Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on October 24, 2012

Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1950) When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. When the Disney Studios re-release one of their   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on June 28, 2012

Give Frank Capra credit -- once the guy found a formula, he stuck with it. Specifically -- an honorable man, pure at heart, up against powerful and/or wealthy forces out to destroy or at least ostracize him. You can apply it to almost any Capra film, from "Mr. Smith Goes...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on June 28, 2012

Give Frank Capra credit -- once the guy found a formula, he stuck with it. Specifically -- an honorable man, pure at heart, up against powerful and/or wealthy forces out to destroy or at least ostracize him. You can apply it to almost any Capra film, from "Mr. Smith Goes...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on June 1, 2012

**This is part of the Classic Movies – Mary Pickford Blogathon.  Check out Classic Movies for more Mary Pickford goodness! I know a fair bit about Mary Pickford.  My first semester of college I took a film class and Eileen Whitfield‘s book Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood was requi   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on March 29, 2012

If you’re a lucky gal like me, in mere hours you’ll be in Innis Town Hall in Toronto, enjoying the launch of the Toronto Silent Film Festival. If you’re not that lucky, I have a lone tear rolling down my cheek for you. As excited as I am about dancing...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on March 29, 2012

If you’re a lucky gal like me, in mere hours you’ll be in Innis Town Hall in Toronto, enjoying the launch of the Toronto Silent Film Festival. If you’re not that lucky, I have a lone tear rolling down my cheek for you. As excited as I am about dancing...   read more

The Giddy Blog Posted by chrisgiddens on March 21, 2012

This oldest known film adaptation of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale, Cendrillon, is also the first movie to utilize a dissolve transition between scenes. Méliès accomplished this by closing the lens aperture, rewinding the film, and then re-opening the aperture. Music performed by Billy Du   read more

True Classics Posted by Brandie on September 18, 2011

This post is our contribution to the final CMBA blogathon of the year, a veritable feast of guilty pleasures ranging from pre-Code flicks through the fabulous excesses of the 1980s. To see the wonderful contributions from other CMBA members, check out the list on their site! The celebration starts t   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on October 24, 2009

Every Cinderella has Her "Midnight" Midnight, directed by Mitchell Leisen, with a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, and released by Paramount Pictures, is one of the great movies of 1939. It stars Claudette Colbert as a down-on-her-luck American showgirl in Paris and Don Ameche as a   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on October 24, 2009

Every Cinderella has Her "Midnight" Midnight, directed by Mitchell Leisen, with a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, and released by Paramount Pictures, is one of the great movies of 1939. It stars Claudette Colbert as a down-on-her-luck American showgirl in Paris and Don Ameche as a   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on October 20, 2008

Egyptians are mad about movies, and the big stars of the Egyptian cinema are revered by the general public in the way that more rarefied circles in the West feel about Garbo, Davis, Gable, and Bogart.They love the triumphs, and almost as much they revel masochistically in the tragedies. Just...   read more