Robert Osborne and Alec Baldwin ham it up on TCM.
Thanks for dropping by during the holidays. I’m feeling rather festive this week and not too inclined to fill a vat full of prose. My guess is that–around this time of year, anyway–you’d rather watch movie trailers. I’ve found six good ones for you.
Good? No, wonderful . . . trust me, these are great movies. I’ve chosen them for the course I’ll be teaching later this winter called What Makes a Story Great: Learning About Fiction Writing from Classic Movies. (I wrote about it here.) If you haven’t seen any or all of these movies, give yourself a belated Christmas present and see them.
Here are the first three: Sunset Boulevard, High Noon, and the original version of The Thing. I’ll show you the others on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, I got a couple of pros on TCM to introduce the first one:
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Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
Isn’t it fascinating that even after all those years these films are still a joy to watch and remain great films, not ‘outdated’ great films.
Your course sounds like fun, both for the students and for the teacher. Education at its best.