The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 11, 2011

Midnight Express is based on a true story about Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), a man who in 1970 was arrested in Turkey for attempted drug smuggling and made into a harsh example in a Turkish prison.  After being caught trying to board an airplane with two kilos of hashish strapped...   read more

Movie Classics Posted by Judy on November 21, 2010

After watching a great production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I at the Globe Theatre in London this autumn (sadly I didn’t make it to Part II), I was keen to see Orson Welles’ take on Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight. This film is less well-known than Welles’ other Shakespeare   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on November 5, 2010

Ralph Bellamy gets top billing here, but he doesn’t deserve it. I’m always stunned when, with a reasonably early feature motion picture like Before Midnight, the filmmakers are clearly exhausted with the genre. Midnight‘s a big house mystery (enclosed setting, certain number of su   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on July 24, 2010

"Slightly Scarlet" Midnight Movie at Facets Tonight Cult Classic Check out this 1956 classic based on the James M. Cain novel. The movie stars John Payne, Arlene Dahl, and Rhonda Fleming. It's in Technicolor, but fits the film noir category very well. The screeing is at midnight at Facets Film   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on July 24, 2010

"Slightly Scarlet" Midnight Movie at Facets Tonight Cult Classic Check out this 1956 classic based on the James M. Cain novel. The movie stars John Payne, Arlene Dahl, and Rhonda Fleming. It's in Technicolor, but fits the film noir category very well. The screeing is at midnight at Facets Film   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on March 21, 2010

Midnight (1939). Romantic/ comedy. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore. Eve Peabody an American showgirl, finds herself stranded in Paris one rainy   read more

Movie Classics Posted by Judy on February 22, 2010

Loretta Young and Una Merkel If you like either William Wellman or Loretta Young, I’m prepared to bet you would love this dazzling pre-Code film. Made at MGM, it blends that studio’s sexy glamour with Warner-style grit, and moves at a cracking pace to cram so much into just 74 minutes,   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