Posted by Larry Gleeson
APRIL 24-27, 2025
Film lovers will as soon as once more descend upon Hollywood Boulevard for one-of-a-kind programming occasion themed “Grand Illusions: Improbable Worlds on Movie” on the TCM Basic Movie Competition on April 24 – April 27, 2025. Over 4 packed days and nights, attendees can be handled to an intensive lineup of nice motion pictures, appearances by legendary stars, panel discussions, particular occasions, and extra.
The competition additionally welcomes George Stevens Jr. because the Robert Osborne Award recipient, which acknowledges a person who has helped hold the cultural heritage of traditional movie alive for future generations. Stevens – a author, director, producer, playwright, writer, two-time Peabody Award recipient and Founding Director of the American Movie Institute (AFI) – would be the sixth honoree to obtain this award and can current the Hollywood premiere of the 4K restoration of GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER’S JOURNEY, the acclaimed movie he wrote and directed about his Oscar successful father.
Moreover, annually the occasion pays tribute to a choose group of people whose work in Hollywood has left a long-lasting affect on movie. This 12 months’s tributes will embrace filmmaker and producer Michael Schultz, with particular shows of CAR WASH (1976) and THE LAST DRAGON (1986). The competition’s ultimate tribute can be introduced at a later date.
Featured movies introduced so far embrace:
- World premiere restoration of BEAU GESTE (1926)
- World premiere restoration of THE BIG COMBO (1955)
- World premiere restoration of THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945)
- World premiere restoration of SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)
- World premiere restoration of THE WIZ (1978)
- THE DIVORCEE (1930)
- THE TIME MACHINE (1960)
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
- SUPERMAN (1978)
- JAWS (1975) 50th anniversary
- BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955)
- SUSPICION (1941)
- BRIGADOON (1954)
- GUNMAN’S WALK (1958)
- THE TALK OF THE TOWN (1942)
- BEN-HUR (1959)
- RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945)
- BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
- SERVANTS’ ENTRANCE (1934)
- HUD (1963)
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