:00 +0000

Killer's Kiss
Murder My Sweet
Kaftka
Roger Dodger
Crupior

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:56:16 +0000

The Informer, Paths of Glory, Billy Budd, Treasure of Sierra Madre, White Heat

By: Chillin'

Chillin' — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:44:01 +0000

A Tale of Two Cities, The Graduate, Pulp fiction, 1,2,3, Duck Soup

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:18:48 +0000

Madame X

By: A.J.O

A.J.O — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:17:15 +0000

Okay, I love this "greatest movies" theme. I notice that it changes with age and mood. So here's my pics for today, in sweltering california september heat, enjoying a bit of unemployment and movie-time:

- Casablanca: The archetype of a transcendent "B" movie. When the sun of the parts far exceeds the whole. The apotheosis of the "old hollywood" art form.
- Unforgiven: The culmination of "the art of the Western" an American fable writ large, the guarantee (if any more were needed) of Clint Eastwood's immortality. The Good The Bad and the Ugly should be watched for contrast.
- Live Flesh / Carne Tremula, the least "Almodovar-ish" of the Pedro Almodovar ouvre, part detective film, part tragic love story, it's a real honest window into the Spanish soul.
- Goodfellows/Casino: These might even be better characterized as "Docudramas" the "anti-mythologizing" of the Gangster in film. (See, "Little Caesar," 1931)
- Romeo is Bleeding: Lena Olin's Masterwork, she is the greatest incarnation of glamour, sexiness and sheer evil ever depicted on film. Awesome cast includes Gary Oldman, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis and Roy Schneider. This is the most overlooked movie of all time. (see also "Sexy Beast)

Honorable Mention to: Moonstruck- Best Romantic Comedy EVER!; Lawrence of Arabia- for sheer beauty and grandiosity of scale, the ultimate "Big Screen" creation; Pulp Fiction/Amores Perros- the first inklings of a true original modernist style; Ran- the ultimate "Samurai" movie, King Lear meets Kurosawa, pure genius (see also"Throne of Blood); The Apostle- another American Fable and the finest depiction of Evangelical faith ever made; The Battle of Algiers- gripping tale of Islamist terror, way ahead of it's time; Chinatown- old hollywood style Jack Nicholson in all his glory; The Crying Game, greatest plot twist EVER!; Divorce Italian Style- best in class; The Fisher King- just because; House of Games- Joe Mantegna's masterpiece. This is what David Mamet was getting at all along; The Killers- with Edmond O'Brien and the young Burt Lancaster, the definitive "Film Noir;" Animal House- another archetypal original; Patton- along with "The Longest Day" one of Hollywood's few fitting tributes to the U.S. Army and the WWII Generation; Rashomon- because I love Samurai movies; Rushmore- for the 14-year-old boy in all of us; Sid & Nancy- worth it just to see Gary Oldman/Sid Vicious singing "She's Somethin' Else;"

By: N.J.

N.J. — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:07:25 +0000

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Young Frankenstein, His girl Friday, Psycho

By: H. Felton

H. Felton — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:13:08 +0000

Almost all the films listed above have been shown on TCM, some frequently. I'd like to see a 1960 British comedy called ¨The Rebel,¨ released in the US as ¨Call Me Genius.¨ Based on a novella by that laugh-riot Albert Camus, it mocks the pretensions of the Art World. A supremely untalented artist is discovered by London art critics, who much to his surprise, call him the founder of a school called Shapism, and make him rich and famous.
I saw the film on a NYC over-the-air TV station c. 1970, and have waited in vain since for it be shown again so I might tape it. Amazingly, it's never been available in the U.S. on either DVD or VHS, You can buy it in either format from UK Amazon, but you'd need a multi-region player to watch it.

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