What happened to TCM?

When did it start running crappy fare like CONSPIRACY THEORY WITH JESSE VENTURA?

The channel is being set up by the family-run firm that owns Renown Pictures, a rights-holder and distributor of British 'B' features. It also has its own DVD label.

It will be interesting to see how the channel fares.

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From Bebe's & Ben's 1953 joint autobiography, "Life With the Lyons": "Connie Talmadge wore pale yellow, and with her summer tan she looked like a doll. Lila Lee was in darker yellow, which set off her dark hair and eyes. They were partners. Betty Compton [sic] was Mae Sunday's partner and they were ...

Gotta be Marie second from the right

Sorry to hear of your experience, Jeff. What rotters. Of course, the joke's on Boston public radio. As Nitratevilleans know, it's entirely possible to have an intelligent discussion about silent film via the medium of radio. Here's an item about Oscar Micheaux that was broadcast ... on Boston public...

As the article states, the costumes were packed away by Nazimova’s long-term partner, Glesca Marshall, and taken with her to Columbus, GA when Glesca moved in with her new partner, Emily Woodruff, a Columbus native and relative of Coca-Cola Company president, Robert W. Woodruff. Other items belongin...

The extraordinary discovery in Columbus, Georgia, of a steamer trunk containing costumes belonging to Alla Nazimova. Martin Turnbull of the Nazimova Society picks up the story: https://martinturnbull.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/announcing-an-exciting-discovery-of-costumes-and-trunks-once-owned-by-alla-...

Faust F.W. Murnau (1926) 85 mins. Live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment by David Bailey Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane 1pm, Sunday 15 Feb ‘To determine whether God or Satan has control over the earth, the two decide to wager on the corruptib...

The Mark of Zorro Fred Niblo (1920) 107 mins. Live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment by David Bailey Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane 1pm, Sunday 1 Feb ‘The film that marked Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s ascension from All American Boy to romantic s...

The Golem Paul Wegener, Carl Boese (1920) 72 mins. Live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment by David Bailey Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane 1pm, Sunday 18 Jan ‘In sixteenth-century Prague, a rabbi creates a monster out of clay to help his people...

The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) 96 mins. With live musical accompaniment 6.30pm, Friday 9 Jan Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane ‘The tear-stained face of Marie Falconetti in Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc is one of...

Nuxing Zhi Guang (The Light of Women) Ko Lei-Hen (1937) 83 mins. B&W Cantonese, English subtitles Australian Cinémathèque | Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane 3pm, Saturday 31 Jan Free admission Synopsis: After two relationships that fail to lead to marriage, Luk Mo-...

Limelight
Charles Chaplin (1952) 135 mins.

Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW
2pm, Sunday 25 Jan

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Monsieur Verdoux
Charles Chaplin (1947)

Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW
2pm, Sunday 18 Jan

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The Gold Rush & silent comedy shorts with live accompaniment Sutherland Entertainment Centre, 30 Eton Street, Sutherland From 11am, Saturday 21 Feb 11am The Tramp (1915) Should Sailors Marry (1925) The Scarecrow (1920) After lunch Easy Street (1916) The Garage (1920) Liberty (1929) 7.30pm The Gold ...

Chaplin Essanay Shorts with live acompaniment Charles Chaplin (1915) Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW 2pm, Sunday 1 Feb This event is part of the Silent Film Festival series. http://www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au" target="_blank info@ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au" target="_blank 0419 267318

The Circus with soundtrack Charles Chaplin (1928) Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW 2pm, Sunday 11 Jan This event is part of the Silent Film Festival series http://www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au" target="_blank" target="_blank info@ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au" target="_blank" target="_blank...

http://www.melbournecinematheque.org/category/present-year/victor-seastrom/" target="_blank" target="_blank ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square Flinders Street, Melbourne 7.00PM, 8 OCT – THE WIND Victor Seastrom (1928) 95 mins A refined Virginian girl (Lillian Gish) enters into the “domain of the winds”...

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/09/chaplin-month-on-fox-classics.html" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank Chaplin month on FOX Classics By David Knox September 25, 2014 In October, Australian pay-TV channel FOX Classics commemorates the centenary of Charlie Chaplin’s fir...

Steamboat Bill Jr. Buster Keaton & Charles Reiser (1928) 35mm 75min ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne 7pm, Wed 7 May Buster plays a typically diminutive milquetoast browbeaten by his formidable father (Ernest Torrence), captain of the last Mississippi River steamboat. Keaton's final indepe...

The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (1927) 35mm 74min ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne 8.45pm, Wed 7 May Legendary comedy set during the Civil War with Buster playing a railway engineer whose train, 'The General', is stolen by Union soldiers behind Southern lines. When Keaton's cha...

Frau Im Mond Fritz Lang (1928) 108mins Chauvel Cinematheque, Paddingtom 7pm, Mon 31 Mar Lang’s final silent epic is both the first film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys...

Greenhide Charles Chauvel (1926, Australia) 88mins 4K Adelaide Cinémathèque, Mercury Cinema 7.30pm, 28 Nov Charles Chauvel came to the forefront of Australian cinema after The Moth of Moonbi (1926), and followed up with Greenhide, his final silent film. It was on the set of Greenhide that Chauvel m...

L’Age D’Or Luis Bunuel (1930) 63mins 16mm Adelaide Cinémathèque, Mercury Cinema 7.30pm, 25 Nov Arguably the most revered surrealist filmmaker in moving image, Luis Bunuel uses Salvador Dali as screenwriter to comment on the insanities of modern life, the Roman Catholic Church and the sexual oppress...

The Lodger Alfred Hitchcock (1926) 68mins 4K Adelaide Cinémathèque, Mercury Cinema 7.30pm, 21 Nov ‘The Avenger’ is a serial killer on the loose, who is taking blonde women as his victims. An unknown man arrives at Mr and Mrs Bunting’s house looking to rent a room, and as the couple’s blonde daughte...

Broken Blossoms D.W. Griffith (1919) 90mins 16mm Adelaide Cinémathèque, Mercury Cinema 7.30pm, 18 Nov D.W. Griffith made such classics as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance to great reception and reward. Broken Blossoms, his next film and alternatively titled The Yellow Man and The Girl, handled...

Canberra Reels 2 100 mins. Arc cinema, Canberra, ACT 2pm, 2 November 2013 A centennial of movies about Australia's national capital that will jolt memories of the city as it once was. The program begins with the NFSA’s new restoration of the Raymond Longford directed official film of The Naming of ...

The Crowd King Vidor (1928) 98 mins Melbourne Cinémathèque 7pm, 30 October 2013 Vidor’s timeless, yearning masterpiece departed from most Hollywood studio productions at the time in its lack of stars and uncompromisingly realistic, bittersweet look at modern life in the big city. Ostensibly a film ...

The Patsy King Vidor (1928) 78 mins Melbourne Cinémathèque 7pm, 6 Nov 2013 Vidor’s delectable comedy of manners features the riotous and sparkling Marion Davies in one of her best roles as Patricia Harrington, the daughter of an upper class family living in the shadow of her older sister’s sophisti...

The Big Parade King Vidor (1925) 140 mins Melbourne Cinémathèque 8.45pm, 23 October 2013 In 1917 a spirited young American (John Gilbert) joins the army and is sent to fight in France. Near the battlefront he meets a local girl, is wounded and ends up marrying her. Vidor’s widely lauded and massive...