The TCM Festival does a great job of getting old stars out to be fêted along with their classic films. Rhonda Fleming, Marsha Hunt and others turned up this year, but the highlight was undoubtedly the appearance by Peggy Cummins, wonderful star of Gun Crazy (1950). Ms Cummins’s conversation with noir expert Eddie Mueller can […]
2012
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Trip To The Moon and Other Trips Through Time, Space, and Color
As Serge Bromberg pointed out, he is engaged not only in the business of restoring films, but also of restoring audiences. The catalogue of his Lobster Films is superb, constantly swelling with newly restored titles, and Bromberg shares them with zeal. He was an entertaining host throughout the TCM Classic Film Festival weekend. The […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: La Retour De Flamme – 3D Rarities
Head honcho of Lobster Films, Serge Bromberg is an avid collector and preserver of film, and happily for the rest of us, he is also an enthusiastic exhibitor. He came to the TCM Classic Film Festival this year with a fascinating program of short experiments and showcases for various stereoscopic filming techniques, dating all the […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: The Legendary Costume Design of Travis Banton, with Mae West in I’m No Angel
The Legendary Costumes of Travis Banton… featuring I’m No Angel, Nothing Sacred, and The Scarlett Empress. Introduction: The TCM Classic Film Festival is known for screening rare, formerly out of print, and all-time classic movies for an over-eager crowd of festival attendees. People come from all over the country to […]
Film Rave: The Five-Year Engagement as presented by Film Independent at LACMA
The romantic comedy genre doesn’t leave room for too many surprises. We know that at some point a boy will meet a girl, the boy will do something foolish and lose the girl, and then the boy will eventually get the girl back with a heartfelt speech, or a symbolic gesture of some sort. And […]