TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

THE SID SAGA (PARTS 1-3) (1985-1989) Subtitled "A Journey Through the Scrapbook and the Memories of Sid Laverents," Saga is an oddball epic of amateur filmmaking — an oral history of one man's 20th century illustrated with family photos, various drawings and clippings and 16mm footage. Laverents recounts his past as if enthusiastically telling a tall tale to a child: Digressions and exaggerations pile on until they accrue into moments of acutely honest reflection on personal relations and historical events. Saga screens with Sid's National Film Registry–selected short Multiple Sidosis (1970); neither is available on home video. With preservationist Ross Lipman in attendance. Sunday, 9:15 a.m. (PC)

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1961) The highlight of TCM's three-screening tribute to Disney child star Hayley Mills is this oddity, a family flick fusing Christian allegory into near-noir. Hayley's hiding a contraband kitten in the barn when she encounters a drifter with an open wound on his forehead. As surprised by her as she is by him, the man exclaims, "Jesus Christ!" — and Hayley assumes he's announcing his name. This non-actor-peopled portrait of children grappling with the power of myth is a must-see for the cracked-kiddie-film connoisseur, and it's not on DVD. Sunday, 12:30 p.m. (KL)

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun.

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TCL Chinese Theatre

6925 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Historic Landmarks

Region: Hollywood

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Egyptian Theater

6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Movie Theaters

Region: Hollywood

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A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) George Stevens' romantic riff on An American Tragedy (quasi-remade by Woody Allen as Match Point) stars Montgomery Clift as the blue-collar boy who seeks asylum from his drearily average life (and dumpy working-class girlfriend, Shelley Winters) in the arms of socialite princess Elizabeth Taylor. Both the prime showcase of Taylor's peak seductive power, and prominently featured in Steve Erickson's novel Zeroville, which James Franco recently optioned to direct, it's perhaps the most timely screening of the festival. Grindhouse babe Rose McGowan is scheduled to introduce. Sunday, 3:15 p.m. (KL)

TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL | April 28-May 1 | Grauman's Chinese Theater & Multiplex, Egyptian Theater and other Hollywood venues | TCM.com/festival