A nose for classic movies
I saw a promo just now for the Jose Ferrer version of “Cyrano de Bergerac” at 9 p.m. Central (10 Eastern) Sunday night on TCM, and I happily set my DVR.
There have been a number of fine versions of Cyrano, both in something like its original form and in modern-day adaptations. Kevin Kline gave a [...]
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Turner Classic Movies got my hopes up just now, by airing a little puff promotional documentary about the making of “The Yellow Rolls-Royce.” Often, when these little short subjects turn up, it’s to promote an upcoming airing of the movie in question, but I can’t find any scheduled airings on my DVR schedule or IMDb.
I’ve [...]
Another lion, another winter
I am watching, on Turner Classic Movies, the terrific movie “The Lion In Winter” with Peter O’Toole, Katherine Hepburn, and, in one of his very first movie roles, Anthony Hopkins.
As is my custom, I looked up the movie on IMDb, and also on Wikipedia, and discovered that there was a TV movie version in 2003 [...]
Set your DVR now
Turner Classic Movies will air “Christmas In Connecticut,” about which I blog at least once every holiday season, at 11 a.m. Central time on Sunday, Dec. 6. Set those DVRs now, before you forget it.
Most classic movie fans know about this 1945 movie, but I’m always surprised at the people who don’t know about it [...]
Set your TiVos now. NOW!!
One of my favorite movie directors, Preston Sturges, will be featured on Turner Classic Movies tonight. I just realized this or I’d have warned you earlier.
At 8 Eastern / 7 Central, be sure and catch “The Lady Eve,” with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, a very funny movie about a con artist and her prey.
At [...]
The Young In Heart
I just watched the last half hour or 45 minutes of a delightful old movie I’d never seen before — “The Young In Heart,” from 1938, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Janet Gaynor, Paulette Goddard, Billie Burke and Roland Young.
When I was flipping across the dial, I checked out TCM, heard Fairbanks’ voice, and briefly thought [...]
When Irish films are screening
I will be at rehearsal tonight, so I won’t get to watch it on St. Patrick’s Day, but I am setting the DVR to record “The Quiet Man,” a movie which I really ought to purchase on DVD, and soon.
If you’ve seen it, you know it’s the perfect taste of Ireland (no doubt more Irish [...]
Paris – When it Sizzles
There are some movies you watch, not because they’re good in the Siskel-and-Ebert sense, but just because they’re somehow … unusual, or interesting, or out of the ordinary.
“Paris – When It Sizzles,” from 1964, is one such movie. Of course, you can’t really go too far off the mark with Audrey Hepburn, not to mention [...]
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