Turner Classic Movies’s Oscar Month

[CoolBlue71]

This Sunday, February 24, 2019, is Oscar Night on ABC.

I have been watching some films from Turner Classic Movies that are reminding me why I love the movies. (Well, I loved them more in the past.)

Over the last couple weeks, and with some use of TCM’s app, “Watch TCM,” among the titles I enjoyed: Lassie Come Home (1943), Travels with My Aunt (1972), The Sunshine Boys (1975, Oscar for best supporting actor George Burns), A Little Romance (1979, Oscar for original score to Georges Delerue), and, from the linear channel itself, Philadelphia (1993, Oscars for best actor Tom Hanks and original song “Streets of Philadelphia’ for Bruce Springsteen). I am intending to watch A Man for All Seasons, the 1966 winner for best picture (along with others, including director Fred Zinnemann and actor Paul Scofield).

Has anyone here been spending some time, in the month of Oscar, with Turner Classic Movies?

If yes, watch have you watched?

 

[scrapple]

I've watched movies I've missed over the years, which turned out to be very good. Captains Courageous, which won Spencer Tracy the first of his back-to-back Oscars (he didn't deserve it, but Freddie Bartholomew was great!) and The Private Life Of Henry the VIII, which took an unusual approach : of his six wives, he really only deals with 2 (Anne Of Cleves, Catherine Howard). He has no scenes at all with his most famous wife, Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon).

 

[joesman]

I caught Casablanca the other day and it is a really great film.