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"Stars look down on New Year's Eve in New York. They say that fate is in the stars. That each of our years is planned ahead. And nothing can change destiny. Is that true? How many times have you said 'I wish I could live this year over again?' This is the story of a woman who did relive one year of read more

Designing HollywoodStudio Wardrobe in the Golden Ageby Christian EsquevinHardcover ISBN: 9780813197913August 2023University Press of Kentucky 256 pagesAmazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's"Modern glamour was born in Hollywood, where the combination of beautiful stars dresse read more

Now available from the good folks at Kino Lorber Studio Classics is Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection, a Blu-ray boxed set featuring four films directed by Ida Lupino: Not Wanted (1949), Never Fear (1950), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and The Bigamist (1953). Each of the four films has been beautifull read more

 The warmer days of summer are just around the corner and that means it's time to announce the 2021 Summer Reading Challenge. (Winter Reading Challenge for my friends on the southern hemisphere!). Since 2013, I've been hosting a classic film themed summer reading challenge. I ask participa read more

I know I know, it's the wrong decade for me. I usually avoid the 70s like the plague. But the film takes place in 1937 and it's as historically accurate as it could be, so I'm letting that slide. Me? A Film Buff? More like a Film Bluff if you ask me. I'm really tired of being the person who claim read more

The festivities kicked off on Wednesday, the day before the 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival began. First up:Academy Museum of Motion PicturesWe trekked over to the Academy Museum for a pre-festival visit. I was very excited to visit as I'd heard great things since it officially opened in September of read more

On the heels of A Star is Born (1937), William Wellman and David O. Selznick teamed up again to make Nothing Sacred (1937), a screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. The story was based on James H. Street's "Letter to the Editor" published in International-Cosmopolitan read more

And the angel sing on high... Now I've reviewed quite a few boxed sets but this one trumps them all. This one puts all the others to shame. This is a veritable masterpiece. It is the stuff that classic film enthusiasts salivate over. It is by far one of the most beautiful things I have ever behe read more

The Essential DirectorsThe Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakersby Sloan De Forestforeword by Peter Bogdanovich and Jacqueline StewartTCM and Running PressPaperback ISBN: 9780762498932344 pagesNovember 2021Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's “Ultimately, the read more

1939 was a good year for David O. Selznick. While in the midst of working on what would become recognized as one of the greatest movies of all time, Gone with the Wind, Selznick was also making strides at his studio Selznick International Pictures. He had his talent scout Katharine Brown (aka Kay B. read more

Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan 9780061440793 Harper Modern Perennial Classics Paperback $12.99 US Buy at Powells.com I had watched the Otto Preminger film Bonjour Tristesse (1958) a while back for my You Otto See It series, and was very impressed by it. (See my post about it here) The film s read more

Who I owe: Poet and Musician John "Jack" Hayes from Robert Frost's Banjo and I met March of last year. We had breakfast in Concord, MA and during breakfast John told me about a silent film that he and Eberle composed and performed the music for. The movie was The Grub-Stake (1923). He also told me a read more

I'm chipping away at my 2019 Cinema Shame challenge. This year I gave myself the goal to watch 10 movies from my birth year 1980 for the very first time. I'm hoping I can tackle a few reviews this summer so I can keep up! Oh boy. I'm not even sure how Urban Cowboy (1980) made it onto my Cinema Sham read more

This year's Summer Reading challenge is off to a roaring start. 2017 has the most participants ever! The number is currently at 32. Thank you to everyone for your enthusiasm. Some of you have wanted to participate in the past and made this your first time. Others have been participating for years. I read more

After Kevin, Carlos and I saw The Lusty Men (1952) at the Harvard Film Archive, we headed off to Noir bar at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square. They were going to have a Mad Men Season 4 premiere event the following night which Carlos and I would have to miss but I had always been meaning to check read more

Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme The Overlook Press 352 pages - 9781468309270 November 2014 Barnes and Nobble Powell's IndieBound - Your local independent bookstore. You know her as the Self-Styled Siren and film critic extraordinaire. Now Farran Smith Nehme can add “published novelist& read more

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson Married 64 years and counting Both Wallach and Jackson are method actors who met during a theater production of This Property is Condemned in 1946. They married in 1948 and have been together ever since. read more

Did you sign up for my Summer Reading Challenge yet? If not there is still plenty of time to do so. I challenge you to read up to 6 classic film books this summer and review them online. This is the perfect opportunity to tackle that TBR stack that's been piling up. If you are entered into my cha read more

It's almost July and my Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge is in full swing. If you haven't signed-up yet you have until July 15th! Here is what I'm reading this summer. The Unconscious Actor: Out of Control, In Full Command by Darryl Hickman When I asked Darryl Hickman about fond memories read more

Carlos, Frank, Kevin and I saw The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA, a historic building in the middle of Davis Square. Built in 1914, it first started off as a theater for plays, vaudeville and other shows but since the advent of motion pictures it added fil read more