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• 5 Favorite Films of the '50s for Classic Movie Day

  

  The Final Five Who among committed classic film bloggers could possibly resist the chance to join a blogathon honoring National Classic Movie Day? I couldn’t,... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• For Those Who Think Noir: Where to Get Your Film Noir Fix This Spring

  

  Sketch for Mildred Pierce (1945) by Warner Bros. Art Director Anton Grot Don Malcolm, long-time festival programmer of film noir from every corner of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Making of an Icon: Young Audrey Hepburn and Her Wartime Life in Europe

  

  A REVIEW OF THE SOON-TO-BE-PUBLISHED BIOGRAPHY DUTCH GIRL: AUDREY HEPBURN AND WORLD WAR II...AND A BOOK GIVEAWAY Audrey Hepburn. One of the most beloved stars i... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Movie Music, the Communicating Link

  

  Bernard Herrmann, likely the most celebrated of classic era film composers today, who wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Noir Year 2019: Coming Soon

  

  Every December for the past several years the Film Noir Foundation has presented a one-night-only "Noir City Xmas" screening at San Francisco's Castro Theatre. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Obscure "Christmas Carols" of Christmases Past

  

  YULETIDE CURIOS FROM THE FILM DETECTIVE This month, The Film Detective, a two-year-old streaming service that refreshes its film library every month, presents... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• George Bancroft: What a Star, What a Character!

  

  Big, blustery George Bancroft was in his mid-40s when he became a film star, breaking out in 1927 with a linchpin performance as mob boss "Bull Weed" in... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Underworld (1927), at the Dawn of the Modern Gangster Film

  

  I hadn’t seen Underworldbefore, but I knew enough about it to be intrigued. To begin with, it was directed by master filmmaker Josef von Sternberg, a man of... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Vive La Moreau! Celebrating A French Icon

  

  Femme Immortelle du CinémaDon Malcolm's MidCentury Productions will kick off its 5th festival of French film noir at San Francisco's venerable indie house, the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Guest in the House (1944) for Noir November

  

  The Film Detective, a classic film streaming site that recently launched a 24/7 programmed channel on Sling TV, is about to kick off Noir November. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• GILDA (1946), Celebrating Rita

  

  The legend of Rita Hayworth has it that her mother, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, wanted her daughter to be an actress, but her father, a professional... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bullitt (1968) Turns 50: Reflections on a New Hollywood Trend-Setter

  

  The TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, famously known for decades as Grauman’s, is the most historic of movie palaces world-wide, and one of the most magnificent. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Innocents (1961)

  

  A woman’s suffering face appears above a pair of tortured hands. Birds twitter…her distraught voice whispers…All I want to do is save the children not destroy... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Art House Theater Day

  

  September 23 brings the 3rdannual Art House Theater Day, and when I first learned of it, I smiled. Memories of long-ago days and nights spent in the art houses... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 6 Day French Noir Fest Coming to San Francisco

  

  French Film Noir Series Focuses on the Frenetic '50s, Including Jeanne Moreau and Jean Gabin ProgramsMy friend Steve Indig, who's been brilliantly managing... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Forever Roses

  

  "Even bedridden, she was the most beautiful old lady I'd ever seen. There she was with no makeup but still beautiful skin, big blue eyes and little hands... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Extraordinary Mildred Natwick

  

  On a Friday earlier this month, with time to spare before a screening of the Jacques Becker heist classic Touchez pas au grisbi at the Pacific Film Archive, we... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• "On the Town," In Celebration of Leonard Bernstein's Centenary

  

  Today marks the 100thanniversary of the birth of composer/conductor/pianist Leonard Bernstein. In celebration, movie houses around the country are showcasing... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Roll Up for the Mystery Tour: A Visit to the Oakland Paramount Theatre

  

  Have you ever wanted to tour a historic movie palace? One of those elaborately ornate monuments to cinema constructed during the Golden Age of American movie... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Celebrating Bastille Day with French Noir

  

  Today is Bastille Day, the National Day of France – la fête nationale française. If you have a bit of French blood in your veins and are a Francophile, like... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES