Positive, the entire thing smacks of synergy, as Warners now owns TCM. You can see this as a month-long industrial for the facility and glory that’s Warner Bros. Discovery, which is sort of the way it’s being marketed. “The month-long takeover of the community will inform the story of Warner Bros. in a manner that solely TCM can do,” reads the press launch.

The actual fact is, nonetheless, that Warner Bros. actually did produce among the most unimaginable movies of the studio period. With stars like Bette Davis, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Ginger Rogers, producers like Darryl F. Zanuck, and administrators like Ernst Lubitsch and Michael Curtiz on its payroll, how might they not? Scanning by means of the Warner archive, you would possibly count on titles of such titanic significance in movie historical past like “Casablanca,” “The Jazz Singer,” and “The Maltese Falcon” to be the headline points of interest in TCM’s April program. However the canny programmers on the community — TCM employs among the greatest within the enterprise — have curated one thing altogether extra fascinating.

The centennial celebration is headed up by two licensed classics, Howard Hawks’ everlasting Western “Rio Bravo,” and Elia Kazan’s anguished John Steinbeck adaption, “East of Eden.” Each have acquired a 4K restoration courtesy of The Movie Basis, and each might be launched on the channel by up to date cinema royalty. “East of Eden” might be launched by the administrators Wes Anderson and Joanna Hogg, and “Rio Bravo” might be launched by none apart from Marty himself. The remainder of the lineup plumbs the furthest extents of the Warner archive, bringing collectively among the most beautiful and underseen movies of the traditional period, from avant-garde ’60s psychodramas, to audacious pre-code melodramas, to a really stunning Ronald Reagan star car in regards to the KKK.