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#TCMFF 2021 – Interview with Bruce Goldstein about Pre-Code Hollywood
An interview with Film Forum programmer and pre-Code progenitor Bruce Goldstein about the joys of pre-Code Hollywood (and also The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three).
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#TCMFF 2021 – Interview with Alan K. Rode about DOCTOR X (1932)
An interview with author and film historian Alan K. Rode about the restoration and background of 1932’s DOCTOR X.
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Pre-Code Movies on TCM in May 2020
Yes, somehow, inexplicably, it really is May. The good news: May 2020 sees none other than Eddie G. Robinson as the TCM Star of the Month, with many of his best pre-Code roles making an apperance on the network. There’s also a showing of 1933’s The Silver Cord, a fun Read more…
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TCMFF 2020 Wrap-Up: “Were you working hard?” “Yeah, but not at the bank.”
So Thursday night I wanted to catch the beginning of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Special Home Edition, the 2020 virtual version of the annual TCM festival. (The 2020 festival had been cancelled because all of this (waves hand emphatically) and prevented the usual mass trek to Hollywood.) Of Read more…
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Pre-TCMFF 2020: “I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”
Ah, TCMFF! How much I’ve missed you! And… how I still miss you. The 2020 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival was supposed to be my first long-term vacation since a wedding I attended last June. Now, thanks to The Great Lockdown, I am at home, working two part time jobs Read more…
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#TCMFF 2019, Wrap Up: “Long way to go for a party.” “For the record, it’s a really good party.”
I went back to work today and my coworkers asked me where I’d been. “L.A.,” I replied. “To see some friends.” The 10th TCMFF (and my fifth) was a rollicking good time. I saw some good movies, I saw some bad. I saw some fun things, some frustrating ones. Some Read more…
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#TCMFF 2019, Day 4: “Big clocks are never wrong!”
The fourth and final day of the 2019 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) (I’ve done this literally every day, why) arrived with a warm breeze, a blue sky, and an episode of “Frasier” to keep me sane. Luckily, my first event of the day didn’t start until a Read more…
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#TCMFF, Day 3: “You know, I’m too old for this sort of evening. I always was.”
Sleep eludes me. While Friday was a lot of fun, my third day at TCMFF was hectic and probably my toughest of the festival. Starting off the day, I made it into All Through the Night, a very fun Bogart film, that had a great, witty introduction by Michael Schlesinger. Read more…
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#TCMFF 2019, Day 2: “I think you’re swell.”
The second (!) day of the annual Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) was, for me, a packed affair, full of old favorites and new discoveries. It was a cornucopia of decades, tones, and swanky mixed drinks. Well, maybe drinking wasn’t the best idea before my first film of Read more…
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#TCMFF 2019, Day 1: “Can I get you anything else, sir?” “… for instance?”
Thursday — yes, it’s somehow already Thursday– is the first official day of the 2019 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival (#TCMFF). Here’s a run down of the events I participated in during the day, as far as I recall. Which may not be much… Sitting By the Pool at Read more…