Posts Tagged Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Bittersweet Moments: TCM’s Remembers (Those We Lost) in 2011

Posted by admin in Film, streaming video on December 15, 2011

There’s two levels to my enjoyment of Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Remembers (acknowledging those who died) 2011: seeing some of my favorite actors/directors/screenwriters/what-have-you being remembered (I love that TCM picked a clip of Wenders’ Wings of Desire to honor Peter Falk, as well as The Princess Bride) and being introduced to great talents I had never known about it.

I respect the fact that TCM tries to update the clips for people who die late in the year, also. Thanks to Bill Brioux’s TV Feeds My Family for the tip.

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TCM’s Essentials: Man I Should Tivo Them

Posted by admin in Film, Literature on January 5, 2010

I am always forgetting to set my Tivo to snag TCM’s weekly Essentials installment. What is TCM Essentials? The Essentials is a show where host Robert Osborne and a star (for the past year or so, it’s been Alec Baldwin) discuss the appeal of a film that they consider classic-or to be an essential film that one should know about.

I often miss the broadcasts (originally aired on Saturday night and rebroadcast on Sunday night). But I love reading the education that TCM offers at its website. For example, last weekend’s selection of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), includes this morsel of information, under the specification Pop Culture 101.

“When Lolita first appeared in print in the U.S. the Cincinnati Public Library refused to buy it, and the town of Lolita, TX, almost changed its name to Jackson.”

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