Lone Pine Film Festival 2026 Preview
It?s hard to believe it, but it?s time for a preview of the
36th Lone Pine Film Festival!
This year?s festival takes place in Lone Pine, California, from
October 8th through 11th, 2026.
Countless movies were filmed in the Alabama Hills outside
Lone ......
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Top 1970’s Movies (see all)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- A Little Romance (1979)
- Family Plot (1976)
- Night Moves (1975)
Fan Top Crime Movies (see all)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Fan Top Courtship / Dating Movies (see all)
- Pillow Talk (1959)
- Gigi (1958)
- Marty (1955)
- Cactus Flower (1969)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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Fredric March
Aug 31, 1897
Wheeler Dryden
Aug 31, 1892
James Coburn
Aug 31, 1928
Argentina Brunetti
Aug 31, 1907
Western RoundUp
Monsters and Matinees
The Long Hair of Death is a movie title that sparks
the imagination.
How will it fulfill the glorious promise of its title? Perhaps
as a variation of Medusa with exceedingly long snakes for hair? Or a darker
version of Rapunzel where lethal tresses wrap so tightly around a person, they squeeze
th......
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Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November
12, 1929, to Margaret Majer Kelly and John Kelly Sr. in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and was the third of their four children. Her father owned a
brickwork contracting company and won three Olympic gold med......
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Silents are Golden
Early Civil War Films Of The Silent Screen
During the 1900s and 1910s there was one genre
of American film that skyrocketed in popularity, becoming more prevalent than
at any other time since. No, it wasn?t the western, or even the slapstick
comedy?although those aren?t bad guesses?but the Civil ......
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Read Lea’s article
Noir Nook
Pre-Code Films with Film Noir Flavor ? Part 2
Next to film noir, my favorite era of filmmaking is pre-Code
? and it?s no wonder that I?m so fond of these pictures ? so many of them served
up plots that would have made near-perfect film noirs. In my Noir Nook for July
2026, I took a look at five p......
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Silver Screen Standards
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
I?m always
impressed at just how many Frankenstein movies Universal turned out between
1931 and 1948, and I?m also deeply entertained by the studio?s mix and match
approach to making those pictures where its stars were concerned. It might not
make for the be......
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Read Jennifer’s article
Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Ronnie Schell
Ronnie Schell
Ronald Ralph Schell was born on December 23, 1931, in Richmond,
California, to David and Marguerite Schell. His father worked as a stock checker
at an automobile industry plant and later worked for a naval supply center. His
mother was a waitr......
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Legend Tribute: Fred MacMurray
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Fred MacMurray, born on August 29, 1908!? Fred MacMurray is remembered mostly as the affable, good-natured father figure in the lexicon of? Classic Hollywood. So clean-cut, so moralistic – one can almost say that he was something of a ‘Mister Rogers’... Read more...
Mini Tribute Victor Spinetti
Born September 2, 1929, Victor Spinetti! Yes, I admit I have a soft spot in my heart for The Beatles! And with that being said, here’s a mini ‘celebration’ of the hilarious (and quite melodramatic!) Victor Spinetti in two of my favorite Beatles’ movies… T.V. Director: I... Read more...
Boldly Going to Garland: It Came From Texas Film Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Star Trek
Calling all Star Trek fans!
It?s hard to believe that it?s been 60 years since Star Trek first
invited television audiences to boldly go where no one had gone before. Six
decades, countless strange new worlds and one enormous pop-culture legacy
later, the It Came From Texas Film Festival is celeb......Read more
Humans, robots clash in remarkably relevant Creation of the Humanoids
Modern technology is crazy, isn?t it? It feels like it can take over the world – perhaps not right away but we can see it coming. We welcomed advancements that helped us, but is it going too far? I recently had to jump out of the way of a robotic floor cleaner at a grocery store. Don’t......Read more
Ahead of its time, John Carpenters ‘The Thing’ honored by the National Film Registry
At an isolated Antarctic research station, scientists battle
a deadly alien with such extraordinary shape-shifting capabilities that the men
don?t know if the person next to them is still human. The truth is only revealed
when the alien is threatened and violently abandons its current inhabitant.
......Read more
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Did you know that there is a Charlie Chaplin Statue in London, England?
A statue of Charlie Chaplin, created by John Doubleday, stands in Leicester Square, London. It was ... .. read more
National Film Registry
Now, Voyager, directed by the legendary Irving Rapper, was released in 1942. In 2007, 65 years later, it was inducted into The National Film Registry. Thank you National Film Registry!see more National Film Registry inductees
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Diana Wynyard's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1933. So were Jean Harlow, Jean Harlow, The Marx Brothers... see more