"I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender." - Day 2 of the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival

Thanks for sticking with me, my dear readers.  I'm finally ready to continue with the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival updates.  Here's my post of day 1: Hello Gorgeous and we will now (swan) dive head first into Day 2 of the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Day 2 started with the very thought provoking and emotional rollercoaster, The Swimmer.

It had been a recommendation from my Dad and my friend who I was festival-ing with was interested in seeing it as well.  The movie was introduced by Marge Champion being interviewed by Allison Anders.

 

Marge Champion has been to numerous Film Festival and other TCM events, I spotted her in attendance at the Jane Powell event at the Lincoln Center a few years ago.  She seems to really embrace these events and enjoys sharing her stories, which is very lucky for us.  She started off by telling use that Burt (Burt Lancaster that is) had really gotten injured during filming, so they incorporated that injury into the film.  She talked about her time "hanging out" with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and said that they used to call themselves the Mouse Pack, which sounds adorable.  

Official TCM photo

Marge and Allison also talked about Joan Rivers' role in the film, apparently she was told to play the role as though her character wanted to sleep with Burt Lancaster or that they were having an affair, then told to play it as though there wasn't any sexual tension and that confusion came across on the screen because she didn't know if she wanted to jump Burt Lancaster's bones or not.  Just to clarify most women, myself included, probably do want to jump Burt Lancaster's bones.

The movie was very interesting, definitely a soul searching trek as Burt Lancaster's character attempts to get back home by swimming through various pools.  It's definitely a metaphor for life and an opportunity to see Mr. Lancaster in a subtle, quiet role.

Next up was Voyage to Italy, aka Journey to Italy, aka Viaggio in Italia directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders.

It's always a treat to see George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman on the big screen, the movie was enjoyable.  The movie was introduced by Matt Tyrnauer, who is a special correspondent with Vanity Fair.  He talked about the literary devices of traveling and the idea of adapting European ideals.  It was a good movie and a fun way to spend a Saturday morning.

After spending the morning in the Chinese Multiplex it was time to trek down to the Egyptian Theater and meet up with another one of my friends.  He was attending a grad program at UCLA at the time and was lucky enough to get a film fest pass through them.  We decided on seeing

Notorious, who can pass up a chance to see Hitchcock on the big screen.  

The movie was introduced by Rose McGowan and the only thing I wrote in my notes was: Blonde Hair, so that's helpful past Me, thanks for that.

Rose McGowan with her Blonde hair

As always, it was great to see the wonderful Ingrid Bergman and the devilishly handsome Cary Grant on the big screen.  The tension and intrigue play so well in a packed theater.

I decided to follow up Notorious with The Great Escape.  I walked back up Hollywood Blvd. with my friend to Grauman's Chinese theater.

The screening was introduced first by Sean Cameron and he then introduced Ben and then Ben interviewed Walter Mirsch.

Walter Mirsch talked about making the film on a budget and trying to save money.  He also talked a bit about Steve McQueen, he said that he just had a certain 'je ne sais quoi' and that he could say more with a baseball than with a monologue.

Sometimes you have to tie your shoe during an interview

The film looked glorious, it was great seeing Steve McQueen in his natural element and it certainly did not feel like a three hour movie at all.

Steve and his baseball

After The Great Escape, I decided to stay in Grauman's for my last movie of the day, the phenomenal On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger, with very special guest Eva Marie Saint.

One of my most embarrassing moments happened while waiting in line for this movie.  I had decided to get a beverage before The Great Escape, but ended up not finishing it because I was so engaged with the movie.  While waiting outside of Grauman's the bottom of my cup fell out and an abundance of cherry ice-e covered the section of Hollywood Blvd that I was standing on.  I was mortified, and felt very bad for whoever's star I had now slushied.  I tried to clean up what I could, but it was a very lost cause.  Sorry Hollywood Blvd.

Now, back to the festivities.  Tom Brown introduced Ben Mank and Ben Mank intro'd the lovely and talented Eva Marie Saint.

And sometimes you take your jeans off in an interview

At the start of the interview Ms. Saint complimented Ben for being 1/2 dressed nicely and he ended up taking of his jeans to reveal dress pants underneath.  Eva was certainly shocked and asked Ben if he was trying to give her a heart attack.

The rest of the interview was sweet, they talked about her 60+ year marriage and her experience of working on this film, which was her film debut!  It's so wonderful that Eva attends all these wonderful events and makes the time to talk about the exceptional movies that she's made.  The movie looked impeccable, it was a new 4K restoration.  Marlon Brando was beyond larger than life in that theater.  One minor comment, I didn't love the prosthetics over his eyelids, I definitely understand that they were part of his character and who he was, but I just found them distracting, especially on the huge screen at Grauman's.

Well, that does it for Day 2 of the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, hope you enjoyed this little time travel back in time.  Tune in next time for day 3.

Good Evening, The Big Picture: Hitchcock! at the Hollywood Bowl

This past weekend (now a couple of months ago) I had the great pleasure of attending The Big Picture: Hitchcock! extravaganza at the Hollywood Bowl.  This was actually my first visit to the Hollywood Bowl after living in Los Angeles off and on for about 12 years.  I now can't believe that I had never been there before and certainly plan to attend more concerts and events there.  It is such a great venue and they offer such interesting programs.

I decided to go to the concert the day of the event, Sunday, August, 31st.  I had hemmed and hawed about it for a couple of days before and then decided to go for it.  I was lucky enough to have lunch with a very well informed friend who had been to the Bowl numerous times and he advised me to bring a blanket, sweatshirt, water and snacks.  I, of course took his sage advice.

Next, came the decision of where to park and whether or not to take advantage of the shuttles.  I decided to park at the Hollywood and Highland structure and then take the shuttle up the hill.  It worked out pretty nicely.  While lugging my things on the shuttle and to my seat I was a little worried that I may have over-packed, but my friend did not steer me wrong.  The blanket came in very handy on the benches, although you could rent a cushion for $1.  It didn't get quite cold enough for the sweatshirt, but I could imagine that on another night it would be necessary and how can you go wrong with snacks?

It was really exciting to soak in this venue, I didn't even mind the trek up the hill to get to my seat, there was something so cool about ascending the hill and then seeing the actual half dome, really amazing.  I was very lucky and ended up with an extremely centered seat, although I have a feeling that any seat in the venue is phenomenal.

Before the concert began they kept the profile of Hitch up on the center screen (as you can see below).  It was really cool to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood sign past the dome waiting for the show to begin.

While waiting for the concert to begin I spoke to a few people seated around me, one man asked me what my favorite Hitchcock movie was, which is always a tough questions.  I also had a chance to look over the program, which was sold for also $1, quite reasonable prices for this day and age.

Before too long the show began with this:

It was lovely to get an introduction from Hitch himself.  After the intro Eva Marie Saint graced us with her presence and became our emcee/teacher/stand-up comedienne/hostess with the mostest for the evening.  She was so charming and delightful.  It's hard to believe that she turned 90 this year, she was very sharp and witty, really kept the evening moving nicely.

Since this was the best picture I could get of her that night I'm also sharing one of my pictures from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival where she intro'd On the Waterfront. And a picture from the First TCM Classic Film Festival where she and Martin Landau were interviewed before North by Northwest.

She gave short introductions before each clip/performance.  Her intros were a combination of interesting information and personal stories.  For example, she told us that while filming North by Northwest, Hitch was unhappy with her wardrobe in the movie.  So he took her on a little shopping spree at Bergdof Goodman in New York City and when she saw the beautiful black dress with the red roses she said she liked it and Hitchcock immediately had them wrap it up.  From then on she called him Sugar Daddy.

That is a lovely dress

During one of her introductions she said that it felt like this was a masterclass and she was so right, how often to you get to focus so specifically on the music in a movie?  And have it be performed by a stellar orchestra.  She also had some very hilarious moments, when she was introducing a montage of romance themes she  introduced To Catch a Thief and accidentally said, "starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint."  She then started laughing to herself and declared that it was a very Freudian slip.

Before the Foreign Correspondent clip it was revealed that the conductor for the evening, David Newman's father, Alfred Newman was the composer of the musical score for the film! What a fun connection. When the night came to an end it was hard to believe that they didn't play the haunting, shrill, frightening strings from Psycho.  There was then an encore and Eva Marie suggested that all of us stay away from our showers for the next day or so.

The whole event was wonderful and I'm so glad that this was my first experience with the Hollywood Bowl.  It was a lovely blend of music, film clips and a great opportunity to see Eva Marie Saint.  And it was particularly creepy to see the strings from Psycho played in person.  Since then I've been back for the Simpsons concert there.  I apologize for the delay, oh and you can also check out Laura's post about the event.

Hello Gorgeous!--Day One TCM Classic Film Festival 2013

Even though I had stopped by TCMFF headquarters on Wednesday, it didn't feel like the film festival really started until Thursday the 25th; the day I had been waiting for since April of last year!  I started the day off with a trip to Old Navy to get a free tote, like you do.  I then made my way over to Club TCM to wrestle with the idea of buying a larger sized tote bag, I didn't end up getting the tote, instead I got a pen, a pin, a shirt and the old fashioned flight bag.  I should've just bought the tote and saved myself the trouble.  I don't know what it is about tote bags, I guess I just love to tote.  Here's a picture including the T-shirt and flight bag, totally overboard on my part, I admit it:

After essentially buying everything at the TCM boutique I spied Raquel from Out of the Past and @QuelleLove fame.  We said a quick hello, mostly because I was nervous and embarrassed (as I am in 90% of social interaction).  But it was really wonderful to meet her and put a face to the online identity.  I wish I had been more sociable, but even at 30 I let my self consciousness get the better of me.  I then scurried outside to check my phone (no reception inside) and then sat in on the Meet TCM Panel.  It was very informative and fun to see the people and faces behind the network that I love so much. The panel was emceed by Scott McGee (@BBunny1940 on twitter) and included Charlie Tabesh, Sean Cameron, Tom Brown, Jeff Gregor, Pola Changnon and

Richard Steiner.  Each member of the panel had something insightful and interesting to share with the crowd.  They also handled themselves so professionally while also infusing humor into their responses to questions.  The panel began with a discussion regarding brand passion analysis.  It was determined that fans of TCM are as passionate as NFL or Simpsons fans and the only brand that beat TCM was Apple.  That is very easy to believe especially since I have often considered getting a TCM tattoo since I love what they do for classic film so very much.  They then discussed programming and what is taken into consideration deciding on the programming.

Jeff Gregor, Pola Changnon, Richard Steiner

They mentioned things like the rights to movies and deals that they can make with studios.  And in regards to programming the festival they need to be able to find a print and find the appropriate format.  Pola Changnon who is in charge of set design talked about creating sets for both Ben and Robert.  She talked about some of the recent changes and what goes through her mind and the hosts minds while working on the set.  For Ben, she said that he imagines living in that space and for Robert, who she called a "handsome devil"they wanted to make his space social and welcoming.

Sean Cameron, Tom Brown, Charlie Tabesh

Sean then talked about the new program called, Friday Night Spotlight (I'm already a month late on this) which was inspired by Cher.  It's to be hosted by a different classic film fan celeb and each month will feature a different theme.  This program offers more perspectives on film and different voices at the network.  Here are the upcoming Friday Night Spotlights:
Illeana Douglas- Second Chance Films (this one has come and gone, but it was wonderful)  She selected a lot of great movies and was also on twitter discussing the movies with #TCMParty and fans.  I have them all recorded on my DVR and need to find the time to watch them.

From TCM.com

Bill Hader- In October he'll be doing Friday night Horror nights.  I keep missing him on Essentials Jr. but I do enjoy him immensely and love that he's a part of the TCM family.
Eddie Mueller- His spotlight will focus on Noir Writers, I believe this is the spotlight they're doing this month and I've dutifully recorded all the films from the last 2 weeks.
Then in my notes I wrote down David Edelstein....but I didn't write down the theme of his Friday Night Spotlight, so we'll all have to stay tuned for that :)

Jeff Gregor

This then led to a discussion about how they're able to secure talent for events like this and how they find celebrities who are classic film fans.  It was revealed that they work hard to maintain great relationships with classic film fan celebs and that they keep a database indicating which celebrities are fans.  If someone mentions classic film in an interview or elsewhere they get added to the database.
They then opened the panel up for questions from the audience.  Some of them were interesting, while others were cripplingly embarrassing.  One woman asked if they could make it clear in the Now Playing guide that a film will have closed captions so she won't miss the dialogue when she leaves the room to go to the bathroom or make a snack.  Other questions did result in hearing some interesting info, for example when asked about using a Digital copy or a film print for festival screenings they will always chose the one that is better quality, but recently they have been under more pressure to go with the digital restorations over film prints.  Someone also asked why 'The Exorcist' was pulled from the line-up, it was insinuated that William Friedkin had a lot to do with that, he was unhappy with the print they were going to screen, so instead of fighting with him they opted for 'Three Days of the Condor' instead.  There also a few questions about planning themes and what makes a classic a classic.  The panel stated a number of times that there isn't a cut-off date for a classic film and they often try to work within a theme or with a particular actor in mind.

Tom Brown

Some other questions were about holding a festival on the east coast, they responded as nicely as they could, but made it fairly clear that a 2nd festival won't be happening any time soon.  They said it was a tremendous amount of work to put together this festival (and for that we are all very grateful).  Oh one other very interesting tidbit was that they always try their hardest to get obscure or not often seen movies and one way that they do that is by negotiating for smaller films when they're securing or buying the rights to bigger movies and sometimes they're able to work out deals where they can screen a movie once a year.  Overall this was a wonderful panel that helped shed some light on the inner workings of TCM and also confirmed the fact that the people who work to provide all these wonderful programs, festivals, specials, etc. truly love and respect classic film and their fans!

Well that ended up being very long-winded, I've always been quite verbose.  Anyway, after the panel I decided to head back outside to get some air, text some friends and family, you know things you need cell reception for, and when I was walking back inside I bumped into (almost literally) a friend of mine who I've known since college.  We've managed to bump into each other pretty much every year at the film festival, but this year we decided to spend the rest of the day together and go to Funny Girl together and all that good stuff.  We also decided to enter the 'So You Think You Know Movies?' Trivia contest, together we became 'Dial teaM for Murder' and tackled the INSANELY difficult questions thrown our way by Film Forum programmer Bruce Goldstein.

James Karen

There were very many challenging and tricky questions.  My friend and I did not win, but we had some personal victories, like me determining that James Karen narrated a Buster Keaton documentary, since I had remembered that I celebrity spotted him at the screening of 'Cameraman' at the 2011 film festival and my friend pieced together that it was Lucille Ball in the brief clip of Top Hat, based on his knowledge of her being under contract at RKO at the time.  We figured that we probably got 8 out of 20 correct and based on the questions, that ain't bad.  As an added bonus 3 actors who were featured in questions showed up during the trivia contest.

Norman Lloyd

They included James Karen, Norman Lloyd! and Michael Badalucco.  They also presented the winning team with their prizes.  I tried to get a picture of Michael Badalucco as well, but they all came out very blurry, he's a man after my own heart gesturing like wild. Here are some of my pics, Norman Lloyd was so very confused, but was definitely a good sport.  Always nice to see him at these events.

After the trivia contest I scurried off to my car to change for the opening night movie.  I had planned on changing in a bathroom, but that was not in the cards for me and changing in the car just seemed to make the most sense.  All those years of changing in cars before and after soccer games as a youth really prepared me well for life.  I then grabbed a quick bite with my trivia contest bud at 24 Degrees and we then made our way over to Funny Girl. At this point I was still foolishly holding out hope that Babs herself and/or Omar would make an appearance, but I was very wrong.  And after hearing a not so flattering story about Omar Shariff with a fan at a convention I became grateful that he wasn't going to be in attendance.  Still, it would've been quite a coup for TCM to get Streisand herself, oh well.  Instead we got a letter from Barbra read by William Wyler's daughter which was heartfelt and sweet and a little convo before the picture between Robert Osborne and his 'Friday Night Girlfriend' Cher.  It was very cute to see them interacting in person. 

The movie was simply STUNNING.  I'll be honest and let you know this isn't one of my favorite classic films, I've only seen it one other time, but after seeing this restoration in Grauman's I fell in love with it.  I kept wondering what it must've been like for audiences to see this movie when it came out and have this be their first introduction to Barbra Streisand, I mean seriously! That hair, those nails!! That voice!  No wonder she won (well tied for) that Academy Award.  I was seriously blown away by the movie and promptly ordered the Blu-Ray restoration when it came out the following week, along with The Guilt Trip, come one you know I had to.  Anyway, amazing to see the film in all it's glory.  TCM always knows how to pick good opening night movies.  Oh and that reminds me at the panel someone asked if they intended to always do musicals for the opening night movie and Charlie Tabesh said it just kind of happened that way it wasn't always the plan.  I've really enjoyed all of the opening night red carpet movies from all of the film festivals, (A Star is Born, An American in Paris, Cabaret and Funny Girl).  They've been wonderful ways to kick off the festival and awe-inspiring to see at Grauman's (I refuse to call the theater TCL).  The red carpet staff were VERY similar to the first two years, in that they were pushy, rude and constantly saying "move along" or "keep moving" even when there were people in front of you, I can't walk through people, sorry.  I would've liked to have had a moment or two to enjoy walking the carpet and scoping out the celebs walking in with me.  I did grab a quick snapshot of Eva Marie Saint saying hi to Robert Osborne, I like to pretend that she's saluting him :)

After the movie I had the AMAZING luck of being able to go to the Vanity Fair party!  Thanks to my friend I got to tag along and experience the fancy shmancy-ness of it all.  In all the years of attending the festival I had never attended the party and felt very lucky to be able to check it out this year and kind of see what I've been missing.  It was very nice to check out the venue and do some celebrity spotting.  I saw Max Von Sydow, Tippi Hedren and Illeana Douglas walking around.  There was also a lovely performance by Lulu.  She sang, 'To Sir, With Love,' and! 'I Don't Wanna Fight No More, ' which I didn't realize she had written.  I had always just thought of it as a Tina Turner hit.  I didn't take that many pictures cause I was just trying to soak it all in, but here are a couple:

And! my mom emailed me saying that she spotted me in a picture on the TCM festival website, here it is:

From TCM.com

I'm the one sitting on the edge of the pool thingy about midway back, in the very colorful dress with the black sweater, I can't believe my mom found me in that picture, but that's how moms are sometimes.   After hanging out for a couple of hours we decided to take the shuttle back to TCM headquarters.  We ended up in a shuttle with TCM's Tom Brown! which was a nice surprise.

So that does it for the day one update, it was a lengthy one, I know, but it was such a great day and such a wonderful experience I'll try to update about day two sometime in the near future and I'd love to be able to update about the 2012 fest, sometime soon!  Thanks my faithful readers :)

Day 4 (finally!!!!) of 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival

Ok!!! Cutting it close here, down to the wire, but here's my final installment of the 2011 Classic Film Festival, JUST! in time for this year's festival.  There may or may not have been some 2012 Festival activities today, but I will just have to post about those later, maybe I'll put some pictures on twitter or tumblr in the meantime, or maybe I'll wait an entire calendar year before posting them, that sounds more like me.  Alright, anyway, as Mario would say in Mario Kart, Here we go!!

Day 4 of the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival started off in a very unexpected way, it turned out that a very late announcement and addition to the festival was Drew Barrymore attending the screening of the film, Night Flight, which stars both John and Lionel Barrymore (as well as Myrna Loy and Clark Gable).  Kind of an amazing coup for TCM, although now we know that Drew has some deep love for the network with her stint on The Essentials.  I'd like to say now that I do enjoy her on the network and think she's a lovely, passionate and well-spoken co host for the Essentials.  That's not to say that I didn't enjoy Alec Baldwin, there's just something sweet and fun about Ms. Barrymore.

From TCM.com

So! yes back to Night Flight, I hadn't heard too much about the movie, but the cast and hearing that Drew Barrymore would be there was a pretty big draw, it also looked like one of the most popular screenings of the entire festival.  Robert Osborne introduced the movie and told us that he didn't love it.  He had seen a bootleg version of it.  He also told us to watch for a particular scene, he said that John Barrymore was worried that his brother Lionel would steal the scene, even though Lionel didn't have any dialogue, the director bet him that it wouldn't happen, but in the end John Barrymore won the bet.  I enjoyed the movie, I didn't love it, but I think having that kind of introduction lowered my expectations, I knew that a lot of wonderful actors and actresses were going to be in it, so I just let myself enjoy it.  Drew Barrymore came out to speak after the film and went on and on and on! about her LOVE for TCM, she said it's the channel she always has on in the background when she's home. She shared a story about once staying up late just to watch Carnal Knowledge when it came on TCM.

  She said she loves her family's heritage, sees her resemblance to her famous relatives, especially in her profile.  She even showed everyone her profile, it was very cute.  She was so enthusiastic and seemed so beyond thrilled to be there!  She said that she was a student of cinema herself.  Robert Osborne asked her if she was ever interested in theater, she said she respects the theater, but isn't interested.  She also mentioned that she thought her famous ancestors would be embarrassed by her cadence, she said she thought she had too much of a 'valley girl' accent.  Overall it was a wonderful interview, she was very candid and showed an enormous amount of respect for classic film, TCM and her famous acting ancestors.  Here's a little 2 minute clip, I decided to just randomly start filming, I apologize for the zooming in and out, the beeping and that persons' head that's in the way:

After Night Flight I stayed in the Chinese Multiplex and headed over to a screening of The Trouble with Harry.  I never miss a chance to see an Alfred Hitchcock movie on the big screen and as an added bonus, Jerry "The Beav" Mathers was in attendance.  He ended up being a delightful person to hear speak.  he shared a lot of stories of his time on the set of Leave it to Beaver and from just being on the lot.  He ended up sharing one of the strangest story I think I have ever heard at maybe any interview or event.  He told us that when he was hanging out on the lot he helped out on the set of Psycho, how did he help out? you might be asking yourself, oh just by putting in the individual hairs on the skull used for (Spoiler Alert) the mother's skeleton in Psycho.  Can you imagine little Jerry Mathers putting hairs in a skull?!  So bizarre.  He also told us the real reason behind Barbara Billingsley's pearl necklace.  He said that it was because she thought they covered up the muscles in her neck, which she found unattractive.  Who knew?!

I loved getting to see this movie in a packed theater, I love this black comedy and really enjoyed getting to see it, I love that Alfred Hitchcock gets a lot of love at the TCM Classic Film Festival.

Up next was A Place in the Sun, in the Egyptian Theater, which was introduced was Rose McGowan and had an interview with Eva Marie Saint afterwards, which was added at the last minute.  The intro by Rose McGowan was alright, she talked about how much Elizabeth Taylor has been missed, what a wonderful movie this is; it wasn't really anything too groundbreaking, interesting, but not informative.  I'm glad they added the Eva Marie Saint interview to the conclusion of this movie.  The interview was very casual and informative.  One of the moments that was really beautiful was when Ms. Saint talked about working with Montgomery Clift, she said that when she worked with him it was the first time she worked with an actor who "when he cried, he cried, when he laughed, he laughed and when he held her and trembled she felt it."  She described him as loving to laugh, but also being very shy.  She had worked with both Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on Raintree County, so she briefly discussed his accident, which was of course devastating.

The conversation then turned to Elizabeth Taylor.  Robert Osborne shared a very interesting story about an encounter with her.  It turns out that in the 1970s Robert Osborne was a seat filler for the Academy Awards and at one of the ceremonies Richard Burton got up, so Mr. Osborne filled his seat (next to Elizabeth Taylor, of course).  Richard ended up not returning to his seat for the duration of the ceremony and Robert stayed seated next to Elizabeth Taylor for the whole award ceremony.  Can you believe that?!  I had never heard that story before, totally amazing.  I'd love to see a picture of a young Robert Osborne next to Elizabeth Taylor at the Oscars!  It turned out to be a lovely screening and a nice way to remember Elizabeth Taylor; she is so beautiful in that movie.  Again, another wonderful movie to see in a theater, with an audience.

I decided to stay in the Egyptian Theater for the final film, West Side Story!  I love seeing musicals on the big screen, so exciting.  The screening included an interview with Ben Mankiewicz, George Chakiris, Marni Nixon and Producer Walter Mirisch before the film.  They talked about how each of them got involved in the film and what the experience was like.  It was a very light-hearted discussion.  I loved hearing from Marni Nixon, she's involved in so many movies, but since she does vocal dubbing you don't think of her as being a main element, so wonderful.  It was also great to hear George Chakiris talk about his experience, he also appeared to have not aged a day, very intriguing.  The movie was wonderful!  I'm glad I decided to end the festival with this movie.  But, it was sad that the festival had now come to an end.  I headed over to the closing night party, took some pictures and then called it a night.

It was another excellent year and another excellent film festival, I really enjoyed many of the improvements made to the festival and can't wait til the next one (and at this rate I won't have to, it kind of already started).  Thanks again TCM, you rule!