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Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog is a slow paced, meditative drama set in 1920s Wyoming. Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) is one of the last real cowboys on the land. He’s as rough, tough, dirty, can castrate a bull with just a knife and his bare hands in seconds and looks down on anyone who can’t, read more

OK, so my all-time favorite actress Carole Lombard isn't part of Turner Classic Movies' 2020 edition of "Summer Under The Stars" (she lost a TCM Backlots runoff to Claudette Colbert). At least we've got the next best thing -- my all-time favorite actor (and first Lombard husband) William Powell, who read more

As any longtime festival attendee knows, a seat at one of the pre-code films at the TCM Classic Film Festival is akin to a ticket for the hottest show in town. Passholders line up hours in advance, hoping to secure a good line number–if they’re lucky and get there early enough, they mi read more

One of Carole Lombard's gifts was an instinct on how to effectively promote herself, as she proved in July 1938 when she spent a week handling publicity for Selznick International Studios (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/17287.html). Not only was it a good experience seeing "how the other half read more

Glória e Poder / The Power and the Glory (1933) O filme começa em um funeral. Então, a história de vida de um magnata é contada em flashback, começando com um episódio de sua infância. O filme é “Cidadão Kane” (1941), certo? ERRADO. É na realidade “Glória e Poder”, read more

By Fritzi Kramer on June 14, 2014 in Blog, Fun Size Review One of the earliest Frank Capra movies that is really a Frank Capra movie. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (still a teen at the time) is a cub reporter who must solve a murder, romance a girl, expose political corruption and win his job back. He als read more

Regulars to the site know of my tendency to discuss the roles of women in cinema, and the classic film era simultaneously marginalized and provided opportunities for women in Hollywood.  Frances Marion is one of the preeminent female screenwriters of cinema, past and present, specifically in creatin read more

  The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, April 3, 1941   At the Mayfair Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, April 4, 1941, The Power and the Glory opened with all the pomp and circumstance due a favorite son, from the Land Down Under. Power and Glory was made with a financial guarantee read more

  The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, April 3, 1941   At the Mayfair Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, April 4, 1941, The Power and the Glory opened with all the pomp and circumstance due a favorite son, from the Land Down Under. Power and Glory was made with a financial guarantee read more

  The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, April 3, 1941   At the Mayfair Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, April 4, 1941, The Power and the Glory opened with all the pomp and circumstance due a favorite son, from the Land Down Under. Power and Glory was made with a financial guarantee read more

I am going share an amazing journey with you that started with the love of movies. Like so many other bloggers, I started writing A PERSON IN THE DARK to share my love of movies. In the beginning, before I branched out a bit and met more like-minded writers, I really did feel alone i read more

How many of you had “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” pop into your head just by looking at this picture? For me, one of the most exciting Academy Award categories is Best Original Song.  The union of film and music can be a truly magical thing.  Few things can take an already great read more

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in one of his breakout hits– directed by none other than Frank Capra! Doug plays a cub reporter who is desperate for a scoop. He gets it when he manages to implicate a young lady (Jobyna Ralston) in a scandalous murder. Seeing the damage he has done to innocent Jobyna, read more

Any serious cinephile cannot afford to ignore the seminal six-hour campfire conversation between journalist Bill Moyers and scholar Joseph Campbell that aired on PBS in 1988 under the title The Power of Myth. Hell, any serious anyone – any human being – can ill afford to miss this landm read more

While some may have had a quiet, relaxing Mother’s Day weekend, ours had a jam-packed schedule that included everything from room-decluttering (fun, right?) to a family outing to the gym.  (I opted for an hour on the recumbent bike because you get to sit down the whole time and if my legs tur read more

Fred Astaire made his film debut in 1933's "Dancing Lady" as a dancer named, um, Fred Astaire. Preceding that film there had been a screen test where the evaluator wrote these infamous words: "Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." In his second film, 1933's "Flying Down to Rio," Astaire ha read more

Fred Astaire made his film debut in 1933's "Dancing Lady" as a dancer named, um, Fred Astaire. Preceding that film there had been a screen test where the evaluator wrote these infamous words: "Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." In his second film, 1933's "Flying Down to Rio," Astaire ha read more

A new book -- actually, a new version of an old book -- has piqued my interest lately. For this, credit a blog in the Austin Chronicle, where Kimberley Jones writes, "I'm trying this new thing where I spend a couple pages before lights out with 'Hollywood Movie Stills: Art and Technique in the Golde read more

It's been more than two months since Angelina Jolie caused a furor by extending her right leg (and thigh) wearing a slit dress at the Academy Awards. Actresses have long known a glimpse of one leg is often more seductive than seeing two, and Carole Lombard was no exception. Here's proof -- a promoti read more

When the silent era finally gave way to talkies in 1927, an art form was lost–the art of meaningful expression without words. When we look at the films of the great silent stars, for example those of Clara Bow, Norma Talmadge, or Lillian Gish, we see a wholly separate kind of film, one wher read more