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Viva Las Vegas (1964) (2)
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 11, 2013
I’ve owned a box set of Elvis Presley movies for about the past three years, yet as of this weekend I’d only watched ONE of them, and even that (Jailhouse Rock) was only within the past few months–on some weekend I hadn’t rented a musical and needed something for my weekend m read more
Recent Spanish Cinema at the Egyptian
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 9, 2013
Not, strictly speaking, a vintage film, but instead a short recap of an event at a local repertory theater: Recent Spanish Cinema’s vino and queso festivity in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Packed with colorful and stylish people, the courtyard party offered all manner of read more
The Art of the DVD Commentary
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 7, 2013
I love watching great movies with great commentaries, because it’s something I can keep with me every time I watch or think about the movie afterward. But sometimes they’re not so great–and I recently found one of these unfortunate entries quite unexpectedly on a Criterion bluray. read more
How Moviepass Can Fund a Vintage Habit
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 6, 2013
I’ve been happily chugging along with my Moviepass usage for the past few months, cheerfully heading off to see all manner of misguided summer sequels, questionable comedies, and, yes, even a few mainstream gems I probably wouldn’t have bothered to see otherwise, had I been paying for ea read more
Busby Berkeley and the Gold Diggers of 1935
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 4, 2013
Man, Busby Berkeley really is on another level, isn’t he? He certainly had an eye for film, which I think really distinguishes him from other choreographers, both of his era and of any time. His most famous set pieces simply can’t be replicated in any other medium–not only are the read more
Cagney as Cohan in The Seven Little Foys
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 3, 2013
I was trying to think of a new category of posts to write about, since that helps to keep me in line, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to put together the fact that I’ve named my film blogging site The Vintage Cameo and that maybe, hmm, I don’t know, I can perhaps highlight som read more
Mommie Dearest
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 31, 2013
I became supremely excited as Mommie Dearest neared on my watch-schedule, because even though a lot of its fame comes from being so over-the-top, it’s a movie that’s definitely been absorbed into the collective pop culture unconscious. I’m always fascinated by movies like this, read more
High Society (1956) (2)
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 29, 2013
Well, that’ll teach me to actually read the synopses before seeing the movie: I got about 5 minutes into High Society thinking, “Hmm, this is awfully similar to The Philadelphia Story before realizing that–well, yes, that’s because it IS The Philadelphia Story. I tend to avoi read more
Hello, Gorgeous: John Saxon
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 28, 2013
Is “going steady” for you? There’s a singular pleasure to watching an older movie and discovering there’s an actor you thought you knew–an actor you had pretty easily categorized as a Dad figure in your mind, someone who was surely born already 40 years old wearing slac read more
We’re Off on the Road to…
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 23, 2013
It’s probably a testament to their incredible individual success that the comedy duo of Crosby and Hope–that is, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope–isn’t as well-known among casual moviegoers as say, an Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy. But for seven films spanning an astounding read more
Rare Musicals on TCM – June 2013
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 22, 2013
Because I do this for myself already anyway: below is a list of the rare-ish musicals playing on TCM in June. My definition of rare is “Not available from Netflix,” though you may be able to find some of them in your local video store, if you’re lucky and it still exists. Most of t read more
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) (2)
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 21, 2013
In case it’s not obvious, I’m sort of cheating on my That’s Entertainment watchlist, because I’m starting with all the movies that have multiple entries first, so it’s more satisfying to check off. This will catch up to me later, but for now it works. The Barkleys on Br read more
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (3)
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 20, 2013
Meet Me in St. Louis is part of the rare club in That’s Entertainment that has THREE numbers included, which means it must be good. “The Trolley Song” is one of those great movie moments where, after growing up inherently knowing the song, you realize… so that’s where read more
That’s Entertainment
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on May 14, 2013
As a young film fan, I’d always considered myself “a person who likes musicals,” but it wasn’t until somewhat recently that I realized I’d been basing this conception more on having watched and enjoyed That’s Entertainment a few times in my formative years, rather read more