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TCM Classic Film Festival To Open With George Lucas And ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ & More Popular Blockbusters Than Ever From ‘Jaws’ To ‘Back To The Future’ To ‘Superman’
The 16th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival gets underway this weekend with The Empire Strikes Back and other blockbusters from Jaws to Blade Runner
The 16th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival gets underway tonight in Hollywood with a 45th Anniversay screening at the Chinese IMAX Theatre of the critically acclaimed second Star Wars feature, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back with creator George Lucas on stage to talk about it. Other popular titles probably more familiar to later generations include 1979’s Apocalypse Now in 70MM; 1995’s The American President and 1990’s Misery with both having director Rob Reiner on hand (the latter also with its Oscar-winning star Kathy Bates on stage too); 1982’s Blade Runner; 1975’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show; 1989’s The Fabulous Baker Boys(with Michelle Pfeiffer also getting her hand and footprints in the Chinese forecourt tomorrow); 1985’s Babe; 2001’s animated Spirited Away; 1978’s (with Warner Bros head Mike DeLuca present to also promote the studio’s latest Superman); 1995’s Clueless; 2008’s Mamma Mia; 1985’s The Last Dragon and 1976’s Car Wash(with director Michael Schultz for a tribute to him); 1978’s The Wiz; David Lynch gems Wild At Heart and Blue Velvet; and closing night film 1995’s Heat with director Michael Mann talking about the making of the revered film starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. “If you haven’t seen The Talk of the Town on a big screen, Grover Crisp of Columbia tells me it was the favorite restoration at Bologna last summer — and a conversation piece because of the theme of due process and fair trial,” Stevens told me this week about the film which proves many “classic” movies never go out of style with their timeliness to today’s world.
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