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 […]
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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 […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: Cover Girl (1944)
The TCM Classic Film Festival presentation of Cover Girl (1944) was special because, as festival godhead Robert Osborne declared in his typically informed and engaging introduction, it was the one screening for which he had allowed time in his busy schedule to watch in its entirety (it was some pressing matter, no doubt, that demanded […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: Raw Deal (1948)
The TCM Classic Festival screening of Raw Deal (1948) left a large number of hopeful audience members shut out (the fact that there were still empty seats for Love Story across the way was no consolation). Part of the teething process for a festival that seems to double in attendance each year, but one that […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: The Macomber Affair (1947)
The collected works of Ernest Hemingway are popular for cinematic adaptation. One of the lesser known, and only adapted once for the screen, is Hemingway’s novel “The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber”. In 1947, Director Zoltan Korda, of the famous Korda family, brought The Macomber Affair to the big screen with the legendary Gregory […]