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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 13, 2015
Originally published May 6th, 2013 Meet Me in St. Louis came highly recommended due to its place as a musical classic, and because it’s got the downright angelic Margaret O’Brien who I praised heavily in my Christmas review of Little Women. So, as I tend to do with blogathons, I used my read more
25 Days of Christmas: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 12, 2015
Originally published December 7th, 2014 Christmas in Connecticut is a screwball charmer proving Barbara Stanwyck’s prowess as an unlikely comedienne. I reviewed a Stanwyck film last Christmas, 1940’s Remember the Night (which is also receiving a new Blu-ray this year). It’s appare read more
25 Days of Christmas: Little Women (1949)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 11, 2015
Originally published December 4th, 2012 I decided to watch all three film adaptations of Little Women as a subset of my 25 Days of Christmas. I’ve seen them all separately, but this will be the first time I watch them in a small time-span allowing me to note similarities and differences in to read more
25 Days of Christmas: A Christmas Carol (1951)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 10, 2015
Originally published December 8th, 2014 I was wary of watching any versions of A Christmas Carol this year after I did an entire month of various adaptations for my old podcast. Let’s just say after you watch four of those in a row you get bored with the story. Interestingly, in looking back read more
25 Days of Christmas: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (1977)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 9, 2015
Originally published December 3rd, 2014 A double post to catch me up, and another Christmas first-time viewing! Tonight’s film is the Jim Henson 1977 movie Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. I’d heard people rave about how fantastic this television movie is, that it was one of Hen read more
25 Days of Christmas: The Lion in Winter (1968)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 8, 2015
Originally published December 2nd, 2014 The Lion in Winter was an eleventh-hour addition to the list simply because I wanted one more Christmas movie I’ve never seen. I would say this is probably the strangest Christmas movie out there for its ability combine historical drama and soap opera read more
25 Days of Christmas: Holiday Inn (1942)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 7, 2015
Originally published December 4th, 2012 Tonight’s 25 Days of Christmas film appears on many “Best Of Christmas” lists and I figured I’d give it a look. It’s one of two classic Bing Crosby films I have and if my thoughts on Holiday Inn are any indication…let’ read more
25 Days of Christmas: Holiday Affair (1949)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 6, 2015
Originally published December 24th, 2012 Coming into the home stretch of 25 Days of Christmas 2012, and the final three movies cannot come sooner. I don’t hate Christmas movies; it’s just I lost a day and the whole slate of films ran away with me. Today’s film is another first-ti read more
25 Days of Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 5, 2015
Originally published December 1st, 2014 As one comment on the Facebook page read when I alluded to my less-than-positive review of this film, it may be time to get out your pitchforks, readers. It’s not that I didn’t like The Shop Around the Corner; it’s just not my favorite Ernst read more
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 4, 2015
Originally published December 6th, 2014 A series of comic miscommunications and mistaken identity lead to a fun holiday story perfect for the post-WWII family. It Happened on Fifth Avenue focuses on a problem common to several films made after 1945 – the housing crisis – but combines it read more
25 Days of Christmas: Little Women (1994)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 3, 2015
Originally published December 15th, 2012 Part two of my three-part series of Little Women reviews discusses the 1994 version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic. This is the Little Women I grew up with folks, and it’s probably the more star-studded of the three to modern audiences (which is read more
Voice Actress Robin Bittman Talks About Being the Voice Behind TCM
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 2, 2015
TCM experts know our two on-air hosts, Ben Mankiewicz and Robert Osborne, but what about the third voice of TCM? If you’ve watched any of TCM’s packaged segments, their monthly news segments or, before the end of summer, seen their “what’s next” guide then you’ve read more
25 Days of Christmas: Annie (1982)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 2, 2015
Originally published December 5th, 2012 Oh boy. I really have to control my anger and frustration for today’s review. In a nutshell, I hated this movie. Actually hate is a lowly word. I detested this movie. I despised this movie. I know there are fans out there for this film, so let read more
25 Days of Christmas: The Thin Man (1934)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Dec 1, 2015
Originally published December 4th, 2011 We move on to another diverse Christmas film, one that has a more tenuous connection to Christmas than even Rent could boast, but nonetheless takes place on Christmas! The 1934 W.S. Van Dyke noir The Thin Man is one of my favorite movies and continues my ador read more
The Lake Update for December 2015
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Nov 30, 2015
Another year is soon to pass us by and we just celebrated the fourth year of Journeys in Classic Film. As Christmas and the end of the year rolls around I’ll be publishing several past 25 Days of Christmas posts. Rereading these reminds me of how new and exciting blogging was for me, and that read more
TCM Top Twelve for December 2015
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Nov 30, 2015
We’re in the final month of 2015. Funny how time flies! And your eyes aren’t deceiving you, we’re doing a full TCM Top Twelve this month, both to honor the twelfth month of the year and because I couldn’t bare to cut this list down any further. Here are twelve movies to watch read more
Journeys in Classic Film 2015 Holiday Guide
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Nov 27, 2015
Classic films fans are both easy difficult to shop for. I know that one of the leading questions I get when the holidays arrives is, “Do you have [insert film here]?” With that I’ve created a gift guide as a launchpad for what to get the classic film fan in your home. These are the read more
News From the Lake
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Nov 25, 2015
News in a nutshell: getTV prepares you for Christmas and what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray. getTV has had great success with their airing of variety shows, particularly The Judy Garland Show, and they’ll be continuing the trend with their upcoming Christmas offering. The studio announced read more
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Nov 25, 2015
With noir becoming a more pervasive genre as the decade would go on, directors and screenwriters had to become more creative. You can’t just rely on chiaroscuro lighting and male antiheroes for everything. I find that the lower-key types of noirs often are the most memorable, since they aren&# read more
The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Nov 23, 2015
Author Michelle Morgan’s proved her mettle writing about tragic blondes before; I reviewed her highly intriguing biography of Marilyn Monroe a few years back. When Morgan announced her plans to write a book on Thelma Todd I waited with bated breath. Probably, and unfortunately, more remembered read more