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For the last five years, the Cafe's staff has offered its recommendations for holiday gift ideas for your favorite classic film and television fan. This year, we're doing something a little different--it's our first video post, hosted by regular Cafe contributor Toto. If you can't view the embedded read more

By Fritzi Kramer on November 23, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review One of the most famous silent films ever made, one that gets shown time and again in art history classes. Yet, most of us have never seen it in its original form. Decades of censorship, re-editing and other tinkering have r read more

This post is my hopelessly late contribution to the excellent British Empire in Film Blogathon (thank you, crippling four-day migraine). Go check out some of the other fine entries! When you’re done reading this one, of course. George More O’Ferrall’s The Heart of the Matter is an read more

This is an important short film on a number of levels: In no particular order: it was added to the National Film Registry in 1998, it’s topical yet again and always has been; and it’s a Chaplin film that works as a great intro to his work as an actor, writer and director just to name a f read more

This post is my hopelessly late contribution to the excellent British Empire in Film Blogathon (thank you, crippling four-day migraine). Go check out some of the other fine entries! When you’re done reading this one, of course. George More O’Ferrall’s The Heart of the Matter is an read more

My thoughts on the TCM Classic Film Festival #TCMFF Plain and simple? I'm dying to go. Like, DYING! For someone who's been a classic film fan for most of their natural born lives, I cannot believe that I've never been to one yet. I mean, what the fuck have I been doing all this time? Fartin read more

British Empire in Film Blogathon Lawrence of Arabia: Part One –The Creation of Myth A portrait of the real Lawrence of Arabia. We open on a lone motorcycle – the very symbol of freedom, the open road – and escape from the trappings of the civilized world. Enter frame right, an elegant, read more

By Fritzi Kramer on November 17, 2014 in Blog, Double Feature, Feature, Silent Movie Review A behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, circa 1923. Eleanor Boardman plays a kid with a dream of stardom. The biggest names in the silent film industry serve as her backdrop, everyone from Charlie Chaplin to read more

Flying Solo As A Classic Film Fan You know what sucks? Hardly anyone understands my passion for old movies. And I'm single. This is not going to turn into a cry-for-help kinda post, I can assure you. It's more of a whimpering pleading-for-clarification type of post more than anything. W read more

By Fritzi Kramer on November 16, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review, Silents vs Talkies The oft-filmed tale of an Englishman who is branded a coward and spends the rest of the film proving that he most assuredly is not. This version (released at the height of the sound transition) was one o read more

A simple dialogue-free tale about a young boy’s crush on a new older neighbor. Intriguing primitive design to the characters, well done all around. Enjoy! Blik from Polder Animation on Vimeo. read more

This week on The Bogart Film Affair podcast, we dive into one of my greatest finds while doing the blog – 1939′s The Return of Doctor X! It’s Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, and, of course, Humphrey Bogart as an undead mad scientist, under the direction of read more

"The British Army has always adapted a new country to England, Sire." So speaks Major Duncan Hayward, played by Henry Wilcoxon, in 1936s The Last of the Mohicans.  In a few words the dedicated Major summed up the British Empire.  At the time of our story it is early in the Seven Years Wa read more

This post is part of the The Fairy Tale Blogathon hosted by Movies Silently. Check out the other entries! I was hesitant to give Tangled a chance. I’ve always been bored by Rapunzel, who had little to recommend her but strong hair. Sure, she had beauty—yawn—and a pretty voice (What heroine doesn’t read more

This post is part of the The Fairy Tale Blogathon hosted by Movies Silently. Check out the other entries! I was hesitant to give Tangled a chance. I’ve always been bored by Rapunzel, who had little to recommend her but strong hair. Sure, she had beauty—yawn—and a pretty voice (What heroine doesn’t read more

By Fritzi Kramer on November 10, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review A Cinderella-of-the-Tenements tale, Forbidden Fruit is also a decadent slice of the twenties, as viewed through the extravagant lens of Cecil B. DeMille. Lavish production values, crazy costumes and a surprisingly clear-hea read more

Your Director tells you to Cry!  Musicians help silent film stars shed tears Do you ever go to a movie for a good cry? In the earliest days of the movies 'tears were administered externally.' Corinne Grant weeps 1915 Many teardrops were manufactured in the studios with glycerine and Vaseli read more

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I am not the audiophile my brother is so my lamentations of the lack of creativity in the music video is usually unfounded and based on a very ignorant familiarity with solely mainstream offerings. It’s usually on the independent scene in both film and music where the mavericks can be found. W read more