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We don't work for Turner Classic Movies, but we do live-tweet their films as they air #SaveTCM
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UPDATE: Slight change of plans for Monday’s tribute to the our beloved Peggy Tapek aka @d3sk Marie just Marie. THE THIN MAN is available on the Internet, do a search or message us & I will get you the link. This was one of her favorites as well (pic 2). See you on 7/21 ^PG #TCMParty
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Primetime - Two-for-One w/Steve Buscemi
#TCMParty ^JW
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Join us Sunday night for The Dude.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) starts at 8pE.
#TCMParty ^JW
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
#DVRAlart!! 🚨
Two great films coming up this Sunday:

#NoirAlley is showing Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW (1963)...a wonderful police procedural, it airs at 12:15aE (Saturday night) and again Sunday at 10aE.

Then at 8pE we'll have a watch-party for THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)

What a day!
#TCMParty ^JW
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Daytime - Starring Brian Aherne
Primetime - Directed by Terry Gilliam (85th birthday on 11/12)
#TCMParty ^JW
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I still love:
Oh, you’re that type of girl / What type? / Honest / Not really
She’s telling us ^PG #TCMParty
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Appropriate for #NXNW ^PG #TCMParty
Now I ask you kind folks:

Have you ever known a man (on screen, on stage, IRL) who calls his mother “Mother” who wasn’t totally bad news?

#Psycho #TCMParty
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Daytime - Whodunit?
Primetime - A Salute to Early Sound
#TCMParty ^JW
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wishing a very happy birthday to one of the OGs of #TCMParty , @willmckinley.bsky.social
Many happy returns and all the best in the next year ^PG
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Daytime - Noir Abroad
Primetime - Spotlight: Conspiracy and Political Thrillers
#TCMParty ^JW
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
#RIP #TatsuyaNakadai
#TCMParty
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Daytime - Veterans Day
Primetime - #SOTM: Rock Hudson / Veterans Day Continues
#TCMParty ^JW
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Has Mattes, Bows, and Blades with Burtt and Barron been on before? So happy to see this! I still talk about their Robin Hood presentation at #TCMFF and that’s a decade ago now ^PG #TCMParty
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Daytime - TCM Birthday Tribute: Claude Rains
Primetime - Richard Burton's 100th Birthday
#TCMParty ^JW
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Tomorrow on @tcmtv.bsky.social:
Primetime - Starring Zita Johann
#TCMParty ^JW
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
what a great ending...thanks all for staying up late with me!
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"We have top men working on it right now. // Who? // Top...men."
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
...and now, one of the iconic ending shots in a film.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The melting head at the end was achieved using gelatin, wax, and heat lamps, filmed in real-time at one frame per second.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Douglas Slocombe shot the film without a light meter, relying solely on his eyes.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Indy going under the truck and out the back is a nod to a similar stunt by Yakima Canutt in Stagecoach. There’s a whole dissertation waiting to be written on the many movies and directors who got referenced in Raiders. #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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This bit with Indy being dragged by the truck is, of course, an homage to a famous stunt performed by the legendary Yakima Canutt in John Ford's #Stagecoach
#RaidersOfTheLostArk #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The famous truck chase took 8 weeks to plan but only one day to film most interior shots.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Body count in this film is reportedly 68
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
I'm not certain that the death toll in Raiders of the Lost Ark is actually all that far off from Rambo. #tcmparty
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The plane fight scene used a forced perspective propeller to simulate a fatal hit without CGI.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Each punch in the movie was a baseball bat hitting a pile of leather jackets.
#TCMParty #RaidersOfTheLostArk ^JW
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM