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For Sighing Out Loud, and Other Tales from the TCM Festival
Ah, popcorn for breakfast, Milk Duds for lunch and french fries and Coke for dinner. I must be at a film festival! But these essential food groups balance each other out nicely: I’d bounce off the walls from the sugar if I weren’t so bloated from the salt. This was my third trip to the …
The TCM Classic Film Festival: Friedkin Reminisces and Reclaims the Spotlight
The official theme of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival was Family—which, for some, meant coming home: actors and films that had been dissed and dismissed finally felt the warmth of the spotlight and the embrace of appreciative crowds. Director William Friedkin was on hand to introduce his 1977 film Sorcerer, which, in its original release, …
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