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What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963, Martin Scorsese)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 6, 2020
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? is an absurd but arty comedy short. Director Scorsese mixes full motion video with stills, which sometimes do stand-ins for scenes—like protagonist Zeph Michaelis marrying Nice Girl Mimi Stark—sometimes just for expository stuff. See, Mich read more
On Blu-ray--3-D Rarities: A Collection of Ultra-Rare and Stunningly Restored 3-D Films
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Apr 1, 2020
What struck me about Flicker Alley’s first edition of 3-D Rarities, a compilation of rare, vintage three dimensional films from 3-D Film Archive, was that the films were of such high quality that they were entertaining whether or not they were viewed in 3-D. I found the same to be true of the read more
Be a good American. Come to your Census.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 1, 2020
Meet Jane Alice Peters (right), 11, of 605 North Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles. Jane, of course, is better known as Carole Lombard, the actress name she adopted when entering the film industry in the mid-1920s (and a name she'd take for official in the fall of 1936). While I believe this was taken read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e11 – A Midwinter’s Tale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
It’s a Christmas special—or a Winter Solstice special—set before winter break for the teens, which adds to the weirdness because even though Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) said farewell to beau Ross Lynch last episode… turns out they’re still going to the same school. Yes, even though she’s all read more
Eat a la LA (and a la Lombard)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 31, 2020
Our world was so different when this month started, wasn't it? We could watch movies in theaters, follow our favorite sports teams on TV, go to our jobs (assuming we had one). Now, as a result of something barely visible in the U.S. on March 1, it seems so long ago.Coronavirus has isolated America, read more
Cinema '62: A Book Review
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 30, 2020
In their new book Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies, authors Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan set out to dispel the popular notion that 1939 was the best year for movies. Farber, a former president of the Los Angeles Critics Association, and McClellan, a former senior executive for Lan read more
On a Volé la Cuisse de Jupiter (1980)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 28, 2020
vt Jupiter’s Thigh France / 101 minutes / color / Ariane, Mondex, F.R.3 Dir: Philippe de Broca Pr: Alexandre Mnouchkine, Georges Dancigers, Robert Amon Scr: Michel Audiard Based on: characters created in the Commissaire Tanquerelle books by Jean-Paul Rouland and Claude Olivier Cine: Jean-Paul Schwar read more
Writing Elsewhere: With a Friend Like Harry (2000) for Crooked Marquee
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 27, 2020
This week I wrote about the slow-burn French thriller With a Friend Like Harry (2000) for the film site Crooked Marquee. It's an interesting movie, because while it is in many ways a throwback to Hitchcock-style suspense, it has a lot of timely things to say about the way money can give one a sense read more
Pitching a poster of Pastime
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 27, 2020
Yesterday's entry commemorated what should've been major league baseball's Opening Day with a newfound photo of Carole Lombard throwing out the first ball. The person who tracked down that pic and its snipe, David Trimboli, also found a snipe for the pic above...and here it is:Can't read it? Let's e read more
Writing Elsewhere: With a Friend Like Harry (2000) for Crooked Marquee
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 26, 2020
This week I wrote about the slow-burn French thriller With a Friend Like Harry (2000) for the film site Crooked Marquee. It's an interesting movie, because while it is in many ways a throwback to Hitchcock-style suspense, it has a lot of timely things to say about the way money can give one a sense read more
M*A*S*H (1970): Altman Not Alda
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 26, 2020
“Suicide Is Painless” remains one of the most misanthropic themes on record and that’s without the completely nonsensical lyrics. With lyrics, it’s even more disillusioning. Still, this stays very much in line with Robert Altman’s conception of the world. Nothing is ev read more
A sapphire satin doll
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 25, 2020
It's difficult not to think of Venus or some other goddess when seeing this Carole Lombard still, Paramount p1202-1401. (Must be that half-shell background.) We get the lowdown on this late 1936 portrait from the back:Can't read it well? Here's a larger version:To borrow a moviemaking term, that's a read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e05 – Dreams in a Witch House
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
This episode starts immediately after the previous one—Kiernan Shipka has just opened a demonic Rubik’s cube, designed by her dead father when he was in the same witch academy she now attends, and released a sleep demon (a make-up encased and excellent Megan Leitch). The episode is just the demon read more
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, J.A. Bayona)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 19, 2020
After a strong dinosaur suspense opening, with some futuristic submersible entering the closed Jurassic World bay to get something off the seafloor, Fallen Kingdom shockingly quickly becomes a remake of the first Jurassic Park sequel, Lost World. Like, so much you wish there were more in it so Davi read more
Duel (1971): The Stirring Success of a Young Spielberg
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 17, 2020
Duel stands as a stirring reminder that this is the same Steven Spielberg who brazenly got himself on the Universal lot because he needed to be in as close proximity to movies by any means possible. There was no other alternative. Here is a young, brash filmmaker, part Hitchcock, part Truffaut, and read more
Monsters and Matinees: A British Village is Pulled into Space and Everyone Drinks Tea
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on Mar 14, 2020
Once in a New Moon What makes us watch a movie for the first time? Often it’s because of our favorite stars. Perhaps a notable director. It can be from the recommendation of a friend. But sometimes all I need is an interesting plot description. That was the case for Once in a New Moon, a read more
A Terrible Night (1896, Georges Méliès)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 11, 2020
A Terrible Night had me exclaiming, “Holy shit,” when the giant bug appeared. Or when it started moving. I’m not sure if it’s always in the shot. I’m resisting the urge to go and check. The short is short—a minute—and one of director Méliès single shot films. He appears in the film as read more
No need to be a Christian to appreciate Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, 1989)!
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Mar 6, 2020
It seems like it’s been ages since I’ve written anything for a blogathon! Luckily, March is a month that has a lot of them in reserve, the perfect way for me to get back in business. And one of these blogathons is one of my very favourites; the O Canada Blogathon hosted by two amazing l read more
A new jolt from 'High Voltage'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 6, 2020
"High Voltage," Carole Lombard's first all-talking picture, is if nothing else a curio of the motion picture industry in the first few months of 1929, when sound stopped filmdom dead in its tracks and most of the movies released were for all intents and purposes photographed stage plays. It was true read more
A goddess in Griffith Park
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 5, 2020
That stunning Carole Lombard portrait, from Hollywood magazine, is a magazine cover photo, in genuine color, from 1931. Its pioneering photographer -- and another icon he pictured to stunning effect -- is the subject of today's entry.Edwin Bower Hesser was famed in the 1920s and '30s for his work in read more