Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, April 7, 2023
Just a reminder that if you live in Los Angeles or can be there next week, TCM is having their annual Classic Film Festival from Thursday, April 13 to Sunday, April 16.
An amazing opportunity exists to see a number of incredible films on the big screen as they were originally intended to be shown and appreciated. By clicking on the image above, one can see all of the films chosen to be presented this year.
Just a few of the highlights include:
Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter, Bette Davis
David Newman
All About Eve (1950) Sunday, April 16 with Special Guest David Newman, an award-winning composer and son of nine-time Oscar-winning composer Alfred Newman, the latter who composed the music for All About Eve. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about the guest speaker click on the image to the right.
(From left) Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Bicycle Thieves (1948, a 75th Anniversary Screening) Friday, April 14. For more information about this screening, click on the image above.
Robert Mitchum
Alan K. Rode
Blood on the Moon (1948, a 75th Anniversary Screening) Friday, April 14 with Special Guest Alan K. Rode, noted author and film historian. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about the guest speaker, click on the image to the right.
Bruce Goldstein
Footlight Parade (1933, a 90th Anniversary Screening) Friday, April 14 with Special Guest Bruce Goldstein founder and co-president of Rialto Pictures and Director of Repertory Programming at New York’s Film Forum cinema. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about the guest speaker, click on the image to the right.
Takashi Shimura
Ernest Dickerson
Ikiru (1952, a 35mm print) Thursday, April 13 with Special Guest Ernest Dickerson an Emmy, Peabody, and two-time Image Award-winning film and television veteran. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about the guest speaker, click on the image to the right.
Kirk Douglas
Paths of Glory (1957) Saturday, April 15. For more information about this screening, click on the image above.
Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins
Allison Anders
Peter Riegert
Play It As It Lays (1972, a 35mm print) Saturday, April 15 with Special Guests Allison Anders an award-winning screenwriter and film director, and Peter Riegert, an actor, writer, director and producer for over 50 years. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about either of the guest speakers click on the appropriate image.
Barbara Stanwyck
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948, a 75th Anniversary Screening) Saturday, April 15 with Special Guest Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, a noted film and TV actor. For more information about this screening, click on the image above. For more information about the guest speaker, click on the image to the right.
(From left) Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine
The Wild Bunch (1969, a 70mm print) Friday, April 14. For more information about this screening, click on the image above.
All responses are not only welcomed but encouraged in the comments section below.
Hope to see you tomorrow.
A.G.