Another part of this month’s TCM salute to Burt Lancaster, this 1953 film featured Lancaster in an iconic cinematic clinch: on the beach with Deborah Kerr, having an illicit affair between an Army sergeant and the wife of a superior officer as the waves lap around them. And in other scenes, Donna Reed and Montgomery Clift co-star, and Frank Sinatra makes a mid-career comeback by playing Maggio.

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Nov

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE By David Bianculli

“Food all right? Try the wine!” Patrick Magee, as the victim turned avenger in this 1971 Stanley Kubrick masterwork, asks this of Malcolm McDowell’s Alex, who, at that point in his unforgettable journey, has made a drastic turnabout of his own. Alex fears the old man is trying to drug or poison him with the wine, and it’s a great scene. But A Clockwork Orange is one great scene after another, and is one of my favorite films of all time. Viddy well, my brothers.

2013

Nov

'AMERICAN MASTERS' TAKES PRIVILEGED LOOK AT JIMI HENDRIX By Gabriela Tamariz

“Hear My Train A Comin’” ... is a feature-length PBS American Masters documentary that chronicles the life and times of guitar genius Jimi Hendrix, and is a privileged look into the introverted guitarist’s life...

2013

Nov

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE By David Bianculli

TCM is celebrating Vivien Leigh’s birthday today by presenting two of her best and most iconic roles, and films, in a lengthy prime-time double bill. First up: Elia Kazan’s big-screen version of Tennessee Williams’ sexy, swampy, atmospheric masterpiece, starring Marlon Brando in an era-changing performance as Stanley Kowalski, and Leigh as Blanche DuBois, one of the two women who drive Stanley to fits of screaming. (The other, of course, is Kim Hunter as STELLA!!!)

2013

Nov

PROMISED LAND By David Bianculli

This 2012 movie takes two sympathetic, popular screen stars, Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, and casts them in conceivably less likable roles: employees of a giant international energy company, dispatched to a small town to persuade the locals to sign away the mineral rights under their land, and allow the controversial natural gas extraction process known as fracking. But then come the characters on the other side of the issue – specifically, Hal Holbrook as a local high-school science

2013

Nov

AMERICAN MASTERS: “JIMI HENDRIX: HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN’” By David Bianculli

Jimi Hendrix was the very first performer I saw in concert, in 1967, when I was 13 years old. Impressive, huh? Except that the next performers I saw, about 30 minutes later, were The Monkees. Hendrix was the opening act for the Monkees then, but only for a handful of concerts – and I was at the one in Miami, taken by my aunt, with my cousins, to see The Monkees, because I had been too young to see The Beatles the year before. (Arrgh.) But I digress. This American Masters documentary covers

2013

Nov

NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

After shooting the pilot for New Girl, Damon Wayans Jr. had to leave the show before it went to series, because his then-endangered sitcom, Happy Endings, was unexpectedly renewed, not canceled. But here he is again, returning as the same character, Coach, and making the first appearance in what is now being called a recurring role. That’s one positive benefit of Happy Endings eventually having a not-so-happy one. It’s gone now. But on this series, at least tonight and sometime in th

2013

Nov

GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli

This 1939 Civil War epic set audience records for a movie presentation on TV when it was shown, for the first time on the small screen, as a two-part NBC special in the mid-Seventies, just before the home-video revolution. Now, instead of seeing it on a small square screen with tons of commercials, you can watch it on widescreen, high-definition TV, and in a single sitting, on TCM, where it’s uninterrupted as well as uncut. Clark Gable is Rhett Butler, and Vivien Leigh, today’s TCM b

2013

Nov

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Cristin Milioti, the titular mother finally introduced at the end of last season, makes her third appearance tonight, briefly. But watch, too, for another appearance by Anna Camp, who was so funny last week as the disastrous wedding-weekend date of Josh Radnor’s Ted. I spent a long time trying to place where I’d seen her before, then it finally clicked: She stole lots of scenes on HBO’s True Blood as Sarah, the anti-vampire, oversexed religious zealot.

2013

Nov

MIKE & MOLLY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: CBS has yet to fully cash in on the movie stardom of Melissa McCarthy, who starred in this sitcom before breaking out on the big screen, and has stayed with it ever since. This is the premiere episode of Season 4 – that’s how long this show has been around – and starts, this season, with a plot that breaks McCarthy’s Molly away from her school blackboard, and sends her out as a loose cannon into the wider world.

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