September 18, 1909: The first feature film to be produced in the U.S., Les Miserables, is released in four separate parts between now and Nov. 27. September 19, 1915: Vaudeville star W.C. Fields brings his famed pool-playing routine to the…
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Too Hard On The Beaver?
I’ve always been a believer in separating life from art, and naturally, from film in particular. The movies of Leni Riefenstahl should be preserved, no one should be made to feel guilty about seeing a film from Victor Salva or…
Read more →Shifting into Drive with Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn is tired. He’s been up since 5 AM, working on a TV commercial via Skype from his Philadelphia hotel room. No rest for the weary, even if the weary is a serious multitasker. “I wish I could…
Read more →My Guilty Pleasure: Devotion
Guest blogger Stephen Reginald writes: In 1943, Warner Brothers set out to film an account of the Bronte siblings, focusing mainly on the lives of authors Charlotte (Jane Eyre) and Emily (Wuthering Heights). In the 1930s and ’40s, the studio…
Read more →Joann Sfar Sketches Out Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Many people know about Serge Gainsbourg from his scandalous recording he did with girlfriend Jane Birkin in 1969 called “Je t’aime…moi non plus,” in which the then-couple sang and writhed on vinyl and got banned in many countries for their…
Read more →Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner from 1967, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
Read more →From My Collection: Lost Angel
Here’s a sample pulled from my collection of movie stills, a lovely picture of Marsha Hunt and Margaret O’Brien in Lost Angel (1943). Lost Angel was one of O’Brien’s earliest major roles, in which she plays a little girl who’s been raised…
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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! Yentl’s hosts insisted the dinnerware was Mottahedeh— so why was there a Dollar Store tag on the…
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Robert Mitchum in The Yakuza: The Strange Stranger
“When an American cracks up, he opens a window and shoots up a bunch of strangers. When a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself.” – Richard Jordan in The Yakuza The Yakuza (1974) has a pretty…
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