Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has a full slate of programming set for this year, as the classic movie home celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in April will honor film historian Jeanine Basinger with the Robert Osborne Award, and pay tribute to actor Billy Dee Williams and makeup artist Lois Burwell.
Additionally, The Plot Thickens, TCM’s official podcast about movies and the people who make them will debut later in the year following the release of Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast, TCM’s latest podcast in tandem with Max.
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“With the 30th year of TCM upon us, we both look back at all that’s been built over the last several decades and look ahead at what is undoubtedly one of the most exciting times in TCM’s history,” said a statement from Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy, cochairs and CEOs, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. “TCM’s collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson has infused an even greater love of cinema into our programming and inspired us to expand what TCM offers across a wide array of mediums for fans of classic movies to dive even deeper into the films and stories they cherish.”
Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson, the three filmmakers who entered into a one-year advisory agreement in June of 2023, recently reaffirmed their original commitment to TCM commencing in January and extending through the end of 2024.
The Film Foundation, a longstanding TCM partner, is the film preservation organization founded by Scorsese in 1990. Spielberg and Anderson serve on the organization’s board.
Hosts Ben Mankiewicz, Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart, and Eddie Muller will continue to provide insights into beloved classic films and interviews with a wide range of special guests.
Earlier this month, TCM premiered the all-new original six-part documentary series, The Power of Film, hosted by Dave Karger and filmmakers Doug Pray and Laura Gabbert and curated by UCLA film professor Howard Suber. The series examines what makes popular American films so memorable and why audiences connect to them.
In April, TCM will introduce Two for One, with prominent filmmakers cohosting a double-feature of their choice each Saturday night. Special guests will include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Patty Jenkins, Olivia Wilde, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
This Fall, TCM will partner with The New Republic to highlight films from their list, The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All-Time. Guests from the journalism, political, and film worlds will come together to cohost a different film from the list.
Later this year, a new documentary executive produced by Martin Scorsese about the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Made in London, will make its U.S. television premiere on TCM.
Movie lovers will once again be invited to descend upon Hollywood Boulevard for programming set within the theme “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film” at the TCM Classic Film Festival on April 18-21, 2024. Over four days and nights, attendees will be treated to an extensive lineup of great movies, appearances by legendary stars, panel discussions, special events, and more.
Featured films announced thus far include:
“Law and Order” (1932)
“Only Yesterday” (1933)
“The Sin of Nora Moran” (1933)
“It Happened One Night” (1934)
“The Mad Miss Manton” (1934)
“The Good Fairy” (1935)
“White Heat” (1949)
“On the Waterfront” (1954)
“That’s Entertainment!” (1974)
50th Anniversary Screening of “Chinatown” (1974)
70th Anniversary Screening of “Rear Window” (1954)
100th Anniversary Screening of “Sherlock Jr.” (1924) preceded by short film, “The Goat” (1921)
World Premiere Restoration of “The Searchers” (1956) in 70mm
World Premiere Restoration of “North by Northwest” (1959)
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