![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20suns-600.jpg\" "\\"Sunshine\\"")
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A<\/span>fter a hiatus much longer than I intended, the Film on TV column is active again over on Row Three<\/a>. I’m not going to cross-post this and the DVD Triage column as much as I used to. Instead, I’ll just post notices over here when I post something over there, maybe with a highlight or two. So here are my top five recommendations for films playing on TV next week. All times are EST.<\/p>\n Monday, Feb 13<\/b> at 5:30pm on TCM Monday, Feb 13<\/b> at 8:00pm on TCM Tuesday, Feb 14<\/b> at 8:00pm on TCM Wednesday Feb 15<\/b> at 6:00am on IFC Wednesday, Feb 15<\/b> at 3:15pm on TCM After a hiatus much longer than I intended, the Film on TV column is active again over on Row Three. I’m not going to cross-post this and the DVD Triage column as much as I used to. Instead, I’ll just post notices over here when I post something over there, maybe with a highlight or [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.the-frame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}North by Northwest<\/h4>\n
\nRoger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for George Kaplan and pulled into an elaborate web of espionage in one of Hitchcock\u2019s most enjoyable and funniest thrillers. So many great scenes it\u2019s impossible to list them all.
\n1959 USA. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\nZ<\/h4>\n
\nExtremely solid political thriller following the true story of the overthrow of Greece’s democratic government. Equal parts historically accurate political document and detective thriller as the magistrate tries to uncover the conspiracy behind a liberal politician’s assassination, the whole thing is riveting.
\n1969 France\/Algeria. Director: Costa-Gavros. Starring: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\nTop Hat<\/h4>\n
\nFor me, Top Hat<\/span> and Swing Time<\/span> battle it out for the top Astaire-Rogers film constantly, with the one I’ve seen more recently usually taking the crown. Mistaken identity follows mistaken identity here, as Ginger thinks Fred is her best friend’s husband, causing her a lot of consternation when Fred starts romancing her. That’s far from the end of it all, though. Also has the most definitive collection of Astaire-Rogers supporting actors.
\n1935 USA. Director: Mark Sandrich. Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\nSunshine<\/h4>\n
\nI think this film, like many of Danny Boyle’s, falls to pieces in the third act. Still, the set-up and middle are right up there with the best sci-fi I’ve ever seen – a sci-fi of ideas and existential contemplation – so I still give it a hearty recommendation.
\n2007 UK. Director: Danny Boyle. Starring: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Mark Strong.<\/em><\/small>
\n(repeats at 1:45pm)<\/p>\nThey Were Expendable<\/h4>\n
\nThere are films that don\u2019t seem to be all that while you\u2019re watching them \u2013 no particularly powerful scenes, not a particularly moving plot, characters that are developed but don\u2019t jump out at you \u2013 and yet by the time you reach the end, you\u2019re somehow struck with what a great movie you\u2019ve seen. This film was like that for me \u2013 it\u2019s mostly a lot of vignettes from a U-boat squadron led by John Wayne, the only one who thought the U-boat could be useful in combat. But it all adds up to something much more.
\n1945 USA. Director: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\nRead the rest at Row Three<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"