Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Michel Legrand and the TCM schedule

French movie composer Michel Legrand died on Saturday at the age of 86. He was a three-time Oscar winner and wrote scores for a whole bunch of movies, both in his native France and in Hollywood.

However, none of his Oscar-winning works is going to be on during 31 Days of Oscar, as far as I can tell: Legrand wrote the IMO terrible song "Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair that won in the best Original Song category, and the Oscar-winning scores from Summer of '42 and Yentl. None of those show up in this year's 31 Days of Oscar.

I did a text search of the TCM schedule for February, and also couldn't see his Hollywood work like Le Mans or Ice Station Zebra on the schedule. A lot of other stuff he's done has been on TCM infrequently, but not in the near future: Sweet November, the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, and F For Fake all come to mind.

The one movie that will be on during 31 Days of Oscar is The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which is going to be on TCM at 7:00 AM Sunday.

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