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Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton
by Matt Phelan
240 pages - Hardcover
Candlewick Press
9780763650797
July 2013
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
IndieBound
Powell's
Maybe I'm a little biased because I work for the publisher but I think this book is fantastic. A couple of years ago I was at a comp read more
#30in30FavoriteMovies
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
I had so much fun hosting #30in30FavoriteStars back in September that I brought it back in November with #30in30FavoriteMovies. I encouraged folks to share 1 favorite film each day throughout the month of November accompanied by a photo, GIF or video. It got such a great response on Twitter! read more
2014 Summer Reading Challenge - First Round-Up
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Woah. Hey there, Summer. Why don't you slow down a bit? The days of June and July felt like they were on fast forward. Next thing I noticed it was already August and I only have 1 out of 6 books reviewed. Yikes! I have to catch up. Right now I'm finishing a 1,000 page biography on Barbara Stanwyck ( read more
Mary Astor's Purple Diary by Edward Sorel
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Mary Astor's Purple Diary
The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
by Edward Sorel
Liveright (W.W. Norton & Co)
October 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 9781631490231
165 pages
Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powell's
It was the 1960s. Edward Sorel and his new bride had just moved into their apartment on the Up read more
2015 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
I'm very proud to present the 2015 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge! This is the third year in a row I'll be hosting this challenge.
Here are the details:
Runs June 1st to September 1st, 2015
Open internationally!
Sign up for the challenge here.
Read a classic film book
Write a review read more
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Stefan is a tortured artist. A once celebrated composer, he has abandoned his craft for a transient life of excess. He leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him. A wealthy man has challenged him to a duel, one Stefan doesn't plan to go through with. When he arrives at his home, his butler John pres read more
My Memories of Norman Lloyd at #TCMFF
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Ben Mankiewicz and Norman Lloyd at the Live at the TCM Classic Film Festival screening (Press photo)
Today is Norman Lloyd's 102nd birthday. To celebrate TCM willl be airing the 2015 Norman Lloyd Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival. I was in the studio audience for that legendary interview. It read more
Trapeze (1956)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
“You really fly high” - Mike
“Because I’m not afraid of anything.” - Lola
As one of the few trapeze artists to ever perform a triple somersault, one of the most dangerous and highly skilled moves, Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster) seems unstoppable. That is until a fa read more
Hugh Hefner: The Ultimate Classic Movie Fan
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Hugh Hefner with Vivian Blane and Rita Hayworth at the Hollywood Sign fundraiser, circa 1978
Photo source: AP and Another Mag
On a cold wintry day in 2015, I sat in a makeshift screening room of a Holiday Inn in upstate New York. It was the final Cinefest and one of the highlights of the show woul read more
Bruce Lee ESPN 30 for 30: Be Water
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
“Empty your mind. Be formless like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. If you put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. If you put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. It can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce Lee
Directed by Bao Nguyen, ES read more
Anne Bancroft: A Life by Douglass K. Daniel
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Anne Bancroft: A Life
by Douglass K. Daniel
University Press of Kentucky
408 pages
September 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 9780813169682
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's
"Personally and professionally, she was determined to live by her own terms." - Douglass K. Daniel
If ever there was a w read more
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
ColorizationOne Hundred Years of Black Films in a White Worldby Wil HaygoodKnopf464 pagesOctober 2021Hardcover ISBN: 9780525656876Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“If Black Americans were to fight back against what cinema had now done to them, they would need their own filmmaker read more
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Ladies They Talk About (1933) is one of the original women-in-prison films and is perfectly suited for the Pre-Code era. Directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley for Warner Bros., Barbara Stanwyck stars as Nan Taylor, a glamorous gun moll and a member of a bank robbing gang led by Don (Lyl read more
Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Hollywood Black
The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers
by Donald Bogle
TCM and Running Press
Hardcover ISBN: 9780762491414
264 pages
May 2019
Amazon — Barnes and Noble —Powell's
“Hollywood Black presents a gallery of important talents, both in front of the camera and behind it R read more
TCM: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Dark CityThe Lost World of Film NoirRevised and Expanded Editionby Eddie MullerTCM and Running PressJuly 2021Hardcover ISBN: 9780762498970272 pagesAmazon — Barnes and Noble —Larry Edmunds Bookshop — Powell'sPublished in 1998, Dark City read more
But I don't want to see it! ~ It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
As of this very moment, I'm 29 years, 18 days and a few hours old. In that span of time I have never, not ever, not even once, seen the classic film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). I have had no even an iota of interest in watching it. Why? Who knows. I just never wanted to and still really read more
Happy 100th Birthday Norman Lloyd!
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Happy Birthday to Norman Lloyd! He turns 100 today.
I had the pleasure of seeing Norman Lloyd at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival. I shot a video of him in conversation with Leonard Maltin at the screening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). I'm sharing it here today in celebration read more
Charles Boyer: The French Lover by John Baxter
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Charles BoyerThe French Loverby John BaxterHardcover ISBN: 9780813155524University Press of Kentucky 298 pagesNovember 2021 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“For generations of film and theater audiences, Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman — cultivated, courteous read more
Seven Days in May (1964)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
"It was a time of tremendous tension and tremendous fear." - John Frankenheimer
Cold War stories are endlessly fascinating. There is something about the fear of nuclear annihilation and how it alters our perspectives on the future and guides our actions that became the perfect fodder for storytelli read more
Into the Dark by Mark A. Vieira
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
by Mark A. Vieira
336 pages - 9780762455232
May 2016
Running Press and TCM
Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powell's
“When I walk onto a set, I never have the slightest idea what I’m going to shoot. Then I sit in a chair for a few minu read more