About nine years ago I saw The Man with the Golden Arm for the very first time. I was only a year or so into being a huge movie fan, and so for almost every film I watched I was…
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Mohawk Theater – North Adams, Mass.
On November 5, 1938, some 71 years ago, the Mohawk Theater opened in the small western Massachusetts town of North Adams. These days, the community is anticipating, and actively involved, in its future re-opening. Once part of the E.M. Loew…
Read more →Dear John: Why Aren’t Waters’ Pre-Pink Flamingos Films on DVD?
Here’s a funny thought: more than a few moviegoers–many of them, I’m guessing, under the age of 30–may only know cult filmmaker John Waters as one of the people behind that charming, upbeat musical from a few years ago, Hairspray. It’s even funnier…
Read more →In The Navy
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “We said we needed powdered donuts, not plain. What are you, some sort of stooge?”
Read more →Wimping Out With The Creator And Stars Of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
All Jeff Kinney wanted to be was a cartoonist. While attending college at the University of Maryland, Kinney created a comic strip called Igdoof that ran in the campus newspaper. His dream was to graduate from school and draw a…
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite Irish-Themed Movie?
Well, lads and lasses, St. Patrick’s Day is here, which means it’s time for MovieFanFare readers to let us know which film about the Emerald Isle and its people–Darby O’Gill and the Little People, The Quiet Man,Ryan’s Daughter and more–is their favorite.
Read more →Thomas Mitchell: It’s a Wonderful Career
It’s an impressive body of work that most actors would love to have on their resumé: Gerald O’Hara, Vivien Leigh’s troubled father, in Gone with the Wind; Clopin, 15h-century Paris’ “King of the Beggars,” in The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Mr….
Read more →When the Best Picture Isn’t the “Best Picture”
Over the last six weeks or so MovieFanFare ran a trio of Academy Award-related polls–on non award-winning foreign films, films that failed to receive a Best Picture nomination, and Best Picture losers that may have deserved the award over the eventual winners–that…
Read more →Scary Times With 10 Fact-Based Films
There are Famous Monsters…and then there are famous monsters. Both Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were inspired by the real-life crimes of mass murderer Ed Gein; The Silence of the Lambs, book and film, incorporated character traits of…
Read more →Rashomon (1950): Japanese Masterpiece
Guest blogger Alex writes: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950, Japan) A forlorn priest curses the weakness of men who are cruel slaves to their own selfish desires. Director Akira Kurosawa cross examines four witnesses to a savage crime, a shadow of…
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