Restored 'An American in Paris' to open TCM Classic Film Festival
A 60th-anniversary restoration of the Oscar-winning musical "An American in Paris" will be the opening-night film for the TCM Classic Movie Festival that will run April 28 to May 1, 2011 at Hollywood's Chinese and Egyptian theaters.
The screening of the musical will be part of the festival's tribute to songwriters George and Ira Gershwin.
The festival will also screen the 70th-anniversary restoration of "Citizen Kane" as part of a broader salute to composer Bernard Herrmann on the 100th anniversary of his death.
Other highlights of the festival include a tribute to "King of the Singing Cowboys" Roy Rogers, and a celebration of silent-movie music featuring Buster Keaton's last silent comedy, 1928's "The Cameraman," which will be presented with a score of vintage jazz and popular music performed live by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks.
Passes for the festival will go on sale Nov. 3 at www.tcm.com/festival.
-- Greg Braxton
Photo: Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in "An American in Paris." Credit: UCLA Film and Television Archive
"The festival will also screen the 70th-anniversary restoration of "Citizen Kane" as part of a broader salute to composer Bernard Herrmann on the 100th anniversary of his death."
The year 2011 will actually be the 36th anniversary of Bernard Herrmann's death. He died on Christmas Eve 1975 after finishing the score for "Taxi Driver."
Posted by: Jeff | October 21, 2010 at 01:16 PM
Did Bernard Hermann die in 1911? Wasn't that the "silent" era? How could be possibly have composed music for silent movies?
Posted by: Rudi Logan | October 21, 2010 at 09:11 PM
"The festival will also screen the 70th-anniversary restoration of "Citizen Kane" as part of a broader salute to composer Bernard Herrmann on the 100th anniversary of his death."
2011 is the hundredth anniversary of Herrmann's BIRTH (he died at 64, Patrick; you think he was born in 1847?)!
Between Goldstein and Susan King, it's a wonder that ANY accurate information is made available to readers. Crikey.
Posted by: Sage_on_the_Hudson | October 21, 2010 at 10:09 PM
I think the writer meant to state that there will be a tribute to "Bernard Herrmann on the 100th anniversary of his birth". Herrmann was born in 1911.
Posted by: Jo | October 22, 2010 at 05:49 AM