OT: TCM 31 Days of Oscar Highlights Tonight

LionJim · Feb 19, 2026

Prison theme tonight.

8 pm ET: Papillon (1973), with Steve McQueen and a crazed Dustin Hoffman. Good movie, something everyone needs to see once.

10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

1:00 AM ET: Midnight Express (1978), good movie.

Woodpecker · Feb 19, 2026

LionJim said:
Prison theme tonight.

8 pm ET: Papillon (1973), with Steve McQueen and a crazed Dustin Hoffman. Good movie, something everyone needs to see once.

10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

1:00 AM ET: Midnight Express (1978), good movie.

No Caged Heat?

ApexLion · Feb 19, 2026

Woodpecker said:
No Caged Heat?

This movie never goes away. Seriously. People bring it up every so often. So I searched around for reviews. I haven't seen it.

Ahhh... 'Caged Heat'! I get a big grin on my face just typing the title! Look, you either dig Women In Prison movies or you don't, and if you do 'Caged Heat' is the second best one ever made, in a tie with Jack Hill's 'The Bird Bird Cage'. (The best for me is still 'Chained Heat' starring Linda Blair and Tamara Dobson, made a few years after this genre is generally regarded as being at its peak). I think the only thing stopping it from being number one is the absence of Pam Grier. If she had played the character of Pandora instead of Ella Reid, 'Chained Heat' would be IT. Funnily enough, three of the major cast members (Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins and Rainbeaux Smith) had co-starred in various Grier vehicles ('Foxy Brown', 'The Big Doll House', and 'Drum' respectively). This is Jonathan Demme's directorial debut after serving his apprenticeship with Roger Corman as a writer and producer, and he really came up trumps. Demme manages to make a tough and tense W.I.P. movie and a playful, tongue in cheek parody of one simultaneously. He has made more accomplished and successful movies since this, but arguably none more entertaining. The cast is an impressive one, not just Brown, Collins, Smith and Reid, but Russ Meyer ***** goddess Erica Gavin ('Vixen!') and horror legend Barbara Steele ('Black Sunday', 'Pit And The Pendulum', 'Night Of The Doomed', 'Shivers',etc.). I also liked the perverted Dr. Randolph played by Warren Miller. 'Caged Heat' is first class trash, and a perfect example of 1960s/70s exploitation movies exemplified by the energetic and fun output of American International and New World Pictures. We will never see their likes again! Enjoy!

Women in Prison Movies is a genre?

LionJim · Feb 22, 2026

War movies today, Sunday.
8pm: Patton. George C Scott does a great job.
11:00 The Deer Hunter. Nothing to add here.
2:15 am Monday: Das Boot, a great great WW2 U-boat movie. I’m coping it.

MtNittany · Feb 22, 2026

LionJim said:
10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

Hey now. I've lived in Jupiter for 40 years now. Them's almost fightin' words down here - out west a few miles - Jim.

psujr@aol.com · Feb 22, 2026

MtNittany said:
Hey now. I've lived in Jupiter for 40 years now. Them's almost fightin' words down here - out west a few miles - Jim.

Its deliverance by a mile

GSPVik · Feb 22, 2026

LionJim said:
War movies today, Sunday.
8pm: Patton. George C Scott does a great job.
11:00 The Deer Hunter. Nothing to add here.
2:15 am Monday: Das Boot, a great great WW2 U-boat movie. I’m coping it.

I saw Das Boot in the theater when it came out. Have not seen it since. I have been hoping it would show up on TCM for a long time.

LionJim · Feb 22, 2026

GSPVik said:
I saw Das Boot in the theater when it came out. Have not seen it since. I have been hoping it would show up on TCM for a long time.

Yeah, Das Boot has a great reputation and I’ve never seen it.

Nittering Nabob · Feb 22, 2026

LionJim said:
Prison theme tonight.

8 pm ET: Papillon (1973), with Steve McQueen and a crazed Dustin Hoffman. Good movie, something everyone needs to see once.

10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

1:00 AM ET: Midnight Express (1978), good movie.

Shouldn’t Shawshank be airing?

bbrown · Feb 22, 2026

Nittering Nabob said:
Shouldn’t Shawshank be airing?

Much like Day After Tomorrow it's always airing on something.

Nittering Nabob · Feb 22, 2026

bbrown said:
Much like Day After Tomorrow it's always airing on something.

Like “My Cousin Vinnie” ?

LionJim · Feb 28, 2026

Westerns today, Saturday 28th.

Highlights:
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) 11:45 pm. Very fine, this gets better every time I watch it. The derringer is an important plot point.

The Wild Bunch (1969) 2 am Sunday morning. In my mind the greatest western other than The Searchers.

Navion N8865H · Feb 28, 2026

LionJim said:
Westerns today, Saturday 28th.

Highlights:
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) 11:45 pm. Very fine, this gets better every time I watch it. The derringer is an important plot point.

The Wild Bunch (1969) 2 am Sunday morning. In my mind th

I saw a documentary about the shootout in The Wild Bunch, Pekinpah thought it might get an X rating.

Aardvark86 · Feb 28, 2026

LionJim said:
Westerns today, Saturday 28th.

Highlights:
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) 11:45 pm. Very fine, this gets better every time I watch it. The derringer is an important plot point.

The Wild Bunch (1969) 2 am Sunday morning. In my mind the greatest western other than The Searchers.

The other night I’d been watching o brother where art thou, which got me thinking about true grit, which led me to watch the original for the first time.

remake was much better, though I really loved Duvall in the original.

step.eng69 · Feb 28, 2026

LionJim said:
Prison theme tonight.

8 pm ET: Papillon (1973), with Steve McQueen and a crazed Dustin Hoffman. Good movie, something everyone needs to see once.

10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

1:00 AM ET: Midnight Express (1978), good movie.

Thanks for sharing, LJ
Watched the trailer, I don't believe I had seen this movie.

LionJim · Feb 28, 2026

LionJim said:
Westerns today, Saturday 28th.

Highlights:
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) 11:45 pm. Very fine, this gets better every time I watch it. The derringer is an important plot point.

The Wild Bunch (1969) 2 am Sunday morning. In my mind the greatest western other than The Searchers.

Watching Stagecoach for the millionth time. Never gets old.

Navion N8865H · Mar 1, 2026

Logan's Run, Monday 3/2/26 10:00am

LionJim · Mar 2, 2026

Aardvark86 said:
The other night I’d been watching o brother where art thou, which got me thinking about true grit, which led me to watch the original for the first time.

remake was much better, though I really loved Duvall in the original.

Yeah, the remake was much better. You should read the book, very fine; the Coens movie follows the book pretty much without any significant changes that I can recall. Bridges plays Rooster much edgier than Wayne did, for example, Bridges’s Rooster hates Natives, it’s quite ugly. But the real difference is that Hailee Steinfeld is a superior Mattie.

Aardvark86 · Mar 2, 2026

LionJim said:
Yeah, the remake was much better. You should read the book, very fine; the Coens movie follows the book pretty much without any significant changes that I can recall. Bridges plays Rooster much edgier than Wayne did, for example, Bridges’s Rooster hates Natives, it’s quite ugly. But the real difference is that Hailee Steinfeld is a superior Mattie.

Yep. Watch the bishop Barron review of it. I didn’t actually know what I’d seen until I did

LionJim · Mar 2, 2026

Aardvark86 said:
Yep. Watch the bishop Barron review of it. I didn’t actually know what I’d seen until I did

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LionJim · Mar 3, 2026

“My Favorite Year,” from 1981 on TCM today, Tuesday, at 4pm ET. Hysterical, Alan Swann is the best drunk role ever. One of those “Gotta see it at least once” movies. You won’t regret it.

Woodpecker · Mar 3, 2026

LionJim said:
“My Favorite Year,” from 1981 on TCM today, Tuesday, at 4pm ET. Hysterical, Alan Swann is the best drunk role ever. One of those “Gotta see it at least once” movies. You won’t regret it.

LionJim · Mar 3, 2026

Watching It’s Always Fair Weather right now while waiting for the window guy to give us an estimate. (It’s NYC Day on TCM.)

It’s a violation of McAndrew Board Regulation 21.3 Subsection A for anyone to watch what I just saw and not post a video. Good googly moogly, Cyd Charisse for the win.

katatonic2 · Mar 3, 2026

LionJim said:
Prison theme tonight.

8 pm ET: Papillon (1973), with Steve McQueen and a crazed Dustin Hoffman. Good movie, something everyone needs to see once.

10:45 pm ET: The Longest Yard (1974), Burt’s finest film. @laKavosiey-st lion I suspect this is right up your alley.

1:00 AM ET: Midnight Express (1978), good movie.

Much like Shawshank, The Green Mile is always on, but surprised they passed over Cool Hand Luke (1967).

LionJim · Mar 4, 2026

katatonic2 said:
Much like Shawshank, The Green Mile is always on, but surprised they passed over Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Shawshank and Green Mile aren’t shown on TCM. Cool Hand Luke is on TCM around three times a year, minimum.

manatree · Mar 4, 2026

LionJim said:
Watching It’s Always Fair Weather right now while waiting for the window guy to give us an estimate. (It’s NYC Day on TCM.)

It’s a violation of McAndrew Board Regulation 21.3 Subsection A for anyone to watch what I just saw and not post a video. Good googly moogly, Cyd Charisse for the win.

@LionJim Allow me to respond in the most juvenile way possible…….

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…..

In my defense, the lyrics made me do it.

LionJim · Mar 6, 2026

Foreign films this morning and afternoon.

Yojimbo (1961), I copied this to watch later. Sergio Leone stole the plot for A Fistful of Dollars. Kurosawa sued, got $$$$$$.

Autumn Sonata (1978), late Ingmar Bergman. I’m watching it now while having my post-workout breakfast. Ingrid Bergman plays a world-class concert pianist who neglected her children while they were growing up and now the chickens have come home to roost. Liv Ullmann plays the daughter. Dang, the tension.

12:15 ET: Bicycle Thieves (1948). Poor schmuck gets a desperately-needed job in post-war Italy because he has a bike and then someone steals the bike. F me, the saddest movie ever.

2:00 ET: I Vitelloni (1953), Fellini. I don’t like Fellini but I like this one. Young guy knocks up his teenage girlfriend, copes very poorly. Very fine.

manatree · Mar 6, 2026

LionJim said:
12:15 ET: Bicycle Thieves (1948). Poor schmuck gets a desperately-needed job in post-war Italy because he has a bike and then someone steals the bike. F me, the saddest movie ever.

Quite possibly the funniest, most accurate synopsis ever written.

razpsu · Mar 6, 2026

Don’t have tcm since it part of a stupid package separate from mine.

ApexLion · Mar 6, 2026

Bicycle Thief was one of the movies analyzed in mass comm classes at PSU.

LionJim · Mar 6, 2026

razpsu said:
Don’t have tcm since it part of a stupid package separate from mine.

I can't live without TCM. There are some great films coming up, some great films that have flown under the radar. Fat City is coming up, a great late John Huston; I will alert.

LionJim · Mar 6, 2026

ApexLion said:
Bicycle Thief was one of the movies analyzed in mass comm classes at PSU.

Yeah, to the best of my recollection I first saw Bicycle Thieves in that class, in Schwab.

When I arrived at PSU, in 1974, they had a year-long Bergman fest, a year-long Chaplin fest. Fellini the next year. I first caught both City Lights and Modern Times in the Eisenhower.

I really fell hard for Bergman, always so visually beautiful. I grew up. Regardless, Wild Strawberries is my #1 comfort movie, has been for years. About an elderly college professor looking back with regrets, on brand, I suppose.

LionJim · Mar 6, 2026

A Robert Duvall trifecta on Tuesday 10th, Tender Mercies, The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now. I’ve never seen TGS, I should bite the bullet and watch it. (It’s about a tyrant father, a rough watch.)

I love Tender Mercies, a beautifically heartfelt film.

ApexLion · Mar 6, 2026

LionJim said:
A Robert Duvall trifecta on Tuesday 10th, Tender Mercies, The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now. I’ve never seen TGS, I should bite the bullet and watch it. (It’s about a tyrant father, a rough watch.)

I love Tender Mercies, a beautifically heartfelt film.

Read TGS instead. Amazing book.

psujr@aol.com · Mar 6, 2026

LionJim said:
A Robert Duvall trifecta on Tuesday 10th, Tender Mercies, The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now. I’ve never seen TGS, I should bite the bullet and watch it. (It’s about a tyrant father, a rough watch.)

I love Tender Mercies, a beautifically heartfelt film.

Been several decades since I’ve seen the great Santini.

manatree · Mar 6, 2026

LionJim said:
I really fell hard for Bergman, always so visually beautiful. I grew up. Regardless, Wild Strawberries is my #1 comfort movie, has been for years. About an elderly college professor looking back with regrets, on brand, I suppose.

Wild Strawberries was just on the other week.

LionJim · Mar 7, 2026

Why the hell are you reading this thread when you could be following the B1G Wrestling Championships at this very moment? A meh day on TCM anyway.

manatree · Mar 7, 2026

LionJim said:
Why the hell are you reading this thread when you could be following the B1G Wrestling Championships at this very moment? A meh day on TCM anyway.

Well, to be fair, eight of our guys had byes in the first round. Old Man and the Sea and Flight of the Phoenix are decent but I have seen both several times so I am focused on wrestling with the USWNT in between sessions. I’ve never seen Brando’s Mutiny on the Bounty so that will be recorded.

Tomorrow has a good lineup.

1:45AM The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
3:30AM The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
5:00AM The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)
6:00AM Speedy (1928)
7:30AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
9:15AM On the Town (1949)
11:00AM Guys and Dolls (1955)
1:45PM The Apartment (1960)
4:00PM The Goodbye Girl (1977)
6:00PM Barefoot in the Park (1967)
8:00PM Moonstruck (1987)
10:00PM Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

LionJim · Mar 7, 2026

manatree said:
Well, to be fair, eight of our guys had byes in the first round. Old Man and the Sea and Flight of the Phoenix are decent but I have seen both several times so I am focused on wrestling with the USWNT in between sessions. I’ve never seen Brando’s Mutiny on the Bounty so that will be recorded.

Tomorrow has a good lineup.

1:45AM The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

3:30AM The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

5:00AM The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)

6:00AM Speedy (1928)

7:30AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

9:15AM On the Town (1949)

11:00AM Guys and Dolls (1955)

1:45PM The Apartment (1960)

4:00PM The Goodbye Girl (1977)

6:00PM Barefoot in the Park (1967)

8:00PM Moonstruck (1987)

10:00PM Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Another NYC Day. That’s a decent lineup.

manatree · Mar 7, 2026

LionJim said:
Another NYC Day. That’s a decent lineup.

I’ve never seen Speedy or Manhattan Melodrama.

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