So recently I rewatched The Great Escape which is one of my favorite movies of the 1960's. It has a really great cast and every time I watch it makes me look up the actors and see other things of theirs I haven't seen ( Read more... )

Just a very quick post to say I submitted another blog post. This time on Bicycle Thieves & Italian Neo-Realism. If you are interested leave a comment here or there ( Read more... )

Classic Film Stuff

With August over so is Summer Under the Stars (one of my favorite months on TCM) but that doesn't mean I don't have a lot left to watch. I only had my DVR for 1 month and it's already close to 50% full with ONLY films from TCM.

Out of what I did watch this month my favorites were

* Julius Caesar with James Mason & Marlon ( Read more... )

For the longest time I wanted to start a blog on either anime or classic films (probably the two broad things I am most dedicated too) but I've been too lazy to get started and well I already have live journal....

But kittenbiscuits started her own blog Sitting on a Backyard Fence and asked me to guest blog. Of course I am very honored and it saves me from ( Read more... )

TCM is having random theme night tonight but it's resulting in some pretty good movies. Well okay it's not so random...they are showing movies of sons of famous fathers.

First up was The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr in the title role whose father was the famous silent star and as said earlier will be honored for a day in August.

Right now The ( Read more... )

1) Remember that post I made about Fullmetal Alchemist being nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize? Well it won. Or I should say Arakawa won. It didn't win the grand prize but I think if I am not mistaken it won either the

Creative Award for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent or the Special Award - for ( Read more... )

This is a bit late (because I just realized it) but tonight (starting now actually at 8:00 PM EST) TCM is showing a night of lesser known POW films (as in not Stalag 17 or Great Escape probably the two best known ones)

The first one is one I have not seen is The Wooden Horse (1950)

British POWs use gymnastics practice to cover their work on an ( Read more... )

Okay I do love a good historical film and I usually like them to be as accurate as possible but sometimes there is a film so good that I really don't care how inaccurate it is. This film is Becket from 1964 (also the year Mary Poppins, Dr. Strangelove & My Fair Lady came out so clearly just a good year for film ( Read more... )

Stolen from Marie1964 with some slight alterations

There isn't anything new here but I'm just bored :)

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Hope everyone had a nice New Years! I partied on New Years Eve and then spent New Years Day watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-fi I mean Syfy Channel. A short return to the channels former glory. But I enjoyed watching Twilight Zone so much that what I didn't see in the marathon I looked for on good ol youtube.

My top episodes I ( Read more... )