I didn't realize that today is the centenary of the birth of actor Paul Newman, and that TCM is running a half day of his movies. Otherwise, I probably would have done a post yesterday instead. Of the movies, the one that's most worth mentioning is what I believe is the TCM premiere of Nobody's Fool, at 10:15 PM.
TCM is only doing a half day for Newman because they're still running Silent Sunday Nights and TCM Imports. The silent film, at 12:15 AM overnight, is one I first blogged about in April, 2020, The Outlaw and His Wife, directed by Victor Sjöström when he was young, 40 years before acting in Wild Strawberries. One of the foreign films worth mentioning is Loves of a Blonde, early tomorrow morning at 4:15 AM. Hard to believe it's been nearly 15 years since I blogged about it.
Monday brings a full day of movies appropriate for Holocaust Remembrance Day. That includes a morning of documentaries, followed by the first narrative film of the day, Kirk Douglas in The Juggler at 2:45 PM Jan. 26. The Pawnbroker (8:00 PM) doesn't show up all that often, while I don't think I've seen The Man in the Glass Booth (1:00 AM Jan. 28) before; that one is loosely based on the forcible extradition and trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Over on FXM, a film back in the rotation that I blogged about ages ago is the fine World War II picture Sink the Bismarck!; that gets its next airing at 10:45 AM on Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Finally, I don't think I mentioned this obituary yet, but cartoonist/screenwriter Jules Feiffer died on January 17 at the age of 95. I'm not certain how many of his movies I saw, but the one I remember for unfortunately having major problems with was Little Murders, where all of the characters are very difficult to have any sympathy with. Apparently he also wrote the original play version of the movie Carnal Knowledge, which I actually haven't seen.
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