TCM's 31 Days of Oscar

Grand Hotel and Mildred Pierce

When was Mildred Pierce on, R1?

I can't believe I missed it.

Another movie shown earlier today was Sense and Sensibility.

I watched The Longest Day. Honestly they show these classics all the time the rest of the year so I’m not ready to rewatch any.

"Wings"...never saw it before...loved it

Cold Mountain was on yesterday, but I didn't watch it.

The thought of watching Jude Law and Nicole Kidman together in a war movie, sounded like torture.

Nothing good coming up in the next two days.

Maybe National Velvet, but I don't think it won an Oscar.

R4, agree! I really enjoyed “Wings.” Gary Cooper’s brief scene shows why he became such a big star.

"Dodsworth" was on today -- 1936. Walter Huston and Mary Astor are 2 of my favorites, so this is always a treat.

I call it TCM's "31 Days of Boredom". Movies you've seen a dozen times already all month long.

[quote] Movies you've seen a dozen times already all month long.

Classic movies?

Good call, R5: "Cold Mountain" was torture.

I watching my DVR recording of Cold Mountain to laugh at the accents.

Sense and Sensibility was on yesterday. Loved it then, love it now. Everyone in it is perfect in their roles.

I don’t have cable. I just watch on HBO Max.

I DVR'd Marty and Rashomon.

Mon Oncle, Two Women, Wings, Z...that I can remember off the top of my head. There are more...

True, R9...not my favorite month on TCM.

And it pre-empts "Noir Alley" on Sat nights and Sun mornings -- sacrilege!

For R2: Mildred Pierce is on Sunday 3/20 @ 2pm.

I saw that, R19!

I will be there with my popcorn and bloody mary!

Oliver! (1968) is on right now.

Anyone watching?

^ I am. Fagin is creepy as fuck.

[quote] Fagin is creepy as fuck.

Fag!

Last weekend I watched The Paper Chase. Not a great movie but nostalgic for me. The weekend before I watched The French Connection which I never saw before. The suspense of the chase scenes (all of them) gave me tachycardia but they were sooo good!

Oh! Also watched Klute which I hadn't seen for years. A decent film all around. Love Fonda's styling and her therapy sessions. Also the model casting session.

Camelot is on after Oliver!

The best part about Camelot was the music.

[quote]The best part about Camelot was the music.

Sorry, but that made me chuckle, r26.

Not all musicals are good musicals, R27.

Oliver! is a horrible musical. I'm not sure how it won the Best Picture Oscar for 1968.

[quote]Not all musicals are good musicals

NO musicals are good if the music is bad.

I watched Dr. Zhivago last night. I haven't seen it in many years. It is so much better on the big screen.

I loved the run of foreign language films - 8 1/2, Mon Oncle, Z, Two Women and Rashomon. And I agree about Wings, fantastic. But my favorite new-to-me movie was The More the Merrier with Jean Arthur. Funny set up, funny situations, funny actors. A rare comedy that garnered (and earned) lots of Oscar nominations.

Dr. Zhivago is shown a lot on TCM. I enjoyed Two Women. Loren is breathtaking and the story of the struggles in Italy during WWII. I like foreign films...but sometimes, reading the subtitles takes away from the movie...for me.

Yes R31

“The More the Merrier” is a real gem.

Was remade in the 60s as “Walk, Don’t Run” with Cary Grant, Samantha Egar and Jim Hutton” - but the original is best.

Shampoo is on tonight.

I am trying to watch every Best Picture Winner. Have about 14 movies to go. Recently watched, All Quiet on the Western Front, How Green Was My Valley and Mrs. Miniver. All were VERY good movies. Cimmaron was not. Next up is the Lost Weekend.

Ive recorded Closely Watched Trains, Tgrough a Glass Darkly, Wuthering Heights, The Dark Angel (Lillian Hellman was one of the scriptwriters), The Divorcee, Lost Horizon, Cold Mountain, Klute, A Man for all Seasons, Wings, Cries and Whispers, Never on Sunday, Room at the Top, La Ceremonie. I’ve got lots of films recorded but I’ve watched Dodsworth and Dangerous. I’ve got Day for Night scheduled to record and can’t wait to see it again. This will be my second viewing. I’ve also recorded Z. That’s a great political thriller. I want to see Cries and Whispers. The movie played in our suburban multiplex in 1972 and I saw it there. Couldn’t believe I got the chance.

Aw shucks...I just missed Butterfiies Are Free...

[quote]Cold Mountain was on yesterday, but I didn't watch it.

I loved the book, but the movie has not aged well. The accents are *terrible* and Renee Z's hammy sidekick routine was just cringe inducing. Hard to believe, but then unknown Charlie Hunnam was in that movie (I could never figure out why the albino didn't have to fight - was it because the army of General Lee couldn't stand extremely white people either?).

Loved Sense & Sensibility. Emma Thompson has become so insufferable in recent years it's hard to remember a time when she was so charming. Likewise, I liked Alan Rickman as the unconventional (and kind of odd) Brandon.

Shampoo is on tonight.

I just read the TCM synopsis on this movie, and I had no idea that it was about two lesbians (one of them being Goldie Hawn!) trying to play around with a hairdresser (Warren Beatty!).

Is Warren's character supposed to be gay, too?

^ No, he plays a straight pussyhound.

The thought of watching a movie or show being broadcast on TV at a specific time seems so strange to me now, and I’m an eldergay. If you subscribe to HBO, you get HBO Max for free, and, wallah, you can watch your choice at any time.

R39 No Warren's character was based on one of the big hairstylists of the time who was a big womanizer but I forgot which famous hairstylist it was.

Jon Peters?

Oh, thank you R43. I kept picturing him but couldn't remember his name. Old Age.

My pleasure.... :)

All Quiet on the Western Front actually blew my mind. For some reason I thought it was a Western all these years and avoided it. How dumb! It is fantastic! I also used to confused it with On the Waterfront for some reason. Lol.

I thought the hairdresser Shampoo was based on was Jay Sebring.

The upcoming showing of THE MIRACLE WORKER ❤️👍

Today there's a shitload of Oscar movies on TCM.

Gandhi, Out of Africa (Meryl Streep), On Golden Pond (Henry Fonda), Places in the Heart (Sally Field), and A Fish Called Wanda (Kevin Kline).

All one after another.

Nope. Shampoo was based on Jon Peters who was still alive and not the tragically murdered Sebring.

It lasts all month, R49 -- every March, all 31 days. We old people who've seen them all before (many of them when they were first released) have to find something else to watch each March.

All That Jazz will be on Next Friday night. Can't wait!!

Mildred Pierce is on in an hour and fifteen minutes!

2 pm Eastern, 11 am Pacific.

Trip To Bountiful is on after Mildred Pierce. Great line up today!

I Want To Live!

Bloody Mary and Mildred Pierce time!

Mildred was so dumb for not hooking up with Wally Fay.

They would have been a power couple.

A River Runs Through It is on at 8E/5P.

One of my favorite movies.

Last night I watched Out of Africa, On Golden Pond and Places in the Heart in one sitting. I had no intention of watching Places but I’m glad I did. That ending!

[quote]A River Runs Through It is on at 8E/5P.

Peak Brad Pitt beauty! And the father's sermon at the end about how we can love completely without completely understanding always brings tears to my eyes.

Sunday morning, I watched the last half hour or so of Babette's Feast. Then I watched Morning Glory with K. Hepburn, followed by Jezebel with Bette Davis. I've seen that movie about 5 times. It always cracks me up when Henry Fonda says, "A red dress!" because the movie is in B&W.

Watching people back away from Fonda because he has Yellow Jack fever reminded me of COVID-19.

I watched the last hour or so of, "There Will Be Blood" early this AM. The first time I've seen it. Then...."Leaving Las Vegas" was on after, which was 3 AM. Can't stay awake!

TCM has programmed the 1967 Soviet film production of War and Peace! The running time is over seven hours. The government provided soldiers as film extras in the battle scenes. They did not allow the burning of Moscow. It’s a movie I’ve yearned to see and hope it’s a corrections that dismal production with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn and that cipher Mel Ferrer.

The “Russian “War and Peace” is really a masterpiece! Well wort watching. (Terrible that it was so neglected for years that the quality of the prints has declined, and there are still missing sequences,) But what remains is a massive achievement.

However, I wonder if it will be cancelled, in protest for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

They just showed "Marty" the other night. I absolutely love that film. Who knew Ernest Borgnine could be that good playing a lonely Bronx butcher (in the same year he played a sadistic role in "From Here To Eternity") All of the roles are so well cast, especially the woman who play's Borgnine's mother. I was floored to learn that the homely "dog" Marty falls for was actually Gene Kelly's real-life wife.

[quote] Well wort watching.

St. John's-Wort?

No good movies on TCM today.

Only oldies from the 1930's.

Yeah...not a fan of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The line up doesn't hold much interest for me today...and the rest of the week. Movies that I've seen many times on TCM already.

R61 Jezebel was considered to be filmed in color but Bette did not film well in technicolor. Her skin looked super orange so plans were scrapped.

R59 I really enjoyed that lineup on Saturday.

Starting Thursday, TCM is going to have a great run of shows (all Eastern Time).

Thurs. Mar. 24:

12:15 am "On the Waterfront." 2:15 am "A Streetcar Named Desire" 5:30 pm "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Friday Mar. 25:

12:00 am "Splendor in the Grass" 2:15 am "Planet of the Apes" 4:15 am "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" 1:15 pm "Logan's Run" 6:00 pm "The Candidate" 8:00 pm "Fiddler on the Roof" 11:15 pm "All That Jazz"

Saturday, March 26:

11:00 am "Casablanca" 1:00 pm "Lawrence of Arabia" 8:00 pm "A Passage to India" 11:00 pm "The Last Emperor"

Sunday, March 27:

2:00 am "Dangerous Liaisons" 4:15 am "The Times of Harvey Milk" 11:30 am "All About Eve" 2:00 pm "An American in Paris" 4:00 pm "Gone With the Wind"

Monday, March 27:

12:30 am "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"

For Pacific Time, subtract three hours from the start time listed.

I wish they would show the movies not normally repeated during the day....not in the middle of the night.

I agree, R72.

All of my favorites are going to be shown between midnight and 2 am.

Priscilla, Splendor in the Grass, Dangerous Liaisons.

Shit.

Thanks, R71. I will DVR Dangerous Liaisons.

I love Fiddler on the Roof; that's one thing I have to say for TCM - I enjoy their pre-movie commentary about the making of the movie and how the movie achieved a certain look/style. From a historical concept, it makes me sad to think that little villages like Anatevka were basically wiped out, with their citizens killed in pogroms or fleeing to other countries.

Song of the South is being snubbed again...despite featuring the first ever male African American's Oscar winning performance.

Song of the South isn't on TCM R76.

To what are you referring?

R77, I assume the snub R76 refers to is, perhaps, TCM's refusal to show Song of the South. The actor in question won an Academy Honorary Award. Why R76 seems to think that movie should be shown on TCM beyond this honorary award win is not clear, when there are so many competitively won Oscar-winning performances TCM can show.

[quote] I assume the snub R76 refers to is, perhaps, TCM's refusal to show Song of the South

To be fair, I don't think that TCM shows very many cartoons, if any.

A tiny bit of Matt Damon goes a long way. Bless you ,South Park creators!

I'm trying to remember how many of these i was in.

R79, I don't think I've ever seen cartoons on TCM. Not even the Saturday morning ones we watched as kids. I know MeTV shows them.

What in the hell are you talking about, R80?

TCM has shown some of the Disney cartoons as part of a block of old Disney films, usually hosted by Leonard Maltin.

TCM would still have to have the rights to show Song of the South or any other Disney cartoon and I'm sure The Mouse has that one buried so deep in the vault, it will never be found again. The Mouse is all PC now, you know!

From R71's list, the movie marathon kicks off tonight at 12:15 a.m., with "On the Waterfront."

R82, TCM shows a "Popeye" cartoon every Sat. morning at 7:00 (PDT).

Is anyone watching Dangerous Liaisons right now?

I'm watching Dangerous Liaisons. It's still a fantastic film. I think this may be Glenn Close's best performance.

I caught the tail end of it. It was on in the early AM here. Shucks...

Dangerous Liaisons is on the TCM app until the end of the month.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is on late night tonight!

"RALPH!"

Gone With The Wind on this afternoon....after An American In Paris (on now)..

I never got the appeal of Gene Kelly. For that type of song & dance type movie, I'd prefer Danny Kaye. I realize they are very different things, excessive dancing in a movie just bores me to tears

Sometimes it's a little twee...but he is a great dancer. Though I like the movie, it's shown too much on TCM.

"... you get HBO Max for free, and, wallah, you can watch your choice at any time."

I hope you were joking with your "wallah," R41.

Gene Kelly has a nice tight ass. I like watching him.

Errol Flynn does nothing for me. I never got his appeal.

He appeals to me! From "Gentleman Jim" (1942).

Although I'll admit, his ass wasn't that big (from same film).

Bahahaha.

After re-watching "Gone With the Wind", I'm kind of surprised by: Melly is clearly a perfect goody two shoes, but when the situation requires, she's tougher than she looks & knows how to lie like a champ. Scarlet is not only a selfish woman, but also a pretty bad wife & mother. When she tells Ashley to stop being so weak when his wife is dying, it's a cruel thing to say, but also long overdue. At the time, women portrayed in not entirely black/white terms must have been kind of shocking.

Except for Mammy, who gives no fucks, the way the servants were portrayed is cringe inducing - like children who don't know what to do without Scarlet telling them, though you wonder if in real life, many slaves (particularly house slaves) developed a sort of "learned helplessness" that they're so used to only operating on orders, they don't know any other way to function. Anyway, glad that movie is not "cancelled" because it still feels very timely.

This is the first time I've GWTW in full. Before, it was usually shown later...it's a long movie, so I've seen the beginning and toward the end....and not the middle. I would doze off and miss it. I really like it. I'm glad TCM didn't give in to the cancel culture. They still show the original movies, flaws and nudity, cursing and all. I hate when you watch a violent movie, and the cursing is dubbed with...."friggin, heck, darn", for the F bombs. It's so stupid.

first time I've *seen GWTW..^^

I never understood Scarlett's obsession with Ashley. I guess the unattainability (sp) was the cause...when she could have any man, especially with someone like Rhett, who was a man's man, and a bit of a scoundrel....like her. Rhett truly adored her and wanted to spoil her, and loved her for all her flaws. The wanting what you can't have was strong for her. Ashley was a wimp. She was an interesting character...strong and childishly self absorbed. I thought of Mrs. Olsen, of Little House On The Prairie...but a smarter and braver version.

[quote]I never understood Scarlett's obsession with Ashley.

I've always wondered that too, but last night when I was watching it, it made me think that Ashley is the archetype of the south (or what the south thinks it is); proud and noble, a gentlemen to even someone who insults him inside his own home, living for duty, wealthy & comfortable while oblivious to what provides that comfort. He doesn't necessarily want a war, but he wants to defend his way of life. After the war, he's basically a broken man and he even laments to Scarlett that if the war had never happened, he'd be living this comfortable, oblivious life, but instead, he's received some hard cold reality about the way life really is.

So at the end, I think Scarlett wakes up to the idea that she's in love with something/a way of life that no longer exists, embodied by a man who is now a shell of himself. But yes, her infatuation with him is embarrassing, but he lead her on for years.

Good analogy..^

I watched "Lawrence if Arabia" on Saturday. It's long, and Peter O'tool was too tall to play Lawrence, but it is a great film.

I loved Priscilla, but the ending dance scene in the casino was way too long.

It was clearly a showcase for Tim Chappel's costumes, but it just seemed to go on forever.

And the music was awful

Guy Pearce was fucking gorgeous in PQOTD.

Peak beauty.

The music in Priscilla was awful, R109? How can you not like ABBA, Gloria Gaynor, Village People, Peaches and Herb and (gasp) Charlene?! You will need to hand in your gay card NOW, missy!

War And Peace on now....started at 3:30 am, ends 10:45 am. Looooong movie, must not mind reading subtitles, too.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown is on Friday morning.

I love that movie!

Right now...The Sandpipers.....next: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?.....next: Days Of Wine And Roses....next: To Kill A Mockingbird. Fabulous line-up today!

The hairdresser in Shampoo isn't based on Jay Sebring, who was primarily famous for doing men's hair, not women's.

Jay Sebring did men's hair.

A Patch Of Blue on at 10:30 tonight. All my favorite movies today.. :)

When does "31 Days of Oscar" officially end?

With a face slap?

Will Smith has officially made "The Academy" a fucking ghetto joke.

It will forever be known as the place where assaults happen and are condoned.

I wonder if King Richard will end up on TCM in 15 years or so. I know they aired Selma last month which is only 5 or 6 years old.

I noticed they have shown movies from the early to mid 2000s and some of those movies haven't hit the 20 year anniversary. With 31 days of Oscar, some of hosts shared trivial tidbits about the Oscar ceremonies of various years. If TCM is still around years from now, I can imagine some poor host feeling awkward about King Richard airing and having to discuss the 2022 Oscars.

I DVR’d “War and Peace,” and have been watching it. Beautiful, widescreen print. Such a massive, stylish movie. A true masterpiece.

Just watching "Days of Wine & Roses" & Lee Remick slurring "I LIKE GIN"

So do I, Lee, so do I. For a messy drunk, you've got awesome hair, by the way

R122, Days of Wine and Roses is awesome. I had forgotten until watching it on TCM this afternoon. The ending is absolutely heartbreaking.

TCM's 31 Days of Oscar is now officially over. Now we get the film noir movies back again.. :) Until next year..

The Unsinkable Molly Brown is on in about two and a half hours.

Wasn't it an Oscar nominee?

Oscar nominated movies are still shown throughout the year...just not everyday, like in March.