Turner Classic Movies Is Holding A Classic Film Festival Online: Check Out The Schedule

While we’re all stuck inside, we’ve been finding ways to keep ourselves entertained. One beautiful thing that’s developed as a result of this? People are turning to TV shows and especially movies, more than ever. For the last few weeks, I’ve been writing articles rounding up classic and essential films you can finally get around to watching (and stop only pretending you’ve watched) now that you have more time:

But Turner Classic Movies also has the same idea, and it’s doing something very cool: the TCM Classic Film Festival: Special Home Edition.

Beginning on Thursday, April 16th at 8pm EST/5pm PST and running through Sunday, April 19th on the TCM Channel, it will feature classic films that have been screened at TCM Classic Film Festivals in the past, special guests and plenty of fascinating events in between the movies.

Here’s the full schedule for you cinephiles or anyone wanting to brush up on their film knowledge:

Thursday, April 16

8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST – A Star is Born (1954)

Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford

A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

11:00pm EST/8pm PST – Metropolis (1927)

Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frölich

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

1:45am EST/10:45pm PST – Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2011)

2:30am EST/11:30pm PST – The Good Earth (1937)

Directors: Sidney Franklin (credited); Victor Fleming, Gustav Machaty, Sam Wood (uncredited)
Starring: Paul Muni, Luise, Rainer, Walter Connolly

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

5:00am EST/2:00am PST – Neptune’s Daughter (1949)

Director: Edward Buzzell
Starring: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn

A swimsuit fashion designer is determined to protect her scatterbrained sister from a South American heart-breaker, but a case of mistaken identity complicates matters.

Friday, April 17

6:45am EST/3:45am PST – The Seventh Seal (1957)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Nils Poppe, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

8:30am EST/5:30pm PST – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr.

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

10:30am EST/7:30am PST – Sounder (1972)

Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

12:30pm EST/9:30am EST – A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison

Over two “typical” days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney’s mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live television performance.

2:00pm EST/11:00am PST – Eva Marie Saint: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2014)

3:15pm EST/12:15pm PST – North by Northwest (1959)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Martin Landau

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.

5:45pm EST/2:45pm PST – Some Like it Hot (1959)

Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

8:00pm EST/5pm PST – Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015)

Director: Daniel Raim
Starring: Lillian Michaelson, Harold Michaelson, Mel Brooks, Danny DeVito, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock

Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told-until now.

10:00pm EST/7:00pm PST – Deliverance (1972)

Director: John Boorman
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they’ll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

12:00am EST/9:00pm PST – The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Director: Jack Arnold
Starring: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

1:30am EST/10:30pm PST – Grey Gardens (1975)

Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
Starring: Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Norman Vincent Peale

An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.

3:15am EST/12:15am PST – Night Flight (1933)

Director: Clarence Brown
Starring: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine where it’s desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

5:00am EST/2:00am PST – Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2013)

Saturday, April 18

6:00am EST/3:00am PST – The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Darren McGavin, Arnold Stang

A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.

8:00am EST/5:00am PST – Mad Love (1935)

Director: Karl Freund
Starring: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy

In France, an insane surgeon’s obsession with an actress from England leads him to replace her pianist husband’s hands that got mangled in an accident with the hands of a late knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives.

9:15am EST/6:15am PST – Double Harness (1933)

Director: John Cromwell
Starring: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucille Browne, Henry Stephenson, Lilian Bond, George Meeker

A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

10:30am EST/7:30am PST: Vitaphone Shorts

Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929)
Don’t Get Nervous (1929)
Lambchops (1929)

11:00am EST/8:00am PST – Sergeant York (1941)

Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

1:30pm EST/10:30am PST – Safety Last! (1923)

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

3:00pm EST/12:00pm PST – They Live by Night (1949)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

4:45pm EST/1:45pm PST – Faye Dunaway: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2017)

5:45pm EST/2:45pm PST – Network (1976)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, John Carpenter

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST – Casablanca (1942)

Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet

A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.

10:00pm EST/7:00pm PST – The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Directors: Orson Welles (credited); Fred Fleck, Robert Wise (uncredited)
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

11:45pm EST/8:45pm PST – Night and the City (1950)

Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

1:30am EST/10:30pm PST – Norman Lloyd: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2016)

2:30am EST/11:30pm PST – The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

4:15am EST/1:15am PST – The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz

In 1431, Jeanne d’Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

Sunday, April 19

6:00am EST/3:00am PST – Jezebel (1938)

Director: William Wyler
Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

7:45am EST/4:45am PST – The Set-Up (1949)

Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford

Because aging boxer Bill Thompson always lost his past fights, his corrupt manager, without telling Thompson, takes bribes from a betting gangster, to ensure Thompson’s pre-arranged dive-loss in the next match.

9:00am EST/6:00am PST – Peter O’Toole: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2012)

10:00am EST/7:00am PST – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Director: David Lean
Starring: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, José Ferrer

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

2:00pm EST/11:00am PST – Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Director: Jack Conway
Starring: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams

Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man.

3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST – Auntie Mame (1958)

Director: Morton DaCosta
Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark

An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father’s estate objects to the aunt’s lifestyle.

6:00pm EST/3:00pm PST – Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Jean Hagen

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST – Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016)

Directors: Michael Fiore, Erik Sharkey
Starring: Floyd Norman, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dini

Animator. Storyman. Troublemaker. At 80 years old, see how Disney Legend Floyd Norman, the first African-American animator at Disney, continues to impact animation and stir up “trouble” after the company forced him to retire at age 65.

9:45pm EST/6:45pm PST – The Hustler (1961)

Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

12:15am EST/9:15pm PST – Baby Face (1933)

Director: Alfred E. Green
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, John Wayne

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.

1:45am EST/10:45pm PST – Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)

Director: King Vidor
Starring: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy, Lionel Belmore

Rafael Sabatini’s story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardelys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to…and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

3:30am EST/12:30am PST – Victor Victoria (1982)

Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies, Robert Preston

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Even though the physical film fest was canceled and it’s always better to see a movie in a theater than on a TV or laptop screen, it’s still great knowing we can watch it in some way.

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