TCM Schedule for Monday February 13, 2023 - Academy Museum: Agnes Varda

Daytime has wall-to-wall Bowery Boys; at night a salute to Agnes Varda.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Bowery Bombshell (1946)
1h 5m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys tackle gangsters to clear one of their own from a bogus robbery charge.
Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan

7:15 am Spook Busters (1946)
1h 8m | Comedy | TV-G
When they set themselves up as ghost hunters, the Bowery Boys tangle with a mad scientist.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille

8:30 am Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
1h 6m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys head west and land themselves in hot water.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan

9:45 am Jinx Money (1948)
1h 8m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys find a dead gangster's loot as well as the mob out to get it back.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

11:00 am Rooftops of Manhattan (1935)
21m | Short | TV-PG
This presents several musical performances set in a rooftop nightclub in Manhattan.
Director: Joseph Henabery. Cast: Edith Helena, Bob Burns, Jack Conway

11:30 am Bowery Battalion (1951)
1h 9m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys join the Army to catch a spy ring.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Donald Macbride

12:45 pm No Holds Barred (1952)
1h 5m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys enter the wrestling world when one of them develops superhuman powers.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Marjorie Reynolds

2:00 pm Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City (1949)
20m | Short | TV-PG
This short film explores the history, architecture, and people of Manhattan.
Director: James H Smith. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Mrs. Nicholas M. Schenck

2:30 pm Jalopy (1953)
1h 2m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys enter an auto race when one of them invents a new super gas.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey

3:45 pm This Is the Bowery (1941)
10m | Short | TV-G
This short film focuses on a man entering the Bowery district in New York City, and his attempt to "clean up" and find work.
Director: Gunther Von Fritsch. Cast: John Nesbitt, Charles St. John, Daniele Amfitheatror

4:00 pm The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
1h 6m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys battle a family of mad scientists.
Director: Edward Bernds. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey

5:15 pm Daybreak Express (1953)
5m | Documentary | TV-G
A five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker. Cast: Duke Ellington

5:30 pm Spook Chasers (1957)
1h 2m | Comedy | TV-PG
The Bowery Boys go after crooks hiding in a haunted house.
Director: George Blair. Cast: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Darlene Fields

6:45 pm Bowery to Bagdad (1955)
1h 4m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys unleash an Arabian nightmare when they find Aladdin's magic lamp.
Director: Edward Bernds. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey

8:00 pm Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-14
This film concentrates on two hours in the life of a French singer waiting on the results of a cancer test.
Director: Agnes Varda. Cast: Corrine Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blank

9:45 pm Le Bonheur (1965)
1h 27m | Drama | TV-MA
A married young carpenter tries to make his mistress part of his family.
Director: Agnes Varda. Cast: Jean-claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Sandrine Drouot

11:15 pm Black Panthers (1968)
Documentary | TV-PG
Interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
Director: Agnes Varda. Cast: Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown

12:00 am Documenteur (1981)
Drama | TV-14
A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son.
Director: Agnes Varda. Cast: Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Tom Taplin

1:15 am Vagabond (1985)
1h 46m | Drama
The story of a young woman who took to a life on the open road and is found frozen to death in a ditch is retold by the people or "witnesses" she encountered along her journey.
Director: Agnes Varda. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Meril, Stephane Freiss

3:15am Tess (1979)
2h 52m | Romance | TV-14
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson