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TCMFF 2016: Field of Dreams

Being a sports fan, I’m a pretty big sucker for a good sports film. Fitting in with this year’s festival theme of “Moving Pictures,” there were several films programmed as part of an “inspirational sports movies” theme. Movies about sports … Continue reading

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TCM Classic Film Festival: Making the Hard Choices

This year marks the 6th time TCM has hosted their Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California. It’s a packed four day experience filled with chances to see a favorite classic on the big screen for the first time, new restorations, … Continue reading

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TCMFF: Day Four Recap

Sunday for TCMFF seems to be a lighter day than Friday and Saturday, depending on what you might’ve seen earlier in the weekend. The festival holds open one theater’s block of programming as TBAs on Sunday, and they are repeat … Continue reading

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TCMFF Recap: Day 3

Day three of the TCMFF again started for me at 8:30 when I got in line for King Vidor’s Stella Dallas. I jokingly coined this year’s festival as the “TCM-mess-with-my-emotions festival” because of the all the tearjerker films I saw. … Continue reading

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TCMFF: Days 1 and 2 Recap

Wow, another TCM Classic Film Festival is in the books. I realized pretty early on that writing decent posts wasn’t going to happen for me after long days of movie watching, so now after having a little bit of time … Continue reading

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TCMFF: Day 1!

I started my morning bright and early for the TCM Classic Film Festival press conference with on-air hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz, TCM Programming Director Charles Tabesh and TCMFF Managing Director Genevieve McGillicuddy. It was a fairly loose format, … Continue reading

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TCM Bus Tour!

Today I was lucky to be Laura’s plus one on the TCM Movie Locations Tour. Today is actually the first day of the tour, which runs through April 14, so we were in the very first public group to go. … Continue reading

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Summer Under the Stars Blogathon: The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli, 1953)

This post is a contribution to the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon. Thanks to Jill and Michael for hosting again this year! For director Vincente Minnelli’s follow-up to the Best Picture-winning An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful … Continue reading

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Come and Meet Those Dancing Feet

This entry is a contribution to the TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon. Be sure to check out the other great posts and thanks to Jill and Michael for hosting! Today is Ginger Rogers’ SUTS day, and she is definitely … Continue reading

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A Surprise

This came falling down the stairs this morning: It’s a prize from the TCM Summer Under the Stars Sweepstakes! I am quite psyched about it, it’s a nice heavy canvas tote that I can now use to haul stuff around … Continue reading

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