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They were using a different recording last month with a man singing. An outfit called Tunewelders did all the new bumper music (as well as the song for last year’s “TCM Remembers,” so I’m wondering if they didn’t also produce the music for these promos.

The Allen song is sung by a woman. A sultry kind of voice

Actually Mom is 81, born in late 1940. I've had 2022 on my brain too much these days and jumped the gun by almost a full year. It's funny after I tell her the midnight film, she usually asks What's after that? -- fully considering the 2:AM film as well. She's enjoying the time capsule aspect of old films: the styles, trends, speech, and cultural artifacts from her childhood growing up in the late 40's and 50's.

Tomorrow morning at 8AM TCM is airing a pre-code film called Payment Deferred (1932). I am not familiar. Has anyone ever seen this? It's a Charles Laughton film. I never heard of the director, Lothar Mendes. It has an interesting premiss.

They're running Looking for Mr. Goodbar tonight/early tomorrow at 12 midnight ET. It's preceded by a premiere showing of Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst at 10.

Fred Holywell wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:00 pm They're running Looking for Mr. Goodbar tonight/early tomorrow at 12 midnight ET. It's preceded by a premiere showing of Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst at 10.

The copy of Goodbar that they run periodically appears to be an upscale, but is still better than the film looks anywhere else.

Has it ever wound up on the TCM app?

Black Hat wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:06 pm Has it ever wound up on the TCM app?

It's there now.

Thanks Matt! Awesome!

Last night TCM ran a TCM produced doc Inside the Dream Factory with Faye Dunaway narrating. Most of the stars used in the doc said how beneficial that system was for them even though there was a negative connotation in subsequent years following that era. I believe now the history of the star system is looked at more fondly by industry people. Anyone who likes that era of movies should try to see the doc.

Duvivier's Anna Karenina is currently on TCM. It's a very strong presentation. I wonder who owns the US rights.

Sir Ralph Richardson's character in this as well as in The Heiress the following year plays the same

I believe Criterion still has the rights and is sitting on it like hundreds of other movies

It's on the Criterion Channel with Criterion and Janus logos, for what it's worth.

TCM is doing a month of Oscar nominated films. So, they put Noir Alley on hiatus for a month. Couldn't they have programmed 4 noirs that had Oscar nominations.

They do their 31 Days of Oscar every year (this is the 28th iteration), and all the special programming usually goes on hiatus. This year it’s actually all Oscar-winning films (not just nominees), so that may have narrowed the options a bit.

Also, at least in some previous years, the films were scheduled in a particular order that might have made it more difficult to line up a noir film with the Noir Alley time slot (or a silent film with the Silent Sunday Nights slot, or a foreign film with the TCM Imports slot). I seem to recall that one year they were in alphabetical order, another year grouped geographically (a day of films set in New York, a day in the Midwest, a day in Italy), another year linked by actors (a film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn might be followed by one with Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, followed by one with Tracy and Ingrid Bergman, and so on). I'm not sure if that's the case this year, but it looks like quite a few days feature films from a single decade.

TCM showing a Pete Smith short about bowling before There Will Be Blood is some wry programming genius.

Should’ve been topped off by a Southern California Travelogue.

Does anyone know the cheapest way to get TCM with a DVR without cable? Is the Hulu TV add-on the only way?

I think the cheapest way is through Sling ($35 monthly for the basic service + $5 for the "Hollywood" add-on package). With Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV, you get a bunch of additional channels, but you're paying $70/$65 per month. Sling and Hulu give you 50 hours of recording at a time whereas storage on YouTube TV is unlimited.

Though for another $5 (IIRC... it's another "add-on"), you get 200 hours of storage with Sling.

Greed is on TCM's Silent Sunday Night tonight at 12:30 AM

Thx. I passed that on to mom.
I'm reading McTeague now.

Trog is currently airing on TCM. I'd love to hear how the meeting between the execs and Joan Crawford went and then she accepted the role.

FrauBlucher wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:30 pm Trog is currently airing on TCM. I'd love to hear how the meeting between the execs and Joan Crawford went and then she accepted the role.

Crawford actually starred in Berserk! for producer Howard Cohen a few years before this (something that gets a bit glossed over in that Feud: Betty and Joan miniseries from a couple of years back), so I presume she might have been expecting something like that before getting to the set!