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 | 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...
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