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Just a few short weeks after the TCMFF 2023 schedule was revealed, now the festival itself has come and gone! Until next year. As usual, I made a post of my picks ahead of time, even though I kno...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2023/04/tcmff-2023-what-really-happened/

Happy festival season, all! When prepping this, I read back over a few of these planning posts from years past, and marveled a bit at how infrequently they match what actually happened. For me, t...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2023/04/my-picks-for-tcmff-2023-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

My choices for the TCMFF 2022! There's a lot to celebrate: after going through well-produced but not-quite-the-same virtual festivals in 2020 and 2021, the theme of this year's festival is approp...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2022/04/my-picks-for-tcmff-2022-all-together-now/

This weekend, the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation (LAHTF) hosted their first in-person theater tour in more than a year, this time going behind the scenes with an enthusiastic, socially d...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2021/06/inside-the-hollywood-legion-theater/

It’s hard to believe that it was just over a month ago that they announced the Hollywood edition of TCMFF 2020 was cancelled. The world of early March—in which the prospect of gathering a lar...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2020/04/tcmff-2020-schedule-picks-hard-mode/

So. It’s been a little quiet around here, yes. But I feel like I have a slightly good reason: at the end of this year, assuming all goes to plan, I’ll be precisely halfway through my PhD prog...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2019/10/classic-film-research-guide-margaret-herrick-library/

I’m not quite sure when it happened, but I love the widespread trend of all the TCMFF bloggers/social media types posting their schedules ahead of time. Hearing people champion their favorites ...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2019/03/tcmff-2019-schedule-picks/

If there’s one thing I learned this year, it’s that my brain can only hold so much information; for the rest of it, I need lists. (But really, I knew this already.) Through classes, festivals...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2019/01/something-old-something-new-2018-first-time-favorites/

Last year, I wrote a paper on the unproduced Arthur Freed musicals—that is, the films that the Freed unit had started or planned to make, but, for various reasons, never actually finished or, i...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2018/05/silk-stockings-1957-and-the-end-of-the-freed-unit/

This year, TCMFF fell during the last week of classes, which was nice because I didn't have to feel bad about skipping anything, unlike some years past! Of course, all my final papers are coming ...

https://thevintagecameo.com/2018/04/tcmff-2018-by-the-numbers/