2025 Tcm Classic Film The festival opens with a flex of galactic muscle: “Empire strikes back”, celebrating its 45th anniversary, will start the 16th edition of the festival Presented by Turner Classic Movies in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 24. And even better, the manufacturer itself, George Lucaswill participate in introducing it.
It will be an opening Turbolas Salvo for a whole weekend with films that revolve around the theme “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film”, brilliantly monitored again by long -term festival director, Genevieve McGillicuddy. Other films in the Second World Cup include “Spirited Away”, “The Incredible Shrinking Man”, “Mothra” and “Earth vs. The Flying Tefat.”
The festival will run all weekend, centered as always at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which offers special prices for festival participants, with views on the adjacent TCL Chinese Theater IMAX, TCL Chinese 6, Egyptian and El Capitan.
Michelle Pfeifer will have a hand-and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theater, and the filmmaker and AFI founder George Stevens Jr. will receive the Robert Osborne award, which is given to figures who have played a special role in keeping film history and inheritance alive. The price is named after the original and long TCM values that died in 2017.
In recent years, TCM Film Festival has had extraordinary events like last year Opening evening “Pulp Fiction” screeningand a restoration view of “Rio Bravo” with Angie Dickinson presence. (“Rio Bravo” happens to share a co-author with “The Empire Strikes Back” in the Great Leigh Brackett.) The festival is low-key one of Hollywood’s hottest tickets, with even A-list directors of the highest size Angling to introduce movies they love: Steven Spielberg was proud to be proud of proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud to be proud of introducing a-Lista. Restore of George Steven’s “Giant,” In addition to engaging in a Conversation with TCM -Word Ben Mankiewicz about his own work.
Lucas is especially suitable for the festival, and it will be a real treat to see him introduce ”Star Wars“The sequel gave his own extraordinary film history knowledge and recognition that” Star Wars “was inspired by many films in the 30s, 40s and the 50s.
“‘Empire strikes back’ Is like “The Godfather Part II,” “Mankiewicz, TCM Primetime Anchor and official host for TCM Classic Film Festival, said in a statement. But they are so much more. ‘Empire’ not just dazzled and happy” Star Wars “fansThe The pressed boundaries for Moviemaking, further deepened its characters and expanded the most popular cinematic universe of all time. The first “Star Wars” Picture 1977 a new era in Hollywood ignited and turned a generation of young people into passionate film fans for life. Then, somehow, three years later, ‘Empire’ Empire comesThe‘ Which even can be better. It is a fantastic performance and is certainly one of the great progress in the film’s history. ”
Indieview really agrees. To put “The Empire Strikes Back” on our list of 1980s largest filmsWe wrote: “The emotional truth of this story about mentoring and its boundaries, friendship and its compromises, and by a very impaired father’s quest to be reunited with his son (a father who thinks he can break his son’s hand but still win his companion and loyalty), cut through all the plots with a dedication to their themes so time for their themes so time for their themes.
