I have to chime in with feaito about Love Me Tonight . I watched it one night after reading through the tournament posts. I have the nice Kino edition, and played it with the commentary track turned on. The commentator said that when Mamoulian (reluctantly) took the assignment, he got together with ...

Those old monster pictures were my "gateway drug" to the whole spectrum of old films that I enjoy today. That's a great documentary. In addition to all the great information, it really showcases people's genuine love for the genre. My big takeaway was that one author's thesis that the earl...

... I guess I've had TCM for too long and have managed to DVD-R most of what I've wanted from the current crop... But I'm still extremely grateful for the channel. The March Akira Kurosawa festival is alone worth the cost of cable for the entire month. I had to give up my cable when I was unemploye...

What Price Hollywood is definitely worth seeing. It's like a lot of these films we love: some viewers today might read that synopsis and think, "How cliche," not realizing that it's actually source material for all of the intervening cliches that followed. In WPH, Lowell Sherman plays a.....

Just checked my order status online...it looks like my copy of The Palm Beach Story will be waiting for me when I get home from work!

Yes, yes yes! I completely forgot about Dodsworth. . That scene where she's standing on the balcony and Walter Huston is coming back to her on that little boat...makes me want to take back every cynical thing I've ever said about love and romance! That's funny that you just watched Behind Office Doo...

Mary Astor has become one of my top screen crushes. When she's on screen, I hardly blink. Like most moderns stumbling into her filmography, I knew her first from the Maltese Falcon. Just before she appears on screen, everyone in the detective agency talks about how this gorgeous client is waiting fo...

I've tried giving that thing, the Revue, a fair shake a couple of times, and it's still painful to watch. The only reason I don't throw it in the kitchen trash is Ukulele Ike's ramp-up to "Singing in the Rain." [I'd like to dupe it for my daughter-in-law and I so we can study his technique...

Indeed. Well, since it looks like nobody's going to be able to help you get a better copy of Get Your Man, we might as well enjoy some of this tangientia! One of the first few films I recorded when I got my DVD-R was "The Red Kimona." I watched it, archived it, and didn't think much about ...

How exciting. I'm sure he won't disappoint. I've always been a Beatles fan ever since I was young enough to pay attention. Last August/September, VH1 was airing Beatles-related programming as a run-up to the release of the Beatles Rock Band video game [a product that competes with the Guitar Hero sy...

I had to wait until I was at work to watch (surreptitiously) the video clip because I'm on a dial-up at home. Actually, where I work is a pretty relaxed atmosphere with a lot of twenty-somethings who are quite casual about goofing off from time to time. An "old movie" to many of them might...

Didn't Dorothy Arzner direct Clara in the early talkie, "The Wild Party?" I'll have to check imdb. I'm saving up my nickles to get a couple titles from Sunrise Silents, Hula and Mantrap. From what I read on the site, they do restoration as well as distribution. Has anyone had any experienc...

I'm a little late to this party, but I just watched this film again today. I thought it was a little creepy the first time I saw it, but now my opinion has completely changed. Leave it to Billy Wilder to pick something edgy and bring it to you as if it were the most natural thing in the world. I ado...

I watched The Outlaw, and like the other times I've watched it, I'm still scratching my head. It sort of qualifies for the "so bad it's good" category, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston certainly prove themselves as consummate professionals, making a banque...

What a hoot. I'm saving my nickels!

I enjoyed the Ginger Rogers/William Wellman a lot too.