31 Days of Oscar

[Techguy]

It's that time of year again to stock up on blank VHS tapes!

I saw a promo on Turner Classic Movies for the upcoming 31 Days of Oscar tribute. From February 1-March 3 TCM will air 360 movies that won and/or were nominated for Academy Awards.

[janetcatbird]

Gasp! Thanks for the heads-up, it clean slipped my mind! Good thing I brought the TV back this past weekend. So, Movie Buddy, do they have the schedule up on the website yet?


--Catbird

[Techguy]

Yes it is Catbird. Just click on "next month" for the entire February schedule, "month after" for March.

www.turnerclassicmovies.com/schedule/index/

[lyra]

Thanx for the TCM link. I love the internet.

By the way, WHO wrote the caption?? VERY, very funny. I know there's a place for the contest but I have not been able to figure it out yet. But when I saw this one, I had a good chuckle. Where is Rom???

[trisha]

It's mine (pats own back,) and Rom is still around. He just doesn't have much time to post since he's so busy enjoying the beautiful summer weather in Oz

[lyra]

Yeah, I shudda known it was one of you oold timers!

Just finished watching Alan Alda and Ellen Berstyn in "Same Time Next Year". I'd only seen part of the middle up until tonight. Sweet movie. Hard to judge the circumstances because the characters are dealing with it, so I was able to just experience a really good story.

I don't watch movies on t.v. anymore unless they're uncut, commercial free and I can see them from the beginning or I'm watching something silly just to get out of my own head. This movie is a good example why. It drives my neighbor crazy, but then she can watch the new "Sabrina" over and over and over. And over again. And again.

[Techguy]

I'm bumping up this thread--TCM is already under way with the 2007 edition of its annual Oscar tribute.

[Sirenna]

I hope they have some movies on the list made after say 1975 and something other than Casablanca for the number one spot.

The oldies were goodies but they are old. There must be some good ones since then.

[Techguy]

Some upcoming post-1975 titles on TCM include:

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Tender Mercies (1983)
Network (1976)
Philadelphia (1993)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Tootsie (1982)
Prizzi's Honor (1984)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Annie Hall (1977)
Out of Africa (1985)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Crimson Tide (1995)

[Sirenna]

Oprah has a version of barbra walters' interview show pre-oscar. In oprah's version, Julia Roberts and George Clooney interview each other; Nicole kidman and Russel crowe and (my favourite interview so far) Sidney Poitier and Jamie Foxx interviewing each other. It's really interesting way of getting to know the actos and quite heartfelf too. Journalism is somewhat innovative lately, what with crictics who actually like the show and now this...

[Sirenna]

What the heck is with the love-fest for Al Gore?! Did he invent global warming or somethign?

[DonnaJo]

I loved The Crying Game. Remember how shocking it was at the time?

I also love the Oscars, but found myself this year really out of the loop. The only film I saw that was nominated in any important category was Dreamgirls (Jennifer Hudson - great performance).

[Techguy]

Can you believe the 2008 edition is just around the corner?

Taking its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR® film festival to an entirely new level, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will showcase the depth of its movie library by devoting each night in February to a decade of OSCAR®-winning and nominated films—all uncut and commercial free. Mondays in primetime will be devoted to films of the 1920s and 1930s, Tuesdays to the 1940s, Wednesdays to the 1950s and so forth throughout each week, with Sundays showcasing movies from the 1990s to the present.

The TCM lineup includes:
1927’s Wings (Monday, Feb. 4); such cultural touchstones as Five Easy Pieces (Friday, Feb. 1) and Easy Rider (Thursday, Feb. 7); box-office blockbusters like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Sunday, Feb. 10), Steel Magnolias (Saturday, Feb. 16) and Maverick (Sunday, March 2); and one of the most nominated films of all, All About Eve (Saturday, March 1). Also new to TCM are such modern classics as Atlantic City (Saturday, Feb. 2), The Trip to Bountiful (Saturday, Feb. 2), The Wings of the Dove (Sunday, Feb. 3), Kundun (Sunday, Feb. 3), Apocalypse Now (Friday, Feb. 8), Amistad (Sunday, Feb. 17) and Contact (Sunday, Feb. 24).

[untitled]

It's a great chance to see some fantastic classics. Thanks for posting this lineup, techguy! I recently got into Betty Davis films, and I'll going to go write down the date for "All about Eve"

[Techguy]

It's time for the TCM 2010 edition. Premieres this year include "Gladiator" on 2/13 and "Titanic" on 2/27.