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Manhandled turns 88 today! Before she was Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson was a star of the silent screen and, frankly, she was Norma Desmond. This 1924 beauty starring Gloria and Tom Moore is your classic tale of girl succeeding and then being accused of allowing herself to be “manhandled̶ read more

Wait, it’s Friday again? That was one fast week, my friends, and not nearly as productive as it should have been. But it sure was exciting wasn’t it? Sight & Sound’s new critic poll not only told us Vertigo is the greatest movie of all time, it also told us that three of the o read more

Well now it’s Friday and it seems like it’s a long time comin’ this week. As a matter of fact, when I woke up this morning I thought it was Saturday – and I immediately felt sad because I had somehow missed Friday. So as cliche as it sounds, TGIF. Now, I`ve got to get to cra read more

So here I sit at 3:30 pm on a Monday, wondering precisely when it’s socially acceptable to pop the cork on a bottle of wine. Do I really have to wait ’til 5 pm? As a great man once said, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere… Anyway, if you’ve found yourself in the Monday aft read more

I posted this a while ago… but I can’t recommend Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film enough. It’s a crying shame that this series isn’t more widely available. Judging by the number of Google searches that bring peeps to PCF, there seems to some demand. At an read more

So here I sit at 3:30 pm on a Monday, wondering precisely when it’s socially acceptable to pop the cork on a bottle of wine. Do I really have to wait ’til 5 pm? As a great man once said, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere… Anyway, if you’ve found yourself in the Monday aft read more

I posted this a while ago… but I can’t recommend Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film enough. It’s a crying shame that this series isn’t more widely available. Judging by the number of Google searches that bring peeps to PCF, there seems to some demand. At an read more

Look, I have an abiding love for the Batman. Really I do. I love all of his comic book iterations, his slightly suspect relationship with Robin, and – c’mon – the B-Man has the most amazing rogues gallery of villains. I even loved the idea of a Christopher Nolan directed Christian read more

Look, I have an abiding love for the Batman. Really I do. I love all of his comic book iterations, his slightly suspect relationship with Robin, and – c’mon – the B-Man has the most amazing rogues gallery of villains. I even loved the idea of a Christopher Nolan directed Christian read more

I’ll get to The Cameraman in a sec, just bear with me. Did you watch Lost? I hope, for your sake, that the answer is no. I mean, c’mon – J.J. Abrams, I’m going to kick your ass in a dark alley if I ever get the chance, just for wasting my time. But I digress. I merely mentio read more

I’ll get to The Cameraman in a sec, just bear with me. Did you watch Lost? I hope, for your sake, that the answer is no. I mean, c’mon – J.J. Abrams, I’m going to kick your ass in a dark alley if I ever get the chance, just for wasting my time. But I digress. I merely mentio read more

I staggered out of the woods yesterday, hot, itchy from mosquito bites and looking for something fun to do. And lo and behold… I come across the Speechless Blogathon from Eternity of Dream. The challenge of the blogathon is watch a silent film you’ve never seen, write about it, and publ read more

I staggered out of the woods yesterday, hot, itchy from mosquito bites and looking for something fun to do. And lo and behold… I come across the Speechless Blogathon from Eternity of Dream. The challenge of the blogathon is watch a silent film you’ve never seen, write about it, and publ read more

I’m going to let you in on a little secret my fellow film fans – I’m not actually here. That’s right… Pretty Clever Film Gal is currently deep in the wilds of Canada, desperately trying to juice up her iPad with solar charger, just so she can get a movie fix. But thank read more

I’m going to let you in on a little secret my fellow film fans – I’m not actually here. That’s right… Pretty Clever Film Gal is currently deep in the wilds of Canada, desperately trying to juice up her iPad with solar charger, just so she can get a movie fix. But thank read more

Hey now… it’s been a rough week for Pretty Clever Film Gal. First, I had a little spill on my bike, completing belying the image I have of my self as one of those effortlessly chic Parisian lasses who zip about on cool vintage bicycles. Then Andy Griffith died, which prompted me to firs read more

Have you ever wondered what would happen if three reasonable women went to see Oliver Stone’s misogynist lady-hate-fest Savages and then sat down to talk about it? Well, that’s exactly what happened when Kristal Cooper, Trista DeVries, and yours truly found ourselves at this movie. Chec read more

Hey what now? Pretty Clever Film Gal is talking about porn? Yep. Thing are heating up over at Toronto Film Scene during July – it’s porn month! This little list of docs about porn – see how respectable I manage to remain? – is my humble contribution to the month long examina read more

Hey what now? Pretty Clever Film Gal is talking about porn? Yep. Thing are heating up over at Toronto Film Scene during July – it’s porn month! This little list of docs about porn – see how respectable I manage to remain? – is my humble contribution to the month long examina read more

It’s been quite a week in the classic film blog-o-verse. First, The Cinementals vanished into the ether. It’s a lot like Rick and Louis wandering into the fog at the end of Casablanca, but this time in reverse. It’s the end of a beautiful friendship, not a beginning. Then, scandal read more