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The Great Colorization Debate
Backlots Posted by Lara on May 17, 2015
Tonight, CBS airs newly colorized episodes of “I Love Lucy,” a long-anticipated event that has reignited the debate over whether or not colorization of historical film sources is an acceptable alternative to the black-and-white original. As time removes us further and further from the e read more
San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2015!
Backlots Posted by Lara on May 2, 2015
Hello dear readers, my goodness, it has been a long time since I’ve posted. I’ve been so busy with various projects that I feel that Backlots has been relegated to the back burner. I still owe you the post about my final day at the TCMFF, but I’m here to announce another festival read more
TCM Classic Film Festival Day 3: WHY BE GOOD? 42nd STREET, EARTHQUAKE!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 30, 2015
Day 3 was one filled with favorites and laughs. I started off the day with Why Be Good? (1929), a movie I had seen a few months ago when a new restoration was screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This same restoration was shown here, and I loved the movie so much the first time that I read more
TCM Classic Film Festival Day 2: The Dawn of Technicolor, STEAMBOAT BILL JR., REBECCA, BOOM!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 30, 2015
Dear readers, I’m usually so good about posting right after festival events, but after several late nights, I needed some sleep. The festival is now over, and I’m getting back into the swing of things. I apologize for the delay! Day 2 was a jam-packed one at the TCM Classic Film Festiv read more
TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL DAY 1: Meet TCM, So You Think You Know Movies?, QUEEN CHRISTINA, My Man Godfrey
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 27, 2015
Exhausted but beyond excited, I arrived in Los Angeles last night for the kickoff of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place in Hollywood this weekend for its sixth year. The theme this year is “History According to the Movies,” which leaves plenty of room for interpretation&# read more
TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL UPDATE: Get well soon, Robert Osborne!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 18, 2015
The TCM Classic Film Festival, going on its sixth consecutive year later this month, is known for its devoted following and a large, dedicated staff that keeps a monumental event running seamlessly from start to finish. Classic Hollywood guests, behind-the-scenes film programmers and prominent on- read more
The TCM Festival Schedule is Here!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 11, 2015
A few days ago TCM released the final schedule of the TCM Classic Film Festival, and there has been a lot of chatter about it already. Much of the discussion has centered around an idea that I have often brought up on this blog, a point of contention among classic film fans–the definition of read more
Backlots at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival
Backlots Posted by Lara on Mar 2, 2015
A few days ago, I received confirmation that Backlots will be covering the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, as a member of the press for the third year in a row. Over the past 6 years of its existence, the TCM Classic Film Festival has become synonymous with class and sophistication, and ha read more
The Coming of Sound and the First Academy Awards ceremony
Backlots Posted by Lara on Feb 21, 2015
Janet Gaynor receives the first Academy Award for Best Actress, for three roles: STREET ANGEL (1928), 7TH HEAVEN (1927), and SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (1927). At this moment, the film world is busy preparing for its biggest event of the year, when Hollywood’s best and the brightest come t read more
The Dueling Divas Entries
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jan 31, 2015
The Dueling Divas are underway, readers! I will be updating this post throughout the day as the entries come in, so be sure to check back! Here are the entries thus far: Over at Movie Star Makeover, Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth claw it out over Pal Joey. Silver Screenings gives us a rundown of two read more
Don’t Forget–The Dueling Divas Blogathon is this Saturday!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jan 29, 2015
Hear ye, hear ye, this serves as your reminder that the Dueling Divas Blogathon is happening this Saturday! Get ready for a fun day of rivalry and revelry, when Backlots’ readers get together to contribute posts about their favorite dueling divas. In case you’re new around these read more
Backlots at Noir City: THE THIN MAN (1934) and CLASH BY NIGHT (1950)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jan 23, 2015
As a proud Barbara Stanwyck aficionado, I was thrilled when Noir City 13 reached its halfway point on Wednesday night with a screening of two Barbara Stanwyck dramas from the 1950s–Clash By Night (1950) and Crime of Passion (1957). As both are films that I have seen before (I’ve seen 6 read more
Opening Night of Noir City 13: WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950), BORN TO BE BAD (1950)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jan 17, 2015
The 1407 seat Castro Theatre was packed solid last night for the opening night of what has become a veritable San Francisco tradition, the Film Noir Foundation’s Noir City film festival. For the past 13 years, film aficionados passionate about the dark side of classic cinema have flocked to read more
Backlots at Noir City X-Mas–O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE
Backlots Posted by Lara on Dec 24, 2014
Hello, readers! I’m coming to you from Los Angeles International Airport, where I am off to France for a few weeks. But before I go, and given that it’s Christmas tomorrow, I want to give you my report of Noir City X-Mas, which I attended last week at San Francisco’s Castro Theat read more
Announcing the Fourth Annual Dueling Divas Blogathon!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Nov 26, 2014
Readers, I have been so bogged down with research that this is the first moment I am getting to announce our annual Dueling Divas Blogathon! Usually, the blogathon takes place in December, but this year I am going to need to push it back a bit due to various research obligations during the months read more
CMBA FORGOTTEN STARS BLOGATHON: Eleanor Boardman
Backlots Posted by Lara on Oct 31, 2014
Hello readers, and happy Halloween! I’ve been so busy these days that I didn’t have time to put together my Hitchcock Halloween blogathon, but stay tuned in the coming days for the announcement of Backlots’ 4th annual Dueling Divas blogathon, which will go on this year as usual! read more
HOLLYWOOD’S HISPANIC HERITAGE BLOGATHON: Rita Hayworth and the Loss of Hispanic Identity
Backlots Posted by Lara on Oct 12, 2014
In the above scene, we are presented with a dichotomy that may not be immediately apparent if one is not familiar with Rita Hayworth’s unique position in Hollywood. In The Loves of Carmen, Rita plays the legendary Carmen, made famous by the popular opera and Prosper Merimee’s book on w read more
TREASURES FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE: In Name Only
Backlots Posted by Lara on Oct 5, 2014
Readers, it has been a long time since my last installment of Treasures From the Warner Archive! I’ve been so bogged down with various film-related projects over the past several months that I feel as though it has been decades since my post about Going Hollywood. But we will fix that this e read more
CiMBA Award #2!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Sep 26, 2014
Hello, dear readers! We have just finished the voting period for the CiMBA Awards, the annual blogging award given out by the Classic Movie Blog Association ,and I am proud to say that for my interview with Joan Fontaine, conducted in September of last year, Backlots has received the award in the read more
SILENT AUTUMN 2014
Backlots Posted by Lara on Sep 25, 2014
Every year between their regular annual festivals, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents a smaller, single day event at which patrons are treated to all the vibrancy and excitement of the regular festival, on a smaller scale. In the past, the event has taken place in the winter, but as t read more