So many great films airing this week, Fedya. Here's what I've got set to record, all for free on Turner Classic Movies. Most of these have not yet received domestic blu-ray releases, so I'm excited to have these saved until I can buy physical copies.
The Sheik, and The Son of the Sheik, two of Rudolph Valentino's most popular films (and The Son Of is his last). Silent film classics.
La Notte, the penultimate film in Michelangelo Antonioni's "trilogy of alienation". This one has an excellent Criterion blu-ray release; I'm holding off until L'eclisse gets a reissue to buy it, and complete the trilogy.
The Three Faces of Eve, for which Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award.
Wuthering Heights, from cinema's greatest year, 1939. Merle Oberon shines, and any movie with the likes of Olivier and David Niven is must see.
The Lion in Winter, one of my favorite films of the 1960s, with powerhouse performances by O'Toole and Kate Hepburn.
Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman (she won her first of two Best Actress Oscars for her performance), and the screen debut of Angela Lansbury. Modern film & television lovers might know her best for Murder She Wrote, but long before she was a murder mystery solver on the small screen, she was a titan in motion pictures. I just saw Gaslight for the first time the week before last. Bergman is my favorite actress, so I feel ashamed admitting as much. But she was wonderful.
Bringing Up Baby, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, with Skippy the dog (Asta from the first two entrants in The Thin Man franchise).
Speaking of The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, shows on the early afternoon of the 12th. I've never seen it, so I have my DVR set to record. It won the 1937 Best Picture Oscar. I love Powell and Loy together, so I'm very much looking forward to this.
Passage to Marseille sees a Casablanca reunion, of sorts, with director Michael Curtiz teamed once again with Humphrey Bogart, Claude Raines, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
Silk Stockings. Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Peter Lorre also brings his unsettling presence to this film.
The Age of Innocence, another film I have not yet seen, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer. This is being released in March, but I'll have seen it before buying it. I'm both a Scorsese and Day-Lewis nut, so this will be a first day buy.
Orson Welles followed up Citizen Kane with the nearly-as-great The Magnificent Ambersons.
Knute Rockne, All American. Pat O'Brien as Knute Rockne, and Ronald Reagan as George "The Gipper" Gipp. Another I have not seen.
I'm also recording The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which you mentioned. I love Gene Tierney, so the next time I place a Fox Connect order, I'll be buying the high def release.