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Here we go with rd 9: Rd 9: Which actress performance do you like more? Rd. 9: Which actress performance do you like more? Rd 9: Which actress performance do you like more? Rd 9: Which actress performance do you like more? Rd 9: Which actress performance do you like read more

Here we go with round 8 focusing on the leading ladies of these amazing films of 1939 Rd 8: Which leading ladies performance do you like more? Rd 8: Which leading ladies performance do you like more? Rd 8: Which leading ladies performance do you like more? Rd 8: Which leadin read more

Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom Leonard Maltin Good Knight Books, 2018 Before the movie guidebooks, television review gig, and thriving podcast, film critic Leonard Maltin was a teenage cinema fanatic living in New York City. There he had access to archives, rare fi read more

Another round of actors vs actors in the competing films of 1939 Rd 7: Which actor's performance do you like more? Rd 7: Which actor's performance do you like more? Which actor/actress performance do you like more? Rd 7: Which actor's performance do you like more? Rd 7 read more

Here we go with round 6 pitting lead actors against other lead actors of the competing films. Rd 6: Which actor's performance do you like more? Rd 6: Which actor's performance do you like more? Rd 6: Which actor's performance do you like more? Rd 6: Which actor's performance do you l read more

Here we go with rd 5: Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 5: Which film of 1939 do you like more read more

Here we go with round 4.. Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 4: Which film of 1939 do you like read more

The participants in this year’s ‘So You Think You Know Movies’ contest. You can see me on the left, with a white shirt and a hat. read more

Here we go with rd 3: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like m read more

A few days ago, Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead in a new movie called Rub & Tug about Dante “Tex” Gill, a transgender man who owned a massage parlor and became involved in mob crime. The casting has generated an angry buzz, only heightened by a Johansson rep’s rep read more

“That’s you Marlowe. You’ll never learn, you’re a born loser.” In the pantheon of great film detectives, Philip Marlowe stands alone. Sam Spade might have been first, and Mike Hammer might have more in common with the action heroes that are still prevalent today, but Ma read more

Here we go with rd 2.. Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like more? Rd 2: Which film of 1939 do you like mor read more

16 friends have gathered to play in this new tourney, all about their favorite films of the best year ever..1939. Here we go with round 1. Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like more? Which film of 1939 do you like mor read more

Springtime Silent Movie Challenge – girls run the silent film world Eu amo desafios – especialmente quando eles envolvem filmes. Por isso, quando a Fritzi do site Movies, Silently propôs um desafio de primavera para nós, amantes do cinema, eu tive de aceitar. O desafio consiste read more

My HISTORY OF FASHION IN FILM screening series at the Egyptian Theatre continues with the 1950s on June 23! This series is 7 parts - one event per decade from the 1920s to the 1980s - and each will be followed by a screening of a film featured in the talk. Some of the incredible style we celeb read more

At a recent screening of their restoration of the 1928 silent film The Man Who Laughs, Universal announced that it will be continuing its silent movie restoration project (first announced in 2015) by restoring another ten silent films over the next few years. This is, of course, welcome news to film read more

It was impressive to see a full theater for the Sunday afternoon screening of Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936). I didn't expect this lesser known work of the director to get such a turnout. The film played at SIFF Cinema Uptown for the third weekend of the 44th Seattle Internati read more

Each year (this is the second such) the splendid movies’n’more website Wonders in the Dark runs an “Online Film Festival” in honor of Allan Fish, the site’s co-founder, whose tragically young death came as a shock to all connected with WitD. Here’s my contribution read more

Last night at SIFF Cinema Uptown, I enjoyed the first SIFF screening of Amy Scott’s documentary about filmmaker Hal Ashby, Hal (2018). Brilliantly edited, compassionate, and full of insightful interviews, I learned a lot about this director who I have always admired, but I realize now not full read more

The audience attending Belle de Jour (1967) at the SIFF Cinema Uptown last night alternated between stunned silence and nervous giggles, a clear sign that Luis Buñuel’s tale of desire has retained its power over time. In a new 4K restoration from the original negative, the colors popped and Ca read more