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  It’s August so that means TCM’s Summer Under the Stars happened and that seems to be all that happened.  My film count went down this month as a result of my going out of town and returning to school which accounts for the uptick in rewatches and lack of reviews in the last week. read more

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events are about to begin a film series in celebration of Universal's 100th anniversary with special movie theater presentations of four newly restored Universal classics. On Wednesday, September 19, "The Birds is coming" - again - and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 read more

"Don't tell anyone, but my real name is Mary Klotz." Of all the actresses who appeared in 1930s movies, Mae Clarke (1910-1992) was certainly one of them. She played a variety of roles, including rather wooden reporter, rather wooden gangster's moll, rather wooden movie star, rather wo read more

Since the beginning of cinema popular books and novels have been converted to screenplays in an attempt to draw audiences to big screens to watch stories that were familiar to them.  Not to mention books have always been a wonderful resource for film material.  During the time when Michael Curtiz read more

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events are about to begin a film series in celebration of Universal's 100th anniversary with special movie theater presentations of four newly restored Universal classics. On Wednesday, September 19, "The Birds is coming" - again - and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 read more

"Don't tell anyone, but my real name is Mary Klotz." Of all the actresses who appeared in 1930s movies, Mae Clarke (1910-1992) was certainly one of them. She played a variety of roles, including rather wooden reporter, rather wooden gangster's moll, rather wooden movie star, rather wo read more

Late August/early September can only mean one thing — back to school season.  If you’re still in school, I’m sure you’ve either already had your first day back or it’s coming up very soon.  I’m sure plenty of people out there are taking their first film theory cl read more

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events are about to begin a film series in celebration of Universal's 100th anniversary with special movie theater presentations of four newly restored Universal classics. On Wednesday, September 19, "The Birds is coming" - again - and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 read more

The actress Carmen Cartellieri, was born as Franziska Ottilia Cartellieri in Prossnitz. At the age of 16 she married painter and director Emanuel Ziffer Edler von Teschenbruck. After she met with director Cornelius Hintner, he put her in her first movie role, "Das Zigeunermächen", under the pse read more

There’s not going to be a lot of lead-up to this short. First, I must thank one of my frequent readers for suggesting it to me, as it is a short I truly enjoy. As for the film itself, this is what happens when Salvador Dali meets Walt Disney, literally. Destino read more

So here’s the situation – Pretty Clever Film Gal has been running like a hamster on a wheel, working her little rear off. This has left me feeling less pretty clever and more slightly dull. But TIFF is right around the corner, and I’m banking work and time to slip off to daytime m read more

So here’s the situation – Pretty Clever Film Gal has been running like a hamster on a wheel, working her little rear off. This has left me feeling less pretty clever and more slightly dull. But TIFF is right around the corner, and I’m banking work and time to slip off to daytime m read more

Cineplex's classic film series Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood doing what he does best! One of the best feelings in the world is being able to sit down in a darkened theatre and watch some of your all-time favourite classic movies on the big screen.  For the past few years, here in Canada, read more

Film Club coming to “The Venue” at the Daystar Center A new film club is coming to “The Venue” at the Daystar Center, 1550 S. State St. Chicago. Hosted by Stephen Reginald, the film club will feature four classic films having connections with Chicago. Some like Henry Hat read more

Film Club coming to “Venue 1550” at the Daystar Center A new film club is coming to “Venue 1550” at the Daystar Center, 1550 S. State St. Chicago. Hosted by Stephen Reginald, the film club will feature four classic films having connections with Chicago. Some like Henry H read more

This is a short film that was created for a contest Quentin Tarantino ran as part of a promotion for his upcoming Django Unchained. Below you will find the winning entry by Brazilian student filmmaker Edson Oda. Oda, per reports, is heading to USC for his masters. Here is Oda’s Vimeo blurb: T read more

Good morning friends and fellow film fanatics, Pretty Clever Film Gal has shocking news to report – nothing happened on the interwebs this week. Okay, okay… I’m sure stuff did happen, but I missed it all. It’s been a week of work, work, work and I’m heading off right n read more

Good morning friends and fellow film fanatics, Pretty Clever Film Gal has shocking news to report – nothing happened on the interwebs this week. Okay, okay… I’m sure stuff did happen, but I missed it all. It’s been a week of work, work, work and I’m heading off right n read more

Here’s a film that very quickly proves that shorts can have layers to them and also have pretty interesting structures. There’s flashback in here but it’s not in your face about it, there’s a precise trigger but that comes later and there’s a bit of psychology at play t read more

"But I AM talking in my deep voice!" Of all the actors who appeared in 1930s movies, Eric Linden (1909-1994) was certainly one of them. He played a variety of roles, including young salesman, young father, young traveler, young rich man, young detective, young gambler and not-quite-as-young soldi read more