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TCM Wins Peabody Award for THE STORY OF FILM
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 3, 2014
“We’re going to do our best to uphold the high standards that this Peabody Award symbolizes,” Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne said in May of 2009 when the then-15-year-old network was first honored with the prestigious prize for excellence in broadcasting. He kept his word. Five years read more
Revisiting HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS (1970) on Warner Archive Instant
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 29, 2014
“Son, you should video this movie,” my father said, handing me a copy of TV Guide and pointing emphatically to the VCR he had just bought – for $1,000 – as a family Christmas gift. “It’s based on a soap opera about vampires. I think you’d like it.” One thing you should know about read more
TCM to Release Robert Osborne Interviews on DVD
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 23, 2014
After 20 years as the face of Turner Classic Movies, host Robert Osborne has earned his moment in the spotlight. Beginning on April 7, TCM will launch a new line of DVDs featuring Osborne’s greatest on-air interviews with classic film icons. The first release in the new TCM Originals DVD series will read more
New Channel Brings Classic Film to Broadcast TV
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 6, 2014
Turner Classic Movies is getting an unexpected present for their twentieth birthday: competition. On February 3, Sony Pictures Television launched getTV, a broadcast television network devoted exclusively to classic film from the 1930s through the 1960s. At launch, the channel is available in 44 per read more
TCM 20th Anniversary Video
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 4, 2014
Turner Classic Movies has posted their 20th anniversary video, and it’s an appropriately elegant tribute to a network that has slowly grown into a way of life for scores of fans. Produced by TCM and the Atlanta-based Sabotage Film Group, and scored with the song ”Calling All Gamma Rays&# read more
Update #8: Roll ‘em! TCM’s Bus Tour Goes Hollywood
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 27, 2014
Last updated 2/27/14 8 p.m. Turner Classic Movies may be celebrating their 20th birthday, but it’s the fans who are getting the presents. The network announced today the launch of the TCM Movie Locations Tour: Los Angeles, a three-hour bus trip “through movie history” in Tinseltown, with read more
The Good, the Bad and the Stretched
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 23, 2014
This is a story about good news and bad news. It’s also a tale of one man’s obsession with film and television aspect ratios, and why you should be too (if not obsessed at least aware). We’ll start with the Bad News, because that’s the way my mind works. I was out of town for work this past read more
Update 1: Spend a Night in CASABLANCA with TCM on March 4
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 18, 2014
Turner Classic Movies has announced the twenty U.S. cities that have been selected as hosts for FREE national screenings of Michael Curtiz’s CASABLANCA (1942) on Tuesday, March 4 in celebration of the channel’s 20th anniversary. Ten were chosen by TCM, and ten were selected (at least in part) read more
Return to Walton’s Mountain (1)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 14, 2014
On March 30, 1978, in the final episode of the sixth season of The Waltons, Emmy-winning actress Ellen Corby returned to the role of Grandma Esther Walton after surviving a near-fatal stroke fifteen months earlier. The 66-year-old veteran character actress was partially paralyzed and her ability to read more
Remembering Shirley Temple (1928-2014)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 11, 2014
As usual, Robert Osborne says it best. “Shirley Temple was a good friend and an extraordinary human being who, after being the most famous person in the world at age 6 and Hollywood’s pint-sized queen at age 7, grew up to be such a lovely, civic-minded citizen, wife and mother, as well a read more
You Pick the Cities for TCM’s Nationwide Screenings of CASABLANCA
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jan 27, 2014
Turner Classic Movies will bring CASABLANCA to theaters nationwide for one night only in March – and viewers get a chance to help pick the cities. In celebration of the network’s twentieth anniversary, TCM will present Michael Curtiz’s iconic 1942 drama in twenty U.S. cities on Tuesday, read more
Esther Williams – The Wonder Woman of the 1950s
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jan 26, 2014
Sometimes pop culture passions of past and present converge in unexpected and serendipitous ways. This happened to me on a recent Saturday night when I watched Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter on the nostalgia-themed Me-TV network, followed by JUPITER’S DARLING (1955) with Esther Williams on DVD from read more
3 Things I Love About THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jan 5, 2014
Confession: I was bored and unmoved the first time I watched THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. Before you start penning your hate mail, I was in my early twenties at the time, and my idea of a “war film” was BUCK PRIVATES (1941), the 84-minute Abbott and Costello romp in which the draft looks like an read more
Candice Bergen Remembers George Cukor’s Final Film
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 28, 2013
“He was so much smarter than anyone else,” Candice Bergen said of director George Cukor, the subject of a 50-film retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center continuing through January 7. The 67-year-old actress, a five-time Emmy winner for the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, took the stage at read more
Christmas Eve with Donna Reed’s Daughter
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 25, 2013
The climax of Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE may be the most reliably tear-inducing sequence in American film. But at a Christmas Eve screening at New York City’s IFC Center with special guest Mary Owen, daughter of Donna Reed, eyes were misty before the movie even began. “I watch it every read more
A Sad Week for Classic Film Fans
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 16, 2013
Classic movie fans are in mourning today, as five unique performers, each much loved for their contributions to the diverse art of film, have died in the last week. Joan Fontaine, an Oscar winner for Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION (1941) and a nominee for REBECCA (1940) and THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943), read more
Stanwyck and Capra: An Intense Connection, Revisited
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 7, 2013
“I would say Frank Capra fell in love with her,” biographer Victoria Wilson said of Barbara Stanwyck last night at Film Forum in New York City. Really, who can blame him? And now, thanks to Film Forum’s 40-film Stanwyck retrospective, New York audiences can do the same, more than 80 years later. read more
Who Owns That Movie: An Analysis of New Restorations at TCM Film Fest
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 5, 2013
Turner Classic Movies has revealed four high-profile films and the first announced guest for the upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival, set for April 10-13, 2014. Eighty-year-old composer/producer Quincy Jones will be honored at the fifth annual classic film conclave in Hollywood with an on-stage inter read more
Rare Buster Keaton Footage Resurfaces – And You Can Help Bring It To Audiences
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 1, 2013
In 1964, 68-year-old Buster Keaton began production on FILM, a two-reel (mostly) silent short written by Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright and author of Waiting for Godot. Things did not go smoothly. And, though it was completed and premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1965, FILM turned out d read more
The Maltese Falcon Sells for $3.5 Million at TCM Auction
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Nov 26, 2013
“This is genuine coin of the realm,” Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) says to Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) while haggling over the value of the Maltese Falcon in the 1941 film of the same name. He wasn’t kidding. Today at Bonhams in New York City, the statuette of the iconic “black bird” read more