TCM Schedule for Sunday, February 24 - 31 Days of Oscar: Columbia Pictures

[Bolo Boffin]

You may want to go to a local movie house and buy a huge bag of popcorn for today. A lot of epic movies this Sunday!


6:30 AM
The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn.
C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


9:30 AM
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.
C-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:30 PM
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

A British military officer enlists the Arabs for desert warfare in World War I.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn.
C-227 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


4:30 PM
Gandhi (1982)

The legendary Indian leader uses peaceful means to free his homeland from British rule.
Dir: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud.
C-191 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


TONIGHT ON TCM
31 DAYS OF OSCAR – COLUMBIA PICTURES

8:00 PM
Tootsie (1982)

An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.
Dir: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman.
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting.
Dir: Robert Benton
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry.
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


12:15 AM
Awakenings (1990)

A doctor's experiments bring a group of comatose patients back to consciousness.
Dir: Penny Marshall
Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner.
C-121 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


2:30 AM
Midnight Express (1978)

A young man arrested for drug smuggling fights to survive the horrors of a Turkish prison.
Dir: Alan Parker
Cast: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, Bo Hopkins.
C-121 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format


4:45 AM
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

A modern married couple attempts to lure their best friends into an exploration of the liberated lifetsyles of the late 60s.
Dir: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould.
C-105 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

[graham4anything]

1. TCM should go dark during the Oscars as a tribute to the movies.

With maybe a taped Robert Osborne saying TCM will be here soon as the Oscars are over.

BTW, I love Robert Osborne. When he was ill, TCM was just not the same.
Wish him many more years at TCM.

[CBHagman]

2. I would object to that.

I no longer have cable and will be watching the Oscars, at least when I have the time, this evening, but I see no reason to shut down one of the few decent cable stations in the United States. Besides, aren't there movie fans who prefer tonight's line-up to this year's crop of nominees?

And don't get me started on Academy Awards shows. I've seen a few that were genuinely memorable (1993, with the Chuck Workman compilation of clips featuring women's roles in the movies, as well as Emma Thompson's win for Howards End, is a standout), but I've also stood aghast in the living room while disasters like the the production number featuring Rob Lowe and Snow White unfolded before the horrified eyes of viewers around the globe.

This year I am not hopeful, given the abomination that was the announcement of the nominees' names. Emma Stone did a poor job, but Seth MacFarlane was tedious, offensive, and unfunny...and this year he gets to host the show.

[graham4anything]

3. Johnny Carson was the best host.

Billy Crystal I liked the monologue, but he always seemed to disappear as the night went on.
(there were exceptions).

Bob Hope was good too, however, as the years wore on, so did his jokes.

Always wondered how Nicholson would have done as host in his prime.

I can understand why Seth was chose, and will withhold judgement

Of course none of the movies this year, with the exception of Lincoln would stand up 40 years ago, or 40 years from now.
Liked the Artist last year, La Vie En Rose a few years ago.

As a fan of older musicals like Show Boat, that had 15 great songs in it.
Les Mis has basically 2 (as do most of today's newer musicals IMHO (that ALW dumbed down).
Would take the Lion King or Beauty and Beast over Les Mis.

Yesterday was watching a not so famous William Powell movie w/ Myrna Loy.
Powell was yet another that never won the Oscar.

[graham4anything]

4. Upon watching the show, I must say you are 100% correct

This was the worst show ever, Seth the worst host ever.

And the choices worst ever. (Except for DD Lewis and best foreign film and long documentary.

[Hayabusa]

5. Watched Kramer vs. Kramer for the first time last night

Damn good movie.