Claude Rains on TCM: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, DECEPTION
Claude Rains returns this Wednesday, Sept. 9, in more films featuring Turner Classic Movies‘ Star of the Month.
Every single one of the titles listed below is worth watching if only because of Rains’ presence. That said, a couple of them actually have considerably more to offer: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Deception (1946).
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a witty, romantic comedy about love, death, reincarnation, greed, bad timing, and prizefighting. I know, this all (minus the prizefighting) sounds like some heavy-duty drama straight out of the Bible or some other holy book, but director Alexander Hall and screenwriters Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, adapting Harry Segall’s play Heaven Can Wait, handle those serious themes with [...]
by Andre Soares | September 9, 2009
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Tags: Angel on My Shoulder, Bette Davis, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Deception, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Irving Rapper, King's Row, Now Voyager, Turner Classic Movies
Bette Davis’ DARK VICTORY Screening
The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fifth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. cartoon Dangerous Dan McFoo, directed by Tex Avery.
Adapted by Casey Robinson from a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, Dark Victory is one of Bette Davis’ [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
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Tags: Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bette Davis, Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Casey Robinson, Classic Movies, Constance Moore, Dangerous, Dangerous Dan McFoo, Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, Ernest Haller, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939, Humphrey Bogart, Jezebel, Los Angeles Screenings, Max Steiner, Melodrama, Now Voyager, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Ronald Reagan, Tallulah Bankhead, Tex Avery, That Certain Woman, The Old Maid, Vivien Leigh, Warner Bros.
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry, Library of Congress
1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
2) ADAM’S RIB (1949)
3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)
4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
5) ALIEN (1979)
6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
7) ALL MY BABIES (1953)
8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)
11) ALL THE KING’S MEN (1949)
12) AMERICA, AMERICA (1963)
13) AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
14) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
15) ANNIE HALL (1977)
16) ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN (1974)
17) THE APARTMENT (1960)
18) APOCALYPSE NOW [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009
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Tags: All Quiet on the Western Front, Ben-Hur, Casablanca, Classic Movies, Library of Congress, Little Caesar, National Film Registry, Now Voyager, Shadow of a Doubt, The Jazz Singer, The Philadelphia Story
Glasgow Film Festival 2008
Among the many sections of the 2008 Glasgow Film Festival, to be held from February 14-24, are Great Scots, Once Upon a Time in the East (that’s Eastern Europe; above, top photo, Jan Sverák’s Czech comedy-drama Empties), It’s a Wonderful World (world cinema), Fright Fest, The State of Independents (above, bottom photo, Alex Holdridge’s In Search of a Midnight Kiss), and Bette Davis, whose centennial is being celebrated this year.
Among the scheduled films are Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream, with Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell; Giuseppe Tornatore’s David di Donatello winner The Unknown; Roy Andersson’s Guldbagge winner You the Living; and Michael Haneke’s Funny Games remake, starring Tim Roth and Naomi Watts.
The Bette Davis tribute, sponsored by Turner Classic Movies UK, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 26, 2008
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Tags: Bette Davis, Empties, Film Festivals, Glasgow Film Festival, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Now Voyager
