ON TCM

A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.

World premiere of a new restoration by the Louis de Rochemont estate, presented by Flicker Alley. A man finds himself responsible for laying off employees in a small New Hampshire town when he becomes the manager of a manufacturing plant.

TCM premiere of recent 4K restoration from the original nitrate technicolor negative. Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.

Sophia Loren discusses her career with her son Edoardo Ponti and a live audience at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Two English ex-soldiers leave British-ruled India for a remote part of Afghanistan in order to become kings.

Television premiere. SF Sketchfest Presents a table read of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959), adapted by comedian Dana Gould and featuring Maria Bamford, Bobcat Goldthwait, Oscar Nuñez, Laraine Newman, Bob Odenkirk, David Koechner, Janet Varney, Jonah Ray, Paul F. Tompkins, Gary Anthony Williams, Baron Vaughn, Deborah Baker Jr. and Kat Aagesen.

Residents of California’s San Fernando Valley are under attack by flying saucers from outer space.

A square British exchange student turns hip motorcyclist to woo a cool girl in his 1961 high school.

A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.

World broadcast premiere presentation of Bill Morrison’s experimental short featuring decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928). Co-presented by The Los Angeles Opera with composer David Lang and soprano Angel Blue. Special thanks to the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Documentary about the life and career of animator and director Frederick Bean “Tex” Avery.

Compilation of cartoons directed by Tex Avery during his years at MGM. Featured cartoons: Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), Bad Luck Blackie (1949), Deputy Droopy (1955), Screwball Squirrel (1944), King-Size Canary (1947), T.V. of Tomorrow (1953) and Symphony in Slang (1955).

TCM premiere. A private detective is hired by a politician to check on his wife’s background.

Two aging ex-lawmen, who’ve lived high and powerful, are reduced to guarding a gold shipment and engage in bitterness amongst themselves.

TCM premiere of this documentary about the influential comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Four of their radio sketches have been re-created with new animation created especially for the program.

Film version of Edward Albee’s Broadway hit about a sullen academic and his domineering, often scathing wife at twenty years into a marriage torn between great love and bitter hatred.

A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.

When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.

World premiere of a recent 4K restoration from the nitrate film. This restoration returns the film to its original 95 minutes thanks to the return of 15 minutes of original footage cut by RKO at the film’s reissue in the 1950s.  A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.

The story of jazz singer Billie Holiday: from her early life of poverty and abuse, through her successful career and eventual downfall from heroin addiction.

In late 1950s Baltimore, six guys in their early twenties are stumbling into adulthood, balancing responsibility with carefree time together at their local diner.

Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating interviews, piano performances and commentary in this broadcast special.

A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.

A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.

World television premiere of restored version. Based loosely on the stage play “Frankie and Johnny,” a Havana prostitute with a deadly pimp falls for a sailor.

A TV reporter investigates the goings on in a shoddy nuclear power plant and ends up against more than she bargained for.

World television premiere restoration. A French novelist passes off a Tunisian shepherdess as royalty to get back at his cheating wife.

After her sheriff husband is killed, a Texas woman tires to make ends meet for her family during the depression by raising cotton and taking in boarders, one of whom is a blind man.

A warm, sentimental tale of the trials and tribulations of a family of Norwegian immigrants and the strong, big-hearted mother who holds them all together.

Randy Haberkamp and Lynne Kirste of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will share home movie treasures from the Academy Film Archive’s collection and exclusive conversations with Oscar winner Shirley Jones and Tony Nicholas, son of Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers.

World premiere restoration featuring a new score by composer Ben Model. A married doctor falls for a dancer while his wife develops an attraction to the dancer’s husband.

Paula is a divorced mother and ex-Broadway dancer, who learns that her lover has left her only when aspiring actor Elliot arrives to sublet the apartment in the middle of the night. Their uneasy truce blossoms into love.

Five outstandingly gifted students at New York’s High School of Performing Arts are followed as they prepare for careers in show business. A budding singer, two actors, a dancer and a musician polish their crafts as they struggle to excel academically in the demanding school.

A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.

A female film director explores New York City while enduring demanding letters from her mother.

Short film where a panoramic scan of a room reveals the filmmaker partaking in various tasks in one room.