I usually check the movie channels for the week to find things to DVR and I noticed a pattern on TCM. All the movie titles today begin with an A, tomorrow a B and Friday a C. Is this a thing they are doing for the month or just a coincidence?
Interesting. Maybe just real lazy programming? 
I know they often string several movies with the same actor, or link them, like starring A and B, then one with B and C, then C and D…
This is their “31 Days of Oscar” festival, leading up to the Academy Awards. This year, they are presenting the movies in alphabetical order throughout the month (and into the first few days of March).
It’s not strictly one letter per day. While the B’s do start at noon tomorrow (Feb. 2), the C’s don’t start until 1:30 AM on Sunday morning. D’s start at 10:15 PM on Monday the 6th, and there don’t seem to be any E’s at all.
Ah, so definitely pattern just not the one I thought. Thanks.
Whoever does the programming has a good sense of humor. I’ve seen days that all the movies have one word in common, or one subject. Or showing Zero Hour followed immediately by Airplane!
The alphabetical order this month, I’m not sure I like as much. Seems so…boring.
I noticed this the other day. I love it.
I liked how they did it a few years ago where the connection between the films was an actor, or director or screen writer, etc… Like A Streetcar Named Desire was followed by Patton because Karl Malden appeared in both.
They routinely do this with their star of the month, usually one day a week for the month is all movies with that star in them. Directors or writers are less common threads for stringing movies on, but it does still happen.
I think it’s probably just to provide an alternative to the traditional way of showing Oscar movies, which would be chronologically. That would result in more limited variation each day, and likely reduce the audience (not everyone wants to sit through a whole day of 1930’s movies, for example).
I love it! It’s nice to see lots of great movie 24-hours around the clock (when I can record them on the DVR), instead of their normal schedule of 1930’s and 1940’s movies during the wee hours.
If you like La La Land, you should see The Young Girls of Rochefort, which has a very similar street dancing scene. It’s on March 3rd at midnight that evening EST.
Look here for the full schedule, but before you do so, can you name their last movie alphabetically? It’s kind of obvious…
I’m sure there are many on these boards who will probably tune into TCM this month to watch some of these classics. I’ve seen most of them but plan on trying to watch the ones I’ve either never seen or just partially seen. Tonight I’m watching All About Eve that, for some reason I’ve never seen the entire film.
It really lives up to it’s hype!
A few months ago one of the movie channels (I think Cinemax) aired The Wedding Singer and then The Wedding Ringer. I am sure someone there thought that was hilarious.