Movie fans around the world have something to thank the French for (besides the movie Betty Blue): Ever since the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma promoted the idea that film directors such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, due to the very…
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What’s Your Pick for Best Film of 2011?
Five Foreign Film Favorites
New Year’s resolution: Watch more foreign films. Watching foreign cinema is a lot like eating your vegetables. You know you must do it to maintain a balanced and healthy diet, and while you may actually find you enjoy them once you taste…
Read more →The Hustler (1961): Movie Review
Guest blogger Alex DeLarge presents this look at 1961’s The Hustler: A pool shark leaves the little pond and is soon devoured by a larger fish. Robert Rossen directs this Cimmerian melodrama about a loser whose desire to win almost consumes his…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 12.25.11
December 31, 1903: Capital Execution is the first feature from what will be a thriving Danish film industry, until its decline during World War I. December 26, 1913: Less than two years after the sinking of the Titanic, the disaster…
Read more →Modern Times (1936): Movie Review
Guest blogger Simon Columb writes: Charlie Chaplin, above anything, was controversial. He was an artist who, through his success, shook the tree and commented on American freedom (The Immigrant) using a character known as “The Little Tramp.” Modern Times remains…
Read more →Ask Movie Irv: Have You Ever Walked Out on a Movie?
Taking offense; an unexpected emergency; sheer boredom…all reasons someone might give for walking out on a movie. It’s safe to say we’ve probably all done it at one time or another. When the exodus is not forced upon you—that is…
Read more →Santa Claus: Mean King of Jing-a-ling
St. Nick a meanie? Guest blogger Jessica Pickens explores Santa Claus as he’s seen in the movie Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and in TV’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964).
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“Speech is silver; silence is golden.” –Ancient Egyptian proverb. Who would have thunk it? Two films about the world of silent movies, showing in theaters at the same time. We have Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s mesmerizing 3-D adaptation of The Invention of…
Read more →Christmas in Connecticut: A Veritable Feast of Talent
Guest blogger Paul writes: Christmas in Connecticut is a sparkling Christmas comedy starring Dennis Morgan, Barbara Stanwyck, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall, Una O’Connor, Frank Jenks, and Robert Shayne. Perhaps one of Barbara Stanwyck’s best and most under-rated performances,…
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