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Thanks for the comments, MovieFanLaura! I'll look forward to seeing you this year.
Romana, we hope to see you in the near future.
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I keep wondering what kind of documentaries we might see at the TCM Film Festival 2018 this year.
This might be a possibility-Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr Story: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/hedy-lamarr-documentary-clip
And I hear there is a documentary about Mary Astor coming out soon. That would be great!
The festival has brought some wonderful documentaries to Hollywood for dedicated pass holders...
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room...
Dawson City: Frozen Time...
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story...
Other special programming included Ron Hutchinson's 90th Anniversary of Vitaphone,
Randy Haberkamp with Hollywood Home Movies, Academy Conversations with Ben Burtt and Craig Barron,
A Short History of Widescreen Cinema with Leonard Maltin and Chris Reyna, Amazing Film Discoveries with French arhivist Serge Bromberg, The Family Business: A Tribute to Hubley, Disney Laugh-O-Grams with J. B. Kaufman and many, many more.
Past season events have been such a rich tapestry of topics that I can't wait to find out about our documentaries, interviews, and panel discussions for 2018!
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Indeed it is. More than 40,000 attendees with single seats or full-service passes like the Classic Pass, the Essential Pass, and the Spotlight Pass have been sold in previous years. The Palace Pass level is limited to the larger venue screenings..
To purchase a pass, go here: http://filmfestival.tcm.com/attend/
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Ok. Maybe if you were a little more specific, that might help the powers that be to determine what kind of request you might have. This is the TCM Film Festival Forum. If you have an issue with the cable channel, you should redirect to another thread.
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(Photo courtesy of TCM)
Here's a link to Aurora Bugallo's pre-Valentine's Day interview with Illeana Douglas: https://aurorasginjoint.com/2018/02/10/interview-illeana-douglas-on-gender-equity-trailblazing-women-and-her-love-of-movies/
Illeana Douglas on the TCMFF RED CARPET 2017...(photo courtesy of Sue Sue)
(Photo by a Sue Sue pal...)
Sue Sue with Illeana Douglas in the lobby of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel shortly after her popular book signing for I Blame Dennis Hopper.....
I wonder what author events pass holders might enjoy this year.....
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The sport of bullfighting is symbolically a meeting of a dismounted man who first encounters a large, wild beast. The antithesis to that premise occurs when a large, wild beast befriends man.
One of the most poignant real-life events that illustrates that premise for me is the rescue of a young man in the Texas Hill Country in the 1990's. A river rapidly rising in a flash flood forced a boy to climb a tree near the edge of a river. Being washed downstream by the raging floodwaters was a 12-point deer. It maneuvers across the river by swimming at great force and arrives at the tree where the young man is clinging to life, and nudges him to sit on his back. The deer eventually reaches the shore and deposits him to safety.
Such a story of man and beast and how they bond will be coming to the TCMFF this spring. The Black Stallion is also thematically related in some ways to the film of Scott Dell's book, “Island of the Blue Dolphins” from 1964.
Roger Ebert's 1979 review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-black-stallion-1979
Wouldn't it be nice if star Terri Garr helps introduce the film?
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The sport of bullfighting is symbolically a meeting of a dismounted man who first encounters a large, wild beast. The antithesis to that premise occurs when a large, wild beast befriends man.
One of the most poignant real-life events that illustrates that premise for me is the rescue of a young man in the Texas Hill Country in the 1990's. A river rapidly rising in a flash flood forced a boy to climb a tree near the edge of a river. Being washed downstream by the raging floodwaters was a 12-point deer. It maneuvers across the river by swimming at great force and arrives at the tree where the young man is clinging to life, and nudges him to sit on his back. The deer eventually reaches the shore and deposits him to safety.
Such a story of man and beast and how they bond will be coming to the TCMFF this spring. The Black Stallion is also thematically related in some ways to the film of Scott Dell's book, Island of the Blue Dolphins from 1964.
Roger Ebert's 1979 review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-black-stallion-1979
Wouldn't it be nice if star Terri Garr helps introduce the film? Or Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel?
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How it might have actually happened and how it was created cinematically are two very different scenarios. Ben Burtt and Craig Barron will reveal secrets of “The Ten Commandments” (1956) for us in April at the TCM Film Festival. Who can forget Ann Baxter as Nefertiri? “Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!”
Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/08/no-really-there-is-a-scientific-explanation-for-the-parting-of-the-red-sea-in-exodus/?utm_term=.dcd2caed7825
About Craig Barron...
“Craig Barron began his career at Industrial Light + Magic, where he worked on such classic films as The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Barron’s visual effects company, Matte World Digital, conjured environments for such films as Titanic (1997), Zodiac (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Hugo (2011) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which he won the Academy Award for visual effects
Barron is an AMPAS lecturer and exhibition curator, a TCM guest-host, and a University educator with a focus on the history and techniques of visual effects of classic studio films and the digital age. He’s featured in documentary supplements for several Criterion Blue-Ray editions, demonstrating classic effects on films by Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Alfred Hitchcock, using computer animations. He co-authored with Mark Cotta Vaz the first book on the history of movie matte-painting, The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. Barron is the creative director at Magnopus, a visual development company in Los Angeles.”
About Ben Burtt...
“Ben Burtt has more than 30 years of experience as a writer, director, film editor, sound designer and sound mixer. His work includes feature films, documentaries, network television movie specials, and educational specialty films.
Burtt received an Oscar for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars (1977) and for Sound Effects Editing for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); he won Oscars for Sound Effects Editing for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He also has earned nominations in the Sound Mixing category for Return of the Jedi (1983) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; in Sound Effects Editing for Return of the Jedi, Willow (1988) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for WALL-E (2008).
Burtt is the voice of Pixar’s robot, Wall-E, as well as the breathing of Darth Vader.
Also a film scholar, Burtt is a yearly presenter of programs for the Academy of Motion Pictures along with Craig Barron. The two of them have also hosted features on Turner Classic Movies’ broadcasts as well as the TCM Cruise and Film Festival.”
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Social Media, Youth, and the TCM Film Festival, an article from LA weekly in 2016,,,,
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/why-young-people-go-nuts-for-the-tcm-classic-film-festival-6857252
An article from 2013 revisits how Hollywood Blvd. makes navigating interesting.... http://www.laweekly.com/arts/tcm-classic-film-festival-watching-hollywoods-greatest-films-on-its-most-annoying-boulevard-4178795
Disney films having a 50th Anniversary this year are The Love Bug and Blackbeard's Ghost.
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Special Harold Lloyd features at the Linwood Dunn Theater during the #TCMFF 2018 are to be announced: http://www.haroldlloyd.com/news/screenings
Maybe we will see Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968) this year. Roger Ebert reviews it here: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-romeo-and-juliet-1968
Passes are still on sale. Palace, Classic, and Spotlights are still available... https://festival.tcm.com/tcm/
Tonight: Billie Lourd will be on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS....
The 31 Days of Oscar continues on TCM...and here's a link to the blogathon: https://aurorasginjoint.com/2018/01/26/announcement-31-days-of-oscar-blogathon/
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Cinephiled blogger Danny Miller visits with Ben Mankiewicz about the upcoming festival, Stephanie Powers’ Guest Programmer stint for William Holden's 100th birthday, politics, and changes at the network: http://www.cinephiled.com/interview-ben-mankiewicz-tcms-31-days-oscar-upcoming-tcm-classic-film-festival/
Maybe we might see INDISCREET this year with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant: https://cinemavensessaysfromthecouch.wordpress.com/guest-writers/christy-putnam/
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Popular TCM Film Festival Special Guest writer and historian Cari Beauchamp writes about an important landmark gathering for women filmmakers in Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/women-directors-miramar-women
Beauchamp has written Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood, My First Time in Hollywood, and many others: https://www.amazon.com/Cari-Beauchamp/e/B001IXROKW
FYI: Both Beauchamp and Leonard Maltin, author, historian and host of TCM's Treasures From The Disney Vault have presented at all TCM Film Festivals from 2010 to 2017....
Leonard Maltin interviewing Roy Disney in 2007 in Philadelphia...
Maltin's Classic Film Guides and encyclopedias have been popular ever since they first appeared: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Leonard+Maltin's
Classic Hollywood In The Headlines: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-person-of-interest-says-investigator/
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AND WE HAVE UPDATES!!!
ANNOUNCED 2018 SPECIAL GUESTS
CRAIG BARRON - Visual-Effects Artist and Sound Designer
ROBERT BENTON - Writer, Director
MEL BROOKS - Director, Producer, Actor, Writer
BEN BURTT - Visual-Effects Artist and Sound Designer
MARSHA HUNT - Actress
BEN MODEL - Musician
MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA - Chamber Ensemble
New Films:
Fail Safe
Phantom of the Opera
None Shall Escape
Show People
The Ten Commandments
LINKDOM: http://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/
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In case you haven't heard...
Turner International’s Digital Ventures & Innovation (DV&I) Group and Warner Bros. Digital Networks (WBDN) today announce a joint venture to launch a new, multi-territory movie streaming service-https://www.turner.com/node/23647/turner-upfront-2017/
TCM Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vasquez is moving on. Her last appearances filmed for TCM aired on Saturday. We wish Tiffany well! Her first appearance on the TCM Film Festival Red Carpet was in 2014....
FROM THE SUE SUE ARCHIVES:
On January 29, 2015, TCM Pass Holders had an announcement that Ann-Margret would be a special guest. Maybe we will have an update soon....
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Academy Award Nominees: http://envelope.latimes.com/awards/academy-awards/2018/
FYI: #TCMFF Special Guest Christopher Plummer, who participated in a Hand and Footprint Ceremony at the TCL Chinese (Hello, Grauman's), was nominaterd for All The Money In The World!
(Photo by Sue Sue)
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Thanks, James. Mary Astor has my admiration, and I'm hoping we will have a new documentary about her life completed soon.
Maybe we might even see it at the TCM Film Festival. I'd love that.
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Sad News Coming Out of Hollywood Today...
Actress Connie Sawyer died peacefully at the age of 105 at her in Woodland Hills, CA. With more than 140 TV and film credits to her name,
Sawyer was known as Hollywood’s oldest working actress who worked through late 2017.
Sawyer was born on November 27, 1912, in Pueblo, Colo. Her career in entertainment began at the age of eight when she won a talent contest
in Oakland. At 18 years old, she landed her first Vaudeville show in Santa Cruz.
Legendary singer, comedian, and actress Sophie Tucker became Sawyer’s mentor before she went on to Broadway where she played Miss Wexler
in A Hole in the Head. She would later take the same role in the film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra. Her other film credits include The Way West,
Ada and The Man in the Glass Booth.
To many, she is recognized as the lady in Dumb and Dumber who stole Jim Carrey’s character’s wallet. She also appeared in The Pineapple Express,
as well as When Harry Met Sally.
She has numerous TV credits which span six decades. This includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hawaii Five-O, Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote,
Archie Bunker’s Place, Home Improvement, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, ER, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother. Most recently she appeared in
Showtime’s Ray Donovan as James Woods’ mother.
In addition to her being highlighted in the documentaries Showfolk and Troupers, she published her autobiography, I Never Wanted To Be a Star – And I Wasn’t.
Sawyer is survived by her two daughters Lisa Dudley, Julie Watkins, four grandchildren Hannah Stubblefield, Sam Dudley, Emily and Carrie Watkins and
three great-grandchildren, Sebastian, Adam and Maya. (From MSN News)
She recently appeared on TCM with Ben Mankiewicz during the Motion Picture and Television Fund programming and was seen in the documentary Showfolk.
Here's a link to the TCM Media Room Video: http://pre-prod.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1354113/Ben-Mankiewicz-Intro-A-Hole-In-The-Head.html
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Tomorrow on Noir Alley ... Act of Violence with Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh...
Director Fred Zinneman and Oscar-winner Mary Astor...
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Tonight, 1953’s The Band Wagon returns on The Essentials. A TCMFF 2016 screening at the Chinese Multiplex proved popular with many fans, and I enjoyed seeing it with so many wonderful friends...
I think my favorite number is “The Triplets.”
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TCM Primetime has African-American films directed by Sidney Poitier, Julie Dash, Ivan Dixon, and more. A special Red Foxx short comes on early in the a.m.
Director Julie Dash, a guest on TCM’s Trailblazing Women In Film, helmed the moving feature Daughters of the Dust, scheduled tonight at 10 p.m. Central, after Poitier’s fabulous London love story, A Warm December.
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Happy Birthday, Margaret O’Brien!
(pictured here in November at the Julien’s Auction...)
O’Brien often attends the TCM Film Festival.
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Festival Fun is just around the corner!
Here's our 2018 Lineup:
The Black Stallion (1979)
Bullitt (1968)
Hamlet (1948)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
Places In The Heart (1984)
The Producers (1968) [Opening Night with Mel Brooks]
The Sea Wolf (1941)
The Set Up (1949)
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (1974)
Throne of Blood (1957)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Woman of the Year (1942)Anyone hope for another particular film or films to be added?
It won't be long, and we'll be having another update!
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TCM Senior Researcher Alexa Foreman, Miss Peggy Cummins, and VP of Talent, Darcy Hettrich in Club TCM in 2012....
Femme Fatale Peggy Cummins, a TCM Film Festival Special Guest in 2012, was a lovely lady. She told me that she was still amazed and surprised at the popularity of her film, Gun Crazy, when I visited with her at the lobby of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 2012. Cummins had just flown in from her home in England, but seemed thrilled to be back in Hollywood to share her experiences with pass holders. Her soft, lilting voice and her open manner seemed light years away from her performance as Annie Laurie Starr in the 1950 film she helped introduce with Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, and Director of the Film Noir Foundation.
Peggy Cummins and Eddie Muller at a film noir festival in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...
The Hollywood Reporter article announcing Miss Cummins passing: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peggy-cummins-dead-gun-crazy-femme-fatale-was-92-1024393
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Thanks, James! Your kind comments are much appreciated!!
I enjoy your posts, too!!
Happy New Year!!
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Tonight is TCM's New Year's Eve Marathon of the Thin Man series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy!
"For this year's most sophisticated holiday evening, TCM has gathered all six entries from a movie series that defined urbane elegance: the Thin Man films. So ring in the New Year in style with one of the great screen couples-- Nick and Nora Charles, as played by William Powell and Myrna Loy. These glamorous Manhattanites trade quips while sipping martinis and solving murders with the aid of their famous wirehaired terrier, Asta.
The movies are shown in chronological order, ranging from the original The Thin Man (1934) to the final entry in the series, Song of the Thin Man (1947). In between are After the Thin Man (1936), in which the Charleses encounter rising star James Stewart; Another Thin Man (1939), which adds a baby to the mix; Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), the last of the series to be directed by W.S. Van Dyke; and The Thin Man Goes Home (1945), with Nick visiting his family in New England and, of course, becoming embroiled in a murder case."-
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in General Discussion
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The Robert Osborne Memorial Award!
To be awarded opening night of the TCMFF 2018....
Congratulations goes to....Martin Scorsese
Legendary Director Martin Scorsese To Receive Inaugural Robert Osborne Award
Award Recognizing An Individual Who Has Significantly Contributed To Preserving The Cultural Heritage Of Classic Films To Be Given Annually In Honor Of TCM’s Iconic Host
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced that filmmaker Martin Scorsese will be given the inaugural Robert Osborne Award in recognition of his work as a film preservationist and impassioned classic movie fan. The Robert Osborne Award will be given out annually at the TCM Classic Film Festival to a recipient whose work has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic films alive and thriving for generations to come. The award will be presented on April 26 during opening night of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival.
“I am truly honored to be the first recipient of the Robert Osborne Award,” said Martin Scorsese, Recipient of the Robert Osborne Award. “I started The Film Foundation 28 years ago in order to preserve and share cinema’s history with audiences of the present and the future. Bob and TCM have always been trusted allies in this mission. I always loved watching Bob’s introductions and interviews on TCM because you could immediately feel that this was someone who knew movie history, who wanted to share that knowledge and pass it on, and – most importantly – who truly loved movies. Bob was a true believer in the cinema, so to receive this award in his name means a great deal to me.”
Martin Scorsese has been a celebrated director and film preservationist for more than 50 years, making some of the most influential films in cinema history. Five-time nominee for Best Director at the Academy Awards, he won in 2007 for The Departed (2006). In 1990 Scorsese established The Film Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history by working in partnership with archives and studios, the foundation has restored over 800 films, while the World Cinema Project has restored 31 films from 21 countries. The foundation's free educational curriculum, The Story of Movies, teaches young people about the language and history of film.
“In addition to his status as perhaps the definitive filmmaker of his generation, Martin Scorsese possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of film history,” said Ben Mankiewicz, TCM Primetime Host. “And he has turned that passion for movies into a commitment for preservation, working tirelessly to restore and preserve the world’s cinematic heritage. Both Martin and Robert have helped ensure that classic film will continue to be experienced as it was meant to be seen, for years to come.”
For more than 22 years, Robert Osborne served as the primetime host and anchor of TCM, helping millions of viewers discover and enter the world of classic movies, and dedicating his life to preserving and sharing the movies he loved. Embraced by fans around the globe as both a fellow movie lover and an unparalleled film historian, his legacy of devotion to classic films and their ability to inspire will live on through the Robert Osborne award. “Robert was the cornerstone of TCM and his contributions were fundamental in shaping the network into what it is today,” said Jennifer Dorian, General Manager of TCM. “Through the creation of the Robert Osborne Award we acknowledge how much he meant to TCM and the impact he had on preserving the love of classic film."