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...
by Lesley Gaspar | Feb 7, 2016 | 1960s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Nichols, Richard Burton, Shirley MacLaine
Elizabeth Taylor won two Best Actress Oscars, for?BUtterfield 8?(1960) and?Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf??(1966). The first she perhaps rightly dismissed as a pity vote. The second she won fair and square, and I hope it meant something to her. Until fairly recently I...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 25, 2016 | 1940s, 1950s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Katharine Hepburn
On the set of The African Queen (1951) John Huston and Humphrey Bogart made six movies together, six points of intersection over their long careers. Three of the six were crucial in the careers of both men:?The Maltese Falcon?(1941),?The Treasure of the Sierra...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 18, 2016 | 1940s, Alice Faye, Blogathons, Busby Berkeley, Carmen Miranda, Classic movies, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette, Harry Warren, Musicals, New York movies
sten ?your seat belts.?The Gang?s All Here?is too much. It?s the thrill ride of Hollywood musicals. If you?ve not seen it but have seen other Busby Berkeley movies you?re thinking, Yeah, got it. But all the fabulous excesses of Berkeley in black-and-white pale in...
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 17, 2015 | 1920s, Blogathons, Classic movies, New York movies, Paul Fejos, Silent film
This post was written for the epic Criterion Blogathon sponsored by?Criterion Blues,?Silver Screenings, and?Speakeasy, running from November 16-21 with more than 170 entries (!). Do yourself a favor and check out the roster?it?s amazing, it?s colossal, it?s? really...
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 17, 2015 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Feb2016Blogathon, film noir, Pre-Code films, Romance
We?re live! Welcome to the?You Must Remember This? Blogathon! Kisses blistering and chilled, delirious and hard-boiled, Judas kisses, cartoon kisses, and of course the kiss-off? Here?s our Valentine?s Day celebration of screen kisses. New entries will be posted as...
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