BEHIND THE LENS hit the red carpet for the Opening Night of the 2024 TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL and a Carpet Chat with actor/director MARIO VAN PEEBLES and his daughter, actor MORGANA VAN PEEBLES.
Always a joy to speak with Mario, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to everything he does thanks to decades as a producer/director/writer and actor, and that includes his latest film “Outlaw Posse”, which we talk about in this carpet chat. As a filmmaker who dares to look at social issues and showcase them in an entertaining narrative format versus documentary, Mario is a perfect person to be participating in the discussion panel at Club TCM, “Reflections of the Thin Blue Line; The Police in Movies” which is tailored to this year’s festival theme: “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film.”
Marking the 30th anniversary of TCM and the now classic PULP FICTION, the 15th Annual TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL kicked off in Hollywood, California at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre under bright sunny skies. With a bevy of stars from PULP FICTION reuniting for the first time since the film’s release, along with luminaries from cinema’s past and present, TCM’s ideal of “then meets now” heralds the next 30 years of TCM.
As the cinematic watering hole where “then meets now”, TCM Classic Film Festival and TCM showed us once again why this is the place to be for movie lovers of all 100+ years of cinema for everything “classic.”
