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Laurel & Hardy: A Perfect Day to Be Blotto
Guest blogger Allen Hefner writes: Here’s a look at two classic Laurel and Hardy shorts that illustrate why the pair are timeless masters of mirth! Perfect Day (1929) – Only Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can turn a Sunday picnic into a disaster movie. Uncle…
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) The 1985 documentary, The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal, provides an overview of the career of the famed animator, producer, director, writer and stop-motion pioneer as simply as it possibly can:…
Read more →A Dozen (Minus One) Great Film Misquotes
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” That’s what I said said to myself last week when my January article A Hundred (Minus One) Great Film Quotes Not in the 2011 Movies Unlimited Catalog took over the top spot as Movie FanFare’s…
Read more →The Rocketeer: Ten Things to Know About the Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about The Rocketeer from 1991, which originally appeared as a Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are lots of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more…
Read more →How Crazy Cat Ladies Watch Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was on TCM recently, and so I watched it for the bazillionth time, as usual. However, during this particular viewing I realized something that I hadn’t before. I could care less if Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 02.06.11
February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith‘s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
Read more →Suddenly, Sinatra Matters Again
“The gun gives you the power of life or death. It’s a funny sort of thing to have control over life and death. You must have had it during the war. You could miss a man if you had a mind…
Read more →The Case for Anna Karenina
Guest blogger Kendra Bean writes: When Julien DuVivier’s production of Anna Karenina was released in theatres in 1948 it received less-than-stellar notices, especially concerning its leading lady, Vivien Leigh. Critics called it a “beautiful failure” and said Vivien failed to portray…
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