And the Winners of the 2012 CiMBAs Are....

BEST FILM REVIEW (DRAMA)

Movie Review: The Gunfighter, The Girl with the White Parasol, http://www.thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-gunfighter.html

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE

Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome [6 parts]: Part 1: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html

BEST BLOG EVENT

A Month of Vertigo, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html

BEST FILM REVIEW, MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Grift Tips from the Lady Eve (1941), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, http://1001moviesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/grift-tips-from-lady-eve-1941.html

BEST PROFILE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE PERFORMER OR FILMMAKER

Thelma Todd Profile, Part 1 and 2, My Love of Old Hollywood, http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd.html http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd_11.html

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE BLOG DESIGN

Sittin' On a Backyard Fence, http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE DISCUSSION

Interview with Stunt Double Martha Crawford Cantarini (Parts 1 and 2), Twenty Four Frames, http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/interview-with-stunt-woman-martha-crawford-cantarini-part-one/Part 2 http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/interview-with-stunt-double-martha-crawford-canterini-part-two/

The CMBA salutes all of this year's winners, who represent the highest quality in classic movie blogging on the web. Please extend your congratulations to them by leaving a comment below or, better yet, visiting their blog sites.

2012 CiMBA Nominations

BEST FILM REVIEW (DRAMA)

Desperate Housewives of Film Noir, Caftan Woman, http://caftanwoman.blogspot.ca/2012/02/desperate-housewives-of-film-noir.html

The 11-Oscar Mistake, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome, http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2011/10/11-oscar-mistake.html

King Kong (1933), My Love of Old Hollywood, http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2011/09/cmba-guilty-pleasures-blogathon-entry.html

Movie Review: The Gunfighter, The Girl with the White Parasol, http://www.thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-gunfighter.html

Touch of Evil, Twenty Four Frames, http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/touch-of-evil-1958-orson-welles/

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE

It’s Not Just a Job, It’s an Adventure: My Low-Budget Film Gig, Tales of the Easily Distracted, http://doriantb.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-not-just-job-its-adventure-my-low.html

Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome [6 parts]: Part 1: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 2: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 3: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_21.html Part 4: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 5: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_14.htmlPart 6: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_28.html

A Powell and Pressberger Masterpiece: The Red Shoes, ClassicBecky's Brain Food, http://www.classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2012/03/red-shoes-powell-and-pressberger.html

A Tale of Two Epics: I, Claudius, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-claudius-epic-tales.html

What Is a Classic Film? Survey says...  Classic Film & TV Cafe,  http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2011/12/what-is-classic-film-survey-says.html

BEST BLOG EVENT

Dueling Divas Blogathon, Backlots, http://backlots.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/backlots-first-blogathon-dueling-divas/

A Month of Vertigo, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html

2012 Queer Film Blogathon, Garbo Laughs, http://garbolaughs.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/2012-queer-film-blogathon/

Summer Under the Stars Blogathon, Sittin' On a Backyard Fence,  http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/2012/07/30/let-the-games-begin/

William Wyler Blogathon, The Movie Projector, http://themovieprojector.blogspot.com/p/wm-wyler-blogathon.html

The Best Hitchcock Films Hitchcock Never Made Blogathon

How many times have you watched a movie that was clearly saluting the man known as “The Master of Suspense”? Filmmakers from Brian DePalma to D.J. Caruso and so many more have aimed for a Hitchcockian feel in their thrillers—and some of them actually did an amazingly good job of bowing to The Master! So this summer, from July 7th through July 12th, Tales of the Easily Distracted and ClassicBecky’s Brain Food are celebrating filmmakers who love Hitchcock. The idea is to not review Alfred's own films, but those that have a Hitchcockian feeling and Hitchcockian elements in them.  For example, North by Northwest shares a lot of themes with The Prize (1963), Psycho surely inspired DePalma's Dressed to Kill (1980) not to mention more than a couple more. A film doesn't have to be based on or inspired by any particular AH film, either: Charade (1963) and Arabesque (1966) certainly have the freewheeling terror that a great Hitchcock film does.  For more information, click here.

William Wyler Blogathon

The Movie Projector is hosting a blogathon June 24-29, 2012, honoring William Wyler, one of the great directors of Hollywood's studio era. Twenty-five bloggers, many of them members of the Classic Movie Blog Association, will be writing on the major films of Wyler's forty-five year long career. For details and a complete schedule of the blogathon, click here to visit the William Wyler Blogathon page at The Movie Projector.

Queer Film Blogathon

The second annual Queer Film Blogathon, hosted by Garbo Laughs, will be held June 18-22, 2012. It will celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-gender-binary depictions or personages in film. It's open all film bloggers regardless of era or area of focus. For more info, click here to view details at Garbo Laughs.

The First Ever Horseathon is Here!

The Horseathon, hosted by Page at My Love of Old Hollywood will run from May 25-28. If  you haven't signed up for it, would like more details about it just click here. The deadline for signing up is May 10th.
We hope to see you there!
Page

Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon August 2012

The Classic Movie Blog Association will host a Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon in honor of the actor, director, and choreographer's 100th birthday the week of August 20-25. If you are a CMBA blog and would like to participate, but haven't signed up yet, contact me at wilsonkjm@yahoo.com to do so. Here are the CMBA blogs scheduled to participate:


Aug. 20
shadowsandsatin: Gene Kelly Profile
Reel Revival: For Me and My Gal (1942)
The Movie Projector: On the Town (1949)
Another Old Movie Blog:  It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Silver Screenings: Ziegfeld Follies (1946)


Aug. 21
Alfred Hitchcock Geek: Gene Kelly/Hitchcock Connection 
Caftan Woman: The Black Hand (1950) 
The Lady Eve's Reel Life: Let's Make Love (1960) 
All Good Things:  Living in a Big Way (1947)  
Backlots: Words and Music (1948) 
Classic Movies: Deep in My Heart


Aug. 22
My Love of Old Hollywood: Gene Kelly Profile
Lindsay's Movie Musings: Brigadoon (1954)
The Girl with the White Parasol: The Pirate (1948)
True Classics: Summer Stock (1950)
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Thousands Cheer (1943)


Aug. 23
Noir and Chick Flicks: Gene Kelly Profile  &  Cover Girl (1944)
Tales of the Easily Distracted: The Devil Makes Three (1952) & What a Way to Go! (1964)
Sittin' on a Backyard Fence: The Three Musketeers (1948)
Java's Journey: Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Garbo Laughs: Xanadu (1980)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Les Girls (1957); from Karen @ shadowsandsatin

Aug. 24

Silver Screen Modiste: An American in Paris (1951) 

A Person in the Dark: Marjorie Morningstar (1958) 

True Classics: Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Christmas Holiday (1944)

Classicfilmboy's Movie Paradise: Invitation to Dance (1956)

Aug. 25

Frankly, My Dear: DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966)

Twenty-Four Frames: Singin' in the Rain (1952)

ClassicBecky's Brain Food:  Inherit the Wind (1960) 

Films we still would like to see covered are: Pilot #5 (1943), The Cross of Lorraine (1943), It's a Big Country (1951), Love Is Better Than Ever (1952), Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954), Deep in My Heart (1954), The Happy Road (1957), The Tunnel of Love (1958), Gigot (1960), A Guide for the Married Man (1967),  Hello, Dolly (1969), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), 40 Carats (1973), and Viva Knievel (1977).

A Powell and Pressberger Blogathon!

The Classic Film & TV Cafe is hosting a March 25-28 blogathon featuring the stellar films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger (known collectively as The Archers). For a list of all participating bloggers and links to their posts, click here.