TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 5: New Waves Around the World: Italian Neo-Realism
What a schedule! 
TCM's daytime theme is '50s Minnelli & Ray. Tonight's prime time schedule kicks off a month of Tuesdays devoted to international New Wave cinema. October's going to be awesome! 
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
12:00 AM
Songwriter (1984)
1h 34m | Drama
A singer-songwriter sets out to break his record company contract.
Director
Alan Rudolph
Cast
Kate Cadenhead, Gailard Sartain, Grady Martin
1:45 AM
A Star Is Born (1976)
2h 20m | Musical | TV-MA
A fast-rising singer tries to put a has-been rocker back on top.
Director
Frank R. Pierson
Cast
Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
4:15 AM
Hootenanny Hoot (1963)
1h 31m | Musical | TV-G
Television producers discover country/western music at a small-town college.
Director
Gene Nelson
Cast
Peter Breck, Ruta Lee, Joby Baker
6:00 AM
The Cobweb (1955)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-PG
Inmates and staff at a posh asylum clash over love and lunacy.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer
8:15 AM
The Band Wagon (1953)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
10:15 AM
Party Girl (1958)
1h 39m | Crime | TV-PG
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Director
Nicholas Ray
Cast
Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
12:00 PM
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students...
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
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2:15 PM
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
1h 51m | Drama | TV-PG
The landmark teen film that solidified Dean's image with the public, follows the story of Jim Stark ...
Director
Nicholas Ray
Cast
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
4:15 PM
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll
6:15 PM
In a Lonely Place (1950)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-PG
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Director
Nicholas Ray
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: NEW WAVES AROUND THE WORLD: ITALIAN NEO-REALISM
8:00 PM
Open City (1946)
1h 42m | War | TV-PG
Towards the end of WWII, Italian underground workers stand up to the Nazis.
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Cast
Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
10:00 PM
La Strada (1954)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
Director
Federico Fellini
Cast
Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart
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12:00 AM
The Sound of Trumpets (1961)
1h 38m | Drama | TV-PG
A young man finishes school and heads for Milan, takes his employment tests, and gets a job at large industrial company.
Director
Ermanno Olmi
Cast
Sandro Panzeri, Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich
1:45 AM
Eclipse (1962)
2h 5m | Drama | TV-PG
After growing jaded from troubled relationships, a woman chooses a life of solitude.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast
Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
4:00 AM
I Knew Her Well (1965)
Drama | TV-MA
A country girl gets into the movies only to discover the corruption beneath the glitter.
Director
Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast
Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
6:15 AM
Mamma Roma (1962)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-14
A streetwalker tries to save her son from a life of crime.
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti