With all the new primetime television series premiering right now, it might be easy to miss this evening’s A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King [TCM, 8/7C]. The one-hour special is, essentially, King talking about how he came to love horror movies, and why – accompanied by stills and clips from dozens […]
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Legendary Filmmaker To Pen Monthly Column For TCM!
Martin Scorsese – legendary filmmaker, whose first 3D film, Hugo Cabret will be released for Christmas – will be writing a monthly column for Turner Classic Movies’ Now Playing viewing guide. His first column will look at the films of Nicholas Ray [Rebel With a Cause] and the work of cinematographer John Alton [Tea and […]
Ambitious TCM Documentary Series Moguls & Movie Stars is Fascinating!
Tonight, TCM presents the first of seven one-hour episodes of its ambitious history of filmmaking in America, Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood [Mondays, 8/7C]. Featuring previously unseen footage [a Frenchwoman directing a sound-sync film twenty-two years before The Jazz Singer!] and interviews with both noted film historians and Hollywood luminaries, the series […]
Turner Classic Movies to Pay Tribute to Legendary Leading Man Tony Curtis Sunday, Oct. 10
Tony Curtis – star of the films The Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, and The Great Race, among others – died of cardiac arrest yesterday at his home in Las Vegas, He was 85. Today, TCM, where Curtis had become something of a regular presence – joking that TCM stood for “Tony Curtis Movies” […]