THURSDAY

JUNE 18

2020

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CLEANIN’ UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS

Crackle, 3:00 a.m. ET

The Crackle streaming website today premieres a documentary that’s been more than a decade in the making. It boasts dozens of interviews with those involved in the making of the 1984 comedy classic. Bill Murray stars, alongside Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson. Rick Moranis and Annie Potts turn in wonderful comic supporting roles, and Sigourney Weaver is a scene-stealer as a Ghostbusters client possessed by a demon. Come for the Murray antics. Stay for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

THE WARPED ONES

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This month on TCM, Mondays and Thursdays in prime time are devoted to “Jazz in Film.” Tonight’s sub-topic is “International Jazz,” and the entries include this Japanese drama, which is about a young pickpocket with a taste for jazz (heard prominently in the soundtrack, and featured in certain scenes), as well as sex (his girlfriend is a prostitute) and, in time, revenge against those who put him in jail. This 1960 movie, also released subsequently under the alternate and misleadingly teasing title The Weird Love Makers (pictured), was directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, and helped launch what is now referred to as the Japanese New Wave of cinema.

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

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