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Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: January Round-up
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I was grateful to have so many podcasts I wanted to listen to over this turbulent past month. It was wonderful to escape into the great conversations and fascinating facts in these well-crafted shows:
Imaginary Worlds Podcast Betty Boop and the Hays Code January 20, 2021 I like the f read more
Book Review--Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship
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Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship Charles Casillo Kensington Books, 2021 Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift had an unusual connection, particularly for Hollywood: a lasting, loyal friendship as intimate as a marriage, which endured throughou read more
Book Review--Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio
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Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish University Press of Kentucky, 2021 Before I picked up Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, I’d seen a handful of its films, knew of some of its stars, and even vaguely r read more
TCM Classic Film Festival Home Edition: What to Watch
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
This year the remote edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival will run from May 6-9. As with the in-person event, there will be multiple venues: the channel, HBO Max, and ZOOM. While I enjoyed the Home Edition of the festival the network was able to pull together on short notice in 2020 read more
On Blu-ray: Costume Dramas Green Dolphin Street (1947) and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
This pair of dramas newly on Blu-ray from Warner Archive features two vastly different, but equally wrenching explorations of the complications of love. In both cases the turmoil is set in grand locations with actors in lavish costumes. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Based on the nov read more
On Blu-ray: Teen Angst on the Airwaves in Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Pump up the Volume (1990) is decades newer than most of the films I review here. I do consider it deserving of modern classic status though. I wanted to write about it, because when I first saw it in the theater I expected it to make a bigger splash and influence more films like it. As it is read more
On Blu-ray MOD: Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in Children of Divorce (1927)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Clara Bow had a knack for communicating her emotions so clearly that you can't help feeling them along with her. If she grieves, you grieve.While Bow is rightfully beloved for the way she embodied the youthful energy of the jazz
age, she was even better when a moment required deeper emotion. C read more
On Blu-ray: Ronald Colman in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
The 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was the fourth screen adaptation of the novel and the first to be made with sound. It followed the similarly grand David Copperfield, which had been released earlier in the year. While the film explores the drama of the French Re read more
Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: June Round-up
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
The variety and quality of the podcasts I listened to this month was especially impressive. This is one of my most extensive round-ups because I kept finding amazing things! Click on the episode title to link to the show: Twenty Thousand Hertz Foley Artists , June 9, 2021 read more
On Blu-ray, Musical Delights for Troubled Times: My Dream Is Yours (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951), and Show Boat
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With all the tension and troubles in the world right now, I nearly cheered at the opportunity to review this trio of musicals recently released on Blu-ray by Warner Archive. Great music, gorgeous stars, and beautiful settings; there’s nothing like a well-made classic musical.
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Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: February Round-up
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Before I start with this month’s recommendations, I want to briefly mourn the end of one of my favorite podcasts Switchblade Sisters. The last episode will drop on February 25. I’ve featured some of the more classic-leaning episodes of the show in my round-up before. I was always gratef read more
Dramas on Blu-Ray: They Won't Believe Me (1947) and Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
I recently watched a pair of dramas new to Blu-ray from Warner Archive where men find themselves in peril and work around the law as they attempt to save themselves. I was drawn to They Won’t Believe Me (1947) because I liked the cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, and Jane Greer. Al read more
On Blu-ray: Real Life Marrieds Cary Grant and Betsy Drake in Room for One More (1952)
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Based on the 1950 autobiography by Anna Perrott Rose, Room for One More (1952) is a charming and surprisingly edgy story about a family that fosters two troubled children. Starring the then-married Betsy Drake and Cary Grant, it’s an interesting mix of humor, drama, and ideas about par read more
On Blu-ray: Baby Doll (1956) Terrorizes the Catholic Legion of Decency
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Baby Doll (1956) is an outrageous, erotic, woozy ride. Condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, it consistently pushed the limits of respectability and almost entirely through the power of suggestion. Screenwriter/Playwright Tennessee Williams had plenty to write about life in a heated S read more
A Trio of Musicals On Blu-ray: Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940), Athena (1954), and The Tender Trap (1955)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
While I’ve never been a particular fan of musicals, I’ve found them to be a wonderful escape in these tense times. Recently I enjoyed a trio of them on newly-released Blu-rays from Warner Archive.Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Ginger Rogers is rightfully Fred Astaire’s most fa read more
On Blu-ray--Laurel or Hardy: Early Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
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Before Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy became one of cinema’s greatest comedy teams, they each had thriving solo careers in silent movies. Now a new release from Flicker Alley, Laurel or Hardy: Early Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, brings thirty-five of these early films to Bl read more
On Blu-ray: The Bermuda Depths (1978), The Isle of the Dead (1945), and Doctor X (1932)
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I recently enjoyed a trio of horror/fantasy films new to Blu-ray from Warner Archive. While they are dramatically different stories, they each evoke suspense and mystery in intriguingly quirky ways. Bermuda Depths (1978)
Watching and then re-watching this Rankin/Bass television production read more
On Blu-ray: William Powell and Myrna Loy in After The Thin Man (1936)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
William Powell and Myrna Loy were perfectly matched as Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man detective film series. For that reason, of the six movies they made as the tippling marrieds, the entries that focused most on their relationship were the best. After the Thin Man (1936), the second fi read more
On Blu-ray: Three Roberts, Young, Mitchum, and Ryan in Crossfire (1947)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
From the first shot, Crossfire (1947) seems to be throwing you into a genre flick. It opens with a fist fight, in shadow, mostly off camera. You can’t see faces. It feels like a film noir or a crime movie. As the action unfolds though, the social issue roots of the story reveal th read more
On Blu-ray: The Bizarre, Beautiful Spectacle of The Pirate (1948)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
You never hear anyone say that The Pirate (1948) is their
favorite musical, or even their favorite MGM musical, but this unusual and
boldly vibrant film is worthy of its own pedestal. I recently re-watched the
Vincente Minnelli-directed production on a new Blu-ray release from Warner
Archive and I f read more