Monday, June 1, 2009

turner this month - bravo!

Laurence Harvey & Lee Remick in Sir Carol Reed's forgotten gem, "The Running Man" (1963)
Turner Classic Movies celebrates the auteur all month, honoring two directors each day - except for weekends when each day is devoted to a single filmmaker.

I thought about all I could say and I became dizzy. Once again, TCM has overwhelmed me. I got drunk on the titles on its schedule alone. Check it out. But take a deep breath first - and plan to take the month off:

Monday, June 1/Leo McCarey

6 a.m. Innocent Husbands (1925)

6:30 a.m. Be Your Age (1926)

7 a.m. Dog Shy (1926)

7:30 a.m. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

9:30 a.m. Love Affair (1939)

11 a.m. The Milky Way (1936)

12:45 p.m. The Kid from Spain (1932)

2:30 p.m. Duck Soup (1933)

4 p.m. The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

6:15 p.m. The Awful Truth (1937)

Monday, June 1/John Ford

8 p.m. Directed by John Ford (2006)

10 p.m. Stagecoach (1939)

11:45 p.m. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

2 a.m. The Quiet Man (1952)

4:15 a.m. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Tuesday, June 2/Victor Fleming

6 a.m. Bombshell (1933)

8 a.m. Test Pilot (1938)

10 a.m. Treasure Island (1934)

12 p.m. Captains Courageous (1937)

2 p.m. A Guy Named Joe (1943)

4:15 p.m. Tortilla Flat (1942)

6 p.m. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Tuesday, June 2/Frank Capra

8 p.m. It Happened One Night (1934)

10 p.m. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

12:15 a.m. You Can’t Take it With You (1938)

2:30 a.m. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

4:30 a.m. Platinum Blonde (1931)

Wednesday, June 3/John Sturges

6 a.m. The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

9 a.m. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

11 a.m. Hour of the Gun (1967)

12:45 p.m. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

3:15 p.m. Ice Station Zebra (1968)

6 p.m. Sergeants 3 (1962)

Wednesday, June 3/King Vidor

8 p.m. The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)

9 p.m. The Crowd (1928)

10:45 p.m. The Champ (1931)

12:15 a.m. Duel in the Sun (1946)

2:45 a.m. The Fountainhead (1949)

4:45 a.m. Our Daily Bread (1934)

Thursday, June 4/Sam Wood

6 a.m. The Stratton Story (1949)

8 a.m. Kings Row (1942)

10:15 a.m. Casanova Brown (1944)

12 p.m. Kitty Foyle (1940)

2 p.m. Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)

4 p.m. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

6 p.m. A Day at the Races (1937)

Thursday, June 4/Ingmar Bergman

8 p.m. The Dick Cavett Show: Ingmar Bergman (1971)

9 p.m. The Seventh Seal (1957)

10:45 p.m. Wild Strawberries (1957)

12:30 a.m. Persona (1966)

2 a.m. The Hour of the Wolf (1968)

3:45 a.m. The Passion of Anna (1969)

Friday, June 5/Carol Reed

6 a.m. The Key (1958)

8:15 a.m. The Running Man (1963)

10 a.m. Our Man in Havana (1960)

12 p.m. The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

2:30 p.m. The Man Between (1953)

4:15 p.m. The Fallen Idol (1948)

6 p.m. The Third Man (1949)

Friday, June 5/Steven Spielberg

8 p.m. Spielberg on Spielberg (2007)

9:30 p.m. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

12:30 a.m. Sugarland Express (1974)

2:30 a.m. 1941 (1979)

4:30 a.m. Duel (1971)

Saturday, June 6/William Wyler

6 a.m. Dead End (1937)

7:45 a.m. These Three (1936)

9:30 a.m. The Little Foxes (1941)

11:30 a.m. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

2 p.m. Ben-Hur (1959)

6 p.m. Jezebel (1938)

8 p.m. The Letter (1940)

9:45 p.m. Roman Holiday (1953)

12 a.m. The Children’s Hour (1961)

2 a.m. Funny Girl (1968)

4:45 a.m. Hells Heroes (1930)

Sunday, June 7/Michael Curtiz

6 a.m. Night and Day (1946)

8:15 a.m. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

10 a.m. Captains of the Clouds (1942)

12 p.m. Four’s a Crowd (1938)

2 p.m. Dodge City (1939)

4 p.m. Captain Blood (1935)

6:15 p.m. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

8 p.m. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

10:30 p.m. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

12:30 a.m. Mildred Pierce (1945)

2:30 a.m. Casablanca (1942)

4:30 a.m. Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Jack Lemmon, depressed and cold, in Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" (1960)
Monday, June 8/Fritz Lang

6 a.m. Hangmen Also Die (1943)

8:30 a.m. Human Desire (1954)

10:30 a.m. Clash By Night (1952)

12:30 p.m. Fury (1936)

2:30 p.m. Western Union (1941)

4:30 p.m. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

6:15 p.m. The Big Heat (1953)

Monday, June 8/Stanley Donen

8 p.m. Private Screenings: Stanley Donen (2006)

9 p.m. On the Town (1949)

10:45 p.m. Royal Wedding (1951)

12:30 a.m. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

2:30 a.m. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

4:15 a.m. Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Tuesday, June 9/Michael Powell

6 a.m. I Know Where I’m Going (1945)

7:45 a.m. The Edge of the World (1937)

9 a.m. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

11:15 a.m. Night Ambush (1957)

1 p.m. A Matter of Life and Death (1947)

3 p.m. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

5:15 p.m. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Tuesday, June 9/Fred Zinnemann

8 p.m. High Noon (1952)

9:30 p.m. Oklahoma! (1955)

12 a.m. From Here to Eternity (1953)

2:15 a.m. The Member of the Wedding (1952)

4 a.m. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

Wednesday, June 10/George Sidney

6 a.m. Kiss Me Kate (1953)

8 a.m. Show Boat (1951)

10 a.m. The Harvey Girls (1946)

12 p.m. The Three Musketeers (1948)

2:15 p.m. Viva Las Vegas (1964)

4 p.m. Pal Joey (1957)

6 p.m. Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

Wednesday, June 10/Preston Sturges

8 p.m. The Lady Eve (1941)

10 p.m. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

12 a.m. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

2 a.m. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

4 a.m. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock/Mad Wednesday (1950)

Thursday, June 11/John Huston

6 a.m. In This Our Life (1942)

7:45 a.m. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

9:45 a.m. Annie (1982)

12 p.m. Moulin Rouge (1952)

2 p.m. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

3:45 p.m. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

6 p.m. The African Queen (1951)

Thursday, June 11/Akira Kurosawa

8 p.m. Seven Samurai (1954)

11:30 p.m. Kagemusha (1980)

2:45 a.m. Red Beard (1965)

Friday, June 12/Jacques Tourneur

6 a.m. Timbuktu (1959)

8 a.m. Nightfall (1956)

9:30 a.m. The Fearmakers (1958)

11 a.m. Berlin Express (1948)

12:30 p.m. Out of the Past (1947)

2:15 p.m. Curse of the Demon (1958)

4 p.m. The Leopard Man (1943)

5:15 p.m. I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

6:30 p.m. Cat People (1942)

Friday, June 12/Woody Allen

8 p.m. Woody Allen: A Life in Film (2002)

9:45 p.m. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

11:15 p.m. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

1:15 a.m. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

2:45 a.m. Interiors (1978)

4:30 a.m. Take the Money and Run (1969)

Saturday, June 13/Billy Wilder

6 a.m. Irma La Douce (1963)

8:30 a.m. The Apartment (1960)

10:45 a.m. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

1 p.m. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

3:30 p.m. Some Like it Hot (1959)

5:45 p.m. Kiss Me Stupid (1965)

8 p.m. The Fortune Cookie (1966)

10:15 p.m. Double Indemnity (1944)

12:15 a.m. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

2:15 a.m. Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

3:30 a.m. Avanti (1972)

Sunday, June 14/Howard Hawks

6 a.m. A Song is Born (1948)

8 a.m. Tiger Shark (1932)

9:30 a.m. Sergeant York (1941)

12 p.m. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

2 p.m. Twentieth Century (1934)

4 p.m. His Girl Friday (1940)

6 p.m. Ball of Fire (1941)

8 p.m. To Have and Have Not (1944)

10 p.m. The Big Sleep (1946)

12 a.m. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

2:15 a.m. Air Force (1943)

4:30 a.m. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Andy Griffin as Lonesome Rhodes in Elia Kzan's "A Face in the Crowd" (1957)
Monday, June 15/Clarence Brown
6 a.m. Anna Karenina (1935)

8 a.m. Anna Christie (1930)

9:45 a.m. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

11:15 a.m. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

1:30 p.m. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

3:30 p.m. National Velvet (1944)

5:45 p.m. The Yearling (1946)

Monday, June 15/Elia Kazan

8 p.m. Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey (1995)

9:30 p.m. On the Waterfront (1954)

11:30 p.m. East of Eden (1955)

1:30 a.m. Boomerang (1947)

3:30 a.m. A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Tuesday, June 16/Robert Wise

6 a.m. The Captive City (1952)

7:45 a.m. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

9:30 a.m. Somebody up There Likes Me (1956)

11:30 a.m. Executive Suite (1954)

1:30 p.m. Two For the Seesaw (1962)

3:45 p.m. I Want to Live! (1958)

6 p.m. The Haunting (1963)

Tuesday, June 16/Orson Welles

8 p.m. Citizen Kane (1941)

10:15 p.m. The Lady from Shanghai (1948)

12 a.m. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

1:45 a.m. Macbeth (1948)

3:45 a.m. The Trial (1963)

Wednesday, June 17/Tony Richardson

6 a.m. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

8:15 a.m. Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)

9:45 a.m. Ned Kelly (1970)

11:30 p.m. Hamlet (1969)

1:30 p.m. The Loved One (1965)

3:45 p.m. Tom Jones (1963)

6 p.m. The Entertainer (1960)

Wednesday, June 17/William Wellman

8 p.m. The Men Who Made the Movies: William Wellman (2006)

9 p.m. The Public Enemy (1931)

10:30 p.m. The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

12:30 a.m. Battleground (1949)

2:45 a.m. A Star is Born (1937)

4:45 a.m. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

Thursday, June 18/Jules Dassin

6 a.m. Phaedra (1962)

8:15 a.m. Reunion in France (1942)

10:15 a.m. A Letter for Evie (1945)

12 p.m. The Canterville Ghost (1944)

2 p.m. Naked City (1948)

4 p.m. Topkapi (1964)

6:15 p.m. Brute Force (1947)

Thursday, June 18/Francois Truffaut

8 p.m. Jules and Jim (1962)

10 p.m. The 400 Blows (1959)

12 a.m. The Bride Wore Black (1968)

2 a.m. Small Change (AKA Pocket Money) (1976)

4 a.m. The Wild Child (1970)

Friday, June 19/Blake Edwards

6 a.m. Bring Your Smile Along (1955)

7:30 a.m. Experiment in Terror (1962)

10 a.m. The Carey Treatment (1972)

12 a.m. Victor/Victoria (1982)

2:15 p.m. The Party (1968)

4 p.m. A Shot in the Dark (1964)

6 p.m. The Pink Panther (1964)

Friday, June 19/Martin Scorsese

8 p.m. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

10 p.m. Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)

11:30 p.m. The King of Comedy (1983)

1:30 a.m. GoodFellas (1990)

4 a.m. Mean Streets (1973)

Saturday, June 20/Mervyn LeRoy

6 a.m. Elmer the Great (1933)

7:15 a.m. I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

9 a.m. Little Caesar (1930)

10:30 a.m. Madame Curie (1943)

1 p.m. Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

3 p.m. Anthony Adverse (1936)

5:30 p.m. The Devil at 4 O’Clock (1961)

8 p.m. Random Harvest (1942)

10:15 p.m. The Bad Seed (1956)

12:30 a.m. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

3 a.m. Quo Vadis (1951)

Sunday, June 21/Vincente Minnelli

6 a.m. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

8 a.m. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

10 a.m. The Band Wagon (1953)

12 p.m. An American in Paris (1951)

2 p.m. Gigi (1958)

4:15 p.m. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

6 p.m. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

8 p.m. Father of the Bride (1950)

9:45 p.m. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

11:15 p.m. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

1:15 a.m. Lust For Life (1956)

3:30 a.m. Some Came Running (1958)
Dean Martin as the initimitable Bama Dillert, professional gambler, in Vincinte Minnelli's "Some Came Running"(1958)
Monday, June 22/Edward Dmytryk

6 a.m. The Devil Commands (1941)

7:15 a.m. The Sniper (1952)

8:45 a.m. The End of the Affair (1955)

10:45 a.m. Raintree County (1957)

2 p.m. Alvarez Kelly (1966)

4 p.m. The Caine Mutiny (1954)

6:15 p.m. Back to Bataan (1945)

Monday, June 22/George Stevens

8 p.m. George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1984)

10 p.m. Shane (1953)

12 a.m. A Place in the Sun (1951)

2:15 a.m. Swing Time (1936)

4 a.m. Gunga Din (1939)

Tuesday, June 23/Otto Preminger

6 a.m. Bonjour Tristesse (1957)

8 a.m. Exodus (1960)

11:30 a.m. Angel Face (1953)

1:15 p.m. A Royal Scandal (1945)

3:15 p.m. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

6 p.m. Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)

Tuesday, June 23/Ernst Lubitsch

8 p.m. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

10 p.m. Ninotchka (1939)

12 a.m. The Merry Widow (1934)

2 a.m. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

4 a.m. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Wednesday, June 24/W.S. Van Dyke

6 a.m. Marie Antoinette (1938)

8:45 a.m. Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)

10:30 a.m. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)

12 p.m. Naughty Marietta (1935)

2 p.m. San Francisco (1936)

4 p.m. The Thin Man (1934)

6 p.m. After the Thin Man (1936)

Wednesday, June 24/Stanley Kubrick

8 p.m. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

10:30 p.m. Dr. Strangelove (1963)

12:15 a.m. Lolita (1962)

3 a.m. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Thursday, June 25/Budd Boetticher

6 a.m. One Mysterious Night (1944)

7:15 a.m. Escape in the Fog (1945)

8:30 a.m. Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)

10 a.m. The Killer is Loose (1956)

11:30 a.m. Comanche Station (1960)

1 p.m. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

2:30 p.m. Ride Lonesome (1959)

4 p.m. Decision at Sundown (1957)

5:30 p.m. Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)

Thursday, June 25/Federico Fellini

8 p.m. La Strada (1954)

10 p.m. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

12:30 a.m. Satyricon (1970)

2:45 a.m. Roma (1972)

5 a.m. The Magic of Fellini (2002)

Friday, June 26/David Lean

6 a.m. Madeleine (1950)

8 a.m. The Passionate Friends (1949)

10 a.m. Great Expectations (1946)

12 p.m. Brief Encounter (1945)

1:30 p.m. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

5 p.m. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Friday, June 26/Norman Jewison

8 p.m. Private Screenings: Norman Jewison (2007)

9 p.m. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

11 p.m. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

1 a.m. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

4:15 a.m. A Soldier’s Story (1984)

Saturday, June 27/Alfred Hitchcock

6 a.m. The Dick Cavett Show: Alfred Hitchcock (1972)

7:15 a.m. Suspicion (1941)

9 a.m. Rebecca (1940)

11:15 a.m. Spellbound (1945)

1:15 p.m. Marnie (1964)

3:30 p.m. Psycho (1960)

5:30 p.m. North by Northwest (1959)

8 p.m. Notorious (1946)

10 p.m. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

12:15 a.m. Rear Window (1954)

2:15 a.m. Vertigo (1958)

4:30 a.m. The 39 Steps (1935)

Sunday, June 28/George Cukor

6 a.m. Camille (1936)

8 a.m. Dinner at Eight (1933)

10 a.m. David Copperfield (1935)

12:15 p.m. Adam’s Rib (1949)

2:15 p.m. Gaslight (1944)

4:15 p.m. The Marrying Kind (1952)

6 p.m. Born Yesterday (1950)

8 p.m. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

10 p.m. The Women (1939)

12:30 a.m. My Fair Lady (1964)

3:30 a.m. Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Monday, June 29/Sidney Lumet

6 a.m. Stage Struck (1958)

8 a.m. The Deadly Affair (1966)

10 a.m. The Fugitive Kind (1960)

12:15 p.m. Private Screenings: Sidney Lumet (2005)

1:15 p.m. The Hill (1965)

3:30 p.m. The Group (1966)

6 p.m. Fail Safe (1964)

Monday, June 29/Cecil B. DeMille

8 p.m. Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)

10 p.m. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

12:45 a.m. Cleopatra (1934)

2:30 a.m. The King of Kings (1927)

4:30 a.m. The Cheat (1915)

Tuesday, June 30/Robert Z. Leonard

6 a.m. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

9:15 a.m. The Divorcee (1930)

11 a.m. Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)

1:30 p.m. Maytime (1937)

4 p.m. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

6 p.m. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Tuesday, June 30/Anthony Mann

8 p.m. The Man from Laramie (1955)

10 p.m. Strategic Air Command (1955)

12 a.m. Man of the West (1958)

1:45 a.m. Cimarron (1960)

4:15 a.m. The Last Frontier (1956)

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