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Classic Film Aficionados Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a (pardon the following puns) buckish, ripping, almost as strange as a real life yarn, with a story line as big as the Empire State Building-climbing gorilla himself. A little love is saluted along the read more

Classic Film Aficionados This is an important date in the collective memory of U.S. cinema-goers , because on this date we saw an American fictional character, who was hugely popular, make the transition to celluloid. The movie Tarzan of the Apes was released just 5 years and 3 months after the ori read more

This is an important date in the collective memory of U.S. cinema-goers , because on this date we saw an American fictional character, who was hugely popular, make the transition to celluloid. The movie Tarzan of the Apes was released just 5 years and 3 months after the original story, of the same read more

Classic Film Aficionados This is an important date in the collective memory of U.S. cinema-goers , because on this date we saw an American fictional character, who was hugely popular, make the transition to celluloid. The movie Tarzan of the Apes was released just 5 years and 3 months after the ori read more

Classic Film Aficionados High Sierra, 1941 directed by Raoul Walsh, written by John Huston and W.R. Burnett. Starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, with Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers and Cornel Wilde. This would be the last film where Bogart did not receive top billing.   101 Dalmatia read more

Classic Film Aficionados High Sierra, 1941 directed by Raoul Walsh, written by John Huston and W.R. Burnett. Starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, with Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers and Cornel Wilde. This would be the last film where Bogart did not receive top billing.   101 Dalmatia read more

High Sierra, 1941 directed by Raoul Walsh, written by John Huston and W.R. Burnett. Starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, with Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers and Cornel Wilde. This would be the last film where Bogart did not receive top billing.   Bogart never look more demented! read more

High Sierra, 1941 directed by Raoul Walsh, written by John Huston and W.R. Burnett. Starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, with Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers and Cornel Wilde. This would be the last film where Bogart did not receive top billing.   Bogart never look more demented! read more

A storied career as cinematographer, a strong directorial resume and a vision for what appeals to the eye, faintly describes the work of Rudolph Maté. The Passion of Joan of Arc in 1928, started Maté’s rise in the film-world, almost meteoric in scope and with The Passion of Joan of Arc, Rudo read more

Christian Dior A short but powerful film presence belonged to this Haute Couture Designer; with more than 20 credits over the course of just 15 years in our world-wide movieland; 1 Academy Award nomination for Stazione Termini (Indiscretion of an American Wife), 1953 (nomination came in 1955). Dior read more

A storied career as cinematographer, a strong directorial resume and a vision for what appeals to the eye, faintly describes the work of Rudolph Maté. The Passion of Joan of Arc in 1928, started Maté’s rise in the film-world, almost meteoric in scope and with The Passion of Joan of Arc, Rudo read more

Christian Dior A short but powerful film presence belonged to this Haute Couture Designer; with more than 20 credits over the course of just 15 years in our world-wide movieland; 1 Academy Award nomination for Stazione Termini (Indiscretion of an American Wife), 1953 (nomination came in 1955). Dior read more

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  Louise Rainer would have been 105 years today but we lost this shining star on December 30, 2014, in London. “Just as the light of a sun is seen for years to come even after it kindles no flame we will see the Rainer light still bright on the silver-screen and in our homes so keen in read more

Classic Film Aficionados   Louise Rainer would have been 105 years today but we lost this shining star on December 30, 2014, in London. “Just as the light of a sun is seen for years to come even after it kindles no flame we will see the Rainer light still bright on the silver-screen and in our read more

  Louise Rainer would have been 105 years today but we lost this shining star on December 30, 2014, in London. “Just as the light of a sun is seen for years to come even after it kindles no flame we will see the Rainer light still bright on the silver-screen and in our homes so keen in read more

Classic Film Aficionados   Louise Rainer would have been 105 years today but we lost this shining star on December 30, 2014, in London. “Just as the light of a sun is seen for years to come even after it kindles no flame we will see the Rainer light still bright on the silver-screen and in our read more

Classic Film Aficionados Metropolis changed the way I thought of Silent Film. Up to that point I had viewed the era as darkened, scratchy, unclear, with much over-exaggerated movements of body, face and eyes and to make matters worse there was no dialogue. But, here was a movie that challenged my read more

Classic Film Aficionados Metropolis changed the way I thought of Silent Film. Up to that point I had viewed the era as darkened, scratchy, unclear, with much over-exaggerated movements of body, face and eyes and to make matters worse there was no dialogue. But, here was a movie that challenged my read more