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The countdown has begun. Turner Classic Movies has announced the dates for the next installment of the hugely popular TCM Classic Film Festival: April 25 – 28, 2013 in Hollywood. The Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd. will once again serve as TCMFF command central, home to the “Club TCM& read more

An entire blog series can be created just for the shorts of Charles “Charlie” Chaplin, and I plan to do this for the next month starting with the letter ‘C’…maybe I should choose a different time. Regardless, Chaplin made his film debut in the appropriately titled, Maki read more

The Month in Film is going up a few days early as Halloween will be starting soon.  My movie totals continue to fall with school in full swing, although in my defense I’m still shocked I have time to write reviews and see movies at all.  We’re down significantly from last month and any read more

Margaret Hamilton plays the creepy housekeeper in 13 Ghosts. Good Haunted Housekeeping: The Housekeeper in the Gothic Film Tradition The Gothic tradition features a host of particularly striking stock characters. We have the mysterious first wife, whether missing, mad, or murdered, the read more

Margaret Hamilton plays the creepy housekeeper in 13 Ghosts. Good Haunted Housekeeping: The Housekeeper in the Gothic Film Tradition The Gothic tradition features a host of particularly striking stock characters. We have the mysterious first wife, whether missing, mad, or murdered, the read more

Here are the details from TCM. I really hope I can go this year! TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne will serve as official host of the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz also introducing various events during the festival. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, w read more

Margaret Hamilton plays the creepy housekeeper in 13 Ghosts. Good Haunted Housekeeping: The Housekeeper in the Gothic Film Tradition The Gothic tradition features a host of particularly striking stock characters. We have the mysterious first wife, whether missing, mad, or murdered, the read more

OK, I know that I promised that I wouldn’t let 61 Days of Halloween interfere with normal posting activities. For a while, I was keeping up on this series at least. Then last weekend I slipped. To make up for it. I figured I’d choose a great film that needs minimal introduction. We recen read more

Do you have a post TIFF hangover? I certainly do. Even though it’s been 5 days, I’m not sure I’m completely recovered. Also, I’m not sure what movies I saw. TIFF is now a popcorn grease strained blur. I do know I saw Blancanieves, for which I’m grateful. I also remembe read more

Québec City's Film Festival This year is the second edition of our Film festival and I wanted to highlight the fact that we have some interesting projections. Living in a Metropolitan area where we have so few Theaters, an event like this one is a do not miss.  À MOI SEULE Frédé read more

I sometimes like to use my TCM pick of the month to single out a film that’s not exactly in the mainstream – a film like, say, Shield for Murder or Nora Prentiss. But on other occasions, I just can’t help selecting a well-known, often-seen, much-loved film like this month’s goodie – The read more

Here is video of recently discovered footage, considered to be the world’s earliest color film: Additional information about these first color films can be found HERE. Share this:FacebookTwitterPinterestTumblrRedditStumbleUponDiggEmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. read more

Did this film accidently inspire Cocktail? My research for this film extended to knowing it was one of three films to ever win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay) see also One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (199 read more

Belle Bennett (April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932). Her father was Billie Bennett, owner of a circus. He trained her to be a trapeze performer after she spent some years in, The Sacred Heart Convent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By age thirteen she was performing with stock companies, which le read more

Here’s another short that comes from a cinematic legend’ school days. This is a silent (the score, which is very appropriate was added later on), surrealist piece by Orson Welles made when he was 19. There are commonly referred to images throughout and it’s tonal more than anything read more

This is it people… I officially start TIFFing this afternoon. Life is crazeee hectic right now, which kinda sucks. I wanted to enjoy TIFF. I swear to the heavens that next year I’m taking two whole weeks off and not answering the phone during TIFF. But enough of my whining. Before the m read more

This is it people… I officially start TIFFing this afternoon. Life is crazeee hectic right now, which kinda sucks. I wanted to enjoy TIFF. I swear to the heavens that next year I’m taking two whole weeks off and not answering the phone during TIFF. But enough of my whining. Before the m read more

Hey, did you know there’s another film festival going on in Toronto? The lines are still kinda long, but it will fold into your average day far more neatly. You can catch one-minute, silent films on screens across the TTC this week, brought to you by the Toronto Urban Film Festival. If you we read more

Hey, did you know there’s another film festival going on in Toronto? The lines are still kinda long, but it will fold into your average day far more neatly. You can catch one-minute, silent films on screens across the TTC this week, brought to you by the Toronto Urban Film Festival. If you we read more

Film Noir: Something dangerous this way comes Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946) In Hollywood the film noir craze erupted with the release of 1944's Double Indemnity.  Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson, this film presented a new kind of storytelling.  read more