Watch TCM - On Demand films/recommendations

[FestinaLente]

TCM introduced WatchTCM, a great on demand site, early this year. You can access it through your cable or satellite provider for free and the channel posts (almost) every movie aired on TCM for 7 days following the original air date. So you can watch them at your leisure on demand.


The list of movies currently available


The schedule of upcoming movies

With about a dozen films being added every day, I wanted to make this thread so members can recommend certain films that they love and/or feel are essential to the appreciation of film as they become available on WatchTCM. I know, for me, a lot of films fall through the cracks either because I haven't heard of them or they're just not on my radar. I can't wait to hear what great recommendations everyone adds!

[FestinaLente]

To get things started, these great films are all streaming right now:

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Laura (1944)
Metropolis (1926)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)

[Scottie]

Great thread.

I was honestly thinking about making a similar thread a few hours ago where we could post recommendations for upcoming TCM films.

[*PREACHER*]

Thank you for making this thread and trust me I will be coming back to stay informed...I had no idea they had made an on demand site. Thank you and subscribed!

[FestinaLente]

The Great Race (1964), a fun slapstick comedy about an international car race with Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk, is streaming until June 10th.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/7...reat-Race-The/

Also, Night and Fog (1955), a French documentary short film that Truffaut once called "the greatest film ever made." This is the Criterion description:

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man’s violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/3...Night-and-Fog/

[Clare2904]

Shame you cannot view the Demand in Canada, unlike the actual TV channels

[FestinaLente]

I'm sure most everyone has it on blu, but I couldn't pass this one up. TCM just posted Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) for streaming. ESSENTIAL.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/6...Space-Odyssey/

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by FestinaLente

TCM introduced WatchTCM, a great on demand site, early this year. You can access it through your cable or satellite provider for free and the channel posts (almost) every movie aired on TCM for 7 days following the original air date. So you can watch them at your leisure on demand.

Thanks for posting this news! I only knew about Warner Archive Instant. I'm going to check it out this weekend.

[octagon]

I don't know what the occasion is but apparently tomorrow (Friday the 20th) is detective day on TCM

All times eastern

6:00 AM
Thin Man, The (1934)

7:45 AM
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)

9:30 AM
Big Sleep, The (1946)

11:30 AM
Laura (1944)

1:00 PM
Murder, My Sweet (1944)

2:45 PM
Harper (1966)

5:00 PM
Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)

I can't vouch for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes but Harper and Murder, My Sweet are good to very good and the rest are bona fide classics.

[FestinaLente]

Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy is up and available for viewing until June 30th. I've never seen them, but I know they're classics. Can't wait to dive into Blue with one of my favorites, Juliette Binoche!

Blue (1993)

White (1994)

Red (1994)

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by FestinaLente

Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy is up and available for viewing until June 30th. I've never seen them, but I know they're classics. Can't wait to dive into Blue with one of my favorites, Juliette Binoche!

Blue (1993)

White (1994)

Red (1994)

Enjoy!

When asked what my favorite film ever is, I vacillate between "Contempt" and "Red" but I usually end up choosing "Contempt."

However, if I could count this trilogy as one film, the decision would be a no-brainer. Kieslowski was a genius, and this is his masterpiece and one of the great works of art in any medium in the 20th century.

[growler]

I see you can watch for free on your computer:

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/

I don't see a way to watch for free on my TV. I have Cox Phoenix & the On Demand channel (1) has a free zone & TCM is not on it, I also checked the various pay areas of On Demand & still don't see TCM listed. I do get TCM channel in HD & can watch whatever they have scheduled, when they air it but, not On Demand.

What am I missing?