BONNIE AND CLYDE
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Every year, the impending arrival of the Academy Awards telecasts leads to the “Month of Oscars” tradition on TCM, where award-winning movies, in various categories, are crammed into the prime-time schedule (and beyond) all month long. Tonight, the festivities begin with one of the Sixties movies that helped changed the direction of cinema. Warren Beatty’s 1967 movie upped the ante for stylized violence, and anti-hero dramas, and idiosyncratic filmmaking, all in one stylish burst. Beatty and Faye Dunaway star, Gene Hackman made his mark, and the music, photography, editing and story line, in this period story about Depression-era bank robbers, all screamed modern.