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 Best Picture Oscar winners: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Vincente Minnelli's Gigi (1958), David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and George Roy Hill's The Sting (1973), in addition to Marcel Camus' Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Black Orpheus (1959), a musicalized version of the Orpheus legend set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Also, for the first time, "The Essentials" will include special late-night installments, featuring 1970s classics such as Saturday Night Fever (1977), starring John Travolta, and Serpico (1973), with Al Pacino and lots of corrupt cops.
Other titles for 2010 include the 1960s classics Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Graduate (1967); the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Alec Guinness in eight different roles; plus Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941) (hopefully in a restored print), John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and George Cukor's newly restored A Star Is Born (1954). The complete schedule for next year’s installments of "The Essentials" will be announced later.
Past hosts of "The Essentials" include filmmakers Rob Reiner, Peter Bogdanovich and Sydney Pollack. Robert Osborne took over hosting duties in 2006, paired with film critic and author Molly Haskell. He was joined by actress and bestselling author Carrie Fisher in 2007 and actress Rose McGowan in 2008.
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what was the name of the movie, where Alex Baldwin played a gangster, they shot and killed all these people, but one man, they thought was dead, started to hunt them down, and eventually got to them all at their house, and blew up their cars, and draged Alex through the lot, this man who hunted them down, because they killed his wife, and in the movie also, Alex killed his body guard because he thought he was having an affair with his wife, set up by this other man. good movie, thank You,
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thank you for all your good movies.by the way your doing a very good job
Robert osborne thank you.
Dear sir;
I would like to submit a program idea for Friday night. Drive-in theater, with two movies such as rock and roll films of the late fifties and early sixties, hong kong martial arts films dubbed in english, Radical films like "Wild in the Streets". These were not big budget film or of much artistic value but when I was sixteen (1968) the drive-in theaters were always full. Maybe use an unknown blue collar guest programmer.
Let's get Molly Haskell back!!