TCM's Road to Hollywood 2013

TCM has announced it's full line up for it's TCM Road To Hollywood tour. I love that they make this effort to bring classic film and it's stars to people around the country, as a build up to the amazing TCM film festival in Hollywood. 

Hope it's coming to a town near you. Free tickets are available If you go I want a full report on Mitzi Gaynor. I love her! I may have to fly out to Chicago....

And just to keep us guessing they still have one date, city and screening to be determined.

Dallas – Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 (CT) – The Historic Texas Theater Rio Bravo (1959) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Angie Dickinson
Tickets available Feb. 8.

Washington, D.C. – Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. (ET) – The AFI Silver Theatre (Silver Springs, Md.)Metropolis (1927) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and featuring a the Alloy Orchestra performing their original score
Tickets available Feb. 8.

Boston – Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. (CT) – Brattle TheatreRoyal Wedding (1951) – Hosted by Leonard Maltin, with special guest Jane Powell
Tickets available February 26.

Chicago – Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. (CT) – Music Box TheaterSouth Pacific (1958) – Hosted by Leonard Maltin, with special guest Mitzi Gaynor
Tickets available March 5.

San Francisco – Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. (PT) – The Castro TheatreThe Pink Panther (1964) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Robert Wagner
Tickets available April 2.

Albuquerque – Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. (MT) – KiMo TheatreMarnie (1964) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Tippi Hedren
Tickets available April 4.

TCM Classic Film Festival 2013

The TCM Film Festival 2013 dates have been announced it begins April 25 and runs through the 28th. The theme for this years festival is Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies. Like the picture above there is always something for everyone at the TCM Film Festival. They'll screen silent films, horror, action, romance, musicals, and everything in between.

Also don't miss the Road to Hollywood kicking off October 13th. See the release below.

Prior to the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, TCM will once again conduct a nationwide Road to Hollywood tour of local film screenings. In keeping with the 2013 festival theme of Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies, TCM is teaming up with NASA and Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for an extra-terrestrial screening of the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956) on Saturday, Oct. 13. The film will not only be shown to fans at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, but has also been transmitted to the International Space Station to be enjoyed by the astronauts on board.

In addition, astronaut Sunita Williams, who recently set a new spacewalking record, will introduce Forbidden Planet to those here on Earth at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex from the International Space Station. Free tickets for the TCM screening of Forbidden Planet can be obtained through the Road to Hollywood website at http://tcm.com/roadtohollywood/. Additional locations and films for TCM's Road to Hollywood tour will be announced in the coming weeks.

TCM's Road To Hollywood Expands to 10 Cities

TCM is expanding it's Road To Hollywood, that leads up to the TCM Classic Film Fest. If you aren't able to make it to the film festival or even if you are these are bound to be great interviews with with stars from the films. I wish I could be at The Manchurian Candidate with Angela Landsbury in New York.

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Seattle – Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. (PT) – SIFF Cinema
North by Northwest (1959) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Eva Marie Saint
Tickets available Feb. 17



Cleveland – Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 (ET) – Russell B. Aitken Auditorium at Cleveland Institute of Art North by Northwest (1959) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Eva Marie Saint
Tickets available March 2



Tampa, Fla. – Monday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. (ET) – Tampa Theatre
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Burt Reynolds
Tickets available March 9



Chicago – Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. (CT) – Music Box Theatre
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Jane Powell
Tickets available March 10



New York – Monday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. (ET) – School of Visual Arts (SVA)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Angela Lansbury
Tickets available March 18



St. Louis – Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. (CT) – Hi-Pointe Theatre
The Birds (1963) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Tippi Hedren
Tickets available March 21



Long Island ( Huntington , N.Y. ) – Wednesday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. (ET) – Cinema Arts Centre The Birds (1963) – Hosted by Robert Osborne, with special guest Tippi Hedren
Tickets available March 30



Austin, Texas – Saturday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. (CT) – Paramount Theatre
Rio Bravo (1959) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Angie Dickinson
Tickets available April 2



San Francisco – Wednesday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. (PT) – The Castro
Elmer Gantry (1960) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Shirley Jones
Tickets available April 5


Los Angeles – Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. (PT) – American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre From Here to Eternity (19) – Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest Ernest Borgnine
Tickets available April 7

TCM's Road to Hollywood Film Screenings

I just found out from TCM that they're taking their classic film festival on the road and it's free. Check below to see if they'll be in your city. New york is so lucky, their getting All About Eve with Elaine Stritch. Oh and Chicago gets North by Northwest. They should all be great. If you go please come back and tell us about it in the comment section.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is taking its love of great movies to five cities nationwide with the Road to Hollywood tour, a slate of special free screenings building up to the launch of the first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival. In the weeks before the festival, which will take place in Hollywood April 22-25, TCM will travel to Boston (March 18); New York (March 23); Chicago (March 30); Washington, D.C. (April 8); and San Francisco (April 21) for presentations of five outstanding films, each set in the city in which it will be screened.

Below is a complete schedule of TCM’s Road to Hollywood screenings. Although the screenings are free to the public, tickets are required for entry. Tickets will be available beginning March 1 at http://www.tcm.com/roadtohollywood.



The Brattle Theatre in Boston – Thursday, March 18, at 8 p.m. – The Verdict (1982)

Ben Mankiewicz and Boston Herald film critic Jim Verniere will introduce this emotionally powerful legal drama directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet. Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as an alcoholic lawyer who is having difficulty keeping clients. He lands a dream case, however, when he is hired to sue a hospital for negligence.



The Ziegfeld Theatre in New York – Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. – All About Eve (1950)

The legendary Elaine Stritch (Company) will join Robert Osborne in the Big Apple to present one of the greatest films ever made about life in the theater. Anne Baxter stars as a young actress determined to weasel her way into the world of top Broadway actress Margo Channing, played with gusto by Bette Davis. Celeste Holme, Thelma Ritter, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe and an Oscar-winning George Sanders add relish to this outstanding comedy-drama by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.



The Music Box Theater in Chicago – Tuesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. – North by Northwest (1959)

Robert Osborne will by joined by Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) in Chicago for this presentation of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s biggest and most enduring hits. Cary Grant plays an everyman mistaken as a double agent and chased across the country by people on both sides of the law. Saint plays the woman unwittingly roped into helping him. James Mason, Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau co-star.



The Avalon Theatre in Washington , D.C. – Thursday, April 8, at 8 p.m. – The More the Merrier (1943)

Ben Mankiewicz and producer George Stevens Jr., founding director of the American Film Institute, will introduce this highly entertaining film directed by Stevens’ father. Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea star as a pair forced to share a D.C. apartment during a wartime housing shortage. Charles Coburn won an Oscar for his deliciously comic performance.



The Castro in San Francisco – Wednesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. – The Lady from Shanghai (1948)

Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show), who is an expert on the films of Orson Welles and was a close friend of the director, will be joined by popular San Francisco film critic and show business reporter Jan Wahl of KRON as they introduce this memorable thriller. The story involves a fake murder plot that turns out to be all too real. Welles stars along with Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane and Glenn Anders. The film’s extraordinary imagery includes an exciting hall-of-mirrors sequence that remains a cinematic masterpiece.