TCM Guest Programmer October 2017: Todd Haynes

After a hiatus of a couple months, TCM is bringing back Guest Programmers. I think one of the commenters on the TCM boards had mentioned this, but I don't pay too much attention to things like that. Anyhow, I was looking on the TCM website about a week ago, and I could swear that I didn't see any link to an article about the Guest Programmer. But then I looked up the weekly schedule and saw that the prime-time lineup for tonight was a Guest Programmer. This morning, sure enough, there was an article on the Guest Programmer.

Todd Haynes is a director who's been making movies for a quarter century or more, and he's clearly been selected in part because he's got a new movie coming out. Apparently, Haynes watched all of his selections because they'd be tangentially related to his movie, which involves children and scenes set in the 1920s. So his four movies are:

The Crowd at 8:00 PM, about a worker in a cube farm in 1920s New York who can't quite make it big;
Sounder at 10:00 PM; about a black family in 1930s Louisiana in which the father winds up in prison;
Night of the Hunter at midnight; in which Robert Mitchum wants the money that two children's father robbed from a bank and stuffed in the girl's doll; and
Walkabout at 2:00 AM, about children stranded in the Australian outback.