Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#NowWatching NORA PRENTISS (1947), and let me just say, once you kiss Ann Sheridan...it's all over, friends. 040
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026MADAME X is the gold standard for melodrama. #TCMParty #MadameX 070
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I always think of Sabu as the Young General in Powell & Pressburger's BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) #TCMParty #ArabianNights 060
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026never thought I'd see John Qualen and Shemp Howard together like this. #TCMParty #ArabianNights 120
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026her headdress is...interesting #TCMParty #ArabianNights 010
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whoa! John Qualen...no mistaking that voice. #TCMParty #ArabianNights 000
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think that's Billy Gilbert #TCMParty #ArabianNights 130
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026here for a first-time watch of #ArabianNighs #TCMParty 150
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What ties BARRY LYNDON to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and DR. STRANGELOVE (besides being directed by Kubrick)? They're all interested in people constructing elaborate systems—military, social, technological—and then behaving ridiculously inside them. #TCMParty #NowWatching BL 050
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Burl Ives wasn't even nominated for an Oscar, but these scenes in the basement are acting *GOLD* #TCMParty #CatOnAHotTinRoof 2110
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026love the door closing on the classroom, then we cut and the door opens after the class is over...so many great little visual sprinkles of sugar throughout this film #TCMParty #TheGraduate 190
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026blink and you missed Richard Dreyfus's cameo "can I get the cops?!" #TCMParty #TheGraduate 170
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That was Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley #TCMParty #TheGraduate 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ben's car is a 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 Duetto #TCMParty #TheGraduate 490
Reposted by Joel WilliamsJ.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rossy de Palma in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" - BOTD 1357
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Benjamin apologizes, and for perhaps the first time in the film he begins speaking sincerely to another person. Elaine listens The two discover that they have something important in common: neither is entirely comfortable with the world their parents have constructed for them. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 171
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The visual imagery of Mike Nichols #TCMParty #TheGraduate 180
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Simon & Garfunkel changed what a movie soundtrack could do. "The Sound of Silence," "Scarborough Fair," and especially "Mrs. Robinson" aren't merely songs laid over scenes. Nichols uses them almost like Benjamin's internal voice. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 1110
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've never noticed the Dutch angle in this hotel room scene before. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 170
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is Mike Nichols' 2nd film after WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) #TCMParty #TheGraduate 1100
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nichols allows awkward moments to continue several beats longer than you'd expect. The result is comedy based on discomfort rather than punchlines. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 050
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Benjamin's attempts to arrange the hotel encounter are almost painfully funny—the desk clerk, the room, the phone calls, his nervous insistence that he knows what he's doing. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anne Bancroft could have played Mrs. Robinson simply as the sophisticated older seductress. Instead, she's funny, intimidating, lonely, angry, and deeply disappointed by the life she ended up living. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 090
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hoffman is nearly 30 here and Anne Bancroft is 35. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 170
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mike Nichols tells the story visually. Some of the most memorable ideas aren't in the dialogue. Benjamin seen through the glass of the aquarium, trapped underwater in his scuba suit or framed behind Mrs. Robinson's leg—all make him look literally enclosed by the adult world. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 060
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hoffman’s Benjamin is wonderfully uncomfortable. Hoffman wasn't the conventional Hollywood leading man of the period, and that's essential. Benjamin rarely seems at ease in his own body. He's passive, awkward, distracted, and frequently unable to articulate what bothers him. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 080
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026...and we start with the wonderful opening title sequence of Ban on the moving walkway with Simon & Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence" playing #TCMParty #TheGraduate 050
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What makes THE GRADUATE great is how completely the filmmaking captures the experience of being young, alienated, and unsure what adulthood is supposed to be. #TCMParty #TheGraduate 1110
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gentle reminder...Mamie Van Doren is still with us. #TCMParty #UntamedYouth 060
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Never forget, Eddie Bracken played Roy Walley in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION (1983) #TCMParty #TooManyGirls 040
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why wasn't Laraine Day a bigger star? She then chose not to pursue stardom with the single-mindedness it required. Marriage, family, baseball, radio and television became increasingly important to her. #TCMParty (4/4) 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why wasn't Laraine Day a bigger star? She left MGM just as her acting was becoming more interesting. THE LOCKET suggests there was another kind of Laraine Day career available. #TCMParty (3/4) 340
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why wasn't Laraine Day a bigger star? MGM never made her one of its priority stars. Her best opportunities frequently came when other studios borrowed her. #TCMParty (2/4) 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why wasn't Laraine Day a bigger star? MGM typecast her early. Dr. Kildare made her recognizable but didn't establish a compelling Laraine Day screen persona. #TCMParty (1/4) 230
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What makes this a great film is that it works simultaneously as a huge Hollywood spectacle and as a surprisingly intimate story about freedom, dignity, and loyalty. A few things particularly distinguish it: #TCMParty #Spartucus 190
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026don't forget when ordering your coffee at the coffeeshop to use the name Spartacus. When the barista calls out your name, simply stand and say "I am Spartacus!" 3162
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Rear Window is suspense, romance, black comedy, and a sly essay about cinema itself—all without leaving one apartment. Hitchcock made more ambitious films. He never made a more perfectly constructed one. #TCMParty (3/3) 5230
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That’s the Hitchcock trick in its purest form: he makes the audience voyeur, detective, judge, and accomplice. Then Thorwald looks directly back at us, and suddenly watching isn’t safe anymore. #TCMParty (2/3) 0130
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hot take: Rear Window, not Vertigo, is Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Why? Because no other film so perfectly fuses Hitchcock’s subject with his technique. Jeff watches his neighbors. We watch Jeff watch them. Soon we’re scrutinizing windows for clues right alongside him—and enjoying it. #TCMParty (1/2) 1150
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Finally got around to knocking RESERVOIR DOGS off my watch list this past weekend. Plenty of violence and cursing. It was interesting to see Tarantino's first effort and styles he'd continue to use in subsequent films. 010
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nice to see Debbie and Terry still together. #TCMParty #MoreAmericanGraffiti 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Huston turns an apparently ordinary moment into a remarkably bleak meditation on time, loneliness and what happens to youthful ambition. #TCMParty #FatCity 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The boxing deliberately doesn't look like Hollywood boxing. Huston emphasized fatigue, awkwardness and physical punishment rather than heroic choreography. Watch how quickly fighters look exhausted—the bouts feel like work rather than spectacle. #TCMParty #FatCity 160
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Cokes in championship form #TCMParty #FatCity 040
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Curtis Cokes (Earl here) was a professional boxer who competed as a welterweight between 1958 and 1972. He was the welterweight champion between 1966 and 1969. #TCMParty #FatCity 160
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I think Oma was born with a cig clenched in her teeth. #TCMParty #FatCity 020
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026it's interesting that the two male leads share an early scene together and we've watched them in separate plot-lines since then #TCMParty #FatCity 140
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"she sure knows how to fill a skirt" LOL #TCMParty #FatCity 030
Joel Williams @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this was released 4 years before ROCKY and it's kind of an anti-Rocky film showing what it looks like when the big inspirational breakthrough doesn't come. #TCMParty #FatCity 080
