Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Just made me feel kind of funky all over. Can't really explain it other than he was cast in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and the fact that Mary Steenburgen divorced him. I think he just really frightened me in Clockwork.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

More schedule additions and changes:

Eddie Muller is also scheduled to introduce Try and Get Me. They had originally listed Donald Bogle, but he is now introducing Safe in Hell with William Wellman, Jr. And I just noticed that Scott Feinberg was added to The Train.

They've also included Dennis Bartok for The Killing and Suddenly It's Spring with Kate McMurray, as well as adding Norman Lloyd and Todd McCarthy to Ruggles of Red Gap.

Marge Champion, cast as Peggy Forsburgh, returns to discuss The Swimmer, a film by director Frank Perry, from the John Cheever short story, with Allison Anders.

[JackFavell]

Maybe Malcolm really really likes it?

[Lzcutter]

If I remember correctly from an interview a thousand years ago when I was much younger -as was Malcolm McDowall-, he is a major James Cagney fan.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Oh, good. I am, too. And I love Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Glad you remembered!

[CineMaven]

Hey there Sue by Two. Question: where are you seeing this festival updates ( with additional celebrities introducing films? ) This might change the films I want to see. Thanx!

[Sue Sue Applegate]

There was an announcement from the Turner Newsroom, and they have been updating the schedule, but not posting it in "latest news" on the Festival website. Hope this helps!

[CineMaven]

Thanks SueSue.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Polly Bergen has cancelled her introduction to Cape Fear due to unforeseen circumstances, and I am very sorry to report this. It was recently updated on the Special Guests Thread....http://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/sp ... .php?id=26

Beau Bridges and Eddie Muller have been added to introduce Try and Get Me (1950).

[Sue Sue Applegate]

From Rebecca Keegan's article in today's L.A. Times:

Returning old movies to theaters has become a surprisingly robust business
in recent years, even in an era of jumbo home TVs and easy access to studio
catalogs on DVD and Blu-ray. TCM's festival draws fans paying up to $1,599
for four-day passes that allow them to meet film idols and fellow movie buffs
and see films rarely exhibited on the big screen. Seventy percent of the
festival passes sell to attendees from outside California, but the event, which
draws about 25,000 people, also does a solid walk-up business for individual
films, said TCM's senior vice president of programming Charlie Tabesh.
The same week in Hollywood, the American Film Institute, in a partnership with
Target, is screening 13 films it considers classics, with celebrity guests including
Samuel L. Jackson presenting "Pulp Fiction," Demi Moore with and an
entry from the current century — Mike Myers with a screening of "Shrek." Also
featured will be stars representing older films such as Sidney Poitier with
"In the Heat of the Night" and Peter Fonda with "Easy Rider."

A movie's popularity over time, its critical commendation and Academy Awards
all play a role in earning a spot on TCM, as does its place in the career of a
particular director, star or era of filmmaking.

"Some people think we shouldn't show anything after 1970," said Tabesh,
a kind of human Internet Movie Database who selects the films for the festival.
"Some people say 1960. Some people say 'Jaws' and the blockbuster era
should be the cutoff. But we don't put any sort of hard definition on it, it all
comes down to context."

By context, Tabesh means the story the network can tell around a film. For
instance, Jane Fonda will be getting her handprints and footprints enshrined
at the Chinese Theatre beside her father's during this year's festival — in
conjunction, organizers will screen the only movie father and daughter
ever co-starred in, the 1981 drama "On Golden Pond."

Like an enthusiastic children's party planner, TCM also loves its themes.
This year's festival theme is travel in the movies — hence "Airplane!," with
its jive-speaking stewardesses and control tower mayhem, fits alongside
"The African Queen," with Bogart and Katharine Hepburn bickering their
way up a reed-filled river during World War I.

For the entire article, follow this handy link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... 0149.story

[ChiO]

...stars representing older films such as Sidney Poitier with "In the Heat of the Night" and Peter Fonda with "Easy Rider."

Did anyone else's joints suddenly start to ache (a little bit more) upon reading that?

[knitwit45]

...stars representing older films such as Sidney Poitier with "In the Heat of the Night" and Peter Fonda with "Easy Rider."

Did anyone else's joints suddenly start to ache (a little bit more) upon reading that?

[Lzcutter]

I loved this little tidbit from the article:

The age of the viewer can play a key role too. For a festival that includes nearly century-old films, TCM's event has a surprisingly young audience, with an estimated two-thirds of attendees younger than 49.

For all the wailing that goes on over at TCM City about how no one under the age of 50 cares about TCM or old films, it's always heartening to read the reality. Not that reality actually matters at TCM City but it is still nice to know.

[JackFavell]

If you posted that at TCM city, they'd complain that the attendees were too young now. And that they had no taste.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

"The age of the viewer can play a key role too. For a festival that includes nearly century-old films, TCM's event has a surprisingly young audience, with an estimated two-thirds of attendees younger than 49."

The fact that these festivals are drawing younger participants was a particularly thrilling part of the prose because it acknowledges that these films have validity and speak to the interests of younger and younger viewers. I was tickled when I read that part of the article. And I think I will go back and highlight it at TCM CITY.

The only way these films will continue to inspire, to teach history, to teach social interaction for the era, and to thrive as a legacy is if we inspire the young.