r/TurnerClassicMovies
"If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it." Celebrating Robert Montgomery (and father of Elizabeth) born May 21, in 1904. Pictured here in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941.
u/boib — 2 days ago
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Happy Birthday, Jimmy Stewart! What Is Your Favorite Stewart Performance?
I love his performance in The Philadelphia Story (1940), partly because he's having such a blast being the goofy younger counterpart to Cary Grant's established C.K. Dexter Haven.
I'm also a HUGE fan of Rear Window (1954), mostly because very few actors could pull off that kind of performance. It's so limited in movement, but he commands our attention the entire time.
But, George Bailey is my all-time favorite. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) gets better each time I revisit it.
What are some others? Do folks agree with my picks? I have a blind spot for some of his western films, so I know I'm missing some other great performances!
u/EssaysOnFrame — 3 days ago
An open source Netflix for classic movies - 27 thousand movies from Archive.org and YouTube to discover and stream directly on the site
Hey there, as a movie nerd I wondered how many free classic movies are out there, turns out there are ten thousands of them. But nobody seemed to have created a really good site where you can discover and watch them as easily as on Netflix. I shied away from the project for years since it felt overwhelming to sort and match them all, but this Christmas I took the time to create Movies Deluxe: https://mdlx.org
For me this was also technical challenge that I love to talk about (I'm not just a movie nerd :P) but may not be the right place here.
The project is a passion project and is completely open source https://github.com/select/movies-deluxe
Let me know if you have ideas for improvements or other question!
u/jaritadaubenspeck — 4 days ago
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What's a movie you would've never seen except for TCM?
Often, we see complaints about TCM not showing this or that movie enough, but I often have the opposite feeling which is that they've exposed me to literally 100's of movies I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Bill Hader picking "Kanal" a few weeks ago is a good example as I had never even heard of this movie before, and the same thing for 1975's "Maitresse" which aired on Alicia Malone's Sunday night imports thing or "Drunken Angel" on Noir Alley a couple of weeks ago. Even though I'm pretty well set on American movies, I guess TCM has made the biggest difference in foreign films or nearly lost black-and-white American movies from yesteryear like "The Fool Killer" which John Carpenter picked last year. I could've lived to be 100 and probably never seen these movies if they weren't on TCM during a theme night I might record.
But how about you?
u/Somethingnew789 — 5 days ago
June schedule is still not up
Anyone know what's happening with the TCM Schedule page? It stops early in the morning of June 1st and remaining days have a message that says "There is an error getting schedule data." This has been the case for over a week.
u/DireDuster — 5 days ago
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Remembering Henry Fonda, born on this day, 1905. Pictured here in The Grapes of Wrath, 1940.
u/boib — 7 days ago
Shorter programs no longer show up on YoutubeTV listings
It used to be that I could individually record the short film/interstitials that sometimes buffer the feature length programming. "MGM Parade" or various documentaries or newsreels.
However, I'm increasingly finding more of the short programs not showing up at all on the listings as they're lumped into the runtime of the proceeding film.
Has anyone else noticed this recently? On either cable or YTTV?
u/SeverHense — 6 days ago
This film is a favorite of mine and I can watch Gene Kelly dance all day. I know some prefer Fred Astaire but I always preferred Gene Kelly’s style.
What a wonderful film filled with joy and positivity.
What is your favorite dance of his?
Who is your favorite dancer?
u/PeneItaliano — 10 days ago
The Mating Season - Unavailable
I have YouTube TV and use a Roku.
Tonight the film "The Mating Season" came up as "This movie is not available on this device." It was also not available through the normal Live TV method. It was impossible to tune to.
When 10 pm rolled around, "The Cincinnati Kid" came through with no issue.
Anyone know why "The Mating Season" was embargoed? No other film has had this problem in the several years I've been doing it this way.
And why are they running the "game" theme with "Cincinnati Kid" again since they just ran it a week ago?
u/ekkidee — 9 days ago
u/boib — 12 days ago
For Those Who Had Too Many Mimosas Today ... Alternate Mother's Day Movie Choices
u/braddamit — 13 days ago