TCM Schedule for Friday, June 7, 2024: Directed By and Starring In / Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln and more)
Daytime: Actors directing? Directors acting? Some of the best are featured today.
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor.
Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he has received numerous accolades throughout his four decade career, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama.
He earned Academy Awards for his roles in My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Lincoln (2012). His other Oscar-nominated roles were in In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017).
Other notable films include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Crucible (1996), and The Boxer (1997). He retired from acting from 1997 to 2000, taking up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy. Although he returned to acting, he announced his retirement again in 2017.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
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6:15 AM | Hamlet (1948)
The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
Dir: Laurence Olivier | Cast: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney
9:00 AM | Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Comedy about a film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, who dreams of being a great detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton | Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
10:00 AM | City Lights (1931)
In this film, the Little Tramp tries to help a blind flower seller see again.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
11:45 AM | Mr. Arkadin, aka Confidential Report (1955)
An amnesiac tycoon hires a smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war Europe.
Dir: Orson Welles | Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
1:45 PM | Bananas (1971)
A New York nebbish gets mixed up in a South American revolution to impress the woman he loves.
Dir: Woody Allen | Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban
3:30 PM | Invitation to the Dance (1956)
Three stories told in dance.
Dir: Gene Kelly | Cast: Gene Kelly, Igor Youskevitch, Claire Sombert
5:30 PM | Yentl (1983)
A young Eastern European woman, circa 1904, disguises herself as a boy in order to study holy scripture.
Dir: Barbra Streisand | Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
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8:00 PM | Lincoln (2012)
Abraham Lincoln endeavors to ban slavery before the end of civil war.
Dir: Steven Spielberg | Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
10:45 PM | In the Name of the Father (1993)
A man's confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of him and his father.
Dir: Jim Sheridan | Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson
1:15 AM | My Left Foot (1989)
Drama of the life of Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, who learned to paint and write with his left foot.
Dir: Jim Sheridan | Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan
3:15 AM | My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
A Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
Dir: Stephen Frears | Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis