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9:05 PM
Coming in April: The James Stewart Blogathon
The Classic Film & TV Café will host the James Stewart Blogathon on April 14-17. Any blogger may participate, providing that he or she complies with the Café's family-friendly blogathon guidelines.
Each film can only be reviewed by one blogger. All posts will appear on the blogger's web site. Individuals are responsible for the content of their blog posts, to include the use of any photographs, video clips, etc. A master schedule of all blogathon posts will appear on the Café web site. The number of participating bloggers will be limited to 32 and posting dates will be assigned to participants.
If you're interested in participating, please send an e-mail to: rick@classicfilmtvcafe.com. Be sure your e-mail includes your name, blog's name and web address, and the title of your post. Rick will send out additional information to all blogathon participants, to include a link to the final schedule.
The cut-off date for accepting blogathon entries will be Saturday, April 5th.
Click here for more information.
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12:00 AM
Who's the Greatest Villain of Them All?
Join the Great Villain Blogathon, April 20 - 26
You are cordially invited to participate in the Great Villain Blogathon, a celebration, an examination, a rumination on your choice of classic movie menace. Whether human, fantastical, alien, mineral or animal, whether horseback or spaceship, clad in a toga, trench coat or cardigan, whether mantrap, mild mannered or commanding vast armies, write up a post on your favorite movie baddie, doer of dastardly deeds or offender of moral order.
Your co-hosts in this exploration of villainy are...
Ruth of Silver Screenings: 925screenings@gmail.com
Karen of Shadows and Satin: thedarkpages@yahoo.com
Kristina of Speakeasy: mail.speakeasy@yahoo.com
If you wish to take part, please leave a comment on any of the host blogs or send an email, and prepare to share who you think is filmdom's worst.
12:00 AM
Sleuthaton, A Classic Detective Blogathon
Mysteries! One of the most popular motion picture genres and one of the most versatile. Here is your chance to celebrate the many faces of the classic movie mystery. Join CMBA member blog Movies Silently at the "Sleuthathon," where the classic detectives of pre-1965 cinema and television will have their day in the sun.
The event is open to CMBA members and non-members alike and will be held on March 16-17, 2014. Click here, for details.
10:53 AM
31 Days of Oscar 2014 Blogathon
Starting
on February 1st a mammoth blogathon event to coincide with Turner
Classic Movies (TCM) annual 31 Days of Oscar celebration is
being hosted by CMBA member blogs Citizen Screen and Outspoken and Freckled along with Paula’s Cinema Club.
Share stories about the films and players that made an impact throughout Oscar’s distinguished history. Talk about the films, actors or directors that deserved an Oscar nod and were ignored or about films that inspire you with their music or lighting. The world’s your golden oyster, so, the envelope please…
Here are the topics by week:
Week 1 – the weekend of Feb. 1 2: Oscar Snubs! Let’s let the venting kick things off!
Week 2 – the weekend of Feb. 8 – 9: Music, Costumes, Cinematography, Writing, etc. You name it, it’s in!
Week 3 – the weekend of Feb. 15 – 16: Actors! Lead and supporting take center stage!
Week 4 – the weekend of Feb. 22 – 23: The Directors!
Week 5 – the weekend of Feb. 28 – Mar. 1: The Movies!
Share stories about the films and players that made an impact throughout Oscar’s distinguished history. Talk about the films, actors or directors that deserved an Oscar nod and were ignored or about films that inspire you with their music or lighting. The world’s your golden oyster, so, the envelope please…
Here are the topics by week:
Week 1 – the weekend of Feb. 1 2: Oscar Snubs! Let’s let the venting kick things off!
Week 2 – the weekend of Feb. 8 – 9: Music, Costumes, Cinematography, Writing, etc. You name it, it’s in!
Week 3 – the weekend of Feb. 15 – 16: Actors! Lead and supporting take center stage!
Week 4 – the weekend of Feb. 22 – 23: The Directors!
Week 5 – the weekend of Feb. 28 – Mar. 1: The Movies!
The three blogs are taking turns hosting, but participants can submit topics either by leaving comments on any one of the blogs - or via twitter or by email. Please include the following:
- Title and link to your blog
- Contact information
- Topic
For more information contact: Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen, Kellee (@IrishJayHawk66) of Outspoken and Freckled, or Paula (@Paula Guthat) of Paula's Cinema Club.
8:42 PM
CMBA NEW MEMBER ELECTION
This month CMBA members will vote on potential new member blogs. An email will soon be sent to all current members that will include links to the blogs under consideration, a brief background on each of the blogs and a link to the ballot. The window for members to cast votes is one week.
Twelve blogs will be on the ballot. Since CMBA admits a maximum of twelve new member blogs per year, no more applications for membership are being accepted for this voting period. In the event that all blogs under consideration are not voted in (70% "yes" votes are required), the next new member election will be held in April.
3:45 PM
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! It's CMBA Blogathon Time
It's time to read all about the passion for film that stirs in the hearts of our fellow CMBA members!
Click on the links below and enjoy:
Monday, December 2
Tuesday, December 3
Wednesday, December 4
Thursday, December 5
Friday, December 6
9:02 PM
It's Almost Time For The CMBA Blogathon!
CMBA Blogathon: Film Passion 101
Who can forget that one film that lit the spark that became the flame of passion for classic film?
From December 2 - 6 the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) will be hosting a blogathon that will allow us to share that special moment and its meaning and get to know what makes the members of CMBA tick!
Here's the stellar list of participants (drum roll please):
Here's the stellar list of participants (drum roll please):
Monday, December 2
John @ Twenty Four Frames: A Budding Cinephile
Ruth @ Silver Screenings: Laurel & Hardy Silent Shorts
Marsha @ A Person in the Dark: The Public Enemy
Tuesday, December
3
Margaret @ The Great Katharine Hepburn: The Women
Ivan @ Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: King Kong
Fritzi @ Movies, Silently: City Lights
David @ The Man on the Flying Trapeze: Singin' in the Rain
Wednesday,
December 4
Patty @ The Lady Eve's Reel Life: The Gay Divorcee
Aurora @ Once Upon a Screen: Meet Me in St. Louis
Meredith @ Dear Mr. Gable: Gone With the Wind
David @ A Trip Down Memory Lane: The Wizard of Oz
Karen @ Shadows and Satin: Red Dust
Thursday, December
5
Java @ Java's Journey: Hit the Deck
Kellee@ Outspoken & Freckled: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World
Paddy @ Caftan Woman: Shane
Lara @ Backlots: Lili
Patti @ They Don't Make 'Em Like The Used To: Roman Holiday
Friday, December 6
Tracy @ Random Ramblings of a Broadway, Film, and TV Fan : Film Passion 101: A Daughter's Education in Cinema.
Page
@ My Love of Old Hollywood: My Man Godfrey
Ginny
@ Old Movies Nostalgia: The Philadelphia Story
Danny @ Pre-Code.Com: Duck Soup
Donna @ Strictly Vintage Hollywood: The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse
Dorian @ Tales of the Easily Distracted: North by Northwest
8:47 PM
IT'S CMBA BLOGATHON TIME!
CMBA Blogathon: Film Passion 101
Who can forget that one film that lit the spark that became the flame of passion for classic film?
From December 2 - 6 the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) will be hosting a blogathon that will allow us to share that special moment and its meaning and get to know what makes the members of CMBA tick!
The blogathon is for CMBA members only, so be sure to add CMBA Blogathon in your post title, include a link to the post schedule on our blog site, and add the banner of your choice to your blog.
Please email classic.movie.blog.assoc@gmail.com
by November 25th to lets us know which film you will be reviewing.
Please use "CMBA Film Passion 101 Blogathon" for your e-mail title.
Please use "CMBA Film Passion 101 Blogathon" for your e-mail title.
6:43 PM
Movies Silently and The Last Drive In host The Lon Chaney Blogathon
Movies Silently and The Last Drive In invite you to join
us in celebrating the careers of Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney, Jr. This versatile
father and son managed to create some of the scariest and most iconic monsters
in classic Hollywood but their accomplishments sans makeup were just as
impressive.
Click the links above for info on the blogathon!
12:18 PM
2013 CiMBA Award Winners!
Congratulations to all these deserving blogs! Well done!
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: DRAMA
"Scarface: The Shame of a Nation" Once Upon a Screen http://aurorasginjoint.com/
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: MUSICAL OR COMEDY
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE
"Top 10 Oscar-Less Dames and Their Oscar-Worthy Roles." Shadows and Satin, http://shadowsandsatin.
BEST PROFILE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE PERFORMER OR FILMMAKER
BEST BLOG DESIGN
Pre-Code.Com, http://pre-code.
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES
"TCM Pre-Code Pick of the Month." Shadows and Satin,http://shadowsandsatin.
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE BLOG EVENT
James Cagney Blogathon. The Movie Projector. http://