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It’s been like Christmas and a birthday rolled into one for silent film fans this week. TCM featured Lillian Gish and set the interwebs ablaze with talk about the finest Griffith-Gish collaborations. The Speechless Blogathon sponsored by Eternity of Dream kicks off today, bringing us first vi read more

It’s been like Christmas and a birthday rolled into one for silent film fans this week. TCM featured Lillian Gish and set the interwebs ablaze with talk about the finest Griffith-Gish collaborations. The Speechless Blogathon sponsored by Eternity of Dream kicks off today, bringing us first vi read more

Against All Flags starring Maureen O’Hara, Errol Flynn & Anthony Quinn — in its entirety on YouTube! What a gem! Found the ENTIRE version of Against All Flags (director George Sherman) on YouTube. Apparently it’s in the Pub Domain — Lucky Us!  Such a treat! ….. Ann 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

We’re almost half-way through British Horror Month so we thought we’d take a look at a sub-genre the Brits really excelled at – the horror omnibus film. The first major production of multi-story British horror was the seminal classic Dead of Night in 1945 by the legendary Ealing read more

If you had to show one Carole Lombard film to someone who had never seen any of her movies, which one would you choose?Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle film critic and classic movie historian (his pre-Code tomes "Complicated Women" and "Dangerous Men" are must-reads for anyone interested in tha read more

Film is Rhythm isn’t immediately impressive. Director Richter moves some white rectangles across the black screen. Then, gradually (but at a quick pace–Film is only three minutes), he starts doing more movements with these rectangles and squares. By the time he was zooming them in and o read more

A classical animation style rendition of Red Riding Hood wherein the Big Bad Wolf has the nursery rhyme equivalent of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? That’s what Disney’s Oscar nominated Red Riding Redux offers. It’s a hilarious tale with workplace teasing, the wolf married to a sh read more

It’s been a trying week, ya’ll! PCF was kaput all last weekend, due to technical difficulties, meaning Pretty Clever Film Gal couldn’t precompose her brilliant thoughts to dole out a miserly pace for the week. And then, having nothing to do with movie, stuff went sideways. And now read more

Typically, these shorts come to my attention on Twitter either randomly or directly from feeds I follow. As I was watching many a short one day to make these posts I noticed many of them cam from Short of the Week. They really do have great stuff and post great blurbs. I really adore this short and read more

Wait, it’s Friday again? That was one fast week, my friends, and not nearly as productive as it should have been. But it sure was exciting wasn’t it? Sight & Sound’s new critic poll not only told us Vertigo is the greatest movie of all time, it also told us that three of the o read more

Although, it’s a couple of days late, this is my last film in the Marian Marsh marathon, the odd horror classic, ‘Svengali” (1931) PLOTLINE: I was too interested by the direction and appearance of the film to get the full details of the plot, so the below comes mainly from IMBD read more

Although, it’s a couple of days late, this is my last film in the Marian Marsh marathon, the odd horror classic, ‘Svengali” (1931) PLOTLINE: I was too interested by the direction and appearance of the film to get the full details of the plot, so the below comes mainly from IMBD read more

Recently, while scrolling through Twitter I noticed quite a few people posting that the National Film Preservation Board is allowing the general public to suggest titles to be entered to the National Film Registry for the first time. You can read the pertinent details here. The only thing I found a read more

Best thing about selecting The Prowler as my TCM film noir pick of the month? It nudged me into replacing my barely watchable VHS copy with a spanking brand-new DVD! Second best? It gave me an excuse to give a much-appreciated re-watch to this unique and first-rate example of the film noir era. Rele read more

This is a review of the second last and my favourite  film in my Marian Marsh series, "Beauty and the Boss" (1932). PLOTLINE: Suzy Sachs (Marian Marsh) is what they call a ‘Church Mouse’. She is poor, unemployed, voiceless and part of the thousands of other girls in the same read more

This is a review of the second last and my favourite  film in my Marian Marsh series, "Beauty and the Boss" (1932). PLOTLINE: Suzy Sachs (Marian Marsh) is what they call a ‘Church Mouse’. She is poor, unemployed, voiceless and part of the thousands of other girls in the same read more

A film actually bereft of dialogue that beautifully captures not only a ghost town but communicates a longing that is beyond words. Through the old man’s attempt a past that is forever lost is communicated and an impact is created in three minutes that many features cannot accomplish. read more

Well now it’s Friday and it seems like it’s a long time comin’ this week. As a matter of fact, when I woke up this morning I thought it was Saturday – and I immediately felt sad because I had somehow missed Friday. So as cliche as it sounds, TGIF. Now, I`ve got to get to cra read more

Because of the Production Code, films made in the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s were strictly censored. The same set of rules that forbade Maxim de Winter from being his wife’s killer also forbade the use of the word “virgin” on screen. Language, especially sexually explicit language, was the most read more