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This is my biggest frustration as a classic film fan: no matter how many old movies I watch, there will always be hundreds (thousands?) more I haven’t seen. Unless I buy every pre-1960 DVD ever released and lock myself in my apartment for the next five years (which actually doesn’t sound like a read more

A few of my fellow bloggers have taken the time to write reviews of my book, Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, and I want to share them here in hopes of sending some traffic their way and also proving that I'm not the only person who likes my book. :) K. Dale Koontz over at Unfe read more

Casablanca: As Time Goes By On Monday November 26th, Casablanca will celebrate its 70th anniversary - wowee! Has it actually been that long?! I only ask because every time I watch this movie, it seems so modern and ... MODERN! I'll be the first to admit that it took me an awfully long t read more

Originally intended as a parody of Casablanca (1942), the Marx Brothers picture, A Night in Casablanca (1946), bears only passing resemblance to the earlier film. Not surprisingly, the picture veers off wildly from the ostensible source material, allowing Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to ply their trade read more

Originally intended as a parody of Casablanca (1942), the Marx Brothers picture, A Night in Casablanca (1946), bears only passing resemblance to the earlier film. Not surprisingly, the picture veers off wildly from the ostensible source material, allowing Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to ply their trade read more

Originally intended as a parody of Casablanca (1942), the Marx Brothers picture, A Night in Casablanca (1946), bears only passing resemblance to the earlier film. Not surprisingly, the picture veers off wildly from the ostensible source material, allowing Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to ply their trade read more

I'm over the moon today because my book has finally arrived! Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, is up on Amazon, and I just got my author copies in the mail today. If you like the Classic Films in Focus reviews that I write, you'll like the book, which includes a lot of brand-new read more

I'm over the moon today because my book has finally arrived! Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, is up on Amazon, and I just got my author copies in the mail today. If you like the Classic Films in Focus reviews that I write, you'll like the book, which includes a lot of brand-new read more

I'm over the moon today because my book has finally arrived! Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, is up on Amazon, and I just got my author copies in the mail today. If you like the Classic Films in Focus reviews that I write, you'll like the book, which includes a lot of brand-new read more

A pergunta que não quer calar: Cidadão Kane ou Casablanca? É inevitável não topar com listas dos melhores filmes já feitos ou mesmo ter uma vontade louca de fazer sua própria lista, por mais complicado que isso seja. Dois filmes feitos na década de 1940 são fortes candidatos ao título read more

A pergunta que não quer calar: Cidadão Kane ou Casablanca? É inevitável não topar com listas dos melhores filmes já feitos ou mesmo ter uma vontade louca de fazer sua própria lista, por mais complicado que isso seja. Dois filmes feitos na década de 1940 são fortes candidatos ao título read more

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“Casablanca” is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn betw read more

“Play it Again, Sam”: Screen classic “Casablanca” has an encore screening this Thursday Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Cassablanca Due to the success of last month’s one-night-only screening of Casablanca, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Broth read more

“Play it Again, Sam”: Screen classic “Casablanca” has an encore screening this Thursday Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Cassablanca Due to the success of last month’s one-night-only screening of Casablanca, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Broth read more

Casablanca, Best Picture Winner and #2 on AFI’s Top 100 list, was a dark horse. No one working on the film had any idea the movie made for $850,000 would become a timeless classic. No one thought Humphrey Bogart could play a romantic lead. My favorite mis-under-estimation of Casablanca was by read more

Bogart.  Bergman.  Henreid.  Rains.  Romance.  Intrigue.  Espionage.  Patriotism. Humor.  Humanity.  Just a few of the reasons why I was one of what I hope were millions who went to a local movie theater last night to see a film I’d seen countless times before. I imagined being part of a read more

Yesterday was an experience for sure!  There’s not many places where I live where one can see classic films.  Sure there’s library but that’s pretty much a projector screen in a small room.  A local theater used to show classic films (where I was lucky to see Singin’ in the read more

Bottom Line: Casablanca is slow and melodramatic, yes, but otherwise powerful and timeless. “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.” –Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine Directed by: Michael Curtiz Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid Unforgettable drama about Rich read more