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Guest Programmer: Ron Perlman - 11/22
"TCM is my connection to a time when there seemed to be the greatest facility for capturing great ideas and
great images on the screen," says actor Ron Perlman, Guest Programmer for November. Perhaps best remembered for his Golden Globe-winning role of Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast, Perlman has
appeared in such movies as The Name of the Rose (1986), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and the Hellboy films and video games. He currently stars in the FX series Sons of Anarchy.
Perlman picks The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as one of his programming choices because it displays actor-producer Burt Lancaster's "unique and highly evolved aesthetic," and because "it boasts what this viewer considers the greatest dialog ever to be filmed." (Read Ron Perlman's full article on The Sweet Smell of Success).
A native of Washington Heights, N.Y., Perlman grew up watching movies with his "film freak" father and chooses one of his dad's favorite films as another programming pick. Perlman tells host Robert Osborne that, in Howard Hawks' "tough, beautifully rendered" Western Red River (1948), John Wayne and Montgomery Clift create "as devoted a father-son relationship as can be depicted on the screen."
Perlman rounds out his choices with Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) "because you just can't not have a Capra choice," and George Stevens' Gunga Din (1939), chiefly because of his hero Cary Grant, "the single most important element on earth in the history of cinema!"
Perlman picks The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as one of his programming choices because it displays actor-producer Burt Lancaster's "unique and highly evolved aesthetic," and because "it boasts what this viewer considers the greatest dialog ever to be filmed." (Read Ron Perlman's full article on The Sweet Smell of Success).
A native of Washington Heights, N.Y., Perlman grew up watching movies with his "film freak" father and chooses one of his dad's favorite films as another programming pick. Perlman tells host Robert Osborne that, in Howard Hawks' "tough, beautifully rendered" Western Red River (1948), John Wayne and Montgomery Clift create "as devoted a father-son relationship as can be depicted on the screen."
Perlman rounds out his choices with Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) "because you just can't not have a Capra choice," and George Stevens' Gunga Din (1939), chiefly because of his hero Cary Grant, "the single most important element on earth in the history of cinema!"
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