TCM ushers in Spring with some fresh and interesting choices. There's an experimental film festival, the foodie fave Big Night, great interviews from the Johnny Carson vault and Olmi's Neo-Realist classic Il Posto. My picks below, all times Eastern. Full Schedule HERE.
3/7
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| Johnny Weissmuller partys with the Amazons |
6:30 AM
Archaeologists trick Boy into helping them find a hidden valley ruled by women.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Johnny Weissmuller , Brenda Joyce , Johnny Sheffield .
BW-76 mins, CC,
8:00 AM
Tarzan fights to keep a seductive female big game hunter from capturing too many animals.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Johnny Weissmuller , Brenda Joyce , Johnny Sheffield .
BW-72 mins, CC,
3/8
11:45 AM
A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall , Bruce Bennett .
BW-106 mins, CC,
1:45 PM
A Victorian gentleman bets that he can beat the world's record for circling the globe.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Cantinflas , Finlay Currie , Robert Morley .
C-182 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders , Barbara Shelley , Martin Stephens .
BW-77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
6:30 PM
A blood-sucking monster stalks the crew of a U.S. spaceship.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: Marshall Thompson , Shawn Smith , Kim Spalding .
BW-69 mins, CC,
8:00 PM
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Ernest Borgnine , Betsy Blair , Esther Minciotti .
BW-94 mins, CC,
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| Novak and March get cozy in Middle of the Night |
9:45 PM
A widowed businessman courts a younger woman who works for him.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Kim Novak , Glenda Farrell , Jan Norris .
BW-117 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 AM
A young Catholic faces guilt when he discovers the love of his life has been raped.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Zina Bethune , Harvey Keitel , Lennard Kuras .
BW-90 mins, Letterbox Format
3/11
2:30 PM
A horse thief marries for profit, but doesn't reckon with his wife's determination to reform him.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Wallace Beery , Marjorie Main , J. Carroll Naish .
BW-80 mins,
8:00 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Bob Hope from 10/13/78
C-10 mins, CC,
8:12 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Bing Crosby from 3/5/76.
C-8 mins, CC,
8:24 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Tony Randall from 9/17/74.
C-10 mins, CC,
8:36 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Truman Capote from 11/27/72.
C-9 mins, CC,
8:48 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Gregory Peck from 7/8/76.
C-10 mins, CC,
9:00 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Lauren Bacall from 1/11/80.
C-10 mins, CC,
11:15 PM
A journalist sets out to expose a female sex expert but falls for her instead.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis , Natalie Wood , Henry Fonda .
C-114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:15 AM
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Paul Newman , Lauren Bacall , Julie Harris .
C-121 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Gina Lollobrigrida Festival! |
3/14
12:15 PM
Chaos results when a mild mannered man tries to have an affair with his neighbor's wife.
Dir: Peter Glenville Cast: Gina Lollobrigida , Alec Guinness , Robert Morley .
C-95 mins, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM
A powerful businessman opposes his son's involvement with a woman with a past.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Gina Lollobrigida , Anthony Franciosa , Ernest Borgnine .
C-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM
A cook turns to theft so she and her lover can marry.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Gina Lollobrigida , Pierre Brasseur , Marcello Mastroianni .
C-121 mins,
6:00 PM
A womanizing tycoon ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who have rented his Italian villa.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Rock Hudson , Gina Lollobrigida , Sandra Dee .
C-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
A conversation between a globe-trotting theater director and a playwright playfully explores ideas about art, theater, and daily life.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Wallace Shawn , Andre Gregory , Jean Lenauer .
C-111 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
A group of friends who hang out in a Baltimore diner face the problems of growing up.
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Steve Guttenberg , Mickey Rourke , Daniel Stern .
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3/15
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| The adventures of Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express |
8:00 PM
An ex-convict springs her husband from prison to keep their child from being adopted.
Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Goldie Hawn , Ben Johnson , William Atherton .
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
The dangers of marijuana are outlined in this educational short film.
Dir: Ib Melchior Cast: J. Edward McKinley ,
C-21 mins,
3/16
3:45 AM
A child's world collapses when his mother runs off with her lover.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Emilio Cigoli , Luciano Deambrosis , Isa Pola .
BW-84 mins,
3/17
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| The Seven Ups gets my vote for Best Car Chase Ever. |
10:00 PM
New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum.
Dir: Philip D'Antoni Cast: Roy Scheider , Victor Arnold , Jerry Leon .
C-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
An aging cowboy faces changes in the West with the rise of civilization.
Dir: William A. Fraker Cast: Lee Marvin , Jeanne Moreau , Jack Palance .
C-99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3/18
8:00 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Lucille Ball from 4/28/77.
C-12 mins,
8:12 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Carol Burnett from 8/10/79.
C-12 mins,
8:48 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Jack Benny from 7/20/73.
C-12 mins,
3/22
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| Zardoz proves there's nothing worse than truly bad Sci-fi. |
2:00 AM
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Sean Connery , Charlotte Rampling , Sara Kestelman .
C-105 mins,
3:45 AM
A mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters.
Dir: Kinji Fukasaku Cast: Robert Horton , Richard Jaeckel , Luciana Paluzzi .
C-90 mins, Letterbox Format
5:15 AM
This anti-porn short film shows a floodtide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
Cast: Damian O'Flynn ,
C-31 mins,
3/23
10:00 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, CC,
12:00 AM
In this silent film, a small-town boy raises a ruckus when he writes a book about how to handle women.
Dir: Fred Newmeyer Cast: Harold Lloyd , Jobyna Ralston , Richard Daniels .
BW-80 mins,
2:00 AM
A deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family.
Dir: Marco Bellocchio Cast: Lou Castel , Paola Pitagora , Marino Masè .
BW-105 mins,
4:00 AM
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| Lives of quiet desperation in Il Posto |
A young man fights to become a cog in the big business machine.
Dir: Ermanno Olmi Cast: Sandro Panzeri , Loredana Detto , Tullio Kezich .
BW-93 mins,
3/24
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
A sheltered girl uses music as a means of winning her independence.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , George Murphy , S. Z. Sakall .
BW-98 mins,
5:45 PM
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne , Montgomery Clift , Joanne Dru .
BW-133 mins, CC,
3/25
8:24 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Sean Connery from 12/5/75
C-12 mins,
9:00 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with George C. Scott from 11/3/87
C-12 mins,
9:12 PM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Gene Kelly from 11/7/75.
C-12 mins,
3/28
8:00 PM
A French refugee in Denmark transforms the lives of the elderly women for whom she works.
Dir: Gabriel Axel Cast: Stephane Audran , Jean-Philippe Lafont , Gudmar Wivesson .
C-103 mins, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
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| Big Night. Don't watch it hungry. |
A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business.
Dir: Campbell Scott Cast: Marc Anthony , Tony Shalhoub , Stanley Tucci .
C-107 mins,
1:45 AM
A space probe unleashes microbes that turn the dead into flesh-eating zombies.
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Judith O'Dea , Russell Streiner , Duane Jones .
BW-96 mins, CC,
3/29
2:00 AM
2:00 AM
A documentary focusing on the history of experimental film.
Dir: Pip Chodorov Cast: Stan Brakhage , Jonas Mekas , Hans Richter .
C-83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM
This hypnotic, experimental short film presents a tilted figure with a series of straight lines and curves that occasionally sprout from the existing design.
Dir: Viking Eggeling
BW-5 mins,
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| Some cool experimental films on the 29th. |
3:36 AM
This experimental short film incorporates repeated images, slow motion, and a mysterious cloaked figure to examine an emotional experience.
Dir: Alexander Hammid Cast: Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren ,
BW-14 mins,
3:50 AM
This short film documents the daily life on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side of New York City
C-12 mins,
4:03 AM
This experimental short film contains four separate sequences of avant-garde performances.
Dir: Ken Jacobs
C-15 mins,
4:18 AM
This short film compresses one day at the port of Cassis, France into one shot.
Dir: Jonas Mekas
C-5 mins,
4:24 AM
The short film is a montage of sped up video clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action.
Dir: Jonas Mekas
C-12 mins,
4:37 AM
This experimental short film focuses on perspective differences of variously sized and shaped rectangular figures.
Dir: Hans Richter
BW-3 mins,
4:41 AM
Everyday objects rebel against their daily routine in this experimental short film.
Dir: Hans Richter
BW-7 mins,
4:48 AM
This experimental short film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era.
Dir: Stan Vanderbeek
C-10 mins,
4:58 AM
A series of simple line drawings form into complex patterns in this experimental short.
Dir: Wade Shaw
BW-6 mins,
5:15 AM
In this short film, a police officer tries to prevent a gang war by bringing the rival groups together over dinner.
Dir: Arthur Swerdloff Cast: Curly Riviera ,
C-27 mins,
5:15 AM
In this educational short film, tips on proper nourishment are given.
BW-10 mins,
3/30
5:45 AM
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Henry Fonda from 3/26/80.
C-10 mins, CC,
1 comment:
Some of that Carson stuff would be great to catch.
Harper was pretty good, but a lot of people are kinda hard on it.
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