October brings cooler temps and even cooler fare to TCM with rare silents, documentaries and lots of ghouls and goblins. My picks below. All times Eastern. Full schedule
HERE.
1 Thursday
8:00 PM
A young man must convince his sweetheart's feather he is a concert pianist.
BW-17 mins,
8:00 PM
BW-33 mins,
8:00 PM
A jealous married couple decide to live together as if they were single.
BW-14 mins,
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| A celebration of female directors of the silent era kicks off with a festival of works by Alice Guy-Blache. |
8:00 PM
A young woman tries to save her ill sister.
BW-16 mins,
9:30 PM
In this silent film, an abused young woman finds safety and eventually love in the arms of a famous novelist.
BW-42 mins,
10:15 PM
Families from opposite ends of the economic scale are drawn together.
BW-91 mins,
12:00 AM
In this silent film, a girl fights between her love for a German spy and her sense of patriotism.
BW-75 mins,
1:45 AM
A look at the women who helped build Hollywood by taking on such traditionally male jobs as directing, producing and writing.
C-55 mins, CC,
8 Thursday
8:00 PM
A rootless working class woman takes up with an abusive criminal.
C-103 mins, CC,
10:00 PM
A young photographer fights to build her career while coping with her best friend's marriage.
C-86 mins,
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| Totes Valley Girl on the 8th. |
11:45 PM
A high-school fashion plate falls for a punk rocker.
C-99 mins,
1:30 AM
Bride and groom plan their weddings on their own while grappling with cold feet.
C-104 mins,
3:15 AM
Two musicians try to find their bandleader, who's disappeared after stealing their fee from a crooked club owner.
C-83 mins,
10 Saturday
11:30 PM
A little brat turns Paris upside down during a two-day visit with her uncle.
C-93 mins,
1:15 AM
A look back at Robert Osborne's life and career as host of Turner Classic Movies.
C-47 mins, CC,
5:45 AM
This short film looks at the importance of traffic rules to avoid serious automobile accidents.
C-10 mins,
11 Sunday
12:30 AM
In this silent film, a doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous monster.
BW-68 mins,
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| Bertolucci's weirdly awful Grim Reaper on the 11th. |
2:00 AM
Police search for a prostitute's murderer.
BW-88 mins,
3:45 AM
A streetwalker tries to save her son from a life of crime.
BW-106 mins, Letterbox Format
14 Wednesday
12:00 AM
BW-137 mins,
2:30 AM
When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down.
C-112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
15 Thursday
8:00 PM
Cameras capture the workings of an ancient Venezuelan salt mine.
BW-90 mins,
9:30 PM
Kentucky miners risk their lives in a violent strike.
C-104 mins, Letterbox Format
11:30 PM
Interviews and rare film clips capture the lives of women doing factory work during World War II.
C-65 mins, CC,
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| A day of docs features the rarely seen Portrait of Jason on the 15th. |
12:45 AM
An aspiring entertainer reveals what it means to be black and gay in the '60s.
BW-105 mins,
2:45 AM
Documentary cameras capture the thriving Los Angeles punk scene of the early 1980s.
C-100 mins,
20 Tuesday
8:00 PM
Two sisters become rivals while playing women's baseball during World War II.
C-128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
A motherless boy uses a radio talk show to find a new wife for his father.
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
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| Babs and Nick achieve total transference in Prince of Tides. |
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
C-132 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:45 AM
Two lonely retirees become friends despite personal differences.
C-123 mins,
5:00 AM
A single mom faces Thanksgiving with her domineering mother and sister.
C-103 mins,
21 Wednesday
8:00 PM
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
C-90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:45 PM
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon's presidency.
C-138 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
C-130 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:30 AM
In this silent film, the Little Tramp tries to help a blind flower seller to see again.
BW-87 mins,
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| The toast scene in La Cage aux Folles always gets a big laugh. |
4:15 AM
A gay couple has to straighten out their act when their son gets engaged to a noted conservative's daughter.
C-97 mins, Letterbox Format
23 Friday
8:00 PM
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
BW-113 mins, CC,
10:30 PM
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
BW-117 mins, CC,
12:45 AM
An old friend tries to keep Roderick Usher from succumbing to the family curse.
BW-70 mins,
2:00 AM
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
BW-110 mins, CC,
4:00 AM
A scientist's attempts to create life unleash a bloodthirsty monster.
C-83 mins, CC,
25 Sunday
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| Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev on the 25th. |
2:15 AM
The legendary 15th-century painter fights to continue working while his country is at war.
C-206 mins, Letterbox Format
27 Tuesday
6:15 PM
A convent girl vacationing in Spain finds herself in a romance with a murderer.
C-91 mins, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
In this original French version, a young girl who has been trained to be a kept woman, sets out to reform the young man who wants to keep her.
BW-83 mins,
9:30 PM
This film concentrates on two hours in the life of a French singer waiting on the results of a cancer test.
C-89 mins, Letterbox Format
11:15 PM
When his mother abandons him, a Hindu boy falls into a life of street crime.
C-113 mins,
1:15 AM
A peasant and a madam plot to assassinate Mussolini.
C-120 mins,
3:15 AM
A lonely widow turns to prostitution to make ends meet.
C-202 mins, Letterbox Format
31 Saturday
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| Halloween creepfest kicks off with House of Wax. |
4:30 PM
A scarred sculptor re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.
C-88 mins, CC,
6:15 PM
Small town Satanists lure an innocent brother and sister into their coven.
C-96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
BW-110 mins, CC,
10:00 PM
An anthropologist investigates a devil worshipper who commands a deadly demon.
BW-82 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:30 PM
Guests at a country estate share stories of the supernatural.
BW-103 mins, CC,
1:30 AM
Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder.
BW-61 mins, CC,
2:45 AM
Six cartoon figures vomit repeatedly.
BW-4 mins,
2:45 AM
A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way.
BW-5 mins,
2:45 AM
A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way.
BW-4 mins,
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| A selection of shorts by David Lynch on halloween night. |
2:45 AM
A boy plants a seed that grows into a grandmother in this experimental short film.
C-34 mins,
2:45 AM
This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.
C-4 mins,
2:45 AM
Police discover a naked dead body.
BW-1 mins,
