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Has Mitchum been picked before? Think so. I don't mind as I like him but I doubt there's anything I haven't seen before...

Hibi wrote: ↑December 14th, 2023, 6:06 pm Has Mitchum been picked before? Think so. I don't mind as I like him but I doubt there's anything I haven't seen before...

Nov 96, Oct 2005

Thanks. Long time since the last one.

I hope the version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that airs in the one in Standard Chinese with English subtitles rather than the English-dubbed version.

BagelOnAPlate wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2023, 5:21 pm I hope the version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that airs in the one in Standard Chinese with English subtitles rather than the English-dubbed version.

I think it will be the original. TCM does not really go for dubbed cuts.

skimpole wrote: ↑December 18th, 2023, 2:09 am They've updated the schedule. Premieres of The Big Lebowski, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Punch Drunk Love among others.

Those seem a bit ....recent....

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 23rd, 2023, 5:31 pm

skimpole wrote: ↑December 18th, 2023, 2:09 am They've updated the schedule. Premieres of The Big Lebowski, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Punch Drunk Love among others.

Those seem a bit ....recent....

However, considering they were all initially released over 20 years ago now....

(...time flies, as they say)

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 23rd, 2023, 5:31 pm

skimpole wrote: ↑December 18th, 2023, 2:09 am They've updated the schedule. Premieres of The Big Lebowski, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Punch Drunk Love among others.

Those seem a bit ....recent....

Except for The Big Lebowski (1998), all the other movies listed above are part of TCM's Columbia Pictures 100th Anniversary spotlight airing each Wednesday in January.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Punch-Drunk Love are schedule for the evening dedicated to the 2000s.

I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them.
Yet another example of greatest actors, actresses, directors and screenwriters never winning an Oscar.
Hope you can read the short article and the list of movies being shown.
Showing Tuesdays - 47 movies.

ElCid wrote: ↑January 1st, 2024, 12:39 pm I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them.
Yet another example of greatest actors, actresses, directors and screenwriters never winning an Oscar.
Hope you can read the short article and the list of movies being shown.
Showing Tuesdays - 47 movies.

Is TCM showing The Big Steal? (which I believe is one of your favorite Mitchum films).

I'm hoping TCM shows Where Danger Lives (1950 - RKO). While only an OK film, it does feature Faith Domergue. Yea, she wasn't a great actress, by any means, but I find her deadpan style appealing. The film also has Claude Rains. He is only featured in one key scene, but it is a well-directed one and the contrast in acting style of Mitchum and Domergue, with that of an animated Rains is well worth seeing.

PS: Did you wish to post a link? I ask because you mention a short article and list of movies being shown.

Here is the link to the Robert Mitchum Star of the Month article that was posted on the TCM web site earlier today:

https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programmin ... rt-mitchum

The article mentions several of the films but I don't see a list of what is included this month. Here is the list:

1. 2024-01-02 08:00 PM susp Out of the Past (1947) 97m
2. 2024-01-02 09:45 PM susp Big Steal, The (1949) 71m
3. 2024-01-02 11:15 PM susp His Kind of Woman (1951) 122m
4. 2024-01-03 01:30 AM crime Angel Face (1953) 91m
5. 2024-01-03 03:15 AM susp Where Danger Lives (1950) 84m
6. 2024-01-03 04:45 AM crime Racket, The (1951) 88m
7. 2024-01-03 06:30 AM susp Crossfire (1947) 85m
8. 2024-01-03 08:15 AM advent Macao (1952) 80m
9. 2024-01-03 09:45 AM susp Second Chance (1953) 82m
10. 2024-01-03 11:15 AM drama Locket, The (1946) 86m
11. 2024-01-03 01:00 PM susp Undercurrent (1946) 116m
12. 2024-01-09 08:00 PM western River of No Return (1954) 91m
13. 2024-01-09 09:45 PM western Man with the Gun (1955) 83m
14. 2024-01-09 11:15 PM drama El Dorado (1967) 126m
15. 2024-01-10 01:30 AM drama Lusty Men, The (1952) 113m
16. 2024-01-10 03:30 AM western Blood on the Moon (1948) 88m
17. 2024-01-10 05:15 AM western Rachel and the Stranger (1948) 93m
18. 2024-01-10 07:00 AM western Wonderful Country, The (1959) 96m
19. 2024-01-10 08:45 AM western Way West, The (1967) 122m
20. 2024-01-10 11:00 AM comedy Good Guys and the Bad Guys, The (1969) 91m
21. 2024-01-16 08:00 PM war Story of G. I. Joe, The (1945) 109m
22. 2024-01-16 10:00 PM war Enemy Below, The (1957) 98m
23. 2024-01-16 11:45 PM war Anzio (1968) 117m
24. 2024-01-17 01:45 AM war Longest Day, The (1962) 180m
25. 2024-01-17 04:45 AM drama Till the End of Time (1946) 105m
26. 2024-01-17 06:45 AM war One Minute to Zero (1952) 105m
27. 2024-01-17 08:45 AM susp Angry Hills, The (1959) 105m
28. 2024-01-17 10:30 AM drama Rampage (1963) 98m
29. 2024-01-23 08:00 PM susp Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 93m
30. 2024-01-23 09:45 PM advent Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) 107m
31. 2024-01-23 11:45 PM advent Thunder Road (1958) 94m
32. 2024-01-24 01:30 AM comedy Two for the Seesaw (1962) 120m
33. 2024-01-24 03:45 AM drama Not As a Stranger (1955) 135m
34. 2024-01-24 06:15 AM drama My Forbidden Past (1951) 81m
35. 2024-01-24 07:30 AM drama She Couldn't Say No (1954) 89m
36. 2024-01-24 09:15 AM drama Home from the Hill (1960) 150m
37. 2024-01-24 12:00 PM drama Sundowners, The (1960) 133m
38. 2024-01-24 02:30 PM romance Holiday Affair (1949) 87m
39. 2024-01-24 04:00 PM romance Desire Me (1947) 91m
40. 2024-01-30 08:00 PM comedy Grass is Greener, The (1961) 104m
41. 2024-01-30 10:00 PM susp Cape Fear (1962) 105m
42. 2024-01-31 12:00 AM susp Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973) 102m
43. 2024-01-31 02:00 AM adapt Farewell, My Lovely (1975) 97m
44. 2024-01-31 03:45 AM drama Ryan's Daughter (1970) 206m
45. 2024-01-31 07:15 AM crime Yakuza, The (1974) 112m
46. 2024-01-31 09:15 AM drama Going Home (1971) 97m
47. 2024-01-31 11:00 AM western Wrath of God, The (1972) 111m

As you can see, there are 46 films and not 47 as stated in the article. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) is mentioned in the article but was not scheduled this month, so that might be the difference.

-- Edited to add The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) late on Jan. 30. There are 47 films.

It's a pity too because Eddie Coyle was one of his last great roles.

I found a gap in the online schedule late on Jan. 30 and I see that TCM's Now Playing mailing shows The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) is scheduled that evening. The list of Mitchum films above is updated.

It appears TCM has stopped listing the daytime themes in their Now Playing mailing that comes out on the 1st of the month.

I am stumped to come up with a daytime theme for Monday, January 22nd. Here is the list of films:

2024-01-22 06:00 AM advent China Seas (1935) 90m
2024-01-22 07:30 AM comedy At the Circus (1939) 87m
2024-01-22 09:00 AM horror House of Wax (1953) 88m
2024-01-22 10:45 AM advent Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1936) 116m
2024-01-22 01:00 PM horror Face of Fu Manchu, The (1965) 96m
2024-01-22 02:45 PM drama Convicts 4 (1962) 105m
2024-01-22 04:45 PM advent Thief of Bagdad, The (1940) 106m
2024-01-22 06:45 PM comedy Man Alive (1946) 70m

If anyone has ideas I would appreciate it.