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My Life in Films: Favorite Movies by Year
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 21, 2017
Film Twitter has prompted me to join in on the recent lists of people's favorite movies for each year of their lives. At 45, I feel like that's a lot of territory to cover, and of course a lot of the movies I watch these days came out long before I was born, but I have seen most of the big hits for read more
My Life in Films: Favorite Movies by Year
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 21, 2017
Film Twitter has prompted me to join in on the recent lists of people's favorite movies for each year of their lives. At 45, I feel like that's a lot of territory to cover, and of course a lot of the movies I watch these days came out long before I was born, but I have seen most of the big hits for read more
Classic Films in Focus: EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2017
As its grim title suggests, Each Dawn I Die (1939) is an explosive drama awash in death and violence, as only Warner Brothers' 1930s gangster and prison films could deliver them. William Keighley directs the parade of brutal injustice with James Cagney and George Raft as the chief victims of a horri read more
Classic Films in Focus: EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2017
As its grim title suggests, Each Dawn I Die (1939) is an explosive drama awash in death and violence, as only Warner Brothers' 1930s gangster and prison films could deliver them. William Keighley directs the parade of brutal injustice with James Cagney and George Raft as the chief victims of a horri read more
Reel Resistance: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 27, 2017
When it comes to movies that deliver on vicarious Nazi punching, it's hard to beat the original Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The third installment of the trilogy is good for that, too, but the 1981 picture features all the adventure of a classic serial and all the patriotic ve read more
Reel Resistance: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 27, 2017
When it comes to movies that deliver on vicarious Nazi punching, it's hard to beat the original Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The third installment of the trilogy is good for that, too, but the 1981 picture features all the adventure of a classic serial and all the patriotic ve read more
Classic Films in Focus: LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 23, 2017
Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended read more
Classic Films in Focus: LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 23, 2017
Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended read more
Classic Films in Focus: A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 13, 2016
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives (1949) sets up its domestic drama with a perpetually absent antagonist who forces a trio of women to consider the central problems of their marriages. This approach makes the homewrecker as mysterious as she is troublesome, but it frees up th read more
Classic Films in Focus: A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 13, 2016
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives (1949) sets up its domestic drama with a perpetually absent antagonist who forces a trio of women to consider the central problems of their marriages. This approach makes the homewrecker as mysterious as she is troublesome, but it frees up th read more
75 Years in CASABLANCA (1942)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 5, 2016
It's December 1941 when Ilsa walks into Rick's Cafe Americain. "In all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world," he complains, "she walks into mine." It is not, however, simply chance, since Rick's Cafe occupies a border space between European chaos and American safety. Through that space I read more
75 Years in CASABLANCA (1942)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 5, 2016
It's December 1941 when Ilsa walks into Rick's Cafe Americain. "In all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world," he complains, "she walks into mine." It is not, however, simply chance, since Rick's Cafe occupies a border space between European chaos and American safety. Through that space I read more
Classic Movies for Courage
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 17, 2016
It's easy to think that art doesn't matter in the face of fear and oppression, but sometimes art can change the world, whether for better or for worse. Charles Dickens secured the future of Christmas with A Christmas Carol, while Leni Riefenstahl shored up Hitler's regime. Uncle Tom's Cabin helped t read more
Classic Movies for Courage
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 17, 2016
It's easy to think that art doesn't matter in the face of fear and oppression, but sometimes art can change the world, whether for better or for worse. Charles Dickens secured the future of Christmas with A Christmas Carol, while Leni Riefenstahl shored up Hitler's regime. Uncle Tom's Cabin helped t read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE TINGLER (1959)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2016
The Tingler (1959) is one of William Castle's most famous horror gimmick pictures, partly because of its star, Vincent Price, and partly because of its wacky use of wired seats and paid plants to elicit screams from the theater audience. Sadly, the modern home viewer can't enjoy the weird thrills of read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE TINGLER (1959)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2016
The Tingler (1959) is one of William Castle's most famous horror gimmick pictures, partly because of its star, Vincent Price, and partly because of its wacky use of wired seats and paid plants to elicit screams from the theater audience. Sadly, the modern home viewer can't enjoy the weird thrills of read more
Domestic Madness in MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 7, 2016
As I watched Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) again the other day, several things struck me that I hadn't given much thought to on previous screenings. One was that director H.C. Potter might have sped things up a bit, especially in the first quarter, where the scenes run more like docume read more
Domestic Madness in MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 7, 2016
As I watched Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) again the other day, several things struck me that I hadn't given much thought to on previous screenings. One was that director H.C. Potter might have sped things up a bit, especially in the first quarter, where the scenes run more like docume read more
Classic Films in Focus: MR. SARDONICUS (1961)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 1, 2016
Horror showman William Castle ventures into Gothic territory more familiar to Roger Corman and Hammer Studios with his 1961 feature, Mr. Sardonicus, which saves its trademark Castle gimmick, the Punishment Poll, for the very end of the film. Adapted from the story by Ray Russell, Mr. Sardonicus also read more
Classic Films in Focus: MR. SARDONICUS (1961)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 1, 2016
Horror showman William Castle ventures into Gothic territory more familiar to Roger Corman and Hammer Studios with his 1961 feature, Mr. Sardonicus, which saves its trademark Castle gimmick, the Punishment Poll, for the very end of the film. Adapted from the story by Ray Russell, Mr. Sardonicus also read more