Turner Classic Movies

The Academy Wishes Gene Kelly A Happy 100th Birthday

Debra Levine | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Gene Kelly, Singin in the Rain, George-Chakiris, Leonard Maltin, Kenny Ortega, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Ellen Harrington, Patricia Ward Kelly, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Slidepollajax, Hello Dolly, Turner Classic Movies, George Chakiris, On the Town, Justin Timberlake, Kenny-Ortega-Dirty-Dancing, An American in Paris, Arts News
Debra Levine

A parade of Technicolor-tinged dance sequences enchanted a full house at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Thursday night. "A Centennial Tribute to Gene Kel...

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2012 TCM Fest: Cabaret's Liza Minnelli, Vertigo's Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds Walk Red Carpet & Thelma Schoonmaker Introduces Black Narcissus

Penelope Andrew | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: TCM Classic Film Festival 2012, Tcm, Classic Films, Hollywood Stars, TCM Fest, Turner Classic Movies, TCM Fest 2012, Classic Movies, Hollywood, Thelma Schoonmaker, Liza Minnelli, Film Forum, Bonjour Tristesse, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Tippi Hedren and Debbie Reynolds in person. Black Narcissus, Vertigo, Cabaret, and The Fountainhead projected on gigantic screens at Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theatres. Could any classic film fan wish for more? You could.

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Classic Stars Turn Out For Turner Movie Cruise (PHOTOS)

Debra Levine | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: TCM Classic Cruise 2011, Robert Osborne, Tcm Classic Cruise, Eva Marie Saint, Tippi Hedren, Eva-Marie-Saint, TCM Classic Film Festival 2011, Tcm, Ernest Borgnine, Turner Classic Movies, TCM Film Festival, Slidepollajax, Charlie Tabesh, Fifty News
Debra Levine

About 1,800 fans of Turner Classic Movies partied last weekend on a the network's first ever Caribbean ocean cruise, complete with screenings, Q&A and veteran actors, including Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren and Eva Marie Saint.

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PHOTOS: TCM Fest's Top Celebrity Panelists

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Turner Classic Movies, Tcm, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Caron, Volano, Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Hollywood Theaters, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles News

WHAT: The 2nd Annual TCM Film Festival WHERE: Hollywood, CA WHEN: April 28 - May 1 Last year cinephiles swarmed Hollywood's theaters for the inau...

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Warren Beatty's Birthday Gift: Dick Tracy is Yours

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Reds, Dick Tracy, Robert Blake, OJ Simpson, Chicago Cubs, Natalie Wood, The Wall Street Journal, California News, Donald Trump, Tcm, Turner Classic Movies, The View, Chicago News, Splendor in the Grass, Chicago News
Lonna Saunders

Happy Birthday, Warren Beatty! You get to keep the rights to Dick Tracy. The Tribune Company lost a few days ago, so it was an early birthday gift.

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Please Don't Feed the Narcissist: The Fantasia Barrino Follies

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The X-Files, Bill Clinton, Fantasia Barrino, Verizon, The Color Purple, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, Freud, Suicide, Clinical Depression, Broadway, Religious Faith, God, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Oprah Winfrey, Rudy Giuliani, Tiger Woods, Hoarders, Ingmar Bergman, Turner Classic Movies, Narcissism, General Hospital, American Idol, Fantasia, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

Here I am, writing another piece regarding an American Idol spawn, and hating myself for it.

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The Remarkable Life and Career of Patricia Neal

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Ritt, Lillian Hellman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Robert Osborne, Academy Awards, Tony Awards, King Vidor, Paul Newman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Audrey Hepburn, Hud, Patricia Neal, Blake Edwards, Shelley Winters, Turner Classic Movies, Greta Garbo, The Fountainhead, Robert Altman, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Beyond the Forest, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

What sets artists apart from stars and competent actors is originality and authenticity. Patricia Neal had these and other rare qualities in spades.

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We're Giving Our Money Away

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blaise Pascal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Luciano Martinengo, Orwell?S 1984, Astor Place, Europa 51, Astro Place, Kubrick?S 2001, Ingrid Bergman, Silvana Mangano, The Rise of Louis XIV, I Am Astro Place, Catholic Church, The Age of the Medici, Descartes, Bob Holman, The Flowers of Saint Francis, One Class, Communist Party, Governors Island, Ivo Van Hove, Roberto Rossellini, Turner Classic Movies, Italy 76, Bowery Poetry Club, Lincoln Center Festival, Steve Katz, Jacket Magazine, Teorema, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

Europa '51 is very rare, not available on DVD, but this Friday, August 6, at 6 p.m. EDT, Turner Classic Movies will run it. I urge you to see it.

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TCM's Robert Osborne Smooth-Talks the Classics

Guy Nicolucci | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turner Classic Movies, Jane Powell, Robert Osborne, Film, Comedy, Dickie Moore, Conan O'Brien, Comedy News
Guy Nicolucci

Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne is the silver-haired, silver-tongued hero to millions of people whose idea of a new movie is one that came o...

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Scorsese vs. Polanski: Finally Some Real Movies, Shutter Island and Ghost Writer

Ben Mankiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turner Classic Movies, Ben Mankiewicz, Shutter Island, The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Los Angeles News
Ben Mankiewicz

Martin Scorsese one night. Roman Polanski the next. It isn't often you get to see fresh work by a couple of Oscar winning directors on back to back evenings.

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Amy Adams, Michael Cera and Why Movies Suck in January

Ben Mankiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Moon, Michael Cera, Leap Year, Turner Classic Movies, Youth in Revolt, Ben Mankiewicz, Amy Adams, Ethan Hawke, Daybreakers, Los Angeles News
Ben Mankiewicz

Movies suck in January, a time Hollywood commonly refers to as a "dumping ground" for films that don't match the high quality of 2012 and Did You Hear About the Morgans?

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The Centennial of Elia Kazan

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dean, Huac, Best Movies by Farr, Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood, Patricia Neal, Warren Beatty, Jack Palance, Turner Classic Movies, Andy Griffith, Richard Widmark, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire, Zero Mostel, Classic Movies, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Entertainment News
John Farr

Today marks the centennial of director Elia Kazan's birth, and doubtless Hollywood will soon be giving us souped-up special editions of his finest film work, if they haven't already.

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The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bad Movies, Patricia Neal, Novels, Ayn Rand, Turner Classic Movies, Jack Warner, The Fountainhead, Frank Lloyd Wright, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged, Gary Cooper, Architecture, Star Trek, Movies, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.

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Two White Guys "At the Movies"

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority Movie Critics, Richard Roeper, Ben Lyons, At the Movies, Roger Ebert, Minority Journalists, Gene Siskel, Robert Feder, Movies, Ebert & Roeper Replacements, New at the Movies Hosts, Ebert & Roeper, Tribune, Sun-Times, Ben Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Movies, E! Entertainment, Movie Critics, Media Bias, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

It's 2008 and some black dude is running for president, but the movie review show based in Chicago - which has one of the largest black and Latino populations in America--couldn't find one single movie writer, reviewer, or blogger "of color" to fill one of the seats?

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