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What to Watch on TCM This Memorial Day Weekend, Part 2

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:30:42 +0000

On Sunday, Turner Classic Movies will continue its all-weekend salute to veterans by showcasing a string of John Wayne war movies throughout the day.

Starting in the early morning hours, viewers can see Wayne play a downed Air Force flyer trying to escape the Nazis with the help of a French woman (Joan Crawford) in Jules Dassin's Reunion in France (1942). After playing an anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain in The Sea Chase (1955), be sure to catch Wayne in one of his better World War II movies, Back to Bataan (1945), where he was an Army colonel who leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese.

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What to Watch on TCM This Memorial Day Weekend, Part 1

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:17:47 +0000

This weekend, Turner Classic Movies will air one great war movie after another, which will be listed here in three parts over the course of the next few days.

Tomorrow, May 25th, TCM will start Memorial Day weekend off with a Hell Below (1933), a tense film about a submarine captain clashing with his crew during World War I, starring Robert Montgomery and Walter Huston.

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Warners Turns Gangster for 90th Anniversary

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:20 +0000

For more than 80 years, the gangster flick has been a staple at Warner Bros. So it should come as no surprise that the studio plans to release two gangster collections as part of their 90th anniversary celebration.

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'Gatsby' Great at the Box Office

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:13:02 +0000

This weekend, Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic The Great Gatsby over-performed at the box office with a $52 million take, though the comic book sequel Iron Man 3 still came in first place in its second week of release.

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Classic Movie Stars Born in May

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:29:20 +0000

Here is a list of classic movie stars and directors who were born in the month of May. A few are still with us, but all should be remembered for how their lives and work touched us deeply.

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Lots of Classics to be Released on Blu-ray

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:46:05 +0000

Every month, I try to dig up enough films that are being released on Blu-ray to make it worth writing an article. Most months, I'm hard-pressed to find much of anything, which often leads to writing about obscure films released by an indie distributor.

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Jane Fonda's Prints Enshrined in Hollywood

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:04:05 +0000

On Saturday, actress Jane Fonda was honored at the TCM Classic Film Festival when she received her hand and footprints outside the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The ceremony was conducted by TCM host Robert Osborne, and featured several celebrities that included brother Peter Fonda, actor Jim Carrey, TV actress Eva Longoria, and Fonda's Nine to Five (1980) co-star Lily Tomlin.

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Restored 'Funny Girl' Kicks Off TCM Classic Film Fest

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:53:57 +0000

A new digital restoration of the classic 1968 musical Funny Girl will open the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival with a world premiere at the festival's Opening Night Gala tonight.

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Kim Novak Named Guest of Honor at Cannes Film Festival

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:18:30 +0000

Next month, actress Kim Novak will be the guest of honor at the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival, where she will help honor the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's classic romantic thriller, Vertigo (1958).

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Roger Ebert's Favorite Classic Movies

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:46:10 +0000

Just yesterday on April 4, 2013, the film world lost a titan when famed critic, Roger Ebert, succumbed to a long battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.

From 1967 until his death, Ebert wrote thousands of film reviews for his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, where in 1975 he became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

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