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- Update #2: 10 Things I Learned at the TCM Classic Film Festival
- Screening Report: THE KID (1921) at Film Forum + Chaplin Look-Alike Contest
- Happy Birthday, Robert Osborne – Live from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival!
- Screening Report: The 1933 Pre-Code Festival
- Update: Bill Hader Returning for Third Season of “TCM Essentials Jr.”
- Henry Koster’s FRAULEIN (1958)
- UPDATE #4: My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the TCM Classic Film Festival
- Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Pam Grier at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
- The Good, the Bad, and the Old Movie Weirdos
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Update #2: 10 Things I Learned at the TCM Classic Film Festival
One of my favorite things about the annual TCM Classic Film Festival is meeting and interacting with the talented people who bring the channel to life. In addition to impromptu chats at screenings and during communal gatherings at the Roosevelt … Continue reading
Posted in TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, Warner Archive Collection
Tagged 31 Days of Oscar, AMC, Angela Lansbury, Ben mankiewicz, Bill Hader, Club TCM, commercials on TCM, David Edelstein, Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation, Francois Truffaut, Friday Night Spotlight, Hollywood Tour app, Illeana Douglas, Jeff Gregor, LETTY LYNTON, Meet TCM, Pola Chagnon, Richard Steiner, Road to Hollywood, Robert Osborne, Roosevelt Hotel, Scott McGee, Sean Cameron, TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, TCM Cruise, TCM streaming application, Ted Turner, Tom Brown, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Archive Instant
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Screening Report: THE KID (1921) at Film Forum + Chaplin Look-Alike Contest
It was just after noon on a spring Sunday, and I was chatting with a fellow cineaste outside Film Forum, the Downtown Manhattan movie mecca. “KID AUTO RACES? That’s Chaplin’s first short,” I said. “Well, it’s the first one where … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film Forum, Screening Report
Tagged Alfalfa, Bruce Goldstein, Buckwheat, Charlie Chaplin, Darla, EASTER PARADE, Film Forum, Film Forum Jr, Hal Roach, IRON MAN 3, Jackie Coogan, Jane Scovall, John Martello, KID AUTO RACES, Kiera Chaplin, KING KONG, MAKING A LIVING, Melvin van Peebles, New York City, Oona Living in the Shadows: a Biography of Oona O’Neill Chaplin, PAY AS YOU EXIT, Porky, Romyo and Jullet, Shane Fleming, Spanky, Steve Sterner, SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG, THE DONOVAN AFFAIR, THE KID, Uncle Fester, WPIX Channel 11
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Happy Birthday, Robert Osborne – Live from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival!
Every year I travel to Hollywood for the TCM Classic Film Festival and I think to myself, “This will be the year the magic finally wears off.” And then Robert Osborne walks in, and it feels like Moses has come … Continue reading
Posted in TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival
Tagged 80 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, Ben mankiewicz, Cher, digital conversion, Friday Night Spotlight, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, IMAX, Moses, Motion Picture Production Code, press conference, Robert Osborne, Roosevelt Hotel, Rose Theater, TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies
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Update: Bill Hader Returning for Third Season of “TCM Essentials Jr.”
TCM announced today that “actor and writer” – they don’t add “impressionist,” which is my favorite of his skills – Bill Hader will return for his third season of TCM Essentials Jr., the summer showcase of films “that are ideal for parents … Continue reading
Posted in TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival
Tagged A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Bill Hader, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MON ONCLE, RUGGLES OF RED GAP, Scott McGee, TCM, TCM Essentials Jr, THE COURT JESTER, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE GREAT RACE, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE LAVENDER HILL MOB, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE PIRATE, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Turner Classic Movies
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Henry Koster’s FRAULEIN (1958)
Watching the DVD of Henry Koster’s FRAULEIN (1958) from 20th Century Fox Cinema Archives was one of my most frustrating classic film viewing experiences in recent memory. You can read all about it in my review at Cinema Sentries. In the meantime, … Continue reading
Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Like I needed another reason to adore Pam Grier. “I loved the old Boris Karloff films,” the actress said on Friday night before a midnight screening of SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale … Continue reading
Posted in Film Society of Lincoln Society, Screening Report
Tagged 1970s, ABOVE THE LAW, action films, BLACK MAMA, Blaxploitation, BUCKTOWN, COFFY, ESCAPE FROM L.A., Film Society of Lincoln Center, FOXY BROWN, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, Fred Williamson, FRIDAY FOSTER, GREASED LIGHTNING, Jack Hill, JACKIE BROWN, Kurt Russell, LARRY CROWNE, Margaret Markov, New World Pictures, ORIGINAL GANGSTAS, Pam Grier, Richard Pryor, Roger Corman, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM, SHEBA BABY, Steven Seagal, Thalmus Rasulala, THE BIG BIRD CAGE, The L Word, WHITE MAMA, William Marshall
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Pam Grier at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Actress Pam Grier appeared tonight at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center. She’s still gorgeous and sassy at age 63. Foxy: the Complete Pam Grier, an 11-film retrospective, continues through Sunday. The schedule is here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Old Movie Weirdos
“You’re an Old Movie Weirdo,” my girlfriend said to me. “I know you don’t think you are, but you are.” Before we go any further, you need to know something about Maggie: she’s honest to a fault, particularly when it … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film Forum, IFC Center, Screening Report
Tagged Classic film, Film Forum, Old Movie Weirdos, Repertory house, Revival House
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