TCM pays tribute to Great Directors in June
August is Summer Under the Stars
on TCM. Every day is devoted to a different actor’s work.
But what about the directors who make these great movies? TCM will pay tribute to them in June.
TCM’s month-long Great Directors Festival will feature nearly 350 films from 52 of the silver screen’s best directors. Each weekday will be devoted to the work of two directors (one during the day, one during the night), while weekends will feature 24-hour tributes to directing giants.
Blake Edwards (pictured at right), who was born in Tulsa, will be one of the featured directors on June 19. His movie festival lineup features 1955′s “Bring Your Smile Along” (5 a.m.), 1962′s “Experiment in Terror” (6:30 a.m.), 1972′s “The Carey Treatment” (9 a.m.), 1982′s “Victor/Victoria” (11 a.m.), 1968′s “The Party” (1:15 p.m.), 1964′s “A Shot in the Dark” (3 p.m.) and 1964′s “The Pink Panther” (5 p.m.).
Also airing as part of the Great Directors festival will be documentaries about and interviews with famous directors.
–Penny TV
TCM’s Great Directors Festival Lineup
•• June 1 — Leo McCarey (day), John Ford (night)
•• June 2 — Victor Fleming (day), Frank Capra (night)
•• June 3 — John Sturges (day), King Vidoe (night)
•• June 4 — Sam Wood (day), Ingmar Bergman (night)
•• June 5 — Carol Reed (day), Steven Spielberg (night)
•• June 6 — William Wyler (all day)
•• June 7 — Michael Curtiz (all day)
•• June 8 — Fritz Lang (day), Stanley Donen (night)
•• June 10 — George Sidney (day), Preston Sturges (night)
•• June 11 — John Huston (day), Akira Kurosawa (night)
•• June 12 — Jacques Tourneur (day), Woody Allen (night)
•• June 13 — Billy Wilder (all day)
•• June 14 — Howard Hawks (all day)
•• June 15 — Clarence Brown (day), Elia Kazan (night)
•• June 16 — Robert Wise (day), Orson Welles (night)
•• June 17 — Tony Richardson (day), William A. Wellman (night)
•• June 18 — Jules Dassin (day), Francois Truffaut (night)
•• June 19 — Blake Edwards (day), Martin Scorsese (night)
•• June 20 — Mervyn LeRoy (all day)
•• June 21 — Vincente Minnelli (all day)
•• June 22 — Edward Dmytryk (day), George Stevens (night)
•• June 23 — Otto Preminger (day), Ernst Lubitsch (night)
•• June 24 — W.S. Van Dyke (day), Stanley Kubrick (night)
•• June 25 — Budd Boetticher (day), Federico Fellini (night)
•• June 26 — David Lean (day), Norman Jewison (night)
•• June 27 — Alfred Hitchcock (all day)
•• June 28 — George Cukor (all day)
•• June 29 — Sidney Lumet (day), Cecil B. DeMille (night)
•• June 30 — Robert Z. Leonard (day), Anthony Mann (night)
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