Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
R-E-S-C-U-E, Rescue Aid Society
True Classics Posted by Carrie on Mar 12, 2011
Hands held high/Touch the sky./ You mean everything to me. My experience with The Rescuers (1977) happened a little backwards. I grew up with the audiotape (you know, the ones where they use clips from the film and narrate the story), but I was older before I actually saw the movie. So when I watch read more
Celebrating Women in Classic Film: Claiming the Director’s Chair
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 10, 2011
Throughout the month of March, we’ll be celebrating the behind-the-scenes roles of women during the classic film era. Earlier this week, we took a look at some of the first women to step into the role of director during the silent film period. Today, we’ll look at a few of the women who read more
Celebrating Women in Classic Film: The Silent Directors.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 8, 2011
Today, March 8, is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which falls, appropriately enough, at the start of Women’s History Month. Though it’s not a nationally-recognized holiday here in the United States (as it is in several countries across the world), it is nonethe read more
Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood.
True Classics Posted by Nikki G on Mar 5, 2011
Winnie the Pooh has been a family favorite as far back as I can remember–from my Winnie the Pooh books and my brother’s toys to calling my sister Eeyore when she was in a particularly pessimistic mood. We also grew up watching the various spinoff shows that aired in the late 80s and 90s read more
“She may be his wife, but she’s engaged to me!”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 3, 2011
In the mid-1930s, the screwball comedy was still a relatively new subgenre of film. Many critics label It Happened One Night, released in 1934, as the first “screwball” picture ever produced, and subsequent films such as Twentieth Century (also 1934) and Hands Across the Table (1935) bui read more
Remembering Jane Russell.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 1, 2011
Lovely, talented, and always gracious, classic film actress and popular pin-up girl Jane Russell passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Russell’s start in Hollywood came at the hands of millionaire Howard Hughes, who was enamored by her beautifully voluptuous figure, displayed to such winnin read more
Who’s that girl?: Thelma Ritter
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 28, 2011
One of the most visible and beloved supporting players of the 1950s was a middle-aged, theater-trained actress from Brooklyn, Thelma Ritter. You may not know her name, but if you’re a classic movie fan, you know her face. Ritter appeared in supporting roles in a series of big-name films opposite read more
Honoring the original “Platinum Blonde.”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 27, 2011
Tomorrow marks the start of the Jean Harlow Blogathon, hosted by the Kitty Packard Pictorial! We are so excited to be participating in this event to celebrate the centenary of one of the most gorgeous, talented, and truly funny actresses to ever come out of Hollywood. Harlow’s birthday is Thur read more
Censorship and a Streetcar: Part Two
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 25, 2011
Note: you can find the first part of this entry here. Joseph Breen’s second caveat in adapting Streetcar revolved around the character of Blanche, whose more sexually predatory side could not be fully explicated on the screen per Production Code regulations. The faded Southern belle’s l read more
Censorship and a Streetcar: Part One.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 23, 2011
We’ve previously touched on issues of censorship here at True Classics, but our next two entries this week will take a more in-depth look at the Hays Code, particularly in regards to the struggle to adapt the controversial source material of A Streetcar Named Desire for the big screen. By read more
This week in Oscar, part three.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 21, 2011
Here are our recommendations for TCM’s final week+ of 31 Days of Oscar. Happy viewing! Tuesday, February 22nd =8:00PM EST: The Defiant Ones (1958)
Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier star as a pair of chained-together fugitives who must put aside their mutual hatred and work together in order to se read more
For the Love of Film (Noir): Lured
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 20, 2011
This post is our contribution to the ongoing For the Love of Film (Noir) blogathon. As we mentioned last week, the blogathon is being held in support of the Film Noir Foundation, and all of the funds collected will be dedicated to the restoration of 1950′s The Sound of Fury, starring Lloyd Bridges. read more
They call him MR. Mouse.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 19, 2011
For Christmas, a friend of mine scored a copy of the new Wii game Epic Mickey. If you haven’t heard of this game, it’s an attempt to turn Disney’s signature character into a bad-ass of the umpteenth degree while reacquainting folks with some former Disney animation stars like Oswal read more
A shameless plug.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 16, 2011
Our very own Carrie has submitted a piece for the “Jane Austen Made Me Do It” short story contest, hosted by the Republic of Pemberley. And I know all of you out there want to help us see Carrie’s charming story make it into the upcoming anthology of Austen-inspired prose, right? ( read more
This week in Oscar, part two.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 14, 2011
Here are our daily recommendations for your 31 Days of Oscar viewing this week: Tuesday, February 15th 10:30AM EST: Black Orpheus (1959) The first time I saw this film was in a postcolonial literature class in college, and I fell in love with its musical, magical beauty. It’s a retelling of read more
Baby’s recollections.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 13, 2011
The upcoming March 2011 issue of Vanity Fair has an excellent interview with the grande dame of old Hollywood, Lauren Bacall. At the age of 86, Bacall remains a sharp, intuitive, and fiercely independent figure whose legendary profile still leaps out of a photograph. In the interview, Bacall reminis read more
Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally, Golly, What a Day!
True Classics Posted by Carrie on Feb 12, 2011
I had to take Robin Hood (1973) on our Disney list. I grew up with an older brother (more or less) who absolutely loves this one. He spends a lot of times whistling “Oo-De-Lally.” My sister rewatched this with me, per a tradition of ours: watching animated films when we’re toge read more
Blogathon bashes.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 10, 2011
We here at True Classics are very excited about two upcoming blogathons in which we will be participating! First up, starting on Sunday, Ferdy on Films and the Self-Styled Siren are joining forces to host For the Love of Film (Noir). Brandie will be contributing a post on the 1947 noir Lured, starr read more
This week in Oscar.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 8, 2011
Confession: it’s hard to remember to come over here every day and post the daily recommendation for 31 Days of Oscar. As you may have noticed, I neglected to do it yesterday and … um … the day before (bad Brandie!). So instead of worrying about whether or not my forgetful little br read more
Because I’m a Lady-That’s Why
True Classics Posted by Nikki G on Feb 6, 2011
The Aristocats marks the beginning of the transitional period between the Walt era and the Renaissance that took the studio by storm in the late 80s and 90s, and as such is full of lasts and firsts. Most notably, this was the last story that Walt approved and the first film to be completed after hi read more