TCM Schedule for Sunday February 26, 2023 - Journalism in the Movies
Plus: Imports spotlights Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am The Blue Angel (1930)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-PG
A stodgy professor falls from grace when he's seduced by a nightclub singer.
Director: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
8:00 am Footlight Parade (1933)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
10:00 am Hunt the Man Down (1950)
1h 8m | Crime | TV-PG
A lawyer uncovers the secrets behind a decade-old murder case.
Director: George Archainbaud. Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
11:30 am Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
1h 37m | Romance | TV-PG
A female con artist masquerades as a boy to escape the police.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
1:15 pm Mr. Skeffington (1945)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-G
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
4:00 pm Brigadoon (1954)
1h 48m | Musical | TV-G
Two American hunters in Scotland discover a mystical village that only materializes once every century.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
6:00 pm Light in the Piazza (1962)
1h 41m | Romance | TV-PG
A woman's efforts to marry off her daughter are hindered by a family secret.
Director: Guy Green. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux
8:00 pm All The President's Men (1976)
2h 18m | Drama | TV-MA
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon's presidency.
Director: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
10:30 pm In My Country (2004)
1h 44m | Adaptation
An American journalist and a Afrikaner poet cover South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
Director: John Boorman. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
12:30 am Within Our Gates (1920)
1h 19m | Drama | TV-14
In this silent film, a black schoolteacher finds the battle against racism is everywhere when she goes North to raise money for better schools.
Director: Oscar Micheaux. Cast: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
2:00 am Fallen Angels (1995)
1h 35m | Crime
The ever-so-smooth Killer, a gun-for-hire, resigns from his job when he starts feeling the growing pressure from his beautiful boss, Agent, about his whereabouts.
Director: Wong Kar Wai. Cast: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Karen Mok
4:00 am Happy Together (1997)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-MA
A chamber drama about two male lovers from Hong Kong who start off seeking a new life but end up separating on their way to a waterfall in Argentina. Stuck in Buenos Aires, the two meet up again.
Director: Wong Kar Wai. Cast: Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen