The October 2013 Schedule on TCM
Posted: September 19th, 2013, 11:39 am
Here's the lineup on TCM for October, 2013. I hope you'll add in your choices for "don't miss" or "new to me."
There are oodles of Hammer films for Halloween along with the classic horrors from Universal and amusing cheapies that are also on tap at TCM. The network also features the continuing Story of Film documentary series and the many rarely seen noteworthy films from world cinema accompanying them:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.htm ... 2013-10-01
A Few Highlights:
(All Times Shown are ET)
Oct. 29th
INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949-Clarence Brown): Fine film and great acting thanks to Juano Hernandez's stoic, daunting performance. Is anyone else interested in a Clarence Brown Month on TCM?
Oct. 30th
ESCAPE (1940-Mervyn LeRoy): Connie Veidt as a Nazi. He plays his role of an arrogant officer with silken hints of self-loathing, but ekes out some considerable humanity from the character. Note how good Norma Shearer is opposite him in certain scenes. He had the same effect on Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face the following year. Robert Taylor, Nazimova and Felix Bressart are also very good--but that acidic little minx, Bonita Granville steals most of her scenes (again).
THE SWIMMER (1968-Frank Perry): Burt Lancaster at his late career best playing a man swimming his way home through his neighbors' pools. The haunting story is courtesy of John Cheever.
Oct 1st
Laurence Harvey Day! : Like him or loathe him, you can't ignore this idiosyncratic actor...especially on the 85th anniversary of his birth.
I really liked his oddball performance in Two Loves. This may not be a particularly well thought out movie, but Harvey's take-no-prisoners performance impressed me and confounded my judgment. He is so OTT and committed to the role. Too bad the screenwriters were not as well. See what you think of this flick. BTW, I relish Jack Hawkins in most everything, but I think I can see Jack amortizing the cost of his mortgage while turning in a sensitive, if woefully underwritten turn as an unhappily married man.
6:15 AM
KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS (1954)
8:15 AM
BUTTERFIELD 8 (1960)
10:15 AM
TWO LOVES (1961)
12:00 PM
WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, THE (1962)
2:30 PM
OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1964)
4:15 PM
THE OUTRAGE (1964)
6:00 PM
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962)
Oct. 14th
Some of the greatest European filmmakers have their work spotlighted tonight.
These past few weeks have been like a college course in cinema (with no charge extra for the very thick brogue of the Story of Film's narrator).
Winter Light is one Bergman I would like to see again since my memory of it dates from early adolescence (I like to think my perceptions have changed since then, though I am probably dreaming). Pickpocket is one of Bresson's films that I have yet to see and I cannot wait. Nothing that this director has made has ever been forgettable for me. Each of his movies seems to be a beautifully, quietly done meditation.
8:00 PM
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957-Fellini)
10:00 PM
STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY, THE: 1957-1964 - SHOCK OF THE NEW, MODERN FILMMAKING IN WESTERN EUROPE (2011)
11:15 PM
WINTER LIGHT (1962-Bergman)
12:45 AM
PICKPOCKET (1959-Bresson)
2:15 AM
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962-Vajda)
3:45 AM
400 BLOWS, THE (1959-Truffaut)
5:30 AM
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960-Visconti)
Oct. 16th:
Angela Lansbury Day and Tyrone Power Night!
Angie's lineup includes Gaslight, The Harvey Girls, If Winter Comes, Kind Lady, Mister Buddwing, and The Manchurian Candidate
Ty's night features the films below. Love Rawhide for the entire great cast (and the claustrophobic feel that Hathaway gives the film). So glad to see Nightmare Alley on TCM at last & all the other Power movies of late (particularly This Above All, last month). Can Blood and Sand (1941) be far behind?
8:00 PM
RAWHIDE (1951)
9:45 PM
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
11:45 PM
THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940)
1:30 AM
THE BLACK SWAN (1942)
3:00 AM
MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938)
Oct. 22nd
Margaret Lockwood Day!
I loved the early Carol Reed film, Bank Holiday and look forward to seeing this bleak but well done anthology film again. Very touching in parts, the movie captured the small hopes, triumphs and defeats of a cross section of Brits just before WWII. I've heard many good things about Madness of the Heart in which Maggie plays a "woman going blind [who] falls in love with a French nobleman"---shades of Love Affair (1944)? Cue the Cornish Rhapsody...oh, before I forget, Highly Dangerous pairs ML with (wait for it...) Dane Clark! It's chockfull of Cold War paranoia, a bit of derring-do on Maggie's part with Dane looking impressed.
9:00 AM
BANK HOLIDAY (1938)
10:30 AM
MADNESS OF THE HEART (1949)
12:00 PM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
1:30 PM
MAN OF THE MOMENT (1935)
3:00 PM
HIGHLY DANGEROUS (1950)
4:30 PM
A PLACE OF ONE'S OWN (1945)
6:15 PM
THE LADY VANISHES, THE (1938)
So Bad They Are Good Dept. (These are all strictly subjective. Others may love these, I'm sure):
Oct. 1st
TWO LOVES (See Above)
Oct. 16th
IN THE COOL OF THE DAY (1963): Worth seeing for Angela Lansbury's performance, but there will be more about this tubercular travelogue later in the Bad Movies You Love Thread.
There are oodles of Hammer films for Halloween along with the classic horrors from Universal and amusing cheapies that are also on tap at TCM. The network also features the continuing Story of Film documentary series and the many rarely seen noteworthy films from world cinema accompanying them:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.htm ... 2013-10-01
A Few Highlights:
(All Times Shown are ET)
Oct. 29th
INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949-Clarence Brown): Fine film and great acting thanks to Juano Hernandez's stoic, daunting performance. Is anyone else interested in a Clarence Brown Month on TCM?
Oct. 30th
ESCAPE (1940-Mervyn LeRoy): Connie Veidt as a Nazi. He plays his role of an arrogant officer with silken hints of self-loathing, but ekes out some considerable humanity from the character. Note how good Norma Shearer is opposite him in certain scenes. He had the same effect on Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face the following year. Robert Taylor, Nazimova and Felix Bressart are also very good--but that acidic little minx, Bonita Granville steals most of her scenes (again).
THE SWIMMER (1968-Frank Perry): Burt Lancaster at his late career best playing a man swimming his way home through his neighbors' pools. The haunting story is courtesy of John Cheever.
Oct 1st
Laurence Harvey Day! : Like him or loathe him, you can't ignore this idiosyncratic actor...especially on the 85th anniversary of his birth.
I really liked his oddball performance in Two Loves. This may not be a particularly well thought out movie, but Harvey's take-no-prisoners performance impressed me and confounded my judgment. He is so OTT and committed to the role. Too bad the screenwriters were not as well. See what you think of this flick. BTW, I relish Jack Hawkins in most everything, but I think I can see Jack amortizing the cost of his mortgage while turning in a sensitive, if woefully underwritten turn as an unhappily married man.
6:15 AM
KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS (1954)
8:15 AM
BUTTERFIELD 8 (1960)
10:15 AM
TWO LOVES (1961)
12:00 PM
WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, THE (1962)
2:30 PM
OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1964)
4:15 PM
THE OUTRAGE (1964)
6:00 PM
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962)
Oct. 14th
Some of the greatest European filmmakers have their work spotlighted tonight.
These past few weeks have been like a college course in cinema (with no charge extra for the very thick brogue of the Story of Film's narrator).
Winter Light is one Bergman I would like to see again since my memory of it dates from early adolescence (I like to think my perceptions have changed since then, though I am probably dreaming). Pickpocket is one of Bresson's films that I have yet to see and I cannot wait. Nothing that this director has made has ever been forgettable for me. Each of his movies seems to be a beautifully, quietly done meditation.
8:00 PM
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957-Fellini)
10:00 PM
STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY, THE: 1957-1964 - SHOCK OF THE NEW, MODERN FILMMAKING IN WESTERN EUROPE (2011)
11:15 PM
WINTER LIGHT (1962-Bergman)
12:45 AM
PICKPOCKET (1959-Bresson)
2:15 AM
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962-Vajda)
3:45 AM
400 BLOWS, THE (1959-Truffaut)
5:30 AM
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960-Visconti)
Oct. 16th:
Angela Lansbury Day and Tyrone Power Night!
Angie's lineup includes Gaslight, The Harvey Girls, If Winter Comes, Kind Lady, Mister Buddwing, and The Manchurian Candidate
Ty's night features the films below. Love Rawhide for the entire great cast (and the claustrophobic feel that Hathaway gives the film). So glad to see Nightmare Alley on TCM at last & all the other Power movies of late (particularly This Above All, last month). Can Blood and Sand (1941) be far behind?
8:00 PM
RAWHIDE (1951)
9:45 PM
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
11:45 PM
THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940)
1:30 AM
THE BLACK SWAN (1942)
3:00 AM
MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938)
Oct. 22nd
Margaret Lockwood Day!
I loved the early Carol Reed film, Bank Holiday and look forward to seeing this bleak but well done anthology film again. Very touching in parts, the movie captured the small hopes, triumphs and defeats of a cross section of Brits just before WWII. I've heard many good things about Madness of the Heart in which Maggie plays a "woman going blind [who] falls in love with a French nobleman"---shades of Love Affair (1944)? Cue the Cornish Rhapsody...oh, before I forget, Highly Dangerous pairs ML with (wait for it...) Dane Clark! It's chockfull of Cold War paranoia, a bit of derring-do on Maggie's part with Dane looking impressed.
9:00 AM
BANK HOLIDAY (1938)
10:30 AM
MADNESS OF THE HEART (1949)
12:00 PM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
1:30 PM
MAN OF THE MOMENT (1935)
3:00 PM
HIGHLY DANGEROUS (1950)
4:30 PM
A PLACE OF ONE'S OWN (1945)
6:15 PM
THE LADY VANISHES, THE (1938)
So Bad They Are Good Dept. (These are all strictly subjective. Others may love these, I'm sure):
Oct. 1st
TWO LOVES (See Above)
Oct. 16th
IN THE COOL OF THE DAY (1963): Worth seeing for Angela Lansbury's performance, but there will be more about this tubercular travelogue later in the Bad Movies You Love Thread.