TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 27: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 19: Foreign Language Film

[CBHagman]

Oh, this is a phenomenal schedule!

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

2:30 AM Destination Moon (1950)
A crusading scientist defies the government to launch an expedition to the moon.
Dir: Irving Pichel Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:15 AM Tom Thumb (1958)
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Dir: George Pal Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 AM Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A mysterious woman spends her time preventing her home from being swallowed by sand dunes.
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Cast: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N

8:30 AM The Shop on Main Street (1965)
A Slovak carpenter gets a job working for an elderly, deaf Jewish woman in a button shop during World War II. The two form a friendship, and he tries to protect her when the Nazis arrive for the deportation of all Jewish citizens.
Dir: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos Cast: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarik
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

10:45 AM The Firemen's Ball (1967)
A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.
Dir: Milos Forman Cast: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: N

12:00 PM The Virgin Spring (1960)
A medieval knight seeks revenge when his daughter is murdered.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

1:45 PM The Last Metro (1980)
In occupied Paris, the Jewish manager of a theatre hides in the cellar of the building.
Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

4:00 PM Mon Oncle (1958)
A bumbler who prefers the simple life takes on the newfangled gadgets in his nephew's home.
Dir: Jacques Tati Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: N

6:00 PM Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school harbors Jewish children during the Nazi occupation.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

What's on Tonight: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 19: Foreign Language Film

8:00 PM 8 1/2 (1963)
A film director, suffering from a lack of creative inspiration, retreats into a world of fantasies and remembrances of the women in his past and present.
Dir: Federico Fellini Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

10:30 PM Babette's Feast (1987)
A French refugee in Denmark transforms the lives of the elderly women for whom she works.
Dir: Gabriel Axel Cast: Sttphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N

12:30 AM Indochine (1992)
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Dir: Régis Wargnier Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham
Runtime: 159 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:

3:15 AM Sundays and Cybèle (1962)
Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Dir: Serge Bourguignon Cast: Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Nicole Courcel
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC:

5:15 AM Closely Watched Trains (1967)
A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
Dir: Jirí Menzel Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: N

[yorkster]

1. Thank you. What a list. Got some recording to do.

[Auggie]

2. Yay -- been wanting to see 8 1/2

Saw it as a teen and it went way over my head.

[JoseBalow]

3. Closely Watched Trains is a really great film

from the Czech new wave era. I enjoyed it so much when I first saw it years ago. I can't wait to watch it again!

"I like to try horses from both sides."

The Firemen's Ball is also a wonderful treat from the Czech new wave, by director Milos Forman (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).