Saturday, June 5, 2010

TCM Celebrates Jacques Cousteau's 100th anniversary throughout June

Lots of great underwater movie adventures (tonight was the silent The Mysterious Island, James Mason's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Robert Ryan's Captain Nemo and the Underwater City.)

Every Friday, they'll be showing nautical fare.

June 11 - the whole day will be given over to Jacques Cousteau's documentaries:

The Cousteau birthday itself, June 11, includes a twenty-hour marathon of documentaries in which he participated. All are TCM premieres, including six episodes of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau dating from 1968 to 1974, and twelve episodes of The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey, an Emmy-nominated 1977 television series featuring the research adventures of the man called “the public conscience of mankind’s stewardship of our oceans.”

Also premiering is an award-winning documentary about Cousteau. Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years (1986), directed by John Soh and narrated by Jose Ferrer, documents the explorer's life from birth and childhood to his 75th birthday.

The remainder of the TCM tribute is composed of sea-themed movies from other directors, ranging from Lucien Hubbard’s The Mysterious Island (1929), adapted from a Jules Verne story, to the TCM premiere of Peter Yates’ The Deep (1977), adapted by Peter Benchley from his novel. The latter film, starring Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset
as scuba divers who find buried treasure off the Bermuda coast, has gorgeous underwater cinematography by Christopher Challis — worthy of Cousteau himself — that features a variety of exotic aquatic life including moray eels, puffer fish and tiger sharks.

Other deep-sea adventures include Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), filmed in CinemaScope off the coast of Florida by Edward Cronjager, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his beautiful and innovative underwater photography, and two more Verne adventures, Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and MGM’s Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969). Also included is the original Flipper (1963), which brought wide public interest to the dolphin, a marine mammal that Cousteau championed in his writings and photography.
June 11 - scheduled
The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile - Part One

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile - Part Two

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Calypso's Search for Atlantis - Part One

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Calypso's Search for Atlantis - Part Two

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Time Bomb at Fifty Thousand Fathoms

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Mediterranean - Cradle or Coffin?

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Calypso's Search for the Britannic

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Diving for Roman Plunder

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Blind Prophets of Easter Island

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Clipperton - the Island that Time Forgot

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: Lost Relics of the Sea

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: The Warm Blooded Sea - Mammals of the Deep

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: Sharks ('68)

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: Whales ('68)

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: Sunken Treasure ('69)

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: The Water Planet ('70)

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: The Sound of Dolphins ('72)

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: The Flight of the Penguins ('74)

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