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 know from experience they will always be somewhat speculative until I get on the ground. It’s still …
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, the planning stage here is usually very logical: I devise an indisputably perfect system that results in the optimal balance of …
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 appropriately “All Together Now: Back to the Big Screen.”
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 large group of people in an enclosed space was a hopeful, non-terrifying idea—seems like a completely different time now. Looking back …
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 often makes me take a second look at screenings I might have overlooked, and I also get the vicarious thrill of seeing how other …
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 due next week, and I should definitely be working on those right now. So, you know what that means: Here’s a TCMFF recap post!