Because Feb. is Oscar month TCM brings out many of the lumbering white elephants (to use critic Manny Farber's term) that routinely win Oscars. In some Februaries TCM has shown the more obscure (and usually better) films that were nominated but did not win; not so much this Feb. But there are some films by Lubitsch, John Ford and Hitchcock that, as always, I highly recommend.
Feb. 3 has Leo McCarey's genial Going My Way (1944) and Raoul Walsh's corrosive and perverse White Heat (1949).
Feb 10 has John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) and on the 11th Ford's Grapes of Wrath.
On Feb. 15 is Douglas Sirk's eye-popping and ironic Written on the Wind (1957)
On the 23rd is John Ford's Wee Willie Winkle (1931), life in colonial India as seen by a child (Shirley Temple)
On the 24th is Max Ophuls's elegant La Ronde(1950) and Jacques Demy's marvelous musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
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