My First Time at the TCM Classic Film Festival
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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On the April 28, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson talks about the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival.
In Our Feature Presentation: TCMFF 2025!
- Suspicion
- Back to the Future
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Talk of the Town
- Heat
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Monday, April 28th, 2025. On today's episode of the show, |
| 0:05.5 | I'm going to be talking about the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at |
| 0:11.7 | slashfilm.com. And it's just me on today's show. I'm still visiting Los Angeles. And since my |
| 0:17.4 | trip coincided with this year's Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, |
| 0:21.5 | a festival that I had never attended, I thought it would be fun to try to drop in and check it out |
| 0:26.0 | and catch a handful of screenings while I'm in town. |
| 0:28.6 | So this is going to be a shorter episode than normal, but I wanted to tell you about my experience |
| 0:32.1 | because this is a really, really cool festival and might even be worth timing a trip around |
| 0:36.8 | if you were a classic film lover. |
| 0:39.3 | So the opening night movie was The Empire Strikes Back with George Lucas in attendance. |
| 0:44.3 | We wrote a little about a fun piece of trivia that came out of that Q&A. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm going to link to our article about it in the show notes, but I was not there personally for |
| 0:53.0 | that screening. |
| 0:53.9 | Instead, I checked |
| 0:54.6 | out Suspicion, which is the Alfred Hitchcock film starring Carrie Grant and Joan Fontaine. |
| 0:59.5 | I had seen it once years ago, but never in a theater and never with an introduction by |
| 1:03.6 | TCM's Alicia Malone. A quick side note, if you're a regular TCM watcher, you know that almost all |
| 1:09.4 | the introductions that they do for their movies spoil the |
| 1:12.0 | film that you're about to watch in some way or another. |
| 1:14.5 | And when I'm watching a movie on TCM that I've never seen, I always fast forward |
| 1:19.0 | through that part and then go back and watch it after the movie is over because I don't |
| 1:22.0 | want to be spoiled. |
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