Thirty-one Days of Oscar: who's watching?

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Pax Christi!

It’s coming up on Oscar time! TCM, always one of my favorite sources of entertainment, celebrates by running Oscar winners for 31 straight days.

I love it! Great, great films!

They’re starting with The Lost Weekend (1945). It’s special to me, an alcoholic: two and a half years sober.

Gonna watch some movies with me?

God bless!
 
Pax Christi!

LW was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, winning four: Best Picture, Director, Actor and Writing (Screenplay). Pretty good!

Great and powerful film.

Accurate, too. 😦

God bless.
 
I am.
I am also playing the reveal/connection game online as well…although I do not have full access sime I am outside the US.
I am so excited though.:extrahappy::extrahappy:
 
svid2 said:
Pax Christi!

It’s coming up on Oscar time! TCM, always one of my favorite sources of entertainment, celebrates by running Oscar winners for 31 straight days.

I love it! Great, great films!

They’re starting with The Lost Weekend (1945). It’s special to me, an alcoholic: two and a half years sober.

Gonna watch some movies with me?

God bless!
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Great movie! Yes, I will be watching!
 
svid2 said:
Pax Christi!

LW was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, winning four: Best Picture, Director, Actor and Writing (Screenplay). Pretty good!

Great and powerful film.

Accurate, too. 😦

God bless.
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I certainly remember The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland and also Days of Wine and Roses with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Both are great films about the disease of alcoholism.

I’ll be watching as many of these award-winning films as I can.
 
meltzerboy said:
I certainly remember The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland and also Days of Wine and Roses with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Both are great films about the disease of alcoholism.

I’ll be watching as many of these award-winning films as I can.
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I saw The Days of Wine and Roses when I was in my late teens or early 20’s. I found it almost disturbing, it was sad. I would love to see it again now that I am (ahem) “not as young.” :rolleyes:
 
Irishmom2 said:
I saw The Days of Wine and Roses when I was in my late teens or early 20’s. I found it almost disturbing, it was sad. I would love to see it again now that I am (ahem) “not as young.” :rolleyes:
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I haven’t seen Days in a while myself. It’s interesting to compare one’s reactions to films at different ages.
 
meltzerboy said:
I certainly remember The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland and also Days of Wine and Roses with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Both are great films about the disease of alcoholism.

I’ll be watching as many of these award-winning films as I can.
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Those were both great films. I wish I still had TCM.
 
We got rid of cable several years ago so I won’t be watching them. Then again I don’t understand the whole hype around award shows or the stoopid bowl either. The only reason I know when things like that are on is to plan dinner or shopping trips. 😉
 
We could no longer afford cable or satellite so no, I won’t be watching. Very sad, too! I love TCM!

Silent movies are the best. I really miss Silent Sunday Night.
 
Irishmom2 said:
I saw The Days of Wine and Roses when I was in my late teens or early 20’s. I found it almost disturbing, it was sad. I would love to see it again now that I am (ahem) “not as young.” :rolleyes:
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Pax Christi.

The Days of Wine and Roses is my favorite alcoholism movie. (Yes, I have a list…) And disturbing, absolutely. To watch Lee Remick descend into this sickness is eye-opening, but so is Jack Lemmon’s hopeful situation.

Ever see Lee Remick unattractive?

Let’s enjoy the 31 Days!

God bless. (Pray for alcoholics…)
 
I have the TCM app. It features many on demand selections, more than just is available on the TCM on Demand for the cable stations. I think one needs to have TCM on cable to download the app.

I’m not sure if this is in the 31 days of Oscar line-up, but on Friday I watched “Butterfield 8” Liz Taylor won the Oscar for her role as Gloria the “party girl”.

I thought the film was a tiny bit melodramatic on a whole. I actually thought Liz Taylor’s performance in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was much better.

She didn’t come across as a New Yorker from the working class, as Gloria seemed to be. (Her mother is from Brownsville Brooklyn)

Eddie Fisher didn’t really seem to fit into the plot very well, except for saying his role was to protect Gloria.

And, perhaps I was jaded from seeing him in the “Manchurian Candidate”, Lawrence Harvey wasn’t very convincing to me as the playboy, who also had working class background. He seemed a bit creepy, Also where did this New Yorker get a British accent from?

Maybe, his part could have been played by a New York actor. Burt Lancaster was from New York, although he was older, he would be more believable.

Also, what I thought really funny? The ease that the characters found parking in New York.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I have the TCM app. It features many on demand selections, more than just is available on the TCM on Demand for the cable stations. I think one needs to have TCM on cable to download the app.

I’m not sure if this is in the 31 days of Oscar line-up, but on Friday I watched “Butterfield 8” Liz Taylor won the Oscar for her role as Gloria the “party girl”.

I thought the film was a tiny bit melodramatic on a whole. I actually thought Liz Taylor’s performance in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was much better.

She didn’t come across as a New Yorker from the working class, as Gloria seemed to be. (Her mother is from Brownsville Brooklyn)

Eddie Fisher didn’t really seem to fit into the plot very well, except for saying his role was to protect Gloria.

And, perhaps I was jaded from seeing him in the “Manchurian Candidate”, Lawrence Harvey wasn’t very convincing to me as the playboy, who also had working class background. He seemed a bit creepy, Also where did this New Yorker get a British accent from?

Maybe, his part could have been played by a New York actor. Burt Lancaster was from New York, although he was older, he would be more believable.

Also, what I thought really funny? The ease that the characters found parking in New York.
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LOL Only a true New Yorker would notice and comment on the latter aspect.
 
Pax Christi!

Ben Hur (1959) is on this afternoon (Monday, Feb.1st) at 4 p.m. Eastern. With Charlie Heston, this is one of the great remakes ever!!

Heads up, y’all!

God bless!
 
svid2 said:
Pax Christi.

The Days of Wine and Roses is my favorite alcoholism movie. (Yes, I have a list…) And disturbing, absolutely. To watch Lee Remick descend into this sickness is eye-opening, but so is Jack Lemmon’s hopeful situation.

Ever see Lee Remick unattractive?

Let’s enjoy the 31 Days!

God bless. (Pray for alcoholics…)
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If The Verdict is on your list, it will be on Tuesday at 10:15pm on TCM.
 
Has anyone seen the first film of Ben Hur? Amazing. Same with King of Kings and The Godless Girl. deMille did an incredible job with movies about our Lord.

Sunrise:A Song of Two Humans should be on sometime this month.

Have I mentioned how much I love silents? 🙂
 
Pax Christi!

There are similarities, almost like a tribute to the original. The chariot race, the drink of water scene.

Yes, “silents”, which weren’t actually silent, are great!

God bless!
 
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