Tomorrow, April 16, 2009, Turner Classic Movies is showing three of the Chaplin movies I recommended in a list of twenty introductory silent movies: The Kid, The Gold Rush and Modern Times. They air at 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. respectively (note: the fourth film on the list, City Lights, is on TCM Sunday at midnight).
In fact, Chaplin is on all day, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Set the DVR or call in sick. No matter what Tony Blair might have said, there's no third way.
The schedule as listed on the Turner Classic Movie website:
16 Thursday
6:00 AM Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
7:15 AM Dog's Life, A (1918)
8:00 AM Day's Pleasure, A (1919)
8:30 AM Kid, The (1921)
9:30 AM Pay Day (1922)
10:00 AM Woman of Paris, A (1923)
11:19 AM Short Film: Movie Album #1, The (1935)
11:30 AM Gold Rush, The (1925)
12:45 PM Modern Times (1936)
2:15 PM Great Dictator, The (1940)
4:15 PM King in New York, A (1957)
6:00 PM Short Film: Chaplin Revue, The (1959)
