Stage Door, playing at 3:30am on Sunday, Febuary 28th (late Saturday)
As TCM’s Oscar-celebratory month winds down, they’ve still got a few new ones to throw at us – the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody, shows on Monday; an actual good Merchant-Ivory film in A Room With a View turns [...]

Posted in Film on TV | View Comments
Tagged:4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 42nd Street, A Day at the Races, A Room With a View, An American in Paris, Bananas, Ben-Hur, Curse of the Golden Flower, From Here to Eternity, Gigi, It Happened One Night, Metropolitan, Millions, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mrs. Miniver, Oldboy, Paris je t'aime, Primer, Ran, Se7en, Stage Door, Sunset Boulevard, The Awful Truth, The Broadway Melody, The Good German, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Killers, The Lives of Others, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Manchurian Candidate, The Philadelphia Story, The Squid and the Whale, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Tom Jones, Topper, You Can't Take It With You

The Ladykillers, playing on TCM on Monday at 3:15pm
 
We had classic Ealing/Alec Guinness comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets recently, and now here comes The Ladykillers, possibly my favorite Ealing/Guinness comedy, playing on TCM on Monday. Not a lot of other newly featured stuff, though I did throw in some lower-level MGM musicals. Because I like [...]

Posted in Film on TV | View Comments
Tagged:A Night at the Opera, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie Hall, Away from Her, Blow Out, Bob le flambeur, Fiddler on the Roof, Go, Howl's Moving Castle, I Love Melvin, Johnny Guitar, Kill Bill Vol 2, National Velvet, Ninotchka, Oldboy, Only Angels Have Wings, Pulp Fiction, Road to Bali, Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore, Road to Utopia, Road to Zanzibar, The Ladykillers, The Manchurian Candidate, The Philadelphia Story, The Shop Around the Corner, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Wuthering Heights

The More the Merrier, playing on TCM on Thursday, December 10th, at 6pm
After last week’s sparse pair of newly featured films, we’ve got a few more to highlight this week. Jean Arthur costars in a Capra classic in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town on Monday, then moves on to the war-time romance The More the [...]

Posted in Film on TV | View Comments
Tagged:Arsenic and Old Lace, Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ, Bride and Prejudice, Brief Encounter, Broadway Danny Rose, D.O.A., Father of the Bride, From Here to Eternity, High Sierra, It Happened One Night, Kill Bill Vol 1, Little Women, Love's Labour's Lost, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Nights of Cabiria, North by Northwest, Ordet, Persona, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Radio Days, Secretary, The Big Heat, The Lion in Winter, The Lives of Others, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The More the Merrier, The New World, The Philadelphia Story, The Third Man, They Drive By Night, You Can't Take It With You

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, playing on TCM on Wednesday at midnight.
Among the new offerings this week: Woody Allen’s geopolitical farce Bananas on Tuesday, the quintessentially 1960s vision Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Wednesday, and the gritty Mann-Stewart western The Naked Spur on Saturday. Also, the chance to watch and compare two of the movies considered by many [...]

Posted in random | View Comments
Tagged:8 1/2, A Fish Called Wanda, A Woman Under the Influence, Bananas, Bob le flambeur, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Crash, Hero, Le doulos, Mon Oncle, On the Town, Once Upon a Time in the West, Stage Beauty, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Naked Spur, The Philadelphia Story, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, Tom Jones

Cléo from 5 to 7, playing on IFC at 6:45am on July 4th
Well, TCM’s showcase of great directors is winding down this week, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of great cinema playing. On Thursday, TCM is running a bit of a tribute to 1939, widely considered one of the best years in filmmaking history, [...]

Posted in Film on TV, film | View Comments
Tagged:Anthony Mann, Bachelor Mother, Cleo from 5 to 7, Fargo, High Sierra, Mad Max, Maria Full of Grace, Miller's Crossing, Moulin Rouge, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, My Life as a Dog, Ninotchka, Office Space, Platoon, Raising Arizona, Rope, The Asphalt Jungle, The Man From Laramie, The Petrified Forest, The Philadelphia Story, The Player, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, To Catch a Thief, Trainspotting, War of the Worlds, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Rear Window, playing on TCM on Sunday, June 28th at 12:15am
As TCM nears the end of their month of Great Directors, they shine the spotlight on George Stevens, Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and George Cukor. And a mini-spotlight on David Lean on Friday morning.
Monday, June 22
10:45am – IFC – Mon Oncle
Jacques [...]

Posted in Film on TV, film | View Comments
Tagged:After the Thin Man, Alfred Hitchcock, Anatomy of a Murder, Brief Encounter, Dinner at Eight, Dr. Strangelove, Ernst Lubitsch, Federico Fellini, George Cukor, George Stevens, Howl's Moving Castle, Juliet of the Spirits, La Strada, Lolita, Marnie, Mon Oncle, My Fair Lady, Nights of Cabiria, Ninotchka, North by Northwest, Notorious, pi, Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, Roma, Shane, Spellbound, Stage Beauty, Stanley Kubrick, Suspicion, Swing Time, Talk to Her, The 39 Steps, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Caine Mutiny, The Philadelphia Story, The Shop Around the Corner, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The Thin Man, The Women, Vertigo, Wristcutters: A Love Story

The Third Man, playing on TCM, May 15th at 10:45am
As always, if I didn’t write anything for a film, it’s usually because I’ve pitched it in earlier posts. Use the tags at the bottom to find earlier posts regarding the same film if you so desire.
Monday, May 11th
4:15am (12th) – TCM – Network
Newscaster Peter Finch [...]

Posted in American Idol, Film on TV, film | View Comments
Tagged:Anna Christie, Blue Velvet, Bringing Up Baby, Dinner at Eight, Double Indemnity, Far From Heaven, Holiday, I Could Go On Singing, I Know Where I'm Going, In the Heat of the Night, Little Women, Murder, Network, Primer, Remember the Night, Shadow of a Doubt, The Letter, The Lion in Winter, The Philadelphia Story, The Proposition, The Third Man, The Women

It has come to my attention that the movie channels don’t tend to delay programming for the west coast; I somehow always assumed all stations did that, which was why I was giving EST and CST (figuring MST and PST would be the same as EST), but I suppose when there’s no specific primetime programming [...]

Posted in Film on TV, film | View Comments
Tagged:42nd Steet, A Star is Born, All About Eve, Bringing Up Baby, Dr. Strangelove, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Jules and Jim, Ninotchka, Singin' in the Rain, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Heat, The Cat's Meow, The Philadelphia Story, The Producers