Blogs about Classic movies

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence.The most acclaimed Spaghetti Western filmmaker not named Sergio Leone. That's an apt description for Sergio Corbucci, a prolific Italian director and screenwriter whose career spanned four decades. Although he directed comedies, …

Welcome to this Fall's CMBA Blogathon with the captivating theme of the afterlife in film. A realm where past and present are woven together and the echoes of lost souls connect us. But this exploration …

Classic Movie Travels: Clarine Seymour Clarine Seymour was born on December 9, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York, New York. She was born to Albert and Florence Seymour, a wealthy Methodist couple. Her father ran a …

He was born Jeron Criswell King on August 18, 1907, and his first words, spoken at age four during a thunderstorm, were also his first prediction: “The rain will stop!” (“And a valid one!” the …

Ad/Odds: Promising What The Bride of Frankenstein Won't DeliverWhat did the title, Bride of Frankenstein, suggest to its public? Surely a marriage, and then consummation? Did 1935 viewership understand “Frankenstein” to be man or monster? …

By the late 1930s, Ernst Lubitsch had firmly cemented his status as one of the top directors working in Hollywood. After starting his career making silent films in Europe, he came to the United States …

“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don’t think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter …

The star of the 1934 film "The Silver Streak" isn't first-billed Sally Blane, or even male lead Charles Starrett.It's the future.Specifically, it's the future in the form of the Pioneer Zephyr, a streamlined diesel train …

"A Private Little War" ("Star Trek," season 2, episode 19; first aired Feb. 2, 1968)More than a half-century after the original "Star Trek" series was on TV, we've found what could prove to be the …

photo by Milton GreeneLike so many summer days in Los Angeles, this one began as a balmy and sunlit morning. It would grow warmer and sunnier, but the languid summertime mood was shattered by news …

“This moody depiction of the Christmas slayings… is as murky as the script, which dotes largely on obscenities that are no more pointed than the violence, dull direction and pedestrian performances.” — A.H. Weiler, New …

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......Happy birthday to Tippi Hedren, who turns 95 on January 19th...."Coming soon" to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics: HOLD THAT BLONDE! (1945) starring Veronica …

Greetings to all who are particularly partial to the long lost era of traditional, hand painted mattes and other ingenious motion picture 'tricks of the trade'. It is indeed that time again - perhaps a …

Image source: Wikipedia Ever seen this poster before? If you’re a silent film geek, you’ve likely spotted it on the thumbnails for YouTube uploads of A Fool There Was, the 1915 hoary melodrama that skyrocketed …

On the latest episode of The CineHistorians Podcast, Dr. Carl Sweeney and I discuss Gillian Armstrong's film My Brilliant Career (1979) in depth and explore the Australian Film Revival.Make sure you subscribe to The CineHistorians …

I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet …

As I often say around these parts, my favorite month of the year is August, when TCM serves up its Summer Under the Stars (SUTS) series, where a different classic film star is featured every …

Walter Pidgeon and his group of submarine sailors head down into deep waters in the 1961 action-adventure film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, produced by 20th Century Fox. In this scene, Robert Sterling …

So. If you’re a film and/or history nerd, we have a movie for you. People on Sunday (1930) is an indie film made in Berlin, and it’s about four young people who go to the …

The talented Jean Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923 in Manhattan. She was the daughter of Marie A. Stapleton, an opera singer, and Joseph E. Murray, a billboard advertising salesman.She had an elder brother, …