Tcm

[Johann]

You seem to be lowering your standards, but maybe this is a good time for silliness.

I'm wiling to watch almost anything, but the last two days have been weak for TCM in my view.
I saw Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini-talk about lowering standards!
Both had Buster Keaton as a guest-star!!! Inconceivable.

I'm jealous of your film consumption Chris.

[Johann]

Thanks for comparing me to Kael- no one can reach her level, can they?

Today's Jack Lemmon? Hmm.
Maybe Steve Carrell?

[Chris Knipp]

I see, it's Tcm that's lowering its standards - you're just sticking with them.
Well, you can't drink first growth bordeaux every day. You definitely cannot.

Somehow at the time Jack Lemmon meant more than Steve Carell, but a good choice.

[Johann]

The curated schedule for TCM is unpredictable-they have classics dotting a shit-ton of other movies with varying degrees of interest.
I admit I cherry-pick what I see but I'm open to almost anything.
Tomorrow I've earmarked The Maltese Falcon and Fritz Lang's M.
Saturday is the original King Kong and Jules Dassin's Brute Force.

[Chris Knipp]

Sounds like a classic weekend. Don't know BRUTE FORCE but it looks good. Eight years later Dassin was to make the French noir classic RIFIFI with the famous wordless 20-minute burglary sequence. Greatness.