Lots of special gifts this month from TCM. There's a mini Bresson festival, several recent foreign films and of course, lot of holiday classics. Below are a few of my picks but much more is on offer. Click here for full schedule. All times Eastern.
12/1
2:00 AM
A young priest taking over a parish tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
Dir: Robert Bresson Cast: Claude Laydu , Nicole Maurey , Andre Guibert .
BW-115 mins, TV-14,
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| Diary of a Country Priest. Don't watch if you're depressed |
12/3
12:00 AM
12:00 AM
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford , Gloria Grahame , Jocelyn Brando .
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC,
12/5
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Frank Sinatra , Eleanor Parker , Kim Novak .
BW-119 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:45 PM
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart , Lee Remick , Ben Gazzara .
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM
A controversial presidential nomination threatens the careers of several prominent politicians.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Henry Fonda , Charles Laughton , Don Murray .
BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12/8
2:45 AM
2:45 AM
Joan of Arc's trial and execution are re-created from the original court records.
Dir: Robert Bresson Cast: Florence Carrez , Jean-Claude Fourneau , Marc Jacquier .
BW-64 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
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| The Passion of Joan of Arc. Artsy baby! |
4:00 AM
In this silent film, Joan of Arc braves the threat of torture to stand fast for her beliefs.
Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer Cast: Maria Falconetti , Eugene Silvain , Antonin Artaud .
BW-82 mins, TV-PG,
12/9
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Over the course of a school year students and teachers in a French village learn how to live together.
Dir: Nicolas Philibert Cast: Georges Lopez , Julie-Marie Parmentier , Stéphane Rideau .
C-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
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| To Be and To Have. A wonderful doc about education in rural France. |
10:00 PM
A mystery man visits scenes from Russia's past in search of his own identity.
Dir: Alexander Sokurov Cast: Sergei Dreiden , Maria Kuznetsova , Leonid Mozgovoy .
C-99 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
A university professor and an art director struggle through the collapse of their relationship.
Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Cast: Ebru Ceylan , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Nazan Kesal .
C-98 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
12/10
11:45 PM
11:45 PM
A widowed musician reluctantly takes on an apprentice for a musical tour of his native Colombia.
Dir: Ciro Guerra Cast: Marciano Martinez ,
C-120 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
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| Shamelessly hilarious Aaltra |
2:00 AM
Feuding farmers join forces when a defective tractor leaves them both paralyzed.
Dir: Benoît Delépine Cast: Benoît Delépine , Gustave Kervern , Aki Kaurismäki .
BW-90 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
12/12
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Shirley MacLaine .
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Cinema Paradiso. Prepare to weep. |
8:00 PM
A boy coming of age in WWII Italy develops a lifelong love affair with movies.
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore Cast: Philippe Noiret , Jacques Perrin , Salvatore Cascio .
C-124 mins, TV-MA,
10:15 PM
A filmmaker masquerades as a hobo to get in touch with the little people.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Joel McCrea , Veronica Lake , Robert Warwick .
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC,
12:00 AM
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Kirk Douglas , Edward G. Robinson , Cyd Charisse .
C-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12/13
1:00 AM
1:00 AM
A Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson , Faye Dunaway , Perry Lopez .
C-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3:15 AM
Onetime college friends cope with the sexual revolution of the '60s.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Jack Nicholson , Candice Bergen , Arthur Garfunkel .
C-98 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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| The Producers. Everyone must see it at least once |
12/14
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
Dir: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel , Gene Wilder , Dick Shawn .
C-90 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12/22
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Tony Franciosa , Jane Fonda , Jim Hutton .
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
The lives of a donkey and the girl who named him intertwine.
Dir: Robert Bresson Cast: Anne Wiazemsky , François Lafarge , Philippe Asselin .
BW-95 mins, TV-PG,
12/23
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| Same for Meet Me in St. Louis |
8:00 PM
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland , Margaret O'Brien , Mary Astor .
C-113 mins, TV-G, CC,
12/26
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Tom Courtenay , Julie Christie , Wilfred Pickles .
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
A traveling salesman's music-inspired dreams lead to tragedy.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Steve Martin , Bernadette Peters , Christopher Walken .
C-108 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
An aging housewife seeks direction when she catches her husband in an affair.
Dir: Federico Fellini Cast: Giulietta Masina , Alba Cancellieri , Mario Pisu .
C-137 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
12/27
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten , Dolores Costello , Anne Baxter .
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC,
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| The many splendors of Jane in Klute |
2:00 AM
A small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda , Donald Sutherland , Charles Cioffi .
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12/29
2:00 AM
2:00 AM
A neglected girl in rural France gets mixed up with a murderous poacher.
Dir: Robert Bresson Cast: Nadine Nortier , Marie Cardinal , Paul Hébert .
BW-81 mins, TV-14,
3:30 AM
A young man finds escape from his working-class life training a pet falcon.
Dir: Kenneth Loach Cast: David Bradley , Lynne Perrie , Freddie Fletcher .
C-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12/31
12:15 PM
12/31
12:15 PM
Two British teens and their friends bring "traditional" jazz to a small English town.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Helen Shapiro , Craig Douglas , Felix Felton .
BW-78 mins, TV-G,
1 comment:
The Big Heat is great. Lee Marvin is just wicked.
The PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC is incredibly moving.
CINEMA PARADISO was a bit of a disappointment. I guess my expectations were built up too much. It was a nice movie, but it didn't blow me away.
Sullivan's Travels is great.
Chinatown is great.
The Magnificent Ambersons had me in tears at the end.
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