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About a year ago, we told you of a pressbook available for Carole Lombard's 1936 Universal comedy "Love Before Breakfast," where she's shown above with Cesar Romero (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/614074.html). Now, a slightly different press kit is up for sale at eBay. Both versions share the read more

Abbas Kiarostami Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Andrei Tarkovsky Ang Lee Bernardo Bertolucci Carl Theodor Dreyer Claude Chabrol Eric Rohmer Fritz Lang F.W. Murnau Hayao Miyazaki Hou Hsiao-Hsien Jacques Demy Jacques Tati Jean Cocteau Jean Pierre Melville John Woo Joon-ho Bong Kar Wai Wong Kenji Mizoguchi read more

Umberto D. 1952 The Wages of Fear 1953 Sansho The Bailiff 1954 Rififi 1955 Diabolique 1955 Pickpocket 1955 Throne of Blood 1957 Nights of Cabiria 1957 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Mon Oncle 1958 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 The Virgin Spring 1960 Yojimbo 1961 Viridiana 1961 Jules et Jim 1962 Vivre Sa Vie read more

Abbas Kiarostami Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Andrei Tarkovsky Andrzej Wajda Ang Lee Bernardo Bertolucci Carl Theodor Dreyer Claude Chabrol The Dardenne Brothers Eric Rohmer Fritz Lang F.W. Murnau Hayao Miyazaki Hou Hsiao-Hsien Isao Takahata Jacques Becker Jacques Demy Jacques Tati Jean Cocteau Jean Pi read more

Umberto D. 1952 The Wages of Fear 1953 Sansho The Bailiff 1954 Rififi 1955 Diabolique 1955 Pickpocket 1955 Throne of Blood 1957 Nights of Cabiria 1957 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Mon Oncle 1958 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 The Virgin Spring 1960 Yojimbo 1961 Viridiana 1961 Jules et Jim 1962 Vivre Sa Vie read more

Good news as we enter August -- my desktop computer again is fully functional, giving me plenty more leeway to post Carole Lombard pics such as the one above, the rarely seen Paramount p1202-1499. And this couldn't have come at a better time, because the Media History Digital Library has uploaded ye read more

The Wonders in the Dark Romantic Movies countdown surges on with five new essays this week:     Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter read more

Five more entries added to this exciting countdown: 61. The Quiet Man (1952) 60. A Place in the Sun (1951) 59. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 58. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) 57. Lady and the Tramp – Lady in Movieland (a video essay) That last one is a real  treat! Its creator, Joel Bocko, read more

  As the temperatures soar here in the desert, it is time for me to escape into the shadows with another month of film noir.  It will be all film noir all the time for the next 31 days.   I hope I have found a good mixture of lesser-known and more famous films noir.  I plan to select from films read more

Five new essays on five more great romantic movies: 76. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 75. Man’s Castle (1933) 74. The Fountain (2006) 73. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 72. The Way We Were     :) Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPr read more

I wanna see this movie in French Sort of a Levittown of the Hereafter Send Me No Flowers (1964) One forgets that there were only three Doris Day/Rock Hudson/Tony Randall films, so good was their chemistry. Send Me No Flowers is the last of them, and unlike th read more

Better late than really, really late, I sometimes say. With that in mind, more than two months after the 2014 Turner Classic Movies film festival (TCMFF) screened its last movie, sold its remaining souvenirs, and served up its final cocktail, I am finally getting around to writing about my experienc read more

To those of you who like to immerse yourself in the 1930s Hollywood inhabited by Carole Lombard and other legends (or at least the Hollywood the studios wanted readers to believe existed), a double dose of good news. The Media History Digital Library has added extensive runs of both Modern Screen an read more

The great website Wonders in the Dark has posted essays on two more movies in its Romantic Countdown series. Both are movie that I’d made a mental note to avoid: thanks to these essays, though, I’ve swung around completely and will be looking out for them. The essays areby Jon Warner on read more

I thoroughly enjoyed discussing Debbie Reynolds’ recent auction, Rock Hudson and his Star of the Month Celebration on Turner Classic Movies, Star Wars, The Turner Classic Film Festivals, classic television programs, and much more with John Losh on KKES radio out of Kansas City, Missouri, and read more

Essays this time on Love Story (1971), by Sam Juliano, and Now Voyager (1942), by Tony D’Ambra. Both are very much worth your reading time — and the latter has even inspired me to dig out my copy of the novel and put it on the top of the pile on my nightstand. Thanks John for the mention read more

The two latest essays in Wonders in the Dark‘s invaluable “countdown” of 101 great romantic movies are #99 A Village Romeo and Juliet (1992), based on an opera by Delius — I like Delius’s work but have a stubborn difficulty with opera, yet Sam Juliano’s impassione read more

“John was a great lover of cinema, of the idea that film, in all its evolving forms, should be seen and valued as it is here at the Film Forum,” Ray Hubley said last night, at the downtown Manhattan movie mecca’s centennial celebration of his father, animator John Hubley. “Tonight’s films” read more

Last night I had a dream fulfilled: I saw Douglas Fairbanks' THE THIEF OF BAGDAD on the big screen.  I'm a modern movie goer who is a fan of film of all eras. I love the earliest to the latest, as long as it suits my fancy. And, boy, did this film suit! It embodied all that I absolutely ho read more

“I’m having such a good time!” Mitzi Gaynor said to host Robert Osborne last night before Turner Classic Movies’ broadcast of LES GIRLS, the 1957 MGM musical in which she co-stars with Gene Kelly. “That’s why I took the job, because I really wanted to dance with G read more