I rewatched for the nth time (I’ve lost track) Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby (1938). Apart from being great fun each time I watch it, this time was a bit different having read Marc Eliot’s book, Cary Grant: A Biography and…
Read more →March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 10, 1922: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee “moral and artistic…
Read more →He raised comic fans’ hackles by casting Michael Keaton as Batman; tinkered with cinematic legend by revisiting the Planet of the Apes; and split audiences and critics by daring to reinvent Roald Dahl’s beloved book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…
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In last week’s opening part of my tour of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland–or, at least, the myriad movie depictions of it–I introduced you to silent Alice in Wonderland shorts and features; Walt Disney’s ’20s Alice in Cartoonland series and his eventually abandoned…
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I recently fixed a gaping hole in my classic film education. Gilda, one of Rita Hayworth’s best movies, is infamous for her simulated strip-tease to “Put the Blame on Mame” and is considered one of the sexiest musical numbers put…
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If you are looking to improve your chances in the office Oscar pool, you now have the chance to see some very clever and creative shorts. (And they don’t belong to Senator Scott Brown!) The Academy Award nominees for Best Short…
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When it comes to movie posters, what can one wrong letter do? It can change everything. See for yourself… What a Rush! 2012
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Sounds like a caper film from the distant past. An international production, perhaps, starring the likes of Michael Caine, Lino Ventura and Claudia Cardinale, in which a group of cons with distinctively different backgrounds team together to rip off some…
Read more →March 2, 1906: Biograph Studios wins appeal of kinetoscope inventor Edison’s patent claims, preventing (temporarily) a potential monopoly on the making of movies. March 5, 1919: Pioneering black producer/director Oscar Micheaux releases his first film, The Homesteader. March 5, 1922:…
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