Seeing Stars

TCM's annual August movie festival packs in the classics-and introduces some new faces too

- JEFF PFEIFFER

Summer Under the Stars
Begins Tuesday, Aug. 1, 6am/5c, TCM

DIM THE LIGHTS! It’s time to settle in for that most welcome annual film festival you’ve already punched your ticket to—TCM’s Summer Under the Stars.

As its done every August since 2003, Turner Classic Movies devotes each day of the month to a different Hollywood heavyweight. That adds up to 31 stars and 403 films—along with a showing of 2016’s Live From the TCM Film Festival toast of Sophia Loren (6:45/5:45c) on the Italian superstar’s day, August 30.