Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
Love Exists (1960, Maurice Pialat)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 29, 2019
With a title like Love Exists, it seems reasonable the short might turn around and stop being so intensely depressing, but no. The film, written and directed by Pialat with narration by Jean-Loup Reynold, starts with people leaving the city (Paris) proper for their night in the suburbs. It’s not cl read more
Love Exists (1960, Maurice Pialat)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 29, 2019
With a title like Love Exists, it seems reasonable the short might turn around and stop being so intensely depressing, but no. The film, written and directed by Pialat with narration by Jean-Loup Reynold, starts with people leaving the city (Paris) proper for their night in the suburbs. It’s not cl read more
Musical Monday: Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 20, 2019
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Love Me or Leave Me – read more
TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 - It's All About Love at the Movies
GlamAmor Posted by on May 10, 2019
In the 1939 movie Love Affair, the character Terry McKay describes the Empire State Building as the "nearest thing to heaven." For those of us who love classic cinema, the same could be said about Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Appropriately,
the theme of this year's TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) read more
TCM Classic Film Festival 2019: Mad, Sad, Crazy, Glorious Love
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Apr 22, 2019
TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 has been my favorite of the six I have attended so far. It was a special year: the 10th anniversary of the festival and the 25th of the network, and you could see the extra care the organizers put into this year’s event to create a mood of celebration and nostalg read more
Watching 1939: Love Affair (1939)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Apr 11, 2019
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th read more
book: Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997) by Christopher Moore
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 16, 2019
At his best — as in novels like Fluke, Lamb and Noir — Christopher Moore is close to being our finest living humorous writer. Even his lesser novels, of which this is one, offer good entertainment. Underqualified pilot Tucker Case loses his job flying for the boss of a cosmetics corpor read more
Happy Valentine's Day, and a 'new' p1202 to love
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 14, 2019
Happy Valentine's Day, as Carole Lombard plays Cupid and shoots a love arrow your way. Someone apparently created this two years ago in a job well done. And here's something else to adore: A heretofore unseen (at least by me, and I've searched Lombard images for decades) photo from Paramount's p1202 read more
Love and Rockets #50 (May 1996)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2019
Love and Rockets #50 is a perfectly solid issue of Love and Rockets. Beto’s Palomar farewell is outstanding in its execution, with him employing a lot more comic strip-influenced narrative techniques than usual. He doesn’t have enough room, it’s clear, and some things are rushed. Mario’s back read more
Love and Rockets #49 (November 1995)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 19, 2019
On the inside front cover, there’s an announcement Love and Rockets #49 is the penultimate issue. Both Bros embrace it, but very, very differently. Beto has this exceedingly disturbing and self-loathing series of short strips, usually starring himself (or an obvious analog). There’s some great art read more
Farewell, My Love (2000 TVM/DTV)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jan 16, 2019
US / 90 minutes / color / Frontline, Montage, World International Dir & Scr: Randall Fontana Pr: Deverin Karol, Eric Weston, William Ewart, David Peters Cine: Rex A. Nicholson Cast: Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Phillip Rhys, Brion James, Ed Lauter, Mark A. Sheppard, Steffen Gregory Foster, Sarah Wynte read more
Love and Rockets #48 (August 1995)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 11, 2019
Two issues to go, but no countdown clock other than Beto promising a last visit to Palomar in #50. Now, he got me once before with that Farewell, My Palomar story so I’m not sure I’d have believed him back in 1995. Because the Jaime story, despite dealing with Maggie trying to tie up the loose ends read more
Love and Rockets #47 (April 1995)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 5, 2019
It’s an outstanding issue. Los Bros each contribute a story and each story does very different things. Beto’s first. He’s finally bringing Luba’s daughters into contact with their previously unknown grandmother, while also doing a Gorgo story. There are flashbacks for Gorgo and Maria–including read more
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998, Gregory Nava)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 30, 2018
The most impressive thing about Why Do Fools Fall in Love isn’t how well Tina Andrews’s script does with exposition. Not just exposition as it plays out, but how Andrews foreshadows later revelation. The film is and isn’t a biopic of singer Frankie Lymon, focusing instead on his three widows–and read more
Men Who Love Too Much in Classic Film
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 18, 2018
Continuing our theme on characters who love too much, Grace Collins of True Stories of Tinseltown and I turned our attention from women to men, especially Edward G. Robinson’s sad sap Chris in Scarlet Street, Claude Rains’s hoodwinked Alexander in Notorious and bad con artist Johnny of S read more
Men Who Love Too Much in Classic Film
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 18, 2018
Continuing our theme on characters who love too much, Grace Collins of True Stories of Tinseltown and I turned our attention from women to men, especially Edward G. Robinson’s sad sap Chris in Scarlet Street, Claude Rains’s hoodwinked Alexander in Notorious and bad con artist Johnny of S read more
A Short Film About Love (1988)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Nov 10, 2018
A Short Film About Love (Krotki film o milosci) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski Written by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz 1988/Poland Zespol Filmowy “Tor” First viewing/FilmStruck What is love? It takes a Bergman or a Kieslowski to really explore its depths. A tee read more
There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown (1973, Bill Melendez)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 22, 2018
There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown takes about seven minutes to get into the main story–Charlie Brown and the other kids go on a field trip to the art museum–and about seventeen minutes to get to the title relevancy. At first it seems like there’s no time for love because the kids read more
DOUBLE BILL #18: Love Affair (1939) and An Affair to Remember (1957)
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Sep 10, 2018
DOUBLE BILL #18: Love Affair (1939) and An Affair to Remember (1957)
On September 10, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized
It’s not unusual for a director to remake their own movie. Hitchcock did it, Cecil B. DeMille did it (twice!), and Leo McCarey did read more
Women Who Love Too Much in Film
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Sep 9, 2018
I had another fun talk with Grace Collins of True Stories of Tinseltown! We chatted about women who love too much–from Tierney’s character in Leave Her to Heaven to Irene Dunne’s in Back Street (1932 version). Grace is a wonderful host and we had so much to say, especially about th read more