Tag Archives: Classic film

Update: New Channel Brings Classic Film to Broadcast TV

Posted on March 6, 2014 by willmckinley

Updated: 5/18/14 7:30 p.m. (updated affiliate info in italics at end of article) Turner Classic Movies is getting an unexpected present for their twentieth birthday: competition. On February 3, Sony Pictures Television launched getTV, a broadcast television network devoted exclusively … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, getTV | Tagged broadcast TV, Classic film, Columbia Pictures, digital subchannel, getTV | 41 Comments

The Good, the Bad, and the Old Movie Weirdos

Posted on March 14, 2013 by willmckinley

“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 | 64 Comments

Review: Beyond CASABLANCA: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching by Jennifer C. Garlen

Posted on November 30, 2012 by willmckinley

This is my biggest frustration as a classic film fan: no matter how many old movies I watch, there will always be hundreds (thousands?) more I haven’t seen. Unless I buy every pre-1960 DVD ever released and lock myself in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Classic Film | Tagged A DAY AT THE RACES, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, BABY FACE, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Beyond CASABLANCA: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, BROKEN BLOSSOMS, Classic film, COLONEL BLIMP, I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, Jennifer C. Garlen, Jennifer Garlen, LA STRADA, SOME LIKE IT HOT, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, THE AFRICAN QUEEN, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS | 15 Comments

Pre-Code Classics Shine Again in “Forbidden Hollywood” Volumes 4 and 5 from Warner Archive

Posted on September 11, 2012 by willmckinley

“For me, the real ‘Classic Era’ in Hollywood was the mid-1930s until about 1959,” host Robert Osborne said at the third annual TCM Classic Film Festival in April. Coincidentally, those years also bookend the period during which the Motion Picture … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, DVD Blu-Ray Review, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Classic film, First National PIctures, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 4, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 5, HARD TO HANDLE, Header Menu, James Cagney, JEWEL ROBBERY, Joan Blondell, Joseph Breen, Kay Francis, LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, LAWYER MAN, Loretta Young, MAN WANTED, MISS PINKERTON, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Robert Osborne, TCM, The Breen Office, The Code, The Hays Office, THE MIND READER, The Motion Picture Production Code, THEY CALL IT SIN, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Warren William, Will H. Hays, Will Hays, William Powell | 9 Comments

Classic Film in 2012: The Opposite of Extinction

Posted on July 18, 2012 by willmckinley

There’s been a lot of talk recently about Neal Gabler’s suggestion in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times that old movies are “dinosaurs,” looking forlornly in the eye-rolling face of the generation (the under-30 “Millennials”) that will finally and irrevocably consign them … Continue reading →