Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

[Sue Sue Applegate]

It’s wonderful that you will be there this year! I hope we can connect early on. Glad you are doing the Warner Brothers Studio Classics Tour. Sounds like you are almost ready.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Update!!

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Full Announcement…

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will kick off the 14th annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Thursday, April 13 with the classic western Rio Bravo (1959) with star Angie Dickinson in attendance to have a conversation with TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz ahead of the film. The screening will be a world premiere of a 4k restoration of the film, in partnership with The Film Foundation, as part of the year-long celebration of Warner Bros.' 100th anniversary. In addition, Film Foundation board members Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson will take the stage to celebrate the continuation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s multi-year partnership with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, which has restored or preserved more than 950 of films ensuring their survival for future generations.

The 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival, held in the heart of Hollywood April 13-16, will center around the theme “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” celebrating film legacies, in particular the enduring legacy of Warner Bros., which marks its 100th anniversary on April 4, 2023. In conjunction with Warner Bros. Discovery’s centennial WB100 campaign, Celebrating Every Story, the TCM Classic Film Festival will shine a spotlight on some of the studio’s landmark creations, including this restoration of Rio Bravo.

“Any movie with Angie Dickinson is made better by the fact that Angie Dickinson is in it. Certainly, Rio Bravo is no exception. As an added bonus, it also has a couple of guys named John Wayne and Dean Martin. Moreover, to have Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg back for a second year in a row is such an honor, as well as an indication of the vital role TCM plays among the filmmaking community,” said Ben Mankiewicz, TCM Primetime Anchor and Official Host of the TCM Classic Film Festival. “This restoration is important not just for the film or for the 100th anniversary of Warner Bros., but for the film-loving community at large.”

This hit western from Warner Bros. stars John Wayne as a sheriff with an unlikely group of allies, including Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, and Angie Dickinson, as they help defend against a gang of armed attackers intent on breaking out a prisoner. Richly filmed in Technicolor, this landmark film looks better than ever in a world premiere 4k restoration. In 2014, Rio Bravo was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

[speedracer5]

My husband and I have spotlight passes. We were wondering what we were going to see opening night. We honestly didn't even care what movie they were showing, because we figured the special guests would be worth it. Neither of us have seen "Rio Bravo," so that'll be exciting. And with Angie Dickinson and Steven Spielberg in attendance, it'll be even more exciting.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

I think it was a good choice to add a restoration with El Dorado, honor Angie Dickinson, and add Spielberg into the mix to highlight film restoration. Not everyone loves a Western, but sometimes they are a bit neglected …

The Oscars telecast In Memoriam sequence left out #TCMFF Special Guest Paul Sorvino. Here he is in 2018 walking the Red Carpet….





Right after I took the photos, he stopped to have a short chat with Leonard Maltin….

Follow the link for an article about Sorvino’s omission: https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/paul-sor ... 62FytPohJI

[speedracer5]

I'm not a huge fan of Westerns and not a huge John Wayne fan, but I'm a fan of the rest of the cast. We're excited about it. It's a shame how many people the Oscars left out of their In Memoriam. Surely they could remove some bad filler segments to make the In Memoriam tribute longer; or perhaps not feature live music, so there isn't the need to waste precious airtime on a musician who is decidedly not dead.

[TikiSoo]

OK I officially feel left out. Now that I know a few people who are going, will make more of a point to attend next year.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

That would be great, TikiSoo! Lynn will be there this year, too.
speedracer5, I definitely agree about shortening some of the segments to have time for a more representative In Memoriam segment. They also left out Marsha Hunt (1917-2022) this year.

[laffite]

Wow, that's quite a slip up. Marsha, we love you anyway. The cutest bookworm in all moviedom (as well as so much more).

[laffite]

That top pic of Marsha resembles Marlene, a bit.

I prefer Marsha sweet above Marsha glamour.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

While we anxiously await the #TCMFF 2023 schedule, here are the very first set of fest films and events from 2010..

[speedracer5]

Great post! It's interesting that they showed "Casablanca" twice at the festival. Oof that Saturday. Saturday Night Fever or The Adventures of Robin Hood?! Decisions Decisions.

[Dargo]

Great post! It's interesting that they showed "Casablanca" twice at the festival. Oof that Saturday. Saturday Night Fever or The Adventures of Robin Hood?! Decisions Decisions.

Wow, speedy! Who would have ever guessed that John Travolta would've ever come close to displacing Errol in your heart of hearts?!!!

[speedracer5]

Great post! It's interesting that they showed "Casablanca" twice at the festival. Oof that Saturday. Saturday Night Fever or The Adventures of Robin Hood?! Decisions Decisions.

Wow, speedy! Who would have ever guessed that John Travolta would've ever come close to displacing Errol in your heart of hearts?!!!

Lol. I would just watch it for all the dancing! Though Saturday Night Fever is kind of depressing, so that is definitely a strike against it. I've seen The Adventures of Robin Hood in the theater before--though at the time of the first festival, I'm not sure that I'd seen 'Robin Hood' in the theater yet, so maybe I would have skipped Travolta dancing on the light-up floor in favor of Flynn as "The Tall Tinker" and splitting the arrow.

[Dargo]

Lol. I would just watch it for all the dancing! Though Saturday Night Fever is kind of depressing, so that is definitely a strike against it. I've seen The Adventures of Robin Hood in the theater before--though at the time of the first festival, I'm not sure that I'd seen 'Robin Hood' in the theater yet, so maybe I would have skipped Travolta dancing on the light-up floor in favor of Flynn as "The Tall Tinker" and splitting the arrow.

Can't say I've ever watched TAORH on the big screen, but after every time I've watched it on TCM over these many years (and this would be dozens of times) I never fail to feel that this movie exemplies the term "perfection".

(...it's just a wonderful film, and NOBODY was ever better cast in a movie role than your boy Errol was in this one)