Ambersons screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival

[nhu]

TCM Classic Film Festival (Hollywood; April 22-25, 2010) to Present Special Events Inspired by Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood and Introduced by Vanity Fair Writers and Special Guests.

The lineup is continuing to grow for the first TCM Classic Film Festival, which is now set to feature special screenings of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Cleopatra (1963), The Graduate (1967), The Producers (1968) and Midnight Cowboy (1969). The films will be presented as part of special programming inspired by the book Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood. The movies will be preceded by panel discussions conducted by Vanity Fair writers who penned essays on the films. The panels will feature special guests associated with each film, such as Tony Curtis, Jon Voight, Martin Landau, Buck Henry and Peter Bogdanovich.

http://www.tcm.com/festival

http://fan.tcm.com/_UPDATED-Latest-Info ... 66470.html

[Roger Ryan]

Obviously, Bogdanovich will be talking about AMBERSONS...and persumably the Vanity Fair article from a decade ago detailing attempts to find a lost print in Brazil.

[mido505]

Could this be the site of the infamous preview that led to the destruction of Ambersons?

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[raymond]

Just read this over at TCM:

Welles Fan
Date: 12/27/2009
Still no DVD???...
While I think that 'Amberson's is not as good as 'Citizen Kane', it still deserves a quality DVD release. In 2007 Warner once announced that a DVD would be on the market in 2008. 2010 is a few days way and Ambersons is not on DVD. I wonder if the DVD will finally become available after the 'Ambersons' screening in April at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Could it be that the long-lost missing footage has been found, and that Warner is waiting to make a big deal about it at the TCMCFF? I know it's a near impossible scenario, but we can hope.

Link: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid ... %20Reviews

Highly unlikely but with all the unexplained, years long delays in getting this one film out on DVD, I'm wondering too.

[Alan Brody]

Sounds like something that could tour around the entire country if there was enough interest. I agree that festivals are the most fun way to appreciate old classic movies. No one is better equipped to have them then TCM. Having done so much for classics on the small screen, It would be great if they could start helping them get a place on the big screen again too. It'll be interesting to see what kind of response they get.

I don't hold out much hope of lost footage from Ambersons, but if they'd like to surprise us all with some of it, I'd have no problem with it. Maybe there's at least an alternate trailer with other bits.

[Roger Ryan]

I seem to recall that TCM did promote a touring mini-retrospective about a decade back. KANE was one of the films shown for a weekend at a local megaplex during the stop in the Detroit-area. I was outraged that the film was cropped for widescreen, effectively cutting off the heads of Welles and the other actors during many of the shots. I complained to the management, but was told the theatre didn't have a suitable lens to show "Academy" ratio movies and didn't think it was worth renting/buying one for a single weekend!

If such a retrospective tours again, I hope they avoid the AMC LIVONIA 20!

[atcolomb]

I seem to recall that TCM did promote a touring mini-retrospective about a decade back. KANE was one of the films shown for a weekend at a local megaplex during the stop in the Detroit-area. I was outraged that the film was cropped for widescreen, effectively cutting off the heads of Welles and the other actors during many of the shots. I complained to the management, but was told the theatre didn't have a suitable lens to show "Academy" ratio movies and didn't think it was worth renting/buying one for a single weekend!

If such a retrospective tours again, I hope they avoid the AMC LIVONIA 20!

Samething when i saw Kane in the Chicago area..Still Welles gets no respect sometimes when trying to show his films in the theater...or on dvd....