Abandoned movie set, Mismaloya, Mexico: photo courtesy of TripAdvisor
The programmers at Turner Classic Movies may not have planned the schedule with me in mind, but they’ve lined up a fine mix of films for me on my birthday this year.
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| Bruno Ganz in Wings of Desire |
I share my day with Sir Laurence Olivier (born May 22, 1907), and TCM has programmed some films of his that I haven’t seen, including Term of Trial (1962), co-starring the great French actress, Simone Signoret. Later on in the day my beloved San Francisco provides the setting for the 1955 sci-fi classic, It Came from Beneath the Sea, in which the city is attacked by a radiation-enlarged octopus. In the evening, this month's TCM guest programmer, Deborah Winger, is set to appear. Among her choices is one film I haven’t
seen but have had on my to-watch list for a long time: Wim Wenders' 1987
classic, Wings of Desire, brought its
director the Best Director prize at Cannes in 1987 and won or was nominated for
a raft of other awards.
Winger has also chosen to spotlight John Huston’s masterful
production of Tennessee Williams' The
Night of the Iguana (1964), one of the great film adaptations of Williams' work.
