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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Heidi 2: The Quickening

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Aldous Huxley, Bobbsey Twins, Carl Sandburg, copyright, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, Don Quixote, Edith Wharton, Heidi, Jean Toomer, public domain, Tarzan, The Three Musketeers, William Dean Howells

Hundreds Of Literary and Cinematic Works Just Entered The Public Domain. Which One Should We Butcher First?

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM Writers

Before ‘Vice,’ There Was ‘Viva Villa’

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Adam McKay, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, David O. Selznick, Howard Hawks, Vice, Viva Villa, Wallace Beery

Ben Hecht and the Art of the Takedown Biopic

CLASSICS FILM

Bad Day at Black Rock: When the Gorillas Take Over

December 26, 2018December 21, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Bad Day At Black Rock, Ernest Borgnine, John Sturges, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Serge Kovaleski, Spencer Tracy, Trump, William C. Mellor

Moral Lessons for Our Trumpian Moment

CLASSICS FILM

The Five Best Black-and-White Christmas Movies

December 19, 2018 Monte Monreal 0 Comments George Bailey, It's A Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, Miracle on 34th Street, Silver Bells, The Shop Around The Corner, The Thin Man

That Aren’t It’s A Wonderful Life

CLASSICS FILM

Godzilla, King of the Nightmares

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Godzilla, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, Ishirō Honda, King Ghidorah., Mothra, Rodan, Takashi Shimura

Here We Go Again

CLASSICS CREATORS Directors FILM

Stepin Fetchit Goes To War

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Birth Of A Nation, Cavalcade, John Ford, Reginald Berkeley, Stepin Fetchit, The World Moves On

In 1934, Director John Ford Reluctantly Confronted Jim Crow

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM Writers

William Goldman’s Western Cowards

November 29, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments A Bridge Too Far, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Catch-22, Katharine Ross, Marathon Man, Paddy Chayevsky, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Wild Bunch, William Goldman

‘Butch Cassidy’ and Running From a Fight

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM NON-FICTION

A Few Minutes With Karina Longworth

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Harvey Weinstein, Howard Hughes, Karina Longworth, Katharine Hepburn, Linda Darnell, Seduction

BFG Interviews America’s Most Popular Film Writer and Podcaster

CLASSICS FILM

Classics Corner: ‘Pickup On South Street’

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Jean Peters, Karina Longworth, Pickup On South Street, Richard Widmark, Sam Fuller

Sam Fuller’s 1953 Noir Espionage Thriller Never Goes Out Of Style

CLASSICS COMICS FILM

Not Hedy Enough

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Hedy Lamarr

Lamarr deserves a great biography, but this comic isn’t it

CLASSICS FILM

Classics Corner: ‘Hard Times’

November 6, 2018November 8, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Charles Bronson, Hard Times, James Coburn, Walter Hill

Charles Bronson Bareknuckles His Way Through Depression-Era Louisiana

CLASSICS FILM History

Requiem For FilmStruck

October 31, 2018November 1, 2018 Tehra Turnbaugh Thorp 0 Comments FilmStruck

Don’t Take Away Our Beloved Classics!

CLASSICS FILM

‘The Bad News Bears’ Was My Childhood

October 24, 2018November 1, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments film history, Jackie Earle Haley, Rocky, Snapshot, Tatum O'Neal, The 1970s, The Bad News Bears, Walter Matthau

Hearkening Back To An Age Where Adults Didn’t Give A Crap

CLASSICS FILM

The Best Astronaut Movie That Ever Was

October 11, 2018November 1, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Barbara Hershey, Bill Conti, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, First Man, Fred Ward, Gil-Scott Heron, Levon Helm, Philip Kaufman, Ryan Gosling, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, The Right Stuff, Veronica Cartwright

Forget La La Land In Space, Watch The Right Stuff Instead