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Walt Disney Down South
Walt Disney had a problem. Technically, he had several problems, but they were all knotted up with each other like a set of headphones that had been left too long in someone’s pocket (great metaphor,...
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I Already Miss Them
Back in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, many of Hollywood’s classic stars began to pass on to that great gig in the sky. Fred Astaire left us in 1987, Cary Grant a few months prior in 1986....
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A Forgotten Film to Remember: ‘Man in the Attic’
Last fall, businessman Russell Edwards announced that he had finally uncovered the truth behind history’s most famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Edwards claimed that DNA left behind on a victim’s...
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: Run All Night (2015)
Run All Night is a movie about tired men forced into motion. Ed Harris and Liam Neeson are happiest when sitting down, but their violent past conspires against their leisure, pitting them against...
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This Week on TCM Underground: CIAO! MANHATTAN (1972)
A drifter from Texas takes a job looking after a self-destructive heiress. CIAO! MANHATTAN (1972) Cast: Edie Sedgwick (Susan Superstar), Wesley Hayes (Butch), Isabel Jewell (Mummy), Geoffrey Briggs...
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William Mortensen in Hollywood
William Mortensen in his studio with a photo of Jean Harlow. Last Month my husband, a fellow photography buff, gifted me with a copy of American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen for...
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It’s About Time
Today on TCM, we travel back through time as we air the 1933 time travel romance, Berkeley Square, with Leslie Howard and Heather Angel. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a pretty interesting take on time...
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Fathoming Rear Window
Our story starts in 1967. OK, all you furious pedants out there, getting ready to split hairs. Yes, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window was made in 1954, but… we’ve gathered here today to celebrate this...
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70mm Returns to Portland
I had hoped to attend the TCM Classic Film Festival this year because it’s one of the last festivals still screening 35mm prints, and I really love watching movies at 24-frames-a-second. But the stars...
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Remembering Albert Maysles
Tonight TCM celebrates the career of filmmaker Albert Maysles by showing four of the documentaries he made with his brother David: Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Meet Marlon Brando. Albert...
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Uninvited Guest: Stranger at my Door (1956)
“For me salvation is a clean pistol and a good horse.” – Clay Anderson (Skip Homeier) in Stranger at my Door William Witney directed over ninety serials and feature films in his career, and he...
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Glamorous Gloria
I’ve been reading Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star, Stephen Michael Shearer’s 1913 aptly titled biography of the woman who defined what a real movie star should be. Though I had read parts of Gloria’s...
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Silents on Demand: Flicker Alley’s MOD DVD Program
Pity the poor DVD. Its death has been foretold for years, yet it soldiers on, providing pleasure for those not yet hooked into the HD-everything ecosystem. DVD sales have declined overall, but it...
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This week on TCM Underground: The Hunger (1983)
Vampires smoke cigarettes in New York City. Cast: Catherine Deneuve (Miriam Blaylock), David Bowie (John Blaylock), Susan Sarandon (Dr. Sarah Roberts), Cliff DeYoung (Tom Haver), Beth Ehlers (Alice...
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“Robbery & Murder Were Their Code of Living!” – THE CATS (1968)
Klaus Kinski & Rita Hayworth in THE CATS (1968) I recently dove into the Warner Archives and uncovered a cracked gem called THE CATS aka THE BASTARD (1968). If the picture I posted above doesn’t...
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A Tough Act to Follow
Late tonight, TCM airs the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, the classic true life tale of the infamous mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789. The...
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Quatermass and the Definitive SF Movie Franchise
There’s an argument to be made that Five Million Years to Earth (AKA Quatermass and the Pit) is the best science fiction film of the 1960s. By “best” I mean: coolest, weirdest, most lunatic, sharpest,...
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Cats – Large and Small
Crap. Dave beat me to it. When I saw that Five Million Years to Earth was airing on TCM, that one title eclipsed all other offerings on tap this week. I say that with no offense to Waterloo Bridge or...
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An Evening in the Company of Legends
I didn’t realize how much I missed the Golden Age movie stars of the past—the legends I used to watch as a kid on the late show or the afternoon movie—until recently when I caught a couple of...
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On the Town: TCM Classic Film Tour of NYC
I am constitutionally opposed to guided tours. I am slow and stubborn, preferring to linger, wander and find my own path rather than walk down the pre-determined route laid down by an unfamiliar mind....
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