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Classic Films in Focus: ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 3, 2015
The buoyant charm of Esther Williams drives all of her musical comedies, but some work better than others, and On an Island with You (1948) mostly sinks rather than swims. Its plot, in which an obsessed fan demonstrates his passion for a movie star by kidnapping her, disturbs and confounds, especial read more
Classic Films in Focus: ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 3, 2015
The buoyant charm of Esther Williams drives all of her musical comedies, but some work better than others, and On an Island with You (1948) mostly sinks rather than swims. Its plot, in which an obsessed fan demonstrates his passion for a movie star by kidnapping her, disturbs and confounds, especial read more
Classic Films in Focus: REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 18, 2015
The Gill Man returns for a second shot at interspecies romance in Revenge of the Creature (1955), a direct sequel to the 1954 Universal horror, Creature from the Black Lagoon. Jack Arnold also comes back to the fish man out of water story as the director, but this time the action moves from the Amaz read more
My Favorite Bond
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 17, 2015
Roger Moore was my first Bond, and, decades later, he remains my favorite version of the iconic British spy. The first 007 movie I ever saw was a cable television edit of Live and Let Die (1973); I remember being delightfully terrified by Geoffrey Holder's Baron Samedi, and I was young enough that t read more
My Favorite Bond
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 17, 2015
Roger Moore was my first Bond, and, decades later, he remains my favorite version of the iconic British spy. The first 007 movie I ever saw was a cable television edit of Live and Let Die (1973); I remember being delightfully terrified by Geoffrey Holder's Baron Samedi, and I was young enough that t read more
Classic Films in Focus: TWICE-TOLD TALES (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 3, 2015
Borrowing both the star and the literary atmosphere of Roger Corman's Poe adaptations, Twice-Told Tales (1963) offers a trilogy of stories from Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Vincent Price taking the lead in all three segments of the film. Like the Corman pictures, this anthology of horror drips with Got read more
Classic Films in Focus: TWICE-TOLD TALES (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 3, 2015
Borrowing both the star and the literary atmosphere of Roger Corman's Poe adaptations, Twice-Told Tales (1963) offers a trilogy of stories from Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Vincent Price taking the lead in all three segments of the film. Like the Corman pictures, this anthology of horror drips with Got read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 2, 2015
A low-budget cult classic, The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962) offers all the twisted delights one could ask for in a science fiction horror movie of this type. It's sleazy, gruesome, and short, with a parade of scantily clad women and a mad surgeon hellbent on attaching his girlfriend's severed head read more
Classic Films in Focus: DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 28, 2015
Whatever the outcome, there's something fascinating about the combination of Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola, the producer and director, respectively, of the low-budget shocker, Dementia 13 (1963). While the movie leaves a lot to be desired, thanks in part to disagreements between the two and read more
Classic Films in Focus: DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 28, 2015
Whatever the outcome, there's something fascinating about the combination of Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola, the producer and director, respectively, of the low-budget shocker, Dementia 13 (1963). While the movie leaves a lot to be desired, thanks in part to disagreements between the two and read more
Classic Films in Focus: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 26, 2015
Long a staple of high school and community drama programs, Agatha Christie's stage version of And Then There Were None is a little less murderous than the original novel but still packed with good parts. The 1945 film adaptation, directed by Rene Clair, stocks those parts with truly memorable charac read more
Classic Films in Focus: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 26, 2015
Long a staple of high school and community drama programs, Agatha Christie's stage version of And Then There Were None is a little less murderous than the original novel but still packed with good parts. The 1945 film adaptation, directed by Rene Clair, stocks those parts with truly memorable charac read more
CMBA Blogathon: THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 21, 2015
The theme for this year's CMBA Blogathon is "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles," which makes the 1946 musical, The Harvey Girls, an obvious choice. The movie won an Oscar for its train themed song, "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe," and it depicts, in a fictionalized and colorful way, the impor read more
CMBA Blogathon: THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 21, 2015
The theme for this year's CMBA Blogathon is "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles," which makes the 1946 musical, The Harvey Girls, an obvious choice. The movie won an Oscar for its train themed song, "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe," and it depicts, in a fictionalized and colorful way, the impor read more
Classic Films in Focus: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 19, 2015
Along with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is one of the most popular Hollywood treatments of a Tennessee Williams play, although the author himself was not a fan of the changes that had to be made to get his story onto film. In spite of Williams' understandable frustra read more
Classic Films in Focus: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 19, 2015
Along with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is one of the most popular Hollywood treatments of a Tennessee Williams play, although the author himself was not a fan of the changes that had to be made to get his story onto film. In spite of Williams' understandable frustra read more
Memorial Post: Grendel (1995-2015)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 17, 2015
We said goodbye to our 20 year old cat, Grendel Graymalkin Kagemusha Sparks, this morning. He had been with me since he was just a few weeks old; he was born to a feral cat who lived under my grandfather's potato shed, and during Hurricane Opal he was rescued from the storm by my parents, who fed hi read more
Memorial Post: Grendel (1995-2015)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 17, 2015
We said goodbye to our 20 year old cat, Grendel Graymalkin Kagemusha Sparks, this morning. He had been with me since he was just a few weeks old; he was born to a feral cat who lived under my grandfather's potato shed, and during Hurricane Opal he was rescued from the storm by my parents, who fed hi read more
Classic Films in Focus: BLACK SABBATH (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 15, 2015
Mario Bava's 1963 Italian-French horror anthology, Black Sabbath, is both lurid and literary, much like Roger Corman's Poe films from the same era, but without the cheeky black humor that pervades the Corman canon. Even more so than in Corman's loosest adaptations, the literary pedigrees of Bava's t read more
Classic Films in Focus: BLACK SABBATH (1963)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 15, 2015
Mario Bava's 1963 Italian-French horror anthology, Black Sabbath, is both lurid and literary, much like Roger Corman's Poe films from the same era, but without the cheeky black humor that pervades the Corman canon. Even more so than in Corman's loosest adaptations, the literary pedigrees of Bava's t read more