It’s snowy today at MovieFanFare HQ, so we’re thinking about Spring…and the new Criterion Collection titles due out in April in May. Get all the info on collector’s editions of Sullivan’s Travels, Limelight, State of Siege, The Rose and other films coming soon inside.
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Her beauty and on-screen innocence earned silent film actress Olive Borden the nickname “The Joy Girl,” but her private life was anything but a happy experience. Guest writer Marsha Collock looks back at Borden’s all-too-brief career.
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Rushed to release when Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan, “First Monday in October” was very much a film of its time. And guess what? It’s still relevant today.
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He was the man behind perhaps the most famous alien in TV history, but there was more to Leonard Nimoy’s career than Mr. Spock. MovieFanFare looks at 10 key roles (with a little bit of Spock) in the career of the actor/director, who passed away last week at 83.
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This week marks the Golden Anniversary of The Sound of Music’s debut, but quite a few popular movies also turn 50 in 2015. Vote in this week’s poll for your top 1965 film. Selections include Cat Ballou, Doctor Zhivago, Thunderball and many more.
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The hills were alive–as were movie theaters–50 years ago this week, as Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer debuted in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. If you like Hollywood trivia, read inside for more of your “favorite things.”
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His suave demeanor in such films as Three Coins in the Fountain, Gigi and Can-Can won him fans, but he wanted to be more than just another big-screen Gallic lover. MovieFanFare looks back at the career of Louis Jourdan, who passed away earlier this month at 93.
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Betrayed by ex-pal Humphrey Bogart and left for dead, gangster Edward G. Robinson is saved by monks from a nearby monastery and learns a new way of life as Brother Orchid. Guest writer Aurora reviews the light-hearted 1940 Warner Bros. crime drama.
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As part of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon, we look at Marty, the heartfelt 1955 drama–starring Ernest Borgnine as a lonely Bronx butcher and Betsy Blair as the plain school teacher he meets at a dance hall–that would win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture,
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Have you ever seen the Ralph Bakshi animated film Heavy Traffic? This 1973 cult classic is a mad masterpiece of kaleidoscopic invention. Let’s take a stroll down (a crazy, grimy) memory lane and revisit this work of wildly irreverent art.
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