Home #Hwoodtimes 2024 TCMFF Recap Thursday, April 18 & Friday, April 19

2024 TCMFF Recap Thursday, April 18 & Friday, April 19

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 18: (L-R) Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Uma Thurman and John Travolta attend the Opening Night Gala and 30th Anniversary Screening of "Pulp Fiction" during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for TCM)

Highlights:

  • The TCM Classic Film Festival opened with a 30th anniversary reunion of Pulp Fiction (1994) screening in 35mm
The Opening Night Red Carpet Gala premiere of Pulp Fiction (1994) at the TCL Chinese Theatre during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California.
  • Jodie Foster had her handprints and footprints enshrined in concrete at the TCL Chinese Theatre and then appeared at a screening of her film The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jodie Foster proudly in front of her freshly signed, hand and footprint for the ceremony Friday, April 19, 2024 in front of TCL Chinese theater. (Photo THT)
  • Jeopardy! Host Ken Jennings introduced a U.S. premiere restoration screening of The Small Back Room (1949)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 18: Ken Jennings speaks onstage at the screening of “The Small Back Room” during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for TCM)
  • Director David Fincher presented a world premiere restoration IMAX screening of Se7en (1995)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 19: (L-R) David Fincher and TCM Host Eddie Muller attend the “Se7en” screening during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 19, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM)
  • Steven Spielberg in Q&A with TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz ahead of the director’s cut of his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 19: (L-R) Charlie Tabesh, SVP, Programming and Content Strategy, TCM, Genevieve McGillicuddy, Executive Festival Director, TCM Classic Film Festival, Steven Spielberg, TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz, Michael De Luca, Chairperson & CEO, Warner Bros. Film Group and Michael Ouweleen, President, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, TCM attend the “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” screening during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 19, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for TCM)
El Capitain

El Capitan was playing 101 Dalmatians first movie in the morning at 9:30 as part of “100 Years of MGM History-Celebrating the UCLA Hearst Newsreel Collection.  Certainly one I wanted to see again on the big screen, but there was a conflict with Jodie Foster hand and footprint ceremony across the street that I was attending.  Sometimes that happens where you want to go and see a movie and another you want to see might be playing at the other cinemas at the same time.  But you make it work and there always seems to never be enough time to see all the great movies that TCM offers during this wonderful and amazing film festival.  If you think you aren’t really into these classic movies, do give the festival a try one year and you will be hooked!

At 2:30 over at Club TCM was a tribute conversation with Billy Dee Williams with TCM Host Jacqueline Stewart.  I was so excited to be there for that conversation to see Mr. Billy Dee Williams.  Jacqueline came onstage with Billy Dee Williams’ book in her hand and gave a wonderful tribute speech about Mr. Williams and she invited him up on the stage to join her and the crowd went wild when he got up off the front row chair he had been sitting and made his way to the sofa chair onstage.

It was a fantastic conversation and we all got to see that million dollar smile of his!  Here are some photos and a quick video: