tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28166695357671308292024-03-19T05:27:06.895-04:00Classic Movie Blog AssociationRick29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-66459998536994939032024-03-03T11:42:00.001-05:002024-03-03T11:42:58.659-05:00CMBA Profile: CLASSIC FILM and TV CORNER <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosZCX8zXZVmrIMKGKOddIBLzns3OgvupnznF8KGTsooI5xfadeLhWdX10ILMYSMF9l4g-u39opOsvElbq65kIKCbN19TW1rPLTCrNlhGkMi2Y6IlIKaypRHn_cNuPQkYWgIsbAr4JPYj3p5NGmzLE581wUTmPZhhpRZDfQaw_MhmcR5W7nzg1yZSWGPRj/s674/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-03%20at%2010.25.40%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="674" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosZCX8zXZVmrIMKGKOddIBLzns3OgvupnznF8KGTsooI5xfadeLhWdX10ILMYSMF9l4g-u39opOsvElbq65kIKCbN19TW1rPLTCrNlhGkMi2Y6IlIKaypRHn_cNuPQkYWgIsbAr4JPYj3p5NGmzLE581wUTmPZhhpRZDfQaw_MhmcR5W7nzg1yZSWGPRj/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-03%20at%2010.25.40%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we are featuring Madeleine (aka "Maddy") Langham, who writes at <a href="https://classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com/">Classic Film and TV Corner</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">1.</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Why do you blog?</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I write my articles and reviews I like to think that in the process I am hopefully raising awareness of lesser known/lesser discussed classic era films and series; as well as encouraging people to check out black and white films and non-English language films and TV series.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">2.</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</span></b></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love reading fiction and non-fiction. I’m also a major history buff, my particular topics of interest include pioneering women; royal history; ancient Egypt and ancient Rome; WW2; the golden age of ocean liners; fashion and female aviators.</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><span style="outline: none !important;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">3.</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</span></b></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wish we had this channel here in the UK. I love their YouTube account where they share their stunning promo trailers and their poignant and beautifully done In Memoriam videos. I would program a day of Japanese films and a day of British films. I do get the impression that the channel overwhelmingly focuses on American films - rather than showing large amounts of films from other countries as well – so it would be nice to introduce American audiences to classic films, directors, actors etc that they’re not familiar with from other countries.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Japanese Films</span></span></b></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Ikiru</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1952)<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Directed by Akira Kurosawa<i></i></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">When A Woman Ascends The Stairs</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1960) Directed by Mikio Naruse</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Street Of Shame</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1956)<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi<i></i></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Rashomon</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1950) Directed by Akira Kurosawa</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">The Eternal Breasts(1955)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">The third film from Japan’s second female film director Kinuyo Tanaka. This is a powerful and moving story following a woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer.</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Onibaba(1964)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Directed by Kaneto Shindo<i></i></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Late Spring(1949)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Directed by Yasujiro Ozu<i></i></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">British Films<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Millions Like Us</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1943) Directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Pool Of London</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1951) Directed by Basil Dearden</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">The Small Back Room</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1949) Directed by Michael Powell</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">The Passionate Friends</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1949) Directed by David Lean</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">My Beautiful Laundrette</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1985)<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Directed by Stephen Frears<i></i></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Saturday Night And Sunday Morning</span></i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">(1960)<i></i>Directed by<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Karel Reisz</span></span></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Went The Day Well?(1942)</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti</span></span></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">4.</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</span></b></span></span></div><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><i><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">Shooting Stars</span></i></span><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095"><span style="background-color: inherit; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(1928). Anthony Asquith’s British Silent film is one of the best films about filmmaking ever made. It’s become my favourite Silent film. I love the performances, the cinematography, and most of all the way that the story plays with us by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">massively</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> changing direction and becoming much darker and more surprising in its second half. I try and recommend this one to as many people as I can. I don’t know if it’s streaming anywhere, but it has received a beautiful Blu-ray release from the British Film Institute. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10pt;">What is something that most people don't know about you?</span></b></span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;">I have recently been published for the first time. I am a contributing author to the book New Waves: 1980s TV In Britain, which is edited by Rodney Marshall. I have written about the groundbreaking series</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><i style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;">The Gentle Touch </i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;">(1980-1984), which was the first British series to feature a female police officer as its lead character. </span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am also Autistic. </span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-----</span></span></p><p class="ydpc979e612yiv7555797095msonormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We thank Maddy for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com/">Classic Film and TV Corner </a>!</span></span></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-79775860930722610572024-02-01T01:00:00.002-05:002024-02-01T01:00:00.192-05:00CMBA Profile: Jay's Classic Movie Blog <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBtnj4CpLMycr9Pc_TjJuJCObbzm6ONXIdpIzSpowp5baIwimAANdfnqmObVyui9CKNA1Cs-dlVl199BIl60Qp6JLJKeeijub21193VBO7bK6-Tu4vfq2ObFh-j8X3cvTqHITjpppTUwCui8fFEvdBDfUUYvRpKEWNw4w45VD3MLn0PxYlvXXaaltzeAz/s865/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-31%20at%208.10.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="865" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBtnj4CpLMycr9Pc_TjJuJCObbzm6ONXIdpIzSpowp5baIwimAANdfnqmObVyui9CKNA1Cs-dlVl199BIl60Qp6JLJKeeijub21193VBO7bK6-Tu4vfq2ObFh-j8X3cvTqHITjpppTUwCui8fFEvdBDfUUYvRpKEWNw4w45VD3MLn0PxYlvXXaaltzeAz/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-31%20at%208.10.19%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.2px;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we are featuring Jay Jacobson, who writes at <a href="https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/">Jay's Classic Movie Blog. </a></span><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><b>1. Why do you blog?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>That’s simple.To share, enlighten, and hopefully excite people about classic films. I grew up loving movies and eventually earned a university degree in film directing. In addition to production, I studied film theory and history, and worked and studied as an actor for decades. Over the years, people who know me would often ask me to suggest a classic film for them to watch. With the coming of COVID I thought it would be great to make a website suggesting a film a week to introduce people to classic cinema. My first posts were a bit more basic, but they quickly became more detailed, and now, in addition to introducing people to actors, directors, producers, writers, cinematographers and such, I also add pertinent historical information about the movie industry and possibly the world if it affected the film. My biggest joy is hearing that someone discovered a new favorite actor or film, or a new found love of “old movies” from my blog.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2. Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>In addition to movies and acting, I also love music and am a singer-songwriter and have released five CDs thus far. I also love travel and have visited nearly forty countries so far.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3. If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>That’s a tough one because I love and want to share so many movies. But here goes…</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“All About Eve” 1950</i></div><div>You can’t beat this film’s sensational script or its performances making it a great introduction to classic movies. When I’ve shown it to people who resist “black and white” movies, they are always shocked at how good it is, and can’t wait to see more. It is the first film on my blog.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” 1927</i></div><div>Not simply because it is one of the greatest films ever made, I’d pick this because so many people are automatically opposed to seeing silent films (which is a shame), and this one gloriously shows the visual poetry, emotion, and how enthrallingly entertaining great silent films are. This film is bound to blow anyone away. It is extraordinary.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“Bringing Up Baby” 1938</i></div><div>Who doesn’t love a comedy?! And screwball comedies like this can only be found during the studio era. It's got Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald, and even Asta (the dog from "The Thin Man" movies). And event though I’ve seen it countless times, I still laugh with the same gusto every time I watch it. How can you beat that?!</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“Bicycle Thieves” 1948</i></div><div>Great movies make us feel and few are as emotionally impactful as this one. A watershed film that influenced every film that came after it and it still remains among the greatest films ever made even from an entertainment point of view, its raw realism and heart continue to pack one heck of a wallop.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>"Gone with the Wind” 1939</i></div><div>Though there are definite issues regarding its depiction of Blacks and the antebellum South (which I’d address in the intro and/or after the film), this is a certified landmark in sophisticated storytelling that remains topnotch entertainment. The artistry of its performances, direction, cinematography, music, costumes, etc., create a monumentally vibrant and alive movie. It’s a must see film and remains a favorite.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><i>“Singin’ in the Rain” 1950</i></div><div>A perfect film if there ever was one. The colors, songs, humor, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and a comical but somewhat true depiction of the coming of sound to movies all make this one of the most enjoyable films ever made. I showed it to someone once who’d never seen a classic movie musical. He loved it and exclaimed, “I’ve never seen anything like that”.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“Hud” 1963</i></div><div>A profound character study that is gorgeously filmed, skillfully acted, and deceptively complex. Not your typical choice perhaps, but an all around fantastic film. It’s also a great example of how adult themes, movie star power, and cinematic artistry can create art that is also great moviegoing entertainment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Very hard to make this list, and by doing so I reluctantly left out noir, Hitchcock, sci-fi, and so many great, great films….</div><div><br /></div><div><b>4. What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>A film I love that doesn’t quite get the recognition I feel it deserves is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“The Misfits”</i>,<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>1961</i>. People know it because of Marilyn Monroe, but it’s rarely talked about as a “great” film or a true classic. That might be because of its enigmatic style, but that’s what I love about it. The gritty, mesmerizing performances by Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Clark Gable, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach, the way the story bleeds into reality, and the film's insightful dialogue by Arthur Miller make this haunting movie continually captivating. It is a film I can watch over and over and over and still discover new things.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5. What is something that most people don't know about you?</b></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">While starting out as an actor, I fell into a very successful career as a graphic designer. I worked for ad agencies, direct mail, movie studios, pharmaceutical companies, and many other places. One of my jobs was creating all the exhibit boards used by the prosecution for the O.J. Simpson trial.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">We thank Jay for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/">Jay's Classic Movie Blog.</a> </span></div>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-48969945678350890862024-01-01T05:23:00.001-05:002024-01-01T05:23:41.002-05:00CMBA Profile: OUTSPOKEN & FRECKLED<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWxk8_6HimDtD3NlmJFnM1ibBqrFSrZ1fXmcLiSZ1vkmdDVmxjNQT6vbKbu3xAPZmRGERPfOzo6QSCQo3ZgcBdJPLPPU2JcK-R8Ptx5ImYkPgpYbJS7njuTEvSLxwkFMeTPvEbJ465n8HU51iqoqeJNmnShvCtnMBgieEwJyNzUPvrS_YCmC6_yjlMmp6/s500/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%2011.07.47%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="500" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWxk8_6HimDtD3NlmJFnM1ibBqrFSrZ1fXmcLiSZ1vkmdDVmxjNQT6vbKbu3xAPZmRGERPfOzo6QSCQo3ZgcBdJPLPPU2JcK-R8Ptx5ImYkPgpYbJS7njuTEvSLxwkFMeTPvEbJ465n8HU51iqoqeJNmnShvCtnMBgieEwJyNzUPvrS_YCmC6_yjlMmp6/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%2011.07.47%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.2px;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we are featuring Kellee Pratt, who writes at <a href="https://kelleepratt.com/">Outspoken & Freckled.</a> </span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Why do you blog?</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Likely like everyone else in the CMBA, I love classic film and I truly enjoy enjoy writing, as well. I love where researching a film, its cast and crew, and the background history leads me. A fascinating pursuit each time and I hope that my enthusiasm comes through in my writing. As a result, I've become part of a wonderful community of fellow classic film bloggers of whom many are dear friends. </span></span></p><p><b class="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My passion for old movies has lead me to a career in teaching others. Many years ago, I began teaching through a city program where I live (... in the small college town of Lawrence, Kansas, the home of a few universities including my alma mater, the University of Kansas). My educational background is in public speaking so in addition to my series of classes, I have other speaking and teaching engagements- at community lunch-and-learns, at the local history museum, and this spring I will be teaching a series on Censorship in Early Hollywood through the Osher Institute at the University of Kansas. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of my other passions is gardening. There's so much to learn in the vast topic of gardening. So I decided to expand my knowledge by becoming a Master Gardener through my county's extension office. I completed my basic training this month and I will continue my education and volunteer hours every year going forward. I have a special interest in native plants, especially pollinator plants, and in supporting wildlife and biodiversity. I am registered nationally as a Monarch Waystation and I am certified as a Wildlife Habitat through the National Wildlife Federation. Additionally, I'm an amateur birder. I love to watch a variety of birds flock to my feeders and trees in my yard- including hummingbirds, woodpeckers, owls, hawks and so many more. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Otherwise, I am drawn to architecture, history, politics, social causes, interior design/home improvement projects, tennis, cooking/baking, and college basketball (Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!) I am fiercely loyal to my friends and family. My immediate family includes my husband, our 4 grown kids, and our 2 dogs and kitty. </span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This question is difficult because I have very eclectic taste in film. It depends upon the day and my mood. It's also like asking which is my favorite child. (My husband would whisper, "oh just admit that it's Murphy.") I do have a special fondness for Film Noirs, Pre-Codes, and Comedies. But really, I love every genre and subgenre. Here are some long-standing favorites, in no particular order.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cary Grant is my favorite actor and, in my personal opinion, Irene Dunne was his ideal co-lead actress of his comedy films. This was their best film together and I wish they had made even more than only three.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Every time I watch this, I escape into another world of song, dance, humor, and fantastic spectacle. The creativity of costumes and choreography is breathtaking. Incredible cast, and what a pulse on the Great Depression. You feel your worries melt away entranced by each musical number; undoubtedly that was true for movie goers of this time, too. If only until reality hits after the closing credits. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>METROPOLIS (1927)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Talk about a mind-blowing feast for the eyes. The visual effects and story-telling are outstanding. Not just for a silent film, but for any film. I'm so lucky to live in an area where there are great opportunities for silent film with live music (yes, right here in Kansas), as such I've screened my share of some silent film gems. There's good reason that this film is likely in the top three of silent films that most people who are less experienced with silents. It's not just mainstream, it's a masterpiece. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>THE GREAT RACE (1965)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">This film is a nod to classic comedy in every way. The opening credits tell us it's Blake Edwards' tribute to Laurel and Hardy. No, this is not a biopic of their lives. But you'll find a lot of slapstick- by a hilarious duo of Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk. In addition to humor, you'll find adventure, swashbuckling, romance (with yummy Tony Curtis and drop-dead gorgeous Natalie Wood), and even a pie fight so grand in scale that it does bear tribute to a particular Laurel and Hardy gag- yet in technicolor. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">I know what you're thinking. Why not OUT OF THE PAST, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, or some grittier Warner Brothers B noir? From high-brow to low-brow, I love so many. MMS has all the right ingredients for a memorable noir. But there's also something so cheeky about it, too. It's those unforgettable "Philip Marlowe" lines, delivered by Dick Powell. He dives right into those bottomless black pools. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>BABY FACE (1933)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A Pre-Code essential. There's no subtlety in Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers' intentions. Just like there's no subtlety in the bleak world she must navigate. She is a rags-to-riches survivor. A feminist powerhouse. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">But Kellee, you always rattle on and on about how THE QUIET MAN is a Maureen O'Hara favorite for you and served as your Irish family's unofficial manual growing up to describe your heritage and ancestral homeland. What gives? True, true. But like I said, depends upon the day and mood. Today, I'm thinking of this beautiful film. From the performances, to the cinematography, to the storytelling itself, this is indeed a uniquely beautiful film. Did it 'rob' great films like CITIZEN KANE, SERGEANT YORK, and THE MALTESE FALCON for Best Picture Oscar? I love those incredible films, but the Academy got this right. </span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it? </span></b></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">If you're discussing most people within our community of classic film bloggers and fans, I find it difficult to name one that most are not already well aware. We have some incredibly astute fans in our community! But if I expand that 'most people' to mainstream film viewers, I can think of several Noirs and Pre-Codes that are off the beaten path. One that comes to mind is FINISHING SCHOOL (1934). On the surface, it's a coming-of-age story about boarding school girls trying to fit in, break rules, and explore their blooming sexuality. Frances Dee couldn't be more adorable. But WOWZA, there are some Pre-Code moments that literally pack a punch. I love it because the jaw-dropping scenes are so unexpected, especially from angelic-faced Dee. I saw it first at TCM Film Festival years ago, so I love the memories of that initial screening experience, too. </span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. What is something most people don't know about you? </span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another tough question. I'm such a broadcaster, an over-sharer, that I'm straining to think of anything someone wouldn't already know about me (that isn't too personal, or private). Here's a couple of tidbits about me, anyway. 1) I love decorating the house for the holidays, but especially for Christmas. I have 4 Christmas trees that I leave up year-round, including a retro pink one in our bathroom that matches the original 1956 pink tub. The real tree is up from Thanksgiving to almost the 2nd week of January. 2) I grew up in a very colorful childhood in Taos, NM. My beautiful, hippie mother befriended many celebrities and artists that would visit or lived in Taos during that time, including - Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Michael Martin Murphey, and Neil Young. For a time, we lived with another family - another mom with 2 kids, similar ages as us. They had a big house and were British. They had recently moved to Taos from London and later moved to LA, where they had big dreams for the daughter's acting career. The daughter, who was a couple years younger than me, her name- Olivia d'Abo. You may know her from "The Wonder Years" and other films/TV. Her mom- Maggie London, was a hugely successful model for Vidal Sassoon in the swinging sixties London. She had uncredited acting roles in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (dancing with Ringo Starr), and in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (she speaks the first line in the film, in the elevator of the space station.) Maggie's husband at the time, composer/singer Mike d'Abo, was busy during the 60s and 70s as a popular British rock singer in bands like Manfred Mann. Mike's first cousin is Maryam d'Abo, a 'Bond girl' in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. Olivia's brother Ben, who also lived with us and was slightly older than Olivia, was very sweet and loved to dance around pretending to be Rod Stewart. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We thank Kellee for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://kelleepratt.com/ ">OUTSPOKEN & FRECKLED.</a> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-65764254616256303552023-12-01T01:01:00.001-05:002023-12-01T01:01:00.137-05:00CMBA Profile: SHADOWS and SATIN<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcjHgzqPZ8yjx3H5v5Bi4YJyJgtcJ4Y-8sMz7yZwpgRnXW1iTHp6sCL0lNzLoOUlZhgIAc-4mUBABI_YvaKiFSaYDrOEj2FTXQhHJZrJn8ucBcGbPKwcuNhHZqRLFkknw6szRp1MwzwATHhCy2rZ78BViEZpYF71g-jdUqd-OvZ7AnI-nUG8FTdeqK8pd/s311/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-30%20at%2012.35.39%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="58" data-original-width="311" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcjHgzqPZ8yjx3H5v5Bi4YJyJgtcJ4Y-8sMz7yZwpgRnXW1iTHp6sCL0lNzLoOUlZhgIAc-4mUBABI_YvaKiFSaYDrOEj2FTXQhHJZrJn8ucBcGbPKwcuNhHZqRLFkknw6szRp1MwzwATHhCy2rZ78BViEZpYF71g-jdUqd-OvZ7AnI-nUG8FTdeqK8pd/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-30%20at%2012.35.39%20PM.png" width="311" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we're featuring Karen Hannsberry, who writes at <a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/">SHADOWS AND SATIN. </a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: Why do you blog? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Karen: I have a pretty simple answer to that one - because I love to write and because I love classic movies. Blogging was made for me - it gives me the chance, on any given day, to write to my heart's content about whatever I want to explore and discuss. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Karen: </b>I'm passionate about the film noir newsletter, <i>The Dark Pages,</i> that I started almost 20 years ago. It may not make me rich, but it's a true labor of love. Also, I'm passionate about my collections- I have many: classic movie magazines, old radios, clocks, shot glasses, refrigerator magnets, dolls, ashtrays, autographed photos, classic movie lobby cards, and books that were made into classic films. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Karen: </b>This was a lot harder than I thought it would be- I wanted to include a silent movie, a western, a musical, a Pre-Code, and a film noir- plus movies featuring my favorite three actresses: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck. So here goes ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Gunfighter (1950) </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm fond of a lot of westerns, but I love The Gunfighter the best. It's such a good story, with memorable performances from all of the cast, especially Gregory Peck and Helen Westcott. And a great ending. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Night Nurse </i>(1931)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This film filled the bill for both a Pre-Code and a Stanwyck movie - and it's one of my favorites for both. Plus, it's one of the few films from that era where a crime goes unpunished, and I love that!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans </i>(1927)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sunrise is one of the only silent films that I've seen more than once. It's that good. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Sunset Blvd. </i>(1950)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sunset Blvd. is the focus film for the<i> Dark Pages</i> newsletter's 'giant issue' for December 2023, and I've been immersed in it for the last several weeks, loving it more every time I see it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Bye Bye Birdie</i> (1963)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm not a huge fan of musicals as a rule, but the ones that I love, I REALLY love. And I REALLY love Bye Bye Birdie. The songs, the dance numbers, the color, Ann Margret, Paul Lynde ... the list goes on and on. It's a real feel-good movie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Queen Bee </i>(1955)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's not my favorite Joan Crawford movie, but I selected Queen Bee for my Crawford pick because I saw it a few years ago at the TCM film festival, and it was just so much fun. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>All This, and Heaven Too </i>(1940)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is my Bette Davis pick. There were so many good ones to choose from, but I wanted to select one that's not mentioned very often but deserves to be seen. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about- and what do you love about it? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Karen: </b>That's easy - <i>Young and Willing</i> (1943), starring William Holden, Susan Hayward, and Eddie Bracken. It's a silly little comedy but I've always loved it. It cracks me up every time I watch it. For years, I never met anyone who'd even heard of it, but now it's on YouTube, so I hope more people will begin to check it out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Karen: </b>I have an Etsy store called Kim and Karen's Patio, where I sell all kinds of vintage items, including cookbooks, glassware, albums, salt and pepper shakers, classic movie magazines, sheet music, framed magazine ads, vases, serving dishes - I even have an antique ice cream scoop and a 1935 Shirley Temple Photo Flip Book. You never know what might turn up!</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">----------------------------------</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial;">We thank Karen for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/">SHADOWS and SATIN. </a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-68287618655117474792023-11-06T07:45:00.018-05:002023-11-15T08:39:28.694-05:00The CMBA Presents the 2023 Fall Blogathon: Blogathon & the Beast<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpll4KdJvNJRXKiZNLq-VLXYnz3pklnZtpol2PhhV9ByzGKR9s4c46_FTo0QCOvTVK1PHIven2zF9XiO9eei2M6yZS5jEATbrgN0NtOiIVP8-LaSCVwCwEIec1CLgzAAOrlaeaCyjhq3UXbguILOaEM5D_VB-DlP0vrLZ__aqQ_JhOJgIYhgxUS90Tm1E/s762/Jekyll.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="762" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpll4KdJvNJRXKiZNLq-VLXYnz3pklnZtpol2PhhV9ByzGKR9s4c46_FTo0QCOvTVK1PHIven2zF9XiO9eei2M6yZS5jEATbrgN0NtOiIVP8-LaSCVwCwEIec1CLgzAAOrlaeaCyjhq3UXbguILOaEM5D_VB-DlP0vrLZ__aqQ_JhOJgIYhgxUS90Tm1E/s320/Jekyll.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Classic Movie Blog Association is over the moon to present the 2023 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">CMBA Fall Blogathon: Blogathon & the Beast. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">The blogathon, for CMBA members only, runs Nov. 6-10th, 2023, and focuses on </span>iconic characters who are caught in a struggle with their primal inclinations and those who challenge social norms.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222;">The entries submitted by our CMBA members can be accessed below </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> please stop by their blogs to read and comment on these offerings. Enjoy!</span></p><p><b>Monday, November 6, 2023</b> </p><p>A Person in the Dark —<a href="http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/2023/11/leave-her-to-heaven-when-beauty.html"> <i>Leave Her to Heaven</i>: The Beast Inside the Beauty</a></p><p>Cary Grant Won't Eat You — <a href="https://carygrantwonteatyou.com/vertigos-beast-jimmy-stewart-1958/"><i>Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo</i></a></p><p>Real Weegie Midget Reviews — <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/11/05/films-purple-noon-plein-soleil-1960/ "><i>Purple Noon</i> (<i>Plein Soleil</i>) (1960)</a></p><p>Silver Screenings —<a href="https://silverscreenings.org/2023/11/04/sugar-spice-and-accidental-deaths/"> <i>The Bad Seed</i> (1956)</a></p><p><b>Tuesday, November 7, 2023</b> </p><p>Poppity Talks Classic Film —<a href="https://poppitytalksclassicfilm.wordpress.com/2023/11/05/hey-wally-whats-the-score-mildred-pierce-1945/"> Character analysis: Wally Fay in <i>Mildred Pierce</i></a></p><p>Film Fanatic —<a href="https://filmfanatic.org/?p=93018"> <i>Scarface</i> (1983)</a></p><p>Cinematic Scribblings — <i><a href="https://cinematicscribblings.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-bad-sleep-well-1960/">The Bad Sleep Well</a></i></p><p>The Silver Screen Affair — Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in <i>Double Indemnity</i> </p><p>Filmland Follies — <a href="https://filmlandfollies.blogspot.com/2023/11/airborne-adventuress-katharine-hepburn.html"><i>Airborne Adventuress: Katharine Hepburn in Christopher Strong</i></a></p><p><b>Wednesday, November 8, 2023</b></p><p>Whimsically Classic —<a href=" https://whimsicallyclassic.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/2023-cmba-fall-blogathon-blogathon-the-beast-queen-christina-1933/"> <i>Queen Christina</i> (1933)</a></p><p>Box Office Poisons - <span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Queen Yllana of QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://boxofficepoisons.blogspot.com/2023/11/queen-yllana-and-camp-of-queen-of-outer.html">Queen Yllana of <i>Queen of Outer Space</i></a></span></p><p><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Outspoken & Freckled "}" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">Outspoken & Freckled -<a href="https://kelleepratt.com/2023/11/08/falling-for-a-psychopath-angel-face-1953/"> <i>Angel Face (1952)</i></a></span> </span> </p><p><b>Thursday, November 9, 2023</b></p><p>Another Old Movie Blog — <a href="https://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/criss-cross-1949.html"><i>Criss Cross</i> (1949)</a></p><p>Crítica Retrô — <a href="https://criticaretro.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-divorciada-1930-divorcee-1930.html"><i>The Divorcee</i> (1930)</a></p><p>The Last Drive In —<a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/2023/11/09/marlene-dietrich-anna-may-wong-shanghai-express-1932-the-merciful-temptress-or-veils-on-a-train-the-quiet-cultural-warrior-or-mythos-of-the-dragon-lady-with-a-dagger/"> Dietrich and Anna May Wong in <i>Shanghai Express</i> (1932)</a></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Classic Film And TV Corner"}" style="font-style: normal;">Classic Film And TV Corner - </span><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Elsa Bannister In The Lady From Shanghai"}" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/elsa-bannister-in-the-lady-from-shanghai1947/">Elsa Bannister In <i>The Lady From Shanghai (1948) </i></a></span></span> <br /></p><p><b>Friday, November 10, 2023</b></p><p>Spellbound With Beth Ann — <i>Valkoinen Peura</i> / <i>The White Reindeer</i> (1952)</p><p>Once Upon a Screen — Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in <i>Strangers on a Train</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Silver Screen Classics — <i>La Belle Et La Bete</i> (1946)</p><p style="text-align: left;">A Vintage Nerd —<a href="https://www.avintagenerd.net/2023/11/classic-cinema-spotlight-kansas-city.html"> <i>Kansas City Bomber</i> (1972)</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Speakeasy — <span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://hqofk.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/beasts-ranked/"><i>Creature Feature "Beast" movies, Ranked</i></a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Shadows and Satin —<i><a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/day-10-of-noirvember-blogathon-the-beast/"> The Beasts of Joan Crawford Noirs</a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Watching Forever -- <a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/in-in-name-only-kay-francis-skillfully-creates-the-beast-hidden-within-the-beauty/"> Kay Francis in <i>In Name Only (1939)</i></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Second Sight Cinema — <a href="https://secondsightcinema.com/humoresque-1947-crawford-and-the-sea-of-love/">Joan Crawford in <i>Humoresque</i> (1946)</a><i> </i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Silver Scenes<i> -<a href="https://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/irene-dubrovna-in-cat-people-1942.html"> Irene from Cat People (1942)</a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;">The Everyday Cinephile - <i><a href=" https://theeverydaycinephile.com/blogathons/the-beast-within-the-hands-of-orlac-1924-and-mad-love-1935/"> The Beast Within: The Hands of Orlac (1924) & Mad Love (1935)<br /></a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>The Last Drive Inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17901815451746700217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-86982319407090368272023-11-01T01:00:00.015-04:002023-11-02T13:15:28.684-04:00CMBA Profile: THE LAST DRIVE IN<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we're featuring Jo Gabriel, who writes at <a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/ ">THE LAST DRIVE IN.</a> </span></span></div></div><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Why do you blog?</span></b></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My mother, who was deeply involved in the theater, played a pivotal role in nurturing my passion for culture and classic film. She introduced me to the captivating allure of Bette Davis' expressive eyes and the undeniable sensuality of Ava Gardner. Our home was filled with the melodies of show tunes that she'd belt out without hesitation, and I can still vividly recall her unabashed admiration for John Garfield and Gene Kelly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As I embarked on my personal journey to uncover the intricate details of specific actors, directors, cinematographers, genres, and more, I found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole much like Alice's descent into the well. I became fully immersed in the convergence of the subjects I was exploring, opening myself up to a world that I've come to regard as one of the most fulfilling aspects of being a classic film and television enthusiast. It delights me to offer my unique interpretations, and over time, I've evolved to approach things with a more discerning eye, moving away from my earlier cheeky perspective.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I like to think of my blog as a place where individuals can discover intriguing tidbits or revisit cherished clips related to their favorite topics or even stumble upon new ones that pique their interest. One of the most rewarding aspects of my deep-rooted passion for classic films and television is the desire to share my self-discoveries with like-minded enthusiasts. The blogging community has not only provided me with a platform for this purpose but has also led to the formation of some remarkable friendships along the way – truly exceptional individuals whom I may never have crossed paths with otherwise.</span></p></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><div class="" style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b class=""><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</span></b></div><div class="" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b class=""><span style="font-family: arial;"><br class="" /></span></b></div><div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="" style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;">I am an internationally recognized singer/songwriter who <span class="">although</span> self taught on piano since I was 8 years old, is often assumed to be classically trained. </span></div><div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="" style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="" style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;">Up until the time I became seriously ill there wasn’t a day that I wasn’t sitting at my piano writing music. For me composing, playing and singing my own work is akin to meditating. It was a great release for me. That is why my love of classic film has truly been a godsend, being taken out of my physical struggles with pain and delivering me to wonderful places that I used to go when I was either playing piano in my living room for my family of cats or out in New York City performing live for a dedicated fan base. </span></div><div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="" style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="" style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;">Which leads me to my other passion. Cats… My life long partner Wendy and I have spent a good part of two decades rescuing cats - doing TNR, rehoming kittens and adult strays or just plain failed fostering them. Living among cats is perhaps one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. They have taught me many sacred lessons - some so simple and some as complex as they tend to be and are consistently underestimated about. I’ll always be grateful for their love, loyalty and humor. </span></div></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">3. If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</span></b></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A day of Val Lewton. I’m forever moved by the visual poetry of his work, with an internal human evil that plays on our collective psyches. The films are vaguely supernatural awakened by the ambiguity of each films shadow play. All 9 pictures could be considered horror/noir. The supernatural exigency is never confirmed but left suggestive in our minds. Three of the collective works feature Boris Karloff who had stated that after his immortal relationship with the Frankenstein’s monster, Lewton not only saved his life (career) but ‘restored his soul.’ </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">1 Cat People</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">2 I walked with a zombie</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">3 The Seventh Victim</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">4 Bedlam</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">5 Isle of the Dead</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">6 The Ghost Ship</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">7 The Body Snatcher</span></span></div></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">4. What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it? </span></b></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Queen of Spades 1949 </b>directed by Thorold Dickinson, and based on Alexander Puschkin’s novella of the same name is a beautifully macabre and haunting film which stars Anton Walbrook, as the outsider Herman a duplicitous Russian captain who secretly resents yet yearns for the same wealth as his fellow officers. He sets up an elaborate plan to steal the secrets possessed by an unpleasant old Countess (Edith Evans) who has struck up a bargain with the devil so that she may never lose at cards in trade for her immortal soul. Under the guise of wooing her hand maid, Herman uses Yvonne Mitchell to gain access to the miserable old woman, then murders her only to be haunted by her spirit. Jack Clayton was the associate producer on the film and odd camera angles by cinematographer Otto Heller (The Ladykillers 1955, Peeping Tom 1960) create a striking sense of grandeur and unease reminiscent of silent German expressionist movement. Both Walbrook and Evans are equally chilling in their roles of two people - one diabolical and the other dour who have lost their souls to darkness.</span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/2012/10/03/from-the-vault-the-queen-of-spades-1949/">https://thelastdrivein.com/2012/10/03/from-the-vault-the-queen-of-spades-1949/</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">5. What is something most people don't know about you? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m a solitary practitioner of Wicca and green magic - which translates to - I observe the natural world and its many glorious details and miracles that go unseen by a lot of people. Unlike many patriarchal based religions - the Earth is my deity… as fruity & hippy as that sounds!</span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">----------------------------------</span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">We thank Jo for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/">THE LAST DRIVE IN!</a> </span></div><div style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-38612976116277346692023-10-10T19:51:00.013-04:002023-11-04T14:31:59.554-04:00The Fall 2023 CMBA Blogathon: Blogathon & the Beast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2OJBVSI1jGamzzLI4m5tr2zFGbfzzGckMQTrAtbVztIY3X7QWymgZLtBCIPo0N0w3qENF6scjyFENanNmqE_joYcuTFNIAVVX1uJvTRVyyZUKQ9NI6XhBDH58fa_CDZZsM9t7BdxBWnCcjlM9h6oVl2fH29fxiSGFN99UOdkR6WB7hNFtczDmmKWUQ65/s762/Jekyll.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="762" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2OJBVSI1jGamzzLI4m5tr2zFGbfzzGckMQTrAtbVztIY3X7QWymgZLtBCIPo0N0w3qENF6scjyFENanNmqE_joYcuTFNIAVVX1uJvTRVyyZUKQ9NI6XhBDH58fa_CDZZsM9t7BdxBWnCcjlM9h6oVl2fH29fxiSGFN99UOdkR6WB7hNFtczDmmKWUQ65/s320/Jekyll.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>It’s almost here! Time for the CMBA Fall Blogathon!</b> This year’s theme is “Blogathon & The Beast:’’ </p><p>King Kong, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Cody Jarrett, Night of the Hunter’s Harry Powell, Shelley Winters as Bloody Mama, or Bonnie & Clyde. All iconic characters who are caught in a struggle with their primal inclinations.</p><p>The blogathon ‘beast' does not have to be a literal “beast,” or a menacing, or criminal character, although it can be! It also could be a complex protagonist who challenges social norms, such as the quintessential film noir anti-hero, the pre-Code heroine, Dietrich's enigmatic Shanghai Lily, Pacino's determined Serpico, the indomitable characters from Seven Samurai, or the outrageously zany Tasmanian devil from Warner Brothers' roster. </p><p>If you haven’t signed up yet, there is still time! <a href="https://forms.gle/vbzPFFZkkZfnutUn6" target="_blank">Please use this form to submit your topic choice, blog name, and preferred date for posting, if any. </a></p><p>Because there is such a variety of topics to choose from, we won't be accepting duplicates. Topic selections will be accepted in order of receipt.</p><p>To promote the blogathon on your blog, take your pick from any of the banners at the bottom of this post. </p><p><b>We’re really looking forward to another great blogathon!</b> </p><p><b>Monday, November 6, 2023</b> </p><p>A Person in the Dark — <i>Leave Her to Heaven</i>: The Beast Inside the Beauty</p><p>Cary Grant Won't Eat You — Jimmy Stewart in <i>Vertigo</i></p><p>Real Weegie Midget Reviews — <i>Purple Noon</i> (<i>Plein Soleil</i>) (1960)</p><p>Silver Screenings — <i>The Bad Seed</i> (1956)</p><p><b>Tuesday, November 7, 2023</b> </p><p>Poppity Talks Classic Film — Character analysis: Wally Fay in <i>Mildred Pierce</i></p><p>Film Fanatic — <i>Scarface</i> (1983)</p><p>Cinematic Scribblings — The Bad Sleep Well</p><p>The Silver Screen Affair — Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in <i>Double Indemnity</i> </p><p>Filmland Follies — Airborne Adventuress: Katharine Hepburn in <i>Christopher Strong</i></p><p><b>Wednesday, November 8, 2023</b></p><p>Second Sight Cinema — Joan Crawford in <i>Humoresque</i> (1946)</p><p>Silent Cinema School — <i>London After Midnight</i> (1927)</p><p>Whimsically Classic — <i>Queen Christina</i> (1933)</p><p>Box Office Poisons - <span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Queen Yllana of QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Queen Yllana of <i>Queen of Outer Space</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-ce</style></span><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Outspoken & Freckled "}" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">Outspoken & Freckled - <i>Angel Face (1952)</i></span> </span><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}</style> </p><p><b>Thursday, November 9, 2023</b></p><p>Another Old Movie Blog — <i>Criss Cross</i> (1949)</p><p>Crítica Retrô — <i>The Divorcee</i> (1930)</p><p>The Last Drive In — Dietrich and Anna May Wong in <i>Shanghai Express</i> (1932)</p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}</style><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}</style><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Classic Film And TV Corner"}" style="font-style: normal;">Classic Film And TV Corner - </span><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Elsa Bannister In The Lady From Shanghai"}" style="font-style: normal;">Elsa Bannister In <i>The Lady From Shanghai (1948)</i></span></span> <br /></p><p><b>Friday, November 10, 2023</b></p><p>Spellbound With Beth Ann — <i>Valkoinen Peura</i> / <i>The White Reindeer</i> (1952)</p><p>Once Upon a Screen — Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in <i>Strangers on a Train</i></p><p>Silver Screen Classics — <i>La Belle Et La Bete</i> (1946)</p><p>A Vintage Nerd — <i>Kansas City Bomber</i> (1972)</p><p>Speakeasy — <span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small;">Creature Feature "Beast" movies, Ranked</span></p><p>Shadows and Satin — The Beasts of Joan Crawford Noirs </p><p><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}</style><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":4,"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kay Francis in In Name Only (1939)"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Watching Forever - Kay Francis in <i>In Name Only (1939)</i></span> <br /></p><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This month, we're featuring Aurora who is currently serving on the CMBA board and writes at Once Upon A Screen ( <a href="https://aurorasginjoint.com/ ">https://aurorasginjoint.com/ </a>). <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDdeZ3_dXhJhkmV6lZBDq0oWY8FPyY4iOhsq5-KRSe0IlN1EpMm77vDk-0ZWpkHvxFO3f6jGaOxtvgAz3Lq4vSUIxSaiqCGo7pkPf8NxoLy_SHr2Qf7CdsF6lifivECj2N3QRq0IjGpIoQiQp2ibK36irmr5JcyyjzcdO-YBgZpmFM8fRjz3jzMYRm_nf/s773/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-01%20at%206.40.26%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="773" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDdeZ3_dXhJhkmV6lZBDq0oWY8FPyY4iOhsq5-KRSe0IlN1EpMm77vDk-0ZWpkHvxFO3f6jGaOxtvgAz3Lq4vSUIxSaiqCGo7pkPf8NxoLy_SHr2Qf7CdsF6lifivECj2N3QRq0IjGpIoQiQp2ibK36irmr5JcyyjzcdO-YBgZpmFM8fRjz3jzMYRm_nf/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-01%20at%206.40.26%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>1. Why do you blog? </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I froze when I saw this question. It seems complicated. There are several reasons why I blog. For one, it is an escape. When I sit down to concentrate on the details of a movie, nothing else exists. Even a simple pictorial tribute to an actor or era takes me to another place and time. This is valuable to me. Blogging has also brought me to a great community I thoroughly enjoy, that I learn from and share with. Through the years I have also found the hunger to learn about all things classic Hollywood only increases. Blogging lends itself to terrific discoveries at every turn. The more I learn, the more I want to know. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>2. Besides classic film blogging, what are some of your other passions? </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, I love to watch movies but that is the case with every CMBA member. It may be worth noting that aside from classic movies, I am a documentary nut. True crime documentaries are favorites, but I enjoy all topics if they are well done. Latin music would also be top of the list. I love dancing to Latin music with the music from the 1970s, the Fania days, being my favorite to dance to. American standards, many of which I was introduced to through movies, are also favorites. I recently discovered <i>1940s Junction</i> on Sirius FM and it has become my favorite driving music. I should not mention that I daydream when I drive, but I do, and those daydreams are usually me on the arm of a handsome man dancing to one of the classic big bands in a legendary nightclub. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>3. If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wow, this is not easy. To be honest, my list would change by the day depending on my mood. There are so many movies I can watch repeatedly. At this writing, the following would do quite nicely although it would be difficult to tie them all to one theme. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">OUT of the PAST (1947)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THE LADY EVE (1941)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THE HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME (1939)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THE LETTER (1940)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>4. What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it? </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My immediate answer is all movies featuring or starring Betty Grable. I know she is not remembered with the respect she should be as a top box office star for a decade. However, since I have already blogged about how much I adore Grable, my chosen movie for this endeavor is Preston Sturges' HAIL the CONQUERING HERO (1944.) I can't say whether this has been widely seen, but it seems to be less popular, and less regarded, as other movies directed by Sturges. For me it is one of his best. I came to it at a Turner Classic Movies Film Festival and left the theatre on a high. Since then, I have watched it several times. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">HAIL the CONQUERING HERO has a supremely entertaining cast, including Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest, Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, and Elizabeth Patterson. The story is about a small-town young man, William Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Bracken), who longs to be a military hero like his Marine father, Hinky Dinky Truesmith, who died in WW1. Unfortunately, Woodrow only lasted a month in the Marines because of his chronic hay fever so he sets forth pretending to be a Marine and the results are delightful. An emotional, brilliant satire, HAIL the CONQUERING HERO puts the genius of writer/director Sturges on display, and it charms and captivates on several levels. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>5. What is something most people don't know about you? </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This could really be a number of things because I'm not a fan of talking about myself. After thinking about it for a bit, I decided to spice things up with an odd thing about me-- I have a fear of cotton. I mean, I do not run from a room if cotton finds itself there too, but I have an adverse reaction in certain cotton situations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The fear of cotton (primarily cotton balls) is known as sidonglobophobia, and it can be debilitating. Some people cannot even walk by cotton balls, or they avoid cotton swabs. My fear is not on the level. I use Q-tips every day after a shower. What I cannot do, however, is touch the cotton part of the tip. Opening medicine or vitamin bottles is extremely unpleasant because of the cotton often stuffed at the top. To deal with this challenging task, I have to remove the cotton with a scissor or tweezers to avoid getting close to it or the awful ripping apart of the cotton. I have goosebumps just thinking of it. It is also difficult when I have blood drawn and a cotton ball is applied to the needle puncture. Against my skin! Not fun. And when I remove nail polish, often removed using cotton, I use paper towels. While I do not suffer from severe symptoms many may suffer due to this or any other phobia, I know for sure cotton is not my friend. I will always avoid touching it. That is aside from my cotton towels, robes, and clothes. Those I enjoy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">----------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We thank Aurora for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit Once Upon A Screen ( <a href="https://aurorasginjoint.com/">https://aurorasginjoint.com/ </a>). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-33847799386629510672023-09-19T19:59:00.000-04:002023-09-24T11:19:58.268-04:00Announcing the Fall 2023 CMBA Blogathon: Blogathon & the Beast<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJPXUkSielyVVo1E8s87ozkD18gsw2c75SJt6Pv5iJyK9OL-449RhAySQA1IvvHheI0ki3E5VkOo5ofWDkP8IUXD3MvHJ7EsBeC3Uie3F8IDvvKZUcVQ59KLBnhBo5fqJszGCNHmLlfTp8ZoGDpcDvi6IahhlMG_PAGwyrLNDDQM1GzGsPAiUiO1jxDGC8/s762/Jekyll.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="762" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJPXUkSielyVVo1E8s87ozkD18gsw2c75SJt6Pv5iJyK9OL-449RhAySQA1IvvHheI0ki3E5VkOo5ofWDkP8IUXD3MvHJ7EsBeC3Uie3F8IDvvKZUcVQ59KLBnhBo5fqJszGCNHmLlfTp8ZoGDpcDvi6IahhlMG_PAGwyrLNDDQM1GzGsPAiUiO1jxDGC8/s320/Jekyll.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />It's almost time for the CMBA Fall Blogathon!<p></p><p>King Kong, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Cody Jarrett, Night of the Hunter’s Harry Powell, Shelley Winters as Bloody Mama, or Bonnie & Clyde. All iconic characters who are caught in a struggle with their primal inclinations.</p><p>That is the topic of CMBA’s fall blogathon<b>, Blogathon and the Beast!</b></p><p><b> </b>The blogathon ‘beast'<b> </b>does not have to be a literal “beast,” or a menacing, or criminal character, although it can be! It also<b> </b>could be a complex protagonist who challenges social norms, such as the quintessential film noir anti-hero, the pre-Code heroine, Dietrich's enigmatic Shanghai Lily, Pacino's determined Serpico, the indomitable characters from Seven Samurai, or the outrageously zany Tasmanian devil from Warner Brothers' roster. </p><p>This subject delves into the complexity of free will and natural instincts inherent in a wide variety of characters, whether cast as malevolent antagonists or tough protagonists. </p><p>“Blogathon and the Beast” embraces a broad spectrum of characters who defy societal constraints or the natural order of things. Let your imagination roam free and embrace the diversity of this intriguing theme!</p><p><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The blogathon, for CMBA members only, will run November 6-10, 2023. <a href="https://forms.gle/7BeM6VE6nzvuLV3v8" target="_blank">Please use this form to submit</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://forms.gle/7BeM6VE6nzvuLV3v8" target="_blank"> your topic choice, blog name, and preferred date for posting, if any.</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Because there is such a variety of topics to choose from, we won't be accepting duplicates. 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This month, we're featuring Michael Roberts, who writes at <a href="https://filmycks.com/ ">FILMYCKS. </a></span></p><p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Firstly, I like the challenge of distilling my thoughts on the films I love into an essay
form, as it’s a great way to improve your writing. As a bonus if I can convey my
interest to others to promote those films I write about, it might just light a spark for
them. There’s such a world of pleasure and information to be found there and it’s a
passion of mine to champion quality films from any era, but especially classic film.
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<p><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I’m a musician, so music has always been a huge part of my world and who I am. I’m
a Beatle tragic, so they got me interested in playing and I’ve played in bands and
produced and written songs all my adult life. Currently playing and singing in a piano
bar in Hobart and writing novels for eBooks. I’ve published 5 eBooks so far, 4 on
songwriting and one on The Beatles on Film, but I’m expanding and updating that one
currently.
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<p><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I’d probably program something in sequence based on year of release.<br />
I’d start with a Von Sternberg-Dietrich collab and go from there, but the seven would
change based on the mood I’m in. Today’s mood?<br />
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Only Angels Have Wings<br />
The Grapes of Wrath<br />
Out Of The Past<br />
The Furies<br />
Some Like It Hot<br />
The Sweet Smell of Success<br />
</span><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- A hard-edged lot with a Wilder comedy for a little relief!
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released in the US as </span><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">The Wild Heart</span><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. It was a struggle due to David Selznick, who
produced and demanded his new wife, Jennifer Jones star in it. Nonetheless, Jones is
lovely, as is the rest of a great cast and the film is brilliant. It has the strangeness of
Michael Powell’s askew Englishness and the unsettling darkness of a tragic folk tale
that beautifully essays man’s struggle between the ethereal and the corporeal via the
love triangle device of Mary Webb’s source novel.
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arriving at Roswell on a spaceship, being the shooter on the Grassy Knoll, filming the
fake moon landing with Stanley Kubrick and inventing Crypto currency (because
there’s a sucker born every minute) then I’m struggling to come up with anything!
</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(14.901960%, 15.686280%, 16.470590%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">--------------------------</span></p><p>We thank Michael for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://filmycks.com/ " style="font-family: georgia;">FILMYCKS. </a></p>
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</div><br /><p></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-36909035205174750012023-08-01T13:21:00.001-04:002023-08-02T11:24:04.048-04:00CMBA Profile: Those Wonderful People Out There In The Dark <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQefQNXjj7VcWHMMEt6gtZ112y96EKd6bDiu2KAPkKTeToywwKdC5FpYIAdlVZq7P5chp2LaiMswsf5QdXsHB48NftPnTUyxuT-Fx-qCyA2ra1tiD62QWKHgcrKRS8veydjjbh_M3j8cyaoXeYt_UP9_R_EFN8bHFooB110gztd9kLWLZqxytQzv7T4k79/s455/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-01%20at%2011.51.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="455" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQefQNXjj7VcWHMMEt6gtZ112y96EKd6bDiu2KAPkKTeToywwKdC5FpYIAdlVZq7P5chp2LaiMswsf5QdXsHB48NftPnTUyxuT-Fx-qCyA2ra1tiD62QWKHgcrKRS8veydjjbh_M3j8cyaoXeYt_UP9_R_EFN8bHFooB110gztd9kLWLZqxytQzv7T4k79/w380-h145/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-01%20at%2011.51.18%20AM.png" width="380" /></a></div><p><br /></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we're featuring David Jansen, who writes at <a href="https://thosewonderfulpeople.com/ ">Those Wonderful People. </a> </span><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. <b>Why do you blog?</b><br /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've been interested in classic film since I was young --- as I approached retirement, I considered how I might spend my time to delve deeper into my interest in film as well as indulge myself in the fun of research and writing. Blogging about film (and an associated podcast) seemed like a great way to wrap it all up, and hopefully pass on a bit of my passion. I blog about films from (mostly) the 1920s into the 80s --- the films are those that I enjoyed when young, but also films that hit me hard emotionally, or gave me insight into the history and development of world cinema.</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2.<b> Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</b></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've always been an aerobic athlete, so I still run every day, I hike and bike a great deal, I visit my children on a regular basis, and I love dogs, so I'm looking into volunteering at Best Friends Animal Society.</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3.<b> If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What a fun question! Not surprisingly, these seven films are all in my blog:</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ikiru</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- Kurosawa's thoughtful examination of living consciously, rather than simply surviving, told through the story of a Japanese bureaucrat...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">b.<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Asphalt Jungle</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- John Huston knew how to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>noir</i>, and the combination of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>noir</i>, a heist story, the wonderful presence of Sterling Hayden, and one of film's most heartbreaking finales, make this not to be missed...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">c.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Night at the Opera</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- For my money, the best Marx Brothers film ever, guided by producer Irving Thalberg and his simple proposal that the Brothers needed to have a story in which the audience would root for them...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">d.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Citizen Kane</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- How would I not? It reminds me of what John Lennon said about Elvis; before him the world was black and white, after him it was in color.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Kane</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>created or combined all the elements that, once brought together, established the modern film classic. And what an incredible story by Welles and Mankiewicz...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">e.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Third Man</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- A very different Welles film, with his turn as mysterious (and bad!) Harry Lime in a wonderful and atmospheric<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Euronoir</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by Carol Reed. And what a final scene...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">f.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Last Picture Show</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- A must for me, as it hits every chord about living in a small town and the effect of someone as plain-spoken but supportive as Sam the Lion --- best Bogdanovich film ever...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">g.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Irishman</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- I admire Scorsese so much; he might simply have been satisfied with old-guy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Goodfellas,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but he put together an unforgettable elegy on aging and regret. Perhaps not his greatest film, but a film that shows how his thoughts and feelings have evolved as he aged...</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. <b>What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</b></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--- Luchino Visconti's 1963 comment on change in society and a quiet, contemplative view of how that affects various classes during Italian unification. It's not an obscure film, but the US version was badly edited and shortened, and it disappeared rapidly. The long, languid, beautiful European release is magnificent. Burt Lancaster is elegiac in his role as an aging nobleman, well supported by Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Terence Hill. The actors combine with the beautiful cinematography to produce a quiet but, to me, heartrending view of change slowly blowing through the lives of individuals. The novel by Giuseppe Lampedusa is a wonderful read, especially valuable prior to watching the film.</span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. <b>What is something that most people don't know about you?</b></span></div></div><div style="color: #26282a; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm a trained zoologist and chemist, but spent all my working life in medical products marketing --- never a day in academics!</span></div><div>-----------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>We thank David for participating in our Q&A profile and encourage you to visit <span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://thosewonderfulpeople.com/ " style="font-family: georgia;">Those Wonderful People. </a></div>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-75607175478289383942023-07-01T16:05:00.006-04:002023-07-01T16:08:43.934-04:00CMBA Profile: Classic Film & TV Cafe<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3HJt8ATI50Am_llxqLhTisBCfmRk3QcJjsf238niMNQrBT5--3KqhL6ixy-xYjZiLS0TZQCJGrHhrKFbMYP-53KwQxJJ5bpFbIejprXU-RYzr5H7nh54ejqPMkaHZGn8XMeCLtl6mZ4VYPbDNRrqfJVhVYVGqYRJoPjEE_-zFbXvAufzaAov_XH47ylJS/s686/SSCafeBanner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="92" data-original-width="686" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3HJt8ATI50Am_llxqLhTisBCfmRk3QcJjsf238niMNQrBT5--3KqhL6ixy-xYjZiLS0TZQCJGrHhrKFbMYP-53KwQxJJ5bpFbIejprXU-RYzr5H7nh54ejqPMkaHZGn8XMeCLtl6mZ4VYPbDNRrqfJVhVYVGqYRJoPjEE_-zFbXvAufzaAov_XH47ylJS/w564-h88/SSCafeBanner.png" width="564" /></a></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">Each
month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members.
This month, we’re featuring Rick Armstrong, the founder of the Classic Movie
Blog Association and the reason why we’re here! Rick blogs at the <a href="https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/">Classic Film
& TV Café</a>.</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: Why did you start your blog?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick:</b> I’ve
always enjoyed writing about films. I moonlighted as a newspaper film critic for
several years and then my wife Mary and I wrote the <i>Encyclopedia of Film
Themes, Settings and Series</i> (aka <i>The Movie List Book</i>). Around 2008,
I discovered TCM’s Classic Film Union, which was sort of a “Facebook for
classic movie fans.” I had a lot of fun writing about classic movies and
interacting with other film buffs. Unfortunately, a couple of folks started
flooding the site with their content or using it to discuss topics other than
cinema. So, in September 2009, I decided to create my blog: the Classic Film
& TV Café. Like many CMBA members, I knew nothing about blogging, so it was
an adventure at first. Also, my original intent was to manage a collaborative
blog and I invited a handful of other people to join me (including former CMBA
head Patty Schneider). Over the years, the others dropped out for personal
reasons or to start their own blogs. Since 2015, my wife and I have written all
Café content except for occasional guest posts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: In your 2015 profile on the CMBA website, you mentioned your interview with
Piper Laurie. Who are some of your other favorite interviews?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick: </b>I’ve
been fortunate to interview some wonderful actors. Piper Laurie was indeed
delightful and I was able to spend an afternoon sitting next to her at a
nostalgia convention. Elke Sommer, Julie Adams, and Audrey Dalton were utterly
charming. Barbara Bain, Ruta Lee, Jacqueline Scott, and Constance Towers shared
some wonderful anecdotes, especially in regard to working in television in the
1960s. I was particularly impressed by the respect that Barbara Bain held for
ex-husband Martin Landau as an actor and a drama teacher. Ron Harper was a
friendly, frank, down-to-earth person (e.g., he didn’t like working with George
Burns). We talked at length at another convention and watched one of his rarely
shown movies, <i>Savage Season</i> (1971), together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: Besides classic movie and TV blogging, what are some of your other passions?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick:</b> Watching
classic films and TV shows with my wife Mary is my #1 passion! We also enjoy
watching British detective shows like <i>Shetland</i>, <i>Foyle’s War</i>, <i>Poirot</i>,
and <i>Endeavor</i>. I also love to walk our two dogs, Tony (a long-haired
Chihuahua) and Sienna (a Dachshund-Terrier mix), daily. We’ve been blessed to
have loved several dogs over the years. Dogs are the most wonderful of all
animals!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: What is a classic TV show that you love, but most people don’t know about --
and what do you love about it?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick: </b>Two
little-known shows that I always recommend are <i>Man in a Suitcase</i>
(1967-68) and <i>Coronet Blue </i>(1967). The former is a sharply played,
well-written British series starring American actor Richard Bradford as a
disgraced former espionage agent known only as McGill. Branded a traitor by
U.S. intelligence, he makes a living doing freelance work in Europe and Africa
– dealing with blackmailers, protecting stool pigeons, finding kidnapped
victims, recovering lost art treasures, etc. <i>Coronet Blue</i> stars Frank
Converse as a man who is attacked aboard a luxury liner and tossed overboard.
He is rescued, but with no memory of his past except for the words “coronet
blue.” It’s also well-scripted with intriguing plots, and features great guest
stars such as Juliet Mills, Susan Hampshire, and Denholm Elliott.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: What is something that most people don’t know about you?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick: </b>I
have a doctorate of education degree from Indiana University in Bloomington,
Indiana. My major was instructional systems technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the
seven films on your schedule?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick: </b>Assuming
TCM could get the broadcast rights to these films, I’d opt for a day of classic
made-for-TV movies. The 1960s and the 1970s were a “Golden era” for television
films and featured stellar writers (e.g., Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Gene
Roddenberry) and good actors (e.g., Angie Dickinson, Suzanne Pleshette, Ray
Milland, Myrna Loy). I’d limit my seven picks to lesser-known films that
appeared on the ABC Movie of the Week (1969-75):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Seven in Darkness</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"> (1969) – A plane crashes in the wilderness and all its
passengers are blind.</span></p>
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<i>Daughter of the Mind</i> (1969) – A psychic researcher investigates when a
famous scientist claims his dead daughter has been appearing to him. Stars Ray
Milland and Gene Tierney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Along Came a Spider</i> (1970) – A thriller with Suzanne Pleshette. It’s a
wonderfully twisty plot, so no details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>How Awful About Allan</i> (1970) – A man (Anthony Perkins) suffering from
psychosomatic </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">blindness
returns home to live with his sister (Julie Harris), but thinks someone is
trying to kill him.</span></p>
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<i>Dr. Cook’s Garden</i> (1971) – Is there a pattern to the deaths in a small
rural town where a kindly physician (Bing Crosby) and his protégé (Frank
Converse) practice?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>The Birdmen</i> (1971) – During World War II, POW prisoners try to fly to
freedom by building a glider. Incredibly, most of the film really happened! The
unusual cast features Richard Basehart, Chuck Connors, Doug McClure, Tom
Skerritt, and Max Baer, Jr.!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Assault on the Wayne</i> (1971) – Sabotage aboard a nuclear submarine with
Leonard Nimoy, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">William
Windom, Lloyd Haynes, and Sam Elliott.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">CMBA: If you had a bucket list, what would be on it?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Rick:</b> I’ve
done most everything on my bucket list: wrote a book; got a doctorate degree;
visited England, Scotland, and Prince Edward Island; and – of course – married
a fabulous person who loves classic movies and TV, too. However, there are some
DVD sets that I’d love to see produced: the complete ABC Movie of the Week (see
above!) and seasons 2-4 of the brilliant 1961-65 legal TV series <i>The
Defenders</i>. Those would be awesome. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">I
also want to reach 25,000 followers on Twitter. If all goes well, that may
happen this year. I have a grand time with my Twitter followers. I host monthly
“tournaments” on classic films and TV shows. The results are interesting, but
the comments from my followers are the best part!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p>----------------</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We thank Rick for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit the <a href="https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/">Classic Film & TV Cafe</a>!</span></p><br /><p></p>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-33301924190676854062023-06-01T01:00:00.001-04:002023-06-01T01:00:00.188-04:00CMBA Profile: The Silver Screen Affair<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRCVC00tmLq9noF9tu4ZrZDxYuyTkOhKTn2DnUeOkHCc8JDiBSY4UlzR0NRMstEvWlQG7KMRCh99QbMQhvt3uIY9pAFKhJVnb0GwkWt__gsT-ZuIeMKVjTs-YmCNxpDxpT9DLfEJTOZ4tDoPKLrmADDmTh4lvG9EoVrq-tQuDcSmIvWI5ahkRojpbdQ/s840/blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="840" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRCVC00tmLq9noF9tu4ZrZDxYuyTkOhKTn2DnUeOkHCc8JDiBSY4UlzR0NRMstEvWlQG7KMRCh99QbMQhvt3uIY9pAFKhJVnb0GwkWt__gsT-ZuIeMKVjTs-YmCNxpDxpT9DLfEJTOZ4tDoPKLrmADDmTh4lvG9EoVrq-tQuDcSmIvWI5ahkRojpbdQ/s320/blog.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Emily Hernandez, who writes at <a href="https://thesilverscreenaffair.blogspot.com/">The Silver Screen Affair</a> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><b>CMBA: Why do you blog?</b></span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b>Emily:</b></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> I started blogging back in 2011 as a way to connect with other old movie fans and to get my wiggles out. I have loved oldies since I was very young and found that I had no outlet to share my passion. After a few years I stopped and my blog was dormant until last year. I started up again because I still have that passion to share my knowledge and I enjoy writing about the stars, the sets, the studios, and all the fun facts I have acquired over the years.</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Emily: </b>My other hobby is sewing. I have an Etsy shop where I sell vintage inspired pieces. I also love the beach, road trips, old cars, and baking. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule? </b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><br /></div><div><b>Emily: </b>My TCM line up would have no theme. I would just want to play some solid films I love that I think everyone should see. In no particular order I’d choose Now, Voyager, My Man Godfrey, It Should Happen To You, Thrill Of A Romance, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Women. </div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>CMBA: What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Emily: </b>I love the film Blonde Comet from 1941. It stars Virginia Vale and Robert Kent. It’s a small production film about a girl race car driver that stands up to all the boys. I love old cars and my husband drag races as a hobby, so this film checks off the boxes. It’s an action film but finds a way to have style. It also has a great meet cute between some of the characters.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Emily:</b> A silly story starts off with my grandparents who lived in Arizona. Their neighbor happend to be Don Ameche. My grandmother, being a big fan, would go over there to try to chat with him and ask him for a cup of sugar now and then, but I never got a sight of him when I visited as a kid. When he passed away his son asked my grandparents if they needed an extra refrigerator as they were going to just get rid of it. So my grandparents obtained the fridge and used it in their garage. When my grandparents passed away the fridge was put in storage and later on when I needed one it came to me. I would tell people at parties that I had Don Ameche’s fridge and nobody cared. But I thought it was awesome! </div></div><div><br /></div><div>--------------------</div><div>We thank Emily for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://thesilverscreenaffair.blogspot.com/">The Silver Screen Affair! </a></div><div><br /></div></div>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-83942530718376860822023-05-14T22:58:00.022-04:002023-05-19T17:27:37.374-04:00The CMBA Presents the 2023 Spring Blogathon: Big Stars on the Small Screen -- In Support of National Classic Movie Day<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityxm529cLAIlzqcEcWV6HfVODhXVhPo7ttPtTQ3GQN3gVt_8hyRz4AJwLvIywTMJHMhVjPooeykiuwdpYzNkURiH2gLb2UdokdGV75YdBCLDZSsYvNbLqp-9QPUGF8wpFVOMWCAxqBpgk0qVpK5P2i0SAKmmnZgSnwG4eaWCD4DWB-_TIdNwz35z9aQ/s600/CMBA_Spring%202023%20Blogathon_Banner%209.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityxm529cLAIlzqcEcWV6HfVODhXVhPo7ttPtTQ3GQN3gVt_8hyRz4AJwLvIywTMJHMhVjPooeykiuwdpYzNkURiH2gLb2UdokdGV75YdBCLDZSsYvNbLqp-9QPUGF8wpFVOMWCAxqBpgk0qVpK5P2i0SAKmmnZgSnwG4eaWCD4DWB-_TIdNwz35z9aQ/s320/CMBA_Spring%202023%20Blogathon_Banner%209.jpeg" width="160" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>The Classic Movie Blog Association is pleased as punch to present the 2023 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">CMBA Spring Blogathon: "Big Stars on the Small Screen: In Support of National Classic Movie Day." </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">The blogathon, for CMBA members only, runs May 15-19, 2023, and focuses on </span><span style="color: #222222;">classic film stars appearing on TV, including regular TV series, mini-series, variety shows, made-for-TV movies, or even commercials! </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222;">The entries submitted by our CMBA members can be accessed below </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> please stop by their blogs to read and comment on these offerings. Enjoy!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Monday, May 15, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/tv-hammer-house-of-horror-children-of-the-new-moon-ep-8/">Diana Dors on <i>Hammer House of Horror</i></a> – Real Weegie Midget Reviews<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://whimsicallyclassic.wordpress.com/2023/05/15/cmba-spring-blogathon-big-stars-on-the-small-screen-vincent-price-in-the-brady-bunch/">Vincent Price on <i>The Brady Bunch</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Whimsically Classic</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://carygrantwonteatyou.com/ray-milland-the-columbo-surge/">Ray Milland and the <i>Columbo </i>Surge</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Cary Grant Won't Eat You</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://pmbryant.typepad.com/letyourselfgo/2023/05/the-fourth-star.html">The Fourth Star - Ida Lupino Takes on Television</a><i> </i></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Let Yourself Go . . . To Old Hollywood</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2023/05/lee-remick-and-dawn-of-mini-series.html">Lee Remick and the Dawn of the Mini-Series</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Lady Eve's Reel Life </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tuesday, May 16, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-hollywood-palace-hello-lover.html">The Hollywood Palace</a></i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– A Person in the Dark</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://filmlandfollies.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-courtroom-courtship-love-among-ruins.html">Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in <i>Love Among the Ruins</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Filmland Follies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/05/jimmy-stewart-show-review.html">Seven Things to Know About <i>The Jimmy Stewart Show</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Classic Film & TV Cafe </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://virtualvirago.blogspot.com/2023/05/big-stars-on-small-screen-muppet-show.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Classic Movie Stars on </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">The Muppet Show</i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Virtual Virago</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday, May 17, 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/johnny-staccato/">John Cassavetes on <i>Johnny Staccato</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Twenty-Four Frames</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/2023/05/16/how-murder-she-wrote-kept-the-spotlight-shining-bright-on-classic-films-and-their-stars/"><i>Murder, She Wrote</i> and Classic Hollywood</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Watching Forever</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2023/05/16/the-2023-cmba-spring-blogathon-big-stars-on-the-small-screen-in-support-of-national-classic-movie-day/">Film Noir Vets on <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Shadows and Satin</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://aurorasginjoint.com/2023/05/16/five-movie-stars-turned-columbo-murderers/">Five Stars Turned <i>Columbo</i> Murderers</a> – Once Upon a Screen</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thursday, May 18, 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/greer-garson-on-father-knows-best-1957.html">Greer Garson on <i>Father Knows Best</i></a> – Another Old Movie Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/post/made-for-television-ava-gardner-on-the-small-screen/">Ava Gardner on the Small Screen</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Ava Gardner Blog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://fourstarfilmfan.com/2023/05/18/blogathon-classic-hollywood-dick-cavett/">Classic Hollywood Stars on <i>The Dick Cavett Show</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– 4 Star Films</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/2023/05/18/its-the-pictures-that-got-small-good-evening-leading-ladies-of-the-alfred-hitchcock-hour-part-1/">The Women of <i>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour</i></a> – The Last Drive-In<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Friday, May 19, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://criticaretro.blogspot.com/2023/05/raymond-burr-como-perry-mason-raymond.html">Raymond Burr as Perry Mason</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Critica Retro</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.avintagenerd.net/2023/05/old-hollywood-actors-who-starred-in.html">Old Hollywood Actors Who Starred in </a><i><a href="https://www.avintagenerd.net/2023/05/old-hollywood-actors-who-starred-in.html">Night Gallery</a> </i></span><span style="color: #222222;">– A Vintage Nerd</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://boxofficepoisons.blogspot.com/2023/05/ginger-rogers-glitters-clamba-blogathon.html">Ginger Rogers <i>Glitters!</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Box Office Poisons</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://theeverydaycinephile.com/blogathons/barbara-stanwyck-in-dick-powells-zane-grey-theatre/">Barbara Stanwyck in Dick Powell's <i>Zane Grey's Theater</i></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– The Everyday Cinephile</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://poppitytalksclassicfilm.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/leave-it-to-donna-reed/">Leave it to Donna Reed</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Poppity Talks Classic Film</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p></span></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-15702404580593430032023-05-01T12:34:00.001-04:002023-05-31T22:02:13.073-04:00CMBA Profile: MOCNE PUNKTY<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8kyUhnq0XM5_zxuWiPl3ParjMQ3IG0aUkORvg0vx3D_ROARILFKw9K3emfHa7-_TFqVFcpgB86tAr2VNX91iU6fJDYWg50wkFksFF2Qjz0bKh7dOmHGlCXyp_g6uL8fOuM8oo4JzTfsIlEZ7L4Wqpb_VHW2qhCo10368PSjB6K50nSGkKUC2U2YXNA/s410/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-01%20at%2010.14.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="410" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8kyUhnq0XM5_zxuWiPl3ParjMQ3IG0aUkORvg0vx3D_ROARILFKw9K3emfHa7-_TFqVFcpgB86tAr2VNX91iU6fJDYWg50wkFksFF2Qjz0bKh7dOmHGlCXyp_g6uL8fOuM8oo4JzTfsIlEZ7L4Wqpb_VHW2qhCo10368PSjB6K50nSGkKUC2U2YXNA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-01%20at%2010.14.27%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="text-size-adjust: auto;"><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Rafal Glapiak, who writes at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> Mocne Punkty: </span></span>https://mocnepunkty.pl/</p></span><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>CMBA: </b></span><strong style="font-size: 10pt;">Why do you blog?</strong><br /></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><p><b>Rafal Glapiak:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>The reason why I started blogging is quite prosaic. I usually publish reviews in the Polish press and on the Internet. When the coronavirus pandemic began, the situation became uncertain. Articles requested by publishers and editors waited their turn until I finally had to put them away in a drawer. So that the texts already written would not go to waste, I decided to start my own website where I could post what had not been printed.</p><p>When the blog was created in June 2020, I decided that I did not want to write only about contemporary cinema. I'm a fan of Hollywood's Golden Age, so I've decided that once a month (now quarterly) I'll write extensive analysis (sometimes as long as 40,000 characters with spaces) about the pictures from the 1940s that made the biggest impression on me in the past (I started with George Cukor's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>The Philadelphia Story</em>). I focus on the context of the creation and its reception (both by critics and the audience), and then I analyze it.</p><p>In 2021, however, I started a cycle that I will run for 10 years. I called it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Kino pokryte pyłem</strong>, which means<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Cinema Covered with Dust</strong>. It's about the dust that covered America in the 1930s (along with the Great Depression) and the dust that covered many of these movies, especially in Poland, where the old cinema has been replaced by the current repertoire (my blog may be the only one in the whole country so heavily focused on films from the first half of the 20th century). I watch – year after year, premiere after premiere (if that's possible, of course) – pictures from the 1930s. Then I choose 60 of them and describe them briefly on the page, creating a subjective guide through the decade. Now I started watching movies from 1932.</p><p>I share my knowledge on my blog. I watch, read and write to bring Polish readers closer to the cinema that gave rise to what they see on screens today. I look at known and unknown films, those that have won awards, and those that do not even have Polish titles and are not mentioned in any textbook. It's a huge job that will take a few more years, but I hope it's worth it.</p><p><strong>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</strong></p><p><b>Rafal Glapiak:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I graduated in film studies, so what I like most is watching movies and writing about them. This is how I make my living, so I spend a lot of time in front of various screens and books. I am also interested in the history of the United States, especially the first half of the 20th century (also due to the series I run). I like to travel. I have been to America twice: in 2018 and 2019. The first time I visited four cities: New York, which I love, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Los Angeles (I was at Paramount Studios, where I took a picture of myself in front of the Preston Sturges building, on which I was writing my thesis, and at Warner Bros.). The second time I rode the East Coast with my girlfriend and friends. I miss the US and look forward to my next trip.</p><p><strong>CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</strong></p><p><b>Rafal Glapiak:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>I'd probably focus on screwball comedies. I would start earlier than 1934, with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Private Lives</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1931), directed by Sidney Franklin. Then the classics I love –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>It Happened One Night</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1934, Frank Capra),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Libeled Lady</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1936, Jack Conway),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Easy Living<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(1937, Mitchell Leisen),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Bringing Up Baby</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1938, Howard Hawks),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Midnight</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1939, Mitchell Leisen) – and finally, to make it more serious, but still funny, I would show the American audience a Polish film noir (retro-noir, I guess):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Reverse</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(2009) by Borys Lankosz, set in the era of the Polish People's Republic.</p><p><strong>CMBA: What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</strong></p><p><b>Rafal Glapiak:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Most of the films I write about in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Kino pokryte pyłem</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>series are films unknown to the Polish audience. I will give you a few examples that you probably know, and I will give you the number of ratings on Filmweb, which is the Polish database that is the equivalent of IMDb or Letterboxd.</p><p><em>Waterloo Bridge</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1931, James Whale) – 47 votes</p><p><em>The Smiling Lieutenant</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1931, Ernst Lubitsch) – 68 votes</p><p><em>Bad Girl</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1931, Frank Borzage) – 57 votes</p><p><em>Blonde Crazy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(1931, Roy Del Ruth) – 45 votes</p><p><em>Platinum Blonde</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1931, Frank Capra) – 104 votes</p><p><em>Midnight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(1939, Mitchell Leisen) – 88 votes</p><p><em>The Lady Eve</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1941, Preston Sturges) – 505 votes</p><p>This, of course, does not mean that only so many people watched it, but you understand the difference. I would very much like Poles to watch these pictures, get to know them and like them. After all, these are great titles that are often considered masterpieces in the United States.</p><p><strong>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you?</strong></p><p><b>Rafal Glapiak:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>As I prepared to answer these questions, I realized how much I dislike writing about myself. I am modest and shy, preferring to hide behind texts about cinema, but it was a pleasure to share this information with you anyway.</p><p>---------</p><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small; text-size-adjust: auto;">We thank Rafal for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit </span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Mocne Punkty at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">https://mocnepunkty.pl/ </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">!</span></p></div></div></div>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-71143934546037197052023-04-03T17:33:00.005-04:002023-05-12T17:38:30.724-04:00Introducing the Spring 2023 CMBA Blogathon: Big Stars on the Small Screen: In Support of National Classic Movie Day!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">It's almost time for the CMBA Spring Blogathon! This year's topic is "Big Stars on the Small Screen: In Support of National Classic Movie Day." Topics can be on anything related to classic film stars appearing on TV, including regular TV series, mini-series, variety shows, made-for-TV movies, or even commercials! There’s a wide-open field of small screen productions to explore! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">The blogathon, for CMBA members only, will run May 15th through May 19th. Our participants to date are listed below. If you haven't yet picked a topic, there's still time to join in the fun! Just email </span><span style="color: #222222;">the CMBA Board (classic.movie.blog.assoc@gmail.com) with your topic choice, blog name, and preferred date for posting, if any. </span><span style="color: #222222;">Because there is such a variety of topics to choose from, we won't be accepting duplicates. (Please note, however, that it's acceptable to have one topic focus on an entire series, and others that cover specific episodes from that same series.) Topic selections will be accepted in order of receipt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222;">To promote the blogathon on your blog, take your pick from any of the banners at the bottom of this post.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We look forward to another great blogathon!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Monday, May 15, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Diana Dors in "Children of the Full Moon on <i>Hammer House of Horror</i> – Real Weegie Midget Reviews<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Vincent Price on <i>The Brady Bunch</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Whimsically Classic</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Ray Milland on <i>Columbo</i>: "Death Lends a Hand" and "The Greenhouse Jungle" </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Cary Grant Won't Eat You</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Ida Lupino and <i>Four-Star Playhouse </i></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Let Yourself Go . . . To Old Hollywood</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;">Lee Remick's TV Work </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Lady Eve's Reel Life </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tuesday, May 16, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>The Hollywood Palace</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– A Person in the Dark</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in <i>Love Among the Ruins</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Filmland Follies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>The Jimmy Stewart Show</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">–</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Classic Film & TV Cafe </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday, May 17, 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Classic Movie Stars on <i>The Muppet Show</i> – Virtual Virago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">John Cassavetes on <i>Johnny Staccato</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Twenty-Four Frames</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>Murder, She Wrote</i> and "The Days Dwindle Down" </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Watching Forever</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thursday, May 18, 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>Father Knows Best:</i> "Kathy's Big Chance" starring Greer Garson – Another Old Movie Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ava Gardner on the Small Screen </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Ava Gardner Blog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Classic Hollywood Stars on <i>The Dick Cavett Show</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– 4 Star Films</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Women of <i>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour</i> – The Last Drive-In<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Friday, May 19, 2023</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Classic Stars as <i>Columbo</i> Murderers – Once Upon a Screen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Raymond Burr as Perry Mason in <i>The Case of the Sinister Spirit</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Critica Retro</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Film Noir Vets on <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents</i> </span><span style="color: #222222;">– Shadows and Satin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;">Old Hollywood Actors Who Starred in <i>Night Gallery </i></span><span style="color: #222222;">– A Vintage Nerd</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; 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line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></p>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-33971596426296651452023-04-01T21:53:00.000-04:002023-04-01T21:53:14.864-04:00CMBA Profile: A Vintage Nerd<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzCUs582qkPX-g_m_1IpKCle7A7YYQ_pu3CeIYJJHgIYevDQpMVGYuTqkBk94uz1cAgsAbDnIiaIsjleoHhaENDqvli5pVcftvfuNCKSKv9enOEQ_gh3s5r_1YKfkZMaeSpq3s1D2GdUxmACEMs4gbP4AbCoeb1i1diUpwjP-gpmLLt1b60AGlMus2w/s377/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-01%20at%208.23.59%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="377" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzCUs582qkPX-g_m_1IpKCle7A7YYQ_pu3CeIYJJHgIYevDQpMVGYuTqkBk94uz1cAgsAbDnIiaIsjleoHhaENDqvli5pVcftvfuNCKSKv9enOEQ_gh3s5r_1YKfkZMaeSpq3s1D2GdUxmACEMs4gbP4AbCoeb1i1diUpwjP-gpmLLt1b60AGlMus2w/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-01%20at%208.23.59%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month we're featuring Daffny Laurito, who writes at <a href="https://www.avintagenerd.net/">A Vintage Nerd. </a></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: Why do you blog?<br /></b></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Daffny Laurito:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I grew up watching classic tv shows like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>I Love Lucy</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Bewitched</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Lassie</i>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Brady Bunch</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but I wasn't introduced to classic films until I was 11. My grandmother introduced me to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gone with the Wind</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1939) and that experience changed me forever. Fast forward many years later and after the birth of my third child, I felt like I needed to get back to my passions. I started blogging and because of this I am constantly learning and honing my writing skills. I blog because I love to write, to share, and to connect with others. One of the major aspects of my blog is exploring old Hollywood. There is so much to learn, see, and discover when it comes to classic films and tv. Needless to say I am a big vintage nerd 🤓</div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</b></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Daffny Laurito:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>I am passionate about my family and raising my three children. I started showing them classic films and TV shows starting when they were little and we explore a few each month. I love showing them episodes of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Twilight Zone</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or watching a classic film on the big screen together. I also love to travel, going to museums, exploring my city (I'm a New Yorker), enjoying art, reading, and having fun with my personal style.</div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Daffny Laurito:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>This would be a dream come true other than hosting a series for TCM. If I could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM I would want to give the audience a little taste from each decade. I would start with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Kid</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1921),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Women</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1939),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Between Two Worlds</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1944),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Rebecca</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1940),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Queen Bee</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1955),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>To Sir, with Love</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1967), and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Harold and Maude</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1971). </div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</b></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Daffny Laurito:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>I love exploring films from the 1960s and 1970s, especially British films. They tend to have a quirkiness to them that American films don't always have. One film I love is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Georgy Girl</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1966). It stars Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, and Alan Bates. I love so many things about this film. I love how awkward Georgy (Redgrave) is and how much she is like a regular girl, albeit a bit quirky. I love seeing London in the 1960s and you see a lot of it in this film. I also love how the film talks about different types of love and different ways of fulfilling your dreams. It is a unique movie, for sure.</div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you?</b></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Daffny Laurito:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are a few things most people might not know about me. I was born with a physical disability called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT). It is a peripheral nerve disease that causes weakness in the arms and legs and fatigue among other things. I was also a teacher for seven years in an all-girls high school. It was a special experience. I am also a big horror and sci-fi movie/TV fan. I used to go to horror conventions and now I attend the Chiller Theater Expo once a year with my family. It's a great way to meet stars of yesteryear. I was lucky to have met Patty Duke (<i>Valley of the Dolls</i>), Ann Robinson (<i>The War of the Worlds</i>), David Bean (<i>West Side Story</i>), Tony Mordente (<i>West Side Story</i>), and Betsy Palmer (<i>Queen Bee</i>), just to name a few. </div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;">----------</div><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We thank Daffny for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://www.avintagenerd.net/">A Vintage Nerd! </a> </div>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-76376553865211197392023-03-01T01:00:00.009-05:002023-03-01T01:00:00.198-05:00CMBA Profile: The Silver Screen Surfer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowRufbcAtDYV_MSiam7LzCNxCNh5uggDmroeZuq_0zZXegMTElBXSwYe4IjeRxh9kbYlHQZe2Fr9Vlai-ueJVFsZdK0Vm67nQlWSAkS3xdwjqZFS_5tC0YH9pgp_eNCBGKCSjojvurol11ipEiZKdJkN52jhq-VTgzNLlQqoiK2NpyZycAf4IglNSiA/s926/SSS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="926" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowRufbcAtDYV_MSiam7LzCNxCNh5uggDmroeZuq_0zZXegMTElBXSwYe4IjeRxh9kbYlHQZe2Fr9Vlai-ueJVFsZdK0Vm67nQlWSAkS3xdwjqZFS_5tC0YH9pgp_eNCBGKCSjojvurol11ipEiZKdJkN52jhq-VTgzNLlQqoiK2NpyZycAf4IglNSiA/w589-h207/SSS.png" width="589" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Daibhid James, who writes at <a href="https://thesilverscreensurfer.blogspot.com/">The Silver Screen Surfer</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: Why do you blog?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><b>Daibhid James:</b> I started out as music writer for a number of underground music papers in the 1990s (Reargarde in Montreal, Exclaim & Inside Tracks in Toronto) and host of radio shows at Toronto stations CKLN and, currently, CIUT playing music ranging from rock and roll, rockabilly, surf, garage, blues, doo wop, honky tonk, gospel, and ska from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, to punk and new wave of the 1980s to today. But besides music, I've always been a fan of black and white films, especially silents. I'm particularly interested in German Expressionist and related genres, horror films, Dadaist and other short art films from the 1920s to the 1960s, films of silent starlets such as Louise Brooks, Alla Nazimova, Brigette Helm, Clara Bow, Theda Bara, Colleen Moore, etc. I'm also interested in silent films from countries that are usually bypassed by usual film texts like China and Japan, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Canada. Besides silents, I also like film noir, horror and sci-fi films, as well as cartoons from the Golden Era.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">For most of my life I've been more focused on music, but in the past few years, for various reasons, I have frankly found myself taking less interest in the modern music scene and more interest in film and getting back into writing. Thus, my blog at The Silver Screen Surfer, the title obviously taken from the Silver Age Marvel Comics character.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Articles planned for the coming year include the life and career of Florence La Badie, more films of Brigitte Helm (I already did an article about her horror film <i>Alraune</i> last year), the life and career of Dorothy Davenport, the silent films based on the works of Jules Verne and possibly the sound ones too, the art films of Canadian filmmakers David Rimmer and Michael Snow, silent films from Latin America, Canada and China, and some Yiddish films I found on a Russian website that haven't been loaded on to YouTube yet.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?<br /></b><br /><b>Daibhid James:</b> I have been combining my musical interest with film by adding electronic soundtracks to various silent films that I've been writing about (and posting them on YouTube). I also set up a public performance last Halloween with a showing of the silent version of H.P. Lovecraft's <i>Call Of Cthulhu</i> with live musical accompaniment, and I plan more showings in the future as an annual Halloween show. In addition, I'm planning a showing of some of the various Dada shorts and Warhol films with electronic music accompaniment. One of my COVID projects was designing a soundtrack for Warhol's 1965 eight-hour silent film <i>Empire</i>, so that should be interesting to stage. I'm also thinking of starting a YouTube show. I'm still involved with radio as well. I did once run for the Green Party and that was fun, but I'm not likely to do so again; politics isn't fun anymore. I'm a distance runner who needs to get back into shape. I should get on that. <br /><br /><b>CMBA:</b></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><b> If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b><br /><b>Daibhid James</b>: The classic 1950s and 1960s films based on the books of Jules Verne would be a great day: <i>Around The Earth In 80 Days</i> (1956), <i>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea</i> (1954), <i>Mysterious Island</i> (1961), <i>Journey to the Center of the Earth</i>" (1959), <i>From the Earth to the Moon</i> (1958), <i>Master Of The World</i> (1961), <i>Five Weeks in a Balloon</i> (1962), plus the George Melies version of <i>Journey To The Moon</i> (1904). (That's actually eight films, but the last one is a short so I'm adding it.) They are slightly out of chronological order but <i>Mysterious Island</i> is effectively a sequel to <i>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea</i>. I loved all these films as a kid and saw them several times as well as reading the books and they still have a charm in the CGI era. I think audiences would enjoy them. <br /><br /><b>CMBA: </b></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>?<br /></b><br /><b>Daibhid James: </b>The three surviving films of Alla Namizova; <i>Red Lantern</i> (1919), <i>Camille</i> (1921) and <i>Salome</i> (1922) should be better known. In fact, Alla should be better known. She's a fascinating figure and a pioneer for women filmmakers. Although not actually a director, she was effectively her own producer and art director, and while not the first woman to do so, she was arguably the first with a real artistic vision. In fact, I did argue that in an article a few years back. I adore her.<br /><br />After <i>Metropolis</i>, Brigitte Helm made several great films: <i>At The End Of The World</i> (1927), <i>The Love Of Jeanne Ney</i> (1927), <i>Alraune</i> (1928), and <i>Abwege</i> (1928). <i>Metropolis</i> was her first film; she was only 19, and while she had beauty and presence, the role was two-dimensional. However, she soon turned into an excellent actress with a slinky charisma in some complex roles. I have such a crush on her.<br /><br />The 1934 Chinese silent film <i>The Goddess</i>, starring Ruan Lingyu, should be seen by every silent film fan. It's a gorgeous and tragic film and Lingyu has great depth and presence. They were making silents in Asia for a full decade after the West and some are excellent but little known in the West.<br /><br /><b>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you?<br /></b><br /><b>Daibhid James: </b>On the advice of counsel, I take the Fifth.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">------------</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We thank Daibhid for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://thesilverscreensurfer.blogspot.com/">The Silver Screen Surfer</a>!</span></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-16143029617301656992023-02-01T01:00:00.004-05:002023-02-28T21:15:08.565-05:00CMBA Profile: Life and Death in L.A.<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7taky1qm7e-U4-GGJUgTHtacU7QCsyPR-FtL1K2vM-NZ12SsNH0oewB1hTz2LMRa1Tt9ix44WHMq6Z_Oxpr1rFgZQ6I7KAHT2HvIIm9Fa5DBekGPBI38bTTKHkIbRnqj2iFoIJbXCxX5_ueMooD_LQ-rUX1Hl3KuBLawGJz6tn0rG9K1rQKzDNH_Yog/s943/Screenshot_Life%20and%20Death%20in%20L.A..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="943" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7taky1qm7e-U4-GGJUgTHtacU7QCsyPR-FtL1K2vM-NZ12SsNH0oewB1hTz2LMRa1Tt9ix44WHMq6Z_Oxpr1rFgZQ6I7KAHT2HvIIm9Fa5DBekGPBI38bTTKHkIbRnqj2iFoIJbXCxX5_ueMooD_LQ-rUX1Hl3KuBLawGJz6tn0rG9K1rQKzDNH_Yog/w603-h252/Screenshot_Life%20and%20Death%20in%20L.A..png" width="603" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Paul Parcellin, who writes at <a href="https://lalifeanddeath.blogspot.com/">Life and Death in L.A.</a></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: Why do you blog?</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paul Parcellin:</b> Other than blogging’s potential to reach readers instantly and attract a worldwide audience, I blog about films because it’s akin to thinking out loud. In my experience, there are few better ways of discovering how I really feel about any topic, film included. Each time I sit down with </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the laptop, I challenge myself to sum up my cogitations about the stuff that I’ve watched and try </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to put it into context.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I begin, my opinion is not fully formed. It’s only when I’m pounding it out on the keyboard that I’m confronted with my initial reactions and sometimes it’s surprising — do I really feel that way? But there it is on the screen, staring at me, challenging me to flesh out my perceptions and present those ideas in a way that’s coherent and interesting to readers. I ask myself if what I’m saying makes sense. I wonder if it’s an accurate reading of the filmmaker’s intent, or if I’m carrying my own baggage that alters my take on a film. It’s tough to answer some of these nagging questions, but asking them keeps the writing process interesting. For me, there’s an urgency that’s part of film writing. Thoughts are ethereal things that will soon dissipate. It’s important to get them down on paper — or in pixels.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But perhaps most important of all, blogging is a two-way street. If my facts are inaccurate, my</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">opinion is spotty, my reasoning is skewed, the readers will let me know about it. We can learn<br />from each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>CMBA: </b>Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paul Parcellin: </b>I am into the visual arts — painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography. I like to visit museums and galleries. Fortunately, L.A. has a lot to see. I also collect DVDs and Blu-rays — not a big surprise for a classic movie blogger. I don’t have an enormous number of titles, but I prefer discs to streaming or digital downloads. I’m also a dedicated amateur guitar player — I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, so it was practically mandated by law that I would play.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: </b>If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paul Parcellin: </b>My idea of a perfect day of TCM programming would include crime, comedy and foreign films. Here are my top seven in no particular order:<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Double Indemnity</i> (1944). The gold standard of noir. It’s got classic voiceover narration and<br />knockout performances by Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwick and Edward G. Robinson, and<br />lots of quotable dialogue — “I never knew that murder could smell like honeysuckle.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i>Bringing Up Baby</i> (1938). Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Howard Hawks; need I say more?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i>La Dolce Vita</i> (1960). Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, the Trevi Fountain; wonderful Fellini.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Get Carter</i> (1971). The one starring Michael Caine, of course. It’s unrelenting in its bleakness,<br />like the steel-gray sky hanging over Newcastle.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i>Sullivan’s Travels</i> (1941). Whip-smart Preston Sturges. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake and a cast of Sturges’s regular comedic actors. A great send-up of a film director who takes himself a little too seriously.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Breathless</i> (1960). Jean Luc Godard said all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, and he showed us all how it’s done. A classic crime film of the French New Wave.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Out of the Past</i> (1947). Jane Greer is one of noir’s most stunning and ruthless femmes fatales. Robert Mitchum is the fall guy who knows he’s doomed but can’t walk away from Jane. Who could?<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: </b>What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paul Parcellin: </b><i>Straight Time</i> (1978), with Dustin Hoffman as Max Dembo, an ex-convict who wants to stay on the right side of the law but is having a hard time of it. Great performances by Hoffman, M. Emmet Walsh as an oily probation officer, and Gary Busey and Harry Dean Stanton as Max’s partners in crime. Based on Edward Bunker’s novel “No Beast So Fierce,” the film’s many small details feel authentic, probably in large part because Bunker knows of what he speaks. He led a life of crime and was incarcerated, then turned to writing. He also acted in Quentin Tarantino’s <i>Reservoir Dogs</i>, playing a member of a gang that holds up a jewelry store. <i>Straight Time </i>also features a jewelry store heist that is one of the more intense and realistic action sequences seen in 1970s crime dramas. But the film’s shoot ’em up aspects get a minor amount of screen time. It’s really a character study in which we see Max’s good intentions crumble until we realize that he isn’t really what he seemed to be. The ending is bleak — it is a 1970s crime drama, after all. And for Max, no other conclusion would seem as true to life or as inevitable.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>CMBA: </b>What is something that most people don't know about you?<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paul Parcellin:</b> I moved to L.A. just in time for the big economic meltdown of ‘08 and there were hardly any jobs to be had. I did manage to find some spotty work, including being an extra on TV shows such as <i>Curb Your Enthusiasm</i> and a short-lived sitcom called <i>Better Off Ted</i> — in one episode I’m in the opening shot with a bunch of people who are supposed to be attending a business meeting. It was sort of fun, and in addition to getting paid, we got free food from craft services, which was a great fringe benefit for starving extras. I was also cast in <i>NCIS </i>as a Marine colonel with severe wounds. I was in the makeup trailer for hours with two<br />artists who made me look like a corpse that had been stitched up. On set, as I lay down on a<br />stainless-steel autopsy table for some photos the director said to me, “Welcome to the<br />worst job in Hollywood.” I smiled, but frankly I’d had much worse jobs that paid a lot less<br />for my trouble, and besides, this one was a pretty cool adventure. Of course, I was bursting<br />to tell everyone I knew about my impending appearance on a network TV show, but<br />something told me to hold off on that, and it’s a good thing that I did. When the episode<br />finally aired, I was disappointed to find that my scenes ended up on the proverbial cutting<br />room floor, so I never made it onto the show. That happens a lot, I guess. But I still have<br />photos of me in full makeup as a reminder of what my <i>NCIS</i> debut would have looked like,<br />and that’s OK. It was certainly not an average day at the office.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">----------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We thank Paul for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://lalifeanddeath.blogspot.com/">Life and Death in L.A.</a>!</span></span></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-46500124645601744622023-01-02T00:09:00.002-05:002023-02-28T21:17:04.863-05:00CMBA Profile -- Real Weegie Midget Reviews<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyghcXSelw2Iz92x8xsoXq4IRj9Fa3xq_WKyH4Lb5dsIHPsNlvcNTOqy6tlfT2LZLORMHBjn3P72qLVWWp0uzdgvOYW6-0-X0DcNJdBY3Z8YNmHVrgE0mLu9MnOYZvaQRLqZnpbHAAU8EiRGyS1u712JNcWexUqHDN96xt8xALlEfsXwMXQLYOEdYGQ/s1200/SSRealWeegieMidget.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="1200" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyghcXSelw2Iz92x8xsoXq4IRj9Fa3xq_WKyH4Lb5dsIHPsNlvcNTOqy6tlfT2LZLORMHBjn3P72qLVWWp0uzdgvOYW6-0-X0DcNJdBY3Z8YNmHVrgE0mLu9MnOYZvaQRLqZnpbHAAU8EiRGyS1u712JNcWexUqHDN96xt8xALlEfsXwMXQLYOEdYGQ/w624-h162/SSRealWeegieMidget.png" width="624" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Gill Jacob, who writes at <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/">Real Weegie Midget Reviews</a>.</span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: Why do you blog?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Gill Jacob: </b>As a lifelong movie and TV lover, my first blog post was a review of <i>Love and Mercy</i> (2014), a mental health-themed biopic. The review was written for my Darlin Husband while he was away on a work trip overseas. It then kind of snowballed from there. I love how supportive, caring, and friendly the blogging community is, and I have met so many wonderful people -- famous and non famous -- who have distracted me with their friendship and friendly comments and blogathons, which have helped me with my on/off homesickness for Scotland and its people. I still have pangs but not as much now, so thanks!!!. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a classic blogger, I love finding obscure films from a star's career and tributing stars in all sorts of ways. I also love to give something back to those stars that I have enjoyed in movies and TV, from childhood favorites to beyond. I always tag them on social media. I'm thrilled if I get a personal reply or a like (see my Starry Mentions pages). I guess it reminds me of the excitement I used to get when I asked for signed photos as a child and an envelope with a reply came through the letterbox. I love reviewing for others and am constantly touched that many of those filmmakers and authors that I have written for have returned to ask me to review more of their content. I've also made a few good friends that way, too.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I love the entertainment blogging community and through entering those blogathons, I have met some lovely bloggers and discovered lots of great movies and TV. I also love interviewing filmmakers and I've made good friends with a few filmmakers. My childhood self has to pinch herself as I've had so many lovely likes, follows, and comments from stars I adored then and still do now, such as Judy Matheson (Jarvis), Morgan Brittany, Joan Collins, Lee Grant, Emma Samms, and William Shatner. My most personal thrill to date was writing a recent movie review for Valerie Perrine on her documentary about her current personal experience of Parkinson's Disease. I was deeply touched when she asked me to do this for her. I also interviewed her friend and the director of this movie, Stacey Souther, and it was lovely to learn more about this wonderful and inspiring actress from a best friend.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Gill Jacob:</b> I adore reading entertainment-themed books, memoirs, and biographies. I have a huge collection at home (mostly unread) and I particularly enjoy audible autobiographies (which are read by the person who wrote the book). I prefer autobiographies, as you have that person's view on their life and not the gossipy version. <i>Dallas</i> (1978-91) is another obsession, and I have a big post planned about one of the cast members coming up next year. But even if it doesn't happen, I am super excited about what has been happening behind the scenes with this lovely cast member so far . . . this will make sense when I reveal all.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I also am passionate about mental health issues. I used to work in mental health and chose this career after seeing <i>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest</i>. I disliked Nurse Ratched and was at first a staff nurse running activities with patients. However, I had wanted to work in mental health in more of a Jack Nicholson role, as the person who took them fishing, and this prompted me to train as an occupational therapist. I also get passionate about putting right misconceptions about mental health, as more than a few people can justify.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am also passionate about my Darlin Husband, as he is my best friend and the love of my life. He is also generous, fun, supportive, caring, and one of a few people who make me laugh out loud. He can make a bad movie good with his riffling and can do many retro impersonations such as Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, and Sean Connery. What's not to love???</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Gill Jacob: </b>Now that's a toughie . . . these are pretty random (and all have been reviewed on my blog):</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf </i>(1966) - I LOVE Richard Burton and I adored watching him with his then-real life wife, Elizabeth Taylor. His character is wonderfully played and no one can insult in films as beautifully as Burton. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Endless Night</i> (1972) - Favorite film adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, with a fabulous Bernard Herrmann score, Hywel Bennett, and as the trailer says, "a love story."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest </i>(1975) - Favorite role with Jack Nicholson and has a fabulous behind-the-scenes story and ensemble performances.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Somewhere in Time</i> (1980) - A timeless and sumptuous time travel romance with a fabulous John Barry score (and Christopher Plummer at his most on-screen villainous).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Fedora </i>(1978) - an underrated Billy Wilder movie and a wonderful satire on the film industry and I love it!.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Sunset Boulevard</i> (1950) - another film satire from Wilder, fantastically immersive until the final shot. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Airport 77</i> (1977) - my favorite disaster movie (as I said in my review, "It's a soap in the skies") with an amazingly silly plot including the Bermuda Triangle, an all-star cast -- shoutouts to Christopher Lee and Lee Grant -- and some wonderfully intriguing cut scenes that suggest a completely different plot.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about -- and what do you love about it?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Gill Jacob: </b>I adore the British black and white movie,<i> Whistle Down the Wind</i> (1961). It has a teenage Hayley Mills as one of three siblings who find a man (played by Alan Bates) in their barn and think he is Jesus. They don't realize that he's actually a fugitive who is on the run. The children in the film are beautifully cast and the movie is based on a credible plot written by Hayley's mother. It's a really sweet and touching film. I read it does have religious themes but as a kid, I only noticed the more obvious ones, I love the innocence of the kids in this movie and their Northern English (Lancashire) accents add to the ambience.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CMBA: What is something that most people don't know about you?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Gill Jacob: </b>When I was wee and painfully shy, I entered a debating competition where you had to choose a real-life person or fictional character and argue why you should be the only person to stay in a sinking hot air balloon heading towards the sea. I entered as Sue Ellen Ewing (from <i>Dallas</i>), then launched into my impersonation of her and won hands down. Years later, I also entered this true tale in a <i>Dallas</i>-themed competition, as my reason to see Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy interviewed on a TV show and won two tickets!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">------------</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We thank Gill for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/">Reel Weegie Midget Reviews</a>!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-23032683071664990202022-12-01T07:00:00.002-05:002023-02-28T21:18:59.763-05:00CMBA Profile -- Ben Model's Blog<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeFxaWlzZWCmL5cgDlDtUTyoI_0t41_Ay4H8Bv3sJqhvcSlxWJlomrgxNm0B6VdqkLy7FiaFqlOlJWDwOjNBM_mOorKBW_H_aNVBn7RrtFMa6sJcB628N0U9qySmXsKVO3GS66iVetHZhgjYlaUdYC5K_ZKz2Rqs_9Ry5V92o6Mih_aMWkge5duT1-Tg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="49" data-original-width="975" height="32" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeFxaWlzZWCmL5cgDlDtUTyoI_0t41_Ay4H8Bv3sJqhvcSlxWJlomrgxNm0B6VdqkLy7FiaFqlOlJWDwOjNBM_mOorKBW_H_aNVBn7RrtFMa6sJcB628N0U9qySmXsKVO3GS66iVetHZhgjYlaUdYC5K_ZKz2Rqs_9Ry5V92o6Mih_aMWkge5duT1-Tg=w640-h32" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we’re featuring Ben Model, who writes at his <a href="https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/blog/">self-titled blog</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>CMBA: What
makes a film a “classic” in your opinion?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Ben Model: </b>I
think timelessness is a big factor. A film whose story, filmmaking, and performances
entertain and move viewers regardless of how long ago the picture was made. This
is a tricky question because people of all ages have their own sense of how
long ago a film was made in order to classify it as “classic,” but I think
applying the term to anything made in the first half or two-thirds of the last century
covers it.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>CMBA: Why
should people care about “old” black and white films, and about silent films in
particular?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Ben Model:</b> The
entirety of cinema language was created and developed during the silent era, mainly
from the early 1910s through the end of the 1920s. This is what I cover in the
silent film course I teach at Wesleyan University. We watch how people making
movies gradually developed visual storytelling in a way that gradually left
more bits and pieces out of what was being shown and leaving it to us in
the audience to fill these in. Silent movies are not merely “early film” – they
are, in terms of when they were made, but primitive or underdeveloped they’re
not. I believe silent cinema is its own medium, one with its own rules of
expression, one where a key component is our imagination. There is much to be
learned from the poetry-like elisions of information that allowed people of all
ages anywhere on the planet to be able to understand and enjoy the same films
in the 1910s and 1920s, and today as well.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>CMBA: Is there
a classic film or a silent short that you find yourself watching again and
again?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Ben Model: </b>Only
in terms of when I accompany silent films for shows or educational programs. Keaton’s
<i>One Week</i> is my go-to for first-timers, especially student groups from
elementary through college. But I don’t have a “favorite film” or films that I
watch – this is a question someone invariably asks me at nearly every show and
every time I am interviewed.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>CMBA: What
classic films, silent or sound, do you recommend to people who may not have seen
many older films?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Ben Model:</b> My
recommendation for silent films is usually Keaton shorts, or a feature like <i>Steamboat
Bill, Jr.</i> (1928). Harold Lloyd’s films are great as well, although they’re best
encountered in a theater with live music. For dramas, I’d recommend Douglas
Fairbanks’s <i>The Mark of Zorro</i> (1920) and F. W. Murnau’s <i>Sunrise: A Song
of Two Humans</i> (1927).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>CMBA: What is
most rewarding about blogging for you?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Ben Model:
</b>Blogging has been a great way for me to connect with fans – folks may know my work
as a silent film accompanist-presenter – in long form, as opposed to the
snippets you have to constantly feed with social media. It’s been a way to
develop my teaching and writing skills. Getting an idea that’s floating around
in my head somewhere out onto the page or screen has been a great
way to define for me things I believe in as far as my understanding of silent
film as well as with silent film scoring. The latter gets
fleshed out in other ways in my “Silent Film Music Podcast,” which grew
out of my blog 10 years ago. Last year I made a point of blogging a lot more
regularly, and I published a series of 65 posts on my thoughts about the way
the language of silent film works and how it unwittingly engages our
imaginations to create its own world of slightly altered or enhanced realities.
Having gotten that out of my system and into writing has enabled me to create a
book called <i>The Silent Film Universe</i>, which I am hoping will be out next
year.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">-----------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">We thank Ben for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/blog/">Ben Model's Blog</a>!</span></p><p></p>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-40596981132306102302022-11-07T03:47:00.027-05:002022-11-13T14:19:12.804-05:00It's Time for the Fall 2022 CMBA Blogathon: Movies are Murder!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2m3P4QHaTphm95SYqkwY-BCuBQ7_gNovwi4hN5Lu7xm3zzPwrOC5O16ZQ_tk6Xhjv7RCubEwMl3OnUcVIsilvW-rLI-ivGt65PTqIZFcAMoI380S8wl0hSfTdCrJBDhPD4E7B8zilejdOOfC_OpsCzdtqfV-guOKC1_z3sulbJwnPROJJv25FFeX-BA/s1200/CMBA_Fall%202022%20Blogathon%20Banner1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1200" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2m3P4QHaTphm95SYqkwY-BCuBQ7_gNovwi4hN5Lu7xm3zzPwrOC5O16ZQ_tk6Xhjv7RCubEwMl3OnUcVIsilvW-rLI-ivGt65PTqIZFcAMoI380S8wl0hSfTdCrJBDhPD4E7B8zilejdOOfC_OpsCzdtqfV-guOKC1_z3sulbJwnPROJJv25FFeX-BA/s320/CMBA_Fall%202022%20Blogathon%20Banner1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">The Classic Movie Blog Association is pleased to invite you to stroll down shadowy streets and encounter cutthroat characters at our fall 2022 blogathon, Movies Are Murder! From November 7th through November 11th, our bloggers will explore the seedy side of cinema with films and stars involved in all sorts of homicidal happenings. The entries submitted by our CMBA members can be accessed below </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">–</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"> please stop by their blogs to read and comment on these offerings. And be careful out there . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Monday, November 7, 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://fourstarfilmfan.com/2022/11/07/confidentially-yours-1983/">Confidentially Yours</a></i> (1983) – <a href="https://fourstarfilmfan.com/">4 Star Films</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://whimsicallyclassic.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/movies-are-murder-fall-cmba-blogathon-clue-1985/">Clue</a></i> (1985) – <a href="https://whimsicallyclassic.wordpress.com/">Whimsically Classic</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://carygrantwonteatyou.com/the-misunderstood-femme-fatale-of-detour/">Detour</a></i> (1945) – <a href="https://carygrantwonteatyou.com/">Cary Grant Won’t Eat You</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2022/11/movies-are-murder-cmba-blogathon-canary.html">The Canary Murder Case</a></i> (1929) – <a href="https://louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/">Louise Brooks Society</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/post/movies-are-murder-ava-gardners-character-assassination-under-the-hays-code/">Movies are Murder: Ava Gardner</a> – <a href="https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/">The Ava Gardner Museum</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/films-endless-night-1972/">Endless Night</a></i> (1972) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/">Real Weegie Midget Reviews</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tuesday, November 8, 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-public-enemy-1931-did-they-have-to.html">The Public Enemy</a></i><span style="color: #222222;"> (1931) – </span><a href="http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/">A Person in the Dark</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://filmlandfollies.blogspot.com/2022/11/aah-shriek-in-night-1933.html">A Shriek in the Night</a></i> (1933) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://filmlandfollies.blogspot.com/">Filmland Follies</a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://cinematicscribblings.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/seen-and-unseen-the-fallen-idol-1948/">The Fallen Idol</a></i> (1948) – <a href="https://cinematicscribblings.wordpress.com/">Cinematic Scribblings</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://silverscreenclassicsblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/murder-the-ultimate-crime-in-film-noir/ ">A Thematic Look at Murder in Film Noir</a> – <a href="https://silverscreenclassicsblog.wordpress.com/">Silver Screen Classics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday, November 9, 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://silentcinemaschool.wixsite.com/learn/post/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog-1927">The Lodger</a></i> (1927) – <a href="https://silentcinemaschool.wixsite.com/learn">Silent Cinema School</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://bit.ly/3WQbMyC"><i>Hidden Fear</i> (1957): Murder in Copenhagen</a> – <a href="http://makeminefilmnoir.blogspot.com/">Make Mine Film Noir</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="http://www.top10filmlists.com/they-wont-believe-me-1947.html">They Won’t Believe Me</a></i> (1947) – <a href="http://www.top10filmlists.com/">Top 10 Film Lists</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/revisiting-bonnie-and-clyde-2/">Bonnie and Clyde</a></i> (1967) </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">– <a href="https://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/">Twenty-Four Frames</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/when-the-bat-flies-murder-is-in-the-air/">The Bat</a></i> (1959) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/">Watching Forever</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/noirvember-day-9-the-cmba-fall-blogathon-movies-are-murder/">The Scarlet Hour</a></i> (1956) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/">Shadows and Satin</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thursday, November 10, 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://silverscreenings.org/2022/11/08/nancy-drew-chaos-agent/">Nancy Drew: Reporter</a></i> (1939) – <a href="https://silverscreenings.org/">Silver Screenings</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/were-no-angels-1955.html">We’re No Angels</a></i> (1955) – <a href="https://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/">Another Old Movie Blog</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://criticaretro.blogspot.com/2022/11/sombras-do-mal-1950-night-and-city-1950.html">Night and the City</a></i> (1950) – <a href="https://criticaretro.blogspot.com/">Critica Retro</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/2022/11/09/the-bride-wore-black-1968-jeanne-moreau-goddess-of-the-hunt/">The Bride Wore Black</a></i> (1968) – <a href="https://thelastdrivein.com/">The Last Drive-In</a><i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><a href="https://ricksrealreel.blogspot.com/2022/11/kathy-bates-stephen-king-encore-dolores.html">Dolores Claiborne</a></i> (1995) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://ricksrealreel.blogspot.com/">Rick's Real/Reel Life</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://theeverydaycinephile.com/blogathons/monsieur-verdoux-a-comedy-of-murders-1947/">Monsieur Verdoux</a></i><span style="color: #222222;"> (1947) – <a href="https://theeverydaycinephile.com/">The Everyday Cinephile</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Friday, November 11, 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://thoughtsfrommusicalman.art.blog/2022/11/11/thoughts-from-the-musical-man-2022-on-murder-by-death-1976/">Murder By Death</a></i><span style="color: #222222;"> (1976) – <a href="https://thoughtsfrommusicalman.art.blog/">Thoughts from the Music(al) Man</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2022/11/angela-lansbury-noir-life-at-stake-1955.html">Angela Lansbury Noir: <i>A Life at Stake</i> (1955) and <i>Please Murder Me!</i> (1956)</a></span> – <a href="http://www.ladyevesreellife.com/">Lady Eve’s Reel Life</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.12px;"><i>The Cat and the Canary</i> (1927) – Strictly Vintage Hollywood</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.12px;"><i><a href="https://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/murder-at-gallop-1963.html">Murder at the Gallop</a></i> (1963) </span><span style="color: #222222;">– <a href="https://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/">Silver Scenes</a></span></p>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-47605026473531696102022-11-01T13:07:00.001-04:002023-02-28T21:21:12.468-05:00CMBA Profile -- Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJiCfHtM0yd8u_Ji7rOVu5er48WYBZv0Ztc4DTBru0HtX6U7RrA3yxR7TgAVhbVh-Me1yGJExU8qpnlr0_OeNQ-Ce8zgP01xW4RbTfPaMGXHF9cUaeB2Uy1oBzPlg5zezVsA6EY42Iqlvfsz_HnshDe-Uq1cgfyughT9HlropGNS0n1Qha6YvnF5LCQ/s781/CMBA_Profile%20pic2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="781" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJiCfHtM0yd8u_Ji7rOVu5er48WYBZv0Ztc4DTBru0HtX6U7RrA3yxR7TgAVhbVh-Me1yGJExU8qpnlr0_OeNQ-Ce8zgP01xW4RbTfPaMGXHF9cUaeB2Uy1oBzPlg5zezVsA6EY42Iqlvfsz_HnshDe-Uq1cgfyughT9HlropGNS0n1Qha6YvnF5LCQ/s320/CMBA_Profile%20pic2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one
of our members. This month, we’re featuring Wendy Whittick, who writes at <a href="https://whoismontgomeryclift.com/">Classic Film:Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: What makes
a film a “classic” in your opinion? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I probably have a more narrow view
of a classic than most people. To me, classic film refers to films
made during the Golden Age of Hollywood (beginning of film to 1965, by my
definition). </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: Why should
people care about “old” black and white films?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black and white films mark the beginning of
film; they are the building blocks by which current films are
made. There are many pioneering techniques in black and white films,
and the artistry in some of them is unparalleled, even with modern
technology. Black and white was often an artistic choice that gave
different dimensions to the film and a certain ambiance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: Is there a
classic film that you find yourself watching again and again?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will watch almost any David Lean film over
and over. I am always picking up something new in his films; there is
an endless amount of symbolism if you just take the time to look for
it. For a feel-good film, I will often turn to Frank Capra films or <i>The
More the Merrier</i>, which I still love every time I see it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: What
classic films do you recommend to people who may not have seen many older
films?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors: </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I try to start people out with films that have
stood the test of time, such as <i>Casablanca</i> or Alfred Hitchcock or a film
with Cary Grant or Marilyn Monroe. If you can get people to love the
more mainstream films and actors, then you can maybe pull them in further to
the more artistic films of the era. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: Your blog
title mentions Montgomery Clift specifically; which of his films would you
recommend to people who are unfamiliar with his work?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors: </span></b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From Here to Eternity</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a great film to start with because it’s
somewhat more well known. I personally love him in <i>The Misfits</i>. He’s
a little lighter and less serious than most of his films. Montgomery Clift
never gives a bad performance, but he is probably most noted for his work in <i>A
Place in the Sun</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">CMBA: What is
most rewarding about blogging for you?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors: </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bringing forgotten actors, films, and directors
back into public awareness and hopefully educating the public on this wonderful
era of film. Any time I get a comment or message from someone
thanking me for providing them with information about a certain actor, it makes
all the work and effort so worthwhile.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">-----------</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We thank Wendy for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://whoismontgomeryclift.com/">Classic Film: Montgomery Clift and Other Great Actors</a>!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493001808546059821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2816669535767130829.post-45518319660504397572022-10-24T16:46:00.007-04:002022-11-06T20:51:27.758-05:00The Fall 2022 CMBA Blogathon: Movies are Murder!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The leaves are
starting to turn and the weather is cooling off, so you know what that means --
it's time for the CMBA Fall Blogathon! This year's topic is "Movies are
Murder." Topics can be on anything related to murder in film, whether
they're dramas or comedies, silents or talkies, or hailing from the U.S. or a
foreign shore. There’s a wide-open field of homicidal happenings to
explore! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The blogathon, for CMBA members only, will
run November 7th through November 11th. To promote the blogathon on your blog,
take your pick from any of the banners below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our participants
to date are also listed below. If you haven’t yet picked a topic, there’s still time
to join in the deadly fun! Just email the CMBA Board (classic.movie.blog.assoc@gmail.com) with your topic choice,
blog name, and preference date for posting, if any.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We look forward to another great blogathon!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday, November 7, 2022</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Confidentially Yours</i> (1983) – 4 Star Films<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Clue</i> (1985) – Whimsically Classic <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Detour</i> (1945) – Cary Grant Won’t Eat You<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Canary Murder Case</i> (1929) – Louise Brooks Society<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Movies are Murder: Ava Gardner – The Ava Gardner Museum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Endless Night</i> (1972) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Real Weegie Midget Reviews</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday, November 8, 2022</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Monsieur Verdoux</i> (1947) – The Everyday Cinephile<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Public Enemy</i> (1931) – A Person in the Dark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A Shriek in the Night</i> (1933) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Filmland Follies</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Fallen Idol</i> (1948) – Cinematic Scribblings<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Thematic Look at Murder in Film Noir – Silver Screen Classics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday, November 9, 2022</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Lodger</i> (1927) – Silent Cinema School<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Hidden Fear</i> (1957): Murder in Copenhagen – Make Mine Film Noir<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>They Won’t Believe Me</i> (1947) – Top 10 Film Lists<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Bonnie and Clyde</i> (1967) </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">– Twenty-Four Frames</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Bat</i> (1959) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Watching Forever</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City Streets</i> (1931) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Shadows and Satin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday, November 10, 2022</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Nancy Drew: Reporter</i> (1939) – Silver Screenings<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>We’re No Angels</i> (1955) – Another Old Movie Blog<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Night and the City</i> (1950) – Critica Retro<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Bride Wore Black</i> (1968) – The Last Drive-In<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Dolores Claiborne</i> (1995) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Rick's Real/Reel Life</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday, November 11, 2022</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I Wake Up Screaming</i> (1941) – Once Upon a Screen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Murder By Death</i> (1976) – Thoughts from the Music(al) Man<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Please Murder Me</i> (1956) – Lady Eve’s Reel Life<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Cat and the Canary</i>
(1927) – Strictly Vintage Hollywood</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Murder at the Gallop</i> (1963) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">– Silver Scenes</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkqaXDHioNPGSMNtdKE6dVzl3CSZsvscoGNB8TO73fxyaNltd6AckqvFpvF7SmQu9uX2Z0jLaUWJfV_tu-a9Q7fOCeWCBcwRiLk2icRL7__jFEjGDJRowEXUYwIHudJM8_b88EssZX9j4aUhx1vc2Dv6S85S-6q5dMojBB5peRdP8pbY96wvLUTOrrg/s1200/CMBA_Fall%202022%20Blogathon%20Banner1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1200" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkqaXDHioNPGSMNtdKE6dVzl3CSZsvscoGNB8TO73fxyaNltd6AckqvFpvF7SmQu9uX2Z0jLaUWJfV_tu-a9Q7fOCeWCBcwRiLk2icRL7__jFEjGDJRowEXUYwIHudJM8_b88EssZX9j4aUhx1vc2Dv6S85S-6q5dMojBB5peRdP8pbY96wvLUTOrrg/s320/CMBA_Fall%202022%20Blogathon%20Banner1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #222222; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0855K4MJXCIa3vq9QVvQyJUebO6faFhcnDhAxHHGzXFfLpNAVI_hte1qz0DULyMJhT64veJ0w4o4UO55wFRwwToD_9mnSI4nDxvoTjKyhkTknb_6vI_MamKxWDPo2qu1nljvqbL40_sWlyM9czAmEimV2uZIRDWrcSHJNJ_-dhJJjlhUEPbRmzUKOA/s1200/CMBA_WatchingForeverBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1200" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0855K4MJXCIa3vq9QVvQyJUebO6faFhcnDhAxHHGzXFfLpNAVI_hte1qz0DULyMJhT64veJ0w4o4UO55wFRwwToD_9mnSI4nDxvoTjKyhkTknb_6vI_MamKxWDPo2qu1nljvqbL40_sWlyM9czAmEimV2uZIRDWrcSHJNJ_-dhJJjlhUEPbRmzUKOA/w537-h133/CMBA_WatchingForeverBanner.jpg" width="537" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our
members. This month, we’re featuring Toni Ruberto, who writes at
<a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/">Watching Forever</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What makes a film a
“classic” in your opinion?</b></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> I have very
strong feelings about this word in reference to films. In a generic sense, a
classic movie is one that stands the test of time (this should be at least twenty
years). But when I talk about my love of classic movies, those are films made
during the time called the Golden Age of Hollywood and the Studio Era, up
through the 1970s. There was a look, feel, and often glamour to these movies
that has not been replicated. They didn’t have actors; they had stars. These
films also created a new art form with innovations over decades that helped
mold what we are watching today. It's important to protect them and introduce
them to new generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: Why should people care about
“old” black-and-white or color films?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> There are
thousands of movies that fit into that category, and they should be watched for
the same reasons we watch any film: they are entertaining, funny, emotional,
thought-provoking, and scary. Many films we watch today have surprising
similarities or owe something to movies that came decades earlier. If a person
likes vampire films, for example, they will see how much modern vampire movies
have drawn from the silent film <i>Nosferatu</i> and Universal’s 1931 <i>Dracula</i>.
The “old” movies are also a window to a world we didn’t live in, so they show
us how people dressed, lived, and interacted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What genres do you favor?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> My favorites
are classic horror films, especially the Universal monsters, and the B-movies
of the 1950s. I can’t get enough of the big bug films. Those were the movies I
watched on TV with my dad as he taught me important facts like Clint Eastwood
was the fighter pilot in <i>Tarantula</i>. I adore romances, no matter how
schmaltzy. (The more violins playing in the background, the better.) It’s not a
genre, but if I see “Technicolor” pop up in the opening credits of a film, I
sit right down and watch without caring what the movie is about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: Is there a classic film that
you find yourself watching again and again?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> Absolutely.
There are a few that if I see them on TV, I watch even if it is halfway over or
I own it on physical media. <i>Picnic</i> with Kim Novak and William Holden is
tops on the list because of the music, romance, and all the great characters
and actors. <i>Mysterious Island</i> and the fun creatures from Ray Harryhausen
always got my imagination going. <i>The Ghost and Mrs. Muir</i>, <i>Random
Harvest</i>, <i>The Uninvited</i>, and <i>The Best of Everything</i> are four
more that I can’t stop watching.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What classic films do you
recommend to people who may not have seen many older films?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> As a horror
fan, I have to recommend the original Universal monster films. If someone
prefers a comedy instead of horror, they can try <i>Abbott and Costello Meet
Frankenstein</i>. <i>Laura</i> is another recommendation because it is so well
done, has a marvelous cast, a great mystery and that fantastic twist. I would
also suggest a Hitchcock film since his name recognition can get people to
watch something out of their comfort zone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv8940362619msonormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CMBA: What is most rewarding about
blogging for you?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Watching Forever:</b> Feedback from a reader means the
world to me. I know it’s not unusual for people to share their opinions about a
film, but I was not expecting readers to share their personal experiences about
seeing a movie or what a film means to them. That emotional connection is the
reason many of us watch movies, so to have this interaction with other film
fans is very rewarding. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">--------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We thank Toni for participating in our Q & A profile and encourage you to visit <a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/">Watching Forever</a>!</span></span></p>Classic Movie Blog Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702094253635593581noreply@blogger.com1