TCM Underground watchalong

They did Nanook last week and then played two Fassbenders, and we got a Kurosawa marathon on Wednesday. TCM giving the shut-ins what they want

*binder, I'm droonk

Anybody planning to watch Bogdanovich night tomorrow? They're also gonna air Logan's Run later as an unrelated film, which is a fun watch.

Why the FUCK aren't they playing Paper Moon, one of the greatest films of all time. They've played Logan's Run like three times in the last year at least

True honestly. I haven't seen Logan's Run recently so I still like it, but I agree.

so, what is playing right now?

holy puffy nipples

I've been disappointed with TCM lately. They aren't changing their schedule up whatsoever to coincide with the fact everyone is at home on quarantine. They could be playing more classics, but they aren't.

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I just might join in

That moaning broad had the worst accent lol
>aahh aahh yehhaa

what do you define as classics?

Yeah I'm not dissing Logan's Run. They've been doing a lot of replaying lately (past two years in particular, probably even longer than that if I'm being honest, I know they replay shit like The Searchers and Citizen Kane and Casablanca which is good, there should be an accessible channel that consistently shows those kinds of films, but I've been watching TCM and recording films I want to watch since 2010/2011 and I have noticed the obnoxious repetition a lot more lately). Idk if they just sit on shit that they like to tease out and they're looking at it from a looong term perspective and they want to show the same shit to appease their perceived core audience or if they consider it a mathematical decision to play The Thin Man saga three times a year while Ben continues to throw out jokes that neither boomers nor zoomers think are funny. Just seems like they aren't trying to actually adapt to the landscape. If I didn't have cable, I wouldn't pay for TCM, I would pay for Criterion. Hurts me to write but it is the current state of things

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I get what you are saying but they need to drop the theme nights and just play movies that will draw viewers and are actual "classics" not "obscure shit from the 1930s that fits our theme for the evening"

Is this guy a faggot?

Yeah alright, Kurosawa day was fun yesterday but, play some shit in primetime and don't put on the great movies in the middle of the god damn day

They play what they own

I'm starting to suspect they are losing rights to a lot of movies to streaming services.

Check out the app, I'm not sure if it requires a cable subscription or not. Some stuff sticks around for a month or so. I don't think TCM is immune to criticism or anything, just throwing out options

She's back lol

Yeah, I think they are sadly. I'm sure there's not that much money going to them these days, especially with no commercials.

That or they have to sort of pander a little bit more to whoever left watching cable these days (essentially basic tier NPC boomers) to keep viewership numbers from dropping.

I do wonder how the Warner/HBO/AT&T deal is going to effect them. I'm sad Filmstruck tanked. It would have been great to see a hybrid Criterion/TCM service replete with extras, commentaries (all the usual DVD, Blu-ray stuff) and bonus TCM segments/discussions for many movies.

"Peak" TCM is literally too good to be true. No commercials, a consistent stream of not just classic cinema but international arthouse gems, presented with occasional commentary. In the disgustingly bastardized world of television today, it's a fucking marvel that it still exists.

>Logans Run
>2010
>Horror

the yojimbo soundtrack stood out

I should watch this more at night.

Why does this faggot keep eyeing the blonde?

it pisses me off because the play the real good stuff at the worst hours

Record it

I just DVR the upcoming ones I want to see and watch them when I have time. TCM is the best channel by far.

Me too. I posted a lengthy criticism of them above, but at the end of the day I'm thankful for its existence. Would love to work their honestly

Wait what?

I do sometimes, but I'm a 30+ boomer, sometimes I just want to watch kino live, you know?

I'm sure we can all agree that this movie fucking blows lol, fuck this nonsense. It's a got damn film school experiment blown up to a proportion that it never deserved to sniff at

some 70's hippie shit

25 year old boomer here, I hear ya. Check out the app is the best advice I can give ya

I missed most of the begining and I'm pretty damn lost

tuned in just in time for tits

The only thing that matters live are sports and kino is best watched on physical blu ray/4k. This isn't the 80s or 90s anymore, watch whatever you want whenever you want.

Honest to god the fact that this is playing just gets me pissed off because I know it's some "political" bullshit. Someone go do a hard look up on the director

This is great ty OP

>movie just ends

Yea ok, 20 minutes until the next feature

This thread is fun despite all of us bitching, good to know some anons watch this channel

KEK THAT WAS IT?

I record shit I wanna watch once a week, it's a part of my regularly scheduled routine. I love TCM. I love it so much that it makes me want to vomit because of how dumb they are sometimes

It's from the 70s

Yeah that was confusing. So it was like a 20 minute weird porn movie? Was that Cover Me Babe? What a weird thing

For me its TCM impotrs, fucking pleb.

Even the director of both of these movies thought they were shit kek

that comes on on Sunday night/Monday morning too dumb nuts

Ah yes, fitting movie for the current HAPPENINGS going on.

DUCK AND COVER.

>>Duck and Cover
oh boy...

??????

TCM is cucked NPR tier liberal propaganda bullshit now.

>HELLO I'M JIM GOLDSTEIN AND I'M WANDA FREEMAN
>TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO WATCH SUCH CLASSIC FILMS SUCH AS "MALCOLM X" AND "BLACK PANTHER" AND DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AIDS MOVEMENT THAT IS DEFINITELY SUPER IMPORTANT

Look at their hosts they have now and the sort of influence their exerting over the content of TCM. Lots of movies with black protagonists and white antagonists. Do you really think that films like "Sounder" and "Before Stonewall" and "Do The Right Thing" are classics?

They wouldn't even show Birth of a Nation without a panel of historical "experts" talking in a 30 minute program before and after about how supposedly "racist" it is, yet they'll outright show Soviet propaganda films under the guise of "art".

i give it less than a decade before they purge every movie made before 1970 from the channel for being problematic

He means the director is a ((())).

>They'll be adequate warning before the bombs drop

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Part of it is their viewer base is literal silent generation and early boomers that only want the same 30s - 60s Hollywood movies over and over again.

Look at their official forums or Facebook pages whenever foreign or arthouse shit airs. Absolute shit show. There were people who bitched about Kurosawa. People absolutely lost their shit when this very block (TCM Underground) aired John Waters films in the dead of night. Literally endless posts from conservative members about how horribly obscene and anti-Christian values those films were.

That's basically what TCM Underground is half the time. Just campy, cult movies from the 50s through early 80s that don't fit the rest of the network.

A decade is pretty generous of you.

And I agree. I was just reading through their Tumblr today (I know) and about 40% of the posts are written by some souy cuck.

>celebrating women in film
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I haven't seen Duck and Cover in a while. Whoo.
My dad actually worked on an army base as part of the US BMEWS early warning system. They watched the skies for incoming missles or anything out of the ordinary.
Still mindboggling how fast it can happen.

This movie is apparently about drugs, as is the one after which is a 70s documentary about the heroin crisis in America