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An Interview with Dave Kehr
It’s taken as long as the caravan journey in The Big Trail, but we finally have a collection of film criticism from Dave Kehr, who currently writes the essential DVD and Blu-Ray column at the NY...
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“Kluger’s out!”
Tonight at the American Cinematheque @ the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, the Film Noir Foundation will screen RKO’s THE THREAT (1949) as part of Noir City Hollywood: 13th Annual Festival of Film Noir....
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Frankenstein: “It’s Alive!”
On September 9, 1823 Mary Shelley wrote a letter to her friend and confident, the writer Leigh Hunt, in which she enthusiastically proclaimed, “But lo & behold! I found myself famous! Frankenstein...
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ATTACK OF THE CLONES!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my experience encountering STAR WARS for the first time, and how it inspired me to make my own movies—beginning with a tribute/homage/rip-off. Well, I wasn’t the...
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DVD Tuesday: Rope of Sand (1949)
Olive Films continues to raid the Paramount vaults, this time with William Dieterle’s 1949 Casablanca clone Rope of Sand. Released on April 5th, along with Edward Dmytryk’s The Mountain (1956), it’s...
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What Ever Happened to Jennifer?
Jennifer’s gone missing. She was supposed to be looking after her uncle’s sprawling estate, which appears to have been abandoned since the Great Depression, but no one has seen her in weeks. Did she...
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You just made the list!
A couple of years ago I was invited to contribute to a neat-sounding book called THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR (which turned out to be not only neat-sounding but neat-reading). After I turned in my piece,...
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Party Girls to the Rescue!
The year is 1933, and times are tough all over. What of the poor little rich boy, Henry Gibson (Ben Lyon), who can’t even inherit his millions unless he gets married by his 27th birthday? And yes,...
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Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
Girls gotta flash, and Boys gotta cry What in tarnation? O.K., so I bastardized Oscar Hammerstein II’s lyric from Show Boat’s “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” to make a point: when it comes to getting an...
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Immersed in the Sarasota Film Festival
The 13th annual Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) ended yesterday after a weekend filled with events and honors for two stars, Geena Davis and Christopher Plummer, and a producer, Sarah Green. I attended...
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More To Be Said: Allan Dwan
“It is too early to establish any coherent pattern to Dwan’s career as a whole, but it may very well be that Dwan will turn out to be the last of the old masters. …there may be much more to be said…”...
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Michael Sarrazin 1940-2011
Canadian born actor Michael Sarrazin passed away on April 17th after a brief battle with cancer. He was 70 years old at the time. With his tall lanky frame, large soulful eyes and calm demeanor,...
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The Freak in Me: A Conversation with Drew Friedman
[I'm turning over the microphone today to my fellow HorrorDad Paul Gaita, who recently chatted with one of our favorite people: artist Drew Friedman. - RHS] For the past two decades, award-winning...
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Dr. Who’s on First
Tonight is the season premiere of DOCTOR WHO on BBC America. I have no business promoting a television program on a rival network, when this is (ahem) TCM’s movie blog. . . but DOCTOR WHO is my...
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ROCK IT
The film series I program celebrated its 70th year anniversary last night with a concert film matinee from 1988, followed by a musician-studded film that was retooled last year, all of which was capped...
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Pining for Lost Bohemia
What do movie stars Kirk Douglas and Marlon Brando, painter Childe Hassam, writer Mark Twain, New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, and dancer Isadora Duncan have in common? These American...
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Tribeca Film Festival: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
The Tribeca Film Festival still exists. Having succeeded in its intent to help revitalize the economy of lower Manhattan after 9/11, the festival has spread out across the city, and has maintained its...
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My TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule
Today marks the beginning of TCM’s Classic Film Festival taking place April 28-May 1. A number of people have asked me if I’m attending the festival this year but unfortunately I’m stuck at home...
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Eyesore no more!
The New York-based Film Chest, Inc., via their HD Cinema Classics label, has released two films in DVD and Blu-ray combo-packs that have long been public domain eyesores, junking up the bottom rows of...
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The Night the World Exploded (Then and Now)
Sci-fi films of the 1950s and 60s tended to envision an apocalyptically awful future. Thank heaven, the world they predicted never came to pass. Nuclear radiation didn’t engender giant monsters; we...
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