March roars in with a grab bag of classics and oddities. There's a Kim Novak festival (hotcha!), a couple of Reefer Madness type ditties, some Driver's Ed films and even a marketing short about the late, lamented Chevy Corvair. What other network wound give you In Vanda's Room AND Thunder Road? Below are my suggestions. As always, your mileage may vary.
3/2
5:45 PM
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray .
BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:15 PM
A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Natalie Wood , Richard Beymer , Russ Tamblyn .
C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/3
12:00 AM
12:00 AM
A Wyoming sheriff tries to protect immigrant farmers from ruthless ranchers.
Dir: Michael Cimino Cast: Kris Kristofferson , Christopher Walken , Isabelle Huppert .
C-219 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/4
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Marlon Brando , Brian Keith .
C-109 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Robert Donat , Greer Garson , Terry Kilburn .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/5
2:30 AM
2:30 AM
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho [Marx] , Chico [Marx] , Harpo [Marx] .
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC,
3/6
KIM NOVAK FESTIVAL! |
9:00 PM
A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unknowing publisher.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: James Stewart , Kim Novak , Jack Lemmon .
C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
12:00 AM
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: William Holden , Kim Novak , Betty Field .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 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
4:15 AM
A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.
Dir: Ken Hughes Cast: Kim Novak , Laurence Harvey , Robert Morley .
C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/8
5:30 AM
A monkey's prank on a turtle demonstrates how to survive a nuclear attack.
BW-9 mins, TV-PG,
3/9
12:30 AM
A friend's death brings together a group of former college activists.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan Cast: Glenn Close , Tom Berenger , Jeff Goldblum .
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/10
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
A husband and wife fight to conquer alcoholism.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford .
BW-117 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall , John Ridgely .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/13
9:15 PM
9:15 PM
A documentary that chronicles the life of a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Dir: Lionel Rogosin Cast: Zacharia [Mgabi] , Vinah [Mgabi] , Arnold .
BW-85 mins,
3/14
6:00 AM
6:00 AM
In this silent film, a pampered East Coast lad is sent west to be toughened up.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast: Harold Lloyd ,
BW-24 mins, TV-G,
3/15
ROSSELLINI/BERGMAN FESTIVAL! |
8:00 PM
A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Mario Vitale , Renzo Cesana .
BW-107 mins, TV-14, CC,
10:00 PM
When a well-off woman loses her son, her recovery confronts her with the problems of the less fortunate.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Alexander Knox , Ettore Giannini .
BW-110 mins, TV-14,
12:00 AM
A married couple seek insight and direction within their relationship in Italy.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , George Sanders ,
BW-86 mins,
1:45 AM
The wife of a prominent scientist is blackmailed after her extramarital affair is discovered.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Mathias Wieman , Kurt Kreuger .
BW-78 mins,
3/16
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Richard Carlson , Julia Adams , Richard Denning .
BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM
A Spanish nobleman becomes a masked outlaw by night to battle a local tyrant.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Tyrone Power , Linda Darnell , Basil Rathbone .
C-94 mins, TV-G, CC,
DUSTIN HOFFMAN FESTIVAL! |
8:00 PM
An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Jessica Lange , Dabney Coleman .
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Faye Dunaway , Martin Balsam .
C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM
Two young singles meet at a bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Mia Farrow , Michael Tolan .
C-92 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
A recent college graduate has an affair with his neighbor's wife, then falls for their daughter.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Anne Bancroft , Dustin Hoffman , Katharine Ross .
C-106 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM
When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Meryl Streep , Justin Henry .
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/17
5:15 AM
Hitler summons the Axis leaders to a secret island meeting with disastrous results.
Dir: Glenn Tryon Cast: Emory Parnell , Jean Porter , Frank Faylen .
BW-43 mins, TV-PG,
3/18
5:15 AM
5:15 AM
An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: John Doucette , George Macready , Michael Pate .
BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/19
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft , Ann Sheridan , Ida Lupino .
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 PM
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Myrna Loy , Fredric March , Dana Andrews .
BW-170 mins, TV-PG, CC,
1:15 AM
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando , Karl Malden , Lee J. Cobb .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/20
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Legendary jazz musician Gene Krupa faces highs and lows along the path of his life.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Sal Mineo , Susan Kohner , James Darren .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
6:00 PM
A woman falls in love with a musician in a band and learns about life as an orchestra wife.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: George Montgomery , Ann Rutherford , Glenn Miller .
BW-98 mins, TV-G,
8:00 PM
Documentary footage traces the progress of the Apollo missions.
Dir: Al Reinert Cast: Charles Duke , Michael Collins ,
C-80 mins,
3/21
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Orson Welles , Diane Varsi , Dean Stockwell .
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A re-make of the 1922 silent film that details the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Richard Widmark , Lionel Barrymore , Dean Stockwell .
BW-120 mins,
12:15 AM
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy who helps the British Army against Indian rebels.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Errol Flynn , Dean Stockwell , Paul Lukas .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC,
The Boy with Green Hair (1948) |
2:15 AM
An orphaned boy mystically acquires green hair and a mission to end war.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Pat O'Brien , Robert Ryan , Barbara Hale .
C-82 mins, TV-G, CC,
3:45 AM
A rich girl and her poor boyfriend flee to Mexico to escape family disapproval.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: Dean Stockwell , Natalie Trundy , John Larch .
BW-73 mins, TV-G,
5:00 AM
An army deserter on the run risks his freedom to protect a beautiful young woman.
Dir: Marcel Carne Cast: Michele Morgan , Jean Gabin , Michel Simon .
BW-91 mins, TV-14,
3/22
5:30 AM
5:30 AM
Driving safety short directed by legendary social guidance film director Sid Davis.
C-10 mins, TV-PG,
5:30 AM
Technicians herald the arrival of a new car that "delivers the goods as no other compact car can."
C-6 mins, TV-G,
3/23
1:45 AM
1:45 AM
Instead of going to jail, a convicted felon is given a new identity and trained as a top secret assassin.
Dir: Luc Besson Cast: Anne Parillaud , Jean-Hugues Anglade , Tcheky Karyo .
C-118 mins, TV-MA,
4:00 AM
A working class woman in occupied France makes ends meet by performing abortions.
Dir: Claude Chabrol Cast: Isabelle Huppert , Frantois Cluzet , Marie Trintignant .
C-108 mins, TV-14,
3/24
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Ingrid Bergman , Claude Rains .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
6:00 PM
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:00 AM
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Cast: Ryo Ikebe , Keiko Kishi , Chikage Awashima .
BW-144 mins, TV-PG,
3/27
Thunder Road (1958) |
1:00 AM
A fast-driving moonshiner locks horns with a Chicago gangster.
Dir: Arthur Ripley Cast: Robert Mitchum , Gene Barry , Jacques Aubochon .
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3:00 AM
A maverick trucker tries to save a runaway bride and a shipment of contraband beer from a small-town sheriff.
Dir: Hal Needham Cast: Burt Reynolds , Sally Field , Jackie Gleason .
C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/29
12:30 AM
12:30 AM
Two soldiers from an unnamed country are caught up in an absurd war.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Geneviève Galéa , Catherine Ribeiro , Marino Masè .
BW-76 mins, TV-14,
3:30 AM
A manufactured rock group tries to find its own identity in a world gone mad.
Dir: Bob Rafelson Cast: Peter Tork , Davy Jones , Micky Dolenz .
C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
A juvenile court judge investigates the tragedy of marijuana addiction.
C-10 mins, TV-14,
5:00 AM
A round-up of drug addicts reveals the perils of experimenting with marijuana.
C-21 mins, TV-14,
3/31
3:00 AM
An unflinching view into the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict, in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon.
Dir: Pedro Costa Cast: Vanda Duarte , Zita Duarte , Lena Duarte .
C-170 mins, TV-MA,