As I've intimated on several occasions, I live not all that far from Woodstock, NY, where the infamous concert was conceived, but rather farther from where the concert was held, which is in Bethel down in Sullivan County probably a good 90 minutes from here if not more. Woodstock being an arty tourist trap, I'm sorry to say, they have an annual film festival that was held this week. Forgive me for not mentioning this earlier, not that I was planning on attending anyway. Just for kicks I looked at the prices of the festival tickets a few weeks back, which were way out of my league. And I can only imagine how much virtue signaling there's been. Somewhat surprisingly, the local paper's website hasn't put up any articles about the festival since the opening festivities.
YouTube TV's cloud DVR saves multiple airings of a program if you've got it set to "record", so if you watch something like Noir Alley you'll see both editions of it when you click the movie title. Sometimes when a movie is run weeks or months apart, the two will have different running times. I recently watched one such film where one of the airings was an hour longer than the other. It turns out that TCM was re-running Some of the Best to fill out the longer time slot. I actually watched a bit of it again, curious to see what movies MGM picked for which year since, as presenter Lionel Barrymore informs us, they only have time to highlight one movie from each of MGM's first 25 years. What I found interesting this time is how MGM fudged the years. James Stewart won the Best Actor for 1940 for The Philadelphia Story, which presumably got a 1940 release in Hollywood to be Oscar-eligible. IMDb says it got a December 1940 release in several cities, but the main page for the movie lists a January 1941 release, which I'd guess was broader national release, not that movies in those days were released in large nationwide premieres the way they've been since Jaws really ramped up the idea of the summer blockbuster. Similarly, Dinner at Eight only got a broader US release in January 1934 even though IMDb says the Hollywood premiere was in August 1933.
Tonight's TCM Imports is a pair of Carl Theodor Dreyer movies that I think show up often enough but for some reason I've never actually recorded and watched. The first one is Day of Wrath (2:00 AM) from 1943, which is of course smack dab in the middle of World War II, something that always makes me wonder how such a film could be made considering Denmark was occupied by the Nazis at the time he made it.
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