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Bill James on 60 minutes tonight.
im sure everyone will be knee-deep into ncaa bracketology all weekend but they might want to pause saturday night to catch jean renoirs The River on ovation tv despite the commercials and the outsized logo. or they could rent the criterion collection version.
and on the other end of the pop culture scale (or at least in my visual spectrum) futurama returns with a new movie on comedy central sunday night.
and somewhere in between those two poles lies the Wizard of Oz which runs on tcm saturday night and sunday afternoon.
oh yeah, East of Eden is on pbs in new york on saturday night.
REEL 13 film descriptions
March 22: East of Eden and Imaginary Heroes
Reel 13 Classic: East of Eden (1955) 115 min.
Based on John Steinbeck’s novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean’s movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris, Dean’s performance earned one of the film’s four Academy Award nominations. Among the movie’s stellar performers, Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.
and i want to check out at least a few minutes of Somersault starring abbie cornish tonight at 10 on sundance channel. i thinks shes got some, uhh, talent. and jane campion agrees!
the end of history.....channel.
pretty good doubleheader tonight on ifc starting at 9 (i think), l'auberge espagnole and its sequel, russian dolls. a little contrived and self indulgent at times but generally engaging even if the characters are not.
and antonioni l'avventura is on sundance as well.
whats new, pussycat? just started on tcm. the riches season premiere on fx as well. reruns twice tonight.
espn had a pretty compelling documentary on last night about the history of african americans in basketball and its interplay with our history of civil rights. part 2 airs tonight. seemed alot more interesting than the john adams miniseries which kicked off last night on hbo.
metropolis on tcm at 1215am tonight.
sustenance or tv jamboree?
Saw the season opener to Top Chef. They sort of had a "compulsories" section. Two contestants had a soufflé-off, two had a chicken picata showdown, two had lasagna mano a mano, etc., etc.
So the soufflé folks didn't really know how to make them. One said he hadn't done one in twenty years. He at least understood the magnitude of his failure. When his vaguely mexican inspired creation failed, he said "My nachos just didn't cut it".
Over in the crab-cake fisticuffs, one of the guys didn't know the recipe for mayo. WTF? How can you go into a Top Chef contest lacking such a fundamental building block of making sauces? It's like not knowing how to deglaze a pan.
I guess I haven't seen the early elimination rounds in previous years. I think they need to cut the field in half pretty quickly.
The best college game in the history of the world?
that doc about kenny shopsin is on ifc tonight at 930.