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Discovering John Huston
Earlier today, TCM ran The Asphalt Jungle, the great 1950 noir starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, and an early career making role for Marilyn Monroe. The movie was directed by John...
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Gordon Parks: Filmmaker, Photographer & Renaissance Man
“Something mighty there is inside a man that takes him from being the youngest of 15 children raised in Kansas poverty, something that lets him clear the cruel hurdles implanted by a racist society,...
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The rules of the meme
I’ve been tagged on Facebook by several friends to participate in that “15 Movies That Stuck With Me” meme but I haven’t yet jumped in. Clever Me (as opposed to Regular Me) has made the executive...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight Blows, or Does It?
This morning (Saturday the 20th) TCM is running the notorious flop The Horn Blows at Midnight. Chances are by the time you read you’ll either have already seen it or already missed it, and nothing I...
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No doubt many of you noticed the Movie Morlocks blog was unavailable yesterday. We know how much you love to catch up on your Morlocks reading over the weekend and apologize for the inconvenience....
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The Many Faces of Scarlett O’Hara
On Sunday, September 28, and Wednesday, October 1, a remastered version of Gone With the Wind will be exhibited in select theaters across the country in a special screening presented by Fathom Events,...
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The 2014 New York Film Festival: Hill of Freedom and Jauja
The fifty-second New York Film Festival begins this Friday night with the world premiere of Gone Girl, the David Fincher adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s ubiquitous spousal murder mystery. But the...
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Gone with the Wind: The Greatest “Making of” Movie in History
Gone with the Wind is the favorite film of multitudes of classic movie lovers and even the favorite film of many for whom Gone with the Wind is the only classic movie they know. Coming out in 1939,...
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You’re Invited! Join the #TCMParty on Twitter
If you watch a lot of television you’re probably familiar with hashtags or #hashtags that programs now regularly promote to reach audiences on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. On...
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Halloween reveille! Fallllllllllllllllll IN!
All right you mangy myriad of moldering monsters… October is only five days away and I need to whip this army of darkness into shape for the upcoming Halloween season. Fall in as I call your names!...
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This is Not a Post About Gone With the Wind.
With all the hoopla and conversation here over the last week regarding Gone With the Wind, I thought it might be fun to take a glance at GWTW’s evil twin, Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1946 The Strange Woman. It...
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Half of Me, Why Not Take Half of Me?
As I wrote up Gone with the Wind last week, it occurred to me, though I didn’t want to say it in the piece, that I only like half of the movie. The piece emphasized what a great “making of” story...
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Back to the Drawing Board
Next Monday, October 6, TCM presents an evening of early American animation, a must-see for cartoon fans of all ages. The line-up begins with the cartoons of Winsor McCay, followed by animation from...
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The 2014 New York Film Festival: Gone Girl and Two Days, One Night
The New York Film Festival opened this past Friday night with the sadistic comedy of remarriage Gone Girl (which is released nationwide October 3rd). It trails success in its wake, adapted from...
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Titleology 101
Sometime in early 1947, almost a full year before its Broadway debut, Tennessee Williams presented the final draft of his play, The Poker Game, to be read by his agent Audrey Wood. She thought it was...
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Ghost Stories: THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES (1946)
October has arrived and as usual, TCM has scheduled a nice selection of films this month that will undoubtedly appeal to classic horror film obsessives like yours truly. Among the Hitchcock thrillers,...
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What’s your October pleasure?
But enough about you — let’s talk about me. The Halloween costume and ornament catalogs have been coming for weeks and are lying about the house in various states of destruction, pawed at by the kids...
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Ode to Strats; or How I Learned to Stop Being a Jerk and Love Sports Movies
I used to have a chip on my shoulder about sports movies. Actually, more properly stated, I used to have a chip on my shoulder about sports in general, and sports movies were just a subset of that...
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We have the stars
(This article was written on Sep. 20th while visiting family in Lake Tahoe, and scheduled to post on Sep. 21. It was scuttled by a server malfunction and is here revisited in the spirit of “better...
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Elementary, My Dear . . . Well, You Know the Rest
Last week, the Cinematheque Francaise announced that it had uncovered a copy of Sherlock Holmes, which was ranked “among the Holy Grails of lost films,” according to restoration expert Robert Byrne,...
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