In June TCM has a little something for everyone: 50s Sci-fi, Antonioni, Kurosawa, The Caped Crusader and even the history of Tupperware. Is this a great network or what?
My picks below. All times Eastern. Full schedule
HERE.
1 Monday
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Long Hot Summer kicks off a Paul Newman festival on June 1st. |
8:00 PM
A drifter with a past brings a wealthy family's problems to a head.
C-117 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
The arrival of an Army missile base shatters the peaceful life of a suburban town.
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
A financial wizard is tempted to sacrifice his career for an affair.
C-144 mins, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM
A small town teacher tries to overcome her shyness.
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4 Thursday
4:00 PM
A psychology student researches infidelity by becoming a platonic kept woman for four buddies.
C-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
C-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5 Friday
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Peter Lorre at his craven best in M. |
6:00 AM
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
BW-109 mins,
8:00 AM
A railroad engineer enters an affair with his friend's amoral wife.
BW-97 mins,
6 Saturday
2:00 PM
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
BW-117 mins, CC,
4:15 PM
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
BW-90 mins, CC,
6:00 PM
A substitute teacher changes the lives of the slum children in his class.
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
Two con artists set out to take over a remote Asian land with a priceless golden treasure.
BW-129 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9 Sunday
8:00 PM
A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man.
C-135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.
BW-87 mins, CC,
2:30 AM
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
BW-88 mins,
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Kurosawa's underrated Sanjuro on the 9th. |
4:00 AM
A wandering samurai recruits younger fighters to help him battle corruption.
BW-96 mins, Letterbox Format
9 Tuesday
8:00 PM
Three elderly men decide to better their lot by robbing a bank.
C-97 mins,
10:00 PM
A comedian and an aspiring singer try to overcome their neuroses and find happiness.
C-93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:45 PM
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation.
C-125 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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De Niro is fantastic in Scorsese's Mean Streets. |
2:00 AM
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
C-112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11 Thursday
11:00 AM
An awkward young man and a shy older woman find comfort in each other on a Spanish tour.
C-110 mins, CC,
1:15 PM
A convent girl vacationing in Spain finds herself in a romance with a murderer.
C-91 mins, Letterbox Format
13 Saturday
2:00 AM
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM
A scientist tries to protect a caveman brought back from suspended animation.
C-91 mins, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM
This short industrial film focuses on the making of Tupperware.
C-29 mins,
18 Thursday
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A day of Sci-fi begins with a visit to Forbidden Planet on the 18th. |
8:30 AM
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A scientist¿s experiments with teleportation produce a deadly hybrid.
C-94 mins,
9:45 PM
After Godzilla kills a legendary giant moth, its offspring set out for revenge.
C-101 mins, Letterbox Format
11:45 PM
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
BW-92 mins, CC,
1:30 AM
A cosmetics executive's search for eternal beauty turn her into a monster.
BW-61 mins,
2:45 AM
Killer bees extend their territory into the U.S., with devastating effect.
C-116 mins, CC,
4:45 AM
A scientist's experiments open the doorway to a strange and deadly world.
BW-72 mins,
21 Sunday
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Monica Vitti trudges through toxic waste in Red Desert. |
2:00 AM
A housewife fighting insanity becomes involved with a man passing through town.
C-117 mins,
4:00 AM
A man and women make an attempt at a futile love affair.
BW-126 mins, Letterbox Format
23 Tuesday
4:45 PM
An American woman tries to break off her relationship with her Italian lover.
BW-63 mins, CC,
9:45 PM
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
C-119 mins, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
Two rogue cops enlist a streetwalker to help them stop a deadly drug ring.
C-94 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:45 AM
BW-173 mins,
24 Wednesday
8:00 PM
A rebellious caveman leaves his tribe in search of a better life.
C-100 mins, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
Explorers uncover a lost kingdom ruled by an immortal queen.
C-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
A future police officer uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
C-119 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Jane Fonda handles a variety of phallic objects in Barbarella. |
2:15 AM
An over-sexed space agent takes on a dictator and an amoral queen.
C-98 mins, Letterbox Format
25 Thursday
10:00 PM
A scientist battles the military for control of a machine that records sensory experiences-including death.
C-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
A U.S. agent enters a martial arts tournament to spy on an international super-villain.
C-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
C-97 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
27 Saturday
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Bam! Zowie! 1949's The New Adventures of Batman and Robin serial begins on the 27th. |
10:00 AM
Episode One of the Batman and Robin serial.
BW-26 mins,
28 Sunday
8:00 PM
Aliens try to use Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan to take over the planet.
C-93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
Nuclear tests awaken a prehistoric monster.
BW-80 mins, CC,
12:00 AM
In this silent film, Joan of Arc braves the threat of torture to stand fast for her beliefs.
BW-82 mins,
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Godard's jazzy Band of Outsiders on the 28th. |
2:00 AM
Two crooks obsessed with Hollywood crime movies plot a big heist.
C-96 mins,
3:45 AM
A tempestuous beauty comes between college friends.
BW-106 mins, Letterbox Format
29 Monday
11:15 PM
A traveling magician must outwit townspeople out to prove him a fake.
BW-100 mins,
1:15 AM
Three sisters deal with their tangled relationships amidst the wonders of New York City.
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:15 AM
An impoverished farming couple decides to move from Sweden to the U.S. in the 19th century.
C-151 mins,