In celebration of our 20th anniversary, TCM
presents a unique event that puts the
spotlight on the most important part of our
history--you, the fans who have supported
and sustained us during the past two decades.
Join us for this five-day period as four fan
programmers sit down with host Robert
Osborne each evening during primetime hours
to discuss their film picks.
Here are just a few examples of the varied
and fascinating choices of these very special
guests. Shane Fleming of New York, N.Y. the
youngest of our fan programmers, has seen
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) "at
least a dozen times." He considers Chaplin a
true artist since "instead of just throwing
slapstick at the audience, he added heart."
Steve Hayes, also of New York, selects the
Gordon Douglas classic Them! (1954)
"because it was not only innovative and
helped set the tone for countless sci-fi and
horror films, but because it's such fun!"
Glenn Taranto of Los Angeles introduces a
TCM premiere, Went the Day Well? (1942), a
seldom-seen drama about the attempted
German invasion of a British village during
World War II. Glenn first saw the movie at a
TCM Classic Film Festival and considers it his
"greatest movie-going experience...where the
audience shared every emotion--laughing,
crying, gasps, cheers." Matt Roush of New
York chooses Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and
the Beautiful (1952), "a sour valentine to
genius...a movie-movie about movies."
Other fan programmers are Craig Shemin,
Hannah Kass, Alberto Ferreras and Peter
Tulba of New York; Tiffany Vazquez of Bronx,
N.Y.; Michelle Curtis of Winter Garden, Fla.;
Pat Hill-Yandell and Dominique Breckenridge
of Plano, Tex.; Whitney Matheson of
Brooklyn, N.Y.; Stefanie Del Papa of Miami,
Fla.; Kim McShane of Tallahassee, Fla.;
Onalee McGraw of Front Royal, Va.; Petri
Hawkins Byrd of Elk Grove, Calif.; Robert
Best of Los Angeles, Calif.; Sara Harmon of
Bel Aire, Kan.; and Laura Ackerman Pauze of
Granville, Ohio.
TCM Spotlight: Fan Programmers
March 26, 2014
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