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Turner Classic Movies looks to the future with help from Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson are stepping up to help curate programming for Turner Classic Movies, amid a tumultuous week of layoffs and leadership changes that had fans worried about the future of the channel.
For auction: Marilynโs dress, Thor's hammer, Capโs shield
Several gowns Marilyn Monroe donned for โGentlemen Prefer Blondesโ and โThereโs No Business Like Show Businessโ are going up for auction this summer along with 1,400 other pieces of Hollywood history.
New this week: Sia, Clarice Starling and Kristen Wiig
Hereโs a collection curated by The Associated Pressโ entertainment journalists of whatโs arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. One nominee, โJudas and the Black Messiah," arrives on HBO Max (as well as in theaters) on Friday. Adโ Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo's last writing partnership turned out pretty well. Adโ AP Film Writer Jake CoyleMUSICโ Siaโs Golden Globe-nominated directorial debut, โMusic,โ will be accompanied with a 14-track album. Adโ โSilence of the Lambsโ is three decades in the rearview mirror, but only a year has passed as CBSโ โClariceโ picks up the story of FBI Agent Clarice Starling.
From Dash to Coppola, highlights from TCM's Women Make Film
FILE - Julie Dash attends the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Jan. 3, 2017, in New York. Dash's work will be featured in Turner Classic Movies' four-month Women Make Film series, airing every Tuesday night through December. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle pick some programming highlights from Turner Classic Movies' four-month Women Make Film series, airing every Tuesday night through December. In her 1976 film (airing Sept. 15 on TCM), Kopple intimately documents a grueling, 13-month coal miner's strike in a small Kentucky town. They just thought I was a funny little girl who carried a tape recorder and a camera. The film won Kopple her first Oscar.
Essential movies of the '30s and '40s
OK, and let's not forget "Young Mr. Lincoln," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and the first of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes movies. Some of those movies made this list -- how could they not? "The Grand Illusion" (1937)Set during World War I, this great French drama from director Jean Renoir explores the futility of war and class distinctions through French officers captured by German forces. "Casablanca "(1942)Bogart and Ingrid Bergman will always have Paris, and film fans will always have this stirring tale of an American finally choosing duty over love in the midst of World War II. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)The definitive movie about soldiers returning home from war, filled with touching moments.