TCM for April: Brando! Spinal Tap!
Tam, Turner Classic Movies (channel 57 locally) just emailed me their schedule for April. A quick scan shows some real highlights.
• April 3, 6:30 AM: Brando. TCM’s original two-hour documentary on the guy who pretty much established modern acting. I’ve been waiting for this; I caught only the first half of it last year. There’s a lot of fascinating rare footage, including a strange TV interview of Marlon Brando with his father — who was a real a-hole.
• April 4: A Mockumentary Four-Fer!: Gotta make room on the TiVo for four consecutive very funny movies. Oh wait, I already own the Christopher Guest movies.
- 6:00 PM Take The Money And Run. Let’s review how funny Woody Allen really was.
- 7:30 PM Real Life. Albert Brooks’ satire on TV “real life” documentaries. That’s the great Harry Shearer wearing one of those helmet-cams.
- 9:15 PM Best in Show
- 11:00 PM This Is Spinal Tap Two classics, to say the least, and Spinal Tap was the movie that started it all.
• April 5, noon: The President’s Analyst. James Coburn in the hippest Bond spoof ever. A quintessential 60’s films. Been a while. Does it hold up?
. . . Lordy, there’s just too much this month. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly; Shane (pandering to locals, are we?), Modern Times, Butch Cassidy et al, The Horse Soldiers (a family classic because my Uncle Johnny, an extra, gets shot in the eye!), Gone With the Wind !!!11!, Double Indemnity (K finds Fred MacMurray sexy, which further adds to her charm) — that’s all too much, leaving no time for stoner classics like I Married A Monster From Outer Space.
I got work today. You finish logging the schedule.
2 Comments so far
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…the best part about it is the soundtrack. Not just the theme, which is awesome; years ago I bought the whole soundtrack, which is very listenable even to those of us who aren’t classical music fans.
Awright, The President’s Analyst–I love that movie! Years ago there was a guy living here who actually owned two of those amphibious cars. You could indeed see the little propellors underneath.
Is the “11″ hidden in the !!! after GWTW just a typo, or some opaque reference to Spinal Tap?
I like Fred MacMurray a lot, but find myself conflicted over the term “sexy” because my dad was almost identical to him–in appearance, not at all in manner, and Dad did not play the sax that I am aware of.
Oh, wait, it’s another typo. No doubt you meant to say I find him saxy.
p.s. Remind me, we can’t forget to set the Tivo for I Married A Monster From Outer Space.