February is short on days but long on great classics! My picks below. Full schedule HERE. All times Eastern.
2/1
10:00 AM
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas , Ina Claire .
BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC,
2:00 PM
A group of disparate passengers battle personal demons and each other while racing through Indian country.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Claire Trevor , John Wayne , Andy Devine .
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC,
Gone With The Wind Everybody should see it once. I guess. |
10:00 PM
Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Thomas Mitchell , Barbara O'Neil , Vivien Leigh .
C-233 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2/2
10:00 AMA free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew.
Dir: Fred Coe Cast: Jason Robards Jr. , Barbara Harris , Martin Balsam .
BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 PM
A small town teacher tries to overcome her shyness.
Dir: Paul Newman Cast: Joanne Woodward , James Olson , Kate Harrington .
C-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 PM
Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Jose Ferrer , Van Johnson .
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Spellbound is overrated, but worth seeing. |
2:15 AM
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Gregory Peck , Michael Chekhov .
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2/3
2:30 PM
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: John Collin , Tony Church , Nastassja Kinski .
C-171 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
In 12th-century Japan, a heroic officer pursues a married woman.
Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa Cast: Machiko Kyo , Kazuo Hasegawa , Isao Yamagata .
C-86 mins, TV-PG,
2/4
6:45 AM
A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
Dir: Federico Fellini Cast: Anthony Quinn , Giulietta Masina , Richard Basehart .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG,
8:45 AM
A Japanese musician keeps up the spirits of his fellow soldiers as they flee Burma during World War II.
Dir: Kon Ichikawa Cast: Rentaro Mikuni , Shoji Yasui , Tatsuya Mihashi .
BW-116 mins, TV-PG,
The Virgin Spring is a light, breezy comedy. Not. |
10:45 AM
A medieval knight seeks revenge when his daughter is murdered.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Max von Sydow , Birgitta Pettersson , Birgitta Valberg .
BW-89 mins, TV-14,
12:15 PM
A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
Dir: Jirí Menzel Cast: Václav Neckár , Jitka Bendová , Vladimír Valenta .
C-93 mins, TV-14,
1:45 PM
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo Cast: Jean Martin , Yacef Saadi , Brahim Haggiag .
BW-121 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Jacques Perrin .
C-127 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
6:00 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, TV-PG,
2/5
Jim Brown about to kick some Nazi ass in The Dirty Dozen |
1:00 PM
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Lee Marvin , Ernest Borgnine , Charles Bronson .
C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM
A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
Dir: Mark Rydell Cast: Steve McQueen , Sharon Farrell , Will Geer .
C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 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
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,
2/6
8:00 PM
An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , George Segal .
BW-131 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM
A misfit fights for happiness in the world of swinging London.
Dir: Silvio Narizzano Cast: James Mason , Alan Bates , Lynn Redgrave .
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC,
12:30 AM
n eccentric artist wages an all-out campaign to stop his ex-wife from remarrying.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Vanessa Redgrave , David Warner , Robert Stephens .
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
A Man and a Woman. Don't try to walk down Champs-Élysées today. You'll get run over. |
2:15 AM
A widow and a widower find a special bond at their childrens' boarding school.
Dir: Claude Lelouch Cast: Anouk Aimée , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Pierre Barouh .
C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2/8
10:30 AM
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Mary Astor , Gladys George .
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC,
12:15 PM
Three generations of pioneers take part in the forging of the American West.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Spencer Tracy , Carroll Baker , Lee J. Cobb .
C-165 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
3:15 PM
A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda , James Cagney , William Powell .
C-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2/9
6:45 AM
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,
Like Downton Abbey? You'll love Remains of the Day. |
2:30 PM
A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
Dir: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins , Emma Thompson , Christopher Reeve .
C-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM
A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Judy Davis , Victor Banerjee , Peggy Ashcroft .
C-164 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2/12
11:15 AM
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
1:45 PM
Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Lana Turner , John Gavin , Sandra Dee .
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 PM
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , Janet Leigh .
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:45 AM
The friendship between distant cousins makes their spouses jealous.
Dir: Jean-Charles Tacchella Cast: Marie-Christine Barrault , Victor Lanoux , Marie-France Pisier .
C-96 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
Autumn Sonata gets better with every viewing. |
2/13
1:30 PM
A concert pianist faces the daughters she's neglected for years.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Liv Ullmann , Lena Nyman .
C-93 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon , Teresa Wright .
BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC,
2/18
8:00 AM
A young French couple is separated by the war in Algiers.
Dir: Jacques Demy Cast: Catherine Deneuve , Nino Castelnuovo , Anne Vernon .
C-91 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint , James Mason .
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:30 AM
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
5:30 AM
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Peter Finch , Dame Edith Evans .
C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Peter O'Toole at his best in The Stunt Man |
2/20
3:00 AMA man on the run joins an embattled film company run by a maniacal director.
Dir: Richard Rush Cast: Peter O'Toole , Barbara Hershey , Steve Railsback .
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
5:15 AM
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Dir: Richard Benjamin Cast: Peter O'Toole , Mark Linn-Baker , Jessica Harper .
C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2/22
3:30 AMThree prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston , Tim Holt .
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2/24
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake , Scott Wilson , John Forsythe .
BW-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
Great vistas of Monument Valley in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
12:30 PM
An aging Cavalry officer tries to prevent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne , Joanne Dru , John Agar .
C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:45 AM
Changing times take their toll on high schoolers growing up in a small Western town.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Timothy Bottoms , Jeff Bridges , Cybill Shepherd .
BW-126 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 AM
A hairdresser expresses his fear of commitment by seducing his female clients.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Warren Beatty , Julie Christie , Lee Grant .
C-110 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2/26
6:00 PM
Two American journalists get more than they'd bargained for during an Indonesian revolution.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Mel Gibson , Sigourney Weaver , Linda Hunt .
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
Butterfield 8 Liz always looked her best in a slip carrying a cocktail. |
2/27
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
A party girl ruins her life when she falls for a married man.
Dir: Daniel Mann Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Laurence Harvey , Eddie Fisher .
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 PM
A widow tries to get her daughter to safety in World War II Italy.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Sophia Loren , Jean-Paul Belmondo , Eleonora Brown .
BW-96 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith , Robert Stephens , Pamela Franklin .
C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format