I’ve never seen “A Clockwork Orange”… Every time we were suppose to go to the midnight show and see it something SOMETHING came up… then it would be “The Wall”… or “Song Remains the Same”…lol
Yeah. should remedy that too… plus “Chariots of Fire”…
Amen. One of the few classics that deserves all the credit it gets and more.
Indeed, that whole movie is about Orson Welles scenes and the zither music.
We’ve had threads on just that topic.
I think Graveyard of Fireflies and Dear Zachary usually win the award for greatest sad movie you must see, but not necessarily sit through again.
Really? I’m pretty sure I saw The Last Picture Show on TCM, and there was plenty of boobage there, and even beaver. Doesn’t that channel brag about showing movies uncut?
And by the way, The Last Picture Show really pissed me off because women were shown full frontal while men were shown with their naughty bits carefully hidden from sight by crossed legs etc.
Oh, and my recently seen gap filling movie? Chicago, Best Picture winner from 2002.
While I liked the movie, after awhile the songs all started sounding alike. And there were so many of them, that I felt a little like Prince Herbert’s dad from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “Not like that! Not like that! You’re not going into a song while I’m 'ere.”
I had the exact same experience 2 weeks ago. I couldn’t even make it through to all the drowning stuff. Hokey, hackneyed, and deeply boring. Sets were cool though.
All I can say is, if they didn’t cut the scene out, someone else did. In the TCM version I saw the other night, Constanze (Mozart’s wife) comes to Salieri with some original scores, hoping he will buy some, because she and Wolfgang are out of money. After looking at them, and marvelling at them, Salieri drops them on the floor and walks out of the room without a word. End of scene.
In the theatrical version, he tells Constanze that if she wants money, she is to come back that evening, and needn’t bother bringing the scores, wink wink. And in her desperation, she does, and she strips, and then he humiliates her even further by calling for his butler, and telling her to get out.
Which proves he was gay, because she had great boobs.
It seems like the films in their library were cut to broadcast television standards up to some point in time. More recent films, or recent acquisitions, have been shown intact. I don’t know what kind of standard they’re trying to adhere to. It’s a some kind of second tier cable channel for me, but I don’t pay specifically for TCM. They don’t cut the movies to anywhere near the extent that AMC does, which is a basic cable channel here. We don’t get it in HD (I don’t know if there is an HD version). But they have the best collection of movies available on cable. I go through the program guide often to check for TCM movies I want to record. And Amadeus is waiting for me now. I haven’t seen it since it was first out in theaters.
The never seem movie on my watch list is Schindler’s List. I never want to take the risk of having it depress the hell out of me. But I still want to see it someday.
Actually, now that I think about it, she was trying to secure an important appointment for Mozart, and wanted Salieri to use his influence. She brought the scores just to show how good his music was.
Could be. I was thinking that there might have been a version of Amadeus cut so it could be shown in schools, because it would be a great way to sneak some classical music into skulls full of mush.
Why can’t Amadeus be shown in schools?
He’s talking about a nude scene being cut out so it could be shown in schools.
I don’t remember a nude scene in Amadeus, and I recently watched the movie (DVD) with my 10 yo. There was the scene where he kisses Constanze’s breasts while speaking backwards, but an outright nude scene?
I believe the scene where Constanze goes back to see Salieri, and undresses, is only in the director’s cut.
There are definitely boobie movies on TCM. I saw the excellent Last Picture Show and a horrible little movie called Possession via TCM. In my personal scorekeeping, the former got a 7 on its merits, the latter got a 7 entirely on the strength of Isabelle Adjani’s bare breasts.
Ah, yes - according to IMDB there is nudity; I’d forgotten about that scene. Gotta protect the children :rolleyes:.
Well, if the scene was cut out of the theatrical release*, it’s hard to argue that TCM’s (and school’s) showing of that version is tantamount to censorship, imho.
*The version that won B. Picture.
I didn’t see Jaws or Alien until this year and enjoyed both immensely although I’m not a horror fan. (They’re some of my fiance’s favorite movies, so it was required viewing.) A few years ago I filled in the Full Metal Jacket hole in my viewing experience and was very disappointed, though.
That would explain it. I saw Amadeus in the theater, and I don’t remember anything about such a scene, and I think I would’ve remembered such a scene as that.
Looks like I’m right about Amadeus (one of my favourite films incidentally).
I thought the boot camp was very well done, but it went badly downhill from there.
Well, yes, but that was only because of R. Lee Ermey’s iconic performance. Not the film as a whole.