Oh sorry for the mixup- I didnt think, and I knew it was AMC. I hate AMC, why they find it necessary to show bond for a month straight 24/7 kills me.

A head-up for anyone feeling like a laugh tomorrow night. Starting at 8 Eastern, TCM will be airing Duck Soup, The Bank Dick and Love and Death (which is, pound for pound, Woody Allen's funniest movie).

I haven't seen the Bank Dick, but I hear good things.

Duck Soup needs no introduction.

Bananas is funnier than Love and Death

Maybe, Maybe Not.

But then Take the Money and Run or Sleeper are probably better / funnier than both > Excluding, of course, his more serious comedies.

I love Bananas, Lecter, I do, but Love and Death....sweet, sweet Love and Death. Take the Money and Run is also, of the 'early, funny ones,' a better picture than Bananas.

While not as good as his later films, Love and Death and TTMAR and pretty much the funniest.

All the Allen talk and no mention of Tiger Lily?

I like in Bananas when Allen ordres take-out for the entire squad.

Once again I resurrect this thread to pimp a Woody Allen movie.

Tonight (Friday) at 10 Eastern, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody's incredible comedy/drama is airing. Fans of Match Point, especially, will enjoy it and recognize the thematic elements. It's a great film. Plus, Alan Alda is in it. ALAN ALDA.

I set the TiVo. My friend was actually just telling me I should watch it just for the Passover seder scene.

Wednesday night, Turner is showing two classic comedies.

At 10 PM, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges classic satire of Hollywood and the depression. The film, about film director Sullivan's attempts to make a serious, 'important' film about the depression titled "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" famously inspired the Coen Brothers film of the same name. The Coens are huge Sturges fans, which is evident everytime they give characters ridiculous, fun names. (Coens: Miles Massey, Sidney Mussberger; Sturges: John D. Hackensacker III, Mr. Hickenlooper)

To be honest, however, I do prefer the lighter, sillier Sturges comedies like The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story.

Then, at Midnight, the amazing Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch. It's a comedy about a Communist falling in love with a breezy American in 1930s Paris. It's one of my 10 favorite films. But since I don't expect you to take my word for it, maybe you'll take Cameron Crowe's. It's one of his too.

Sorry... Greatly disagree... There was an epic called ULYSSES that inspired a story that inspired the Cohen Brothers... Titles are secondary my friend...
CHEERS>>> the connected...

The plot was largely based on the epic poem, yes, but watch Sullivan's Travels (complete with chain gang sequences) and tell me it wasn't an influence. The Coens have been homaging Sturges' work for years. It was not a coincidence that they used the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" name. It's almost as though it were the movie Sullivan wound up making.

Celebrating the WGA's list of 100 best screenplays, in the next 24 hours TCM is GOING NUTS and screening a shitload of quintessential "classic" films. If you've ever said to yourself "i need to see more classics"...here's your chance.

Starting tonight, Monday, 8PM eastern:

8:00pm Casablanca

10:00pm Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

12:00am Citizen Kane

2:15am The Graduate

4:15am Network

6:15am Sullivan's Travels

8:00am The Philadelphia Story

10:00am His Girl Friday

12:00pm Double Indemnity

2:00pm Sunset Boulevard

4:00pm The Third Man

6:00pm The Maltese Falcon

Then, at 8:00pm, TCM is doing a very brave, very cool thing, and broadcasting BIRTH OF A NATION, as part of May's theme: "Race and Hollywood." BOAN is even more disgusting than you'd think, content wise, but it is nevertheless fascinating as both a film and as a historical document.

Does TCM air films uncut?

Uncut, in the original aspect ratios, and without commercial interuption. It's a movie lovers heaven. I mourn the inevitable day when it AMC-izes.

For all people who claim to love noir and femme fatales, its a cardinal sin to miss this one.



For everyone else...this is.



Very true. It is a movie everyone should probably see, even though I still doubt those people (AFI top 100 list included) who hold it up to contemporary standards of greatnness. Its an archive and a learning experience, especially since it sits on the cusp of technology, race, and visual narrative, etc.

Out of curiosity, what else are they showing that month? Emperor Jones?

Sunset Blvd is so depressing, but I hope I get home in time to set the TiVo for Dr. Strangelove. Something I've been meaning to see for a long time.

Some great movies the next three days!!!

Tonight (Wednesday) at 8PM (just over an hour from now), Bette Davis month comes to a close with Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? It's a camp classic that's quite a bit better than you might think.

Wednesday, 8pm, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

Friday morning, TCM treats its viewers like fucking royalty and airs The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (see my un-re-sized avatar) at 9:30 am. One of my absolute favorite movies, shot in the most beautiful technicolor you've ever seen. Watch it, tape it, set your Tivo, do what you must to see it.

Friday, 9:30am, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

Friday night at 10pm is Coppola's The Conversation, a movie that appeared on more than one of the Top 10 lists in that other thread. I think it was in dolcevita's, for instance. Even if you don't trust me, you trust her, right?

Friday, 10pm, THE CONVERSATION

Then, 4 hours later at 2am Saturday is Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. It's a comedy (and funny!), and frankly my favorite Bergman film. It's influenced everyone from Woody Allen (Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy) to Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night Music). Great film.

Saturday, 2am, SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT

Saturday night, also, is Jean Arthur night, and has four wonderful movies inlcluding MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS.