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Watch It: Road to Bali (1952) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013
Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies. It was the only such movie filmed in color and was the first to feature read more
Watch It: Road to Hong Kong (1962) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013
The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Joan Collins. This was the last in the long-running Road to … series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are read more
Review: Barney Oldfield’s Race For A Life (1913)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by benobrian on Jan 18, 2013
A century ago, one of the most popular and influential film studios catching fire with audiences was Keystone Picture Studios. Although Keystone would remain most famous for slapstick policemen falling off the back of moving vehicles in the Keystone Kops shorts, the studio was in many ways the birt read more
Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 17, 2013
Though The Nikkatsu Corporation is Japan’s oldest movie studios, it might be the country’s most innovative and edgiest movie studio. Thanks to the Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu programme screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox this winter, Torontonians get a rare retrospective glance in read more
Gallery of Images from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 15, 2013
For people who both love silent movies and love to rank things, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans consistently ranks number one. Pretty Clever Film Gal is not entirely on-board with that statement. While I also love silent movies and ranking things, I would bump Murnau’s other read more
Gallery of Images from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 15, 2013
For people who both love silent movies and love to rank things, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans consistently ranks number one. Pretty Clever Film Gal is not entirely on-board with that statement. While I also love silent movies and ranking things, I would bump Murnau’s other read more
Many Riches for Those Seeking The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Jan 11, 2013
We all have them. The films that whenever they’re on, whenever we stumble upon them, we sit through all the way to the end, bad prints, commercials and all. I have about 10 of these, and vying (and sometimes winning) for the top spot is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I’ve easily seen it 15 times read more
Film Friday Weekly Roundup – The Oscar Complaints Edition (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 11, 2013
Yeah, yeah, yeah – Oscar nominations. I’m glad to see Beasts of the Southern Wild made the cut, but other than that… blah. How about every nominee in the Best Supporting Actor category has won an Oscar before? That just smacks of old, self-satisfied people congratulating themselve read more
Film Friday Weekly Roundup – The Oscar Complaints Edition (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 11, 2013
Yeah, yeah, yeah – Oscar nominations. I’m glad to see Beasts of the Southern Wild made the cut, but other than that… blah. How about every nominee in the Best Supporting Actor category has won an Oscar before? That just smacks of old, self-satisfied people congratulating themselve read more
Watch It: Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 9, 2013
Fatty and Mabel Adrift was released on January 9, 1916 by Keystone. Arbuckle plays a naive farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. The pair honeymoons – with Fatty’s dog Luke in tow – at a cottage on the seashore. At high tide that night, Fatty’s romantic rival, played by read more
Review: Taxi! (1932)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by benobrian on Jan 9, 2013
There are some films that would have would have all but faded into obscurity were it not for a single line of dialogue. In these films, the characters and situations aren’t amongst cinema’s most cherished and the film’s title may not hold any cultural capital for most people. However, through read more
Watch It: Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 9, 2013
Fatty and Mabel Adrift was released on January 9, 1916 by Keystone. Arbuckle plays a naive farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. The pair honeymoons – with Fatty’s dog Luke in tow – at a cottage on the seashore. At high tide that night, Fatty’s romantic rival, played by read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up: The Holiday Hangover Edition (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 4, 2013
Well now the holidays are over (boo!). Pretty Clever Film Gal transformed the yule tide season into one mega Bond-a-thon. In late November, I had never seen a single Bond movie. Now I only 5 titles plus Skyfall left. As a matter of fact I holidayed so hard it’s almost a relief to get back to read more
Film Friday Weekly Round Up: The Holiday Hangover Edition (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 4, 2013
Well now the holidays are over (boo!). Pretty Clever Film Gal transformed the yule tide season into one mega Bond-a-thon. In late November, I had never seen a single Bond movie. Now I only 5 titles plus Skyfall left. As a matter of fact I holidayed so hard it’s almost a relief to get back to read more
Review: Alice Adams (1936)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by benobrian on Jan 2, 2013
In Alice Adams a young fresh-faced Katharine Hepburn plays, not surprisingly, Alice Adams. Alice is ashamed of her wretchedly middleclass family and her every thought and action is trained toward her ultimate goal: to marry into the upper echelon of her small Midwestern town. Alice resides in South read more
Watch It: The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 1, 2013
Happy new year to all! I know you’re feeling a little sluggish today and I just read that NetFlix is suffering outages! What’s a movie fan to do? Well, you can watch Victor Victor Sjöström’s The Outlaw and His Wife (1918). You may also know the film as Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, read more
Watch It: The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 1, 2013
Happy new year to all! I know you’re feeling a little sluggish today and I just read that NetFlix is suffering outages! What’s a movie fan to do? Well, you can watch Victor Victor Sjöström’s The Outlaw and His Wife (1918). You may also know the film as Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, read more
Hey TIFF, Silent Movies Were Never Actually Silent
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 27, 2012
I woke up early(ish) this morning to be sure I had breakfast before heading out to a screening of David Copperfield (1913) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. This movie screened as part of TIFF Cinematheque’s Dickens on Screen lineup and this silent film fan was pretty stoked to see it. David Copperfield read more
Review: The Great Train Robbery (1903) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The story opens with two masked bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop the train at the station’s water tan. When the train read more
Review: The Divine Lady (1929) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012
The Divine Lady (1929) is an historical drama based on the true life love affair between Emma Hart and Admiral Horatio Nelson of the British Navy. The story opens with the arrival of slatternly Emma Hart, a cook’s daughter, at the home of Charles Greville. Emma becomes Greville’s kept w read more