by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 5, 2020 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blogathons, Classic movies, Mary Astor, Pre-Code films, Silent film, Women's Pictures
Mary Astor is almost one-stop shopping for a classic film buff. She started working in her teens and was the sole support of her greedy, abusive parents, whom she eventually had to sue for her independence, so she checks that box (see Jackie Coogan, Baby Peggy, Dickie...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jun 12, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Dana Andrews, Pre-Code films, William Wellman
Oyez, oyez! Welcome to Day 6, the final day of our courtroom extravaganza! In the first five?days we saw, among others, posts on Hitchcock worth knowing better (The Paradine Case), lynching (Fritz Lang?s?Fury), Louise Brooks?s Lulu in?Pandora?s Box,?Kramer vs. Kramer,...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 13, 2016 | 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, Charlie Chaplin, Classic movies, Douglas Sirk, Genres, Jackie Coogan, John Ford, John Wayne, Musicals, New York movies, Romance, Silent film, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage, Vincente Minnelli, Westerns, Women's Films
And so we come to the last day of TCMFF 2016. I was already feeling it on Saturday, and of course Saturday?s events and pace and the least sleep yet went a long way toward creating a detour from my still excited but increasingly weary mind and my mouth, which began to...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 10, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Anna Karina, Charlie Chaplin, Classic movies, film noir, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Jackie Coogan, Jean-Luc Godard, John Ford, John Wayne, Miklos Rozsa, Musicals, New York movies, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage, Westerns
From my comfortable perch back at my friend?s house in North Hollywood, ?the intensity, mad dashes, glorious experiences, and occasional frustrations of TCMFF 2016 seem rather remote, Gentle Reader, but at this time a little over one?week ago I was watching?Dead Men...
by Lesley Gaspar | Mar 5, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Genres
What do?Duck Soup,?Anatomy of a Murder,?The Story of Temple Drake, and?Adam?s Rib?have in common? Whether dramas, comedies, or tragedies, they?re all courtroom movies. What?s your favorite? Second Sight Cinema?and?Cinemaven?s Essays from the Couch?are pleased as punch...
by Lesley Gaspar | Feb 8, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Blogathons, Buster Keaton, Classic movies, Louis B. Mayer, Pre-Code films, Silent film
Remember: If it bends, it?s funny. If it breaks, it isn?t. ?Lester (Alan Alda),?Crimes and Misdemeanors There was nothing funny about it when Buster Keaton broke. Keaton?s fall is legendary. Most of the time it?s told sketchily, and too often as if it were the end.?As...
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