The best movie marathon ever

[yendi]

This coming Monday, starting at 6AM, TCM will be showing these movies back-to-back:

Singin' in the Rain
North by Northwest
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
The Philadelphia Story
Citizen Kane
The Adventures of Robin Hood

If you're homebound on Monday, you could do worse than to park yourself in front of seven of the greatest films of all time.

Comments

[pkthunder.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I just might be home in time to see Robin Hood, the only one I haven't seen yet.

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yes, tht's sounds like a good plan. ;)

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

ooooh!

I've never seen North by Northwest!

Could do without Citizen Kane. To this day it is still my least favorite movie of all time. But the rest of those are favorites of mine.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I just don't see why it's so respected. And yeah, I get it- I'm just not impressed.

I love "N by NW", though I spend far, FAR too much energy envying the heroine for always looking well-groomed, when I cannot achieve that for 30 seconds in a row. Hmph. :) I am sadly genetically unable to achieve sleek. Woez.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

The only one I haven't seen is The Maltese Falcon. (Which is an oversight I should correct.)

John and I just watched Singin' in the Rain the other day. (John's first time seeing it.)

I purely hate Citizen Kane, but it's a good movie nonetheless. (The circumstances of my hate derive from my first viewing at age 4, when my dad took me to see Citizen Kane and Robin Hood back to back. Basically, he conned me by saying if I sat through Citizen Kane I'd get to see Robin Hood. Well, we got halfway into the Adventures of Robin Hood when I turned to Dad, and asked, "Daddy, where's the fox?" And Dad realised he had made a four year old sit through Orson Welles' masterpiece in vain.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Holy flaming goatbits.... *runs off to order cable*

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Selah.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

I think my TiVo to-do list is about to get a bit longer... :)

[lovingboth]

Coo.

[jafinnola.livejournal.com]

Damn, I feel a sick day coming on.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

if you replaced the maltese falcon with out of the past and casablanca with sullivan's travels, this would be a classic film orgasm in a tivo.

[yendi]

I'd be fine with adding either of those two (especially since I've only seen Out of the Past once), but I don't think I could give up the other two movies.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

my professors in film school loved bogart, so i got to see maltese and casablanca umpty-bazillion times. as a result, i tend to only like the "weirder" bogart movies -- your beat the devils, your sabrinas (if only because his hard-boiled character is put in a melancholy, rather than hard-boiled, milieu), that weird one where he gets a face transplant, etc. still haven't seen the african queen, which in light of my bogart issues i suspect i'd at least appreciate.