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Review: Network (1976)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 26, 2019
“We’re not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth! We’re talking about impermanent, transient, human truth! I don’t expect you people to be capable of truth! But, you’re at least capable of self-preservation! That’s good enough!” &# read more
An Atlanta advancement
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 26, 2019
Carole Lombard was a peripheral figure when "Gone With The Wind" made its world premiere in Atlanta in December 1939. But as wife of star Clark Gable and as someone with a keen sense of the film industry, she understood the importance of this epic.Nearly eight decades later, Atlanta is playing a key read more
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 26, 2019
US, Spain / 112 minutes / color / IM, Route One, Union Investment, Gran Via, Moot Point, SITE, Willies, Ingenious, STX Dir & Scr: Billy Ray Pr: Mark Johnson, Matt Jackson Story: La Pregunta de sus Ojos (2005; vt The Secret in Their Eyes) by Eduardo Sacheri and the screenplay for El Secreto de su read more
A Many Splendored Thing: The 2019 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival — Part 3
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jun 26, 2019
The “So You Think You Know Movies” trivia contest is held each year in the historic Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. It’s (finally) pleasantly warm outside, putting me in mind of the glorious weather in L.A. . . . and reminding me that it’s a great time for the next installment of read more
A WICKED WOMAN (1934)
Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on Jun 26, 2019
Studios would launch an actor, attempting to build them up in the public’s eye. It was this type of gamble or put an established star in a role against type. MGM tried with Mady Christians in A WICKED WOMAN (1934), proclaiming her as a “brilliant new star:” only to find it read more
Review: Enchanted Island (1958)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jun 26, 2019
With bright blue eyes and a soprano singing voice, Jane Powell won over audiences with her first screen appearance in 1944. She became one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s top musical starts from 1946 to 1955 — every one of her movies was filmed in Technicolor. Her co-stars were other bright new stars from read more
Mesmerize Me (2009, Kate Hackett)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 25, 2019
Mesmerize Me is frustratingly middling. It keep seems like it has to be going somewhere, only for it to go nowhere. It’s not a short short—it’s twenty-four minutes—and there’s a disjointed act structure. The third act is way too short, leveraging the “twist” ending way too much. Only it’s read more
A haiku for Carole (and Colleen)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 25, 2019
What does the very real Carole Lombard have in common with the fictional Colleen Cossitt? Both are obliquely referenced in a recent haiku. It happened as part of the recent inaugural Rom Com Fest.Before explaining further, some reflections on the event -- it was well run and a good time was had by a read more
book: Fireside Gothic (2016) by Andrew Taylor
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 25, 2019
Three novellas that have in common that they’re ghost stories but, more important for this reader, that they’re superb pieces of storytelling. There’s a sense of M.R. James about them (indeed, I spotted a “visual quote” from James at one point, albeit involving a cat r read more
Book Review-- Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jun 25, 2019
Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
Victoria Amador
University Press of Kentucky, 2019
It is comforting to know, that at this moment 102-year-old Olivia de Havilland is living in luxury in a Parisian hotel. With her bright white hair, pearls, and velvet caftans, she still entertains visitors, and read more
Western Roundup: McCrea Ranch
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Laura Grieve on Jun 25, 2019
Western Roundup: McCrea Ranch
Joel McCrea has been one of my favorite actors since I was a teenaged classic film fan, and in the ensuing decades has changed my admiration for Joel, as both an actor and a person, has only deepened.
Joel McCrea could do it all: Hitchcock, classic comedies, and o read more
Nayak (1966)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jun 24, 2019
Nayak (The Hero) Directed by Satyajit Ray Written by Satyajit Ray 1966/India R.D. Banshal & Co. First viewing/Amazon Instant Excellent film from my beloved Satyajit Ray, somehow channeling Fellini a bit. Arindan Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is a matinee idol. On this particular day, he awakes read more
Review: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 24, 2019
Fifty years on and Bonnie and Clyde remains a cultural landmark as the harbinger proclaiming a new American movie had arrived on the scene. As a cinematic artifact, it is indebted as much to the 60s themselves as it is the Depression Era where its mythical crime story finds its roots. The spark of read more
Seven Things to Know About Andy Griffith
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 24, 2019
Andy in No Time for Sergeants.
1. Andy Griffith's first major success was a comic monologue called "What It Was, Was Football," in which a country preacher accidentally attends an American football game--having never seen one--and tries to describe it. It became a regional hit and was picked up for read more
Musical Monday: Music in My Heart (1940)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jun 24, 2019
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Music in My Heart (1940) read more
Lombard by Richee, richly done
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 24, 2019
Paramount's Eugene Robert Richee took a back seat to no photographer when it came to capturing Carole Lombard's eroticism; proof is shown above in that promotional still for 1933's "White Woman." (OK, William E. Thomas at Pathe was a bit more blatant about it with his portraits of a younger Carole.) read more
book: Lady Living Alone (1945) by Peter Curtis (pseudonym of Norah Lofts)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 23, 2019
I’d forgotten until reminded recently that, relatively early in her career, Norah Lofts wrote four novels that could be loosely described as suspensers under the pseudonym Peter Curtis; in fact, one of them, You’re Best Alone (1943), is mentioned in my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film read more
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933): o primeiro filme the Errol Flynn
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Jun 23, 2019
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933): o primeiro filme the Errol Flynn In the Wake of the Bounty (1933): Errol Flynn's first film Muitos de nós devem ter conhecido a história do motim a bordo do navio HMS Bounty através de um filme. De farto, o famoso motim foi levado para as telas muitas veze read more
Apa (1966)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jun 23, 2019
Apa (Father) Directed by Istvan Szabo Written by Istvan Szabo 1966/Hungary MAFILM3 Jatekfilmstudio First viewing/Amazon Instant Wry tragi-comedy parallels one boy’s history and that of Hungary. Tako Bence’s doctor father died in 1945 when he was just six. Tako spends the next twe read more
I am woman, watch me direct
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 23, 2019
Carole Lombard gives famed director Alfred Hitchcock a taste of his own medicine when she guides him through his traditional cameo in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." But who guided Carole during her brief, atypical fling behind the camera? Perhaps this woman had something to do with it: The lady with Carole is read more