Tcm

[Chris Knipp]

You seem to be lowering your standards, but maybe this is a good time for silliness.
I however (seeing it's in Mike D'Angelo's 2019 Top Ten List) want to carry on watching Casey Afflecks LIGHT OF MY LIFE, which is about a man and his young kid surviving a pandemic that has wiped out the earth. It may be timely. It's free with Amazon Prime.

In a bleak future where women have been wiped out by a deadly plague, a forlorn man and his young daughter, disguised as a boy, make their way through the wilderness.-AO Scott, NYTimes.

I seem to have started it earlier and left it after 4 minutes.
I am still getting new movies to watch and I have reviews coming here when they come out in July of

THE OUTPOST (Afghan war thriller, good)
RELIC (classy horror flick)
THE CLIMB (nice, funny feature debut)
HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD (sensitive Korean coming-of-age film)
NOSE TO TAIL (drama about a chef)
THE MEDICINE (doc about ayahuasca)
JOHN LEWIS-GOOD TROUBLE (doc about the veteran congressman and pioneer civil rights fighter)
wWE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES (busy, clever Japanese youth film)
and
THE PAINTED BIRD (a film in black and white from the famous Jerzy Kozinski novel of the sixties)
- not in chronological order.

[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.