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The Films of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Part 1

Of the many famous screen pairings of the Hollywood studio era, two stand out above all others: Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers and Spencer Tracy...
The Best Fred Astaire Musicals Without Ginger Rogers

The screen persona of Fred Astaire is more enduringly charismatic than that of any other musical performer in the history of the medium. —...
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) / Valmont (1989)

Dangerous Liaisons **** Country: US-UK Director: Stephen Frears Valmont *** Country: France-US Director: Milos Forman Released less than one...
CMBA Classic Movies of 1939 Blogathon: Stagecoach

**** Country: US Director: John Ford "My name's John Ford. I make Westerns." This is how John Ford introduced himself at a mee...
White Heat (1949)

**** Country: US Director: Raoul Walsh At the peak of his popularity in the 1930s as one of the biggest stars at Warner Bros., James ...
My 10 Favorite Classic Foreign Film Actresses

As a follow-up to last week's post on my favorite classic foreign actors , this week I present my 10 favorite classic foreign film actre...
My 10 Favorite Classic Foreign Film Actors

Ever since my first exposure in college film courses to the classics of foreign cinema, I've loved these movies. In the last few years I...
Movie Houses: Memorable Homes from Ten Classic Films

Ever since Aristotle wrote his Poetics breaking down narrative literature into its constituent parts, setting—where and when a story takes ...
A Taste of Honey (1961)

**** Country: UK Director: Tony Richardson From time to time national cinemas seem to experience bursts of creativity that result in concent...
Yellow Sky (1948)

*** ½ Country: US Director: William Wellman One of the great pleasures of my last few years of film viewing has been the rediscovery of the...

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