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I've been busy over on my YouTube channel creating some fun classic film themed videos for you all! Two recent ones include a classic film book haul with lots of great novels and two non-fiction selections as well as a review of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel's memoir My Last Sigh. I hope you'll chec read more

I'm excited to join forces with Aurora of Citizen Screen to celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with a special social media and blog campaign: #DePelicula. I worked with Aurora to expand this once Blogathon to reach a bigger audience using social media. Message from Aurora of Citizen Screen: Hispanic read more

New year, new books! I'm excited to present to you another classic film book round-up. There are so many new releases that I had to be a tad more selective this time. I didn't include some of the higher priced scholarly books and kept mostly to trade and books that I thought you all would be interes read more

 Waterloo Bridge (1940)Bright and early on the final day of the festival, I headed over to the Chinese Multiplex for a special screening of Waterloo Bridge (1940). The film was introduced by author Sloan De Forest. I'm a big fan of her books and it was great to finally see her in person (h read more

Can someone tell me what the name of this type of college sweater is? Someone?! Anyone?! It was common during the 1920s and 1930s. The pictures above are from Good News (1947) which is based on a musical from the late 1920s and the setting is 1927. I researched sweatshirts and they were sports/co read more

 When it was announced that the WBShop was closing down in its current form and that they would be having their last 4 for $44 sale for Warner Archive titles, I pounced. On March 12th I bought a whopping 32 discs. I used both the sale and a special 15th anniversary coupon code for an extra deal read more

Books, books and more books. One can never have enough books, especially classic film ones! I keep hearing from folks that you love these round-ups so I'll keep bringing them to you. They're a labor of love (no, seriously it's about 2 weeks worth of research!) and I hope if anything they're useful. read more

Movie Night Menus Dinner and Drink Recipes Inspired by Films We Love Tenaya and Andre Darlington TCM - Running Press 9780762460939 - 224 pages December 2016 Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powells "For a title to make it into these pages, it needed to have rousing food and drink scenes." It’s read more

Lucky for us, they didn't wait for the 50th anniversary to release this! If I enjoyed David Lean's greatest flop, Ryan's Daughter (1970), chances are I would thoroughly enjoy one his major successes. Doctor Zhivago (1965) is truly an epic. It's one of those films that has transcended it's own medium read more

Rock on FilmThe Movies That Rocked the Big Screenby Fred Goodmanforeword by Sir Michael Lindsay-HoggTCM and Running PressHardcover ISBN: 9780762478439July 2022224 pagesAmazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“One of the beauties of rock movies is that sometimes they capture the time an read more

Jack's Joke (1913) Photo Credit: courtesy Undercrank Productions/Library of Congress Before there was the Vitaphone there was Thomas Edison's Kinetophone. Over a decade before Al Jolson proclaimed "you ain't heard nothing yet" in The Jazz Singer (1927), Kinetophone brought talking pictures to audi read more

The Many Faces of Josephine Baker Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy by Peggy Caravantes Chicago Review Press Hardcover - ISBN: 9781613730348 February 2015 Barnes and Noble - IndieBound - Powell's Josephine Baker was an entertainer in the truest sense of the word. She had a charismatic personality that read more

"On February 4th, 1961, a group of militants set out from Sambizanga, a working-class district in Luanda, intending to storm the capital's prison. At the same time, they gave the signal for the armed struggle for national independence that has engulfed Angola ever since. But for years before that da read more

I promise to finish what I started and this Bogie marathon will have 24 posts! Since I didn't have either Kid Galahad (1937) or Black Legion (1937) in my Bogie boxed set (due to a technical error) I had to wait for these to come from Netflix. Black Legion (1937) is quite a depressing film bu read more

Mary Wickes I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before by Steve Taravella University Press of Mississippi Hardcover ISBN: 9781604739053 370 pages May 2013 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells “Mary was one of the most recognizable character actresses in the United States. Though the read more

Seduced by Mrs. Robinson How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation by Beverly Gray Algonquin Books 304 pages November 2017 Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powells No movie studio would touch it. Producer Lawrence Turman had shopped around Charles Webb's quirky novel The Graduate without m read more

This was a guest post on Silents and Talkies. Artwork is created by Kate Gabrielle. Go visit her new blog Scathingly Brilliant. --------------------------- Norma Shearer was a sight to behold. She was simply stunning and had an elegance and grace that translated well on film and in photographs. Sh read more

My Weddings in Film series explores the different stages of getting married as seen through classic movies. The fourth film, Double Wedding (1937), asks the question: whose wedding is it anyways? Congratulations on setting a date for your wedding! Not only is your family very excited about t read more

1934 was a transitional year in the film industry. The Hays Code, which had been in effect for years but not strictly enforced, was now the law of the land. Hollywood got away with a lot in those few years between the advent of talking pictures and the enforcement of the Code. Pre-Code films went on read more

Robert Osborne at last year's TCM Classic Film Fesitval On Monday TCM released the much anticipated (and rather late) festival schedule. Reactions were mixed however when everyone had time to analyze the full schedule and make their selections. I’m thrilled by many of the festival offerings read more