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Almost Famous
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I searched for another thread on this topic, since the documentary was announced a while back, but the only one I found _had not been active for more than a year_, so per forum rules posting it in a new thread:
Release Date: 4/15/2010
*Christopher Plummer to Narrate TCM?s Seven-Part Series MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD*
*New Documentary Debuts on TCM in November 2010*
Two-time Emmy? winner and 2009 Academy Award? nominee Christopher Plummer (The Last Station) will narrate Turner Classic Movies? (TCM) ambitious, seven-part original production MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. This comprehensive true story behind the making of the American movie industry is being co-produced by TCM and Bill Haber?s Ostar Productions. The series is slated to premiere in November 2010.
?It is an honor for us to welcome Christopher Plummer to TCM?s largest and most important original production to date,? said Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TCM, TNT and TBS. ?His distinctive and elegant voice will be the perfect guide through the extraordinary history of American film.?
The true story of the American film industry has as many ups and downs, twists and turns as the latest big-budget thriller, not to mention a cast of characters worthy of a shelf full of Oscars?. MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD will tell this extraordinary tale over the course of seven one-hour documentaries, each focusing on a different era of American movie history. Spanning from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s, this production will feature rarely seen photographs and film footage, clips from memorable American movies and interviews with distinguished historians and major Hollywood figures.
At its heart, the documentary series will be a personal history of Hollywood, detailing the personalities, inter-personal relationships, collaborations and conflicts that created an industry and an art form. The series will also serve as a history of America, looking at how moviemakers responded to such major events as the Great Depression, World War II and the Civil Rights movement.
MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD is executive-produced by Bill Haber (TNT?s Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King; Broadway?s The History Boys and Monty Python?s Spamalot). It is being directed, written and produced by four-time Emmy nominee Jon Wilkman.
As a special sneak preview, TCM will screen a rough cut of the first episode of MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS, at the TCM Classic Film Festival next week in Hollywood. The screening, set for Friday, April 23, at 1:15 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, will include a panel discussion with Michael Wright, Bill Haber, Jon Wilkman as well as Tom Brown, vice president of original productions for TCM.
Christopher Plummer scored a career triumph last year in his Oscar-nominated performance as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, with Helen Mirren. He also provided voices for the hit animated films Up and 9 and starred with the late Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam?s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Plummer recently completed shooting for the drama Beginners, with Ewan McGregor, and the comic book adaptation Priest, with Paul Bettany, both of which are set for release next year.
Since director Sidney Lumet introduced Plummer to the screen in Stage Struck (1957), Plummer has appeared in a host of films, including the Oscar-winning The Sound of Music (1965), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Oedipus the King (1968), The Battle of Britain (1969), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Silent Partner (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), Eyewitness (1981), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Wolf (1994), Delores Claiborne (1995), Twelve Monkeys (1995), The Insider (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Ararat (2002), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Syriana (2005) and Inside Man (2006).
Plummer?s numerous narration credits include The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988), which premiered on TNT when that network first launched. He also provided narration for The First Emperor of China (1989) and Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure (1997).
A Canadian from Montreal, Plummer made his professional debut on stage and radio in both French and English. Since his New York debut in 1954, Plummer has starred in many prestigious Broadway productions, including his Tony-winning performances in Cyrano (1973) and Barrymore (1997). In 2004, he scored his sixth Tony nomination for his performance in the title role of King Lear at Lincoln Center. He garnered a seventh nomination in 2007 for his work in Inherit the Wind.
Plummer has been a leading actor at Great Britain?s National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall and, in its formative years, the Stratford Festival of Canada under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and his mentor, Michael Langham.
Plummer?s many honors include Great Britain?s Evening Standard Award, plus one nomination; two Emmys, plus six nominations; a Genie Award for Murder by Decree and Genie nominations for The Amateur (1981), Impolite (1992) and Blizzard (2003). In 1968, sanctioned by Queen Elizabeth II, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the equivalent of an Honorary Knighthood. He also received the Governor General?s Life Achievement Award, an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from New York?s Julliard School and additional honorary doctorates from five major Canadian universities. Plummer was elected into the Theatre?s Hall of Fame in 1986 and joined Canada?s Walk of Fame in 1999.
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Well, The Time Machine is on TCM right now, and this afternoon they'll be playing The Land That Time Forgot, which I guess in a way also qualifies as a time travel movie...
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State Fair
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Zsa Zsa Gabor was in Touch of Evil with Janet Leigh
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Criterion this morning announced its releases for July, which include the restored version of The Red Shoes, as well as Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus in a new blu-ray edition.
*Black Narcissus*:
* Video introduction by French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
* Audio commentary featuring the late director Michael Powell and filmmaker Martin Scorsese
* The Audacious Adventurer, a 2006 video piece in which Tavernier discusses Black Narcissus and Powell
* Profile of "Black Narcissus" (2000), a 25-minute documentary
* Painting with Light, a twenty-seven-minute documentary about Jack Cardiff's Oscar-winning cinematography on Black Narcissus
* Original theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kent Jones
*The Red Shoes*
* Audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with stars Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and filmmaker Martin Scorsese
* Introductory restoration demonstration with Scorsese
* Profile of "The Red Shoes" (2000), a 25-minute documentary
* Video interview with Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, Michael Powell's widow
* Gallery from Scorsese's collection of The Red Shoes memorabilia
* The "Red Shoes" Sketches, an animated film made from Hein Heckroth's painted storyboards
* Readings by actor Jeremy Irons of excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's novelization of The Red Shoes and the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
* Theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring an essay by Ian Christie
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Burt Lancaster was in The Crimson Pirate with Christopher Lee
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The Joker is Wild
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Humphrey Bogart was in Sahara with Dan Duryea
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The Naked and the Dead
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Charles Boyer was in Cluny Brown with Jennifer Jones
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Niagara
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Did anyone watch/record Norman... Is That You? on TCM earlier this morning? It seems this must have been ahead of its time when it was released in the 70s, since it deals with a gay African-American man.
I'm glad TCM was able to show this movie, since it isn't on DVD!
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Walter Connolly was in Four's a Crowd with Olivia De Havilland
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The Misfits
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****, David (Prof.) - Gregory Peck in Arabesque
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Soldier of Fortune
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Emerson, Hope
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Martha Scott was in The Desperate Hours with Fredric March
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> I was told that Ann had it written in her contract that any dance numbers were to be performed ALONE, so she was _always_ the focus. Once I heard that, I started noticing it to be true. Smart lady.
If that's what she did, more power to her - it was definitely a good move.
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Karlson, Phil - directed The Phenix City Story
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oopsie
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X - Xanadu
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