TCM is playing tribute this month to Archie Leach, better known to the world as
Cary Grant. The range of films, the types of roles, the co-stars. Makes you long for another era of american film-making. Of interest to you
architect types might be
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House of 1948, with the fabulous
Myrna Loy - whose 1947 film The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer partly occupies that special message place on my answering machine. Grant's films with Hitchcock - especially North by Northwest with its great fake FLW house and fantastic Saul Bass titles - Cukor, and Hawks are well worth searching out. Don't miss his final role - Walk Don't Run - a film set at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and itself a remake of The More the Merrier of 1943. Who said that Hollywood couldn't do remakes?One of the most interesting items to come out of the TCM documentary is Cary's embracing LSD in the early pre-illegal tests of it.
posted by grimley
on Jun 1, 2004 -
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A good week for movie fans.
Cronenberg has a new movie in production (
Spider, with Gabriel Byrne as well as the cast listed). And TCM is running some interesting stuff on
Thursday and
Friday (
Andrei Rublev has quite a reputation(s)). That's a complete (I think) retrospective of Tarkovsky Fridays throughout September, BTW.
posted by aflakete
on Sep 2, 2001 -
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One of the classier TV channels around has done a site re-design. I think it's pretty neat, but it's a bit um flashy and so drags with a slower connection. I've been watching movies for over 30 years, but I'll still come across a gem on TCM now and then that I've never seen, or sometimes even heard of. They're running some more recent films lately too, like
The Hudsucker Proxy a few weeks ago.
posted by aflakete
on Apr 20, 2001 -
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