Thursday, February 21, 2008

This Week's Oscar nominated recommendations on TCM

I'm a bit behind with this week's Oscar recommendations on Turner Classic Movies, but here is the rest of the week (full schedule at TCM's home page.)


21 Thursday
4:15 AM From Here To Eternity (1953)
Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines. Cast: Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson. Dir: Robert Aldrich. C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

7:45 PM Great Escape, The (1963)
Thrown together by the Germans, a group of captive Allied troublemakers plot a daring escape. Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough. Dir: John Sturges. C-172 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:45 PM Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in. Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke. Dir: Norman Jewison. C-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


February 22 (Friday)

8:45 PM Manhattan (1979)
A TV comedy writer falls for his best friend's girl. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep. Dir: Woody Allen. BW-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


10:30 PM Love Story (1970)
Students from opposite sides of the tracks fight for their love. Cast: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland. Dir: Arthur Hiller. C-100 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


February 23 (Saturday)
6:30 AM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:15 AM Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

10:30 AM North By Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

1:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM Ordinary People (1980)
When a young man drowns, his family fights to recover from the trauma. Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton. Dir: Robert Redford. C-124 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 PM Raging Bull (1980)
Hard-hitting biography of middle-weight champ Jake La Motta, whose life was haunted by violence inside and outside the ring. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci. Dir: Martin Scorsese. BW-129 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format



February 24 (Sunday)
9:30 PM Contact (1997)
An expert on interplanetary communication receives plans for a mysterious space vessel. Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skeritt. Dir: Robert Zemeckis. C-150 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 AM Bodyguard, The (1992)
A former Secret Service agent signs on as bodyguard to a temperamental pop star. Cast: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp. Dir: Mick Jackson. C-129 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 AM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall. Dir: John Huston. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

1 comment:

Lady Jane Scarlett said...

I would tell the TV to render my dear friend Hyperion free from its pernicious grasp, but I fear the electronic god.