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LAMB #415 - Classic Movies
The Large Association of Movie Blogs (LAMB) | December 25th 2009 by Dylan F
URL: http://classicmovieblog.blogspot.com/Site Name: Classic MoviesCategories: Reviews, News, Classic FilmRating: PGWhat is the main focus of your site?Classic Movies (roughly the silent age through the mid-sixties). I post reviews, tributes, links a read more
Spies Like Us
Sratching the Surface | December 24th 2009
Spies Like Us is one of those movies that I can watch over and over again, and it’s funny every time! There are so many funny scenes in this movie, that it was hard to decide which one to post. Take a few minutes to enjoy this classic scene of read more
It Started With (Christmas) Eve
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 24th 2009
At 4:00pm this afternoon, I will be winging my way over to “the House of Kat” to spend Christmas Eve and Day with my family, so except for a few bits and pieces that I’ve already preprogrammed for the blog, Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will be read more
Best Christmas Movies of All Time (or the Top 25)
Behind The Scenes TV | December 23rd 2009 by Alan
So what if Christmas movies can be a bit sappy? They warm our hearts, restore our faith in humanity and generally bring joy to the world. We’ve unwrapped the top 25 big-screen Christmas flicks of all time (sorry ‘Charlie Brown’ lov read more
Born to be Bad (1950)
Bunnybun's Blog | December 23rd 2009
Trailer Born to be Bad is a hoot. It’s a fun soap opera and wish people would stop calling it a poor man’s All About Eve. This film has it’s own identity. I first heard of it after watching a Carol Burnett parody. Now that I read more
Get down and Bogie
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 23rd 2009
TCM’s Star of the Month tribute to Humphrey Bogart on the occasion of his 110th birthday (which will be celebrated this Friday) soldiers on with these movies on tap for today (as always, films missing from the dusty TDOY archives are highlighted in read more
Of Golden Arms, Chunkys, and close friends who get to call him T.…
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 22nd 2009
This is turning out to be one hell of a holiday week, as the “war on celebrities” continues with the passing of one of my personal heroes. Actor Arnold Stang, whose owl-like countenance and nasal Brooklynese whine entertained a generation of bab read more
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Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 20th 2009
RIP Jennifer Jones (1919-2009)
Bunnybun's Blog | December 18th 2009
I can’t take this. First Richard Todd, now Jennifer Jones. These two better not be forgotten at the Oscars In Memoriam. You know how they left out uber-important people like Dorothy McGuire and Anita Page previously. Such cretins with n read more
We’re No Angels (1955)
Bunnybun's Blog | December 18th 2009
I just saw We’re No Angels for the first time. It was very cute. I saw it for two reasons 1) It’s a Christmas film 2) I love Joan Bennett. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov with Bennett, Basil Rathbone and read more
R.I.P, Jennifer Jones
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 18th 2009
So I take a teensy break away from the computer yesterday…only to come back and learn of the passing of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones, who died yesterday of natural causes at her Malibu home. She was 90. Because I have made it a long-stand read more
“Did you Bogie with your baby…”
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 16th 2009
Ladies and gentlemen—start your DVRs, TiVos and any other recording device that strikes your fancy! TCM’s Star of the Month tribute to Thrilling Days of Yesteryear idol Humphrey Bogart continues in one half-hour, and will feature these Bogie fav read more
R.I.P, Val Avery
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 15th 2009
There’s precious little to write about here at Rancho Yesteryear today—I’ve been catnapping rather than flexing any movie or TV-watching muscles—but I caught this blurb from Dennis Cozzalio over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule that r read more
It's a Wonderful Life
Older and Bolder | December 12th 2009 by Karen Chaffee
George and Mary Bailey's HouseOriginally uploaded by Lake FredNo matter how many times I've seen it, I just love this old black and white Christmas classic. In these times, it seems especially appropriate. I wonder, if each of us could experiece, as read more
Coming distractions: March 2010 on TCM
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 11th 2009
Turner Classic Movies had a small portion of their March 2010 schedule up for some time (namely the last three days of their 31 Days of Oscar festival) and I debated as to whether I should have posted a heads-up about it. In the final analysis, I de read more
Director Martin Scorsese discusses ‘The Red Shoes’
Behind The Scenes TV | December 10th 2009 by Alan
Director Martin Scorsese has often extolled the virtues of one of his favorite films, The Red Shoes. Last month, Martin Scorsese, 67, took time out from editing a documentary on British cinema and inspecting some colour film stock – ‘Yep, a ty read more
R.I.P. Gene Barry
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 10th 2009
I heard the news from Jim Neibaur over at Facebook, and The Washington Post’s Post Mortem blog has confirmed it—actor Gene Barry has gone to his rich reward at the age of 90. He passed on at his Woodland Hills, CA home yesterday. Barry became a read more
Movies I’ve stared at recently on TCM #48 (“They’ve taken t…
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 10th 2009
This past Monday, Turner Classic Movies commemorated the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with the Why We Fight documentary series directed by Frank Capra (with an assistance on many of the docs by Anatole Litvak) and while I didn’t get th read more
The Bogie Man Will Get You
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 9th 2009
In one half-hour, Turner Classic Movies will continue with their Star of the Month salute to Humphrey DeForest Bogart, on the 110th anniversary month of his birth (his actual birth date being December 25th). Here’s the lineup for today (with movie read more
Mad Max 2 (1981)
GritFX Magazine - Movies, Music and Madness | December 9th 2009 by Manz
Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Michael Preston, Virginia Hey, Kjell Nilsson, Emil Minty. Written by Terry Hayes, George Miller & Brian Hannant. Directed by George Miller. Everywhere else, it is known as The Road Warrior, but t read more
The Most Dangerous Game: Full-length Video
Free Technology For Teachers | December 8th 2009 by Richard
Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game is one of my favorite short stories (and one of the few I remember from high school). I know a number of middle school and high school teachers still use the story in their curriculum. Last night while lookin read more
Movies I’ve stared at recently on TCM #47 (R.I.P. Arnold Laven…
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 7th 2009
I still have a project or two I’m working on, so it didn’t look as if I was going to be able to get anything up on the blog today…I had planned to squeeze a post out of taking yet another holiday quiz, this time courtesy of Greg Ferrara at Cine read more
Bonnie and Clyde
Franz Patrick's Film Archive | December 7th 2009 by Franz Patrick
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ★★★★ / ★★★★ Two charismatic strangers named Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde (Warren Beatty) teamed up and decided to rob banks in the Depression-era 1930s. Their adventures eventually led them to take in othe read more
8 Reasons Hitchcock’s North By Northwest Still Rules
Behind The Scenes TV | December 6th 2009 by Alan
From punking U.N. security to employing what Guillermo Del Toro called a “perpetual-motion thriller machine,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 movie North By Northwest is an underrated classic. Recently reissued in special 50th-anniversary DVD and Blu- read more
Sticking it to The Man (?)
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 6th 2009
I was surfing what the young people call “the Web” last night and noticed that DeepDiscount.com is having a sale on many of the DVDs available from the Warner Archive—some of their offerings going for close to 50% off. So here’s my question: read more
R.I.P, Richard Todd
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 5th 2009
British actor Richard Todd—whose wartime exploits were later reenacted in the classic WW2 drama The Longest Day (1962)—passed away Friday at the age of 90 after a long bout with cancer. At one time, he was Ian Fleming’s choice to play his lite read more
RIP Richard Todd (1919-2009)
Bunnybun's Blog | December 4th 2009
Irish actor Richard Todd died yesterday. All these actors born in the teens are disappearing. I first saw him in A Man Called Peter when I was in high school. A few months ago I saw him in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright and The Hasty H read more
Post-Apocalyptic Comparison: ‘The Road’ vs ‘Road Warrior’
Behind The Scenes TV | December 3rd 2009 by Alan
Not all post-apocalyptic wastelands are created equal, and it’s fair to say that there are many differences between John Hillcoat’s somber survival drama The Road and George Miller’s scifi Western demolition derby The Road Warrior. read more
“I don't wanna get rough with you unless I have to!”
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear | December 2nd 2009
Been kind of busy with other projects today—including taking a peek or two at the Bogart films currently being shown on Turner Classic Movies—but I did want to give readers a heads-up and announce that TCM’s got a mini-tribute to TDOY idol John read more
‘Apocalypse Now’ tops London critics’ 30th anniversary poll
Behind The Scenes TV | December 1st 2009 by Alan
Apocalypse Now was today named as the best film of the past three decades by the London Film Critics’ Circle (LFCC). Francis Ford Coppola’s nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war beat out Steven Spielberg’s 1994 holocaust drama Schi read more
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