Turner Classic Movies Preserves Hollywood Legacy

The final stages of winter bring many glories: birds sing, days lengthen, and the best movies are on TV.

The Hall of Fame film festival of the year is TCM’s annual “31 Days of Oscar,” a monthlong smorgasbord from America’s greatest cable channel featuring nothing except films that were rewarded with Oscar nominations or wins. I’ve been getting paid to watch movies for 17 years (what a scam!) and there are still a lot of prominent films I haven’t seen. The annual late-winter opening of the Turner Classic Movies treasure chest always presents me with more titles I’m eager to watch than any other service except HBO Max, which is now sharing some of the TCM lineup in addition to works from its other libraries.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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The final stages of winter bring many glories: birds sing, days lengthen, and the best movies are on TV.

The Hall of Fame film festival of the year is TCM’s annual “31 Days of Oscar,” a monthlong smorgasbord from America’s greatest cable channel featuring nothing except films that were rewarded with Oscar nominations or wins. I’ve been getting paid to watch movies for 17 years (what a scam!) and there are still a lot of prominent films I haven’t seen. The annual late-winter opening of the Turner Classic Movies treasure chest always presents me with more titles I’m eager to watch than any other service except HBO Max, which is now sharing some of the TCM lineup in addition to works from its other libraries.