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A Mulher que Soube Amar / Alice Adams (1935)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Mulher que Soube Amar / Alice Adams (1935) Se você gosta de cinema clássico, já deve ter ouvido falar do renascimento da carreira de Katharine Hepburn em 1940, dois anos depois de ela ter sido chamada de “veneno de bilheteria”. Mas talvez você não saiba que este foi o segundo read more
Assim caminha a humanidade / Giant (1956)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
Assim caminha a humanidade / Giant (1956) Em enquete feita pelo blog sobre os filmes de James Dean, os leitores escolheram (surpresa!) “Assim caminha a humanidade / Giant”, épico de 1956 baseado no romance homônimo de Edna Ferber e que conta com um grandioso elenco. Dividem a tela read more
L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood by Anne Soon Choi
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
L.A. CoronerThomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood by Anne Soon ChoiThird State BooksHardcover ISBN: 9798890130075April 2025256 pagesAmazon — Barnes & Noble — Powell's“Gentlemen, you’re about to enter fascinating sphere of police work. The world of forensic medicine.& read more
Almas à Venda (1923) / Souls for Sale (1923)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
Almas à Venda (1923) / Souls for Sale (1923) “Você é real ou… uma miragem?”“Nenhum dos dois. Sou um ator de cinema.”“Are you real or… a mirage?”“Neither. I’m a movie actor.”Meu tipo favorito de film são filmes sobre filmes. Meu read more
A Turba (1928) / The Crowd (1928)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Turba (1928) / The Crowd (1928)
Alguns dos melhores filmes mudos
foram feitos quando a era do cinema mudo estava lentamente se despedindo. O ano
de 1928 produziu alguns dos melhores filmes e nos faz pensar o que aconteceria
se o som sincronizado tivesse demorado mais um pouco para chega read more
O Brasil e o Oscar – ou a traumática falta dele
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
O Brasil e o Oscar – ou a traumática falta dele O Brasil pode ter muitas coisas de que se orgulhar: linda natureza, animado carnaval, povo simpático, biodiversidade incrível, cinco títulos de Copas do Mundo. Mesmo assim, o povo ainda amarga uma questão: não temos nenhum Oscar. read more
A Wacky Warner Bros. Tour in Pictures
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
It's become an annual tradition to go on a tour of the Warner Bros. lot every time we go to the TCM Classic Film Festival. So far we’ve done three different tours. Our first was an official Warner Bros. VIP tour, our second was with Rob of Dear Old Hollywood (read about it here) and thi read more
A Importância de ser Honesto (1952) / The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Importância de ser Honesto (1952) / The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Oscar Wilde foi um famoso autor, um dos mais respeitados da década de 1890. Ele escreveu ensaios, contos de ficção, romances, poesia e peças de teatro, e é a uma dessas últimas que damos atenção hoje. “A read more
You Got a Little Something There. No there... and there... and well all over really
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Can someone tell me what the name of this type of college sweater is? Someone?! Anyone?!
It was common during the 1920s and 1930s. The pictures above are from Good News (1947) which is based on a musical from the late 1920s and the setting is 1927. I researched sweatshirts and they were sports/co read more
Out of the Past - Into the Now ~ Jeff Bailey is a Baseball Player
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
You know you are a die-hard classic film fan, when movie references follow you around in real life. Carlos and I went to a Pawtucket Red Sox game on Sunday and their Left Fielder just happened to be named Jeff Bailey. Out of the Past (1947) anyone?!Things have been hectic lately, hope to return to r read more
A Viúva Alegre / The Merry Widow (1934)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Viúva Alegre / The Merry Widow (1934) O que primeiro vem à sua mente quando você pensa na França? Torre Eiffel? A Marselhesa? Boinas? Napoleão? Escargot? Para mim, há duas coisas que representam a França: Versalhes e Maurice Chevalier. E ambos podem ser vistos em “A Viúva Alegre” read more
A Custom-Made Classic Film Calendar
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
A few months ago I was shopping online for a movie themed calendar. My search was in vain. What's available on the market is not great and for classic film fans like me the only calendar available is the same movie posters one that's been recycled year after year.
I wrote to Kate Gabrielle on the c read more
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780385537377
October 2014
Nan A. Talese (Knopf - Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
Barnes and Noble
Powell's
IndieBound
“Like a dancer he needed the full revelation of his art. He seemed to have a speed read more
A Princesa e o Plebeu / Roman Holiday (1953)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Princesa e o Plebeu / Roman Holiday (1953) Se você gosta de filmes antigos, já deve ter passado por esta situação: na ânsia de compartilhar sua paixão com as pessoas ao seu redor, recebeu como resposta uma careta e a recusa veemente de parar para ver um filme “velho”, em preto read more
The Real James Dean and a Giveaway
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
The Real James Dean
Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
edited by Peter L. Winkler
Chicago Review Press
9781613734728 - 368 pages
August 2016
Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powells
When we look at the legacy of classic film actors and actresses there is a natural hierarchy. There are those read more
The Kinetophone: A Fact! A Reality!: Talking Pictures from 1913!
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Jack's Joke (1913)
Photo Credit: courtesy Undercrank Productions/Library of Congress
Before there was the Vitaphone there was Thomas Edison's Kinetophone. Over a decade before Al Jolson proclaimed "you ain't heard nothing yet" in The Jazz Singer (1927), Kinetophone brought talking pictures to audi read more
The CMBA Blogathon: Schnooks on a Plane
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Nov 30, -0001
Winner of Most Misleading Poster: 1952 Watch It Now! Before Fox Films finds out it's there. Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) A film like this makes you wonder how commercial air travel ever got off the g read more
Atire a Primeira Pedra / Destry Rides Again (1939)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
Atire a Primeira Pedra / Destry Rides Again (1939) Arrisco-me dizendo que 1939 foi o ano mais importante para o século XX. Em 1939 começou a Segunda Guerra Mundial, conflito que marcaria a história da humanidade. Em 1939 a Guerra Civil Espanhola terminou. Em 1939 Batman fez sua primeira apari read more
Warner Archive Wednesday ~ Death of a Soundrel (1956)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
"Business is the art of getting something for nothing" - Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders)
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) is a wonderful B movie directed by Charles Martin and starring my beloved George Sanders. Sanders, known for playing rapscallions and cads very well, was a perfect fit to play the read more
A Águia Azul (1926) / The Blue Eagle (1926)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Nov 30, -0001
A Águia Azul (1926) / The Blue Eagle (1926) Há filmes mudos de todos os tamanhos e durações. Além disso, não é regra que, quando um diretor começa a fazer longas-metragens, ele pare de fazer filmes mais curtos. Veja John Ford, por exemplo. Ford começou como diretor em 1917 e, em 1926, read more