TCM To Host Vintage Film Festival
The cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be hosting the TCM Classic Film Festival, which will showcase screenings of vintage and classic motion pictures with many celebrity guests in attendance and QandA sessions about the films.
The Turner Classic Movie (TCM) cable channel will be hosting a film festival in "The City of Angels" of over 50 classic motion pictures midway into 2010.
According to Variety.com: "The Turner cabler will host the TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles April 22-25, in partnership with Vanity Fair. The fest will include more than 50 screenings of vintage and classic pics, complete with celeb guests and Q&As. TCM has hired Telluride film fest founders Bill and Stella Pence to serve as consultants."
"There are a great many film festivals around the world, but only TCM is so perfectly poised to do something truly original when it comes to classic movies," Pence said.
The emcee of the weeklong event will be TCM's chief host Robert Osborne. Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Egyptian Theater, which are both heralded Hollywood attractions, are just some of the venues where screenings will be held. Yet, the prestigious Hollywood Roosevelt hotel will be the official hotel for the festival and a major spot for the event's affairs.
The Variety.com article also mentions that the "Film preservation org the Film Foundation will be honored by the fest on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, and the lineup will showcase many of the titles that the org has saved from extinction."
The TCM Classic Film Festival closely follows last month's six-day Grand Lyon Film Festival held in Lyon, France. That film extravaganza was headed by Cannes Film Festival boss Thierry Fremaux and featured both classic and rare motion pictures in the hometown of cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
