Perhaps the worst "TCM Remembers". Pretty Ironic , considering that the one from 2008 with another Joe Henry song, is perhaps the best I've ever seen.
I thought it was romantic and far away. I thought that the music was very timely for who passed away. The hotel selection is about "checking out" and how so many "checked out" during that time. It has a noir atmosphere which is very haunting and melodic to the tempo. I can respect what you like, but I do enjoy them all except for 2000 (they were just starting out then).
This tribute is so beautiful and haunting that I randomly thought of it today as I sat down to do something totally unrelated, not having seen it for years. Presumably those who watch these clips are admirers of film, so I am surprised at the negative reaction this "Remember" received.
@artsyfartsy1969 I wrote "haunting" as well and I hadn't seen your comment untl now, I didn't mean to plaigiarize the commentary, but I guess there is a synergy that we appreciate. It is very rainy day and moody and I can relate to the images and choice of music through my soul. "Checking out" isn't suppose to be light and wispy. Death is the last sting as we were meant originally to live on.
It's not bad and it's quite artfully done but jinkies - seedy noir much? It's almost like their saying that the departed were these Raymond Chandler/Dashiell Hammett like characters who well, didn't waft beautifully into that good night.
Try listening to this video with the music off and listening to Audio Adrenaline's "Ocean Floor" which is the same length of time at 4:09. For some reason, that song seems better suited for this TCM Remembers tribute, because that song talks about sins and this TCM tribute was about a woman possibly having sinned in a motel room... hence Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate.
I think the makers of this tribute are trying to make this video, the hotel room represent a version of an arrival room for the dearly departed. But it is portraying it as a celebration of a new beginning, instead of the usual maudlin tributes.
@MIKESOWELL - I love the idea of arriving in the next life and there's a nice hotel, lights, friends, music, brandy... It's a great idea. But in this, the hotel was so run down looking and they nearly all looked so sad and regretful it didn't play as a celebration. In spite of this I still come back and watch it now and then.
@giles422 - That's what I keep thinking, like down-on-their-luck actors "whatever happened to him" "he died in a seedy hotel room and they didn't find him for three days"
@killuminati43 I think if people don't like it's probably the fact that it's less obviously sentimental - harder for some to identify with. The song is not terribly melodious, either. But visually I think it's very cool.
This TCM Memorial does not feature the artists as much a shortcoming for sure, but I do like the music, and this is one of the memorials that haunts me. The mundane, the unmemorable - like a brief stay in a seedy motel room - can, in hindsight, have importance - especially if props to a human drama, perhaps like Mrs. Robinson's drama, a sad, tawdry drama. It's like being in bed in the middle of the day; it's like meeting illicitly in a motel room.
This is the worst I've seen so far. There are far too many shots of the motel room and not enough of the actors. With the interspersed scenes of the movies that the directors directed, it's confusing, and you wonder for a moment whether the actors in those scenes died too.
I thought that one guy was Lemont from Sanford and Son for a second, but the actor's name was Demond Wilson. Pat Morita was a blow (Karate Kid sensei).
Definitely; we lost "so many" good people that year; at least three big celebrities in my opinion, and one of them was Paul Newman, my God. Hardly anybody I recognized died in 2007, though, except Yvonne DeCarlo and Lois Maxwell.
Are you talking about at 1:29? it is it was one of her last movies. I'm not sure what its called thoe but it is Vivien Leigh. Hope this helps you out:)
This definitely wasn't one of the better TCM memorial tributes. It was too austere and vaguely sleazy. All those bodies and rumpled beds, all that cigarette smoke...it was like seeing the inside of a cheap hotel. The subjects of this "tribute" deserved better.
I take back what I said about the 2004 TCM memorial reel - THIS one is the absolute worst. Prententious and vaguely disrespectful. This is TCM folks, save that avant garde sh*t for IFC.
Thank you for posting this. It's my least favorite of the TCM Remembers; I prefer the more traditional tribute (sad song, slow motion), but this was interesting, and a lot of great entertainers passed in 2005.
Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,for life's but a thing of terrible gravity. And the planets gravitate around you, and the stars shall dance about you,and the angels in heaven adore you,and the saints all stand and applaud you. So faraway,so faraway and yet so close.
The singer is Joe Henry, who did also do "Want Too Much". and the song is "Flesh and Blood", written by Solomon Burke. It is on "Fuse". "Want Too Much" is on the Tiny Voices album. And I miss Anne Bancroft too. All the good ones are going and we're stuck with Tom Cruise.
Thank you ever so much. The music sounds like the same singer who had another song, "I Want Too Much" (?) used several years ago for a TCM promo "Religion in Film/ Product Placement/ Claudette Colbert". I have this on video but haven't been able to convert it for uploading.
Perhaps the worst "TCM Remembers". Pretty Ironic , considering that the one from 2008 with another Joe Henry song, is perhaps the best I've ever seen.
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I thought it was romantic and far away. I thought that the music was very timely for who passed away. The hotel selection is about "checking out" and how so many "checked out" during that time. It has a noir atmosphere which is very haunting and melodic to the tempo. I can respect what you like, but I do enjoy them all except for 2000 (they were just starting out then).
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kittyscratchesboo 3 weeks ago
the music is from who?
weezy1114awesome 2 months ago
@weezy1114awesome It's Joe Henry's "Flesh and Blood".
lazybones2000 2 months ago
This tribute is so beautiful and haunting that I randomly thought of it today as I sat down to do something totally unrelated, not having seen it for years. Presumably those who watch these clips are admirers of film, so I am surprised at the negative reaction this "Remember" received.
artsyfartsy1969 4 months ago
@artsyfartsy1969 I wrote "haunting" as well and I hadn't seen your comment untl now, I didn't mean to plaigiarize the commentary, but I guess there is a synergy that we appreciate. It is very rainy day and moody and I can relate to the images and choice of music through my soul. "Checking out" isn't suppose to be light and wispy. Death is the last sting as we were meant originally to live on.
kittyscratchesboo 3 weeks ago
They forgot nicole dehuff from meet the parents, she died in that year
cookidoh093 5 months ago
It's not bad and it's quite artfully done but jinkies - seedy noir much? It's almost like their saying that the departed were these Raymond Chandler/Dashiell Hammett like characters who well, didn't waft beautifully into that good night.
ladyday93 6 months ago in playlist TCM Remembered
Try listening to this video with the music off and listening to Audio Adrenaline's "Ocean Floor" which is the same length of time at 4:09. For some reason, that song seems better suited for this TCM Remembers tribute, because that song talks about sins and this TCM tribute was about a woman possibly having sinned in a motel room... hence Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate.
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Strange Tribute by TCM, it makes the departed look as if they were murdered.
dukegrit 1 year ago
I think the makers of this tribute are trying to make this video, the hotel room represent a version of an arrival room for the dearly departed. But it is portraying it as a celebration of a new beginning, instead of the usual maudlin tributes.
MIKESOWELL 1 year ago
@MIKESOWELL - I love the idea of arriving in the next life and there's a nice hotel, lights, friends, music, brandy... It's a great idea. But in this, the hotel was so run down looking and they nearly all looked so sad and regretful it didn't play as a celebration. In spite of this I still come back and watch it now and then.
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
Aww, they remembere Ruth Hussey :) She was amazing in The Philadelphia Stroy.
GEVMM 1 year ago 2
this one stunk. As if they were all murdered in some noir thriller. Bad.
giles422 1 year ago 3
@giles422 - That's what I keep thinking, like down-on-their-luck actors "whatever happened to him" "he died in a seedy hotel room and they didn't find him for three days"
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
I don't know why some people don't like this TCM Remembers? I think this was one of the best. Very film norish. I feel the despair.
killuminati43 2 years ago 2
@killuminati43 I think if people don't like it's probably the fact that it's less obviously sentimental - harder for some to identify with. The song is not terribly melodious, either. But visually I think it's very cool.
jennybebee 2 years ago 2
This TCM Memorial does not feature the artists as much a shortcoming for sure, but I do like the music, and this is one of the memorials that haunts me. The mundane, the unmemorable - like a brief stay in a seedy motel room - can, in hindsight, have importance - especially if props to a human drama, perhaps like Mrs. Robinson's drama, a sad, tawdry drama. It's like being in bed in the middle of the day; it's like meeting illicitly in a motel room.
Allhallowsday 2 years ago
This one is awful :(
MandyLovesVintage 2 years ago
This is the worst I've seen so far. There are far too many shots of the motel room and not enough of the actors. With the interspersed scenes of the movies that the directors directed, it's confusing, and you wonder for a moment whether the actors in those scenes died too.
pdxtran 2 years ago 5
I thought that one guy was Lemont from Sanford and Son for a second, but the actor's name was Demond Wilson. Pat Morita was a blow (Karate Kid sensei).
19torento 2 years ago
tcm remembers 2008 is the most depressing
taddeusvon 2 years ago
Definitely; we lost "so many" good people that year; at least three big celebrities in my opinion, and one of them was Paul Newman, my God. Hardly anybody I recognized died in 2007, though, except Yvonne DeCarlo and Lois Maxwell.
19torento 2 years ago
@taddeusvon agreed. that one is my favorite one too.
saltycaribou 2 years ago
This year's is pretty bad too, they use the "a" word and show Karl Malden's face at the same time. So disrespectful!
daughterrevolution 2 years ago
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flitebuscuit 2 years ago
Why is there a shot of someone who is or insanely looks like Vivien Leigh? She died in 1967. What I'm talking about is the woman who's in bed.
filmjunkie25 2 years ago
Are you talking about at 1:29? it is it was one of her last movies. I'm not sure what its called thoe but it is Vivien Leigh. Hope this helps you out:)
FanofBewitched 2 years ago
He wrote The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, which starred Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty, hence the clip of Vivien Leigh.
*^_^*
schatze78 2 years ago
...Gavin Lambert is the "he." Left that part out...
schatze78 2 years ago
Why is everyone so negative about this one? I thought the montage was awesome.
matthijs199115013 2 years ago 3
yeah i didn't like it...
ivyvine102 2 years ago
Maybe like Hotel California.
"You can check-out, but never leave."
ZaeBo4 2 years ago
i liked it
daniel22bg 2 years ago
This definitely wasn't one of the better TCM memorial tributes. It was too austere and vaguely sleazy. All those bodies and rumpled beds, all that cigarette smoke...it was like seeing the inside of a cheap hotel. The subjects of this "tribute" deserved better.
cynthiacher 3 years ago
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i agree. all the others were beautiful and classy. This one was choppy and (i concur with you) sleazy.
BSTO88 2 years ago
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This tribute was awful. What were they thinking?
antisocialist87 3 years ago
Wow, that was really bad. What were they thinking? I feel extra sorry for everyone who died that year...what a lousy tribute!
whatsherface1015 3 years ago
I actualy became seasick watching this.
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gotcoke795 3 years ago
I take back what I said about the 2004 TCM memorial reel - THIS one is the absolute worst. Prententious and vaguely disrespectful. This is TCM folks, save that avant garde sh*t for IFC.
silenttalkies 3 years ago 2
Man, that was really, um....
Did the director have a smoking fetish and an animus toward people with epilepsy, or what?
Blurgle2 3 years ago
this is strange
Mernerwastaken 3 years ago 3
I love the bit with Richard Pryor. The lyric "And life comes hard...for some" fits him so perfectly.
Leeseeange 4 years ago
YEAH IT DID!! I NOTICED THAT TOO
MIKESOWELL 4 years ago
I was about to comment on that and then I read your's.
Tabish29 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this. It's my least favorite of the TCM Remembers; I prefer the more traditional tribute (sad song, slow motion), but this was interesting, and a lot of great entertainers passed in 2005.
MarkCBales 4 years ago 7
Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,for life's but a thing of terrible gravity. And the planets gravitate around you, and the stars shall dance about you,and the angels in heaven adore you,and the saints all stand and applaud you. So faraway,so faraway and yet so close.
Nick Cave, "Far Away, So Close"
-Anonymous
Celluloidkid 4 years ago 3
This is a sexy song...
Moionfire 4 years ago
OH I SEE LOL MY BAD
MIKESOWELL 4 years ago
what is this song?
MIKESOWELL 4 years ago
gorgeous.
Moovvv666 4 years ago
I was overseas in '05 and didn't know until I saw this that Teresa Wright had even died. That broke my heart.
dlhoneysnaps 4 years ago
The singer is Joe Henry, who did also do "Want Too Much". and the song is "Flesh and Blood", written by Solomon Burke. It is on "Fuse". "Want Too Much" is on the Tiny Voices album. And I miss Anne Bancroft too. All the good ones are going and we're stuck with Tom Cruise.
ksol1460 5 years ago 2
Oh, I miss Anne Bancroft
HoldenboyPete 5 years ago 3
Thank you ever so much. The music sounds like the same singer who had another song, "I Want Too Much" (?) used several years ago for a TCM promo "Religion in Film/ Product Placement/ Claudette Colbert". I have this on video but haven't been able to convert it for uploading.
ksol1460 5 years ago
This one wasn't nearly as touching as the 2003 one.
asw88 5 years ago