I do tend to recommend the movies I like, especially if they haven't been on TCM before. If you do have any questions about any films on the Feb. schedule please send me an email and I will tell you what I know and/or think about it.
Feb. 5 has Budd Boetticher classic gangster film The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and Sam Peckinpah's classic Western Ride the High Country (1962).
Feb. 6 has Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), the best Holmes film, Alexander Mackendrick's corrosive The Sweet Smell of Success (1957), and Hitchcock's Rope (1948), shot in single takes.
Feb. 7 has Lubitsch's brilliant To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Feb. 8 has Vincente Minnelli's Hollywood melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).
Feb. 9: Fritz Lang's Clash by Night (1952)
Feb. 10: Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point (1950) and Frank Borzage's dark romance Moonrise (1948)
Feb. 11: Douglas Sirk's powerful soap opera/melodrama Written on the Wind (1947)
Feb. 13: Nicholas Ray's delirious Party Girl (1948)
Feb. 14: Preston Sturges's exquisitely funny The Lady Eve (1941)
Feb. 15: Chaplin's moving City Lights (1931) and Jacques Demy's unusual musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Feb. 16: Raoul Walsh's superb gangster film The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Feb. 19: Joseph H. Lewis's great film noir Gun Crazy (1950)
Feb. 21: Two wonderful Lubitsch films: Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Design for Living (1933)
Feb. 26: Luis Bunuel's masterly The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Feb. 28: Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937)
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