Ghosts and the rapidly beating hearts of film geeks collided. I was in heaven. We descended on Hollywood like moths to flames looking forward to a weekend filled with movies, Hollywood, friends and magic. And we got it all. The “we” is the thousands of…
“Prologue: This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm – and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid!” “Garbo Talks!” hailed ads when popular…
A Delirious and Delightful Delving into Love’s Most Entrancing Moments of Mirth and Madness! As far as taglines go, that’s a mouthful! It belongs to a romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures from 1941, Bedtime Story, directed by Alexander Hall and which stars Fredric March and…
So how many times have I said that I hate lists in posts? OK. Many. I will never do so again. I ran into Mettel Ray Movie Blog and saw a great blogathon idea that entails creating and commenting on the mother of all lists. …
The home of the classics, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) played Frank Capra‘s 1934, Best Picture Academy Award winner, It Happened One Night this past weekend. This is, for some reason, a film I never think of when I consider Capra’s great films, and he made…
Last night I was one of the very happy many who saw Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic, The Birds on a big screen thanks to Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Fathom Events and Universal Studios whose Centennial the release is commemorating – one of several special screenings…
On the day that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is honoring one of cinemas greatest actors, Claude Rains, I am confessing my unwavering love for Captain Louis Renault in a simple but heartfelt post. Captain Renault is the scheming, cheating, back-stabbing, lying, womanizing, corrupt prefect in…
The “best” films are the ones that touch us on an emotional level. They stir, they move, they ultimately conquer us. I am all too willing to surrender to them, be transported. That’s what John Ford’s The Quiet Man does. A lovely film full of the requisite…
Bogart. Bergman. Henreid. Rains. Romance. Intrigue. Espionage. Patriotism. Humor. Humanity. Just a few of the reasons why I was one of what I hope were millions who went to a local movie theater last night to see a film I’d seen countless times before. I…
