Every year, TCM does a year-end TCM Remembers piece to commemorate all the movie-related people who died over the past year. Also in December, they've been running a night of movies where each one features a different person who died over the preceding twelve months and who didn't necessarily merit a longer programming tribute. That night of movies airs tonight, into tomorrow morning, and honors six people:
8:00 PM Le Samouraï, with the late Alain Delon as a hired killer in 1960 Paris;
10:00 PM 3 Women, a new-to-me Robert Altman film about three female roommates, including one played by Shelley Duvall;
12:15 AM Blood Simple, honoring M. Emmett Walsh who here plays another hired killer;
2:15 AM Lola, with Anouk Aimée as a married singer who gets involved with two men not her husband;
4:15 AM Romance on the High Seas, starring Janis Paige as a woman who tricks her husband who thinks she might be being unfaithful; and
6:00 AM Fighting Father Dunne, a Boys Town-like story including Darryl Hickman as one of the boys
TCM couldn't really have added any more movies to the tribute even if they wanted to, since the block comes up against the Saturday Matinee block. Following that, at noon on December 28, is the Saturday musical, which I really want to mention because it's Xanadu. Yeah, it's a movie that notoriously bombed at the box office, but it's a fun disaster, and one that you really should watch just once if you've never seen it before.
And since I mentioned the annual TCM Remembers piece, that's been playing for a week or so now, and is also up on YouTube:
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