Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV (5 Viewers)

[Robert Crawford]

Today, I'm going to try to watch "Rififi" again.

 

[Matt Hough]

I'm not planning on rewatching it today, but of course I'll listen to Eddie's intro and outro.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I thought of you, Robert, yesterday, when my son was telling me of his new purchase for his recently-bought home in Melbourne, Australia ... a 65 inch LG Oled. He watched a nature show and said the physical presence amounted to hyper-realism. And he loves the remote control .. and point-and-move wand.
I'm so old-fashioned with my old Plasma and UHD projector...... and he finds my love of physical media positively archaic!

 

[Robert Crawford]

I thought of you, Robert, yesterday, when my son was telling me of his new purchase for his recently-bought home in Melbourne, Australia ... a 65 inch LG Oled. He watched a nature show and said the physical presence amounted to hyper-realism. And he loves the remote control .. and point-and-move wand.
I'm so old-fashioned with my old Plasma and UHD projector...... and he finds my love of physical media positively archaic!

Actually, I'm old Plasma guy myself, Panasonic to be exact, but these LG OLED made me turn the page especially when it came to 3-D presentations my OLED surpasses my plasma 3-D displays.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

So when my Panasonic plasma expires, I'll just have to go down the OLED path. I just bought a brand new La Pavoni heat exchanger espresso machine, which cost exactly the same as my son's 65 inch Lg Oled. Coffee comes first of course ... to keep you awake for the night's entertainment!

 

[Robert Crawford]

This weekend's "Noir Alley" movie is "The Window" (1949) starring Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman. I'll only listen to Eddie's comments as I just watched the wonderful WA Blu-ray on November 26th. My comments can be found here. Perhaps, I'll finally watch "Rififi" again after several failed attempts in doing so. Also, Matt Hough's fine Blu-ray review of "The Window" can be read here.


Updated TCM's Noir Alley 2022 schedule:


01-01-22: Repeat Performance
01-08-22: Nightmare Alley
01-15-22: The Mob
01-22-22: Over-Exposed
01-29-22: Quai des Orfèvres
02-05-22: The Turning Point
02-12-22: Side Street
02-26-22: Cast a Dark Shadow
04-02-22: Pitfall
04-09-22: Bob le flambeur
04-16-22: Night and the City
04-23-22: The Window
04-30-22: Johnny Angel
05-07-22: No Man of Her Own
05-14-22: The Killer is Loose
05-21-22: My Name is Julie Ross
05-28-22: Bad Day at Black Rock
06-04-22: Out of the Past
06-11-22: The Guilty
06-18-22: House of Strangers
06-25-22: Down Three Dark Streets
07-02-22: The Strange One
07-09-22: Hide Tide
07-16-22: Scarlet Street
07-23-22: 5 Against the House
07-30-22: Raw Deal

 

[Matt Hough]

Having seen the film many times (even before I reviewed the disc), I, too, will only be watching Eddie's comments tomorrow. I'll find something else to enjoy at lunchtime.

 

[Capt D McMars]

I thought of you, Robert, yesterday, when my son was telling me of his new purchase for his recently-bought home in Melbourne, Australia ... a 65 inch LG Oled. He watched a nature show and said the physical presence amounted to hyper-realism. And he loves the remote control .. and point-and-move wand.
I'm so old-fashioned with my old Plasma and UHD projector...... and he finds my love of physical media positively archaic!

and yet those of his same age and younger seek out vinyl records like long lost treasures!!!

 

[bujaki]

The Window is a textbook on how not to rear a child. Everything the parents do is so wrongheaded.
Wonderful film though.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Having seen the film many times (even before I reviewed the disc), I, too, will only be watching Eddie's comments tomorrow. I'll find something else to enjoy at lunchtime.

Eddie’s comments are verbatim to his previous comments about The Window made some years ago when it first appeared on Noir Alley. Unfortunately, this weekend’s showings were not derived from the new scan used for the WA Blu-ray.

With that said, I agree with Eddie that Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart were great actors and very underrated in that regard.

 

[SuperClark]

Certainly this list contains many of the best movies of all time.Too many to list

The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time

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[Matt Hough]

Yes, same comments, but he delivers them so forcefully that I enjoy them regardless. Bobby Driscoll's story is such a tragic one. How could the business not find room for someone so immensely talented?

 

[Robert Crawford]

It looks like we have a new HTF member that some of us are familiar with.

3D - I, THE JURY 3D (1953) at the TCM Film Festival 4/22/2022

Some friends of mine were there. They're very knowledgeable about stereoscopy. In their words, the image was clean, not too grainy, and the left and right image panels matched well for density. But... There were a lot of vertical alignment errors, with quite a number of shots exhibiting...

www.hometheaterforum.com

 

[Robert Crawford]

This weekend's "Noir Alley" movie is "Johnny Angel" (1945) starring George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso and Hoagy Carmichael. It's been about three years since I watched my 2015 DVD so I'm up to watching this 79 minute movie once again. I never thought much of Raft as an actor, but I do like the two female leads in this film.



Updated TCM's Noir Alley 2022 schedule:


01-01-22: Repeat Performance
01-08-22: Nightmare Alley
01-15-22: The Mob
01-22-22: Over-Exposed
01-29-22: Quai des Orfèvres
02-05-22: The Turning Point
02-12-22: Side Street
02-26-22: Cast a Dark Shadow
04-02-22: Pitfall
04-09-22: Bob le flambeur
04-16-22: Night and the City
04-23-22: The Window
04-30-22: Johnny Angel
05-07-22: No Man of Her Own
05-14-22: The Killer is Loose
05-21-22: My Name is Julie Ross
05-28-22: Bad Day at Black Rock
06-04-22: Out of the Past
06-11-22: The Guilty
06-18-22: House of Strangers
06-25-22: Down Three Dark Streets
07-02-22: The Strange One
07-09-22: Hide Tide
07-16-22: Scarlet Street
07-23-22: 5 Against the House
07-30-22: Raw Deal

 

[Matt Hough]

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This weekend's "Noir Alley" movie is "Johnny Angel" (1945) starring George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso and Hoagy Carmichael. It's been about three years since I watched my 2015 DVD so I'm up to watching this 79 minute movie once again. I never thought much of Raft as an actor, but I do like the two female leads in this film.



Updated TCM's Noir Alley 2022 schedule:


01-01-22: Repeat Performance
01-08-22: Nightmare Alley
01-15-22: The Mob
01-22-22: Over-Exposed
01-29-22: Quai des Orfèvres
02-05-22: The Turning Point
02-12-22: Side Street
02-26-22: Cast a Dark Shadow
04-02-22: Pitfall
04-09-22: Bob le flambeur
04-16-22: Night and the City
04-23-22: The Window
04-30-22: Johnny Angel
05-07-22: No Man of Her Own
05-14-22: The Killer is Loose
05-21-22: My Name is Julie Ross
05-28-22: Bad Day at Black Rock
06-04-22: Out of the Past
06-11-22: The Guilty
06-18-22: House of Strangers
06-25-22: Down Three Dark Streets
07-02-22: The Strange One
07-09-22: Hide Tide
07-16-22: Scarlet Street
07-23-22: 5 Against the House
07-30-22: Raw Deal

We have exactly the same feelings about Raft and the two female leads. I haven't seen the movie in a long, long time, so I'm very excited to see it at lunchtime tomorrow.

 

[Robert Crawford]

We have exactly the same feelings about Raft and the two female leads. I haven't seen the movie in a long, long time, so I'm very excited to see it at lunchtime tomorrow.

As always I loved Eddie's comments this weekend. Eddie talking about Marvin Miller brought back some images from my childhood as I remembered seeing Miller in reruns of "The Millionaire" that aired on one of the NYC stations back in the 1960s. I'm a big Claire Trevor fan ever since watching her in "Stagecoach" in my youth. What a fine actress and one of the most important film noir actresses so I appreciated some insight from Eddie about her later life.

 

[Robert Crawford]

TCM's "May" Schedule:

TCM Monthly Schedule - View the Full TCM TV Schedule

Find TCM's full month schedule and learn what classic movies will be airing on Turner Classic Movies. A printable schedule organized for the current month's programming is also available here.

www.tcm.com

TCM's Star of the Month:

Star of the Month: Anna May Wong

Thursdays | 13 Movies Anna May Wong, the TCM Star of the Month for May, was the first major Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood. With her charisma and delicate beauty, Wong graced the silver screen in a career that spanned over four decades. She became an international celebrity and fashio

www.tcm.com

 

[Capt D McMars]

TCM's "May" Schedule:

TCM Monthly Schedule - View the Full TCM TV Schedule

Find TCM's full month schedule and learn what classic movies will be airing on Turner Classic Movies. A printable schedule organized for the current month's programming is also available here.

www.tcm.com

TCM's Star of the Month:

Star of the Month: Anna May Wong

Thursdays | 13 Movies Anna May Wong, the TCM Star of the Month for May, was the first major Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood. With her charisma and delicate beauty, Wong graced the silver screen in a career that spanned over four decades. She became an international celebrity and fashio

www.tcm.com

Does anyone know the reasons why TCM has not created an app to diectly access thier live programomg? Granted they were added to HBO Max, but this doesn't feature thier live feed. I cut the cable years ago, and my olny regret is that I lost TCM!!
Has there been any chatter of a TCM app like TCM+ or TCM live...They have lost so many viewers due to those that ran from cable!!! It's a sad thing when a company is unaware of opportunity, when it presents it'self.

 

[Will Krupp]

It's a sad thing when a company refuses to see the viewers as expendable.

I'm sure that's not what you actually meant to say? lol

In any case, TCM live is available through the Hulu Live TV app, the Sling app, the DirecTV app and YouTube TV should you want it. You can also sign up for a streaming version (that includes live east/west coast feeds) here: https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm?ecid=mainnav1watchtcm

 

[Robert Crawford]

There is little doubt that some of these companies see a segment of their viewers as expendable, especially those over the age of 54.