If by some act of divine providence (or more likely, malevolent nihilism) I was made master programmer for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to schedule one week’s prime time evening programming, here are my choices:
Sunday Night of Imagination
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
The Neverending Story (1984)
Time Bandits (1981)
Monday Night of Remakes and Originals
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina (1995)
Tuesday’s Long Night of Noir
The Long Night (1947)
The Third Man (1947)
Force of Evil (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Too Late For Tears (1949)
Brute Force (1947)
The Killers (1946)
Wednesday Dieselpunk Utopias and Dystopias
Brazil (1985)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Things to Come (1936)
Dark City (1998)
Thursday’s Long Night of Noir Deux
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Detour (1946)
This Gun For Hire (1943)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Quicksand (1950)
Key Largo (1948)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Friday Night Entrepreneur Heroes
An American Romance (1944)
The Fountainhead (1949)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Saturday Night Pre-Code Paradise (and More)
Baby Face (1933)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Dante’s Inferno (1935)
Night Nurse (1931)
Fury (1936)
9:47 am on July 6, 2017
