What are you watching now? - (This is my brain on TV!)

[jaime marzol]

hadji, relax. here, have a nice cream soda. some one get him a sandwich.

[Store Hadji]

I feel better now.

[jaime marzol]

that line, "relax, get him a ..." that came from dennis farina in MIDNIGHT RUN. it was glipped from a film directed by byron haskin, I WALK ALONE. an excellent film noir. any one have that on dvd?

[Store Hadji]

"Glipped?"



That reminds me of that chimp with the furry hat from the old Lost in Space series, Penny's pet alien, that said "bloop" or "gloop" all the time.

Gloop gloop gloop!

A mind is a terrible thing. Period.

[Store Hadji]

The VIPs is on TCM tomorrow morning, if you need a copy of that. Welles is good as Max Buda (and looks like Buddha!) and has scenes with Margaret Rutherford (a few years before Falstaff.)

[Store Hadji]

I'm watching Mr. Skeffington - the most absurd melodrama I've ever seen in my life. And Welles thought the music in Shanghai was bad! You have to see/hear this one to believe it.

Erskine Sanford appears, playing a doctor.

[Store Hadji]

Now I'm not watching anything, but I've been listening to Baby Snooks for hours.

Why? Because!!!!!!!!!!!! :p

[DexyMan]

Does TCM show films in widescreen when appropriate?

[jaime marzol]

yes

[Clive Dale]

Michael Anderegg's Welles/Shakespeare book, when he mentions how Olivier's HAMLET was used by critics as a convenient stick to beat Welles's MACBETH with.

This is a major theme of "Orson's Shadow", where Welles says Olivier shot Hamlet like a bad Joan Crawford picture.. "Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture" shows the Life Magazine articles from 1948 contrasting Macbeth and Hamlet.

[jaime marzol]

kubrik's THE KILLING is fabulous. welles was right when he said the killing is a copy of the asphalt jungle, and kubrik is a better director than huston, which i don't agree with, and it's a shitty thing to say about a pal. i wonder if there was a rift between them at the time.

[Store Hadji]

Pals or no, maybe that's just what Welles' opinion was. Both films are really excellent.

[Store Hadji]

TCM seems to be concluding its special Shelly Winters tribute tonight...

Tomorrow it's back to the original schedule, including Rick Schmidlin's 4 hour reconstruction of Erich von Stroheim's Greed tommorrow night at 11:15 PM EST or so...

[Store Hadji]

Tomorrow evening (Friday the 27th) TCM is playing The Stranger and Journey into Fear. It's hard to find a good copy of the former and you can't buy the latter in the US, so this might be your last heads-up.

The showing of Greed did not include the short documentary with Rick Schmidlin and Stroheim's son, so if you've got it, hold on to it as it is a rarity.

TCM also showed Souls for Sale, which includes a brief segment with Stroheim rehearsing Jean Hersholt for one of Marcus' scenes. Probably a re-enactment, but still very cool. I think that same footage can also been seen in Richard Kozarski's documentary The Man You Loved To Hate, which is available from KINO on the Foolish Wives DVD.

[Store Hadji]

The print of Journey into Fear which TCM has is plagued by artifacts, lines and scratches...maybe that is the reason it hasn't come to DVD yet. I haven't compared it with the EU DVD yet...