Sounder

Matt Roush says...

Earlier this week, the Library of Congress announced 25 more enduring cinema classics to be inducted into the Library’s National Film Registry. As is its annual tradition, TCM spotlights several of the movies in a prime-time marathon, with host Jacqueline Stewart joined by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to introduce the first three films: 1972’s Sounder, starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield as Black sharecroppers; 1979’s Chicana (10/9c), a 22-minute collage of images, documentary footage and testimonies that shed light on women’s underappreciated role in Mexican and Mexican-American history; and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 suspense thriller Strangers on a Train (10:30/9:30c), starring Robert Walker and Farley Granger as the title characters caught in a twisted murder pact. The overnight highlight: 1962’s Hollywood Gothic masterpiece What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (2:15 am/1:15c), with Bette Davis at her peak as she torments Joan Crawford.

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