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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 01:49 PM
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What's the BEST movie channel on TV? I just upgraded my service and got a sh*tload
of movie channels...

I love the classics. I love Italian neo-realism. I love films noire. I love Merchant and Ivory. I love the musicals of the 50s and 60s.

Surfing around today I found nothing but crap...

Is there a movie channel made for folks like me?

My favorite movies include: Chariots of Fire, Room with a View, The Sweet Smell of Success, Kiss Me Kate, Pal Joey, the Big Sleep, Bonnie and Clyde, Young Bess, Rear Window, The Bicycle Thief,Breakfast at Tiffany's....you get my drift...
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 01:57 PM
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1. Turner Movie Classics?
I love HBO, but mainly for original programming.
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 02:02 PM
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2. Yeah I second TCM
If you like classics they show classics pretty much nonstop. My mom is addicted to TCM.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 02:03 PM
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3. Great! I need another addiction besides DU...nt
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 03:09 PM
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4. Turner Classic Movies and MGMHD
Turner Classic Movies rules........
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:02 PM
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8. Thank you! Great about MGMHD! I will follow up.
AS always, DU rocks when it comes to the "wisdom of the crowds."
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 04:01 PM
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5. I fifth. TCM is the movie channel I insist on getting.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 04:23 PM
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6. HDNET shows some good movies.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 05:53 PM
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7. The Weather Channel has been showing a lot of movies lately
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:03 PM
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9. Interesting! I would NEVER have known about that (but I don't watch too much TV).
Edited on Wed May-05-10 07:13 PM by CTyankee
OK, I'll look into it...thank you so much...
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 09:14 PM
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14. What's sad is that I'm actually not kidding.
At least several nights per week they run a two-hour movie from 8:00 to 10:00 and from 10:00 to 12:00. Sometimes the movie:weather connection makes a little bit of sense (Misery has snow in it, for instance), but other times the thinking is less clear.

They still do Local on the Eights, of course, but they do it during commercial breaks from the movie.
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khawkings09 Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:20 PM
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10. AMC
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:28 PM
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11. the one you don't have
it seems like no matter what package i get, all the good movies are on a channel i don't have. if i change it up, suddenly all the good movies are on the channels i used to have, but don't anymore. :shrug:
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 08:20 PM
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12. MGM-HD and TCM is what you want for classics and musicals.
Universal HD is good for 70s through the 90s stuff. Merchant Ivory is usually being shown on HDNet movies from time to time, but since either Merchant or Ivory is dead, they're not making any new ones, so they're not on the major channels like Sundance or HBO any more.

Rear Window... You must get the DVD. All of those to me are worthy of not having a commercial interrupt the story, but Rear Window demands it. If you watch that on regular TV with commercials, then you should be stabbed in your shower after hanging from Lincoln's nose!

Do not test me on this!
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 08:17 AM
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17. Oh, I know that so well! I took a course on Alfred Hitchcock's films
back in 1996 and I remember going thru that movie carefully to determine the "hidden" meaning of the overall film. My film professor said that "Rear Window"'s theme was "marriage"!

Needless to say, it was an interesting course...we also analyzed "Rope" and "The Lady Vanishes." Hitchcock had recurring thematic touches that I loved dissecting (men hanging from tall structures, innocent bystanders being mistaken for people involved in crime, married life).

BTW, the Hitchcock movie I found VERY disturbing was "Vertigo." I had seen it years before but when I saw it again, I was a bit shocked by its implications...
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bamademo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 08:40 AM
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18. What were they?
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 12:45 PM
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19. The deception at the end, resulting in Kim Novak's character leap off the bell tower.
It was horrifying to me...
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Paladin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 08:25 PM
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13. TCM, Without A Doubt.

Nice selection of favorite movies, by the way.....
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 09:47 PM
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15. We got an HD package with DISH.
They have a Retro channel, a shorts channel and one called Epix that seem to have consistently good stuff.
Turner is also very good.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:07 AM
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16. I love TCM too. Also HBO & Showtime have had some really
good original programming.
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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 05:50 PM
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20. If I had only one channel for movies...it would be TCM
All kinds of movies, all the classics and then some. Put together by real movie lovers. And NO ADS! And you can get a schedule/magazine if you like.
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