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Leading Man Tournament Semi-Finals: The 1930s-1960s
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 15, 2012
These four lucky actors represent the first semi-final group of our tournament. One of these men will go to the finals and possibly be declared our winner (suspenseful enough). Each one of these actors won their decade but how do they shape against the other winners. We’ll look back at each read more
Leading Man Tournament Week 8 Results
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 15, 2012
A bit later than I’d have liked but after pulling together the semi-finals post I completely forgot to give you the results of last week! Well, here it is. Twenty-four votes altogether and much like the last week, there were really no surprises. The winner of this final nominee poll will read more
Updates for Today!
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 14, 2012
I got bogged down with some things today so no movie review (might post one up mid-afternoon but no promises). Figured I’d do a few updates that way you weren’t completely upset with me! I have been doing pretty awesome with my daily post streak though. To start look at that awesome read more
Christmas in July (1940) (1)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 13, 2012
Having recently watched and reviewed Sullivan’s Travels I mentioned going out and watching the rest of director Preston Sturges‘ work. Christmas in July, Sturges’ second film and the first to be deemed “classic” according to sources, the film feels like a début. The read more
The Player (1992)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 12, 2012
If there’s one director whose name I always hear it’s Robert Altman. Love him or hate him people talk about him and his movies have taken on a cult status all their own. I decided to watch The Player for several reasons. It’s cited as the more accessible of Altman’s films read more
Final Poll Update for Week 8
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 12, 2012
This is it, the final update before we declare a winner and conclude the round of nominations. Starting this Sunday we’ll start the first poll with the winners from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s going head to head. After that winner is declared we’ll do another poll with the winne read more
My Movie Wishlist: Part One
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 11, 2012
Any film buff, either classic or contemporary, knows the adage: Too many movies, too little money (I might have coined that myself just now). With that I’ve decided to share with you the films on my ample Amazon Wish List. This will be a recurring thing as my list is fairly lengthy and I don read more
Logan’s Run (1976)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 10, 2012
I appear to be in a “late-70s” movie trend if you count today and yesterday’s review of Marathon Man. In a way, Marathon Man and Logan’s Run are similar. Both create worlds of violence hidden by disinterest, both analyze religion, and both force a man to confront everything read more
Leading Man Tournament Week 8 Update
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 10, 2012
The first update of the final week of nominees! I’m excited to see what happens starting next week. As it is, it’s still anyone’s game and already there’s been some shifts between second and third place. None of this has dethroned the first place winner at the moment. Let read more
Marathon Man (1976)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 9, 2012
Marathon Man is a mixture of several types of genres with no one genre dominating the others. At times it’s a horror films, at others a drama and/or a psychological thriller. In every way it’s an electrifying story of good triumphing over evil, a Jewish retribution film where the Nazis read more
Leading Man Tournament Week 8: The 2000s
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 8, 2012
It’s here, the final slate of nominees! Next week will kick off the final two weeks of the tournament where we’ll divide up the winners and see who is the ultimate Leading Man! I’ll get more into next week but be sure to come back and vote for the ultimate winner. The 2000s. read more
Leading Man Tournament Week 7 Results
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 8, 2012
27 votes for this week and another uneventful sequence of events. In comparison to Thursday’s numbers there were increases but only to cement the standings. There’s one more week of nominations if you didn’t notice the Week 8 post so be sure to vote. We’re coming down to read more
Match Point (2005)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 7, 2012
**This is contribution to The Best Hitchcock Films Hitchcock Never Made Blogathon. Head over to Tales of the Easily Distracted by clicking the link to see the rest of the contributions!** I remember going to see Match Point junior year of high school (I was diverse in my film tastes…one of th read more
Written On the Wind (1956) (1)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 6, 2012
Written On the Wind is my first foray into the world of director Douglas Sirk. I know generally the go-to Sirkian melodrama is Imitation of Life (a film on my Netflix) but I went with this because it stars my girl Lauren Bacall! Not only was this my first Sirk film, WOTW marks my first Rock Hudson read more
Sweet Charity (1969) (1)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 5, 2012
I mentioned in my review of Lenny awhile back that I had one final “directed by Bob Fosse” film to watch and it was Sweet Charity. The sad thing is I should have stopped at Lenny because Sweet Charity, Fosse’s first film and first box office bomb, has every right to be. The film, read more
Final Poll Update for Week 7
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 5, 2012
Entering the home stretch for this week (and this tournament actually) so who is going to the finals for the 1990s? The votes are evenly spread amongst the contenders, don’t see any massive shake-ups happening between now and Sunday. Let’s see where the numbers are falling, you have read more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 3, 2012
I’d taped this documentary under the pretense it was somewhat recent. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic was a CBS special aired in 1990. If you have the VHS copy of The Wizard of Oz this documentary was included (and it’s on the 3-disc Collector’s Edition DVD) . Rega read more
Leading Man Tournament Week 7 Update
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 3, 2012
So far 14 votes have been cast (and this is actually the first time I’m looking at them so it’ll be a surprise for everyone). Let’s see where this week’s crop of men are ranking right now. Wow, leading the pack with six votes already is Mr. Tom Hanks! Hanks isn’t the read more
The Month in Film: June 2012
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 3, 2012
Another month of movies has gone by. This is a few days late as I was waiting for a few of my contemporary reviews to be published. I saw two films more than last month, yay! As always titles with a clickable link will take you to my review of that film (whether on this blog or the other site read more
A Few Brief Updates Worthy of a Post
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 3, 2012
A few updates I wanted to mention quickly (in between the film review, my month in film, and the poll update…today is busy what can I say). I got a few questions regarding my grading so on the sidebar you’ll see my Journeys in Classic Film Grading Scale where I discuss how I grade movie read more