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TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001

Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)

Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]

Robert Osborne, Alec Baldwin to Host TCM’s 2010 “The Essentials”

Two-time Emmy winner Alec Baldwin will be returning for a second season as co-host of Turner Classic Movies‘ "The Essentials," joining forces with TCM host Robert Osborne to present a new slate of must-see movies every Saturday at 5 p.m. (PT).
The 10th season of "The Essentials" will kick off in March 2010 with Elia Kazan’s 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Oscar nominee Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. If you haven’t seen it, yet, you must. If you have, it’s one of those movies that can be watched again and again.
As per the TCM press release, the season will also feature four [...]

Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom)

Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, June 20, at 12:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Theater in New York City. Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne will host the event.
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year" will continue through mid-October, showcasing all 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939. Screenings will take place on Monday at 7:30 p.m., [...]

Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in GUNGA DIN Screening

George Stevens‘ rousingly politically incorrect — and for the most part much admired — action-adventure tale Gunga Din will have a special screening on Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Prior to the film, Oscar winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron will discuss the sound and visual effects used in this 1939 classic starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen.
Gunga Din will also will be presented in New York City on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
Written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, from a story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which [...]

Latino Images in Film: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Warner Baxter on TCM

Turner Classic Movies‘ series "Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film" kicks off this evening.
So what if "Latino" isn’t a race? So what if it isn’t even an ethnic or a cultural group, but merely a US-made sociopolitical construct? I’d say that what matters here are the films themselves — all Hollywood productions. And hopefully some of the introductions, provided by Robert Osborne and UCLA professor of film and media studies Chon A. Noriega, will be illuminating.
Tonight, TCM watchers will be able to catch Hollywood’s foremost couple of the 1920s, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, playing Spanish-speaking characters (by way of English-language intertitles) in, respectively, the D. W. Griffith-directed early short Ramona [...]

GONE WITH THE WIND: A 70th Anniversary Celebration

Among the special events at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival, which runs April 16-25, is "Gone With the Wind: A 70th Anniversary Celebration," with the presence of Turner Classic Movie’s host and film historian Robert Osborne, Baltimore Sun critic Michael Sragow, and author/critic Molly Haskell.
On Saturday, April 18, at 8:00 pm, "The Gone With the Wind Legacy" will feature a discussion with Osborne, Sragow and Haskell at the Margaret Mitchell House’s Literary Center. All three participants will be showcasing their new books: 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards by Osborne, Victor Fleming, a Biography by Sragow, and Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited [...]

LEADING COUPLES: THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE SCREEN ROMANCES OF THE STUDIO ERA

With text by Frank Miller, whose previous books include Leading Ladies and Leading Men, introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and loads of photographs covering about half a century of Hollywood history, Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books, 2008) takes a brief look at nearly forty successful movie pairings from the studio era (and a little later).
Among those featured are both the obvious — say, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn — and several more esoteric couplings (at least as far as modern film lovers are concerned), e.g., [...]

Oscar 2008: Miley Cyrus, Michael Moore, Ronald Harwood

Miley Cyrus, Robert Osborne

Ronald Harwood, Robert Osborne

Michael Moore, Robert Osborne
Photos: Matt Petit / © AMPAS

Oscar 2008: Jennifer Garner, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page

Marion Cotillard

Jennifer Garner

Ellen Page, Robert Osborne
Photos: Michael Yada (Garner), Armando Flores (Cotillard), Matt Petit (Page). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Julie Christie, Tommy Lee Jones, Jon McLaughlin, Hilary Swank

Julie Christie, Robert Osborne

Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Osborne

Jon McLaughin, Robert Osborne

Hilary Swank, Robert Osborne
Photos: Matt Petit / © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Saoirse Ronan, Laura Linney, Josh Brolin

Saoirse Ronan, Robert Osborne

Laura Linney, Jason Reitman

Josh Brolin (with Javier Bardem’s Oscar statuette?)
Photos: Richard Harbaugh (Ronan), Greg Harbaugh (Brolin), Darren Decker (Linney). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Anne-Marie Duff, Jessica Alba, Katherine Heigl

Jessica Alba, Robert Osborne on the red carpet

Anne-Marie Duff, James McAvoy

Katherine Heigl
Photos: Matt Petit (Heigl, Alba), Michael Yada (McAvoy & Duff). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Viggo Mortensen, Ruby Dee, Tony Gilroy

Viggo Mortensen and niece

Ruby Dee; James McAvoy, Dwayne Johnson (in the background)

Robert Osborne, Tony Gilroy
Photos: Richard Harbaugh (Gilroy, Dee), Greg Harbaugh (Mortensen). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Colin Farrell, Helen Mirren, Patrick Dempsey, Viggo Mortensen

Colin Farrell, Robert Osborne

Patrick Dempsey, Robert Osborne

Viggo Mortensen

Helen Mirren
Photos: Matt Petit (Dempsey, Farrell, Mortensen), Richard Harbaugh (Mirren). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2007: “Shorts!” in New York City

Maestro by Geza M. Toth (top); West Bank Story by Ari Sandel (middle); Too Few of Us by Borja Cobeaga (bottom)

The New York City version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ annual “Shorts!” program, featuring the year’s Oscar-nominated narrative short films, will be presented on Saturday, February 17, at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
The screenings will be hosted by none other than Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter columnist, Turner Classic Movies host, and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
The screening films are:

Short Film (Animated)

The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (a Danish poet travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto [...]

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