Swedish moviegoers were able to shake off their winter blues and enjoy Ingmar Bergman’s latest work, The Seventh Seal, 58 years ago this week. Cheer up, film fans: there are more notable cinematic anniversaries waiting for you inside.
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Some cynics might call this the perfect weekend: a Friday the 13th followed by Valentine’s Day. Here at MovieFanFare, we look at it as the perfect chance to ask for your thoughts on the most romantic horror flick and most downbeat love film.
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For a pre-Valentine’s Day treat, we’re offering this classic look at some classic love triangle movies–Gone with the Wind, Vertigo, Pretty in Pink, the Twlight films and more–as seen by the guys and gals who wound up on the outside looking in.
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Film fans, here’s a Valentine’s Day recipe: Mix wild scenarios with slapstick humor and witty dialogue,blend in a love story, and you have screwball comedy. Guest writer Victoria Balloon salutes some ’30s and ’40s screwball gems in a classic article.
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One of silent cinema’s greatest–and strangest–love stories was Universal’s The Phantom of the Opera, with Lon Chaney in perhaps his most famous role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer rips the mask off the 1925 thriller’s behind-the-scenes secrets and travails.
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When I heard in 2012 that the soundtrack to the Lugosi classic would be tinkered with, I went nuts. Is the restored Dracula soundtrack historical revisionism, or simply clearing away the cobwebs so we can fully enjoy it as if it were first unspooling on a 1931 movie screen?
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For the First Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, MovieFanFare reviews the stone-faced funnyman’s final screen performance in the 1966 musical/comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, co-starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford and Phil Silvers.
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It’s now less than two weeks and counting until Oscar Night, so we’re keeping this week’s Academy preview movie poll a simple one: Which of the eight nominees do you think will win the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture?
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We’re talkin’ to you: this week marks the 39th anniversary of the debut of Martin Scorsese’s controversial drama Taxi Driver. Want to see more memorable dates and facts from Hollywood history? You make the move. It’s your move…
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Made during the ’70s heyday of disaster films, The Big Bus spoofed its more serious colleagues with a tale of a New York-to-Denver trip on the nuclear-powered title vehicle. Guest blogger Tdod Liebenow gets behind the wheel of the 1976 comedy for a review.
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