Whoever makes up the schedules over at Turner Classic Movies is usually pretty good at "flow." That's what TV programmers call the art of sequencing what they air so that one show leads into another and is likely to retain some of the same audience. But every so often, you kinda wonder what (if anything) they had in mind. Friday night and early Saturday morning, we have the following list of films on TCM…
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! — A Russ Meyer film with tough women running around on a crime spree.
- Mudhoney — Another Russ Meyer film with rotten people doing rotten things to each other.
- Sons of the Desert — arguably, the best feature with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- The Outlaws is Coming — not the best feature with the Three Stooges but it does have Adam West in it as the romantic/heroic lead.
…and those are followed by a couple of chapters from a Dick Tracy serial. Go ahead. Explain to me about the flow here.
While we're talking TCM: Sunday morning, they're running A Thousand Clowns, which is one of those great movies that isn't currently out on DVD. And then Monday afternoon/evening, they're airing — in this order — two great Buster Keaton films (Sherlock, Jr. and Steamboat Bill, Jr.), On the Waterfront, then two great Stanley Kubrick films (Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey). Some real good films there…some good reasons to set the TiVo.