TCM alert tonight - great comedy lineup
Great channel. On the opposite end, they've started showing noir on Sundays at 10 am - tomorrow, The Blue Gardenia (1953). And on Sunday night/Monday morning at 2 am they usually have an interesting foreign film - tomorrow, The 400 Blows (1959), then Day for Night (1973).
I consider myself a big film fan, but I have some real obvious gaps in my viewing. The 400 Blows is another film I've been meaning to watch for years.
Word is that Truffaut was inspired by an American film called "The Little Fugitive" made in 1953, before he made "The 400 Blows" in 1959. Filmed entirely in Coney Island, and containing some of the only existing footage of real beach crowds and rides from those days.
Interesting, didn't know that. He definitely was inspired by Hitchcock, or at least liked his work. Might dvr his Day for Night, which is on right after. A lot of film people really like that one, but I didn't find it at the level of his other work. So maybe will give it another shot.
Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Chabrol, Rivette - really admire their work, would like to read more about them some day.
Next week on the Sunday/Monday 2 am thing is Yasujirō Ozu, another favorite director who I really only discovered in last 10 years or so.
drummerboy said:
12:45 To Be or Not to Be (which I still have never seen)
The great, great Polish actor Joseph Tura ... is not to be missed.
Maria Tura is no slouch, either.
Then there's the dashing young man who can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.
Curse you. This one belongs on your other list, and now I'll be up past 2.
Another good Jack Benny vehicle on TCM that risks keeping me up late tonight: "George Washington Slept Here." Not quite "Mr. Blandings," but up there.
I just noticed that TCM is showing the following tonight
6PM Young Frankenstein
8PM Sleeper
9:45PM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
12:45 To Be or Not to Be (which I still have never seen)
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/