Another of the TCM spotlights this month -- well, longer than this month -- is called Two for One. Debuting tonight, April 6, it claims to look at the popularity of the double feature.
They'll be doing this by bringing in a series of moviemakers from various parts of the movie business and having them sit down with Ben Mankiewicz to present a double feature of their own choosing, presumably explaining why the two movies put together would make for a good double feature. There will be 12 or 13 of these, every Saturday in prime time through June. The TCM website says 13 consecutive Saturdays, but there's no listing for May 25 as that's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend which has tended to be given over to war movies.
Anyhow, the series begins tonight with director Martin Scorsese picking (a perfectly appropriate word; don't get me started on the TCM site's use of the word "curated") two films, both from 1948: Blood on the Moon at 8:00 PM, followed by One Touch of Venus at 9:45 PM.
Personally, I'd love to have seen somebody with the guts to select a double feature of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner followed by Soylent Green.
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