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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

So since the big movie opening this weekend is Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I thought it might be fun to revisit an earlier big-screen incarnation of the good captain, namely the 1944 Captain America serial, produced by Republic pictures. This is actually another item that I covered back whe read more

  The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, April 3, 1941   At the Mayfair Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, April 4, 1941, The Power and the Glory opened with all the pomp and circumstance due a favorite son, from the Land Down Under. Power and Glory was made with a financial guarantee read more

  The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, April 3, 1941   At the Mayfair Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, April 4, 1941, The Power and the Glory opened with all the pomp and circumstance due a favorite son, from the Land Down Under. Power and Glory was made with a financial guarantee read more

A Look at the Life and Times of Bette Davis A very young and very blond, Bette Davis By Kate Voss Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 5, 1908. When she was only seven, her parents separated, and Bette was promptly sent to a boarding school. In 1921, a read more

Want to crash a party, but not sure how? Mimic Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) in Midnight. Enter with Attitude You don’t have an invite? So what. A pawn ticket will do. Who looks at a piece of paper when a woman is sufficiently glamorous? Draw Attention to Yourself You might think you’d be safer read more

I wanted to get away from lists that represent what critics think and I wanted to focus more on the films that have historically been popular with moviegoers or films that have gained a following over the years. Here is a list that mixes beloved classics, box office smashes, and iconic films all int read more

I wanted to get away from lists that represent what critics think and I wanted to focus more on the films that have historically been popular with moviegoers or films that have gained a following over the years. Here is a list that mixes beloved classics, box office smashes, and iconic films all int read more

In black-and-white, from left: Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Elisabeth Bergner; front and center: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill and Anne Baxter in a color still for All About Eve (1950) In the spring of 1987 Joseph Mankiewicz was staying at the Hotel Cipriani on the lagoon in Venice, Italy, where read more

In black-and-white, from left: Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Elisabeth Bergner; front and center: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill and Anne Baxter in a color still for All About Eve (1950) In the spring of 1987 Joseph Mankiewicz was staying at the Hotel Cipriani on the lagoon in Venice, Italy, where read more

Hollywood is naturally the Mecca of every classic movie fan, but for many of us visiting in person is difficult, if not impossible. I have been reading lucky travelers' blog posts and admiring photos of the Walk of Fame for years, but last week I finally got to check Hollywood off of my own personal read more

Hollywood is naturally the Mecca of every classic movie fan, but for many of us visiting in person is difficult, if not impossible. I have been reading lucky travelers' blog posts and admiring photos of the Walk of Fame for years, but last week I finally got to check Hollywood off of my own personal read more

  The Duke’s Talisman (original title:  Par l’amour) was a Gaumont  (Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont) Co. production, released in France in 1913, and in January of 1914 in the US.  Director of The Duke’s Talisman, Léonce Perret, Cinematography by Georges Specht; read more