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Book Review--Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis Indiana University Press, 2021 Josephine Baker was an anomaly in the early days of black representation in cinema. She never played a maid or a cook and she was always the star of her films. As the energetic star of read more
Book Review--Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It Eve Golden University Press of Kentucky, 2021 I’ve always enjoyed Jayne Mansfield as a bubbly, squealing glamour icon: fun, but not much more than that. Thanks to a new biography of the actress by Eve Golden, I have a new read more
Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: March Roundup
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
For the first time in a long while, I think every podcast in my monthly round-up is new to this site. I love finding new shows, so if you've got a podcast, or one you enjoy that I haven't covered, please let me know in the comments!Rarified Heir Chris Lemmon March 9, 2021 This is a fa read more
Vera West: Universal's Queen of Ghoul Glamour
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
My latest video is about the talented and tragic Universal Studios costume designer Vera West. She was one of the first women to head a costume department at a major studio. While she made her mark in a variety of genres, her most influential work was in horror, including some of the most fa read more
Book Review--Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics John Malahy TCM/Running Press, 2021 When I first heard of Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics, I imagined a tribute to films like Gidget (1959) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), with maybe a few coming-of-age and summer camp comedies thrown in read more
Theater Streaming: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland Fight the Power in Vietnam-era Documentary F.T.A. (1972)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Over the past few years of intensifying chaos in our world, I’ve often thought about the interviews Donald Sutherland gave to promote The Hunger Games, the first film in a franchise for which he portrayed the insidious President Snow. It was 2014 and he hoped that the film’s message woul read more
On Blu-ray: High-Stepping Co-eds in Good News (1947)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
The sparkling collegiate musical Good News (1947) is a good fit for the talents of leads June Allyson and Peter Lawford, though it is briskly stolen by Joan McCracken in a supporting role and featured player Mel Torme. The film looks and sounds great on a new Blu-ray release from Warner Arch read more
Book Review--Mean..Moody...Magnificent! Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Mean..Moody..Magnificent Christina Rice University Press of Kentucky, 2021 I’ve been eagerly anticipating Mean...Moody…Magnificent, because I couldn’t put down Christina Rice’s first biography, about Ann Dvorak. While this book is not the passion projec read more
Book Review: Shooting Midnight Cowboy
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and The Making of a Dark ClassicGlenn FrankelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021John Schlesinger was not in attendance at the 1970 Academy Awards ceremony when he won the best director Oscar for Midnight Cowboy (1969). He had his towering read more
Writing Elsewhere: Film Discoveries of 2020 at Rupert Pupkin Speaks
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
If you're looking for film recommendations, take a look at the list I compiled of my favorite film discoveries of 2020 at Rupert Pupkin Speaks! This is a great series, full of amazing contributions. I recommend checking out the other lists as well. read more
A Peek at the Heroes & Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume Exhibit at MoPop
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
I attended an inspiring preview of the Walt Disney Archives’ Heroes and Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume exhibit yesterday at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. While the collection focuses on pieces from films made within the past few decades, I was pleasantly surprised to f read more
Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: January Round-up
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
I was grateful to have so many podcasts I wanted to listen to over this turbulent past month. It was wonderful to escape into the great conversations and fascinating facts in these well-crafted shows:
Imaginary Worlds Podcast Betty Boop and the Hays Code January 20, 2021 I like the f read more
Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: May Round-up
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Ticklish Business Kym Karath on Child Star Stardom and Sound of Music April 21, 2021 This is a great interview with Kym Karath, most famous for playing Greta, the youngest VonTrapp child in The Sound of Music (1965). She shares stories about the rest of her acting career read more
Book Review--Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship Charles Casillo Kensington Books, 2021 Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift had an unusual connection, particularly for Hollywood: a lasting, loyal friendship as intimate as a marriage, which endured throughou read more
Book Review--Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish University Press of Kentucky, 2021 Before I picked up Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, I’d seen a handful of its films, knew of some of its stars, and even vaguely r read more
TCM Classic Film Festival Home Edition: What to Watch
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
This year the remote edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival will run from May 6-9. As with the in-person event, there will be multiple venues: the channel, HBO Max, and ZOOM. While I enjoyed the Home Edition of the festival the network was able to pull together on short notice in 2020 read more
On Blu-ray: Costume Dramas Green Dolphin Street (1947) and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
This pair of dramas newly on Blu-ray from Warner Archive features two vastly different, but equally wrenching explorations of the complications of love. In both cases the turmoil is set in grand locations with actors in lavish costumes. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Based on the nov read more
On Blu-ray: Teen Angst on the Airwaves in Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Pump up the Volume (1990) is decades newer than most of the films I review here. I do consider it deserving of modern classic status though. I wanted to write about it, because when I first saw it in the theater I expected it to make a bigger splash and influence more films like it. As it is read more
On Blu-ray MOD: Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in Children of Divorce (1927)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Clara Bow had a knack for communicating her emotions so clearly that you can't help feeling them along with her. If she grieves, you grieve.While Bow is rightfully beloved for the way she embodied the youthful energy of the jazz
age, she was even better when a moment required deeper emotion. C read more
On Blu-ray: Ronald Colman in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
The 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was the fourth screen adaptation of the novel and the first to be made with sound. It followed the similarly grand David Copperfield, which had been released earlier in the year. While the film explores the drama of the French Re read more