This Week on TCM spotlights a highly subjective selection of the week’s essential or undiscovered films on the Turner Classic Movies channel to help plan movie viewing, DVR scheduling or TCM Party attendance. All times are EST.
Monday, January 23
8:00 p.m. The Reckless Moment
9:30 p.m. Caught
11:15 p.m. Letter from an Unknown Woman
1:00 a.m. The Exile
2:45 a.m. La Ronde
4:30 a.m. The Earrings of Madame de…
Tuesday, January 24
11:30 a.m. The Catered Affair (1956)
When a daughter (Debbie Reynolds) gets engaged, her mother (Bette Davis) spares no expense to give the girl a wedding like she — the mother — always wanted.
4:30 p.m. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
If you haven’t seen this classic about Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) and the 12 convicts (Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, and George Kennedy, among others) he leads into a suicide mission to blow up a chateau containing a whole mess of Nazis, set your DVR now. If you don’t have a DVR, call in sick. At least put it in your Netflix queue. I’m serious.
Wednesday, January 25
8:00 p.m. Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
9:00 p.m. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
***TCM Party***
A barber (George Hearn) begins a homicidal partnership with the baker downstairs (Angela Lansbury). Find us on Twitter with #TCMParty…watch and tweet along!
Thursday, January 26
Jack Cardiff is best-known as a cinematographer but he was an Oscar-nominated director as well (for 1960′s Sons and Lovers). Tonight TCM will show five of the 13 films Cardiff directed:
8:00 p.m. Intent to Kill (1958)
9:45 p.m. The Lion (1962)
11:30 p.m. Young Cassidy (1965)
1:30 a.m. The Liquidator (1966)
3:30 a.m. Dark of the Sun (1968)
Friday, January 27
TCM has a block of films directed by James Whale beginning at 8:00 p.m. tonight. I can recommend The Invisible Man and Frankenstein, but I also highly recommendGods and Monsters, a fictional account of the end of Whale’s life. It's not as gloomy as it sounds, and It’s superbly acted by Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser.
8:00 p.m. The Great Garrick (1937)
9:45 p.m. One More River (1934)
11:15 p.m. The Invisible Man (1933)
12:30 a.m. (Sat.) Frankenstein (1931)
Saturday, January 28
There’s a lot of well-known films scheduled today…Rocky, King Solomon’s Mines, The Misfits, Soylent Green, Rebel Without A Cause, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner…but I’ve got to see Zsa Zsa Gabor in a film that promises to give new meaning to the term “campy,” Queen of Outer Space (7:30 a.m.); and I'm also interested in Saratoga (10:15 p.m.), which pairs Clark Gable with Jean Harlow. Sadly, this was Harlow's final screen appearance; she died of kidney failure before filming was completed.
Sunday, January 29
6:00 a.m. The Hard Way (1942)
Yep, it’s early in the morning, but who am I to refuse an Ida Lupino movie?
2:00 a.m. (Mon.) The Vanishing (1988)
“A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.”
So TCM fans, what are you watching this week? Let me know with a comment.
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