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A Heidi Double Feature - A Great Story! 5/4/2014 0 Comments   From the outset, I'll state for the record that I'm aware that it's not cool to like movies like Heidi...especially if you're a straight ma read more

This month brings the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary actor Tyrone Power, “The King of 20th Century Fox."  As part of a nationwide centennial celebration, The Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, IL, welcomes actress Taryn Power-Greendeer on May 2nd at 2:00 p.m. in the Mul read more

This month brings the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary actor Tyrone Power, “The King of 20th Century Fox."  As part of a nationwide centennial celebration, The Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, IL, welcomes actress Taryn Power-Greendeer on May 2nd at 2:00 p.m. in the Mul read more

Can't get enough Duke? Turner Classic Movies network is showcasing John Wayne as their April 'Star of the Month' with an ample series of his very best films. And if you're a big fan of this bigger-than-life legend of classic films like me, you may already be feeling the melancholy set in, knowing th read more

There has ever been anyone quite like Mr. Mancini. I believe that there is no other film composer, past or present, that shares the elusive quality of his music. His scores are, at times, lusciously lyrical, at others heart-poundingly exhilarating; but always they are stylistically flawless —each read more

So back in the day, when I was writing Professor Damian’s Public Domain Treasure Chest, one of the regular features there was the Sunday Serial, and it’s something that I’ve decided it’s time to revive here, but in a somewhat different format. Next week we’ll take a mor read more

Classic Film Aficionados The Love Parade premiered in New York City on Tuesday, November 19, 1929 at the Criterion Theater, opening with all of the fanfare (Maurice Chevalier in attendance[i]), and the jubilant expectation of the first-nighters at a grandiose-opening of the newest play on the Great read more

Classic Film Aficionados Born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen on Friday, December 10th, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, Victor McLaglen (a former boxer) was an adventurer at heart, never satisfied with the norm, and in some way seeking fodder for future stories that he might relay read more

Classic Film Aficionados The Love Parade premiered in New York City on Tuesday, November 19, 1929 at the Criterion Theater, opening with all of the fanfare (Maurice Chevalier in attendance[i]), and the jubilant expectation of the first-nighters at a grandiose-opening of the newest play on the Great read more

Classic Film Aficionados Born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen on Friday, December 10th, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, Victor McLaglen (a former boxer) was an adventurer at heart, never satisfied with the norm, and in some way seeking fodder for future stories that he might relay read more

Classic Film Aficionados As we can see from the posters, lobby cards, programs and ads for Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, every means and all tools were used to promote this film, yet, because of its budget (most expensive of the silent era at 3.9 million) it lost money on its initial run, finally m read more

Classic Film Aficionados As we can see from the posters, lobby cards, programs and ads for Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, every means and all tools were used to promote this film, yet, because of its budget (most expensive of the silent era at 3.9 million) it lost money on its initial run, finally m read more

I really enjoyed X-Men: First Class more than I thought I would, and it’s the film that finally brought my younger daughter around to the side of the mutants, (she’d previously enjoyed most of the Marvel movies, but just hadn’t gotten into the X-Men) so it’s pretty safe to sa read more

Why we need a wonder woman movie? https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest   Wonder Woman is a fictional character, a DC Comics super heroine created by William Moulton Marston and one of the three characters to be continuously published by DC Comics since the company’s inception read more

Why we need a wonder woman movie? https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest   Wonder Woman is a fictional character, a DC Comics super heroine created by William Moulton Marston and one of the three characters to be continuously published by DC Comics since the company’s inception read more

For the few of you who are wondering what happened lately to LMdC (short for Le Mot du Cinephiliaque) here are the latest news: First, my wife and I are waiting for a little baby girl to come to our lovely home by June 24th. I might have mentioned it here before but now is the official announcemen read more

  The short intro: For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, Old Time Radio is the phrase generally used to refer to the time when radio was (mostly) live, and was full of a variety of different shows, as opposed to simply being a means for record labels to use robots to promote the top re read more

This intriguing short film from 1930 is entitled It’s a Bird and features comedian Charley Bowers interacting with some very interesting stop-motion animated creatures. For those who have never heard of Bowers (as I hadn’t until I ran across this) here’s a bit of biography on him, read more

I’ve seen Vincente Minnelli’s classic multiple times, so I was surprised to notice during one viewing that there was a lot of pairing being done. It sounds a little weird, I know. Maybe it’s just coincidental and I’m making too big a deal out of it, but it sparked my interest read more

He didn't have all that many great scripts, but one contained a line that might sum up most of his life: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" It may be some measure of all of our foolishness that seven decades and more of his misbehavior, all too rarely leavened by flashes of the brilliance that ma read more