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Hitchcock Double Vision: “Blackmail” and “North by Northwest”
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Det. Frank Webber (John Longren), Alice White (Anny Ondra), and Mr. White (Charles Paton) On Tuesday, June 18, I got to see the silent and sound versions of Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) back to back at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences theater on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles read more
The House on Trubnaya (1928): Russia in Classic Film Blogathon, Part 2
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Thanks to Movies, Silently and Flicker Alley for hosting the Blogathon! Despite what “Aelita: Queen of Mars” (1924) might have lead you to believe, Bolshevism did not destroy the Russian sense of humor. Although the “message” of “The House on Trubnaya” (1928) read more
Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960): Take Me to Your Cinema!
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Part of The British Invasion Blogathon. I first saw this peculiar film about ten years ago, sometime when I was still in grad school. I can’t remember why; I must have stumbled across it at the very fine Four Star Video Heaven, which is—somewhat miraculously—still in business. Neither am I sure read more
Looking for FREE streaming films?
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Check out Open Culture’s huge listings! http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline Here are some of the treats* awaiting you (chosen at Random, of course): Spider Baby – A black comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill. Stars Lon Chaney Jr. (1968) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse read more
Pre-Code Blogathon: Murder at the Vanities (1934)—Murder Is the Least of It
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The following is my contribution to the fabulous Pre-Code Blogathon, hosted by Shadows and Satin and Pre-Code.com. Even if you’ve seen some of the now-classic pre-code films, like “Night Nurse” (1931), “Freaks” (1932), or “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” read more
King and Country (1964): World War I Blogathon
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This post is a part of the fantastic World War I in Classic Film blogathon hosted by the always intriguing Movies Silently and Silent-ology – go read the other excellent posts! One of the great—and somewhat overlooked—films about World War I was originally made for television in Britai read more
Sunday Random Weekly Roundup
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Welcome back, dear readers–all five or so of you. read more
Peter Lorre’s Dr. Gogol in Mad Love (1935): The Great Villain Blogathon
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Like most movie watchers of my generation, I probably first saw the actual Peter Lorre in “Casablanca” (1942). He doesn’t have a lot of screen time, but he’s hard to forget. My first exposure to Peter Lorre, however, and perhaps also like a lot of folks my generation, was th read more
AFI Fest 2014: “Réalité” and “Alléluia”
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I’m not sure why every screening at the AFI’s annual Fest isn’t packed, regardless of the day or time. It’s FREE. F.R.E.E. I have a ticket to see Sophia freakin’ Loren honored at a screening of Marriage Italian Style (1964, Vittorio de Sica). Technically, it’s a read more
Sunday Random Roundup, August 25, 2013
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Welcome back, dear readers, to another edition of the Random Roundup. I’m super-duper excited about the first item up, so without further ado… “Be Natural” The shamefully loooong-overdue documentary about Alice Guy Blaché Alice Guy-Blaché in a film she probably directed whi read more
The Expedient Exaggerations of “North by Northwest”
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“North by Northwest” (1959) ticks off a lot of Hitchcock’s favorite boxes. And yet, it seems always to have lingered in the shadow of “Vertigo” (1958). “Vertigo” is amazing, of course, but deeply disturbing. (Bonus points for casting All-American Nice Guy Jimmy read more
Bluebeard in Black and White: Fritz Lang’s “Secret Beyond the Door”
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This is my contribution to the Fairy Tale Blogathon hosted by the always-fascinating Movies Silently. Check out more of the posts there! Let me start this post about Secret Beyond the Door by blaming the enchanting Angela Carter. Carter (1940 – 1992) wrote some of my favorite books, including The read more
Sunday Random Roundup, September 15, 2013
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Not really. It turns out this post is all about Hong Kong cinema. Other interesting tidbits will appear later this week. Well, now it’s been *two* weeks since the last post. Apologies. Since I’ve actually got a day job now, I have to learn how to manage my time. And I was experiencing te read more
Tyrone Power Lurches Down “Nightmare Alley”
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An odd but now well-regarded film noir, with A-list stars and production staff, and a larger-than-normal budget, “Nightmare Alley” is based on William Lindsay Gresham’s squalid 1946 novel. In an attempt to move away from his usual roles as a romantic lead and adventurer, Tyrone Power bou read more
AFI Fest 2014: Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body
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Day Four: Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body (2014) I had a ticket to “Song of the Sea,” the new animated film by Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kells,” 2009) but couldn’t make it. I’m looking forward to seeing it, albeit on a much smaller screen, when it come read more
Tuesday’s Sunday Random Roundup, October 1, 2013
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The zombies made me miss the Roundup last week. But now we have an actual developing story…perhaps even a scandal of sorts. So there’s no actual Roundup here, unless you think of it as a Roundup of one thing. I should make it clear that I have not yet read either Doherty’s or Urwan read more
The “Austere Wickedness”* of Alain Delon in “Purple Noon”
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My husband refers to Alain Delon as “farcically good-looking,” and, really, Delon is so good-looking, it’s practically an insult. He was a mere 25 when he made “Plein Soleil” (known in English as “Purple Noon” for no good reason I can find) with director René Clément. read more
AFI Fest 2014: Villa Touma (Suha Arraf)
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Day Five: Suha Arraf’s Villa Touma (2014) In the spirit of recent posts at Krell Laboratories (“Rethinking the American Canon”) and Girls Do Film (“A Realisation…and a New Year Resolution”) on the paucity of work by women directors, and in the less lofty spirit read more
Army of Shadows (L’armée des ombres, 1969), Part 1: Snoopathon
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Once again, I seem to have chosen the one of the least typical examples of the genre for a genre-based blogathon. “L’armée des ombres” (“Army of Shadows”), Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film about a small group of French Resistance fighters during World War II, is undeniably a spy film. And read more