Most movies are a window you gaze through for two or so voyeuristic hours. Others are a door you walk through. Jewel Robbery, a 1932 pre-Code comedy, is like falling into a glass of champagne. The black and white photography by … Continue reading All Together Now: Dispatches from the 13th TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 13th annual TCM Classic Film Festival (which recently wrapped in Hollywood, California) and the new release, Petite Maman. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
For the first time since COVID sank its spikey teeth into gatherings great and small, the TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood Boulevard for four days of essentials, discoveries, and anniversary screenings. The governing theme this year is, fittingly, … Continue reading All Together Now: Back to the Big Screen
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
Set to screen once more along Hollywood Boulevard, the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) was canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the cable channel has pivoted to a “Special Home Edition” of the festival, April 16-19.Not … Continue reading Dispatches from the 10th annual TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I talk with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a slew of new releases via virtual theaters: Trolls World Tour, The Booksellers (partnering with the Sie Film Center in Denver), Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The … Continue reading
“This certainly isn’t the game plan we had in mind earlier this year,” Pola Changnon, TCM General Manager, told a conference call full of reporters on April 14. “We’re glad we’re able to execute something this robust in such a … Continue reading “Changes breed creativity.”
Set to screen once more along Hollywood Boulevard, the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) was canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the cable channel has pivoted to a “Special Home Edition” of the festival, April 16-19.Not … Continue reading A Community in the Dark: Dispatches from the TCM Classic Film Festival
There is no greater film festival for classic movie lovers than the TCM Classic Film Fest in Hollywood, California. Every spring, throngs of moviegoers descend on the honorary capital of moviemaking for a feverish, bleary-eyed three-day celebration of the moving … Continue reading TCM Classic Film Festival — 2016
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