To salute Steve McQueen on what would have been his 85th birthday this week, we re-promoting our poll asking for your top film/TV performance by the “King of Cool.” From The Blob to The Great Escape to Bullitt and more, it’s a poll fit for a McQueen.
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This Week in Film History: 3/22/15
A visiting Tippi Hedren and the residents of Bodega Bay, California faced an aerial assault unlike any other in Alfred Hitchcock’s shocker The Birds, which opened 52 years ago this week. Wet your beak with more key Hollywood dates inside.
Read more →Curtis, Wood and Lemmon Hit the Road for The Great Race
Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are contestants in a 1908 trans-global road rally in The Great Race. Guest writer Kristen Lopez takes the checkered flag with her look at director Blake Edwards’ slapstick epic, which turns 50 this year.
Read more →Juno and the Paycock (1929): Hitchcock’s Dublin Down the Drama
The travails of a family in strife-torn 1920’s Dublin were the focus of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 drama Juno and the Paycock. As part of the Luck of the Irish Blog O’Thon, MovieFanFare reviews this early Hitchcock effort, based on a Sean O’Casey play.
Read more →Create-a-Caption: Leprechaun
St. Patrick’s Day may be tomorrow, but it’s never too early to get into the “Create O’Caption” spirit. Click here for a classic photo from 1993’s Leprechaun with our caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comments.
Read more →For St. Patrick’s Day, What’s the Best “Green” Movie?
Since tomorrow marks “the wearin’ of the green” for St. Patrick’s Day, this week’s poll asks for your vote for the best movie with “green” in its name, from drama (How Green Was My Valley) to action (The Green Berets) to sci-fi (Soylent Green) and more.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 3/15/15
They didn’t get along on the set, but comic legends Mae West and W.C. Fields delighted audiences in My Little Chickadee, which marks its 75th anniversary this week. Why don’t you come up sometime and see what other Hollywood trivia we’ve found?
Read more →The Legacy of Documentarian Albert Maysles
MovieFanFare remembers filmmaker Albert Maysles–co-director with his brother David of such groundbreaking documentaries as Salesman, Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens and The Gates–who died last week at 88. .
Read more →Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Set in 19th-century Ukraine, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” explores doomed love, the urgency of memory, and the culture of the Hutsul people. Check out this MovieFanFare contribution to the Russia in Classic Film blogathon!
Read more →What’s Your Favorite “Silver Anniversary” Film from 1990?
Dances with Wolves, Goodfellas, Home Alone and Pretty Woman are among the now-classic movies celebrating their 25h anniversary this year. Vote in our poll for your top film from 1990…when VHS ruled the Earth.
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