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- Rarely Seen Jack Benny Film Makes DVD Debut
- Update #2: 10 Things I Learned at the TCM Classic Film Festival
- Screening Report: THE KID (1921) at Film Forum + Chaplin Look-Alike Contest
- Happy Birthday, Robert Osborne – Live from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival!
- Screening Report: The 1933 Pre-Code Festival
- Update: Bill Hader Returning for Third Season of “TCM Essentials Jr.”
- Henry Koster’s FRAULEIN (1958)
- UPDATE #4: My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the TCM Classic Film Festival
- Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Pam Grier at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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Screening Report: THE KID (1921) at Film Forum + Chaplin Look-Alike Contest
It was just after noon on a spring Sunday, and I was chatting with a fellow cineaste outside Film Forum, the Downtown Manhattan movie mecca. “KID AUTO RACES? That’s Chaplin’s first short,” I said. “Well, it’s the first one where … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film Forum, Screening Report
Tagged Alfalfa, Bruce Goldstein, Buckwheat, Charlie Chaplin, Darla, EASTER PARADE, Film Forum, Film Forum Jr, Hal Roach, IRON MAN 3, Jackie Coogan, Jane Scovall, John Martello, KID AUTO RACES, Kiera Chaplin, KING KONG, MAKING A LIVING, Melvin van Peebles, New York City, Oona Living in the Shadows: a Biography of Oona O’Neill Chaplin, PAY AS YOU EXIT, Porky, Romyo and Jullet, Shane Fleming, Spanky, Steve Sterner, SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG, THE DONOVAN AFFAIR, THE KID, Uncle Fester, WPIX Channel 11
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Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Like I needed another reason to adore Pam Grier. “I loved the old Boris Karloff films,” the actress said on Friday night before a midnight screening of SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale … Continue reading
Posted in Film Society of Lincoln Society, Screening Report
Tagged 1970s, ABOVE THE LAW, action films, BLACK MAMA, Blaxploitation, BUCKTOWN, COFFY, ESCAPE FROM L.A., Film Society of Lincoln Center, FOXY BROWN, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, Fred Williamson, FRIDAY FOSTER, GREASED LIGHTNING, Jack Hill, JACKIE BROWN, Kurt Russell, LARRY CROWNE, Margaret Markov, New World Pictures, ORIGINAL GANGSTAS, Pam Grier, Richard Pryor, Roger Corman, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM, SHEBA BABY, Steven Seagal, Thalmus Rasulala, THE BIG BIRD CAGE, The L Word, WHITE MAMA, William Marshall
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Pam Grier at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Actress Pam Grier appeared tonight at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center. She’s still gorgeous and sassy at age 63. Foxy: the Complete Pam Grier, an 11-film retrospective, continues through Sunday. The schedule is here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Old Movie Weirdos
“You’re an Old Movie Weirdo,” my girlfriend said to me. “I know you don’t think you are, but you are.” Before we go any further, you need to know something about Maggie: she’s honest to a fault, particularly when it … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film Forum, IFC Center, Screening Report
Tagged Classic film, Film Forum, Old Movie Weirdos, Repertory house, Revival House
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Screening Report: CARTOON CUT-UPS of 1933 at Film Forum
The cinematic celebration of 1933 – “Hollywood’s naughtiest, bawdiest year!” – continues at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, February 25 with Cartoon Cut-ups of 1933, a collection of rare animated shorts released by RKO, Columbia, MGM, Warner Bros., … Continue reading
Posted in Pre-Code Film, Film Forum, Animation, Screening Report
Tagged 1933, Al Michaels, Betty Boop, Blackhawk Films, Bugs Bunny, CANDY TOWN, Casper the Friendly Ghost, CAVE MAN, Charles Mintz, CHRISTMAS NIGHT, Cubby Bear, CUBBY’S WORLD FLIGHT, Daffy Duck, Felix the Cat, Film Forum, FIVE AND DIME, Fleischer Studios, Flip the Frog, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, George Herriman, HAPPY HOBOES, Hugh Harman, Jimmy Durante, Krazy Kat, Leon Schlesinger, Marie Dressler, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Mighty Mouse, Motion Picture Production Code, Mr. Magoo, Official Films, OPENING NIGHT, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, PALS, Pat Powers, Popeye the Sailor, Pre-Code films, Rudolf Ising, Scrappy, SITTIN’ ON A BACKYARD FENCE, SODA SQUIRT, Superman, the Little King, THE WORD’S AFFAIR, Tom and Jerry, Ub Iwerks, Van Beuren, Walter Lantz, WEDDING BELLS, William Nolan, Willie Whopper, Woody Woodpecker
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Screening Report: Pre-Code Fun at Film Forum’s 1933 Festival
This weekend, Film Forum kicked off 1933: Hollywood’s Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year – a monthlong, 66-film retrospective of my favorite year in movie history. I didn’t say it was the best year in movie history, of course. That honor, at least during … Continue reading
Posted in Film Forum, Pre-Code Film, Screening Report
Tagged 1933, Busby Berkeley, Carlotta Vance, DINNER AT EIGHT, early Talkies, EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE, Film Forum, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Cukor, Ginger Rogers, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, Great Depression, Jean Harlow, LITTLE CAESAR, Marie Dressler, Pre-Code Film, Roy Del Ruth, Scrappy's Party, SITTING PRETTY, THE LITTLE GIANT, Warren William
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How I Almost Ruined IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
There I was at the IFC Center in New York, about to see a 35mm print of Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE in a theater filled with excited fans. Even better, Donna Reed’s daughter was on hand to introduce … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, IFC Center, Screening Report
Tagged Buster Keaton, Clarence Oddbody, Donna Reed, Frank Capra, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, George Bailey, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Jimmy Stewart, Mary Hatch, Mary Owen, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, The Donna Reed Show, Why We Fight, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
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Screening Report: THE SEARCHERS (1956); DETOUR (1945); and THE PASSENGER (1975) at IFC Center
On Friday, the IFC Center in New York City kicked off a week-long festival of road movies selected by Walter Salles, director of the upcoming adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. I saw three of the iconic films presented this … Continue reading
Posted in IFC Center, Screening Report
Tagged 4k, Ann Savage, BEN-HUR, DCP, DETOUR, digital cinema package, digital projection, Eagle Lion Films, Edgar G. Ulmer, IFC Center, Jack Nicholson, Jeffrey Hunter, John Ford, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, Michelangelo Antonioni, Natalie Wood, ON THE ROAD, Poverty Row, Producer's Releasing Corporation, SPARTACUS, Technicolor, THE PASSENGER, THE SEARCHERS, Tom Neal, United Artists, VistaVision, Walter Salles, Winston C. Hoch
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Screening Report: Film Comment Selects at Film Society of Lincoln Center
“What’s it like to live in a world without words,” Film Comment editor Gavin Smith asked the audience at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Howard Gillman Theater last night, before a well-attended screening of François Truffaut’s FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966). The … Continue reading →