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I’m glad to be back with a new actor’s film marathon: a Claire Trevor’s Marathon. The special thing this time, is that I’ve made this marathon for a blogathon: The Marathon Stars Blogathon (hosted by me at The Wonderful World of Cinema and Crystal at In the Good Old Days of read more

First, thanks to you for voting! I’m very happy with the level of participation! :) Here are the results for round 1 (part 1): the 50’s. I hope for you that your favourite actresses win! The second part of round 1 will start later this afternoon. CHARACTER ACTRESSES Thelma Ritter 76/ Viv read more

We’re back today for the second part of The 6th Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tourney (co-hosted with Monty from All Good Things and Screwball Cinema and John from Mythical Monkey). As you know, I’m hosting the 50s era (and I’m very happy to do so as it is my favourite film deca read more

I’m happy one more time to co-host the Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tourney! This year, I’ll take care of the 50s, Monty from All Good Things and Hero Worship will host the 30s and the 60s era and John from Mythical Monkey. We’ll start the first round (part 1) with two categori read more

Robin from Pop Culture Reverie recently did this challenge and created a list of her 101 most favourite films on List Challenges. I decided to do the same and create my own list. It was not an easy thing to do as I had to left many films I love! I decided to generally go with films that I had seen a read more

I created this little story using Hitchcock’s movie titles. Just for fun! :) *** The Unnamed Lady It’s the story of a notorious man who knew too much about the birds. He was spellbound by them. I confess that he was also rich and strange, and that’s because he had found a topaz be read more

We’re already at week 3 of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. Wow! Time is flying! This week theme’s is “The crafts”. Participants will explore stuff such as costumes, music, special effects cinematography, etc. On my side, as an ex-screenwriting student, I’ve decided to read more

First time I saw Highly Dangerous, I remember really enjoying it. I had to find another good occasion to watch it again, and The Movie Scientist Blogathon seemed to be the one. Hosted by Ruth from Silver Screening and Christina Wehner, this event starts today on February 19, 2016 and will end on Fe read more

Today, as it is Valentine’s Day, we celebrate love. Our love of each others, our love for our family, friends, wife/husband, boyfriend/girlfriend. But the cinephiles also celebrate their love for film and love in films. To do so, Second Sight Cinema is hosting the You Must Remember this… read more

Rebecca is the only Hitchcock’s film that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Produced by David O’Selznick (who had also won the Best Picture Oscar the previous year for Gone With the Wind), this film also won the awards for Best Cinematography, black and white (George Barnes) and…tha read more

The 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon is finally back! This is one of my favourite blogathons, so I was very excited to participate again. As always, it is hosted by the fantastic Aurora from Once Upon a Screen, Kellee from Outspoken and Freckled and Paula from Paula’s Cinema Club. Today, we start t read more

Kristina from Speakeasy and Ruth from Silver Screening are actually hosting, from Feb 1st to Feb 5, 2016, the O Canada Blogathon. Of course, as being a Canadian myself (from Montreal, Quebec), I couldn’t say no to that! All participants are writing about Canadian movies, movies that take plac read more

Doris Day. THIS Icon. I’m a fan. She’s not my number one favourite actress, but she certainly is my favourite singer (along with Madonna). Doris makes me happy. She herself said “I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and l read more

Fritz Lang was probably one of the most gifted movie directors the world ever had; first in Germany with masterpieces such as Metropolis and M, and then in the USA with Fury, The Woman in the Window, Clash by Night, etc. Lang left Europa and Nazism in 1934 to continue a brilliant career in the USA. read more

Don’t forget to subscribe to those two blogathons I’ll host in March and April! The Marathon Stars Blogathon (co-hosted with In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood) The Golden Boy Blogathon: A William Holden Celebration See you there! read more

One of the best cinematic discoveries I made through this blog is a wonderful actor (with the most irresistible smile ever) named William Holden. Last year, I did a marathon and watched a ton of his film. With a total of 22 films viewed, I can officially say that he is the actor from whom I have se read more

My friend Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood is a big fan of Barbara Stanwyck. So, that’s not without reason that she decided to host a blogathon in her honour. She is also a favourite of mine and the more I see her, the more I appreciate her. So, of course, it’s an read more

What is the result when you combine Gershwin’s music to Burkeley’s choreographies? Lady Be Good, of course! A lovely backstage musical directed by Norman Z. McLeod in 1941. Today, it’s the perfect occasion for me to talk about this film as I am participating to the Backstage Bloga read more

Hi there! This is just a quick announcement to let you know that I’ve just created a new blog entirely dedicated to my three most favourite actresses: Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman. I invite you to visit it and follow it as well Three Enchanting Ladies     read more

Last year, in 2015, (which was not a long time ago), I made some great film discoveries, but, overall, I might have discovered what would be for me the best French movie of all times: La Grande Illusion. I watched the film thrice in a short among of time and even had the chance to see it on the big read more